11568 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 38 / Monday, February 26, 2001 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Navy

Meeting of the Board of Advisors to

the Superintendent, Naval

Postgraduate School

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DoD.

ACTION: Notice of open meeting.

SUMMARY: The purpose of this meeting

is to elicit the advice of the board on the

Naval Service’s Postgraduate Education

Program. The board examines the

effectiveness with which the Naval

Postgraduate School is accomplishing

its mission. To this end, the board will

inquire into the curricula, instruction,

physical equipment, administration,

state of morale of the student body,

faculty, and staff; fiscal affairs; and any

other matters relating to the operation of

the Naval Postgraduate School, as the

board considers pertinent. This meeting

will be open to the public.

DATES: The meeting will be held on

Monday, March 5, 2001, from 9:00 a.m.

to 4:00 p.m. and on Tuesday, March 6,

2001, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at

the National Defense University, Fort

McNair, Hill Conference Room,

Roosevelt Hall, Washington, DC.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mrs.

Jaye Panza, Naval Postgraduate School,

1 University Circle, Monterey,

California 93943–5000, telephone

number (831) 656–2514.

Dated: February 14, 2001.

J.L. Roth,

Lieutenant Commander, Judge Advocate

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

Liaison Officer.

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

National Nuclear Security

Administration; Notice of Availability

of the Final Supplemental

Environmental Impact Statement for

the National Ignition Facility

AGENCY: Department of Energy, National

Nuclear Security administration.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

SUMMARY: The National Nuclear

Security Administration (NNSA), a

semi-autonomous agency within the

Department of Energy (DOE), announces

the availability of the Final

Supplemental Environmental Impact

Statement (SEIS) for the National

Ignition Facility (NIF) Project-Specific

Analysis Portion (Volume III, Appendix

I) of the Stockpile Stewardship and

Management Programmatic

Environmental Impact Statement (SSM

PEIS) (DOE/EIS–0236–S1). The NIF,

which is being designed as the world’s

most powerful laser, has been under

construction at Lawrence Livermore

National Laboratory (LLNL) in

Livermore, California since 1997, in

accordance with the SSM PEIS Record

of Decision (ROD) (61 FR 68014,

December 26, 1996).

In September 1997, buried capacitors

containing polychlorinated biphenyls

(PCBs) were discovered during site

excavation for the NIF. The capacitors

and contaminated soil were cleaned up

to levels protective of human health and

the environment in accordance with the

Comprehensive Environmental

Response, Compensation, and Liability

Act (CERCLA) and its implementing

regulations and in consultation with

state and federal regulators. This SEIS

analyzes how the results of

characterization studies completed

should affect the manner in which the

NNSA proceeds with the construction

and operation of NIF. The proposed

action is the ‘‘No Action’’ alternative of

continuing to construct and to operate

NIF at LLNL. The SEIS also evaluates

the No Action alternative of ceasing

construction of the NIF. The preferred

alternative is to construct and operate

NIF.

DATES: A ROD for the SEIS will be

issued no sooner than 30 days after the

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

(EPA) publishes a Notice of Availability

of the Final SEIS in the Federal

Register.

ADDRESSES: To request copies of the

Final NIF SEIS, or for additional

information, contact: Richard Scott,

Document Manager, U.S. Department of

Energy, L–293, P.O. Box 808, Livermore,

CA 94550. Mr. Scott may also be

contacted by telephone (925) 423–3022,

facsimile (925) 424–3755, or by e-mail at

richard.scott@oak.doe.gov. Requests for

copies of the Final NIF SEIS may also

be addressed to the DOE Oakland

Operations Office, Energy Information

Center, 1st floor in the North Tower of

the Federal Building at 1301 Clay Street

in Oakland, CA, (510) 637–1762. The

Final NIF SEIS is available for public

review at the Oakland Operations

Office; LLNL, East Gate Visitors Center

on Greenville Road in Livermore CA,

(925) 424–4026, and DOE’s Freedom of

Information Reading Room, Rm. 1E–

190, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW,

Washington, DC, (202) 586–3142. The

Final NIF SEIS is available under the

NEPA Analysis module of the DOE

NEPA Web Site at http://tis.eh.doe.gov/

nepa/.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

general information on the NNSA NEPA

process, please contact: Mr. Henry

Garson, NEPA Compliance Officer for

Defense Programs, U.S. Department of

Energy/NNSA, 1000 Independence

Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20585; or

telephone 1–800–832–0885, ext. 30470.

For general information on the DOE

NEPA process, please contact: Ms. Carol

M. Borgstrom, Director, Office of NEPA

Policy and Compliance (EH–42), U.S.

Department of Energy, 1000

Independence Avenue, SW.,

Washington, DC 20585, telephone 202–

586–4600, or leave a message at 1–800–

472–2756.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Final

NIF SEIS was prepared pursuant to a

Joint Stipulation and Order issued by

the U.S. District Court for the District of

Columbia on October 27, 1997, in

partial settlement of the lawsuit,

Natural Resources Defense Council

[NRDC] v. Richardson, Civ. No. 97–936

(SS) (D.D.C.). In that Joint Stipulation

and Order, DOE agreed to prepare an

SEIS evaluating the reasonably

foreseeable significant adverse

environmental impacts of continuing to

construct and of operating NIF at LLNL

with respect to any potential or

confirmed contamination in the area by

hazardous, toxic, and/or radioactive

materials. On September 25, 1998, DOE

announced its intent to prepare an SEIS

for the NIF portion (Volume III,

Appendix I) of the SSM PEIS (63 FR

51341). That Notice of Intent was

amended on August 5, 1999 to

announce a revised schedule for

preparing the Draft SEIS (64 FR 42681).

The Joint Stipulation and Order

required further investigations of

potential buried wastes and of soil and

groundwater contamination in seven

site areas. The results of these

investigations are as follows. Interviews

and searches of historical information

indicated a low probability of the

existence of additional buried sources of

contamination. Magnetometer,

electromagnetic induction, and groundpenetrating radar surveys identified no

additional potential areas of concern. In

December 1998, soil sampling during

routine maintenance operations

identified residual PCBs in soils in the

East Traffic Circle (ETC) Area from a

previous landfill closure. This area is

outside the NIF Construction Area. The

cleanup of the buried capacitors,

contaminated soils, and other,

nonhazardous items found in 1997 and

1998 resulted in some minor dust

emissions. The risks of cancer and