95-14075. Center for Excellence in the Environment Request for Public Participation

[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 110 (Thursday, June 8, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 30321]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-14075]



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CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE


Center for Excellence in the Environment Request for Public 
Participation

AGENCY: Corporation for National and Community Service.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Center for Excellence in the Environment, a component of 
the Corporation for National and Community Service (the Corporation), 
seeks input from organizations and persons knowledgeable in the area of 
environmental training and technical assistance.

DATES: The Corporation seeks the participation of the public in this 
process until June 23, 1995.

ADDRESSES: Responses to this notice should be sent to the Center on 
Excellence in the Environment, P.O. Box 29995, The Presidio, San 
Francisco, CA 94129; fax [phone]. For individuals with 
disabilities, the information contained in this notice will be made 
available in alternative formats, upon request.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Pipo Bui, tel. [phone].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Corporation is a government corporation 
that engages Americans of all ages and backgrounds in community-based 
service. This service addresses the nation's education, public safety, 
human, and environmental needs to achieve direct and demonstrable 
results. In doing so, the Corporation fosters civic responsibility, 
strengthens the ties that bind us together as a people, and provides 
educational opportunity for those who make a substantial commitment to 
service.
    Pursuant to the National and Community Service Act of 1990, as 
amended, 42 U.S.C. 12501 et seq., the Corporation may ``conduct, 
directly or by grant or contract, appropriate training programs'' to 
promote leadership development in national service programs. The 
Corporation has established the Presidio Leadership Center (PLC) to 
carry out this objective.
    The Center for Excellence in the Environment (the Center), which 
operates within the PLC, is designed to provide technical assistance to 
the Corporation's environmental national service programs. This 
assistance may include disseminating information, designing educational 
materials, creating networks of persons knowledgeable in environmental 
training and technical assistance, identifying model service programs 
and sharing ``lessons'' learned from ongoing programs. The Center plans 
to build a communications infrastructure of environmental programs, 
through regional networks of trainers and/or consultants, conferences, 
and other forms of communication between such programs. The Center 
seeks to develop training and technical assistance programs addressing 
both natural and neighborhood (or community) aspects of the 
environment.
    The Center seeks input from persons and programs with experience in 
forming networks of trainers and environmental experts, planning and 
hosting conferences, and managing and supporting a decentralized 
network of national service programs. After receiving this input, the 
Center will decide whether and how to implement a program, directly or 
by grant or contract, with appropriate public notice published in the 
Federal Register.

    Dated: June 5, 1995.
Terry Russell,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 95-14075 Filed 6-7-95; 8:45 am]
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