812 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 4 / Friday, January 6, 2012 / Notices 

Dated: December 30, 2011. 

Patricia W. Silvey, 

Certifying Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2011–33860 Filed 1–05–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–43–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Mine Safety and Health Administration 

Petitions for Modification of 

Application of Existing Mandatory 

Safety Standards 

AGENCY: Mine Safety and Health 

Administration, Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Section 101(c) of the Federal 

Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 and 

30 CFR Part 44 govern the application, 

processing, and disposition of petitions 

for modification. This notice is a 

summary of petitions for modification 

submitted to the Mine Safety and Health 

Administration (MSHA) by the parties 

listed below to modify the application 

of existing mandatory safety standards 

codified in Title 30 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations. 

DATES: All comments on the petitions 

must be received by the Office of 

Standards, Regulations, and Variances 

on or before February 6, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit your 

comments, identified by ‘‘docket 

number’’ on the subject line, by any of 

the following methods: 

1. Electronic Mail: zzMSHAcomments@dol.gov. Include the docket 

number of the petition in the subject 

line of the message. 

2. Facsimile: (202) 693–9441. 

3. Regular Mail: MSHA, Office of 

Standards, Regulations, and Variances, 

1100 Wilson Boulevard, Room 2350, 

Arlington, Virginia 22209–3939, 

Attention: Roslyn B. Fontaine, Acting 

Director, Office of Standards, 

Regulations, and Variances. 

4. Hand-Delivery or Courier: MSHA, 

Office of Standards, Regulations, and 

Variances, 1100 Wilson Boulevard, 

Room 2350, Arlington, Virginia 22209– 

3939. Individuals who submit 

comments by hand-delivery are required 

to check in at the receptionist’s desk on 

the 21st floor. Individuals may inspect 

copies of the petitions and comments 

during normal business hours at the 

address listed above. 

MSHA will consider only comments 

postmarked by the U.S. Postal Service or 

proof of delivery from another delivery 

service such as UPS or Federal Express 

on or before the deadline for comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Barbara Barron, Office of Standards, 

Regulations, and Variances at (202) 693– 

9447 (Voice), barron.barbara@dol.gov 

(Email), or (202) 693–9441 (Facsimile). 

[These are not toll-free numbers]. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Section 101(c) of the Federal Mine 

Safety and Health Act of 1977 (Mine 

Act) allows the mine operator or 

representative of miners to file a 

petition to modify the application of any 

mandatory safety standard to a coal or 

other mine if the Secretary of Labor 

determines that: 

(1) An alternative method of 

achieving the result of such standard 

exists which will at all times guarantee 

no less than the same measure of 

protection afforded the miners of such 

mine by such standard; or 

(2) That the application of such 

standard to such mine will result in a 

diminution of safety to the miners in 

such mine. 

In addition, the regulations at 30 CFR 

44.10 and 44.11 establish the 

requirements and procedures for filing 

petitions for modification. 

II. Petitions for Modification 

Docket Numbers: M–2011–038–C and 

M–2011–039–C. 

Petitioner: Midland Trail Energy, LLC, 

42 Rensford Star Route, Charleston, 

West Virginia 25306. 

Mines: Campbells Creek No. 7 Mine, 

MSHA I.D. No. 46–09107, and Blue 

Creek No. 1 Mine, MSHA I.D. No. 46– 

09297, 3301 Point Lick Road, 

Charleston, West Virginia 25306, 

located in Kanawha County, West 

Virginia. 

Regulation Affected: 30 CFR 75.503 

(Permissible electric face equipment; 

maintenance). 

Modification Request: The petitioner 

requests a modification of the existing 

standard to permit the use of 900-feetmaximum length cables to supply 

power to its shuttle cars, roof bolters, 

and mobile roof supports at the 

Campbells Creek No. 7 Mine and Blue 

Creek No. 1 Mine. The petitioner states 

that: 

(1) The maximum length trailing 

cables supplying the 575-volt shuttle 

cars, 480-volt roof bolters, and 480-volt 

mobile roof supports will not exceed 

900 feet. 

(2) The trailing cable(s) for the shuttle 

car(s) and the roof bolter(s) will not be 

smaller than No. 2 American Wire 

Gauge (AWG), and the trailing cable(s) 

for mobile roof support(s) will not be 

smaller than No. 4 AWG. 

(3) All circuit breakers used to protect 

the No. 2 AWG trailing cables that 

exceed 700 feet in length will have 

instantaneous trip units calibrated to 

trip at 800 amperes. The trip setting of 

these circuit breakers will be sealed and 

will have permanent, legible labels. The 

labels will identify the circuit breaker as 

being a specially calibrated circuit 

breaker suitable for protecting No. 2 

AWG cables. This label will be 

maintained legible. 

(4) All circuit breakers used to protect 

No. 4 AWG trailing cables that exceed 

600 feet in length will have 

instantaneous trip units calibrated to 

trip at 500 amperes. The trip setting of 

these circuit breakers will be sealed and 

will have permanent, legible labels. The 

labels will identify the circuit breakers 

as being a specially calibrated circuit 

breaker and suitable for protecting No. 

4 AWG cables. This label will be 

maintained legible. 

(5) All components that provide short 

circuit protection for the No. 4 AWG 

and No. 2 AWG cables will have an 

interruption rating in accordance with 

the maximum available fault current. A 

short-circuit study, available as part of 

the petition, indicates the maximum 

fault current available on the coal 

producing section. Circuit breakers of 

sufficient interrupting rating will be 

provided in accordance with the study. 

(6) Replacement circuit breakers and/ 

or instantaneous trip units used to 

protect No. 2 AWG cables will be 

calibrated to trip at 800 amperes. This 

setting will be sealed. 

(7) Replacement circuit breakers and/ 

or instantaneous trip units used to 

protect No. 4 AWG cables will be 

calibrated to trip at 500 amperes. This 

setting will be sealed. 

(8) Any trailing cable that is not in 

safe operating condition will be 

removed from service immediately and 

repaired or replaced. 

(9) Each splice or repair in the trailing 

cable to the shuttle cars, roof bolters, 

and mobile roof supports will be made 

in a workmanlike manner and in 

accordance with the instructions of the 

manufacturer of the splice or repair 

materials. The outer jacket of each 

splice or repair will be sealed or made 

with material that has been accepted by 

MSHA as flame-resistant. 

(10) If the mining methods or 

operating procedures cause or 

contribute to the damage of any trailing 

cable, the cable will be removed from 

service immediately and repaired or 

replaced, and additional precautions 

will be taken to ensure that in the future 

the cable is protected and maintained in 

safe operating condition. 

(11) Permanent warning labels will be 

installed and maintained on the cover(s) 

of the power center identifying the 

location of each sealed short-circuit 


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protection device. These labels will 

warn miners not to change or alter the 

sealed short-circuit settings. 

(12) The haulage roads, locations of 

trailing cable anchoring points, and 

locations of the belt tailpiece or feeder 

will be arranged to: 

(a) Prevent the shuttle cars from 

running over their trailing cables. 

(b) Minimize the need for secondary 

(temporary) trailing cable anchoring 

points. 

(c) Minimize back spooling. 

(13) The alternative method will not 

be implemented until all miners 

designated to examine the integrity of 

the seals and verify the short-circuit 

settings have received task training in 

the proper procedures for examining 

trailing cables for defects and damage. 

(14) Within 60 days after this 

proposed decision and order becomes 

final, the proposed revisions for the 

petitioner’s approved 30 CFR part 48 

training plan will be submitted to the 

District Manager. The revisions will 

specify task training for miners 

designated to verify that the shortcircuit settings of the circuit 

interrupting device(s) that protect the 

affected trailing cables do not exceed 

the specified setting(s). The training 

plan will include the following: 

(a) The hazards of setting the shortcircuit interrupting device(s) too high to 

adequately protect the trailing cables. 

(b) How to verify that the circuit 

interrupting device(s) protecting the 

trailing cable(s) are properly set and 

maintained. 

(c) Mining methods and operating 

procedures that will protect the trailing 

cable(s) against mechanical damage. 

(d) Proper procedures for examining 

the affected trailing cable(s) to ensure 

that the cables are in safe operating 

condition. 

The petitioner further states that 

procedures specified in 30 CFR 48.3 for 

proposed revisions to already approved 

training plans will apply. 

The petitioner asserts that the 

alternative method will provide at all 

times a measure of protection for the 

miners equal to or greater than that of 

the existing standard. 

Dated: December 30, 2011. 

Patricia W. Silvey, 

Certifying Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2011–33861 Filed 1–5–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–43–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. 50–335 and 50–389; NRC– 

2011–0302] 

Draft Environmental Assessment and 

Draft Finding of No Significant Impact 

Related to the Proposed License 

Amendment To Increase the Maximum 

Reactor Power Level: Florida Power & 

Light Company, St. Lucie Plant, Units 

1 and 2 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Draft environmental assessment 

and finding of no significant impact; 

opportunity to comment. 

DATES: Comments must be filed by 

February 6, 2012. Any potential party as 

defined in Title 10 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 2.4 who 

believes access to Sensitive Unclassified 

Non-Safeguards Information and/or 

Safeguards Information is necessary to 

respond to this notice must request 

document access by January 17, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Please include Docket ID 

NRC–2011–0302 in the subject line of 

your comments. For additional 

instructions on submitting comments 

and instructions on accessing 

documents related to this action, see 

‘‘Submitting Comments and Accessing 

Information’’ in the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section of this document. 

You may submit comments by any one 

of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for documents filed under Docket ID 

NRC–2011–0302. Address questions 

about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher, 

telephone: (301) 492–3668; email: Carol.

Gallagher@nrc.gov. 

• Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, 

Chief, Rules, Announcements, and 

Directives Branch (RADB), Office of 

Administration, Mail Stop: TWB–05– 

B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001. 

• Fax comments to: RADB at (301) 

492–3446. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Submitting Comments and Accessing 

Information 

Comments submitted in writing or in 

electronic form will be posted on the 

NRC Web site and on the Federal 

rulemaking Web site, http://www.

regulations.gov. Because your comments 

will not be edited to remove any 

identifying or contact information, the 

NRC cautions you against including any 

information in your submission that you 

do not want to be publicly disclosed. 

The NRC requests that any party 

soliciting or aggregating comments 

received from other persons for 

submission to the NRC inform those 

persons that the NRC will not edit their 

comments to remove any identifying or 

contact information, and therefore, they 

should not include any information in 

their comments that they do not want 

publicly disclosed. 

You can access publicly available 

documents related to this document 

using the following methods: 

• NRC’s Public Document Room 

(PDR): The public may examine and 

have copied, for a fee, publicly available 

documents at the NRC’s PDR, O1–F21, 

One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): Publicly available documents 

created or received at the NRC are 

available online in the NRC Library at 

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.

html. From this page, the public can 

gain entry into ADAMS, which provides 

text and image files of the NRC’s public 

documents. If you do not have access to 

ADAMS or if there are problems in 

accessing the documents located in 

ADAMS, contact the NRC’s PDR 

reference staff at 1–(800) 397–4209, 

(301) 415–4737, or by email to pdr.

resource@nrc.gov. The application for 

amendment, dated November 22, 2010, 

contains proprietary information and, 

accordingly, those portions are being 

withheld from public disclosure. A 

redacted version of the application for 

amendment, dated December 15, 2010, 

is available electronically under 

ADAMS Accession No. ML103560415. 

• Federal Rulemaking Web Site: 

Public comments and supporting 

materials related to this notice can be 

found at http://www.regulations.gov by 

searching on Docket ID NRC–2011– 

0302. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Tracy Orf, Project Manager, Plant 

Licensing Branch II–2, Division of 

Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of 

Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001. 

Telephone: (301) 415–2788; Fax 

number: (301) 415–1222; email: 

Tracy.Orf@nrc.gov. 

I. Introduction 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is considering 

issuance of an amendment for Renewed 

Facility Operating License Nos. DPR–67 

and NPF–16, issued to Florida Power & 

Light Company (FPL, the licensee) for 

operation of St. Lucie Plant, Units 1 and 


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