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Addendum B to ASME RA–S–2002, 

dated December 30, 2005. 

• NEI–00–02, ‘‘Probabilistic Risk 

Assessment Peer Review Process 

Guidance,’’ Revision A3, dated March 

20, 2000, with its supplemental 

guidance on industry self-assessment, 

dated August 16, 2002, Revision 1, 

dated May 19, 2006, and an update to 

Revision 1 dated November 15, 2006. 

• NEI–05–04, ‘‘Process for Performing 

Follow-on PRA Peer Reviews Using the 

ASME PRA Standard,’’ dated January 

2005. 

When used in support of an 

application, this regulatory guide will 

obviate the need for an in-depth review 

of the base PRA by NRC reviewers, 

allowing them to focus their review on 

key assumptions and areas identified by 

peer reviewers as being of concern and 

relevant to the application. 

Consequently, this guide will provide 

for a more focused and consistent 

review process. In this regulatory guide, 

as in Regulatory Guide 1.174, the 

quality of a PRA analysis used to 

support an application is measured in 

terms of its appropriateness with respect 

to scope, level of detail, and technical 

acceptability. 

This regulatory guide was issued for 

trial use in February of 2004, and five 

trial applications were conducted. The 

staff subsequently revised Regulatory 

Guide 1.200 to incorporate the lessons 

learned from those pilot applications. 

The NRC solicited public comment on 

this guidance by publishing a Federal 

Register notice (71 FR 54530) 

concerning Draft Regulatory Guide DG–

1161. The public comment period 

closed on October 14, 2006, and the staff 

has considered and appropriately 

addressed all comments received. The 

staff’s responses to all comments 

received are available in the NRC’s 

Agencywide Documents Access and 

Management System (ADAMS) at http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

adams.html, under Accession 

#ML070040474. 

The NRC staff encourages and 

welcomes comments and suggestions in 

connection with improvements to 

published regulatory guides, as well as 

items for inclusion in regulatory guides 

that are currently being developed. You 

may submit comments by any of the 

following methods. 

Mail comments to: Rulemaking, 

Directives, and Editing Branch, Office of 

Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555–

0001. 

Hand-deliver comments to: 

Rulemaking, Directives, and Editing 

Branch, Office of Administration, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 11555 

Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 

20852, between 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. 

on Federal workdays. 

Fax comments to: Rulemaking, 

Directives, and Editing Branch, Office of 

Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission at (301) 415–5144. 

Requests for technical information 

about Regulatory Guide 1.200 may be 

directed to Ms. Mary T. Drouin, at (301) 

415–6675 or MXD@nrc.gov. 

Regulatory guides are available for 

inspection or downloading through the 

NRC’s public Web site in the Regulatory 

Guides document collection of the 

NRC’s Electronic Reading Room at 

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/. Regulatory Guide 1.200 is 

also available for inspection or 

downloading through the NRC’s 

Agencywide Documents Access and 

Management System (ADAMS) at http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

adams.html, under Accession 

#ML070240001. 

In addition, Revision 1 of Regulatory 

Guide 1.200 and other related publicly 

available documents, including public 

comments received, can be viewed 

electronically on computers in the 

NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR), 

which is located at 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland. The PDR 

reproduction contractor will make 

copies of documents for a fee. The 

PDR’s mailing address is USNRC PDR, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001. The PDR 

can also be reached by telephone at 

(301) 415–4737 or (800) 397–4205, by 

fax at (301) 415–3548, and by e-mail to 

PDR@nrc.gov. 

Please note that the NRC does not 

intend to distribute printed copies of 

Revision 1 of Regulatory Guide 1.200, 

unless specifically requested on an 

individual basis with adequate 

justification. Such requests for single 

copies (which may be reproduced) 

should be made in writing to the U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, Attention: 

Reproduction and Distribution Services 

Section; by e-mail 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 26th day 

of January, 2007. 

For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

Brian W. Sheron, 

Director, Office of Nuclear Regulatory 

Research. 

[FR Doc. E7–2089 Filed 2–7–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY 

CORPORATION 

Required Interest Rate Assumption for 

Determining Variable-Rate Premium for 

Premium Payment Years Beginning in 

January 2007 

AGENCY: Pension Benefit Guaranty 

Corporation. 

ACTION: Notice of interest rate 

assumption. 

SUMMARY: This notice informs the public 

of the interest rate assumption to be 

used for determining the variable-rate 

premium under the Pension Benefit 

Guaranty Corporation’s regulation on 

premium rates, for premium payment 

years beginning in January 2007. This 

notice revises a previously-published 

notice to reflect the recent publication 

by the Internal Revenue Service of 

updated mortality tables. This interest 

rate assumption can be derived from 

rates published elsewhere, but is 

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 

assumption for determining the 

variable-rate premium under part 4006 

applies to premium payment years 

beginning in January 2007. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Catherine B. Klion, Manager, Regulatory 

and Policy Division, Legislative and 

Regulatory Department, Pension Benefit 

Guaranty Corporation, 1200 K Street, 

NW., Washington, DC 20005, 202–326–

4024. (TTY/TDD users may call the 

Federal relay service toll-free at 1–800–

877–8339 and ask to be connected to 

202–326–4024.) 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 singleemployer plan’s variable-rate premium. 

On February 2, 2007 (at 72 FR 4955), 

the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 

published final regulations containing 

updated mortality tables for determining 

current liability under section 412(l)(7) 


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of the Code and section 302(d)(7) of 

ERISA for plan years beginning on or 

after January 1, 2007. As a result, in 

accordance with section 

4006(a)(3)(E)(iii)(II) of ERISA, the 

required interest rate for plan years 

beginning on or after January 1, 2007, is 

100 percent of the annual rate of interest 

determined by the Secretary of the 

Treasury on amounts invested 

conservatively in long-term investment 

grade corporate bonds for the month 

preceding the beginning of the plan year 

for which premiums are being paid 

(premium payment year). 

On January 12, 2007 (at 72 FR 1564), 

the Pension Benefit Guaranty 

Corporation (PBGC) published a notice 

informing the public of the interest rate 

assumption to be used for determining 

variable-rate premiums for premium 

payment years beginning in January 

2007. In light of IRS’s publication of the 

updated mortality tables, that required 

interest rate assumption has changed. 

The required interest rate to be used 

for determining variable-rate premiums 

for premium payment years beginning 

in January 2007 is 5.75 percent (i.e., 100 

percent of the 5.75 percent composite 

corporate bond rate for December 2006). 

PBGC will post the revised required 

interest rate on its Web site (http:// 

www.pbgc.gov). 

Issued in Washington, DC, on this 5th day 

of February 2007. 

Vincent K. Snowbarger, 

Interim Director, Pension Benefit Guaranty 

Corporation. 

[FR Doc. E7–2087 Filed 2–7–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7709–01–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request 

Upon written request, copies available 

from: Securities and Exchange 

Commission, Office of Filings and 

Information Services, Washington, DC 

20549. 

Extension: Rule 10b–10, SEC File No. 270–

389, OMB Control No. 3235–0444. 

Notice is hereby given that pursuant 

to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Securities 

and Exchange Commission 

(‘‘Commission’’) is soliciting comments 

on the collection of information 

summarized below. The Commission 

plans to submit this existing collection 

of information to the Office of 

Management and Budget for extension 

and approval. 

• Rule 10b–10; Confirmation of 

Transactions. 

Rule 10b–10 (17 CFR 240.10b–10) of 

the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (17 

U.S.C. 78a et seq.) requires brokerdealers to convey basic trade 

information to customers regarding their 

securities transactions. This information 

includes: the date and time of the 

transaction, the identity and number of 

shares bought or sold, and the trading 

capacity of the broker-dealer. Depending 

on the trading capacity of the brokerdealer, the Rule requires the disclosure 

of commissions as well as mark-up and 

mark-down information. For 

transactions in debt securities, the Rule 

requires the disclosure of redemption 

and yield information. The Rule 

potentially applies to all of the 

approximately 6,014 firms registered 

with the Commission that affect 

transactions on behalf of customers. 

The confirmations required by Rule 

10b–10 are generally processed through 

automated systems. It takes 

approximately 1 minute to generate and 

send a confirmation. It is estimated that 

broker-dealers spend 77.4 million hours 

per year complying with Rule 10b–10. 

The Commission staff estimates the 

costs of producing and sending a paper 

confirmation, including postage, to be 

approximately 91 cents. The 

Commission staff also estimates that the 

cost of producing and sending a wholly 

electronic confirmation is 

approximately 52 cents. The amount of 

confirmations sent and the cost of 

sending each confirmation varies from 

firm to firm. Smaller firms generally 

send fewer confirmations than larger 

firms because they affect fewer 

transactions. 

Written comments are invited on: (a) 

Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information shall have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s 

estimates of the burden of the proposed 

collection of information; (c) ways to 

enhance the quality, utility and clarity 

of the information to be collected; and 

(d) ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on 

respondents, including through the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Consideration will be given to 

comments and suggestions submitted in 

writing within 60 days of this 

publication. 

Direct your written comments to R. 

Corey Booth, Director/Chief Information 

Officer, Securities and Exchange 

Commission, C/O Shirley Martinson, 

6432 General Green Way, Alexandria, 

VA 22312 or send an e-mail to: 

PRA_Mailbox@sec.gov. Comments must 

be submitted to OMB within 60 days of 

this notice. 

Dated: January 31, 2007. 

Florence E. Harmon, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–2086 Filed 2–7–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8010–01–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

[Release No. IC–27695; File No. 812–13325] 

Country Investors Life Assurance 

Company, et al. 

February 2, 2007. 

AGENCY: Securities and Exchange 

Commission (the ‘‘Commission’’). 

ACTION: Notice of application for an 

order pursuant to Section 26(c) of the 

Investment Company Act of 1940, as 

amended (the ‘‘1940 Act’’ or ‘‘Act’’), 

approving certain substitutions of 

securities. 

APPLICANTS: COUNTRY Investors Life 

Assurance Company (the ‘‘Company’’), 

COUNTRY Investors Variable Life 

Account (the ‘‘Life Account’’) and 

COUNTRY Investors Variable Annuity 

Account (the ‘‘Annuity Account’’) 

(together, the ‘‘Applicants’’) 

SUMMARY: Applicants seek an order 

pursuant to Section 26(c) of the 1940 

Act approving the substitution of: (1) 

Shares of the EquiTrust High Grade 

Bond Portfolio (‘‘Replacement Portfolio 

A’’) of the EquiTrust Variable Insurance 

Series Fund (the ‘‘EquiTrust Fund’’) for 

shares of the COUNTRY VP Short-Term 

Bond Fund (‘‘Replaced Portfolio A’’) of 

the COUNTRY Mutual Funds Trust (the 

‘‘COUNTRY Fund’’); and (2) shares of 

the T. Rowe Price Personal Strategy 

Balanced Portfolio (‘‘Replacement 

Portfolio B’’) of the T. Rowe Price Equity 

Series, Inc. (the ‘‘T. Rowe Price Fund’’) 

for shares of the COUNTRY VP 

Balanced Fund (‘‘Replaced Portfolio B’’) 

of the COUNTRY Fund. Shares of 

Replacement Portfolio A, Replacement 

Portfolio B, Replaced Portfolio A, and 

Replaced Portfolio B currently are held 

by the Life Account and the Annuity 

Account (each an ‘‘Account,’’ together, 

the ‘‘Accounts’’) to support variable life 

insurance or variable annuity contracts, 

respectively, issued by the Company 

(collectively, the ‘‘Contracts’’). 

FILING DATE: The Application was filed 

on September 5, 2006 and amended and 

restated on January 24, 2007. 

HEARING OR NOTIFICATION OF HEARING: An 

order granting the application will be 


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