47140 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 157 / Wednesday, August 13, 2008 / Notices 

When and Where Will the Meeting 

Take Place? 

We will hold the public meeting on 

September 15, 2008, from 8:00 a.m. 

until approximately 5:00 p.m. in Salon 

A at Washington Marriott, 1221 22nd 

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20037. 

You may call the hotel at 202–872–1500 

to inquire about room accommodations. 

What Assistance Will Be Provided to 

Individuals With Disabilities? 

The meeting site is accessible to 

individuals with disabilities. If you will 

need an auxiliary aid or service to 

participate in the meeting, e.g., 

interpreting service, assistive listening 

device, or materials in an alternate 

format, notify the contact person listed 

in this notice at least two weeks before 

the scheduled meeting date. Although 

we will attempt to meet a request 

received after that date, we may not be 

able to make available the requested 

auxiliary aid or service because of 

insufficient time to arrange it. 

Who Is the Contact Person for the 

Meeting? 

Please contact Ms. Melissa Lewis, the 

Executive Director for the National 

Committee on Foreign Medical 

Education and Accreditation, if you 

have questions about the meeting. You 

may contact her at the U.S. Department 

of Education, Room 7127, MS 7563, 

1990 K St., NW., Washington, DC 20006, 

telephone: (202) 219–7009, fax: (202) 

219–7008, e-mail: 

Melissa.Lewis@ed.gov. Individuals who 

use a telecommunications device for the 

deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 

Information Relay Service at 1–800–

877–8339. 

What Are the Functions of the 

Committee? 

The Committee was established by the 

Secretary of Education under Section 

102 of the Higher Education Act of 

1965, as amended. 

The Committee’s responsibilities are 

to: 

• On request of a foreign country, 

evaluate the standards of accreditation 

applied to medical schools in that 

country; and 

• Determine the comparability of 

those standards to standards for 

accreditation applied to United States 

medical schools. Comparability of the 

applicable accreditation standards is an 

eligibility requirement for foreign 

medical schools to participate in the 

Federal Family Education Loan 

program, 20 U.S.C. 1071 et seq. 

What Items Will Be on the Agenda for 

Discussion at the Meeting? 

The Committee will review the 

standards of accreditation applied to 

medical schools by several foreign 

countries to determine whether those 

standards are comparable to the 

standards of accreditation applied to 

medical schools in the United States. 

Discussions of the standards of 

accreditation will be held in sessions 

open to the public. Discussions 

resulting in specific determinations of 

comparability are closed to the public in 

order that each country may be properly 

notified of the decision. The countries 

tentatively scheduled to be discussed at 

the meeting include: Czech Republic, 

Dominican Republic, Israel, The 

Netherlands, and Taiwan. Beginning 

August 22, 2008, you may call the 

contact person listed above to obtain the 

final listing of the countries whose 

standards will be discussed during this 

meeting. The listing of countries will 

also be posted on the Department of 

Education’s Web site at the following 

address: http://www.ed.gov/about/ 

bdscomm/list/ncfmea.html. 

How May I Obtain Electronic Access to 

This Document? 

You may view this document, as well 

as all other Department of Education 

documents published in the Federal 

Register, in text or Adobe Portable 

Document Format (PDF), on the Internet 

at the following site: http://www.ed.gov/ 

legislation/FedRegister. 

To use PDF, you must have Adobe 

Acrobat Reader, which is available free 

at this site. If you have questions about 

using PDF, call the U.S. Government 

Printing Office (GPO), toll free, at 1–

888–293–6498; or in the Washington, 

DC, area at (202) 512–1530. 

Note: The official version of this document 

is the document published in the Federal 

Register. Free Internet access to the official 

edition of the Federal Register and the Code 

of Federal Regulations is available on GPO 

Access at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/ 

index.html. 

Authority: 5 U.S.C. Appendix 2. 

Dated: August 8, 2008. 

Cheryl A. Oldham, 

Acting Assistant Secretary, Office of 

Postsecondary Education. 

[FR Doc. E8–18701 Filed 8–12–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Office of Fossil Energy 

Methane Hydrate Advisory Committee 

AGENCY: Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

This notice announces a meeting of 

the Methane Hydrate Advisory 

Committee. Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–463, 86 Stat. 

770) requires that notice of these 

meetings be announced in the Federal 

Register. 

DATES: Thursday, September 4, 2008, 3 

to 5 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: TMS, Inc., 955 L’Enfant 

Plaza North, SW., Suite 1500, 

Washington, DC 20024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Edith Allison, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Office of Oil and Natural Gas, 

Washington, DC 20585. Phone: 202–

586–1023. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of the Committee: The 

purpose of the Methane Hydrate 

Advisory Committee is to provide 

advice on potential applications of 

methane hydrate to the Secretary of 

Energy, and assist in developing 

recommendations and priorities for the 

Department of Energy Methane Hydrate 

Research and Development Program. 

Tentative Agenda: 

• Discussion of information, 

including fact sheet and PowerPoint 

presentation, to be provided to the 

2008–2009 Executive Branch Transition 

teams. 

Public Participation: The meeting is 

open to the public. The Chairman of the 

Committee will conduct the meeting to 

facilitate the orderly conduct of 

business. If you would like to file a 

written statement with the Committee, 

you may do so either before or after the 

meeting. If you would like to make oral 

statements regarding any of the items on 

the agenda, you should contact Edith 

Allison at the address or telephone 

number listed above. You must make 

your request for an oral statement at 

least five business days prior to the 

meeting, and reasonable provisions will 

be made to include the presentation on 

the agenda. Public comment will follow 

the 10-minute rule. 

Minutes: The minutes of this meeting 

will be available for public review and 

copying within 60 days at the Freedom 

of Information Public Reading Room, 

Room 1G–033, Forrestal Building, 1000 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 4 

p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

federal holidays. 


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Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 157 / Wednesday, August 13, 2008 / Notices 47141 

Issued at Washington, DC, on August 7, 

2008. 

Rachel Samuel, 

Deputy Committee, Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. E8–18723 Filed 8–12–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP07–367–002; CP08–19–001] 

Columbia Gas Transmission 

Corporation; Notice of Application 

August 6, 2008. 

Take notice that on July 25, 2008, 

Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation 

(Columbia), 1700 MacCorkle Avenue, 

SE., Charleston, West Virginia 25314, 

filed, under section 7 of the Natural Gas 

Act, an application to amend its 

certificate authorized in Docket Nos. 

CP07–367–000, CP07–367–001, and 

CP08–19–000. These filings are 

available for review at the Commission 

in the Public Reference Room or may be 

viewed on the Commission’s Web site at 

http://www.ferc.gov using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Enter the docket 

numbers excluding the last three digits 

in the docket number field to access the 

document. For assistance, please contact 

FERC Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll 

free at (866) 208–3676, or for TTY, 

contact (202) 502–8659. 

Any questions regarding this 

Application should be directed to 

Fredric J. George, Lead Counsel, 

Columbia Gas Transmission 

Corporation, P.O. Box 1273, Charleston, 

West Virginia 25325–1273 at (304) 357–

2359 or by fax at (304) 357–3206. 

Pursuant to section 157.9 of the 

Commission’s rules, 18 CFR 157.9, 

within 90 days of this Notice the 

Commission staff will either: Complete 

its environmental assessment (EA) and 

place it into the Commission’s public 

record (eLibrary) for this proceeding, or 

issue a Notice of Schedule for 

Environmental Review. If a Notice of 

Schedule for Environmental Review is 

issued, it will indicate, among other 

milestones, the anticipated date for the 

Commission staff’s issuance of the final 

environmental impact statement (FEIS) 

or EA for this proposal. The filing of the 

EA in the Commission’s public record 

for this proceeding or the issuance of a 

Notice of Schedule for Environmental 

Review will serve to notify federal and 

state agencies of the timing for the 

completion of all necessary reviews, and 

the subsequent need to complete all 

federal authorizations within 90 days of 

the date of issuance of the Commission 

staff’s FEIS or EA. 

There are two ways to become 

involved in the Commission’s review of 

this project. First, any person wishing to 

obtain legal status by becoming a party 

to the proceedings for this project 

should, on or before the below listed 

comment date, file with the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426, 

a motion to intervene in accordance 

with the requirements of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (18 CFR 385.214 or 385.211) 

and the Regulations under the NGA (18 

CFR 157.10). A person obtaining party 

status will be placed on the service list 

maintained by the Secretary of the 

Commission and will receive copies of 

all documents filed by the applicant and 

by all other parties. A party must submit 

14 copies of filings made with the 

Commission and must mail a copy to 

the applicant and to every other party in 

the proceeding. Only parties to the 

proceeding can ask for court review of 

Commission orders in the proceeding. 

However, a person does not have to 

intervene in order to have comments 

considered. The second way to 

participate is by filing with the 

Secretary of the Commission, as soon as 

possible, an original and two copies of 

comments in support of or in opposition 

to this project. The Commission will 

consider these comments in 

determining the appropriate action to be 

taken, but the filing of a comment alone 

will not serve to make the filer a party 

to the proceeding. The Commission’s 

rules require that persons filing 

comments in opposition to the project 

provide copies of their protests only to 

the party or parties directly involved in 

the protest. 

Persons who wish to comment only 

on the environmental review of this 

project should submit an original and 

two copies of their comments to the 

Secretary of the Commission. 

Environmental commenters will be 

placed on the Commission’s 

environmental mailing list, will receive 

copies of the environmental documents, 

and will be notified of meetings 

associated with the Commission’s 

environmental review process. 

Environmental commenters will not be 

required to serve copies of filed 

documents on all other parties. 

However, the non-party commenters 

will not receive copies of all documents 

filed by other parties or issued by the 

Commission (except for the mailing of 

environmental documents issued by the 

Commission) and will not have the right 

to seek court review of the 

Commission’s final order. 

Motions to intervene, protests and 

comments may be filed electronically 

via the internet in lieu of paper; see, 18 

CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the 

instructions on the Commission’s Web 

site under the ‘‘e-Filing’’ link. The 

Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filings. 

Comment Date: August 27, 2008. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E8–18669 Filed 8–12–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 1494–349] 

Grand River Dam Authority; Notice of 

Application for Amendment of License 

and Soliciting Comments, Motions To 

Intervene, and Protests 

August 7, 2008. 

Take notice that the following 

application has been filed with the 

Commission and is available for public 

inspection: 

a. Application Type: Non-Project Use 

of Project Lands and Waters. 

b. Project No: 1494–349. 

c. Date Filed: July 18, 2008. 

d. Applicant: Grand River Dam 

Authority. 

e. Name of Project: Pensacola Project. 

f. Location: The project is located on 

the Grand (Neosho) River in Craig, 

Delaware, Mayes, and Ottawa Counties, 

Oklahoma. The project does not occupy 

federal or tribal lands. The proposed 

non-project use would be located along 

the west shore of Isle’s End Cove, an 

inlet to Monkey Island, near Afton, 

Oklahoma. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: Ms. Tamara 

Jahnke, Grand River Dam Authority, 

P.O. Box 409, Vinita, OK 74301, (918) 

256–5545. 

i. FERC Contact: Lorance Yates at 

770–452–3784, or by e-mail: 

lorance.yates@ferc.gov. 

j. Deadline for filing comments, 

motions to intervene, and protests: 

September 8, 2008. 

k. Description of Application: The 

licensee requests Commission approval 

to grant St. Andrew’s Harbor permission 

to modify its existing docking facilities 

to include a new dock with eight boat 

slips and 21 personal water craft (PWC) 

slips, and one additional boat slip at an 

existing dock. If approved, St. Andrew’s 

Harbor would have a total of seven 


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