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foreign nationals begin participation in
this program each year.
In February 2004, the Department
announced a pilot program whereby
Department designated au pair sponsors
could request the extension of program
participation beyond the original 12month maximum period afforded au
pair participants. In June of 2006,
following a review of the two-year pilot
program, the Department amended
program regulations to permit
designated sponsors to submit requests
to the Department for consideration of
program extensions for six, nine or 12
month durations for first-year au pair
participants beyond the maximum
duration of participation allowed under
the existing regulations.
As the au pair program enters its
twentieth year of operation, the
Department has been asked to consider
amending the age eligibility requirement
for au pair participants by increasing the
age limitation from 26 to 30. Further,
the Department has been asked to
consider permitting foreign nationals
who previously participated in the au
pair program to repeat program
participation.
The Department hereby solicits
comments from the general public and
other interested parties regarding these
two issues. This certification will be
published in the Federal Register.
Dated: November 26, 2007.
Stanley S. Colvin,
Director, Office of Exchange Coordination
and Designation, Bureau of Educational and
Cultural Affairs, Department of State.
[FR Doc. E7–23883 Filed 12–7–07; 8:45 am]
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TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, as
Amended by Pubic Law 104–13;
Proposed Collection; Comment
Request
Tennessee Valley Authority.
ACTION: Proposed Collection; comment
request.
AGENCY:

The proposed information
collection described below will be
submitted to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review, as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as
amended). The Tennessee Valley
Authority is soliciting public comments
on this proposed collection as provided
by 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1). Requests for
information, including copies of the
information collection proposed and
supporting documentation should be
directed to the Agency Clearance

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Officer: Alice D. Witt, Tennessee Valley
Authority, 1101 Market Street (EB–5B),
Chattanooga, TN 37402–2801; (423)
751–6832. (SC: 0003D1Z) Comments
should be sent to the Agency Clearance
Officer no later than February 8, 2008.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Type of Request: Regular submission;
proposal for a reinstatement of a
previously approved collection (OMB
control number 3316–0009).
Title of Information Collection: Salary
Surveys for Engineering Association
(EA) and Law Enforcement Employee
Association (LEEA) Bargaining Unit
Employees.
Frequency of Use: Annually.
Type of Affected Public: State or local
governments, Federal agencies, nonprofit institutions, businesses, or other
for-profit.
Small Businesses or Organizations
Affected: EA: 45; LEEA: 30.
Federal Budget Functional Category
Code: 999.
Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: EA: 30; LEEA: 20.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: EA: 120; LEEA: 60.
Estimated Average Burden Hours Per
Response: EA: 4; LEEA: 3.
Need For and Use of Information:
TVA conducts an annual salary
survey for employee compensation and
benefits as a basis for labor negotiations
in determining prevailing rates of pay
and benefits for represented salary
policy employees. TVA surveys firms,
and Federal, State, and local
governments whose employees perform
work similar to that of TVA’s salary
policy employees.
Steven A. Anderson,
Senior Manager, IT Planning & Governance,
Information Services.
[FR Doc. E7–23828 Filed 12–7–07; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
Environmental Impact Statement:
Hawai‘i County, HI
Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA)—Central
Federal Lands Highway Division
(CFLHD), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of intent.
AGENCY:

SUMMARY: FHWA–CFLHD is issuing this
notice to advise the public that a
supplemental environmental impact
statement will be prepared for a
proposed highway project in Hawai‘i
County, Hawai‘i.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ricardo Suarez, Division CFLHD
Engineer, 12300 West Dakota Avenue,
Lakewood, CO 80228 and/or Ronald F.
Tsuzuki, State Department of
Transportation, Highways Division,
Planning Branch, 869 Punchbowl Street,
Honolulu, HI 96813.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
FHWA, in consultation with the Hawaii
Department of Transportation (HDOT),
will prepare a supplemental
environmental impact statement (SEIS)
for an ongoing project to improve and
realign the Saddle Road (State Highway
200), an existing highway in Hawai‘i
County, Hawai‘i. The purpose of the
project is to provide a safe and efficient
route for access to land uses along
Saddle Road and for cross-island traffic
between East and West Hawai‘i. The
ongoing and planned improvements to
Saddle Road would also address five
general types of needs: Roadway
deficiencies, conflicts and hazards with
military operations, capacity, safety, and
social demand and economic
development. The final environmental
impact statement (EIS) for the project
was completed August 9, 1999, and the
Record of Decision (ROD) was signed on
October 30, 1999. The project began
construction in 2004 and approximately
30% of the project has been completed
or is now under construction. In 2006,
the Department of the Army (Army)
purchased a Parker Ranch property
known as the Ke‘a¯ muku parcel. This
property included the area planned for
the selected alternative (W–3) for
western section of the Saddle Road. On
September 6, 2006, the U.S. Army
Garrison, Hawai‘i, requested that HDOT
and FHWA consider relocating the
highway about a mile southwest
towards the southern boundary of
Ke‘a¯ muku. This would allow the Army
to maximize its training opportunities
and minimize conflict with the traveling
public. This request meets one of the
original purposes of the Saddle Road
EIS, which was to minimize conflict
between civilian and military uses in
the area, and FHWA and HDOT thus
have determined that it is prudent to reexamine the alternatives for the western
section of the EIS. Alternatives under
consideration at this time include (1)
taking no action; (2) using the
alternative for the western section of the
project that was recommended in the
Final EIS and selected in the ROD; and
(3) relocating this segment of the
highway nearer the southern boundary
of the Ke‘a¯ muku parcel. The SEIS will
also reconfirm the reasons that
alternatives for the western section were
dropped from consideration in the

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