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SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act of 

1972 (5 U.S.C., Appendix, as amended) 

and the Sunshine in the Government 

Act of 1976 (5 U.S.C. 552b, as amended) 

the Defense Threat Reduction Agency 

(DTRA) and the Department of Veterans 

Affairs (VA) announce the following 

advisory board meeting of the Veterans’

Advisory Board on Dose Reconstruction 

(VBDR). 

DATES: Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 

from 8:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. and 1:30–5 

p.m. with a public comment session 

from 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.; and 

Thursday, September 11, 2008, from 

8:30 a.m.–9:05 and 10:05 a.m.–12:15 

p.m., with a public comment session 

from 9:05 a.m.–10:05 a.m. 

ADDRESSES: Westin Baltimore 

Washington Airport, Crossland 

BallRoom, 1110 Old Elkridge Landing 

Road, Linthicum Heights, MD 21090. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

Veterans’ Advisory Board on Dose 

Reconstruction toll free at 1–866–657–

VBDR (8237). Additional information 

may be found at http://vbdr.org. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of Meeting: To obtain, review 

and evaluate information related to the 

Board mission to provide guidance and 

oversight of the dose reconstruction and 

claims compensation programs for 

veterans of U.S.-sponsored atmospheric 

nuclear weapons tests from 1945–1962; 

veterans of the 1945–1946 occupation of 

Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan; and 

veterans who were prisoners of war in 

those regions at the conclusion of World 

War II. In addition, the advisory board 

will assist the VA and DTRA in 

communicating with the veterans. 

Meeting Agenda: On Wednesday, the 

meeting will open with an introduction 

of the Board. The following briefings 

will be presented: ‘‘Update on Nuclear 

Test Personnel Review (NTPR) Dose 

Reconstruction Program’’ by Dr. Paul 

Blake; and ‘‘VA Radiation Claims 

Compensation Program for Veterans’’ by 

Mr. Thomas Pamperin. In addition, the 

four subcommittees established during 

the inaugural VBDR session will report 

on their activities since April 2008. The 

subcommittees are the ‘‘Subcommittee 

on DTRA Dose Reconstruction 

Procedures’’, the ‘‘Subcommittee on VA 

Claims Adjudication Procedures’’, the 

‘‘Subcommittee on Quality Management 

and VA Process Integration with DTRA 

Nuclear Test Personnel Review 

Program’’, and the ‘‘Subcommittee on 

Communication and Outreach.’’

On Thursday, the Board will discuss 

future business and meeting dates. 

Meeting Accessibility: Pursuant to 5 

U.S.C. 552b, as amended, and 41 CFR 

102–3.140 through 102–3.165, and the 

availability of space this meeting is 

open to the public. Seating is limited by 

the size of the meeting Room. All 

persons must sign in legibly at the 

registration desk. 

Written Statements: Pursuant to 41 

CFR 102–3.105(j) and 102–3.140(c), 

interested persons may submit a written 

statement for consideration by the 

Veterans’ Advisory Board on Dose 

Reconstruction. Written statements 

should be no longer than two typewritten pages and must address: The 

issue, discussion, and recommended 

course of action. Supporting 

documentation may also be included as 

needed to establish the appropriate 

historical context and to provide any 

necessary background information. 

Individuals submitting a written 

statement must submit their statement 

to the Board at 7910 Woodmont Ave., 

Suite 400, Bethesda, MD 20814–3095, at 

any point; however, if a written 

statement is not received at least 10 

calendar days prior to the meeting, 

which is the subject of this notice, then 

it may not be provided to or considered 

by the Veterans’ Advisory Board on 

Dose Reconstruction until its next open 

meeting. 

The Chairperson will review all 

timely submissions with the Designated 

Federal Officer, and ensure they are 

provided to members of the Veterans’

Advisory Board on Dose Reconstruction 

members before the meeting that is the 

subject of this notice. After reviewing 

the written comments, the Chairperson 

and the Designated Federal Officer may 

choose to invite the submitter of the 

comments to orally present their issue 

during an open portion of this meeting 

or at a future meeting. 

The Chairperson, in consulting with 

the Designated Federal Officer, may, if 

desired, allot a specific amount of time 

for members of the public to present 

their issues for review and discussion 

by the Veterans’ Advisory Board on 

Dose Reconstruction. 

Public Comments: The September 10–

11, 2008 meeting is open to the public, 

approximately one hour each day will 

be reserved for public comments on 

issues related to the task of the Veterans’

Advisory Board on Dose Reconstruction, 

and speaking time will be assigned on 

a first-come, first-served basis. The 

amount of time per speaker will be 

determined by the number of requests 

received, but is nominally five minutes 

each. All persons who wish to speak at 

the meeting must sign in legibly at the 

registration desk. Questions from the 

public will not be considered during 

this period. Speakers who wish to 

expand on their oral statements are 

invited to submit a written statement to 

the Veterans’ Advisory Board on Dose 

Reconstruction at 7910 Woodmont Ave., 

Suite 400, Bethesda, MD 20814–3095. 

Dated: August 1, 2008. 

Patricia L. Toppings, 

OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, 

Department of Defense. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Navy 

Notice of Public Hearing for the Draft 

Supplemental Environmental Impact 

Statement for Developing Homeport 

Facilities for Three Nimitz-Class 

Aircraft Carriers in Support of the U.S. 

Pacific Fleet 

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 102(2)(c) 

of the National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA) of 1969, as implemented by 

the Council on Environmental Quality 

Regulations (40 Code of Federal 

Regulations Parts 1500–1508 the U.S. 

Department of the Navy (Navy) has 

prepared and filed with the U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

a Draft Supplemental Environmental 

Impact Statement (SEIS) for Developing 

Homeport Facilities for Three NimitzClass (CVN) Aircraft Carriers in Support 

of the U.S. Pacific Fleet on August 8, 

2008. The Draft SEIS has been prepared 

to update the analyses contained in the 

1999 Final Environmental Impact 

Statement (the 1999 FEIS) for 

Developing Homeport Facilities for 

Three Nimitz-Class Aircraft Carriers in 

Support of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. 

The SEIS analyzes information that 

was not available at the time the 1999 

FEIS was completed, and focuses on 

potentially significant new 

circumstances or information relevant to 

environmental conditions that have 

emerged since the 2000 Record of 

Decision (2000 ROD) for the 1999 FEIS. 

Information or circumstances that have 

not changed significantly since the 2000 

ROD are not re-examined in the SEIS. 

A public hearing will be held to 

provide information and receive oral 

and written comments on the Draft 

SEIS. Federal, state, and local agencies 

and interested individuals are invited to 

be present or represented at the hearing. 

DATES AND ADDRESSES: The public 

hearing will be held on September 3, 

2008. The hearing will consist of an 

open house information session from 3 

p.m. to 6 p.m. and a formal public 


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hearing from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Navy 

representatives will be available at the 

open house information session to 

answer questions about the proposal 

and the Draft SEIS analyses. The open 

house and public hearing will be held 

at: Coronado Community Center, 

Nautilus Room, 1845 Strand Way, 

Coronado, CA 92118. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: SEIS 

Project Manager, Naval Facilities 

Engineering Command Southwest, 2730 

McKean Street, Building 291, San Diego, 

CA 92136, telephone: 619–556–8509. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Navy 

has filed the Draft SEIS for Developing 

Homeport Facilities for Three NimitzClass Aircraft Carriers in Support of the 

U.S. Pacific Fleet with the EPA in 

accordance with the requirements of the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA) of 1969 (42 U.S.C. Sections 

4321–4345) and its implementing 

regulations (40 CFR Parts 1500–1508). 

The Navy is the lead agency for the 

Proposed Action. 

A Notice of Intent for the SEIS was 

published in the Federal Register on 

October 18, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 

201, Pages 59084–59085), which 

specified that scoping comments must 

submitted on or before November 19, 

2007. In response to local wildfires in 

the San Diego area, the Navy extended 

the normal 30-day scoping period. A 

second notice was published in the 

Federal Register Volume 72, 6 Number 

218, Page 63891 on November 13, 2007, 

indicating that the public comment 

period had been extended through 

December 3, 2007 for a total of 47 days. 

The Proposed Action from the 1999 

FEIS has been implemented except for 

some minor infrastructure upgrades, 

some of which were not required at the 

time of the FEIS. Therefore, the Navy 

proposes to implement those minor 

infrastructure upgrades in order to meet 

current Navy requirements. 

The Navy’s analysis of the existing 

CVN homeport facilities and 

infrastructure at Naval Air Station North 

Island (NASNI) in Coronado, California, 

included a summary of specific 

construction projects needed to satisfy 

the requirements set out in the Naval 

Sea Systems Command and Naval 

Facilities Engineering Command 

guidance documents and AntiTerrorism/Force Protection (AT/FP) 

guidance documents. These proposed 

minor infrastructure upgrades to Berth 

LIMA are analyzed in the SEIS and 

include: A fendering system, mooring 

bollards, a CVN security building and 

AT/FP improvements, as well as the 

installation of information systems, 

electrical and mechanical utility 

upgrades, paving, drainage, and site 

improvements. 

There are no practical alternatives to 

these requirements, as current 

guidelines require these features for a 

homeport berth. Consequently, no 

alternatives to the minor infrastructure 

upgrades are discussed. 

The primary focus of the SEIS is 

vehicular traffic and traffic-related 

issues in the vicinity of NASNI 

including evaluating the effectiveness of 

traffic mitigation measures implemented 

pursuant to the 2000 ROD. The SEIS 

also addresses potential environmental 

impacts to air quality, noise levels, 

biological resources, and marine water 

resources associated with the minor 

CVN berth infrastructure improvements 

at NASNI, and public scoping 

comments related to shoreline erosion 

along First Street in the City of 

Coronado. 

The Draft SEIS has been distributed to 

various Federal, State, and local 

agencies, as well as other interested 

individuals and organizations. In 

addition, copies of the Draft SEIS have 

been made available for public review at 

the following repositories: 

1. Chula Vista Library, Civic Center 

Branch, 365 F Street, Chula Vista CA 

91910; 

2. Coronado Public Library, 640 

Orange Avenue, Coronado, CA 92118; 

3. National City Public Library, 1401 

National City Blvd., National City, CA 

91950; 

4. San Diego County Library, Imperial 

Beach Branch, 810 Imperial Beach 

Blvd., Imperial Beach, CA 91932; 

5. San Diego Public Library, 820 E 

Street, San Diego, CA 92101; 

6. San Diego Public Library, Point 

Loma/Hervey Branch Library, 3701 

Voltaire St., San Diego, CA 92107–1606. 

The Draft SEIS is also available 

electronically on the project Web site 

http://www.nimitzcarriersseis.com. 

Copies of the Draft SEIS or Executive 

Summary may be requested, and 

comments on the Draft SEIS may be 

submitted, via the Web site. Federal 

state, and local agencies, and other 

interested parties, are invited and 

encouraged to be present or represented 

at the public hearing. To ensure the 

accuracy of the record, all statements 

presented orally at the public hearing 

should be submitted in writing. All 

comments will become part of the 

public record and substantive comments 

will be responded to in the Final SEIS. 

Equal weight will be given to oral and 

written statements. Persons wishing to 

speak will be required to sign in. In the 

interest of available time, and to ensure 

all who wish to give an oral statement 

at the public hearings have the 

opportunity to do so, each speaker’s 

comments will be limited to three 

minutes. If a longer statement is to be 

presented, it should be summarized at 

the public hearing and the full text 

submitted in writing either at the 

hearing or mailed to: Naval Facilities 

Engineering Command Southwest, Attn: 

SEIS Project Manager Code: 

ROPME.RM, 2730 McKean Street, 

Building 291, San Diego, CA 92136. 

Comments can be made in the 

following ways: (1) Oral statements/ 

written comments at the public hearing; 

(2) written comments mailed to Naval 

Facilities Engineering Command 

Southwest, Attn: SEIS Project Manager 

Code: ROPME.RM, 2730 McKean Street, 

Building 291, San Diego, CA 92136; (3) 

written comment by e-mail to 

robert.montana@navy.mil; or (4) 

comments submitted via the project 

Web site at http:// 

www.nimitzcarriersseis.com. Written 

comments postmarked by September 22, 

2008 will become part of the official 

public record. 

Dated: August 4, 2008. 

T. M. Cruz, 

Lieutenant Commander, Judge Advocate 

General’s Corps, U.S. Navy, Federal Register 

Liaison Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection Requests 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

SUMMARY: The IC Clearance Official, 

Regulatory Information Management 

Services, Office of Management, invites 

comments on the proposed information 

collection requests as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before October 

7, 2008. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) requires 

that the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) provide interested 

Federal agencies and the public an early 

opportunity to comment on information 

collection requests. OMB may amend or 

waive the requirement for public 

consultation to the extent that public 

participation in the approval process 

would defeat the purpose of the 

information collection, violate State or 

Federal law, or substantially interfere 

with any agency’s ability to perform its 

statutory obligations. The IC Clearance 

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