Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 183 / Friday, September 19, 2008 / Notices 54391 

Method for Controlling Parachute 

Opening’’ issued September 2, 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. E8–21924 Filed 9–18–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

for Disposal and Reuse of Fort 

Monroe, VA, Resulting From the 2005 

Base Closure and Realignment 

Commission’s Recommendations 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the Army 

intends to prepare an EIS for the 

disposal and reuse of Fort Monroe, 

Hampton, Virginia. Pursuant to the 

BRAC law, Fort Monroe is to close by 

September 14, 2011. Other actions 

included in the closing of Fort Monroe 

are relocating the Headquarters, U.S. 

Army Training and Doctrine Command 

(TRADOC); the Installation Management 

Command (IMCOM) Northeast Region; 

the U.S. Army Network Enterprise 

Technology Command (NETCOM) 

Northeast Region; and the Army 

Contracting Agency Northeast Region 

Office to Fort Eustis, Virginia. The U.S. 

Army Accessions Command and the 

U.S. Army Cadet Command will be 

relocated to Fort Knox, Kentucky. These 

relocations have been or will be 

addressed in separate National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 

documents for those locations. 

DATES: The scoping meeting for the EIS 

will be held on October 28, 2008, 7 p.m. 

to 9 p.m., Northampton Community 

Center, 1435 Todds Lane, Hampton, VA 

23666. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Jennifer Guerrero; phone: (757) 788– 

5363; e-mail: 

jennifer.lee.guerrero@us.army.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Fort 

Monroe is a 570-acre U.S. Army 

Garrison located at the southeastern tip 

of the Virginia Lower Peninsula 

between Hampton Roads and the Lower 

Chesapeake Bay. The hallmark of Fort 

Monroe is its stone fortress and moat. 

The proposed action (Army primary 

action) is to dispose of the surplus 

property generated by the BRACmandated closure of Fort Monroe. Reuse 

of Fort Monroe by others is a secondary 

action resulting from disposal. The 

Army has identified two disposal 

alternatives (early transfer and 

traditional disposal), a caretaker status 

alternative, and the no action alternative 

(as required by NEPA). The EIS will 

analyze the impact of each reuse 

alternative upon a wide range of 

environmental resource areas including, 

but not limited to, air quality, traffic, 

noise, biological resources, water 

resources, geology and soils, cultural 

resources, socioeconomic, utilities, land 

use, aesthetics and visual resources, 

hazardous and toxic substances, and 

cumulative environmental effects. 

The Army will conduct an 

environmental impact analysis that will 

focus on the effects of closure and reuse. 

One preliminary finding is that 

transportation impacts will have the 

most significant effect, with or without 

a major tourism component in the reuse 

plan. Also, at this early stage, impacts 

to air quality, infrastructure, and land 

use are not considered significant. With 

respect to cultural resources, significant 

adverse impacts are possible, but these 

can be mitigated by provisions 

contained in the Programmatic 

Agreement between the Army and the 

Virginia Department of Historic 

Resources. 

Additional resources and conditions 

may be identified as a result of the 

scoping process initiated by this NOI. 

Other opportunities for public 

participation will be announced in the 

respective local news media. The public 

will be invited to participate in scoping 

activities for the EIS and comments 

from the public will be considered 

before any action is taken to implement 

the disposal and reuse of Fort Monroe. 

Dated: September 12, 2008. 

Addison D. Davis, IV, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army 

(Environment, Safety and Occupational 

Health). 

[FR Doc. E8–21807 Filed 9–18–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army; Corps of 

Engineers 

Public Scoping Meetings for Update of 

the Water Control Manual for the 

Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint 

River Basin in Georgia, Florida, and 

Alabama 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DoD. 

ACTION: Supplement to Notice of Intent. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers (Corps), Mobile District, 

issued a Notice of Intent (NOI) in the 

Federal Register (73 FR 9780) published 

on February 22, 2008, describing the 

preparation of a Draft Environmental 

Impact Statement (EIS), as required by 

the National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA) to address the proposed update 

of the Water Control Manual (WCM) for 

the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint 

(ACF) River Basin located in Georgia, 

Florida, and Alabama. The Corps will 

hold five public scoping meetings 

during the month of October as part of 

its review and update of the WCM for 

the ACF River Basin. The public is 

invited to attend the scoping meetings 

which will provide information on the 

WCM update process and afford the 

opportunity to receive input from the 

public about their issues and concerns 

regarding that process. All five public 

meetings will be held using an open 

house format, allowing time for 

participants to review specific 

information and to provide comments to 

the resource staff attending the meeting. 

DATES: See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

section for meeting dates. 

ADDRESSES: See SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section for meeting 

addresses. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions about the manual update or 

NEPA process can be answered by: Mr. 

Brian Zettle, Biologist, Environment and 

Resources Branch, Planning and 

Environmental Division, U.S. Army 

Engineer District-Mobile, Post Office 

Box 2288, Mobile, AL 36628–0001; 

Telephone (251) 690–2115; or delivered 

by electronic facsimile at (251) 694– 

3815; or e-mail: 

brian.a.zettle@.usace.army.mil. You 

may also request to be included on the 

mailing list for public distribution of 

notices, meeting announcements and 

documents. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

meeting dates are: 

1. October 20, 2008, 5 p.m.–8 p.m. 

(EDT), Apalachicola, FL. 


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