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RETENTION AND DISPOSAL: 

Data stored within the system is 

retained only for the period required to 

satisfy recurring processing requirement 

and historical requirements, then the 

expired data is deleted from the system 

database. 

SYSTEM MANAGER AND ADDRESS: 

Department of the Air Force, HQ 

AFRC/FMXS, 155 Richard Ray Blvd., 

Robins AFB, GA 31098–1635. 

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE: 

Individuals seeking to determine if 

the Reserve Command Unit Training 

Assembly Processing System contains 

information on themselves should 

submit written inquiries to HQ AFRC/ 

FMXS, 155 Richard Ray Blvd., Robins 

AFB, GA 31098–1635. 

The request should contain the full 

name of the individual, military grade, 

Social Security Number (SSN) and must 

be signed. 

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES: 

Individuals seeking to access system 

information about themselves contained 

in the Reserve Command Unit Training 

Assembly Processing System should 

submit written inquiries to HQ AFRC/ 

FMXS, 155 Richard Ray Blvd., Robins 

AFB, GA 31098–1635. 

The request should contain the full 

name of the individual, military grade, 

Social Security Number (SSN) and must 

be signed. 

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES: 

The Air Force rules for accessing 

records and for contesting contents and 

appealing initial agency determinations 

are published in Air Force Instruction 

33–332; 32 CFR part 806b; or may be 

obtained from the system manager. 

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES: 

From the individual and Air Reserve 

Order Writing System—Reserve. 

EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED FOR THE SYSTEM: 

None. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Navy 

Notice of Public Information Meeting 

for the Draft Environmental Impact 

Statement for the Proposed Dredging 

of the Norfolk Harbor Channel in 

Norfolk and Portsmouth, VA 

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102(2)(c) 

of the National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA), and the Council on 

Environmental Quality regulations 

implementing the procedural provisions 

of NEPA (Title 40 Code of Federal 

Regulations Parts 1500–1508), the 

Department of the Navy (Navy), in 

cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps 

of Engineers (USACE), has prepared and 

filed with the U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency a Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) 

on January 8, 2008, to evaluate the 

environmental consequences of 

deepening approximately five miles of 

the Norfolk Harbor Federal Navigational 

Channel in the Southern Branch of the 

Elizabeth River, separating Norfolk and 

Portsmouth, Virginia. Dredging will 

extend from the Lamberts Point 

Deperming Station in the Lamberts 

Bend Reach south to the Norfolk Naval 

Shipyard (NNSY) in the Lower Reach. A 

Notice of Intent for this EIS was 

published in the Federal Register on 

September 19, 2006, (71 FR 54803). 

The Navy will conduct a public 

information meeting to receive oral and 

written comments on the DEIS. Federal, 

state, and local agencies and interested 

individuals are invited to be present or 

represented at the public information 

meeting. This notice announces the date 

and location of the public information 

meeting for this DEIS. 

DATES AND ADDRESSES: An open house 

public information meeting is scheduled 

for February 11, 2009, between 3 p.m. 

and 8 p.m. at the Renaissance Hotel, 425 

Water Street, Portsmouth, VA. 

Information posters will be on display, 

and representatives from the Navy will 

be available to explain the proposal, 

answer questions, and receive 

comments from the public. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

John D. Conway, Project Manager, Naval 

Facilities Southeast, NAS Jacksonville, 

Building 135N, Ajax Street, 

Jacksonville, FL 32212–0030 or 

telephone: 904–542–6159. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Norfolk Harbor Channel is the Federal 

Navigation Channel within the Southern 

Branch of the Elizabeth River in 

Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Chesapeake, 

Virginia. This channel is the only means 

of nuclear-class aircraft carrier (CVN) 

access to the Lamberts Bend Deperming 

Station and NNSY. The current average 

depth of the Norfolk Harbor Channel 

from Lamberts Bend to the Lower Reach 

at NNSY is maintained by the USACE 

Norfolk District, varying in depth from 

approximately 40 to 43 feet below mean 

lower low water (¥40 to ¥43 feet 

MLLW). The existing channel depths 

are not sufficient to allow safe, 

unrestricted access by CVNs to the 

Lamberts Bend Deperming Station and 

NNSY and to avoid incidents of fouling 

and clogging of the cooling systems of 

the CVNs. 

The proposed action would occur 

solely within the Norfolk Harbor 

Channel’s existing limits and deepen 

the heavily used waterway at Lamberts 

Bend to ¥50 feet MLLW, plus three feet 

of overdredge for a new depth-inchannel of ¥53 feet MLLW. The 

remainder of the channel (Port Norfolk, 

Town Point, and Lower Reaches) would 

be deepened to ¥47 feet MLLW plus 

three feet of overdredge for a new depthin-channel of ¥50 feet MLLW. 

Overdredge depth is typically needed to 

ensure project depths and allow a 

margin of accuracy. The proposed 

action would bring the Norfolk Harbor 

Channel in compliance with Naval Sea 

Systems Command (NAVSEA) water 

depth requirements for homeports and 

entrance channels to shipyards, 

providing CVNs with continuous safe 

and uninterrupted access to the 

Lamberts Point Deperming Station and 

NNSY. 

The DEIS evaluates the potential 

environmental impacts of two action 

alternatives and the No Action 

Alternative. Alternative A (the preferred 

alternative) would implement the 

proposed dredge depths for aircraft 

carriers for homeports and entrance 

channels to shipyards. Alternative B 

would involve a combination of partial 

deepening of the Norfolk Harbor 

Channel and operational restrictions 

based on tidal activity. It would 

represent an improvement over the 

existing situation in that with partial 

deepening, there is less likelihood of 

sediment from the river bottom fouling 

ship systems. However, with only the 

partial deepening, the carrier 

movements would still need to wait for 

high tide conditions to provide the 

needed water depths below the keel of 

the carriers. Under both alternatives, 

dredged materials would meet USACE 

sediment quality thresholds for disposal 

at the Craney Island Dredged Materials 

Management Area (CIDMMA). 

Under the No Action Alternative, no 

deepening of the Norfolk Harbor 

Channel would occur. The channel 

would continue to be available at the 

existing controlling dimensions and 

access to the deperming station and 

NNSY would remain restricted for use 

by carriers. 

The DEIS addresses potential 

environmental impacts on multiple 

resources, including but not limited to: 

water resources, air quality, noise, 

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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. 

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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. 

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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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