70538 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 228 / Wednesday, November 26, 2014 / Notices 

Place: National Cancer Institute Shady 

Grove, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Room 

1E030, Rockville, MD 20850 (Telephone 

Conference Call). 

Contact Person: Gerald G. Lovinger, Ph.D., 

Scientific Review Officer, Research 

Technology and Contract Review Branch, 

Division of Extramural Activities, National 

Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Drive, 

Room 7W266, Bethesda, MD 20892–9750, 

240–276–6385, lovingeg@mail.nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: National Cancer 

Institute Special Emphasis Panel Omnibus 

SEP–17. 

Date: March 25, 2015. 

Time: 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Cancer Institute Shady 

Grove, 9609 Medical Center Drive, 7W124, 

Rockville, MD 20850 (Telephone Conference 

Call). 

Contact Person: David Ransom, Ph.D., 

Research Programs Review Branch, Division 

of Extramural Activities, National Cancer 

Institute, NIH, 9609 Medical Center Drive, 

Room 7W124, Bethesda, MD 20892–9750, 

240–276–6351 david.ransom@nih.gov. 

Information is also available on the 

Institute’s/Center’s home page: http://

deainfo.nci.nih.gov/advisory/sep/sep.htm, 

where an agenda and any additional 

information for the meeting will be posted 

when available. 

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Nos. 93.392, Cancer Construction; 

93.393, Cancer Cause and Prevention 

Research; 93.394, Cancer Detection and 

Diagnosis Research; 93.395, Cancer 

Treatment Research; 93.396, Cancer Biology 

Research; 93.397, Cancer Centers Support; 

93.398, Cancer Research Manpower; 93.399, 

Cancer Control, National Institutes of Health, 

HHS) 

Dated: November 20, 2014. 

Melanie J. Gray, 

Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

[FR Doc. 2014–27937 Filed 11–25–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4140–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institutes of Health 

Center for Scientific Review Amended; 

Notice of Meeting 

Notice is hereby given of a change in 

the meeting of the Center for Scientific 

Review Special Emphasis Panel, 

November 11, 2014, 02:00 p.m. to 

November 11, 2014, 03:00 p.m., 

National Institutes of Health, 6701 

Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD, 20892 

which was published in the Federal 

Register on October 16, 2014, 79 FR 200 

Pg. 62166. 

The meeting will be held on 

December 9, 2014 instead of November 

11, 2014. The meeting will start at 12:00 

p.m. and will end at 2:00 p.m. The 

meeting location remains the same. The 

meeting is closed to the public. 

Dated: November 20, 2014. 

Carolyn A. Baum, 

Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

[FR Doc. 2014–27936 Filed 11–25–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4140–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

[Docket Number DHS–2013–0052] 

Environmental Planning and Historic 

Preservation Program 

AGENCY: Department of Homeland 

Security. 

ACTION: Notice of Final National 

Environmental Policy Act Implementing 

Procedures. 

SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is 

to inform the public that the Department 

of Homeland Security (DHS or the 

Department) is issuing the final update 

to its policy and procedures for 

implementing the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 

(NEPA) (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), as 

amended, and the Council on 

Environmental Quality (CEQ) 

regulations for implementing the 

procedural provisions of NEPA (40 CFR 

parts 1500–1508). The Department’s 

NEPA procedures are contained in 

Directive 023–01, Rev. 01 and 

Instruction Manual 023–01–001–01, 

Rev. 01, Implementation of the National 

Environmental Policy Act (herein after 

referred to as Directive and Instruction). 

This notice also responds to the 

comments received on the Department’s 

draft updated procedures published on 

June 5, 2014 (79 FR 32563). 

DATES: The Directive and Instruction 

will be effective on March 26, 2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A. 

Marie Ecton, Senior Environmental 

Specialist, Department of Homeland 

Security, Telephone (202) 360–5661, or 

Email a.marie.ecton@hq.dhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Once 

effective, the Directive and Instruction 

will apply to all of DHS, which is 

currently comprised of over 20 support 

and operational components, and help 

ensure the integration of environmental 

stewardship into DHS decision making 

as required by NEPA. The Directive and 

Instruction will serve as the DHS 

implementing procedures for NEPA and 

the CEQ regulations (as required by 40 

CFR 1505.1 and 1507.3) and therefore 

must be read in conjunction with the 

CEQ regulations. 

The Directive and Instruction were 

substantially revised to address a 

number of circumstances and 

requirements that have arisen since 

April 19, 2006, the effective date of the 

original DHS NEPA procedures (Federal 

Register, Vol. 71, No. 64, April 4, 2006). 

For example, when originally published 

in 2006 the Directive and Instruction 

did not apply to the following three 

Components of DHS: Federal Emergency 

Management Agency (FEMA), Customs 

and Border Protection (CBP), and 

United States Coast Guard (USCG); 

these three Components each 

maintained their own procedures for 

implementing NEPA when the 

Department was established in 2002. 

This revision to the Directive and 

Instruction incorporates FEMA, CBP, 

and USCG into the Department’s NEPA 

procedures and addresses the full scope 

of DHS activities to which NEPA 

applies. When the updated procedures 

become effective, they will apply to all 

Components of DHS, including FEMA, 

CBP, and USCG. In addition, every 

Component will have the option of 

developing Supplemental Instructions 

to establish how that particular 

Component will meet the requirements 

of the final version of the DHS Directive 

and Instruction. In a separate yet related 

effort, FEMA will pursue rescission of 

its regulations at 44 CFR 10 and replace 

them with Supplemental Instructions 

that conform to requirements of the DHS 

Directive and Instruction. 

The requirements put forth in the 

revised Directive and Instruction 

emphasize that the NEPA process must 

be appropriately integrated into the 

performance of DHS missions and 

activities and decision making. The 

revised Directive establishes the overall 

policy that DHS will comply with 

NEPA, and the revised Instruction 

establishes the procedures for ensuring 

this compliance is implemented in an 

effective and efficient manner. The 

Instruction covers the following: 

Overview of NEPA requirements, 

including requirements for the 

preparation and content of NEPA 

documents; management of NEPA 

implementation in DHS; criteria for 

Components to obtain a delegation of 

authority to approve their respective 

NEPA reviews; public involvement; 

dispute resolution; information 

protected from public disclosure; 

procedures for emergencies; review of 

applications from persons or 

organizations outside of DHS (e.g., grant 

applications); and an identification of 

the types of DHS activities normally 

reviewed in a CATEX, Environmental 

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