42448 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 159 / Thursday, August 15, 1996 / Notices

The Gelman Building, 2120 L Street,

NW., Washington, DC, and at the local

public document room located at the

University of Wisconsin, Cofrin Library,

2420 Nicolet Drive, Green Bay,

Wisconsin 54311–7001.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day

of August 1996.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Richard J. Laufer,

Project Manager, Project Directorate III–3,

Division of Reactor Projects—III/IV, Office of

Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

[FR Doc. 96–20827 Filed 8–14–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P

Draft Regulatory Guide; Issuance,

Availability

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission

has issued for public comment a draft of

a new guide planned for 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

Commission’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 is temporarily

identified as DG–0010, ‘‘Preparation of

Petitions for Rulemaking Under 10 CFR

2.802 and Preparation and Submission

of Proposals for Regulatory Guidance

Documents,’’ and is intended for

Division 10, ‘‘General.’’ DG–1037 is

being developed to provide guidance to

persons who submit petitions for

rulemaking to the Nuclear Regulatory

Commission; this guidance concerns the

type and quantity of information that

would allow the NRC to process the

petitions in an expeditious manner.

This regulatory guide would also

provide guidance on submitting

proposals to change existing NRC

regulatory guidance documents.

This draft guide is being issued to

involve the public in the early stages of

the development of a regulatory position

in this area. The draft guide has not

received complete staff review and does

not represent an official NRC staff

position.

Public comments are being solicited

on the guide. Comments should be

accompanied by supporting data.

Written comments may be submitted to

the Rules Review and Directives Branch,

Division of Freedom of Information and

Publications Services, Office of

Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission, Washington, DC 20555.

Copies of comments received may be

examined at the NRC Public Document

Room, 2120 L Street NW., Washington,

DC. Comments will be most helpful if

received by September 12, 1996.

Comments may be submitted

electronically, in either ASCII text or

Wordperfect format (version 5.1 or

later), by calling the NRC Electronic

Bulletin Board on FedWorld. The

bulletin board may be accessed using a

personal computer, a modem, and one

of the commonly available

communications software packages, or

directly via Internet.

If using a personal computer and

modem, the NRC subsystem on

FedWorld can be accessed directly by

dialing the toll free number: 1–800–

303–9672. Communication software

parameters should be set as follows:

parity to none, data bits to 8, and stop

bits to 1 (N,8,1). Using ANSI or VT–100

terminal emulation, the NRC NUREGs

and RegGuides for Comment subsystem

can then be accessed by selecting the

‘‘Rules Menu’’ option from the ‘‘NRC

Main Menu.’’ For further information

about options available for NRC at

FedWorld, consult the ‘‘Help/

Information Center’’ from the ‘‘NRC

Main Menu.’’ Users will find the

‘‘FedWorld Online User’s Guides’’

particularly helpful. Many NRC

subsystems and databases also have a

‘‘Help/Information Center’’ option that

is tailored to the particular subsystem.

The NRC subsystem on FedWorld can

also be accessed by a direct dial phone

number for the main FedWorld BBS,

703–321–3339, or by using Telnet via

Internet, fedworld.gov. If using 703–

321–3339 to contact FedWorld, the NRC

subsystem will be accessed from the

main FedWorld menu by selecting the

‘‘Regulatory, Government

Administration and State Systems,’’

then selecting ‘‘Regulatory Information

Mall.’’ At that point, a menu will be

displayed that has an option ‘‘U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission’’ that

will take you to the NRC Online main

menu. The NRC Online area also can be

accessed directly by typing ‘‘/go nrc’’ at

a FedWorld command line. If you access

NRC from FedWorld’s main menu, you

may return to FedWorld by selecting the

‘‘Return to FedWorld’’ option from the

NRC Online Main Menu. However, if

you access NRC at FedWorld by using

NRC’s toll-free number, you will have

full access to all NRC systems but you

will not have access to the main

FedWorld system.

If you contact FedWorld using Telnet,

you will see the NRC area and menus,

including the Rules menu. Although

you will be able to download

documents and leave messages, you will

not be able to write comments or upload

files (comments). If you contact

FedWorld using FTP, all files can be

accessed and downloaded but uploads

are not allowed; all you will see is a list

of files without descriptions (normal

Gopher look). An index file listing all

files within a subdirectory, with

descriptions, is included. There is a 15-

minute time limit for FTP access.

Although FedWorld can be accessed

through the World Wide Web, like FTP

that mode only provides access for

downloading files and does not display

the NRC Rules menu.

For more information on NRC bulletin

boards call Mr. Arthur Davis, Systems

Integration and Development Branch,

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,

Washington, DC 20555, telephone (301)

415–5780; e-mail AXD3@nrc.gov. For

more information on this Draft

Regulatory Guide DG–0010, contact T.Y.

Chang at (301)415–6450; e-mail

TYC@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 Commission’s Public

Document Room, 2120 L Street NW.,

Washington, DC. Requests for single

copies of final or draft 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: Distribution and Mail

Services Section, or faxed to (301)415–

2260. 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 1st day

of August 1996.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Lawrence C. Shao,

Director, Division of Engineering Technology,

Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.

[FR Doc. 96–20826 Filed 8–14–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P

PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY

CORPORATION

Interest Assumption for Determining

Variable-Rate Premium; Interest

Assumptions for Multiemployer Plan

Valuations Following Mass Withdrawal

AGENCY: Pension Benefit Guaranty

Corporation.
Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 159 / Thursday, August 15, 1996 / Notices 42449

ACTION: Notice of interest rates and

assumptions.

SUMMARY: This notice provides

information about interest rates and

assumptions to be used for calculating

the variable-rate premium payable to the

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

and for valuing benefits in

multiemployer plans following a mass

withdrawal. These rates and

assumptions are published elsewhere

(or are derivable from rates published

elsewhere); the PBGC furnishes the

information in this notice simply for the

convenience of the public. Interest rates

are also published on the PBGC’s home

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

DATES: The interest rate for determining

the variable-rate premium under part

4006 applies to premium payment years

beginning in August 1996. The interest

assumptions for performing

multiemployer plan valuations

following mass withdrawal under part

4281 apply to valuation dates occurring

in September 1996.

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 (202–326–4179

for TTY and TDD).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Variable-Rate Premiums

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

Employee Retirement Income Security

Act of 1974 and § 4006.4(b)(1) of the

PBGC’s regulation on Premium Rates

(29 CFR part 4006) prescribes use of an

assumed interest rate in determining a

single-employer plan’s variable-rate

premium. The rate is a specified

percentage (currently 80 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 assumed interest rate to be used

in determining variable-rate premiums

for premium payment years beginning

in August 1996 (i.e., 80 percent of the

yield figure for July 1996) is 5.62%. The

following table lists the assumed

interest rates to be used in determining

variable rate premiums for premium

payment years beginning in the one-year

period ending with August 1996.

For premium payment years beginning in

The required interest

rate is

September 1995 ........................... 5.49

October 1995 ................................ 5.24

November 1995 ............................ 5.10

December 1995 ............................ 5.01

January 1996 ................................ 4.85

February 1996 .............................. 4.84

March 1996 ................................... 4.99

April 1996 ...................................... 5.28

May 1996 ...................................... 5.43

June 1996 ..................................... 5.54

July 1996 ...................................... 5.65

August 1996 .................................. 5.62

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

September 1996 under part 4044 are

contained in an amendment to part 4044

published elsewhere in today’s Federal

Register.

Issued in Washington, DC, on this 12th day

of August 1996.

Martin Slate,

Executive Director, Pension Benefit Guaranty

Corporation.

[FR Doc. 96–20846 Filed 8–14–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7708–01–P

POSTAL RATE COMMISSION

[Docket No. MC96–3; Order No. 1129]

Special Services Fees and

Classifications

August 8, 1996.

ACTION: Notice of expansion of scope of

docket.

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that on

August 8, 1996, the Postal Rate

Commission expanded the scope of this

proceeding at the request of Nashua

Photo Inc. and Mystic Color Lab to

include consideration of classification

modification with respect to Business

Reply Mail. Previous notice of the scope

of this proceeding was published in the

Federal Register on June 21, 1996, 61

FR 31968–312001. Interested persons

wishing to participate in this matter will

be considered to have good cause for not

submitting a notice of intervention prior

to this date, and may request

intervention pursuant to Commission

Rules of Practice sections 20, 20a, and

20b. 39 CFR 3001.20, 3001.20a,

3001.20b.

ADDRESSES: Comments and

correspondence should be sent to

Margaret Crenshaw, Secretary of the

Commission, 1333 H Street, NW., Suite

300, Washington, DC 20268–0001

(telephone: 202–789–6840).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Stephen L. Sharfman, Legal Advisor,

Postal Rate Commission, 1333 H Street,

NW., Washington, DC 20268–0001

(telephone: 202–789–6820).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On July

15, 1996, Nashua Photo Inc. and Mystic

Color Lab (‘‘Nashua/Mystic’’) filed a

motion to enlarge the scope of this

proceeding to consider an alleged

inequity in the fee structure for Business

Reply Mail. Nashua Photo Inc. and

Mystic Color Lab Motion to Enlarge

Scope of Proceeding for Consideration

of Classification Modification with

Respect to Business Reply Mail, July 15,

1996 (‘‘Motion’’). Presiding Officer’s

Ruling MC96–3/4 certified the issues

raised by the Motion to the full

Commission. The Commission accepts

certification, and grants the Nashua/

Mystic Motion.

Nashua/Mystic request that this

docket address the need to establish a

category of Business Reply Mail (BRM)

that would be eligible for a discounted

advance deposit fee comparable to the

current two-cent per-piece fee charged

barcoded BRM. The Motion

acknowledges that the BRM generated

by Nashua and Mystic is not

‘‘prebarcoded and automatable’’ and

that such mail cannot take advantage of

the Postal Service’s automated Business

Reply Mail Accounting System

(BRMAS). Motion at 3. It argues,

however, that Nashua and Mystic have

a system for processing their incoming

bulk non-automatable BRM mail that

reduces the Postal Service’s BRMrelated costs below those of mail

processed by the BRMAS system. For

this reason, it contends, mail processed

in this manner should be eligible for a

discounted BRM fee comparable to that

charged for barcoded BRM. Id. at 2.

Parties’ Arguments. The Motion

alleges that the Postal Service’s refusal

to charge a discounted BRM fee that

reflects the costs avoided when the

business reply customer handles and

accounts for its own incoming mail is

due, in part, to the lack of a DMCS

provision for such a discount. It argues

that amending DMCS Rate Schedule

SS–2 to provide for a ‘‘non-automatable

bulk’’ discount category for BRM

processed by bulk handling and

accounting methods approved by the

Postal Service would remedy the