Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 200 / Tuesday, October 15, 1996 / Notices 53725
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Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 200 / Tuesday, October 15, 1996 / Notices 53725 Department of the Army 30537), which provided notice that the comments are received that would Draft EIS was available for comment. result in a contrary determination. Notice of Availability of the Final Comments from the DEIS have been ADDRESSES: Send comments to General Environmental Impact Statement for considered and responses are included Counsel, Defense Special Weapons the Disposal of Chemical Agents and in this Final EIS. After a 30-day waiting Agency, 6801 Telegraph Road, Munitions Stored at Pine Bluff Arsenal, period the Army will publish a Record Alexandria, VA 22310±3398 Arkansas of Decision. Copies of the Final EIS may FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. AGENCY: Department of the Army, DoD. be obtained by writing to the following address: Program Manager for Chemical Sandy Barker at (703) 325±7681. ACTION: Notice of availability. Demilitarization, ATTN: SFAE±CD±ME, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The SUMMARY: This announces the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland Defense Special Weapons Agency availability of the Final Environmental 21010±5401. notices for systems of records subject to Impact Statement (FEIS) on the ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), construction and operation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as amended, have been published in the proposed chemical agent will also publish a Notice of Availability Federal Register and are available from demilitarization facility at Pine Bluff for the Final EIS in the Federal Register. the address above. Arsenal, Arkansas. The proposed FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The proposed amendments are not facility will be used to demilitarize all Above address, or Ms. Cathy Stalcup at within the purview of subsection (r) of stockpile chemical agents and (410) 671±3629/2583. the Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 552a), as munitions currently stored at Pine Bluff Richard E. Newsome, amended, which would require the Arsenal. The FEIS examines the submission of a new or altered system potential impacts of on-site Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Environment, Safety and Occupational report for each system. The amendment incineration, alternative sites within the Health) OASA (I, L&E). consists of changing the name of the Pine Bluff Arsenal, and the ``no action'' [FR Doc. 96±26342 Filed 10±11±96; 8:45 `Defense Special Weapons School' to alternative. The ``no action'' alternative a.m.] read `Defense Nuclear Weapons School'. is considered to be a deferral of the BILLING CODE 3710±08±M This amendment affects two systems of demilitarization with continued storage records notices, HDSWA 004, entitled of agents and munitions at Pine Bluff `Nuclear Weapons Accident Exercise Arsenal. Defense Special Weapons Agency Personnel Radiation Exposure Records' SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In its and HDSWA 014, entitled `Student Record of Decision (53 FR 5816, Privacy Act of 1974; Notice to Amend Records'. The record systems being February 26, 1988) for the Final Record Systems amended are set forth below as Programmatic Environmental Impact amended, published in their entirety. Statement on the Chemical Stockpile AGENCY: Defense Special Weapons Dated: October 8, 1996. Disposal Program (CSDP), the Agency, DOD. Department of the Army selected on-site ACTION: Notice to amend record systems. Patricia L. Toppings, disposal by incineration at all eight SUMMARY: The Defense Special Weapons Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison chemical munition storage sites within Officer, Department of Defense. the continental United States as the Agency is amending two systems of method by which it will destroy its records notices in its inventory of record HDNA 004 lethal chemical stockpile. On March 29, systems subject to the Privacy Act of SYSTEM NAME: 1989 (54 FR 12944±45), the Department 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended. The of the Army published a Notice of Intent amendment consists of changing the Nuclear Weapons Accident Exercise in the Federal Register which provided name of the `Defense Special Weapons Personnel Radiation Exposure Records. notice that, pursuant to the National School' to read `Defense Nuclear Environmental Policy Act and Weapons School'. This amendment SYSTEM LOCATION: implementing regulations, it would affects two systems of records notices, Defense Nuclear Weapons School, prepare a draft site-specific EIS for the HDSWA 004, entitled `Nuclear Weapons Field Command, Defense Special Pine Bluff Arsenal. In 1995, the Accident Exercise Personnel Radiation Weapons Agency, 1900 Wyoming Department of the Army prepared a Exposure Records' last published Boulevard, SE, Kirtland Air Force Base, Draft EIS to assess the site-specific August 26, 1996, 61 FR 43743 and NM 87117±5669. health and environmental impacts of HDSWA 014, entitled `Student Records' on-site incineration of chemical agents last published August 26, 1996, 61 FR CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE and munitions stored at the Pine Bluff 43750. SYSTEM: Arsenal. A Notice of Availability was DATES: The amendments will be Military and civilian employees of the published on June 9, 1995 (60 FR effective on November 14, 1996, unless Department of Defense and other.