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designation, the majority of the land and

facilities at this installation were on

April 29, 1994, declared surplus to the

federal government and available for use

by (a) non-federal public agencies

pursuant to various statutes which

authorize conveyance of property for

public projects, and (b) homeless

provider groups pursuant to the Stewart

B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act

(42 U.S.C. 11411), as amended.

Election to Proceed Under New

Statutory Procedures

Subsequently, the Base Closure

Community Redevelopment and

Homeless Assistance Act of 1994

(Public Law 103–421) was signed into

law. Section 2 of this statute gives the

redevelopment authority at base closure

sites the option of proceeding under

new procedures with regard to the

manner in which the redevelopment

plan for the base is formulated and how

requests are made for future use of the

property by homeless assistance

providers and non-federal public

agencies. On December 13, 1994, the

Naval Training Center Reuse

Commission submitted a timely request

to proceed under the new procedures.

Accordingly, this notice of information

regarding the redevelopment authority

fulfills the Federal Register publication

requirement of Section 2(e)(3) of the

Base Closure Community

Redevelopment and Homeless

Assistance Act of 1994.

Also, pursuant to paragraph (7)(B) of

Section 2905(b) of the Defense Base

Closure and Realignment Act of 1990, as

amended by the Base Closure

Community Redevelopment and

Homeless Assistance Act of 1994, the

following information regarding the

surplus property at the Naval Training

Center, Area C, Orlando, FL, is

published in the Federal Register

Redevelopment Authority

The redevelopment authority for the

Naval Training Center, Orlando, FL,

purposes of implementing the

provisions of the Defense Base Closure

and Realignment Act of 1990, as

amended, is the Orlando Naval Training

Center Reuse Commission. A cross

section of community interests is

represented on the committee. Day to

day operations of the Commission are

handled by Mr. Herb Smetheram,

Executive Director. The address of the

Commission is 400 South Orange

Avenue, Orlando, FL 32801–3302,

telephone (407) 246–3093 and facsimile

(407) 246–3164.

Surplus Property Descriptions

The following is a listing of the land

and facilities at the Naval Training

Center, Area C, Orlando, FL, that were

declared surplus to the federal

government on April 29, 1994.

Land

Approximately 45 acres of improved

and unimproved fee simple land at the

Naval Training Center, Area C, Orlando,

FL.

Buildings

The following is a summary of the

facilities located on the above described

land which will also be available when

the center closes in October, 1998,

unless otherwise indicated. Property

numbers are available on request.

—Administration/Support (3

structures). Comments: Approx.

58,000 square feet.

—Warehouse/Storage (18 structures).

Comments: Approx. 138,000 square

feet.

Expressions of Interest

Pursuant to paragraph 7(C) of Section

2905(b) of the Defense Base Closure and

Realignment Act of 1990, as amended

by the Base Closure Community

Redevelopment and Homeless

Assistance Act of 1994, State and local

governments, representatives of the

homeless, and other interested parties

located in the vicinity of the Naval

Training Center, Area C, Orlando, FL,

shall submit to said Commission a

notice of interest, of such governments,

representatives, and parties in the above

described surplus property, or any

portion thereof. A notice of interest

shall describe the need of the

government, representative, or party

concerned for the desired surplus

property. Pursuant to paragraphs 7(C)

and (D) of Section 2905(b), the

Commission shall assist interested

parties in evaluating the surplus

property for the intended use and

publish in a newspaper of general

circulation in Orlando the date by

which expressions of interest must be

submitted. Under Section 2(e)(6) of the

Base Closure Community

Redevelopment and Homeless

Assistance Act of 1994, the deadline for

submissions of expressions of interest

may not be less than one (1) month nor

more than six (6) months from the date

the Commission elected to proceed

under the new statute, i.e., December

13, 1994.

Dated: February 21, 1995.

M.D. Schetzsle,

LT, JAGC, USNR, Alternate Federal Register

Liaison Officer.

[FR Doc. 95–7824 Filed 3–29–95; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Office of Elementary and Secondary

Education

Education of Migratory Children

AGENCY: Department of Education.

ACTION: Notice of final criteria for FY

1995 consortium incentive grants under

part C of title I of the Elementary and

Secondary Education Act of 1965.

SUMMARY: The Assistant Secretary for

Elementary and Secondary Education

(Assistant Secretary) establishes final

criteria for awarding fiscal year (FY)

1995 Migrant Education Program (MEP)

consortium incentive grants under

section 1308(d) of Title I of the

Elementary and Secondary Education

Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the

Improving America’s Schools Act

(IASA), to State educational agencies

(SEAs) with approved consortium

arrangements.

EFFECTIVE DATE: This notice takes effect

on May 1, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

James English, Office of Migrant

Education, U.S. Department of

Education, 600 Independence Avenue

SW., Portals Building, Room 4100,

Washington, DC 20202–6135.

Telephone: (202) 260–1394. Individuals

who use a telecommunications device

for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–

800–877–8339 between 8 a.m. and 8

p.m., Eastern time, Monday through

Friday.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

The MEP, authorized in Title I, Part

C of the ESEA, is a State-operated,

formula grant program under which

SEAs receive funds to improve the

academic achievement and welfare of

migratory children who reside in their

States. Consistent with the emphasis

that the reauthorized ESEA places upon

removing barriers to coordination and

integration of programs that serve

migratory children, sections 1303(d) and

1308(d) of the ESEA encourage SEAs to

consider whether consortium

arrangements with other States or

appropriate entities would result in a

more effective and efficient delivery of

MEP services.
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In this regard, section 1303(d) directs

the Secretary to consult with SEAs

whose MEP allocations in any year will

be $1 million or less about the

desirability of forming consortia. This

section also directs the Secretary to

approve any SEA’s consortium proposal

that (1) reduces MEP administrative

costs or program function costs, and (2)

increases the amount of MEP funds

available for direct services to migratory

children that add substantially to the

educational attainment or welfare of

those children. While an SEA may form

a consortium arrangement with any

appropriate entity, in light of the strong

interstate emphases in the MEP the

Secretary anticipates that SEAs will

consider the benefits of forming

consortium arrangements on a multiState basis. The Secretary also

anticipates that SEAs will want to plan

their consortium activities to be

implemented on a multiyear basis. The

Department already has begun

discussions with SEA officials about the

circumstances in which consortium

arrangements might enhance their

programs for migratory children.

To encourage SEAs to form

consortium arrangements that meet the

requirements of section 1303(d), section

1308(d) of the ESEA directs the

Secretary to reserve up to $1.5 million

of the funds appropriated for the MEP

for competitive incentive awards to

SEAs with consortium arrangements

approved by the Secretary. Section

1308(d) also limits the size of each grant

to no more than $250,000, and provides

that not fewer than 10 grants shall be

made to eligible SEAs with approved

consortium arrangements whose MEP

formula grant allocations are less than

$1 million. While the provision offers

all SEAs an incentive to participate in

consortium arrangements, it was

enacted particularly to benefit those

SEAs that, because of the small size of

their MEP allocations, may have

particular difficulty in both

administering the MEP and providing

an adequate level of direct services to

migratory children.

Waiver of Proposed Rulemaking

In accordance with the

Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C.

553), it is the practice of the Department

of Education to offer interested parties

the opportunity to comment on

proposed rulemaking documents.

However, in accordance with section

437(d)(1) of the General Education

Provisions Act, the Assistant Secretary

has determined that, in order that SEAs

may use the incentive grant funds as

quickly as possible to promote their

programs of direct services for migratory

children under the MEP formula-grant

program, it is desirable to waive public

comment for the first year of

implementation of this new

discretionary grant. This waiver will

apply only to the criteria and process

included in this notice for awarding FY

1995 consortium incentive grants. Any

criteria and procedures that the

Department establishes for the award of

consortium incentive grants in future

years will be based on experiences with

this FY 1995 award process, and will be

published in proposed form in the

Federal Register with an opportunity

for interested parties to comment.

Eligibility for Consortium Incentive

Grants

The criteria and procedures

announced in this notice govern only

the award of consortium incentive

grants for FY 1995. These criteria and

procedures reflect consideration of

comments on a preliminary proposal

discussed with State MEP Directors in a

meeting in McAllen, Texas on January

26–27, 1995. The Secretary will reserve

$1.5 million to implement this

consortium incentive grant program in

FY 1995. Only SEAs with approved

consortium arrangements will be

eligible for incentive grants. Consistent

with section 1303(d), a consortium

arrangement will be approved if it (1)

reduces the overall amount of MEP

administrative or program function

costs across the participating SEAs from

the amount that would be incurred in

the absence of the consortium, and (2)

makes more funds available, overall

across the participating SEAs, for direct

educational or support services to

migratory children so as to add

substantially to their welfare or

educational attainment than would have

been available in the absence of the

consortium.

For purposes of section 1303(d),

‘‘administrative or program function

costs’’ include all costs that an SEA or

its local operating agencies pay from

MEP funds to support MEP activities

other than direct educational or support

services for migratory children.

Administrative and program function

costs would include the costs of general

program administration paid from funds

reserved under section 1603(c) of ESEA,

as well as the costs of other, programspecific administrative activities, such

as identification and recruitment,

interstate, intrastate, and interagency

coordination, and parent advisory

councils. The term ‘‘direct educational

or support services’’ means any

instructional or support activities

provided directly to migratory children,

as well as training of instructional or

support staff who provide instructional

or support services directly to migratory

children. For purposes of section

1303(d), the term ‘‘other appropriate

entity’’ can mean any public or private

agency or organization.

A single SEA may be part of more

than one consortium arrangement.

However, consistent with section

1303(d) of the ESEA, each consortium

arrangement that the Secretary approves

must separately decrease the total

amount of MEP administrative or

program function costs across the

participating SEAs and, conversely,

increase the total amount of MEP funds

that are made available for direct

services to migratory children across the

participating SEAs. SEAs will submit

the information that the Department

needs to review and approve the SEA’s

consortium arrangement, and determine

the size of the SEA’s consortium

incentive grant, through the FY 1995

MEP application or in conjunction with

the optional consolidated State plan

under section 14302 of the ESEA.

Amount of an SEA’s Incentive Grants

Each SEA with one or more

consortium arrangements that the

Secretary determines meet the criteria in

section 1303(d) of the ESEA, and whose

consortium arrangements increase the

amount of MEP funds available for

direct services to migratory children in

its State, will receive one incentive

award. In determining the size of an

SEA’s award, the Secretary will rank

SEAs seeking incentive grants on the

basis of the total percentage increase in

MEP funds that the SEA will make

available for direct services to migratory

children in its State as a result of the

SEA’s participation in the consortium

arrangements, as compared to the level

of direct services that would be made

available to migratory children in the

State in the absence of the consortia.

Example I: SEA A has one consortium

arrangement that increases the amount

of funds available for direct services in

State A by 10 percent, while SEA B has

two consortium arrangements that

increase the total amount of funds

available for direct services in State B by

8 percent. State A would be ranked

higher than State B even if SEA B’s

consortium arrangements permit more

total funds to be used for direct services.

Example II: SEA C and SEA D

participate together in one consortium

and this consortium is the only one in

which each SEA participates. If the

amount available for direct services

increases in total across the two States

due to participation in the consortium,

but the amount available for direct

services in State C does not increase, the
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consortium arrangement will be

approved, but only State D, and not

State C, will receive an incentive grant.

From the information that an SEA

submits, the Department will calculate,

for each State, the total percentage

increase in MEP funds available for

direct services as a result of all the

approved consortium arrangements in

which an applicant SEA participates.

The Department will then rank these

percentages in descending order and

divide the distribution into thirds (that

is, by terciles). Each SEA ranked in the

highest third of the distribution will

receive an incentive grant that is threetimes the size of the grant received by

each SEA ranked in the lowest third,

while each SEA ranked in the middle

third will receive an incentive grant that

is twice the size of that provided to each

SEA ranked in the lowest third. Within

each third, grant awards will be of equal

size, except that adjustments will be

made so that no consortium incentive

grant will be greater than $250,000 or

100 percent of the amount of funds

awarded to the SEA under its formula

grant allocation, whichever is less.

An SEA may use incentive grant

funds awarded under section 1308(d) of

the ESEA only to provide direct services

to migratory children. These funds are

in addition to, and not in place of, the

funds awarded under the MEP formula

grant.

The Secretary implements section

1308(d) in this way in order to (1)

reward all SEAs whose participation in

consortium arrangements increases

direct services to migratory children in

their State, (2) provide larger awards to

those SEAs whose consortium

arrangements most enhance their

capacity to deliver direct services, and

(3) ensure that FY 1995 funds under this

program are available to SEAs as soon

as possible.

Because of the criteria and procedures

announced in this notice for awarding

FY 1995 consortium incentive grants,

the regulations and selection criteria

contained in 34 CFR Part 205 (Migrant

Education Coordination Program) do not

apply to this competition.

Applicability of the Education

Department General Administrative

Regulations (EDGAR)

In view of the process that the

Department will use to obtain

information on proposed SEA

consortium arrangements, and the

criteria it will use to determine, by

formula, the amount of consortium

incentive grant that each applicant SEA

will receive, the regulations in 34 CFR

Part 75 (Direct Grant Programs) of the

Education Department General

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) do

not apply. Instead, the incentive grant

program is being administered, like the

MEP itself, under the provisions of 34

CFR Parts 76, 77, 80, 81, 85, and 86 of

EDGAR.

(Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 6393(d),

6398(d))

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Number 84.011, Migratory Education Basic

State Formula Grant Program)

Dated: March 10, 1995.

Thomas W. Payzant,

Assistant Secretary for Elementary and

Secondary Education.

[FR Doc. 95–7826 Filed 3–29–95; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Environmental Management Advisory

Board

AGENCY: Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of open meeting.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the provisions of

the Federal Advisory Committee Act

(Pub. L. 92–463, 86 Stat. 770), notice is

hereby given of the following Advisory

Committee meeting:

Name: Environmental Management

Advisory Board.

Date and Times: Monday, April 17, 1995

from 4:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.; Tuesday, April

18, 1995 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Place: Willard Inter-Continental

Washington, 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue,

N.W., Washington, D.C. 20004, (202) 628–

9100.

For Further Information Contact: James T.

Melillo, Executive Secretary, Environmental

Management Advisory Board, EM–5, 1000

Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington,

DC 20585, (202) 586–4400. The Internet

address is: James.Melillo@em.doe.gov

Supplementary Information: Purpose of the

Board. The purpose of the Board is to provide

the Assistant Secretary for Environmental

Management (EM) with advice and

recommendations on issues confronting the

Environmental Management program and the

Programmatic Environmental Management

Impact Statement, from the perspectives of

affected groups and State and local

Governments. The Board will help to

improve the Environmental Management

Program by assisting in the process of

securing consensus recommendations, and

providing the Department’s numerous

publics with opportunities to express their

opinions regarding the Environmental

Management Program.

Tentative Agenda

Monday, April 17, 1995

4:30 p.m. Co-chairs Open the Meeting

Presentation on Environmental

Management Budget Challenges &

Strategies—Assistant Secretary for

Environmental Management

6:30 p.m. Meeting Adjourns

Tuesday, April 18, 1995

8:30 a.m. Co-chairs Resume the Meeting

Overview of Major Budget Issues

Confronting the Environmental

Management Program Offices—Program

Deputy Assistant Secretaries

10:30 a.m. Breakout Sessions on Major

Budget Issues Confronting Field Offices

and Headquarters

12:00 p.m. Lunch

1:00 p.m. Board Business

1:15 p.m. Reports from Breakout Sessions

2:30 p.m. Board Committee Reports

4:30 p.m. BEMR/PEIS/FFCA Integrated

Message Presentation

5:00 p.m. Public Comment Session

5:30 p.m. Meeting Adjourns

A final agenda will be available at the

meeting.

Public Participation: The meeting is open

to the public. Written statements may be filed

with the Board either before or after the

meeting. Members of the public who wish to

make oral statements pertaining to agenda

items should contact James T. Melillo at the

address or telephone number listed above.

Individuals wishing to orally address the

Board during the public comment session

should call (800) 862–8860 and leave a

message. Individuals may also register on

April 17, 1995 at the meeting site. Every

effort will be made to hear all those wishing

to speak to the Board, on a first come, first

serve basis. Those who call in and reserve

time will be given the opportunity to speak

first. The Board Co-chairs are empowered to

conduct the meeting in a fashion that will

facilitate the orderly conduct of business.

Transcripts and Minutes: A meeting

transcript and minutes will be available for

public review and copying at the Freedom of

Information Public Reading Room, 1E–190,

Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence

Avenue, S.W., Washington, DC 20585

between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday

through Friday, except Federal holidays.

Issued at Washington, DC on March 27,

1995.

Rachel Murphy Samuel,

Acting Deputy Advisory Committee,

Management Officer.

[FR Doc. 95–7852 Filed 3–29–95; 8:45 am]

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Energy Information Administration

American Statistical Association

Committee on Energy Statistics

AGENCY: U. S. Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of open meeting.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the provisions of

the Federal Advisory Committee Act

(Pub. L. 92–463, 86 Stat. 770), notice is

hereby given of the following meeting:

Name: American Statistical Association’s

Committee on Energy Statistics, a utilized

Federal Advisory Committee.