Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 180 / Friday, September 15, 2000 / Notices 56013

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This

notice serves as initial notification of a

public workshop to provide for the

exchange of information with all

stakeholders regarding the staff’s efforts

to risk-inform the technical

requirements of 10 CFR 50.46 (ECCS

Acceptance Criteria), and the latest

version of the framework for riskinformed changes to the technical

requirements of 10 CFR Part 50. The

meeting will focus on the current work

being performed by the NRC staff to

risk-inform the technical requirements

of 10 CFR 50.46, and also on recent

changes to the framework document.

This notice provides only the date,

the location and a brief summary of the

workshop; the workshop agenda and

other details will be provided in a

forthcoming Federal Register notice

prior to the workshop.

Workshop Meeting Information: The

staff intends to conduct a workshop to

provide for an exchange of information

related to (1) the staff’s initial efforts to

make risk-informed revisions to the

technical requirements of 10 CFR 50.46,

and (2) the latest version of the staff’s

framework for risk-informed changes to

the technical requirements of 10 CFR

Part 50. Persons other than NRC staff

and NRC contractors interested in

making a presentation at the workshop

should notify Mary Drouin, Office of

Nuclear Regulatory Research, MS: T10–

E50, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission, Washington D.C. 20555–

0001, (301) 415–6675, email:

mxd@nrc.gov

Date: October 2, 2000.

Time: 8 am.

Agenda: To be provided.

Location: Auditorium, 11545

Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland

20852.

Registration: There is no registration

fee for the workshop; however, so that

adequate space, materials, etc., for the

workshop can be arranged, please

provide notification of attendance to

Alan Kuritzky, Office of Nuclear

Regulatory Research, MS: T10–E50, U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission,

Washington, D.C. 20555–0001, (301)

415–6255, email: ask1@nrc.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Alan Kuritzky, Office of Nuclear

Regulatory Research, MS: T10–E50, U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission,

Washington, D.C. 20555–0001, (301)

415–6255, email: ask1@nrc.gov.

Dated this 11th day of September 2000.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Mark A. Cunningham,

Probabilistic Risk Analysis Branch, Division

of Risk Analysis and Applications, Office of

Nuclear Regulatory Research.

[FR Doc. 00–23786 Filed 9–14–00; 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.

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 are derivable 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 interest rate for determining

the variable-rate premium under part

4006 applies to premium payment years

beginning in September 2000. The

interest assumptions for performing

multiemployer plan valuations

following mass withdrawal under part

4281 apply to valuation dates occurring

in October 2000.

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. (For TTY/TDD

users, 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 in

determining a single-employer plan’s

variable-rate premium. The 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 assumed interest rate to be used

in determining variable-rate premiums

for premium payment years beginning

in September 2000 is 4.86 percent (i.e.,

85 percent of the 5.72 percent yield

figure for August 2000).

The following table lists the assumed

interest rates to be used in determining

variable-rate premiums for premium

payment years beginning between

October 1999 and September 2000.

For premium payment years

beginning in—

The assumed

interest rate

is—

October 1999 .......................... 5.16

November 1999 ...................... 5.32

December 1999 ...................... 5.23

January 2000 .......................... 5.40

February 2000 ........................ 5.64

March 2000 ............................. 5.30

April 2000 ............................... 5.14

May 2000 ................................ 4.97

June 2000 ............................... 5.23

July 2000 ................................ 5.04

August 2000 ........................... 4.97

September 2000 ..................... 4.86

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 October

2000 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 September 2000.

David M. Strauss,

Executive Director, Pension Benefit Guaranty

Corporation.

[FR Doc. 00–23737 Filed 9–14–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7708–01–P

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE

COMMISSION

[Release No. 35–27227]

Filing Under the Public Utility Holding

Company Act of 1935, as Amended

(‘‘Act’’)

September 8, 2000.

Notice is hereby given that the

following filing(s) has/have been made

with the Commission pursuant to