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facility is fully handicap accessible. 

Wheelchair access is available at the 

main entrance of the building. For 

additional information about public 

access procedures, contact Mr. Kesten, 

the subcommittee’s Alternate 

Designated Federal Officer, at the email 

address or telephone number listed in 

the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

section. 

Written Comments or Statements: 

Pursuant to 41 CFR 102–3.105(j) and 

102–3.140 and section 10(a)(3) of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, the 

public or interested organizations may 

submit written comments or statements 

to the subcommittee, in response to the 

stated agenda of the open meeting or in 

regard to the subcommittee’s mission in 

general. Written comments or 

statements should be submitted to Mr. 

Kesten, the subcommittee Alternate 

Designated Federal Officer, via 

electronic mail, the preferred mode of 

submission, at the address listed in the 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

section. Each page of the comment or 

statement must include the author’s 

name, title or affiliation, address, and 

daytime phone number. The Alternate 

Designated Federal Official will review 

all submitted written comments or 

statements and provide them to 

members of the subcommittee for their 

consideration. Written comments or 

statements being submitted in response 

to the agenda set forth in this notice 

must be received by the Alternate 

Designated Federal Official at least 

seven business days prior to the meeting 

to be considered by the subcommittee. 

Written comments or statements 

received after this date may not be 

provided to the subcommittee until its 

next meeting. 

Pursuant to 41 CFR 102–3.140d, the 

Committee is not obligated to allow a 

member of the public to speak or 

otherwise address the Committee during 

the meeting. Members of the public will 

be permitted to make verbal comments 

during the Committee meeting only at 

the time and in the manner described 

below. If a member of the public is 

interested in making a verbal comment 

at the open meeting, that individual 

must submit a request, with a brief 

statement of the subject matter to be 

addressed by the comment, at least 

seven business days in advance to the 

subcommittee’s Alternate Designated 

Federal Official, via electronic mail, the 

preferred mode of submission, at the 

address listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section. The 

Alternate Designated Federal Official 

will log each request, in the order 

received, and in consultation with the 

Subcommittee Chair, determine whether 

the subject matter of each comment is 

relevant to the Subcommittee’s mission 

and/or the topics to be addressed in this 

public meeting. A 15-minute period 

near the end of the meeting will be 

available for verbal public comments. 

Members of the public who have 

requested to make a verbal comment 

and whose comments have been 

deemed relevant under the process 

described above, will be allotted no 

more than three minutes during the 

period, and will be invited to speak in 

the order in which their requests were 

received by the Alternate Designated 

Federal Official. 

Brenda S. Bowen, 

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2017–23976 Filed 11–2–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–03–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Defense Acquisition Regulations 

System 

[Docket DARS–2017–0007; OMB Control 

Number 0704–0248] 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Defense Acquisition 

Regulations System, Department of 

Defense (DoD) 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Defense Acquisition 

Regulations System has submitted to 

OMB for clearance, the following 

proposal for collection of information 

under the provisions of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act. 

DATES: Consideration will be given to all 

comments received by December 4, 

2017. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title, Associated Form, and OMB 

Number: Defense Federal Acquisition 

Regulation Supplement (DFARS), 

Appendix F, Material Inspection and 

Receiving Report; OMB Control Number 

0704–0248. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profit and not-for profit institutions. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain benefits. 

Reporting Frequency: On occasion. 

Number of Respondents: 153,000. 

Responses per Respondent: 18, 

approximately. 

Annual Responses: 2,800,000. 

Average Burden per Response: .05 

hours (3 minutes). 

Annual Burden Hours: 140,000 hours. 

Needs and Uses: The collection of this 

information is necessary to process 

shipping and receipt documentation for 

goods and services provided by 

contractors and permit payment under 

DoD contracts. 

OMB Desk Officer: Ms. Jasmeet 

Seehra. 

Comments and recommendations on 

the proposed information collection 

should be sent to Ms. Jasmeet Seehra, 

DoD Desk Officer, at Oira_submission@

omb.eop.gov. Please identify the 

proposed information collection by DoD 

Desk Officer and the Docket ID number 

and title of the information collection. 

You may also submit comments, 

identified by docket number and title, 

by the following method: 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

DoD Clearance Officer: Mr. Frederick 

C. Licari. 

Written requests for copies of the 

information collection proposal should 

be sent to Mr. Licari at: WHS/ESD 

Directives Division, 4800 Mark Center 

Drive, 2nd Floor, East Tower, Suite 

03F09, Alexandria, VA 22350–3100. 

Jennifer L. Hawes, 

Editor, Defense Acquisition Regulations 

System. 

[FR Doc. 2017–23984 Filed 11–2–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army; Corps of 

Engineers 

Notice of Intent To Prepare a Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Drawdown and Habitat 

Enhancement of East Lake 

Tohopekaliga in Osceola County, 

Florida 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of intent. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers (USACE), Jacksonville 

District, Cocoa Permits Section field 

office, has received a request for 

Department of the Army (DA) 

authorization, pursuant to Section 404 

of the Clean Water Act and Section 10 

of the Rivers and Harbor Act of 1899, 

from the Florida Fish and Wildlife 

Conservation Commission (FWC) for 

activities associated with the proposed 

drawdown, vegetation removal, and 

demucking of East Lake Tohopekaliga 

(ELT) to improve habitat conditions for 

fish and wildlife. The drawdown would 

require a deviation to the Water Control 

Plan for ELT and a DA permit for 


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proposed fill in waters of the United 

States. 

DATES: The USACE will hold a public 

scoping meeting for the Draft EIS on 

December 5, 2017, at 7:00 p.m. Eastern 

Standard Time. Interested parties are 

invited to submit scoping comments to 

USACE by January 4, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: The public scoping meeting 

will be held at Osceola Heritage Park, 

1875 Silver Spur Lane, Kissimmee, FL 

34744. Scoping comments may be 

submitted by mail or hand-delivered to: 

Jeffrey S. Collins, U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Cocoa Permits Section, 400 

High Point Drive, Suite 600, Cocoa, FL 

32926. Comments may also be 

submitted by email to: jeffrey.s.collins@

usace.army.mil. All comments should 

include ‘‘East Lake Tohopekaliga 

Drawdown Comments’’ in the subject 

line. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions about the Proposed Action 

and Draft EIS should be directed to Mr. 

Collins by telephone at (321) 504–3771 

or by email: jeffrey.s.collins@

usace.army.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

1. Background/Project Authorization. 

USACE is preparing this Draft EIS in 

accordance with National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), 

Council on Environmental Quality 

(CEQ) Regulations (40 Code of Federal 

Regulation [CFR] 1500 et seq.), and 

USACE provisions for implementing the 

procedural requirements of NEPA (33 

CFR 230, USACE Engineering 

Regulation [ER] 200–2–2). A primary 

purpose of a USACE Regulatory 

Program EIS is to provide disclosure of 

the significant impacts of a proposal 

seeking a DA permit on the human 

environment. The Draft EIS and Final 

EIS are used to inform the public and 

agency decision-makers of alternatives 

to an applicant’s project that may avoid 

or minimize impacts or enhance the 

quality of the human environment. 

The EIS will address all the 

requirements of NEPA including 

applicable federal and state laws, 

regulations, and executive orders. A 

partial list of statutes to be addressed in 

the EIS includes: Section 404 of the 

Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. 1344) and 

Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act 

of 1899 (33 U.S.C. 403); Coastal Zone 

Management Act; Clean Air Act; 

Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act; 

Endangered Species Act; Fish and 

Wildlife Coordination Act; National 

Historic Preservation Act; Archeological 

and Historic Preservation Act; and 

Executive Order 11990, Protection of 

Wetlands. Additional authority is 

provided in 33 CFR 222.5, Water 

Control Management (ER 1110–2–240). 

2. Need or Purpose of Project. The 

purpose of the proposed activity is 

aquatic habitat improvement in ELT. 

Major contributors to deteriorating 

aquatic habitat in the ELT are water 

level stabilization and pollution from 

watershed development. Negative 

environmental changes include an 

increase in aquatic plant density and 

biomass, organic sediments, and a shift 

to invasive species. Dense bands of 

organic material have formed along the 

lakeshore and, combined with aquatic 

plants such as pickerelweed, cattail, and 

tussucks, form a barrier that keeps fish 

from shallow spawning areas. Decline in 

coverage of desirable aquatic vegetation 

negatively impact the diversity and 

abundance of forage organisms that 

depend on these plant communities. In 

turn, this directly contributes to reduced 

sport fish production and wading bird 

utilization. 

3. Project Description. East Lake 

Tohopekaliga is an approximately 

11,968-acre lake located in the 

Kissimmee Chain of Lakes. FWC is 

pursuing authorization from USACE, 

Jacksonville District Regulatory 

Division, to conduct a temporary 

drawdown of ELT to accomplish 

demucking and vegetation removal 

activities for purposes of littoral zone 

habitat enhancement. FWC proposes to 

draw down ELT in Osceola County from 

57.0 National Geodetic Vertical Datum 

(NGVD) feet to 53.0 NGVD feet. Four 

pumps (combined capacity of 400 cfs) 

are proposed to be used to drain ELT; 

pumps are required because gravity-fed 

conveyance becomes inefficient as the 

lower ELT stage approaches that of Lake 

Tohopekaliga. The proposed drawdown 

would begin in October-November 2018, 

work conducted in February-May 2019, 

with the refill initiated in June 2019. 

Other proposed activities include: 

a. Modification of the Lake 

Tohopekaliga and ELT regulation 

schedules as established by the USACE 

Water Control Plan, to allow a 

temporary deviation in water levels in 

both lakes. 

b. Installation of sheet piling and a 

flood control pump in the canal 

between ELT and Fells Cove, and in the 

canal between ELT and Lake 

Runnymede. These constructed 

elements may be necessary to maintain 

normal lake stages upstream of the 

canals. 

c. Approximately 115 acres of littoral 

zone will be mechanically scraped along 

the east shore and consolidated into two 

1–2 acre in-lake spoil islands. Woody 

vegetation within the scrape zone would 

be piled and burned. 

d. Vegetation on the west shore would 

be sprayed with herbicide and 

subsequently burned. 

4. Issues. Preliminary environmental 

and public interest factors have been 

identified and would be addressed in 

the EIS. Additional issues may be 

identified during the scoping process 

through commenting cooperating 

agencies and the public. USACE has 

preliminarily identified potential issues 

to include: 

a. Potential impacts to threatened and 

endangered species, particularly the 

Everglades snail kite (Rostrhamus 

sociabilis plumbeus). 

b. Required alteration of the Water 

Control Plan. The Master Water Control 

Manual for Kissimmee River-Lake 

Istokpoga Basin (USACE, 1994), which 

contains the relevant Water Control 

Plan, specifies coordination with 

USACE South Atlantic Division for 

review and approval of planned 

deviation requests. 

c. Potential impacts to navigation, 

both commercial and recreational. 

d. Potential aesthetic impacts to 

landowners with a viewshed of 

proposed disposal islands. 

e. Potential impacts on public health 

and safety. 

f. Potential impacts on waterborne 

recreation activities. 

g. Potential impacts to cultural 

resources. 

h. Potential economic impact on local 

businesses. 

i. Potential air quality during burning 

of woody debris. 

j. Potential water quality impacts 

during ELT drawdown, muck removal 

and creation of islands. 

k. Potential concern regarding 

downstream discharges resulting from 

the ELT Drawdown. 

l. Cumulative impacts of past, present 

and foreseeable future projects affecting 

ELT. 

5. Alternatives. The Draft EIS will 

analyze reasonable alternatives to meet 

the project purpose and need. These 

alternatives will be further developed 

during the scoping process and an 

appropriate range of alternatives, 

including the no federal action 

alternative, will be considered in the 

EIS. Other preliminary alternatives to be 

considered include: Effectuating ELT 

drawdown with pumps; ELT drawdown 

without pumps; disposing of spoil 

material by truck-hauling off-site; and 

disposing of spoil material using in-lake 

disposal islands. 

6. Scoping Process. USACE is 

furnishing this notice to advise other 

Federal and State agencies, affected 


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federally recognized Tribes, and the 

public of the proposed project. This 

notice announces the initiation of a 30- 

day scoping period which requests the 

public’s involvement in the scoping and 

evaluation process of the Draft EIS. A 

public scoping meeting (see DATES) will 

be held to receive public comment and 

address public concerns concerning the 

scope of issues and level of analysis to 

be considered in preparation of the Draft 

EIS. Participation in the public meeting 

by federal, state and local agencies and 

other interested organizations and 

persons is encouraged. A detailed 

description of the study area will be 

developed following the scoping 

meeting, at which time USACE will 

determine the final study area for the 

EIS. 

7. Public Involvement. The USACE 

invites Federal agencies, American 

Indian Tribal Nations, state and local 

governments, and other interested 

private organizations and parties to 

attend the public scooping meeting and 

to provide comments in order to ensure 

that all significant issues are identified 

and the full range of issues related to the 

permit request are addressed. 

8. Coordination. The proposed action 

is being coordinated with a number of 

Federal, state, regional, and local 

agencies including but not limited to the 

following: U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, U.S. National Marine Fisheries 

Service, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, Florida Department of 

Environmental Protection, federally 

recognized Native American Indian 

Tribes, Florida State Historic 

Preservation Officer, Osceola County, 

the City of St. Cloud, and other agencies 

as identified in scoping, public 

involvement, and agency coordination. 

9. Agency Role. The USACE will be 

the lead agency for the EIS. The USACE 

expects to receive input and critical 

information from federal, state and local 

agencies (see Coordination), either as 

commenting or cooperating agencies. 

10. Draft EIS Preparation. The Draft 

EIS is expected to be published and 

circulated in late spring 2018. A Notice 

of Availability will be issued, which 

will open the public comment period. 

Comments will be accepted during the 

Draft EIS public comment period, which 

will last approximately 30 days. 

Dated: October 24, 2017. 

Donald W. Kinard, 

Chief, Regulatory Division. 

[FR Doc. 2017–23977 Filed 11–2–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3720–58–P 

DELAWARE RIVER BASIN 

COMMISSION 

Notice of Public Hearing and Business 

Meeting November 15 and December 

13, 2017 

Notice is hereby given that the 

Delaware River Basin Commission will 

hold a public hearing on Wednesday, 

November 15, 2017. A business meeting 

will be held the following month on 

Wednesday, December 13, 2017. The 

hearing and meeting are open to the 

public and will be held at the 

Washington Crossing Historic Park 

Visitor Center, 1112 River Road, 

Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania. 

Public Hearing. The public hearing on 

November 15, 2017 will begin at 1:30 

p.m. Hearing items subject to the 

Commission’s review will include draft 

dockets for withdrawals, discharges, 

and other water-related projects, as well 

as a resolution authorizing the 

Executive Director to enter into an 

agreement with the University of 

Maryland for the analysis of ambient 

water samples from the Delaware 

Estuary for primary productivity and 

associated nutrient parameters. 

The list of projects scheduled for 

hearing, including project descriptions, 

and the text of the proposed resolution 

will be posted on the Commission’s 

Web site, www.drbc.net, in a long form 

of this notice at least ten days before the 

hearing date. 

Written comments on matters 

scheduled for hearing on November 15 

will be accepted through 5:00 p.m. on 

November 20. Time permitting, an 

opportunity for Open Public Comment 

will be provided upon the conclusion of 

Commission business at the December 

13 Business Meeting; in accordance 

with recent format changes, this 

opportunity will not be offered upon 

completion of the Public Hearing. 

The public is advised to check the 

Commission’s Web site periodically 

prior to the hearing date, as items 

scheduled for hearing may be postponed 

if additional time is deemed necessary 

to complete the Commission’s review, 

and items may be added up to ten days 

prior to the hearing date. In reviewing 

docket descriptions, the public is also 

asked to be aware that project details 

commonly change in the course of the 

Commission’s review, which is ongoing. 

Public Meeting. The public business 

meeting on December 13, 2017 will 

begin at 10:30 a.m. and will include: 

Adoption of the Minutes of the 

Commission’s September 13, 2017 

Business Meeting, announcements of 

upcoming meetings and events, a report 

on hydrologic conditions, reports by the 

Executive Director and the 

Commission’s General Counsel, and 

consideration of any items for which a 

hearing has been completed or is not 

required. The latter are expected to 

include a resolution authorizing the 

Executive Director to execute an 

agreement for the preparation of an 

actuarial evaluation of the 

Commission’s ‘‘Other Post-Employment 

Benefit’’ (‘‘OPEB’’) obligations, in 

accordance with Government 

Accounting Standards Board Statement 

No. 75 (‘‘GASB 75’’). 

After all scheduled business has been 

completed and as time allows, the 

Business Meeting will also include up 

to one hour of Open Public Comment. 

There will be no opportunity for 

additional public comment for the 

record at the December 13 Business 

Meeting on items for which a hearing 

was completed on November 15 or a 

previous date. Commission 

consideration on December 13 of items 

for which the public hearing is closed 

may result in approval of the item (by 

docket or resolution) as proposed, 

approval with changes, denial, or 

deferral. When the Commissioners defer 

an action, they may announce an 

additional period for written comment 

on the item, with or without an 

additional hearing date, or they may 

take additional time to consider the 

input they have already received 

without requesting further public input. 

Any deferred items will be considered 

for action at a public meeting of the 

Commission on a future date. 

Advance Sign-Up for Oral Comment. 

Individuals who wish to comment on 

the record during the public hearing on 

November 15 or to address the 

Commissioners informally during the 

Open Public Comment portion of the 

meeting on December 13 as time allows, 

are asked to sign-up in advance through 

EventBrite, the online registration 

process recently introduced by the 

Commission. Links to EventBrite for the 

Public Hearing and the Business 

Meeting are available at drbc.net. For 

assistance, please contact Ms. Paula 

Schmitt of the Commission staff, at 

paula.schmitt@drbc.nj.gov. 

Addresses for Written Comment. 

Written comment on items scheduled 

for hearing may be made through 

SmartComment, the Web-based 

comment system recently introduced by 

the Commission, a link to which is 

posted at drbc.net. Although use of 

SmartComment is strongly preferred, 

comments may also be delivered by 

hand at the public hearing; or by hand, 

U.S. Mail or private carrier to 

Commission Secretary, P.O. Box 7360, 

25 Cosey Road, West Trenton, NJ 08628. 


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