52960 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 178 / Friday, September 12, 2008 / Notices 

ESTIMATED ANNUAL REPORTING BURDEN

Report 

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number of 

respondents 

Reports 

annually by 

each 

Total annual 

responses 

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average number of hours 

per response 

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reporting 

burden 

Designation and Compliance ............................................... 13 NA NA 300 3900 

Annual .................................................................................. 13 1 13 70 910 

Burden means the total time, effort, or 

financial resources expended by persons 

to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or 

provide information to or for a federal 

agency. This includes the time needed 

to review instructions; develop, acquire, 

install, and utilize technology and 

systems for the purposes of collecting, 

validating, and verifying information, 

processing and maintaining information 

and disclosing and providing 

information; adjust the existing ways to 

comply with any previously applicable 

instructions and requirements; train 

personnel to be able to respond to a 

collection of information; and transmit 

or otherwise disclose the information. 

Dated: September 8, 2008. 

David A. Stawick, 

Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. E8–21287 Filed 9–11–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6351–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army 

Availability of Non-Exclusive, 

Exclusive License or Partially 

Exclusive Licensing of U.S. Patent 

Concerning ‘‘Continuous Disreefing 

Apparatus for Parachute’’ 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with 37 CFR 

Part 404.6, announcement is made of 

the availability for licensing of US 

Patent No. US 7,416,158 entitled 

‘‘Continuous Disreefing Apparatus for 

Parachute’’ issued August 26, 2008. This 

patent has been assigned to the United 

States Government as represented by the 

Secretary of the Army. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Jeffrey DiTullio at U.S. Army Soldier 

Systems Center, Kansas Street, Natick, 

MA 01760, Phone: (508) 233–4184 or email: Jeffrey.Ditullio@us.army.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Any 

licenses granted shall comply with 35 

U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR Part 404. 

Brenda S. Bowen, 

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

[FR Doc. E8–21288 Filed 9–11–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army; Corps of 

Engineers 

Economic and Environmental 

Principles and Guidelines for Water 

and Related Land Resources 

Implementation Studies; Availability of 

Proposed Principles and Request for 

Comments 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DoD. 

ACTION: Announcement of availability of 

proposed Principles and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: Section 2031 of the Water 

Resources Development Act of 2007 

(Pub. L. 110–114) directs the Secretary 

of the Army to revise the Economic and 

Environmental Principles and 

Guidelines for Water and Related Land 

Resources Implementation Studies 

(P&G), which the Water Resources 

Council issued on March 10, 1983. The 

Army Corps of Engineers (‘‘Corps’’) 

proposes to craft the revision in phases. 

The first phase would address the basic 

principles of water resources planning 

(‘‘Principles’’) and the next phase or 

phases would provide more detailed 

implementing guidance. 

This notice includes a copy of the 

proposed Principles (see 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION), which 

would replace the first two pages of the 

P&G. The proposed Principles may also 

be found at: http://www.usace.army.mil/ 

cw/hot_topics/ht_2008/pandg_rev.htm. 

DATES: Written comments are invited 

and will be accepted through October 

15, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be 

submitted in writing to HQUSACE, 

Attn: P&G Revision, CECW–ZA, 441 G 

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20314– 

1000, by e-mail to: 

larry.j.prather@usace.army.mil or FAX: 

202–761–5649. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Larry J. Prather, Assistant Director of 

Civil Works, at 202–761–0106. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

2031 of the Water Resources 

Development Act of 2007 (Pub. L. 110– 

114) directs the Secretary of the Army 

to revise the Economic and 

Environmental Principles and 

Guidelines for Water and Related Land 

Resources Implementation Studies, 

dated March 10, 1983, and to apply the 

revisions to all water resources projects 

carried out by the Secretary, other than 

projects for which the Secretary has 

already commenced a feasibility study. 

The Corps requested interested 

individuals and organizations to submit 

suggestions for revision of the P&G in a 

notice published in the Federal Register 

(73 FR 26086) on Thursday, May 8, 

2008. As announced in that notice, the 

Corps also held a public meeting to hear 

oral suggestions for proposed revisions 

on June 5, 2008. Several major issues 

were discussed in the oral or written 

comments, including watershed 

planning, collaborative planning, the 

reliance on benefit cost ratios, giving 

more standing to environmental values, 

and non-structural flood damage 

reduction projects. 

The Corps is now asking interested 

individuals and organizations to submit 

comments on the proposed Principles. 

Comments on any aspect of the proposal 

are welcome. 

The issues on which the public may 

want to comment include: actions 

covered by the Principles (section 1), 

the language used to describe the 

national planning objective (section 2), 

the role of public safety in project 

formulation (sections 2, 7, and 9), the 

role of watershed analysis (section 4), 

the response to uncertainty (sections 5, 

6, and 9), ensuring consideration of all 

reasonable alternatives (sections 6 and 

7), the definition of and preference for 

non-structural plans (sections 7 and 9), 

and the plan selection criteria (section 

9). Comments are also specifically 

invited on the appropriate discount rate 

to use in formulating proposed water 

resources projects. 


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