76308 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 245 / Monday, December 22, 2014 / Notices 

Elnora Moye, 

Trade Program Assistant. 

[FR Doc. 2014–29884 Filed 12–19–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Renewal of Department of Defense 

Federal Advisory Committees 

AGENCY: DoD. 

ACTION: Renewal of Federal Advisory 

Committee. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Defense 

(DoD) is publishing this notice to 

announce that it is renewing the charter 

for the Vietnam War Commemoration 

Advisory Committee (‘‘the Committee’’). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim 

Freeman, Advisory Committee 

Management Officer for the Department 

of Defense, 703–692–5952. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

committee’s charter is being renewed in 

accordance with the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act of 1972 (5 U.S.C. 

Appendix, as amended), the 

Government in the Sunshine Act of 

1976 (5 U.S.C. 552b) (‘‘the Sunshine 

Act’’), and 41 CFR 102–3.50(a). 

The Committee is a discretionary 

Federal advisory committee that shall 

provide independent advice and 

recommendations to the Secretary of 

Defense and the Deputy Secretary of 

Defense, through the Deputy Chief 

Management Officer (DCMO) on how to 

best achieve the following objectives in 

commemorating the 50th Anniversary of 

the Vietnam War, as referenced in 

section 598(c) of Pub. L. 110–181: 

a. Thank and honor veterans of the 

Vietnam War, including personnel who 

were held as prisoners of war or listed 

as missing in action, for their service 

and sacrifice on behalf of the United 

States and to thank and honor the 

families of these veterans; 

b. Highlight the service of the Armed 

Forces during the Vietnam War and the 

contributions of Federal agencies and 

governmental and non-governmental 

organizations that served with, or in 

support of, the Armed Forces; 

c. Pay tribute to the contributions 

made on the home front by the people 

of the United States during the Vietnam 

War; 

d. Highlight the advances in 

technology, science, and medicine 

related to military research conducted 

during the Vietnam War; and 

e. Recognize the contributions and 

sacrifices made by the allies of the 

United States during the Vietnam War. 

The Committee shall be composed of 

no more than 20 members, who are 

appointed by the Secretary of Defense or 

the Deputy Secretary of Defense. These 

members shall represent Vietnam 

Veterans, their families, and the 

American public. Candidates for the 

Committee shall be selected from the 

Military Services (both retired veterans 

and active members who served during 

the Vietnam era), the Department of 

Defense, the Department of State, the 

Department of Veterans Affairs, and the 

Intelligence Community. In addition, 

candidates from nongovernmental 

organizations that support veterans or 

contribute to the public’s understanding 

of the Vietnam War shall be selected. 

The Committee Chair shall be 

appointed by the Secretary of Defense or 

the Deputy Secretary of Defense. Any 

leadership appointment shall not 

exceed the individual member’s 

approved term of service. 

Committee members who are not fulltime or permanent part-time Federal 

officers or employees shall be appointed 

as experts or consultants, pursuant to 5 

U.S.C. 3109, to serve as special 

government employee (SGE) members. 

Committee members who are full-time 

or permanent part-time Federal 

employees shall be appointed, pursuant 

to 41 CFR 102–3.130(a), to serve as 

regular government employee (RGE) 

members. 

Each Committee member is appointed 

to provide advice to the government on 

the basis of his or her best judgment 

without representing any particular 

point of view and in a manner that is 

free from conflict of interest. With the 

exception of reimbursement for official 

Committee-related travel and per diem, 

Committee members shall serve without 

compensation. 

The Secretary of Defense, or the 

Deputy Secretary of Defense, may 

approve the appointment of Committee 

members for one-to-four year terms of 

service with annual renewals. However, 

no member, unless authorized by the 

Secretary of Defense or the Deputy 

Secretary of Defense, may serve more 

than two consecutive terms of service. 

This same term of service limitation also 

applies to any DoD authorized 

subcommittees. 

The Secretary of Defense, through the 

DCMO and pursuant to DoD policies 

and procedures, may appoint, as 

deemed necessary, non-voting 

consultants as subject matter experts 

(SMEs) to provide special expertise to 

the Committee. These SMEs, if not fulltime or part-time government 

employees, shall be appointed pursuant 

to 5 U.S.C. 3109 as SGEs, shall be 

appointed on an intermittent basis to 

work specific Committee-related efforts, 

shall have no voting rights whatsoever 

on the Committee or any of its 

subcommittees, shall not participate in 

the Committee’s deliberations, and shall 

not count toward the Committee’s total 

membership. All experts or consultants 

shall serve terms of appointments as 

determined by the DCMO, and those 

appointments may be renewed, as 

appropriate. 

The DoD, when necessary and 

consistent with the Committee’s mission 

and DoD policies and procedures, may 

establish subcommittees, task forces, or 

working groups to support the 

Committee. Establishment of 

subcommittees will be based upon a 

written determination, to include terms 

of reference, by the Secretary of Defense, 

the Deputy Secretary of Defense, or the 

DCMO, as the DoD sponsor. 

Such subcommittees shall not work 

independently of the Committee and 

shall report all of their 

recommendations and advice solely to 

the Committee for full and open 

deliberation and discussion. 

Subcommittees, task forces, or working 

groups have no authority to make 

decisions and recommendations, 

verbally or in writing, on behalf of the 

Committee. No subcommittee or its 

members can update or report, verbally 

or in writing, on behalf of the 

Committee, directly to the DoD or to any 

Federal officer or employee. 

The Secretary of Defense or the 

Deputy Secretary of Defense will 

appoint subcommittee members to a 

term of service of one-to-four years, with 

annual renewals, even if the member in 

question is already a member of the 

Committee. 

Subcommittee members, if not fulltime or part-time Federal officers or 

employees, shall be appointed as 

experts and consultants, pursuant to 5 

U.S.C. 3109, to serve as SGE members. 

Subcommittee members who are fulltime or permanent part-time Federal 

officers or employees will serve as RGE 

members, pursuant to 41 CFR 102– 

3.130(a). 

Each subcommittee member is 

appointed to provide advice to the 

government on the basis of his or her 

best judgment without representing any 

particular point of view and in a manner 

that is free from conflict of interest. 

With the exception of reimbursement 

for official Committee-related travel and 

per diem, subcommittee members shall 

serve without compensation. 

All subcommittees operate under the 

provisions of FACA, the Sunshine Act, 

governing Federal statutes and 

regulations, and established DoD 

policies and procedures. 


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The estimated number of Committee 

meetings is two per year. 

The Committee’s Designated Federal 

Officer (DFO), pursuant to DoD policy, 

shall be a full-time or permanent parttime DoD employee appointed in 

accordance with governing DoD policies 

and procedures. 

The Committee’s DFO is required to 

be in attendance at all meetings of the 

Committee and any of its subcommittees 

for the entire duration of each and every 

meeting. However, in the absence of the 

Committee’s DFO, a properly approved 

Alternate DFO, duly appointed to the 

Committee according to established DoD 

policies and procedures, shall attend the 

entire duration of the Committee or any 

subcommittee meeting. 

The DFO, or the Alternate DFO, shall 

call all meetings of the Committee and 

its subcommittees; prepare and approve 

all meeting agendas; and adjourn any 

meeting when the DFO, or the Alternate 

DFO, determines adjournment to be in 

the public interest or required by 

governing regulations or DoD policies 

and procedures. 

Pursuant to 41 CFR 102–3.105(j) and 

102–3.140, the public or interested 

organizations may submit written 

statements to Vietnam War 

Commemoration Advisory Committee 

membership about the Committee’s 

mission and functions. Written 

statements may be submitted at any 

time or in response to the stated agenda 

of planned meeting of the Vietnam War 

Commemoration Advisory Committee. 

All written statements shall be 

submitted to the DFO for the Vietnam 

War Commemoration Advisory 

Committee, and this individual will 

ensure that the written statements are 

provided to the membership for their 

consideration. Contact information for 

the Vietnam War Commemoration 

Advisory Committee DFO can be 

obtained from the GSA’s FACA 

Database—http://www.facadata

base.gov/. 

The DFO, pursuant to 41 CFR 102– 

3.150, will announce planned meetings 

of the Vietnam War Commemoration 

Advisory Committee. The DFO, at that 

time, may provide additional guidance 

on the submission of written statements 

that are in response to the stated agenda 

for the planned meeting in question. 

Dated: December 16, 2014. 

Aaron Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 2014–29790 Filed 12–19–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Navy 

Notice of Public Meetings for the 

Supplement to the Draft Environmental 

Impact Statement/Overseas 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

Military Readiness Activities in the 

Northwest Training and Testing Study 

Area 

AGENCY: Department of the Navy; DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the Navy 

(DoN) has prepared and filed with the 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency a 

Supplement to the Draft Environmental 

Impact Statement/Overseas 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS/

OEIS) for the Northwest Training and 

Testing (NWTT) Study Area. This 

Supplement to the Draft EIS/OEIS 

focuses on substantial changes in the 

Proposed Action and new information 

relevant to environmental concerns per 

40 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 

1502.9. The Supplement to the Draft 

EIS/OEIS also provides additional 

updated information to further the 

purposes of the National Environmental 

Policy Act (NEPA). Unless specifically 

included in the Supplement to the Draft 

EIS/OEIS, the activities and analyses of 

impacts on resources described in the 

Draft EIS/OEIS remain valid, and are 

included by reference in the 

Supplement to the Draft EIS/OEIS. 

With the filing of the Supplement to 

the Draft EIS/OEIS, the DoN is initiating 

a 45-day public comment period and 

has scheduled four public meetings to 

provide information and receive 

comments on the Supplement to the 

Draft EIS/OEIS. This notice announces 

the dates and locations of the public 

meetings and provides supplementary 

information about the environmental 

planning effort. 

DATES AND ADDRESSES: The 45-day 

public review and comment period for 

the Supplement to the Draft EIS/OEIS is 

December 19, 2014, through February 2, 

2015. The DoN will hold four public 

meetings to inform the public about the 

Supplement to the Draft EIS/OEIS and 

potential environmental impacts, and to 

provide an additional opportunity for 

the public to comment on the 

Supplement to the Draft EIS/OEIS. The 

public meetings will include an open 

house information session, during 

which time NWTT EIS/OEIS team 

representatives will be available to 

provide information, answer questions, 

and accept comments on the 

Supplement to the Draft EIS/OEIS. The 

public can arrive any time during the 

advertised hours; the open house will 

not include a formal presentation or 

verbal comment session. Federal, state, 

local agencies and officials, and 

interested organizations and individuals 

are encouraged to provide comments in 

writing during the public review period 

or in person at one of the scheduled 

public meetings. 

The public meetings will be held from 

5 to 8 p.m. on the following dates and 

at the following locations: 

1. Monday, January 12, 2015, at the 

Poulsbo Fire Station Conference Room, 

911 NE Liberty Road, Poulsbo, WA 

98370. 

2. Tuesday, January 13, 2015, at the 

Grays Harbor College HUB, 1620 

Edward P. Smith Drive, Aberdeen, WA 

98520. 

3. Wednesday, January 14, 2015, at 

the Isaac Newton Magnet School 

Commons, 825 NE Seventh St., 

Newport, OR 97365. 

4. Friday, January 16, 2015, at Eureka 

Public Marina, Wharfinger Building, 

Great Room, 1 Marina Way, Eureka, CA 

95501. 

Attendees will be able to submit 

comments during the public meetings. 

A court reporter will be available for 

any attendees wishing to provide verbal 

comments, one-on-one. Equal weight 

will be given to verbal and written 

statements. Comments may also be 

submitted via mail to Naval Facilities 

Engineering Command Northwest, 

Attention: Ms. Kimberly Kler—NWTT 

EIS/OEIS Project Manager, 1101 Tautog 

Circle, Suite 203, Silverdale, WA 

98315–1101, or electronically via the 

project Web site (www.NWTTEIS.com). 

All comments, verbal or written, 

submitted during the review period will 

become part of the public record. All 

comments will be considered and 

acknowledged or responded to in the 

Final EIS/OEIS. The DoN may address 

the comments directly, or the DoN may 

respond to public comments by 

modifying the analysis as appropriate. 

Comments must be postmarked or 

received online by February 2, 2015, for 

consideration in the Final EIS/OEIS. 

All public comments received during 

the Draft EIS/OEIS comment period 

(January 24, 2014, through April 15, 

2014) are still valid and are being 

considered in the Final EIS/OEIS for 

this action. Previously submitted 

comments need not be resubmitted. No 

decision will be made to implement any 

alternative in the NWTT Study Area 

until the NEPA process is complete and 

a Record of Decision is signed by the 

DoN. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Naval Facilities Engineering Command 


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