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Locality 

Maximum 

lodging 

amount 

M&IE rate Maximum per 

diem rate Effective date 

(A) + (B) = (C) 

NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS: 

ROTA ......................................................................................... 129 91 220 05/01/2006 

SAIPAN ...................................................................................... 121 98 219 06/01/2007 

TINIAN ....................................................................................... 138 71 209 07/01/2008 

[OTHER] .................................................................................... 55 72 127 04/01/2000 

PUERTO RICO: 

AGUADILLA ............................................................................... 75 64 139 11/01/2007 

BAYAMON ................................................................................. 195 82 277 10/01/2007 

CAROLINA ................................................................................ 195 82 277 10/01/2007 

CEIBA.

05/01–11/30 ........................................................................ 155 57 212 08/01/2006 

12/01–04/30 ........................................................................ 185 57 242 08/01/2006 

FAJARDO [INCL ROOSEVELT RDS NAVS]. 

05/01–11/30 ........................................................................ 155 57 212 08/01/2006 

12/01–04/30 ........................................................................ 185 57 242 08/01/2006 

FT. BUCHANAN.

[INCL GSA SVC CTR] ....................................................... 195 82 277 10/01/2007 

HUMACAO.

05/01–11/30 ........................................................................ 155 57 212 08/01/2006 

12/01–04/30 ........................................................................ 185 57 242 08/01/2006 

LUIS MUNOZ MARIN IAP AGS ................................................ 195 82 277 10/01/2007 

LUQUILLO.

05/01–11/30 ........................................................................ 155 57 212 08/01/2006 

12/01–04/30 ........................................................................ 185 57 242 08/01/2006 

MAYAGUEZ ............................................................................... 109 77 186 11/01/2007 

PONCE ...................................................................................... 139 83 222 11/01/2007 

SABANA SECA.

[INCL ALL MILITARY] ............................................................... 195 82 277 10/01/2007 

SAN JUAN & NAV RES STA .................................................... 195 82 277 10/01/2007 

[OTHER] .................................................................................... 62 57 119 01/01/2000 

VIRGIN ISLANDS (U.S.): 

ST. CROIX.

04/15–12/14 ........................................................................ 135 92 227 05/01/2006 

12/15–04/14 ........................................................................ 187 97 284 05/01/2006 

ST. JOHN.

04/15–12/14 ........................................................................ 163 98 261 05/01/2006 

12/15–04/14 ........................................................................ 220 104 324 05/01/2006 

ST. THOMAS.

04/15–12/14 ........................................................................ 240 105 345 05/01/2006 

12/15–04/14 ........................................................................ 299 111 410 05/01/2006 

WAKE ISLAND: 

WAKE ISLAND .......................................................................... 152 12 164 07/01/2008 

[FR Doc. E9–1430 Filed 1–26–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–M 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army; Corps of 

Engineers 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement/ 

Environmental Impact Report for the 

West Sacramento Levee Improvements 

Program, West Sacramento, CA 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers; DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of intent. 

SUMMARY: The action being taken is the 

preparation of a programmatic and 

project-specific Environmental Impact 

Statement/Environmental Impact Report 

(EIS/EIR) for the West Sacramento Levee 

Improvements Program (WSLIP) in Yolo 

County and Solano County, CA. Under 

33 U.S.C. 408, the Chief of Engineers 

grants permission to alter an existing 

flood control structure if it is not 

injurious to the public interest and does 

not impair the usefulness of such work. 

Under Section 404 of the Clean Water 

Act, the District Engineer permits the 

discharge of dredged or fill material into 

waters of the United States if the 

discharge meets the requirements for the 

Environmental Protection Agency’s 

404(b)(1) guidelines and is not contrary 

to the public interest. The U.S Army 

Corps of Engineers (Corps) will consider 

granting both 408 permission to the 

Central Valley Flood Protection Board 

(CVFPB) and 404 permit to West 

Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency 

(WSAFCA) for their work on the WSLIP. 

The CVFPB and WSAFCA are 

requesting this permission and permit 

in order to reduce flood risk the City of 

West Sacramento by meeting the 

following objectives for the project: 

• Achieve a minimum of a 200-year 

level (an event that has a 0.5% chance 

of occurring in any given year) of flood 

protection for the entire City by 

improving approximately 50 miles of 

levees that protect it; 

• Construct levee improvements as 

soon as possible to reduce flood risk as 

quickly as possible; and, 

• Provide recreational and open space 

elements for the City that are compatible 

with flood improvement actions. 

DATES: A public scoping meeting will be 

held on February 12, 2009 at 3:30 p.m. 

and 6:30 p.m. at the West Sacramento 

City Hall (see ADDRESSES). Send written 

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comments by February 26, 2009 to (see 

ADDRESSES). 

ADDRESSES: Public Scoping meeting, 

West Sacramento City Hall, 1110 West 

Capitol Avenue, West Sacramento, CA. 

Send written comments and suggestions 

concerning this study to Mr. Brian 

Buttazoni, U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Sacramento District, Attn: 

Planning Division (CESPK–PD–RA), 

1325 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95814 or 

to Mr. John Powderly, City of West 

Sacramento, 1110 West Capitol, 

Sacramento, CA 95691. Requests to be 

placed on the mailing list should also be 

sent to this address. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions about the proposed action 

and EIS/EIR should be addressed to 

Brian Buttazoni at (916) 557–6956, email Brian.L.Buttazoni@usace.army.mil 

or John Powderly at (916) 617–4674, email johnp@cityofwestsacramento.org or 

by mail (see ADDRESSES). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

1. Proposed Action. The Corps and 

WSAFCA are preparing an EIS/EIR to 

analyze the impacts of the work 

proposed in WSLIP. The Corps will 

serve as the lead agency under the 

provisions of NEPA and WSAFCA will 

serve as the lead agency under the 

provisions of the California 

Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). 

Several studies have been conducted 

since 1989 by the Corps, California 

Department of Water Resources (DWR), 

and WSAFCA to evaluate the condition 

of the various levees protecting the City 

of West Sacramento. These studies have 

indicated that the levee system is 

deficient and that the consequences of 

levee failure from a major flood event 

would be significant. 

Since the early 1990s, WSAFCA and 

its partners have undertaken several 

levee repair projects to address urgent 

levee deficiencies that pose serious 

flood risk. Many of these repair projects 

were the result of deficiencies noted 

during routine operations and 

maintenance inspections and repairs 

were performed on a case-by-case basis. 

In July 2006, in response to new 

Corps design standards and the Federal 

Emergency Management Agency’s 

(FEMA) Flood Insurance Rate Map 

modernization program, the City, as part 

of WSAFCA, determined that it was 

necessary to perform a comprehensive 

evaluation of all of the levees protecting 

the City to more definitely determine its 

current level of flood protection, 

determine the magnitude and severity of 

any deficiencies, and develop 

recommended strategies for 

improvement. For this most recent 

comprehensive evaluation, the levees 

were evaluated according to the latest 

Corps criteria for stability, seepage, 

erosion, geometry, and levee height. 

Data collected from the evaluation 

showed that much of the existing 

system does not provide protection from 

a 100-year flood event (an event having 

a 1% chance of occurring in any given 

year), the commonly accepted minimum 

level of flood protection. 

WSAFCA has identified the primary 

deficiencies of the levee system, which 

include: Inadequate levee height, 

through-seepage and under-seepage, 

slope stability, seismic vulnerability, 

erosion, and non-compliant vegetation. 

The study area of the WSLIP includes 

the entire WSAFCA boundaries (over 50 

miles of levees) which encompasses 

portions of the Sacramento River, the 

Yolo Bypass, the Sacramento Bypass, 

and the Sacramento Deep Water Ship 

Channel (DWSC). The study area has 

been subdivided into the following subreaches: Sacramento River Levee North, 

Sacramento River Levee South, Port 

North Levee, Port South Levee, South 

Cross Levee, Deep Water Ship Channel 

Levee East, Deep Water Ship Channel 

Levee West, Yolo Bypass Levee, and 

Sacramento Bypass Levee. 

2. Alternatives. The EIS/EIR will 

address an array of flood control 

improvement alternatives at the 

program level. Alternatives analyzed 

during the investigation will include a 

combination of one or more flood 

protection measures. These measures 

include raising the existing levee; 

constructing an adjacent setback levee, 

cutoff walls, seepage berms, stability 

berms, internal drains, relief wells, or 

sheet-pile walls; slope flattening; 

placing stone protection; and vegetation 

removal. 

Measures may be applied individually 

or combined to address deficiencies. For 

example, a seepage deficiency may be 

addressed by utilizing a seepage berm or 

a relief well, or a combination of both. 

Because each reach has a specific set of 

levee deficiencies and each levee 

deficiency has a number of different 

measures that could be utilized to 

improve the levee, WSAFCA is 

proposing to develop a range of 

alternatives on a reach-by-reach basis 

rather than basin-wide to provide 

greater flexibility. Constraints that 

would be considered during the 

development of alternatives for each 

reach could include land use (i.e., 

development immediately adjacent to 

the levee), available area for various 

types of construction activities 

necessary to construct improvements, 

and other environmental effects. Future 

actions analyzed at the program level 

may or may not require additional 

analysis under a separate tiered 

environmental document(s). A NoAction Alternative will be analyzed at 

the program level. 

Three sites have been identified that 

would be analyzed at the project level 

and included within the EIS/EIR. Also 

known as ‘‘Early Implementation 

Projects,’’ these sites are known as CHP 

Academy, The Rivers, and the Sac Bank 

Extension Site. Analysis for the sites 

considered at the project level will 

include the analysis of No Action, a 

Preferred Alternative, and any other 

alternatives considered. 

• CHP Academy Site. This site 

includes 4,500 feet of the Sacramento 

Bypass Levee and the northern 2,000 

feet of the Sacramento River West North 

Levee, for a total length of 6,500 feet. 

Deficiencies include through-seepage 

and geometry. Under-seepage and 

stability deficiencies are also present in 

smaller pockets within this reach. 

• The Rivers Site. This site is located 

just north of the confluence of the 

Sacramento and American Rivers, 

incorporating part of The Rivers 

residential development. The site 

extends from station 70+00 to station 

115+00 on the Sacramento River, for a 

total length of approximately 4,500 feet. 

The site exhibits geometry, stability, and 

under-seepage deficiencies. 

• Sac Bank Extension Site. This site 

is located just south of the barge canal 

on the Sacramento River and is the 

northern most end of the Sacramento 

River West South Levee. The site 

extends from station 270+00 to 332+50 

for a total length of 6,250 feet. The site 

generally exhibits under-seepage, 

stability, and geometry deficiencies. 

There are a few locations which have 

erosion and levee height deficiencies as 

well. This site adjoins, complements, 

and extends a separate Corps project 

under the Sacramento River Bank 

Protection Project. 

3. Scoping Process. a. Public scoping 

meetings will be held on February 12, 

2009 to present information and to 

receive comments from the public. The 

Corps, with WSAFCA, has initiated a 

process to involve concerned 

individuals, and local, State, and 

Federal agencies. 

b. Significant issues to be analyzed in 

depth in the EIS/EIR include effects on 

aesthetics, biological resources, hazards 

and hazardous materials, mineral 

resources, public services, utilities/ 

service systems, agricultural resources, 

cultural resources, hydrology/water 

quality, noise, recreation, air quality, 

geology/soils, land use/planning, 

population/housing, transportation/ 

traffic, and cumulative effects of related 

projects in the study area. 

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c. The Corps will consult with the 

State Historic Preservation Officer to 

comply with the National Historic 

Preservation Act, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service (FWS) and National 

Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration Fisheries Service to 

comply with the Endangered Species 

Act and the FWS to provide a Fish and 

Wildlife Coordination Act Report as an 

appendix to the EIS/EIR. Coordination 

will also be carried out with Native 

American and tribal groups. 

Consultation will be carried out on the 

three project level sites analyzed in the 

document. Those reaches considered at 

the program level would be fully 

analyzed in the future under separate 

tiered environmental document(s) and 

consultation would be carried out at 

that time. 

d. A 45-day public review period will 

be provided for individuals and 

agencies to review and comment on the 

draft EIS/EIR. All interested parties are 

encouraged to respond to this notice 

and provide a current address if they 

wish to be notified of the draft EIS/EIR 

circulation. 

4. Availability. The draft EIS/EIR is 

anticipated to be available for public 

review and comment in mid 2009. 

Dated: January 13, 2009. 

Thomas C. Chapman, 

COL, EN Commanding. 

[FR Doc. E9–1678 Filed 1–26–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3720–58–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 

30, 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 22, 2009. 

Angela C. Arrington, 

Leader, Information Collections Clearance 

Division, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of Management. 

Institute of Education Sciences 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Title: National Evaluation of the 

Comprehensive Technical Assistance 

Centers. 

Frequency: One time. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profit; State, Local, or Tribal Gov’t, 

SEAs or LEAs. 

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour 

Burden: 

Responses: 130. 

Burden Hours: 1,933. 

Abstract: This is the third of three 

clearance requests submitted to OMB for 

the National Evaluation of the 

Comprehensive Technical Assistance 

Centers (‘‘Centers’’). This submission is 

necessitated because the National 

Center for Education Evaluation and 

Regional Assistance (NCEE), a division 

of the Institute for Education Sciences, 

U.S. Department of Education (ED), 

exercised an Option within the Base 

Contract in 2008 to conduct Case 

Studies of Comprehensive Center 

Technical Assistance. The Case Studies 

will focus on the extent to which such 

assistance has resulted in enhanced 

State Education Agency (SEA) capacity 

to implement key No Child Left Behind 

Act (NCLB) provisions. 

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 3934. 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. 

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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Ultra-Deepwater and Unconventional 

Natural Gas and Other Petroleum 

Resources Research and Development 

Program 2009 Annual Plan 

AGENCY: Office of Fossil Energy, 

Department of Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Notice of Report Availability. 

SUMMARY: The Office of Fossil Energy 

announces the availability of the 2009 

Annual Plan for the Ultra-Deepwater 

and Unconventional Natural Gas and 

Other Petroleum Resources Research 

and Development Program on the DOE 

Web site at http:// 

management.energy.gov/FOIA/1480.htm 

or in print form (see CONTACT below). 

The 2009 Annual Plan is in compliance 

with the Energy Policy Act of 2005, 

Subtitle J, Section 999B(e)(3), which 

requires the publication of this plan and 

all written comments in the Federal 

Register. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Elena Melchert, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Office of Oil and Natural Gas, 

Mail Stop FE–30, 1000 Independence 

Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20585 or 

phone: 202–586–5600 or e-mail to 

UltraDeepwater@hq.doe.gov. 

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