29430 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 112 / Monday, June 10, 1996 / Notices

ADDRESSES: The Tier 2 FEIS may be

reviewed at the following locations:

(a) NASA, Headquarters, Library,

Room 1J20, 300 E Street SW.,

Washington DC 20546.

(b) NASA, Johnson Space Center,

Building 111, Industry Assistance

Office, Houston, TX 77058.

(c) Spaceport U.S.A., Room 2001,

John F. Kennedy Space Center, FL

32899. Please call Lisa Fowler

beforehand at 407–867–2497 so that

arrangements can be made.

In addition, the Tier 2 FEIS may be

examined at the following NASA

locations by contacting the pertinent

Freedom of Information Act Office:

(d) NASA, Ames Research Center,

Moffett Field, CA 94035 (415–604–

4190).

(e) NASA, Dryden Flight Research

Center, Edwards, CA 93523 (805–258–

3448).

(f) NASA, Goddard Space Flight

Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771 (301–286–

0730).

(g) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Visitors

Lobby, Building 249, 4800 Oak Grove

Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 (818–354–

5179).

(h) NASA, Langley Research Center,

Hampton, VA 23665 (804–864–6125).

(i) NASA, Lewis Research Center,

21000 Brookpark Road, Cleveland, OH

44135 (216–433–2313).

(j) NASA, Marshall Space Flight

Center, AL 35812 (205–544–5252).

(k) NASA, Stennis Space Center, MS

39529 (601–688–2164).

Limited copies of the Tier 2 FEIS are

available, on a first request basis, by

contacting David Ruszczyk at the

address or telephone number indicated

below.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

David Ruszczyk, NASA Johnson Space

Center, Code OF, Houston, Texas

77058–3696; telephone 713–244–7756.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NASA

issued the Final Tier 1 Environmental

Impact Statement for Space Station

Freedom in March 1991 (the ‘‘Tier 1

FEIS’’) followed by the associated

Record of Decision to proceed with fullscale design and development of the

concept known as Space Station

Freedom.

At the time the Tier 1 FEIS was

prepared, detailed design information

was not available. As a consequence,

some issues relating to the potential

environmental effects of Space Station

Freedom were deferred to the Tier 2

environmental impact statement. These

issues included the impacts of any

significant design modifications that

might be incorporated as the design

matured, and a quantitative analysis of

the probability and consequences of

inadvertent reentry into the Earth’s

atmosphere during assembly and

operation. Other issues that were

deferred included venting of nontoxic

gases during operation and change to a

hydrazine propulsion system.

The proposed action considered in

this Tier 2 FEIS and NASA’s preferred

alternative is to continue to provide U.S.

participation in the implementation of

assembly and operation of the ISS. The

Tier 2 FEIS considers the alternative to

the proposed action, the ‘‘No-Action’’

alternative (i.e., cancellation of U.S.

participation in the ISS program).

Comments on the ISS Tier 2 draft

environmental impact statement have

been solicited from Federal, State, and

local agencies, organizations, and

members of the general public through:

(a) notices published in the Federal

Register—NASA notice on December 6,

1995 (60 FR 62480), and EPA notice on

December 8, 1995 (60 FR 63044); and (b)

direct mailings to interested parties.

Comments received have been

addressed in the Tier 2 FEIS.

Dated: June 5, 1996.

Benita A. Cooper,

Associate Administrator for Management

Systems and Facilities.

[FR Doc. 96–14624 Filed 6–7–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7510–01–M

[Notice 96–058]

Government-Owned Inventions,

Available for Licensing

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and

Space Administration.

ACTION: Notice of availability of

inventions for licensing.

SUMMARY: The inventions listed below

are assigned to the National Aeronautics

and Space Administration, have been

filed in the United States Patent and

Trademark Office, and are available for

licensing.

Copies of patent applications cited are

available from the Office of Patent

Counsel, Lewis Research Center, Mail

Code LE–LAW, Cleveland, OH 44135.

Claims are deleted from the patent

applications to avoid premature

disclosure.

DATES: June 10, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Kent N. Stone, Patent Counsel, Mail

Code LE–LAW, Lewis Research Center,

Cleveland, OH 44135; telephone (216)

433–2320, fax (216) 433–6790.

NASA Case No. LEW–15,154–2: A

Method of Coating Low Expansion

Substrates;

NASA Case No. LEW–15,310–1:

Simplified Digital Subband Coder/

Decoder;

NASA Case No. LEW–15,576–2: Ion

Exchange Polymers and Method for

Making;

NASA Case No. LEW–15,802–1:

Method of Producing Stable Rotating

and Free-Floating Plasmas;

NASA Case No. LEW–15,735–1:

Improved Post-Scan Interactive Data

Display Process for Ultrasonic Imaging;

NASA Case No. LEW–16,274–1:

Method of Using Conductive Polymers

to Manufacture Printed Circuit Boards;

NASA Case No. LEW–15,793–1:

Emissivity Independent and Calibration

Free Multiwavelength Pyrometer;

NASA Case No. LEW–15,956–1: PdTi

As a Hydrogen Sensitive Metal;

NASA Case No. LEW–15,076–1:

Video Event Trigger—Derives a Digital

Trigger Signal If A Moving Object

Appears In A Stationary;

NASA Case No. LEW–15,922–1:

Apparatus and Method of Cold Welding

Thin Wafer to Hard Substrates;

NASA Case No. LEW–15,760–1:

Preferentially Etched Epitaxial Liftoff of

InP;

NASA Case No. LEW–15,896–1:

Process for Non-Contact Removal of

Lacquer and Other Protective Organic

Coatings From The Surface of Paintings;

NASA Case No. LEW–15,408–2:

‘‘Directional Electrostatic Accretion

Process Employing Acoustic Droplet

Formation’’;

NASA Case No. LEW–15,810–1:

Liquid-Crystal Phase-Shifting Point

Diffraction Interferometer;

NASA Case No. LEW–16,257–1:

Single-Transducer Ultrasonic Imaging

Method That Eliminates Component

Thickness Variation Effects;

NASA Case No. LEW–15,918–1:

Series Connected Converter for Control

of Multi-Bus Spacecraft Power Utility;

NASA Case No. LEW–15,920–1: A

Novel Idea for Reducing Skin Friction;

NASA Case No. LEW–15,823–1:

Method for Forming Microscopic

Structures on Irregularly Shaped

Surfaces;

Dated: June 3, 1996.

Edward A. Frankle,

General Counsel.

[FR Doc. 96–14469 Filed 6–7–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7510–01–M

[Notice 96–061]

NASA Advisory Council, Bion Task

Force; Meeting

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and

Space Administration.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.