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Agency Number: None. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The OMB Dated: January 19, 2005. Affected Public: State government and is particularly interested in comments Amy Mack, not-for-profit institutions. which: Chief of Staff, Office of Chief Executive Total Respondents: 52. • Evaluate whether the proposed Officer. Frequency: Annually. collection of information is necessary [FR Doc. 05–1653 Filed 1–27–05; 8:45 am] Average Time Per Response: 20 hours. for the proper performance of the BILLING CODE 6050–$$–P Estimated Total Burden Hours: 1,040 functions of the Corporation, including hours. whether the information will have Total Burden Cost (Capital/Startup): practical utility; DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE None. • Evaluate the accuracy of the Total Burden Cost (Operating/ agency’s estimate of the burden of the Department of the Army Maintenance): None. proposed collection of information, Comments submitted in response to including the validity of the Final Environmental Impact Statement this notice will be summarized and/or methodology and assumptions used; for the Proposed Leasing of Lands at included in the request for Office of • Propose ways to enhance the Fort Bliss, TX for the Proposed Siting, Management and Budget approval of the quality, utility, and clarity of the Construction, and Operation by the information collection request; they will information to be collected; and City of El Paso of a Brackish Water also become a matter of public record. • Propose ways to minimize the Desalination Plant and Support Dated: January 14, 2005. burden of the collection of information Facilities Robert Grimm, on those who are to respond, including AGENCY: Department of the Army, DoD. Director, Department of Research and Policy through the use of appropriate ACTION: Notice of availability. Development. automated, electronic, mechanical, or [FR Doc. 05–1563 Filed 1–27–05; 8:45 am] other technological collection SUMMARY: The Department of the Army BILLING CODE 6050–$$–P techniques or other forms of information announces the availability of the Final technology, e.g., permitting electronic Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) submissions of responses. evaluating the potential environmental CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND Description: The purpose of this grant impacts that could result from granting COMMUNITY SERVICE competition is to engage persons with an easement to the City of El Paso, El disabilities in national and community Paso Water Utilities (EPWU), to use land Submission for OMB Emergency service programs. Through in the South Training Areas of Fort Bliss Review Congressional appropriations, this for construction and operation of a AGENCY: Corporation for National and competition was established to fund desalination plant and support facilities, Community Service. innovative national or regional including wells, pipelines, and disposal ACTION: Notice. (operating in three or more states) sites for the residual brine resulting partnership models in which persons from the desalination process. The SUMMARY: The Corporation for National with disabilities are engaged in service purpose of the proposed plant is to treat and Community Service (hereinafter the that results in a measurable impact on brackish (salty) water pumped from the ‘‘Corporation’’), submitted the following the community served. The Corporation Hueco Bolson Aquifer to provide an information collection request (ICR) to encourages all eligible public and additional reliable source of potable the Office of Management and Budget private non-profit organizations, water for use by the City of El Paso and (OMB) for review and clearance in including faith-based and other Fort Bliss. Pumping of fresh water by accordance with the Paperwork community-based organizations, to EPWU, Fort Bliss, Ciudad Jua´rez, and Reduction Act of 1995, (PRA 95) (44 apply. This information collection others has resulted in declining U.S.C. Chapter 35). The Corporation has contains application instructions to groundwater levels in the aquifer. In requested OMB to review and approve apply for funding under the Engaging addition, brackish water is intruding its emergency request by February 1, Persons with Disabilities in National into the aquifer’s freshwater layer and 2005, for a period of six months. A copy and Community Service competition. has the potential to affect water wells on of this ICR, with applicable supporting Type of Review: Emergency request. Fort Bliss and in other areas of El Paso. documentation, may be obtained by Agency: Corporation for National and A sizable volume of brackish water contacting the Corporation for National Community Service. exists adjacent to the freshwater zone of and Community Service, Office of Title: Engaging Persons with the Hueco Bolson Aquifer. Desalination Grants Policy and Operations, Marci Disabilities in National and Community of the brackish water offers a way to Hunn, (202) 606–5000, Ext. 432, or by Service Application Instructions. extend the life of the freshwater aquifer e-mail at [email protected]. Individuals OMB Number: None. as a source of potable water that is to the who use a telecommunications device Agency Number: None. mutual benefit of Fort Bliss and the City for the deaf (TTY–TDD) may call (202) Affected Public: Eligible applicants to of El Paso. The proposed desalination 565–2799 between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. the Corporation for funding for plant would reduce withdrawals of eastern time, Monday through Friday. disability programs. fresh water from the aquifer, extending ADDRESSES: Comments may be Total Respondents: 40. its useful life and intercepting the flow submitted, identified by the title of the Frequency: On occasion. of brackish water to wells that are information collection activity, by any Average Time Per Response: Ten (10) operated by Fort Bliss. Both Fort Bliss of the following two methods: hours. and the City of El Paso have considered (1) By fax to: (202) 395–6974, Estimated Total Burden Hours: 400 constructing desalination facilities to Attention: Ms. Katherine Astrich, OMB hours. tap into this potential water source. The Desk Officer for the Corporation for Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): Army and EPWU believe that building National and Community Service; and None. a single desalination plant to provide (2) Electronically by e-mail to: Total Burden Cost (operating/ potable water for both the installation [email protected]. maintenance): None. and the city would be more efficient and

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cost effective than constructing separate desalination plant on non-Army land, SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the desalination plants. increase in water conservation Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 ADDRESSES: To obtain copies of the measures, development of other water U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Federal FEIS, contact John F. Barrera (915) 568– sources in the El Paso region, and/or Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 3908 or write to: Fort Bliss Directorate importation of water from sources Secretariat will be submitting to the of the Environment, ATTN: AZC–DOE– outside El Paso. Without the proposed Office of Management and Budget C, Building 624, Pleasanton Road, Fort desalination project, EPWU would (OMB) a request to review and approve Bliss, TX 79916–6812. continue to pump from the freshwater an extension of a currently approved FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John layer of the Hueco Bolson Aquifer until information collection requirement F. Barrera, (915) 568–3908. it no longer met drinking water concerning claims and appeals. The SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The standards. clearance currently expires on April 30, proposed desalination plant would treat The Army has selected Alternative 2005. brackish water drawn from the Hueco 3—Constructing the facility north of Public comments are particularly Bolson Aquifer using a technology Montana Avenue and using deep well invited on: Whether this collection of called reverse osmosis (RO). RO uses injection for the disposal of information is necessary for the proper semipermeable membranes to remove concentrate—as the Preferred performance of functions of the FAR, dissolved solids (primarily salts) from Alternative. and whether it will have practical brackish water, producing fresh water. The FEIS analyzes the environmental utility; whether our estimate of the Water for the desalination process consequences each alternative could public burden of this collection of would be drawn from existing EPWU have on geology and soils; water information is accurate, and based on wells on the east side of El Paso resources; utilities and services; valid assumptions and methodology; International Airport and from proposed hazardous materials, hazardous waste, ways to enhance the quality, utility, and new wells to be installed on Fort Bliss and safety; air quality; biological clarity of the information to be land north of Biggs Army Airfield. The resources; land use and aesthetics; collected; and ways in which we can plant is being designed to produce transportation; cultural resources; and minimize the burden of the collection of approximately 27.5 million gallons per socioeconomics and environmental information on those who are to day (MGD) of drinking water and 3.0 justice. In addition, it includes respond, through the use of appropriate MGD of a brine called concentrate. To comments received on the Draft EIS, technological collection techniques or implement the proposed desalination published August 6, 2004, during the other forms of information technology. project, EPWU is applying for an public review period that ended DATES: Submit comments on or before easement for land in the South Training September 27, 2004, as well as March 29, 2005. Areas of Fort Bliss for a desalination responses to those comments. ADDRESSES: Submit comments regarding plant site, 16 new water wells, Copies of the FEIS are available for this burden estimate or any other aspect concentrate disposal sites, and various review at the following libraries in El of this collection of information, connecting pipelines. Paso, Texas: El Paso Public Library, 501 including suggestions for reducing this The FEIS considers seven alternatives, N. Oregon Street; Richard Burgess burden to the General Services six action alternatives and the No Branch, 9600 Dyer; Irving Schwartz Administration, FAR Secretariat (VIR), Action Alternative. The six action Public Library, 1865 Dean Martin Drive; 1800 F Street, NW, Room 4035, alternatives include various and Westside Branch Library, 125 Washington, DC 20405. Please cite OMB combinations of three potential sites for Belvedere Street. Control No. 9000–0035, Claims and the proposed desalination plant and two Hugh M. Exton, Jr., Appeals, in all correspondence. methods of disposal on the concentrate. Director, SWRO, Installation Management FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The three alternative desalination plant Agency. Rhonda Cundiff, Contract Policy sites are located in Training Area 1B of [FR Doc. 05–689 Filed 1–27–05; 8:45 am] Division, GSA (202) 501–0044. the South Training Areas of Fort Bliss, BILLING CODE 3710–08–M SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: adjacent to El Paso International Airport, north of Montana Avenue, and A. Purpose west of Loop 375. The two concentrate DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE It is the Government’s policy to try to disposal methods under consideration resolve all contractual issues by mutual include (1) injecting the concentrate GENERAL SERVICES agreement at the contracting officer’s underground into a confined zone ADMINISTRATION level without litigation. Contractor’s where it would be isolated from potable claims must be submitted in writing to water sources, or (2) piping the NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND the contracting officer for a decision. concentrate to evaporation ponds, SPACE ADMINISTRATION Claims exceeding $100,000 must be where the liquid would evaporate accompanied by a certification that (1) leaving a solid salt residue that would [OMB Control No. 9000–0035] the claim is made in good faith; (2) be trucked to a landfill for final Federal Acquisition Regulation; supporting data are accurate and disposal. complete; and (3) the amount requested Under the No Action Alternative, the Information Collection; Claims and Appeals accurately reflects the contract Army would not provide land on Fort adjustment for which the contractor Bliss for construction and operation of AGENCIES: Department of Defense (DOD), believes the Government is liable. the proposed desalination plant. None General Services Administration (GSA), Contractors may appeal the contracting of the proposed facilities would be and National Aeronautics and Space officer’s decision by submitting written constructed on Army land at Fort Bliss. Administration (NASA). appeals to the appropriate officials. This alternative could, however, include ACTION: Notice of request for public one or more of the following actions B. Annual Reporting Burden comments regarding an extension to an without Army action or participation: existing OMB clearance. Respondents: 4,500. construction and operation of a Responses Per Respondent: 3.

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