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in the enforcement arena, the NRC has

identified a number of issues for public

comment. The NRC is seeking public

comment on the following specific

questions and also invites general

comments on the questions, and also

invites general comments on the use of

ADR in NRC enforcement cases.

It should be noted that the NRC’s

Discrimination Task Group already

addressed and initially rejected the use

of ADR in employment discrimination

cases in its draft report which has been

released for public comment (66 FR

32966 dated June 19, 2001 and http://

www.nrc.gov—;Electronic Reading

Room, ADAMS Accession No.

ML011200244). The Commission,

however, desires to more thoroughly

examine the use of ADR in enforcement

proceedings, including discrimination

cases. Accordingly, the Discrimination

Task Group will await evaluation of

comments received as a result of this

Federal Register Notice before finalizing

its recommendation on the use of ADR.

The specific questions are as follows.

1. Is there a need to provide

additional avenues, beyond the

encouragement of settlement in 10 CFR

2.203, for the use of ADR in NRC

enforcement activities?

2. What are the potential benefits of

using ADR in the NRC enforcement

process?

3. What are the potential

disadvantages of using ADR in the NRC

enforcement process?

4. What should be the scope of

disputes in which ADR techniques

could be utilized?

5. At what points in the existing

enforcement process might ADR be

used?

6. What types of ADR techniques

might be used most effectively in the

NRC enforcement process?

7. Does the nature of the existing

enforcement process for either reactor or

materials licensees limit the

effectiveness of ADR?

8. Would any need for confidentiality

in the ADR process be perceived

negatively by the public?

9. For policy reasons, are there any

enforcement areas where ADR should

not be used, e.g., wrongdoing,

employment discrimination, or

precedent-setting areas?

10. What factors should be considered

in instituting an ADR process for the

enforcement area?

11. What should serve as the source

of neutrals for use in the ADR process

for enforcement?

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 10th day

of December 2001.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Frank J. Congel,

Director, Office of Enforcement.

[FR Doc. 01–30926 Filed 12–13–01; 8:45 am]

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY

COMMISSION

Draft Regulatory Guide; Issuance,

Availability

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission

has issued for public comment a draft of

a new guide in its Regulatory Guide

Series. This series has been developed

to describe and make available to the

public such information as methods

acceptable to the NRC staff for

implementing specific parts of the

NRC’s regulations, techniques used by

the staff in evaluating specific problems

or postulated accidents, and data

needed by the staff in its review of

applications for permits and licenses.

The draft guide, temporarily

identified by its task number, DG–1111

(which should be mentioned in all

correspondence concerning this draft

guide), is ‘‘Atmospheric Relative

Concentrations for Control Room

Radiological Habitability Assessments at

Nuclear Power Plants.’’ This draft guide

is being developed to provide guidance

on determining atmospheric relative

concentration (X/Q) values in support of

design basis control room radiological

habitability assessments at nuclear

power plants. This guide describes

methods acceptable to the NRC staff for

determining X/Q values that will be

used in control room radiological

habitability assessments performed in

support of applications for licenses and

license amendment requests.

This draft guide has not received

complete staff approval and does not

represent an official NRC staff position.

Comments may be accompanied by

relevant information or supporting data.

Written comments may be submitted to

the Rules and Directives Branch, Office

of Administration, U.S. Nuclear

Regulatory Commission, Washington,

DC 20555. Copies of comments received

may be examined at the NRC Public

Document Room, 11555 Rockville Pike,

Rockville, MD. Comments will be most

helpful if received by March 15, 2002.

You may also provide comments via

the NRC’s interactive rulemaking web

site through the NRC home page (http:/

/www.nrc.gov). This site provides the

ability to upload comments as files (any

format) if your web browser supports

that function. For information about the

interactive rulemaking web site, contact

Ms. Carol Gallagher, (301) 415–5905; email CAG@NRC.GOV. For information

about the draft guide and the related

documents, contact Mr. S.F. LaVie at

(301) 415–1081; e-mail SFL@NRC.GOV.

Although a time limit is given for

comments on this draft guide,

comments and suggestions in

connection with items for inclusion in

guides currently being developed or

improvements in all published guides

are encouraged at any time.

Regulatory guides are available for

inspection at the NRC’s Public

Document Room, 11555 Rockville Pike,

Rockville, MD; the PDR’s mailing

address is USNRC PDR, Washington, DC

20555; telephone (301) 415–4737 or

(800) 397–4205; fax (301) 415–3548;

email PDR@NRC>GOV. Requests for

single copies of draft or final guides

(which may be reproduced) or for

placement on an automatic distribution

list for single copies of future draft

guides in specific divisions should be

made in writing to the U.S. Nuclear

Regulatory Commission, Washington,

DC 20555, Attention: Reproduction and

Distribution Services Section; or by email to <DISTRIBUTION@NRC.GOV>;

or by fax to (301) 415–2289. Telephone

requests cannot be accommodated.

Regulatory guides are not copyrighted,

and Commission approval is not

required to reproduce them. (5 U.S.C.

552(a))

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 29th day

of November 2001.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Gina F. Thompson,

Senior Budget Analyst, Program Management,

Policy Development and Analysis Staff, Office

of Nuclear Regulatory Research.

[FR Doc. 01–30928 Filed 12–13–01; 8:45 am]

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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

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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 December

2001. The interest assumptions for

performing multiemployer plan

valuations following mass withdrawal

under part 4281 apply to valuation dates

occurring in January 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

85 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’’). The yield

figure is reported in Federal Reserve

Statistical Releases G.13 and H.15.

The required interest rate to be used

in determining variable-rate premiums

for premium payment years beginning

in December 2001 is 4.35 percent (i.e.,

85 percent of the 5.12 percent yield

figure for November 2001).

The following table lists the required

interest rates to be used in determining

variable-rate premiums for premium

payment years beginning between

January 2001 and December 2001.

For premium payment years

beginning in:

The required interest rate is:

January 2001 ............................ 4.67

February 2001 .......................... 4.71

March 2001 ............................... 4.63

April 2001 ................................. 4.54

May 2001 .................................. 4.80

June 2001 ................................. 4.91

July 2001 .................................. 4.82

August 2001 ............................. 4.77

September 2001 ....................... 4.66

October 2001 ............................ 4.66

November 2001 ........................ 4.52

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

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 January

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 11th day

of December 2001.

Steven A. Kandarian,

Executive Director, Pension Benefit Guaranty

Corporation.

[FR Doc. 01–30964 Filed 12–13–01; 8:45 am]

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE

COMMISSION

Sunshine Act Meeting

FEDERAL REGISTER CITATION OF PREVIOUS

ANNOUNCEMENT: [66 FR 63422, December

6, 2001].

STATUS: Open Meeting.

PLACE: 450 Fifth Street, NW.,

Washington, DC.

DATE AND TIME OF PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED

MEETING: Thursday, December 13, 2001

at 10 a.m.

CHANGE IN THE MEETING: Cancellation of

Meeting/Additional Meetings.

The open meeting schedule for

Thursday, December 11, 2001, has been

cancelled, and rescheduled for

Wednesday, December 19, 2001, at 10

a.m., in Room 1C30, the William O.

Douglas Room. In addition to the open

meeting scheduled for Wednesday,

December 19, 2001, the Commission

will hold a closed meeting on Tuesday,

December 18, 2001, at 10 a.m.

Commissioners, Counsel to the

Commissioners, the Secretary to the

Commission, and recording secretaries

will attend the closed meeting. Certain

staff members who have an interest in

the matters may also be present.

The General Counsel of the

Commission, or his designee, has

certified that, in his opinion, one or

more of the exemptions set forth in 5

U.S.C. 552b(2)(5), (7), (9)(A), (9)(B), and

(10) and 17 CFR 200.402(a)(5), (7), 9(i),

9(ii) and (10), permit consideration of

the scheduled matters at the closed

meeting.

The subject matter of the closed

meeting scheduled for Tuesday,

December 18, 2001 will be:

Institution and settlement of

injunctive actions;

Institution and settlement of

administrative proceedings of an

enforcement nature; and

Formal orders of investigation.

The subject matter of the open

meeting scheduled for Wednesday,

December 19, 2001 will be:

1. The Commission will consider the

Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc.’s request that

the Commission interpret section 28(e)

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

to apply to riskless principal

transactions in certain securities in light

of recent amendments to Nasdaq’s trade

reporting rules.

For further information, please

contact Catherine McGuire or Joseph

Corcoran, Division of Market

Regulation, at (202) 942–0073).

2. The Commission will consider

whether to extend an order exempting

broker-dealers from the requirement of

Securities Exchange Act of 1934 section

17(e)(1)(B) and rule 17a–5(c) to regularly

send certain financial information to

their customers. To take advantage of

the exemption, a broker-dealer must

send its customers certain net capital

information and must provide its

customers instructions for obtaining the

remainder of its required financial

disclosures on its web site or by dialing

a toll-free number for a paper copy. The

curernt order (Exchange Act Release No.

42222, December 10, 1999) granted the

exemption for two yeaers as a pilot

program ending December 31, 2001.

For further informataion please

contact Thomas K. McGowan, Assistant

Director, Division of Market Regulation,

at (202) 942–4886.

3. The Commission will consider

whether to adopt amendments to the

disclosure requirements under the

Securities Exchange Act of 1934

applicable to annual reports filed on

Forms 10–K and 10–KSB and to proxy

and information statements. The

amendments will enhance disclosure

about equity compensation plans,

including the number of outstanding

options, warrants and rights, as well as

the number of securities remaining

available for future issuance. The

amendments require registrants to

provide information separately for plans

that have not been approved by security

holders.

For further information, please

contact Mark A. Borges, Office of

Rulemaking, Division of Corporation

Finance, at (202) 942–2910.

4. The Commission will consider

whether to adopt an amendment to rule