Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 33 / Thursday, February 17, 2011 / Notices 9379 

Division of Research Programs at the 

October 28, 2010 deadline. 

2. Date: March 7, 2011. 

Time: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Location: Room 315. 

Program: This meeting will review 

applications for Latin American Studies 

in Collaborative Research, submitted to 

the Division of Research Programs at the 

October 28, 2010 deadline. 

3. Date: March 7, 2011. 

Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Location: Room 421. 

Program: This meeting will review 

applications for Europe in Bridging 

Cultures through Film Grants Program, 

submitted to the Division of Public 

Programs at the January 5, 2011 

deadline. 

4. Date: March 8, 2011. 

Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Location: Room 421. 

Program: This meeting will review 

applications for Africa and the Middle 

East in Bridging Cultures through Film 

Grants Program, submitted to the 

Division of Public Programs at the 

January 5, 2011 deadline. 

5. Date: March 8, 2011. 

Time: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Location: Room 315. 

Program: This meeting will review 

applications for Literature and the Arts 

in Collaborative Research, submitted to 

the Division of Research Programs at the 

October 28, 2010 deadline. 

6. Date: March 9, 2011. 

Time: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Location: Room 315. 

Program: This meeting will review 

applications for Philosophy, Religion, 

and History of Science in Collaborative 

Research, submitted to the Division of 

Research Programs at the October 28, 

2010 deadline. 

7. Date: March 10, 2011. 

Time: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Location: Room 315. 

Program: This meeting will review 

applications for American Studies in 

Collaborative Research, submitted to the 

Division of Research Programs at the 

October 28, 2010 deadline. 

8. Date: March 10, 2011. 

Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Location: Room 421. 

Program: This meeting will review 

applications for Asia in Bridging 

Cultures through Film Grants Program, 

submitted to the Division of Public 

Programs at the January 5, 2011 

deadline. 

9. Date: March 11, 2011. 

Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Location: Room 421. 

Program: This meeting will review 

applications for the Americas in 

Bridging Cultures through Film Grants 

Program, submitted to the Division of 

Public Programs at the January 5, 2011 

deadline. 

10. Date: March 14, 2011. 

Time: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Location: Room 315. 

Program: This meeting will review 

applications for Philosophy and 

Religion in Scholarly Editions, 

submitted to the Division of Research 

Programs at the October 28, 2010 

deadline. 

11. Date: March 15, 2011. 

Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Location: Room 415. 

Program: This meeting will review 

applications for Sustaining Cultural 

Heritage Collections I in Sustaining 

Cultural Heritage Collections, submitted 

to the Division of Preservation and 

Access at the December 1, 2010 

deadline. 

12. Date: March 15, 2011. 

Time: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Location: Room 315. 

Program: This meeting will review 

applications for Archaeology I in 

Collaborative Research, submitted to the 

Division of Research Programs at the 

October 28, 2010 deadline. 

13. Date: March 16, 2011. 

Time: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Location: Room 315. 

Program: This meeting will review 

applications for Anthropology, 

Sociology, and History in Collaborative 

Research, submitted to the Division of 

Research Programs at the October 28, 

2010 deadline. 

14. Date: March 17, 2011. 

Time: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Location: Room 315. 

Program: This meeting will review 

applications for American and European 

History in Scholarly Editions, submitted 

to the Division of Research Programs at 

the October 28, 2010 deadline. 

15. Date: March 22, 2011. 

Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Location: Room 415. 

Program: This meeting will review 

applications for Sustaining Cultural 

Heritage Collections II in Sustaining 

Cultural Heritage Collections, submitted 

to the Division of Preservation and 

Access at the December 1, 2010 

deadline. 

16. Date: March 24, 2011. 

Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Location: Room 415. 

Program: This meeting will review 

applications for Sustaining Cultural 

Heritage Collections III in Sustaining 

Cultural Heritage Collections, submitted 

to the Division of Preservation and 

Access at the December 1, 2010 

deadline. 

17. Date: March 28, 2011. 

Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Location: Room 421. 

Program: This meeting will review 

applications for United States History in 

America’s Media Makers Grants 

Program, submitted to the Division of 

Public Programs at the January 12, 2011 

deadline. 

18. Date: March 29, 2011. 

Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Location: Room 421. 

Program: This meeting will review 

applications for Anthropology and the 

West in America’s Historical and 

Cultural Organizations Grants Program, 

submitted to the Division of Public 

Programs at the January 12, 2011 

deadline. 

19. Date: March 29–30, 2011. 

Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Location: Room 415. 

Program: This meeting will review 

applications for DFG/NEH FY 11 Joint 

Sitting Panel in DFG/NEH Bilateral 

Digital Humanities Program, submitted 

to the Office of Digital Humanities at the 

November 16, 2010 deadline. 

20. Date: March 31, 2011. 

Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Location: Room 415. 

Program: This meeting will review 

applications for Sustaining Cultural 

Heritage Collections IV in Sustaining 

Cultural Heritage Collections, submitted 

to the Division of Preservation and 

Access at the December 1, 2010 

deadline. 

21. Date: March 31, 2011. 

Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Location: Room 421. 

Program: This meeting will review 

applications for World Cultures in 

America’s Media Makers Grants 

Program, submitted to the Division of 

Public Programs at the January 12, 2011 

deadline. 

Michael P. McDonald, 

Advisory Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2011–3627 Filed 2–16–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7536–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. 50–373 and 50–374; NRC– 

2010–0254] 

Exelon Generation Company, LLC; 

Lasalle County Station, Units 1 and 2; 

Environmental Assessment and 

Finding of No Significant Impact 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is considering 

issuance of an amendment for Facility 

Operating License Nos. NPF–11 and 

NPF–18, issued to Exelon Generation 

Company, LLC (Exelon, the licensee) for 

operation of the LaSalle County Station, 

Units 1 and 2 (LSCS), located in 


jlentini on DSKJ8SOYB1PROD with NOTICES
9380 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 33 / Thursday, February 17, 2011 / Notices 

Marseilles, Illinois. In accordance with 

Title 10 to the Code of Federal 

Regulations (10 CFR) Section 51.21, the 

NRC prepared an environmental 

assessment documenting its finding. 

The NRC concluded that the proposed 

actions will have no significant 

environmental impact. 

Environmental Assessment 

Identification of the Proposed Action 

The proposed action would revise the 

Facility Operating Licenses for LSCS to 

possess, but not separate, byproduct 

material, specifically Class B and Class 

C low-level radioactive waste (LLRW), 

from the following Exelon owned 

nuclear power stations: Braidwood 

Station, Units 1 and 2 (Braidwood), 

Byron Station, Units 1 and 2 (Byron), 

and Clinton Power Station, Unit 1 

(Clinton). The LLRW will be stored in 

LSCS’s interim radwaste storage facility 

(IRSF). 

The proposed action is in accordance 

with the licensee’s application dated 

January 6, 2010, as supplemented by 

letters dated August 20, October 14, and 

December 2, 2010. 

The Need for the Proposed Action 

The proposed action is needed to 

provide the licensee with adequate 

interim storage capacity for Class B and 

Class C LLRW, since it does not 

currently have access to a licensed 

disposal facility for this LLRW. This is 

due to the State of South Carolina’s 

licensed LLRW disposal facility, located 

in Barnwell, which has limited access 

for radioactive waste generators located 

in states that are not part of the Atlantic 

Low-Level Waste Compact. Illinois is 

not a member of the Atlantic Low-Level 

Waste Compact. Therefore, Exelon 

facilities located in Illinois do not have 

access to the Barnwell disposal facility 

for their Class B and Class C LLRW. 

LSCS has a LLRW storage facility 

capable of safely storing a large amount 

of LLRW, on an interim basis. The other 

Exelon facilities in Illinois do not have 

the capability to store all of the LLRW 

they generate. The building at LSCS is 

designed to comply with NRC 

regulatory guidance, primarily Generic 

Letter 81–38, ‘‘Storage of Low-Level 

Radioactive Wastes at Power Reactor 

Sites’’ and to meet the radiation 

protection standards in 10 CFR Part 20, 

‘‘Standards for Protection Against 

Radiation,’’ and 40 CFR Part 190, 

‘‘Environmental Radiation Protection 

Standards for Nuclear Power 

Operations.’’ 

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed 

Action 

The proposed action involves the 

transportation of LLRW from Exelon’s 

Braidwood, Byron, and Clinton nuclear 

power plants for interim storage at 

LSCS. The LLRW will be transported by 

truck in accordance with U.S. 

Department of Transportation and NRC 

regulations. The distance between the 

plant sites is less than the distance that 

was previously traveled to the Barnwell 

disposal facility in South Carolina. The 

licensee anticipates that there will be 

approximately five to eight shipments a 

year of LLRW to LSCS from the 

combination of the Braidwood, Byron, 

and Clinton stations. The projected 

number of shipments is consistent with 

the past annual average number of 

shipments to the Barnwell facility. The 

proposed action will reduce the total 

annual number of miles driven for the 

transport of LLRW. With less miles 

traveled, it is expected that there will be 

no change or possibly a corresponding 

reduction in the impacts associated with 

transportation such as lower radiation 

exposure to the truck driver and 

members of the public along the 

transportation route. The proposed 

action would not result in an increased 

risk of accidents and radiological 

hazards beyond those associated with 

the transport to the Barnwell facility. 

There will be no change to radioactive 

effluents from the power plants and the 

LLRW containers that affect radiation 

exposure to plant workers and members 

of the public. The interim storage 

building is designed to comply with 

NRC regulatory guidance, primarily 

Generic Letter 81–38, ‘‘Storage of LowLevel Radioactive Wastes at Power 

Reactor Sites’’ and to meet the radiation 

protection standards in 10 CFR part 20, 

‘‘Standards for Protection Against 

Radiation,’’ and 40 CFR part 190, 

‘‘Environmental Radiation Protection 

Standards for Nuclear Power 

Operations.’’ The cumulative dose from 

handling the LLRW from LSCS and from 

the additional LLRW from Braidwood, 

Byron, and Clinton will be controlled by 

station procedures to ensure compliance 

with the radiation dose standards to 

workers and members of the public. 

Based on this information, the staff 

concludes that the radiological impacts 

associated with the transportation, 

handling, and storage of LLRW at LSCS 

will not result in a significant impact to 

plant workers and members of the 

public. 

The proposed action does not involve 

a change to plant buildings or land areas 

on the LSCS site. The proposed action 

does not result in changes to land use 

or water use, or result in changes to the 

quality or quantity of non-radiological 

effluents. With less miles traveled, it is 

expected that there will be no change or 

possibly a corresponding reduction in 

the impacts associated with 

transportation such as reduced use of 

fossil fuel and reduced air emissions 

that would affect air quality. No changes 

to the National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System permit are needed. 

No effects on the aquatic or terrestrial 

habitat in the vicinity of the plant, or to 

threatened, endangered, or protected 

species under the Endangered Species 

Act, or impacts to essential fish habitat 

covered by the Magnuson-Stevens Act 

are expected. There are no impacts to 

historical and cultural resources. There 

would be no impact to socioeconomic 

resources. Therefore, no changes to or 

different types of non-radiological 

environmental impacts are expected as 

a result of the proposed exemption. 

Accordingly, the NRC staff concludes 

that there are no significant 

environmental impacts associated with 

the proposed action. 

The NRC staff’s safety evaluation will 

be provided in the license amendment, 

if approved by the NRC, which will be 

issued as part of the letter to the 

licensee approving the proposed action. 

Environmental Impacts of the 

Alternatives to the Proposed Action 

As an alternative to the proposed 

actions, the NRC staff considered denial 

of the proposed actions (i.e., the ‘‘noaction’’ alternative). Denial of the 

exemption request would result in no 

change in current environmental 

impacts. The environmental impacts of 

the proposed exemption and the ‘‘no 

action’’ alternative are similar. 

Alternative Use of Resources 

The action does not involve the use of 

any different resources than those 

considered in the NUREG–0486, ‘‘Final 

Environmental Statement related to the 

Operation of the LaSalle County Station, 

Units 1 and 2 dated November 1978’’. 

Agencies and Persons Consulted 

In accordance with its stated policy, 

on December 15, 2010, the NRC staff 

consulted with the Illinois State official, 

Paul Smith, Nuclear System Analysis 

Section Chief, regarding the 

environmental impact of the proposed 

action. The State official had no 

comments. 

Finding of No Significant Impact 

On the basis of the environmental 

assessment, the NRC concludes that the 

proposed action will not have a 

significant effect on the quality of the 


jlentini on DSKJ8SOYB1PROD with NOTICES
Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 33 / Thursday, February 17, 2011 / Notices 9381 

1 Notice of United States Postal Service of Change 

in Prices Pursuant to Amendment to Priority Mail 

Contract 7, February 9, 2011 (Notice). 

human environment. Accordingly, the 

NRC has determined not to prepare an 

environmental impact statement for the 

proposed action. 

For further details with respect to the 

proposed action, see the licensee’s letter 

dated January 6, 2010, as supplemented 

by letters dated August 20, October 14, 

and December 2, 2010. These 

documents may be examined, and/or 

copied for a fee, at the NRC’s Public 

Document Room (PDR), located at One 

White Flint North, Public File Area O– 

1F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), 

Rockville, Maryland 20852. Publicly 

available records will be accessible 

electronically from the Agencywide 

Documents Access and Management 

System (ADAMS) Public Electronic 

Reading Room on the Internet at the 

NRC Web site: http://www.nrc.gov/ 

reading-rm/adams.html. 

Persons who do not have access to 

ADAMS or who encounter problems in 

accessing the documents located in 

ADAMS should contact the NRC PDR 

Reference staff by telephone at 1–800– 

397–4209 or 301–415–4737, or send an 

e-mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 10th day 

of February 2011. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Eva A. Brown, 

Senior Project Manager, Plant Licensing 

Branch III–2, Division of Operating Reactor 

Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation. 

[FR Doc. 2011–3607 Filed 2–16–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2009–0268] 

Notice of Availability of Interim Staff 

Guidance Documents for Spent Fuel 

Storage Casks 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Matthew Gordon, Structural Mechanics 

and Materials Branch, Division of Spent 

Fuel Storage and Transportation 

Division, Office of Nuclear Material 

Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20005–0001; telephone: 301–492– 

3331; fax: 301–492–3342; e-mail: 

matthew.gordon@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) has prepared an 

Interim Staff Guidance (ISG) No. 23 

document, entitled ‘‘Application of 

ASTM Standard Practice C1671–07 

when performing technical reviews of 

spent fuel storage and transportation 

packaging licensing actions.’’ This ISG 

document would provide guidance to 

the NRC staff when reviewing licensee 

integrated safety analyses, license or 

Certificate of Compliance applications 

or amendment requests, or other related 

activities for dry cask storage systems 

under Title 10 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (10 CFR) part 71 and 10 

CFR part 72. 

II. Further Information 

Documents related to this action are 

available electronically at the NRC’s 

Electronic Reading Room at http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. 

From this site, you can access the NRC’s 

Agencywide Documents Access and 

Management System (ADAMS), which 

provides text and image files of NRC’s 

public documents. The ADAMS 

accession numbers for the documents 

related to this notice are provided in the 

following table. If you do not have 

access to ADAMS or if there are 

problems in accessing the documents 

located in ADAMS, contact the NRC 

Public Document Room (PDR) reference 

staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, 

or by e-mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 

ADAMS document ADAMS accession 

No. 

Interim Staff Guidance-23.ML103130171 

These documents may also be viewed 

electronically on the public computers 

located at the NRC’s PDR, O–1 F21, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. The 

PDR reproduction contractor will copy 

documents for a fee. Comments and 

questions on ISG–23 should be directed 

to Matthew Gordon, Structural 

Mechanics and Materials Branch, 

Division of Spent Fuel Storage and 

Transportation, Office of Nuclear 

Materials Safety and Safeguards, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20005–0001. 

Comments can also be submitted by 

telephone, fax, or e-mail to the 

following: Telephone: 301–492–3331; 

fax number: 301–492–3331; e-mail: 

matthew.gordon@nrc.gov. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day 

of January, 2011. 

For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

Michele Sampson, 

Acting Chief, Structural Mechanics and 

Materials Branch, Division of Spent Fuel 

Storage and Transportation, Office of Nuclear 

Material Safety and Safeguards. 

[FR Doc. 2011–3608 Filed 2–16–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION 

[Docket No. CP2009–31; Order No. 670] 

Change in Contractual Priority Mail 

Postal Prices 

AGENCY: Postal Regulatory Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Commission is noticing a 

recently-filed Postal Service request 

concerning changes in certain 

contractual Priority Mail prices. This 

document provides public notice of the 

changes and addresses related 

procedural steps. 

DATES: Comments are due: February 18, 

2011. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments 

electronically by accessing the ‘‘Filing 

Online’’ link in the banner at the top of 

the Commission’s Web site (http:// 

www.prc.gov) or by directly accessing 

the Commission’s Filing Online system 

at https://www.prc.gov/prc-pages/filingonline/login.aspx. Commenters who 

cannot submit their views electronically 

should contact the person identified in 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

section as the source for case-related 

information for advice on alternatives to 

electronic filing. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stephen L. Sharfman, General Counsel, 

at 202–789–6820 (case-related 

information) or DocketAdmins@prc.gov 

(electronic filing assistance). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

On February 9, 2011, the Postal 

Service filed notice of a change in prices 

pursuant to an amendment to Priority 

Mail Contract 7.1 The Notice includes 

three attachments: Attachment A, a 

redacted version of the amendment to 

Priority Mail Contract 7; Attachment B, 

a certified statement of compliance with 

39 U.S.C. 3633(a); and Attachment C, an 

application for non-public treatment 

and a redacted version of the supporting 

financial documentation. In addition, 

the Postal Service filed the unredacted 


jlentini on DSKJ8SOYB1PROD with NOTICES