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abstract: Primary: Individuals or 

Households. USCIS uses the 

information on the form to make a 

determination that the citizenship 

eligibility requirements and conditions 

are met by the applicant. 

(5) An estimate of the total number of 

respondents and the amount of time 

estimated for an average respondent to 

respond: 88,500 responses at 1 hour and 

35 minutes (1.583 hours) per response. 

(6) An estimate of the total public 

burden (in hours) associated with the 

collection: 140,095 annual burden 

hours. 

If you need a copy of the information 

collection instrument, please visit the 

Web site at: http://www.regulations.gov. 

We may also be contacted at: USCIS, 

Regulatory Products Division, 111 

Massachusetts Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20529–2210, 

Telephone number 202–272–8377. 

Dated: June 18, 2009. 

Sunday Aigbe, 

Chief, Regulatory Products Division, U.S. 

Citizenship and Immigration Services. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

U.S. Coast Guard 

[Docket No. USCG–2000–7833] 

Final Programmatic Environmental 

Impact Statement for Vessel and 

Facility Response Plans for Oil: 2003 

Removal Equipment Requirements and 

Alternative Technology Revisions 

AGENCY: U.S. Coast Guard, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice of availability and 

request for comments. 

SUMMARY: The Coast Guard announces 

the availability of the Final 

Programmatic Environmental Impact 

Statement (FPEIS) for the rulemaking 

entitled Vessel and Facility Response 

Plans for Oil: 2003 Removal Equipment 

Requirements and Alternative 

Technology Revisions (Docket No. 

USCG–2001–8661). The FPEIS assesses 

the potential environmental impacts 

from an increase of oil removal 

capability requirements for tank vessels 

and marine transportation-related 

(MTR) facilities. We request your 

comments on the FPEIS. 

DATES: Comments and related material 

must either be submitted to our online 

docket via http://www.regulations.gov 

on or before July 27, 2009 or reach the 

Docket Management Facility by that 

date. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by Coast Guard docket 

number USCG–2000–7833 using any of 

the following methods: 

(1) Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

http://www.regulations.gov. 

(2) Fax: 202–493–2251. 

(3) Mail: Docket Management Facility 

(M–30), U.S. Department of 

Transportation, West Building Ground 

Floor, Room W12–140, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590– 

0001. 

(4) Hand delivery: Same as mail 

address above, between 9 a.m. and 5 

p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. The telephone number 

is 202–366–9329. 

To avoid duplication, please use only 

one of these four methods. See the 

‘‘Public Participation and Request for 

Comments’’ portion of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section 

below for instructions on submitting 

comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you have questions on this notice, call 

or e-mail Gregory Kirkbride, U.S. Coast 

Guard, telephone 202–372–1479, e-mail 

Gregory.B.Kirkbride@uscg.mil. If you 

have questions on viewing or submitting 

material to the docket, call Renee V. 

Wright, Program Manager, Docket 

Operations, telephone 202–366–9826. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Public Participation and Request for 

Comments 

We encourage you to submit 

comments and related material on the 

FPEIS. All comments received will be 

posted, without change, to http:// 

www.regulations.gov and will include 

any personal information you have 

provided. 

Submitting comments: If you submit a 

comment, please include the docket 

number (USCG–2000–7833) for this 

notice and provide a reason for each 

suggestion or recommendation. You 

may submit your comments and 

material online, or by fax, mail, or hand 

delivery, but please use only one of 

these means. We recommend that you 

include your name and a mailing 

address, an e-mail address, or a phone 

number in the body of your document 

so that we can contact you if we have 

questions regarding your submission. 

To submit your comment online, go to 

http://www.regulations.gov, select the 

Advance Docket Search option on the 

right side of the screen, insert ‘‘USCG– 

2000–7833’’ in the Docket ID box, press 

Enter, and then click on the balloon 

shape in the Actions column. If you 

submit your comments by mail or hand 

delivery, submit them in an unbound 

format, no larger than 81⁄2 by 11 inches, 

suitable for copying and electronic 

filing. If you submit them by mail and 

would like to know that they reached 

the Facility, please enclose a stamped, 

self-addressed postcard or envelope. We 

will consider all comments and material 

received during the comment period. 

Viewing the comments and the FPEIS: 

To view the comments and the FPEIS, 

go to http://www.regulations.gov, select 

the Advanced Docket Search option on 

the right side of the screen, insert 

‘‘USCG–2000–7833’’ in the Docket ID 

box, press Enter, and then click on the 

item in the Docket ID column. If you do 

not have access to the Internet, you may 

view the docket online by visiting the 

Docket Management Facility in Room 

W12–140 on the ground floor of the 

Department of Transportation West 

Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., 

Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. 

and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. We have an 

agreement with the Department of 

Transportation to use the Docket 

Management Facility. 

Privacy Act: Anyone can search the 

electronic form of comments received 

into any of our dockets using the name 

of the individual submitting the 

comment (or signing the comment, if 

submitted on behalf of an association, 

business, labor union, etc.). You may 

review a Privacy Act system of records 

notice regarding our public dockets in 

the January 17, 2008, issue of the 

Federal Register (73 FR 3316). 

Background and Purpose 

We have prepared a Final 

Programmatic Environmental Impact 

Statement (FPEIS) for the rulemaking 

entitled Vessel and Facility Response 

Plans for Oil: 2003 Removal Equipment 

Requirements and Alternative 

Technology Revisions (1625–AA26). See 

‘‘Viewing the comments and the FPEIS’’ 

above. The FPEIS examines the 

reasonable alternatives and potential 

environmental impacts from an increase 

of oil removal capability requirements 

for tank vessels and marine 

transportation-related (MTR) facilities. 

The FPEIS recommends Alternative 5 as 

the preferred alternative for increasing 

oil removal capability. Alternative 5 

would require spill removal plan 

holders to maintain on-water 

mechanical recovery capability at 

current levels, establish a dispersant 

application capability, and establish 

aerial tracking capability. We are 

requesting your comments on 

environmental concerns that you may 

have related to the FPEIS. 

The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA 

90) (Pub. L. 101–380) and Executive 


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Order 12777 authorized the Coast Guard 

to issue regulations requiring owners 

and operators of tank vessels and MTR 

facilities to prepare and submit response 

plans, for approval, to the Coast Guard. 

OPA 90 also requires that owners and 

operators conduct their operations in 

accordance with those Coast Guard 

approved response plans. 

In 1993, the Coast Guard published 

interim tank vessel and MTR facility 

response plan regulations (58 FR 7424, 

February 5, 1993 and 58 FR 7730 

February 5, 1993, respectively). The 

Coast Guard finalized those regulations 

in 1996 (tank vessels, 61 FR 1052, 

January 12, 1996) (MTR facilities 61 FR 

7890, February 29, 1996). These 

regulations contain minimum on-water 

oil removal equipment requirements 

that planholders transporting or 

transferring petroleum oil are required 

to meet when planning for an oil 

discharge. See 33 CFR part 155, subpart 

D for tank vessels; and 33 CFR 154, 

subpart F for MTR facilities. These 

regulations also state that the Coast 

Guard will periodically review oil 

removal equipment requirements to 

determine if increases in equipment and 

additional requirements for new 

response technologies are practicable. 

33 CFR 154.1045(n) and 155.1050(p). 

On January 27, 1998, the Coast Guard 

published a notice requesting comments 

(63 FR 3861) regarding our intent to 

conduct a review of response plan oil 

removal equipment requirements. In the 

notice, we stated that the 1993 removal 

equipment requirements would remain 

in effect pending the results of that 

review, and that the removal equipment 

requirement increases, as originally 

scheduled, would not be implemented 

until the review was complete. On June 

24, 1998, the Coast Guard published a 

Notice of Meetings (63 FR 34500) that 

announced three public workshops. The 

workshops were set up to solicit 

comments on potential changes to 

removal equipment requirements within 

the response plan regulations (33 CFR 

parts 153, 154 and 155) for mechanical 

recovery, dispersants, and other spill 

removal technologies. Based on 

comments in response to the notice of 

Request for Comments and the three 

workshops, the Coast Guard 

commissioned an in-depth assessment 

of advances in oil-spill response 

equipment since 1993 (USCG–1998– 

3350, comments on the notice; and 

USCG–1998–3350–0048, –0049, and 

–0050, summary reports of the public 

workshops). The Coast Guard completed 

the assessment in May 1999 (USCG– 

1998–3350–0074). Based on the 

recommendations contained in the 

assessment, the Coast Guard published 

a Notice of Decision (65 FR 710, January 

6, 2000) that implemented a 25 percent 

increase for on-water mechanical 

recovery equipment for response plans 

of MTR facilities and tank vessels, 

effective April 6, 2000. 

In 2002, the Coast Guard published 

the Vessel and Facility Response Plans 

for Oil: 2003 Removal Requirements and 

Alternative Technology Revisions 

NPRM to evaluate the potential for 

additional increases in mechanical onwater recovery and new requirements 

for other response technologies (67 FR 

63331, October 11, 2002). The NPRM 

described five regulatory alternatives 

(including a ‘‘no action’’ alternative) 

which emphasized mechanical and nonmechanical response assets. In addition 

to addressing different modes of oil-spill 

response, the alternatives included 

differing capabilities within each 

response mode. On November 19, 2002, 

we published a notice of public meeting 

and extension of the comment period 

(67 FR 69697) for the NPRM. The 

meeting was held on December 18, 

2002, at Coast Guard Headquarters in 

Washington, DC, and the comment 

period closed on April 8, 2003. 

As part of the rulemaking effort, the 

Coast Guard published a Notice of 

Intent to prepare and circulate a Draft 

Programmatic Environmental Impact 

Statement (DPEIS) (65 FR 53335, 

September 1, 2000). On June 1, 2005, 

the Coast Guard published the DPEIS 

(70 FR 31487) to ensure that a broad 

range of environmental issues were 

adequately considered in the 

rulemaking. Both documents requested 

input from the public on environmental 

concerns related to the alternatives for 

increasing spill removal equipment 

requirements for an oil discharge. The 

information obtained from the public, in 

combination with Area Committee and 

Regional Response Team investigations, 

led to our determination that 

mechanical recovery, in-situ burning, 

and chemical dispersion met the 

criterion to increase the response plan 

equipment capability requirements, 

which could potentially reduce the 

amount of spilled oil reaching sensitive 

marine resources. 

The FPEIS describes the reasonable 

alternatives that were evaluated, the 

affected environment, and the 

environmental impacts associated with 

the alternatives on the resources 

analyzed. As a programmatic document, 

the FPEIS covers general issues in a 

broad, program-oriented analysis. The 

information contained in the FPEIS is 

required in order to comply with the 

National Environmental Policy Act. 

This notice is issued under authority 

of 5 U.S.C. 552(a). 

Dated: June 18, 2009. 

J. G. Lantz, 

Director of Commercial Regulations and 

Standards, U.S. Coast Guard. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency 

[Docket ID: FEMA–2007–0008] 

National Advisory Council Meeting 

AGENCY: Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice of the National Advisory 

Committee Meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

date, time, location, and agenda for the 

next meeting of the National Advisory 

Council (NAC). At the meeting, the 

subcommittees will report on their work 

since the April 15–16, 2009 meeting. 

This meeting will be open to the public. 

DATES: Meeting Dates: Wednesday, July 

29, 2009, from approximately 10 a.m. to 

5:15 p.m. and Thursday, July 30, 2009, 

10:15 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. A public 

comment period will take place on the 

afternoon of July 30, 2009, between 

approximately 1:15 p.m. and 1:45 p.m. 

Comment Date: Persons wishing to 

make an oral presentation, or who are 

unable to attend or speak at the meeting, 

may submit written comments. Written 

comments or requests to make oral 

presentations must be received by July 

20, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Alerus Center, 1200 South 42nd 

Street, Grand Forks, ND 58201. Written 

comments and requests to make oral 

presentations at the meeting should be 

provided to the address listed in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section 

and must be received by July 20, 2009. 

All submissions received must include 

the Docket ID FEMA–2007–0008 and 

may be submitted by any one of the 

following methods: 

Federal Rulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments 

on the Web site. 

E-mail: FEMA-RULES@dhs.gov. 

Include Docket ID FEMA–2007–0008 in 

the subject line of the message. 

Facsimile: (703) 483–2999. 

Mail: Office of Chief Counsel, Federal 

Emergency Management Agency, Room 

835, 500 C Street, SW., Washington, DC 

20472–3100. 

Hand Delivery/Courier: Office of the 

Chief Counsel, Federal Emergency 


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