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and South Carolina disposal sites. In 

addition, this revision provides costs for 

low-level radioactive waste disposition 

using waste vendors. Licensees can 

factor these numbers into the 

adjustment formula, as specified in 10 

CFR 50.75(c)(2), to determine the 

minimum decommissioning fund 

requirement for their nuclear facilities.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day 

of November 2002.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Dennis P. Allison, 

Acting Section Chief, Policy and Rulemaking 

Program—Section B, Division of Regulatory 

Improvement Programs, Office of Nuclear 

Reactor Regulation.

[FR Doc. 02–29063 Filed 11–14–02; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P

PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY 

CORPORATION 

Required Interest Rate Assumption for 

Determining Variable-Rate Premium; 

Interest Assumptions for 

Multiemployer Plan Valuations 

Following Mass Withdrawal

AGENCY: Pension Benefit Guaranty 

Corporation.

ACTION: Notice of interest rates and 

assumptions. 

SUMMARY: This notice informs the public 

of the interest rates and assumptions to 

be used under certain Pension Benefit 

Guaranty Corporation regulations. These 

rates and assumptions are published 

elsewhere (or can be derived from rates 

published elsewhere), but are collected 

and published in this notice for the 

convenience of the public. Interest rates 

are also published on the PBGC’s Web 

site (http://www.pbgc.gov).

DATES: The required interest rate for 

determining the variable-rate premium 

under part 4006 applies to premium 

payment years beginning in November 

2002. The interest assumptions for 

performing multiemployer plan 

valuations following mass withdrawal 

under part 4281 apply to valuation dates 

occurring in December 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Harold J. Ashner, Assistant General 

Counsel, Office of the General Counsel, 

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, 

1200 K Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20005, 202–326–4024. (TTY/TDD users 

may call the Federal relay service tollfree at 1–800–877–8339 and ask to be 

connected to 202–326–4024.)

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Variable-Rate Premiums 

Section 4006(a)(3)(E)(iii)(II) of the 

Employee Retirement Income Security 

Act of 1974 (ERISA) and § 4006.4(b)(1) 

of the PBGC’s regulation on Premium 

Rates (29 CFR part 4006) prescribe use 

of an assumed interest rate (the 

‘‘required interest rate’’) in determining 

a single-employer plan’s variable-rate 

premium. The required interest rate is 

the ‘‘applicable percentage’’ (currently 

100 percent) of the annual yield on 30-

year Treasury securities for the month 

preceding the beginning of the plan year 

for which premiums are being paid (the 

‘‘premium payment year’’). (Although 

the Treasury Department has ceased 

issuing 30-year securities, the Internal 

Revenue Service announces a surrogate 

yield figure each month—based on the 

30-year Treasury bond maturing in 

February 2031—which the PBGC uses to 

determine the required interest rate.) 

The required interest rate to be used 

in determining variable-rate premiums 

for premium payment years beginning 

in November 2002 is 4.93 percent. 

The following table lists the required 

interest rates to be used in determining 

variable-rate premiums for premium 

payment years beginning between 

December 2001 and November 2002.

For premium payment years 

beginning in—

The required 

interest rate 

is—

December 2001 .................... 4.35 

January 2002 ........................ 5.48 

February 2002 ...................... 5.45 

March 2002 ........................... 5.40 

April 2002 ............................. 5.71 

May 2002 .............................. 5.68 

June 2002 ............................. 5.65 

July 2002 .............................. 5.52 

August 2002 ......................... 5.39 

September 2002 ................... 5.08 

October 2002 ........................ 4.76 

November 2002 .................... 4.93 

Multiemployer Plan Valuations 

Following Mass Withdrawal 

The PBGC’s regulation on Duties of 

Plan Sponsor Following Mass 

Withdrawal (29 CFR part 4281) 

prescribes the use of interest 

assumptions under the PBGC’s 

regulation on Allocation of Assets in 

Single-Employer Plans (29 CFR part 

4044). The interest assumptions 

applicable to valuation dates in 

December 2002 under part 4044 are 

contained in an amendment to part 4044 

published elsewhere in today’s Federal 

Register. Tables showing the 

assumptions applicable to prior periods 

are codified in appendix B to 29 CFR 

part 4044.

Issued in Washington, DC on this 8th day 

of November 2002. 

Joseph H. Grant, 

Deputy Executive Director and Chief 

Operating Officer, Pension Benefit Guaranty 

Corporation.

[FR Doc. 02–29023 Filed 11–14–02; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7708–01–P

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

[Release No. 35–27598] 

Filings Under the Public Utility Holding 

Company Act of 1935, as amended 

(‘‘Act’’) 

November 8, 2002. 

Notice is hereby given that the 

following filing(s) has/have been made 

with the Commission pursuant to 

provisions of the Act and rules 

promulgated under the Act. All 

interested persons are referred to the 

application(s) and/or declaration(s) for 

complete statements of the proposed 

transaction(s) summarized below. The 

application(s) and/or declaration(s) and 

any amendment(s) is/are available for 

public inspection through the 

Commission’s Branch of Public 

Reference. 

Interested persons wishing to 

comment or request a hearing on the 

application(s) and/or declaration(s) 

should submit their views in writing by 

December 3, 2002 to the Secretary, 

Securities and Exchange Commission, 

Washington, DC 20549–0609, and serve 

a copy on the relevant applicant(s) and/

or declarant(s) at the address(es) 

specified below. Proof of service (by 

affidavit or, in the case of an attorney at 

law, by certificate) should be filed with 

the request. Any request for hearing 

should identify specifically the issues of 

facts or law that are disputed. A person 

who so requests will be notified of any 

hearing, if ordered, and will receive a 

copy of any notice or order issued in the 

matter. After December 3, 2002, the 

application(s) and/or declaration(s), as 

filed or as amended, may be granted 

and/or permitted to become effective. 

Alliant Energy Corporation, et al. (70–

9891) 

Alliant Energy Corporation (‘‘Alliant 

Energy’’), a registered holding company, 

4902 N. Biltmore Lane, Madison, 

Wisconsin 53718, and certain of its 

direct and indirect nonutility 

subsidiaries (collectively, ‘‘Applicants’’) 

have filed with the Commission a posteffective amendment to a previously 

filed application-declaration under 

sections 6(a) and 7 of the Act and rule 

54 under the Act.