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project was received by Public Law 

109–359, making Appropriations for the 

Department of Defense for the Fiscal 

Year Ending September 30, 2006, and 

for Other Purposes (December 18, 2005). 

The original Final EIS was reviewed and 

any new conditions that were not 

addressed in the 1989 Final EIS were 

evaluated as part of the Final 

Supplemental EIS to ensure compliance 

with all environmental laws and 

regulations. 

2. Alternative scenarios to be 

considered in the DEIS include the ‘‘No 

action’’ alternative and an array of 50- 

foot wide increment alternatives to 

widen the Federal Lower Pascagoula 

Channel and Bayou Casotte Channel up 

to a total width of 150 feet on either one 

side or both sides of the Channel(s). In 

addition, an array of disposal options 

are also being evaluated for the new 

work as well as for the maintenance 

material including upland disposal 

site(s), littoral zone disposal, beneficial 

use, disposal in the existing Pascagoula 

ODMDS, and disposal in existing openwater disposal sites. 

3. Scoping: a. The Corps invites full 

public participation to promote open 

communication on the issues 

surrounding the proposal. All Federal, 

State, and local agencies, and other 

persons or organizations that have an 

interest are urged to participate in the 

NEPA scoping process. Public meetings 

will be held to help identify significant 

issues and to receive public input and 

comment. 

b. The DEIS will analyze the potential 

social, economic, and environmental 

impacts to the local area resulting from 

improvements to the Federal Pascagoula 

Harbor Navigation Project. Specifically, 

the following major issues will be 

analyzed in depth in the DEIS: 

Hydrologic and hydraulic regimes, 

threatened and endangered species, 

essential fish habitat and other marine 

habitat, air quality, cultural resources, 

transportation systems, alternatives, 

secondary and cumulative impacts, 

socioeconomic impacts, environmental 

justice (effect on minorities and lowincome groups) (Executive Order 

12898), and protection of children 

(Executive Order 13045). 

c. The Corps will serve as the lead 

Federal agency in the preparation of the 

DEIS. It is anticipated that the following 

agencies will be invited and will accept 

cooperating agency status for the 

preparation of the DEIS: U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service, National 

Marine Fisheries Service, Mississippi 

Department of Environmental Quality, 

Mississippi Department of Marine 

Resources, Jackson County Port 

Authority, Mississippi Secretary of 

State, National Park Service, Minerals 

Management Service, Mississippi 

Museum of Natural Science, and 

Mississippi Department of Archives and 

History. 

4. A public scoping meeting will be 

held (see DATES AND ADDRESSES). Actual 

time(s) and place(s) for subsequent 

meetings or workshops will be 

announced by the Corps by issuance of 

a public notice and/or notices in the 

local media. 

5. It is anticipated that the DEIS will 

be made available for public review in 

November 2012. 

Curtis M. Flakes, 

Chief, Planning and Environmental Division. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army 

Inland Waterways Users Board; 

Request for Nominations 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, DOD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Section 302 of Public Law 99– 

662 established the Inland Waterways 

Users Board. The Board is an 

independent Federal advisory 

committee. The Secretary of the Army 

appoints its 11 members. This notice is 

to solicit nominations for appointments 

or reappointments to two-year terms 

that will begin after July 1, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Headquarters, U.S. Army 

Corps of Engineers, Civil Works 

Directorate, Attention: Inland 

Waterways Users Board Nominations 

Committee, Mr. Mark Pointon, 441 G 

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20314– 

1000. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Civil Works Directorate, 

(202) 761–4691. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

selection, service, and appointment of 

Board members are covered by 

provisions of Section 302 of Public Law 

99–662. The substance of those 

provisions is as follows: 

a. Selection. Members are to be 

selected from the spectrum of 

commercial carriers and shippers using 

the inland and intracoastal waterways, 

to represent geographical regions, and to 

be representative of waterborne 

commerce as determined by commodity 

ton-miles statistics. 

b. Service. The Board is required to 

meet at least semi-annually to develop 

and make recommendations to the 

Secretary of the Army on waterways 

construction and rehabilitation 

priorities and spending levels for 

commercial navigation improvements, 

and report its recommendations 

annually to the Secretary and Congress. 

c. Appointment. The operation of the 

Board and appointment of its members 

are subject to the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–463, as 

amended) and departmental 

implementing regulations. Members 

serve without compensation, but their 

expenses due to Board activities are 

reimbursable. The considerations 

specified in Section 302 for the 

selection of the Board members, and 

certain terms used therein, have been 

interpreted, supplemented, or otherwise 

clarified as follows: 

(1) Carriers and Shippers. The law 

uses the terms ‘‘primary users and 

shippers.’’ Primary users have been 

interpreted to mean the providers of 

transportation services on inland 

waterways such as barge or towboat 

operators. Shippers have been 

interpreted to mean the purchasers of 

such services for the movement of 

commodities they own or control. 

Individuals are appointed to the Board, 

but they must be either a carrier or 

shipper, or represent a firm that is a 

carrier or shipper. For that purpose a 

trade or regional association is neither a 

shipper nor primary user. 

(2) Geographical Representation. The 

law specifies ‘‘various’’ regions. For the 

purpose of selecting Board members, the 

waterways subjected to fuel taxes and 

described in Public Law 95–502, as 

amended, have been aggregated into six 

regions. They are (1) the Upper 

Mississippi River and its tributaries 

above the mouth of the Ohio; (2) the 

Lower Mississippi River and its 

tributaries below the mouth of the Ohio 

and above Baton Rouge; (3) the Ohio 

River and its tributaries; (4) the Gulf 

Intracoastal Waterway in Louisiana and 

Texas; (5) the Gulf Intracoastal 

Waterway east of New Orleans and 

associated fuel-taxed waterways 

including the Tennessee-Tombigbee, 

plus the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway 

below Norfolk; and (6) the ColumbiaSnake Rivers System and Upper 

Willamette. The intent is that each 

region shall be represented by at least 

one Board member, with that 

representation determined by the 

regional concentration of the 

individual’s traffic on the waterways. 

(3) Commodity Representation. 

Waterway commerce has been 

aggregated into six commodity 

categories based on ‘‘inland’’ ton-miles 

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United States. These categories are (1) 

Farm and Food Products; (2) Coal and 

Coke; (3) Petroleum, Crude and 

Products; (4) Minerals, Ores, and 

Primary Metals and Mineral Products; 

(5) Chemicals and Allied Products; and 

(6) All Other. A consideration in the 

selection of Board members will be that 

the commodities carried or shipped by 

those individuals or their firms will be 

reasonably representative of the above 

commodity categories. 

d. Nomination. Reflecting preceding 

selection criteria, the current 

representation by the one (1) Board 

member whose term has expired is 

Region 1 and a shipper. 

Nominations to replace Board 

members whose terms expire may be 

made by individuals, firms or 

associations. Nominations will: 

(1) State the region(s) to be 

represented. 

(2) State whether the nominee is 

representing carriers, shippers or both. 

(3) Provide information on the 

nominee’s personal qualifications, such 

as a bio or a resume. 

(4) Include the commercial operations 

of the carrier and/or shipper with whom 

the nominee is affiliated. This 

commercial operations information will 

show the actual or estimated ton-miles 

of each commodity carried or shipped 

on the inland waterways system in a 

recent year (or years) using the 

waterway regions and commodity 

categories previously listed. 

Nominations received in response to 

Federal Register notices published on 

February 17, 2006 (71 FR 8568), on July 

7, 2006 (71 FR 38629), on February 16, 

2007 (72 FR 7620), on July 11, 2008 (73 

FR 39952) and the notice published on 

February 24, 2009 (74 FR 8236) have 

been retained for consideration. 

Renomination is not required but highly 

encouraged to indicate continued 

interest and provide updated 

information. 

e. Deadline for Nominations. All 

nominations must be received at the 

address shown above no later than 

March 15, 2010. 

Brenda S. Bowen, 

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection Requests 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

SUMMARY: The Acting Director, 

Information Collection Clearance 

Division, 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 April 5, 

2010. 

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 Acting 

Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Regulatory 

Information Management Services, 

Office of Management, publishes that 

notice containing proposed information 

collection requests prior to submission 

of these requests to OMB. Each 

proposed information collection, 

grouped by office, contains the 

following: (1) Type of review requested, 

e.g. new, revision, extension, existing or 

reinstatement; (2) Title; (3) Summary of 

the collection; (4) Description of the 

need for, and proposed use of, the 

information; (5) Respondents and 

frequency of collection; and (6) 

Reporting and/or Recordkeeping 

burden. OMB invites public comment. 

The Department of Education is 

especially interested in public comment 

addressing the following issues: (1) Is 

this collection necessary to the proper 

functions of the Department; (2) will 

this information be processed and used 

in a timely manner; (3) is the estimate 

of burden accurate; (4) how might the 

Department enhance the quality, utility, 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (5) how might the 

Department minimize the burden of this 

collection on the respondents, including 

through the use of information 

technology. 

Dated: February 1, 2010. 

James Hyler, 

Acting Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of Management. 

Institute of Education Sciences 

Type of Review: New. 

Title: Evaluation of Response to 

Intervention Practices for Elementary 

School Reading (Site Recruitment). 

Frequency: On Occasion. 

Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal 

Gov’t, SEAs or LEAs. 

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour 

Burden: 

Responses: 515. 

Burden Hours: 333. 

Abstract: The Evaluation of Response 

to Intervention (RtI) Practices for 

Elementary School Reading will inform 

the National Assessment of IDEA 2004, 

and the choices of districts and schools, 

by studying the implementation and 

impact of practices to identify and 

intervene early with struggling readers 

and, when needed, determine students’ 

eligibility for special education. The 

Department seeks clearance for the site 

recruitment materials. A subsequent 

OMB package will seek approval for 

instruments to collect data for an indepth study of RtI design, 

implementation, and impact in sites 

operating mature RtI programs. 

Requests for copies of the proposed 

information collection request may be 

accessed from http://edicsweb.ed.gov, 

by selecting the ‘‘Browse Pending 

Collections’’ link and by clicking on link 

number 4223. When you access the 

information collection, click on 

‘‘Download Attachments’’ to view. 

Written requests for information should 

be addressed to U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

LBJ, Washington, DC 20202–4537. 

Requests may also be electronically 

mailed to ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed 

to 202–401–0920. Please specify the 

complete title of the information 

collection when making your request. 

Comments regarding burden and/or 

the collection activity requirements 

should be electronically mailed to 

ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Individuals who 

use a telecommunications device for the 

deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1– 

800–877–8339. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

SUMMARY: The Acting Director, 

Information Collection Clearance 

Division, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of 

Management invites comments on the 

submission for OMB review as required 


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