80 FR 9446 - Board on Coastal Engineering Research

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 35 (February 23, 2015)

Page Range		9446-9447
FR Document		2015-03621

The Department of the Army is publishing this notice to announce the following Federal advisory committee meeting of the Board on Coastal Engineering Research. This meeting is open to the public.

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 35 (Monday, February 23, 2015)

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 35 (Monday, February 23, 2015)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-03621]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers


Board on Coastal Engineering Research

AGENCY: Department of the Army, DoD.

ACTION: Notice of Advisory Committee meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Department of the Army is publishing this notice to 
announce the following Federal advisory committee meeting of the Board 
on Coastal Engineering Research. This meeting is open to the public.

DATES:  Dates and Location: The Board on Coastal Engineering Research 
will meet from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on March 3, 2015, and reconvene 
from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on March 4, 2015. Both sessions of the 
meeting will be held in the Conference Facility, Coastal and Hydraulics 
Laboratory (CHL), U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, 
3909 Halls Ferry Road, Vicksburg, MS 39180-6199. All sessions are open 
to the public. For more information about the Board, please visit 
http://chl.erdc.usace.army.mil/cerb.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Colonel Jeffrey R. Eckstein, 
Designated Federal Officer (DFO) and Executive Secretary, U.S. Army 
Engineer Research and Development Center, Waterways Experiment Station, 
3909 Halls Ferry

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Road, Vicksburg, MS 39180-6199, phone 601-634-2513, or 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The meeting is being held under the 
provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) of 1972 (5 
U.S.C., Appendix, as amended), the Government in the Sunshine Act of 
1976 (5 U.S.C. 552b, as amended), and 41 CFR 102-3.150. The Board on 
Coastal Engineering Research provides broad policy guidance and reviews 
plans for the conduct of research and the development of research 
projects in consonance with the needs of the coastal engineering field 
and the objectives of the U.S. Army Chief of Engineers.
    Purpose of the Meeting: The meeting is an Executive Session to 
review past action items, status reports, research and development 
strategic directions, and coastal engineering research in the United 
States.
    Agenda: On Tuesday morning, March 3, 2015, meeting logistics, 
review and status of action items, CHL coastal research and development 
strategic direction, existing coastal engineering statements of need, 
and a status report on the Coastal Working Group will be discussed.
    On Tuesday afternoon, there will be technology demonstrations of 
the Ship-Tow Simulator and the CHL Sediment Lab and presentations and 
discussions on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Resilience and 
Harmonization, next steps for Civil Works and Military initiatives, and 
USACE resilience research and development plans.
    On Wednesday, March 4, 2015, the Board will reconvene to discuss a 
Regional Sediment Management Regional Technical Center of Expertise and 
coastal engineering research in the United States. A discussion on the 
September meeting will also be hosted by the U.S. Army Engineer 
Division, Southwestern.
    Meeting Accessibility: Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552b, as amended, and 
41 CFR 102-3.140 through 102-3.165, and subject to the availability of 
space, the meeting is open to the public. Because seating capacity is 
limited, advance registration is required. Registration can be 
accomplished as set forth below. Because the meeting of the Board will 
be held in a Federal Government facility, security screening is 
required. A photo ID is required to enter the facility. The name of 
each person seeking entry will be checked against the list of names of 
those persons who have registered to attend the meeting. Individuals 
will be directed to the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory. Please note 
that the guards have a right to inspect vehicles seeking to enter the 
facility. The Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory is fully handicap 
accessible. For additional information about public access procedures, 
please contact Colonel Eckstein, the Board's Designated Federal 
Officer, at the email address or telephone number listed in the FOR 
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section.
    Registration: Individuals who wish to attend the meeting of the 
Board must register with the DFO by email, the preferred method of 
contact, no later than February 27, using the electronic mail contact 
information found in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section, 
above. The communication should include the registrant's full name, 
title, affiliation or employer, email address, and daytime phone 
number. If applicable, include written comments or statements with the 
registration email.
    Written Comments and Statements: Pursuant to 41 CFR 102-3.015(j) 
and 102-3.140 and section 10(a)(3) of the FACA, the public or 
interested organizations may submit written comments or statements to 
the Board, in response to the stated agenda of the open meeting or in 
regard to the Board's mission in general. Written comments or 
statements should be submitted to Colonel Jeffrey R. Eckstein, DFO, via 
electronic mail, the preferred mode of submission, as the address 
listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section above. Each page 
of the comment or statement must include the author's name, title or 
affiliation, address, and daytime phone number. The DFO will review all 
submitted written comments or statements and provide them to members of 
the Board for their consideration. Written comments or statements being 
submitted in response to the agenda set forth in this notice must be 
received by the DFO at least five business days prior to the meeting to 
be considered by the Board. The DFO will review all timely submitted 
written comments or statements with the Board Chairperson and ensure 
the comments are provided to all members of the Board before the 
meeting. Written comments or statements received after this date may 
not be provided to the Board until its next meeting.
    Verbal Comments: Pursuant to 41 CFR 102-3.140d, the Board is not 
obligated to allow a member of the public to speak or otherwise address 
the Board during the meeting. Members of the public will be permitted 
to make verbal comments during the Board 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 five business days in advance to the 
Board's DFO, via electronic mail, the preferred mode of submission, at 
the address listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section. The 
DFO will log each request, in the order received, and in consultation 
with the Board Chair, determine whether the subject matter of each 
comment is relevant to the Board's mission and/or the topics to be 
addressed in this public meeting. A 30-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 five minutes during this period, and will 
be invited to speak in the order in which their requests were received 
by the DFO.

David B. Olson,
Federal Register Liaison, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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to provide up to 175,000 acre-feet/year to disclose environmental impacts and 1. Bonham Public Library, 305 East
(AFY), with an estimated firm yield of identify mitigation measures to reduce 5th Street, Bonham, TX 75418; (903)
126,200 AFY, of new water for impacts. NTMWD proposes to build the 583–3128.
NTMWD’s member cities and direct LBCR with a total storage capacity of 2. Sam Rayburn Library, 800 West
customers in all or portions of nine approximately 367,609 AF. A dam Sam Rayburn Drive, Bonham, TX 75418;
counties in northern Texas—Collin, approximately 10,400 feet (about two (903) 583–2455.
Dallas, Denton, Fannin, Hopkins, Hunt, miles) long and up to 90 feet high would 3. Bertha Voyer Memorial Library, 500
Kaufman, Rains and Rockwall. be constructed, and much of the 6th Street, Honey Grove, TX 75446;
Construction of the reservoir and related reservoir footprint would be cleared of (903)–378–2206.
facilities would result in permanent trees and built structures. NTMWD also 4. Leonard Public Library, 102 South
impacts to approximately 6,180 acres of proposes to construct several related Main Street, Leonard, TX 75452; (903)
wetlands and 651,024 linear feet of facilities or connected actions. These 587–2391.
streams. This action requires include a raw water intake pump station 5. North Texas Municipal Water
authorization from the USACE under and electrical substation at the reservoir District headquarters, 505 East Brown
Section 404 of the Clean Water Act. The site, as well as a 90–96 inch diameter Street, Wylie, TX 75098.
Section 404 permit applicant is the buried pipeline to carry raw water from 6. Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa
NTMWD. the new reservoir approximately 35 District, Regulatory Office, 1645 S 101 E
The Draft EIS was prepared in miles in a southwesterly direction to a Avenue, Tulsa, OK 74128–4609.
accordance with the National new water treatment plant and terminal Electronic copies of the Draft EIS may
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of storage reservoir that would be located be obtained from the Corps’ Tulsa
1969, as amended, and the USACE’s west of the City of Leonard, also in District Regulatory Office or its Web site
regulations for NEPA implementation Fannin County. A number of rural roads at http://www.swt.usace.army.mil/
(33 Code of Federal Regulations [CFR] within the footprint and in the vicinity Missions/Regulatory/PublicNotices/
parts 230 and 325, Appendices B and of the proposed reservoir would have to tabid/4955/Year/2015/Default.aspx.
C). The USACE, Tulsa District, be closed or relocated; the most Andrew R. Commer,
Regulatory Branch is the lead federal significant of these is FM 1396, which Chief, Regulatory Office, Tulsa District.
agency responsible for the Draft EIS and would be relocated to cross the reservoir
[FR Doc. 2015–03622 Filed 2–20–15; 8:45 am]
information contained in the EIS serves in a different alignment on an entirely
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as the basis for a decision whether or new bridge that would need to be
not to issue a Section 404 permit. It also constructed.
provides information for Federal, state An aquatic resources mitigation plan
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
and local agencies having jurisdictional has been prepared by the applicant to
responsibility for affected resources. comply with the federal policy of ‘‘no Department of the Army, Corps of
DATES: Written comments on the Draft overall net loss of wetlands’’ and to Engineers
EIS will be accepted on or after provide compensatory mitigation, to the
February 20, 2015 until April 21, 2015. extent practicable, for impacts to other Board on Coastal Engineering
Oral and/or written comments may also waters of the U.S. that would be Research
be presented at the Public Meeting to be impacted by construction of the
proposed reservoir. NTMWD has AGENCY: Department of the Army, DoD.
held at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 24, ACTION:Notice of Advisory Committee
2015 at the Fannin County Multi- purchased a 14,960-acre parcel of land
known as the Riverby Ranch, which meeting.
Purpose Complex, FM 87, 700 Texas 56,
Bonham, TX 75418. borders the Red River. This working SUMMARY: The Department of the Army
ranch is located downstream of the
ADDRESSES: Send written comments is publishing this notice to announce
proposed project within both the same
regarding the Proposed Action and Draft the following Federal advisory
watershed (Bois d’Arc Creek) and the
EIS to Andrew R. Commer, USACE, committee meeting of the Board on
same county (Fannin). NTMWD
Tulsa District Regulatory Office, 1645 S Coastal Engineering Research. This
acquired the Riverby Ranch specifically
101 E Avenue, Tulsa, OK 74128–4609, meeting is open to the public.
because its biophysical features have the
or via email: ceswt-ro@usace.army.mil. potential to provide appropriate DATES: Dates and Location: The Board
Requests to be placed on or removed mitigation for the proposed project. on Coastal Engineering Research will
from the mailing list should also be sent Additional mitigation would be meet from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on
to this address. provided within the proposed reservoir March 3, 2015, and reconvene from 8:00
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: itself and on Bois d’Arc Creek a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on March 4, 2015.
Andrew R. Commer, U.S. Army Corps of downstream of the reservoir as a result Both sessions of the meeting will be
Engineers, Tulsa District, Regulatory of an operations plan and flow regime held in the Conference Facility, Coastal
Office, at 918–669–7400. established in consultation with the and Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL), U.S.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Texas Commission on Environmental Army Engineer Research and
purpose of the Proposed Action is to Quality (TCEQ), and stipulated in the Development Center, 3909 Halls Ferry
provide additional firm annual yield to Draft Water Right Permit issued by Road, Vicksburg, MS 39180–6199. All
NTMWD’s member cities and direct TCEQ to NTMWD. sessions are open to the public. For
customers to address anticipated water The U.S. Environmental Protection more information about the Board,
demands associated with projected Agency Region VI, U.S. Forest Service, please visit http://
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growth in the cities and suburbs in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the chl.erdc.usace.army.mil/cerb.
NTMWD service area northeast of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dallas. (TPWD) participated as cooperating Colonel Jeffrey R. Eckstein, Designated
The purpose of the Draft EIS is to agencies in the formulation of the Draft Federal Officer (DFO) and Executive
provide decision-makers and the public EIS. Secretary, U.S. Army Engineer Research
with information pertaining to the Copies of the Draft EIS will be and Development Center, Waterways
Proposed Action and alternatives, and available for review at: Experiment Station, 3909 Halls Ferry

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Road, Vicksburg, MS 39180–6199, Laboratory. Please note that the guards below. If a member of the public is
phone 601–634–2513, or have a right to inspect vehicles seeking interested in making a verbal comment
Jeffrey.R.Eckstein@usace.army.mil. to enter the facility. The Coastal and at the open meeting, that individual
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Hydraulics Laboratory is fully handicap must submit a request, with a brief
meeting is being held under the accessible. For additional information statement of the subject matter to be
provisions of the Federal Advisory about public access procedures, please addressed by the comment, at least five
Committee Act (FACA) of 1972 (5 contact Colonel Eckstein, the Board’s business days in advance to the Board’s
U.S.C., Appendix, as amended), the Designated Federal Officer, at the email DFO, via electronic mail, the preferred
Government in the Sunshine Act of address or telephone number listed in mode of submission, at the address
1976 (5 U.S.C. 552b, as amended), and the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
41 CFR 102–3.150. The Board on section. CONTACT section. The DFO will log each
Coastal Engineering Research provides Registration: Individuals who wish to request, in the order received, and in
broad policy guidance and reviews attend the meeting of the Board must consultation with the Board Chair,
plans for the conduct of research and register with the DFO by email, the determine whether the subject matter of
the development of research projects in preferred method of contact, no later each comment is relevant to the Board’s
consonance with the needs of the than February 27, using the electronic mission and/or the topics to be
coastal engineering field and the mail contact information found in the addressed in this public meeting. A 30-
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT minute period near the end of the
objectives of the U.S. Army Chief of
Engineers. section, above. The communication meeting will be available for verbal
should include the registrant’s full public comments. Members of the
Purpose of the Meeting: The meeting
name, title, affiliation or employer, public who have requested to make a
is an Executive Session to review past
email address, and daytime phone verbal comment, and whose comments
action items, status reports, research
number. If applicable, include written have been deemed relevant under the
and development strategic directions,
comments or statements with the process described above, will be allotted
and coastal engineering research in the
registration email. no more than five minutes during this
United States. Written Comments and Statements:
Agenda: On Tuesday morning, March period, and will be invited to speak in
Pursuant to 41 CFR 102–3.015(j) and the order in which their requests were
3, 2015, meeting logistics, review and 102–3.140 and section 10(a)(3) of the
status of action items, CHL coastal received by the DFO.
FACA, the public or interested
research and development strategic organizations may submit written David B. Olson,
direction, existing coastal engineering comments or statements to the Board, in Federal Register Liaison, U.S. Army Corps
statements of need, and a status report response to the stated agenda of the of Engineers.
on the Coastal Working Group will be open meeting or in regard to the Board’s [FR Doc. 2015–03621 Filed 2–20–15; 8:45 am]
discussed. mission in general. Written comments BILLING CODE 3720–58–P
On Tuesday afternoon, there will be or statements should be submitted to
technology demonstrations of the Ship- Colonel Jeffrey R. Eckstein, DFO, via
Tow Simulator and the CHL Sediment electronic mail, the preferred mode of
Lab and presentations and discussions DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
submission, as the address listed in the
on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT [Docket No.: ED–2014–ICCD–0152]
(USACE) Resilience and Harmonization, section above. Each page of the
next steps for Civil Works and Military comment or statement must include the Agency Information Collection
initiatives, and USACE resilience author’s name, title or affiliation, Activities; Submission to the Office of
research and development plans. address, and daytime phone number. Management and Budget for Review
On Wednesday, March 4, 2015, the The DFO will review all submitted and Approval; Comment Request;
Board will reconvene to discuss a written comments or statements and Personal Authentication Service (PAS)
Regional Sediment Management provide them to members of the Board for FSA ID
Regional Technical Center of Expertise for their consideration. Written
and coastal engineering research in the AGENCY: Federal Student Aid (FSA),
comments or statements being
United States. A discussion on the Department of Education (ED).
submitted in response to the agenda set
September meeting will also be hosted forth in this notice must be received by ACTION: Notice.
by the U.S. Army Engineer Division, the DFO at least five business days prior
Southwestern. SUMMARY: In accordance with the
to the meeting to be considered by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
Meeting Accessibility: Pursuant to 5 Board. The DFO will review all timely
U.S.C. 552b, as amended, and 41 CFR U.S.C. chapter 3501 et seq.), ED is
submitted written comments or
102–3.140 through 102–3.165, and proposing a new information collection.
statements with the Board Chairperson
subject to the availability of space, the and ensure the comments are provided DATES: Interested persons are invited to
meeting is open to the public. Because to all members of the Board before the submit comments on or before March
seating capacity is limited, advance meeting. Written comments or 25, 2015.
registration is required. Registration can statements received after this date may ADDRESSES: Comments submitted in
be accomplished as set forth below. not be provided to the Board until its response to this notice should be
Because the meeting of the Board will next meeting. submitted electronically through the
be held in a Federal Government Verbal Comments: Pursuant to 41 CFR Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://
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facility, security screening is required. A 102–3.140d, the Board is not obligated www.regulations.gov by selecting
photo ID is required to enter the facility. to allow a member of the public to speak Docket ID number ED–2014–ICCD–0152
The name of each person seeking entry or otherwise address the Board during or via postal mail, commercial delivery,
will be checked against the list of names the meeting. Members of the public will or hand delivery. If the regulations.gov
of those persons who have registered to be permitted to make verbal comments site is not available to the public for any
attend the meeting. Individuals will be during the Board meeting only at the reason, ED will temporarily accept
directed to the Coastal and Hydraulics time and in the manner described comments at ICDocketMgr@ed.gov.

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Collection		Federal Register
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Publisher		Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
Section		Notices
Action		Notice of Advisory Committee meeting.
Dates		Dates and Location: The Board on Coastal Engineering Research will meet from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on March 3, 2015, and reconvene from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on March 4, 2015. Both sessions of the meeting will be held in the Conference Facility, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL), U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, 3909 Halls Ferry Road, Vicksburg, MS 39180-6199. All sessions are open to the public. For more information about the Board, please visit http://chl.erdc.usace.army.mil/cerb.
Contact		Colonel Jeffrey R. Eckstein, Designated Federal Officer (DFO) and Executive Secretary, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Waterways Experiment Station, 3909 Halls Ferry Road, Vicksburg, MS 39180-6199, phone 601-634-2513, or [email protected]
FR Citation		80 FR 9446

80 FR 9446 - Board on Coastal Engineering Research

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSEDepartment of the Army, Corps of Engineers

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 35 (February 23, 2015)

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers