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biological resources, cultural resources, 

traffic, socioeconomics and 

environmental justice, general services, 

utilities and infrastructure, and 

environmental health and safety. With 

the exception of noise and aesthetics, no 

significant impacts are identified for any 

resource area. Potentially significant 

noise impacts may occur at one receptor 

(Town Point Park), depending on the 

actual dredge equipment to be used. The 

Navy’s policy is to comply with local 

noise ordinances to the maximum 

extent practicable, therefore mitigation 

or minimization measures may be 

implemented, if needed, at Town Point 

Park. There is also a potential for 

cumulative visual impacts from 

implementation of the proposed action 

due to the need for the USACE to 

increase the height of dikes surrounding 

the containment cells at the CIDMMA to 

maintain capacity. 

The DEIS was distributed to Federal, 

State, and local agencies, elected 

officials, and interested individuals and 

organizations. The public comment 

period will end on March 2, 2009. 

Copies of the DEIS are available for 

public review at the following libraries: 

Norfolk Main Library, 235 East Plume 

Street, Norfolk, VA; Portsmouth Main 

Library, 601 Court Street, Portsmouth, 

VA; Churchland Branch Library, 3215 

Academy Avenue, Portsmouth, VA; and 

the South Norfolk Memorial Library 

(Chesapeake Public Library System), 

1100 Poindexter Street, Chesapeake, 

VA. The DEIS is also available for 

electronic public viewing at http:// 

www.NorfolkdredgingEIS.com. An 

electronic copy of the DEIS may be 

requested by contacting Caren 

Hendrickson, Naval Facilities 

Engineering Command, Mid-Atlantic, 

telephone: 757–444–1030. 

Federal, State, and local agencies, and 

interested parties are invited to be 

present or represented at the public 

information meeting on February 11, 

2009. To ensure they become part of the 

official record, written comments may 

be submitted at the public information 

meeting or mailed (with a postmark on 

or before March 2, 2009) to: Mr. John 

Conway, EIS Project Manager, Naval 

Facilities Engineering Command 

Southeast, NAS Jacksonville, Building 

135N, Ajax Street, Jacksonville, FL, 

32212–0030. Public comments may also 

be submitted online during the public 

comment period at http:// 

www.NorfolkdredgingEIS.com under the 

‘‘Send Us Your Comments Link’’. All 

comments will be addressed in the Final 

EIS. 

Dated: January 15, 2009. 

A. M. Vallandingham, 

Lieutenant Commander, Judge Advocate 

General’s Corps, U.S. Navy, Federal Register 

Liaison Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–1505 Filed 1–22–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3810–FF–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Navy 

Notice of Intent to Grant Partially 

Exclusive License; Sigma 

Technologies International 

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the Navy 

gives notice of its intent to grant Sigma 

Technologies International a revocable, 

nonassignable, partially exclusive 

license, with exclusive field of use in 

passivation of aluminum flake pigments 

that have a flake thickness of 5 nm to 

2 micron and an area of 10 nm to 500 

microns in diameter, in the United 

States to practice the Governmentowned invention, U.S. Patent 7,193,649 

entitled ‘‘Passivation Layer on 

Aluminum Surface and Method 

Thereof.’’ 

DATES: Anyone wishing to object to the 

grant of this license must file written 

objections along with supporting 

evidence, if any, not later than February 

20, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Written objections are to be 

filed with Indian Head Division, Naval 

Surface Warfare Center, Code CAB, 

Suite 107, 1st floor, 3824 Strauss 

Avenue, Indian Head, MD 20640–5152. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

J. Scott Deiter, Head, Technology 

Transfer Office, Naval Surface Warfare 

Center Indian Head Division, Code CAB, 

3824 Strauss Avenue, Indian Head, MD 

20640–5035, telephone: 301–744–6111. 

Dated: January 15, 2009. 

A.M. Vallandingham, 

Lieutenant Commander, Judge Advocate 

General’s Corps, U.S. Navy, Federal Register 

Liaison Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–1452 Filed 1–22–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3810–FF–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection Requests 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

SUMMARY: The Leader, 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 March 

24, 2009. 

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 Leader, 

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: January 15, 2009. 

Angela C. Arrington, 

Leader, Information Collections Clearance 

Division, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of Management. 

Institute of Education Sciences 

Type of Review: New. 

Title: Impact Evaluation of Response 

to Intervention Strategies (Site 

Recruitment). 

Frequency: On Occasion. 

Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal 

Gov’t, SEAs or LEAs (primary). 

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Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour 

Burden: 

Responses: 505. 

Burden Hours: 1,510. 

Abstract: The Impact Evaluation of 

Response to Intervention (RtI) strategies 

will inform the National Assessment of 

IDEA 2004, and the choices of districts 

and schools, by estimating the 

differential impacts of strategies for 

providing Tier 2 reading instruction to 

at-risk first and second graders. ED has 

awarded a contract to MDRC (in 

partnership with SRI International and 

Survey Research Management) to 

conduct this study in 150 elementary 

schools. This initial collection involves 

the site recruitment. The resulting RtI 

project will provide information that 

policymakers and school administrators 

can use to help identify students with 

learning disabilities and improve 

instruction provided to at-risk students. 

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 3932. 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. 

[FR Doc. E9–1382 Filed 1–22–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Office of Elementary and Secondary 

Education Overview Information; 

Alaska Native Education (ANE); Notice 

Inviting Applications for New Awards 

for Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.356A. 

Dates: 

Applications Available: January 23, 

2009. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: March 24, 2009. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The purpose of 

the Alaska Native Education program is 

to support innovative projects that 

enhance the educational services 

provided to Alaska Native children and 

adults. These projects may include 

those activities authorized under section 

7304(a)(2) and (3) of the Elementary and 

Secondary Education Act of 1965, as 

amended (ESEA). 

Note: The construction of facilities that 

support the operation of Alaska Native 

education programs will be a permissible 

activity only if Congress specifically 

authorizes the use of FY 2009 funds for that 

purpose. 

Priorities: This competition includes a 

competitive preference priority and an 

invitational priority. In accordance with 

34 CFR 75.105(b)(2)(iv), the competitive 

preference priority is from section 

7304(c) of the ESEA (20 U.S.C. 7544(c)). 

The invitational priority is from the 

notice of final discretionary grant 

priorities for FY 2009, published in the 

Federal Register on November 21, 2008 

(73 FR 70627). 

Competitive Preference Priority: For 

FY 2009 and any subsequent year in 

which we make awards based on the list 

of unfunded applicants from this 

competition, this priority is a 

competitive preference priority. Under 

34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i), we award an 

additional five points to an application 

that meets this priority. 

This priority is: 

The Secretary gives priority to 

applications from Alaska Native 

regional nonprofit organizations or 

consortia that include at least one 

Alaska Native regional nonprofit 

organization. In order to receive a 

competitive preference under this 

priority, an application must provide 

documentation supporting its claim that 

it meets this priority. 

Invitational Priority: For FY 2009 and 

any subsequent year in which we make 

awards from the list of unfunded 

applicants from this competition, this 

priority is an invitational priority. 

Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(1) we do not 

give an application that meets this 

invitational priority a competitive or 

absolute preference over other 

applications. 

This priority is: 

Secondary Schools. Projects that 

support activities and interventions 

aimed at improving the academic 

achievement of secondary school 

students who are at greatest risk of not 

meeting challenging State academic 

standards and not completing high 

school. 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7541 et 

seq. 

Applicable Regulations: (a) The 

Education Department General 

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 

34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 80, 81, 82, 84, 

85, 86, 97, 98, and 99. (b) The notice of 

final discretionary grant priorities for 

FY 2009, published in the Federal 

Register on November 21, 2008 (73 FR 

70627). 

Note: The regulations in 34 CFR part 86 

apply to institutions of higher education 

only. 

II. Award Information 

Type of Award: Discretionary grants. 

Estimated Available Funds: The 

Administration’s budget request for FY 

2009 does not include funds for this 

program. However, we are inviting 

applications to allow enough time to 

complete the grant process before the 

end of the current fiscal year if Congress 

appropriates funds for this program. 

Contingent upon the availability of 

funds and the quality of applications, 

we may make additional awards in FY 

2010 from the list of unfunded 

applicants from this competition. 

Estimated Range of Awards: 

$300,000–$700,000. 

Estimated Average Size of Awards: 

$500,000. 

Estimated Number of Awards: 10 for 

novice applicants; 20 for non-novice 

applicants, including previous grantees 

under the ANE program. The 

Department will rank and fund two 

groups of applicants separately: Novice 

applicants will comprise one group, and 

non-novice applicants will comprise the 

second group. If we do not receive a 

sufficient number of high quality 

applications from novice applicants, 

funds set aside for novice applicants 

may be used to fund non-novice 

applicants, including previous grantees 

under the ANE program. Further 

information regarding our review of 

these two groups of applications, 

including the definition of novice 

applicant, is in section V. 2. of this 

notice. 

Note: The Department is not bound by any 

estimates in this notice. 

Project Period: Up to 36 months. 

III. Eligibility Information 

1. Eligible Applicants: (a) Alaska 

Native organizations; 

(b) Educational entities with 

experience in developing or operating 

Alaska Native programs or programs of 

instruction conducted in Alaska Native 

languages; 

(c) Cultural and community-based 

organizations with experience in 

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