18262 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 63 / Friday, April 1, 2011 / Notices 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

Jessie Quichocho, 

Chief, Research and Test Reactors Licensing 

Branch, Division of Policy and Rulemaking, 

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

[FR Doc. 2011–7720 Filed 3–31–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2009–0277] 

Notice of issuance of Regulatory Guide 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of Issuance and 

Availability of Regulatory Guide 1.44, 

Revision 1, ‘‘Control of the Processing 

and Use of Stainless Steel.’’ 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gary 

L. Stevens, Office of Nuclear Regulatory 

Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001, telephone (301) 251–7569 or 

e-mail Gary.Stevens@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing a revision 

to an existing guide in the agency’s 

‘‘Regulatory Guide’’ series. This series 

was developed to describe and make 

available to the public information such 

as methods that are acceptable to the 

NRC staff for implementing specific 

parts of the agency’s regulations, 

techniques that the staff uses in 

evaluating specific problems or 

postulated accidents, and data that the 

staff needs in its review of applications 

for permits and licenses. 

Revision 1 of Regulatory Guide 1.44, 

‘‘Control of the Processing and Use of 

Stainless Steel,’’ was issued with a 

temporary identification as Draft 

Regulatory Guide, DG–1224. This guide 

describes methods that the staff of the 

NRC considers acceptable for 

implementing requirements about 

control of the application and 

processing of stainless steel to avoid 

severe sensitization that could lead to 

stress-corrosion cracking. This guide 

applies to light-water-cooled reactors. 

II. Further Information 

In June 2009, DG–1224 was published 

with a public comment period of 60 

days from the issuance of the guide. The 

public comment period was extended 

until October 1, 2009. The staff’s 

responses to the comments received are 

located in the NRC’s Agencywide 

Documents Access and Management 

System (ADAMS) under Accession No. 

ML101680258. Electronic copies of 

Regulatory Guide 1.44, Revision 1 are 

available through the NRC’s public Web 

site under ‘‘Regulatory Guides’’ at 

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/. The regulatory analysis 

may be found under ADAMS Accession 

No. ML101680238. 

In addition, regulatory guides are 

available for inspection at the NRC’s 

Public Document Room (PDR) located at 

Room O–1F21, One White Flint North, 

11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland 20852–2738. 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) 397–4209, by 

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

pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 

Regulatory guides are not 

copyrighted, and NRC approval is not 

required to reproduce them. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day 

of March 2011. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Thomas H. Boyce, 

Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, 

Division of Engineering, Office of Nuclear 

Regulatory Research. 

[FR Doc. 2011–7721 Filed 3–31–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

OFFICE OF PERSONNEL 

MANAGEMENT 

January 2011 Pay Schedules 

AGENCY: U.S. Office of Personnel 

Management. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The President has signed an 

Executive order stating that certain 

civilian employee pay schedules are not 

adjusted in 2011 and remain at 2010 

levels. This notice serves as 

documentation for the public record. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lisa 

Dismond, Pay and Leave, Employee 

Services, U.S. Office of Personnel 

Management; (202) 606–2858; FAX 

(202) 606–0824; or email to pay-leavepolicy@opm.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

December 22, 2010, the President signed 

Executive Order 13561 (75 FR 81817), 

which documented the January 2011 

pay schedules. Pursuant to Public Law 

111–242, as amended by Public Law 

111–322, December 22, 2010, the 

Executive order provides that 2011 pay 

rates for the civilian employee pay 

schedules covered by the order are not 

adjusted and remain at 2010 levels. 

Schedule 1 of Executive Order 13561 

provides the rates for the 2011 General 

Schedule (GS) and reflects no increase 

from 2010. Executive Order 13561 also 

includes the percentage amounts of the 

2011 locality payments, which remain 

at 2010 levels except for employees in 

nonforeign areas. (See Section 5 and 

Schedule 9 of Executive Order 13561.) 

The publication of this notice satisfies 

the requirement in section 5(b) of 

Executive Order 13561 that the U.S. 

Office of Personnel Management (OPM) 

publish appropriate notice of the 2011 

locality payments in the Federal 

Register. 

GS employees receive locality 

payments under 5 U.S.C. 5304. Locality 

payments apply in the United States (as 

defined in 5 U.S.C. 5921(4)) and its 

territories and possessions. In 2011, 

locality payments ranging from 9.44 

percent to 35.15 percent apply to GS 

employees in the 34 locality pay areas. 

The 2011 locality pay area definitions 

can be found at http://www.opm.gov/ 

oca/11tables/locdef.asp. 

The 2011 locality pay percentages 

became effective on the first day of the 

first pay period beginning on or after 

January 1, 2011 (January 2, 2011). An 

employee’s locality rate of pay is 

computed by increasing his or her 

scheduled annual rate of pay (as defined 

in 5 CFR 531.602) by the applicable 

locality pay percentage. (See 5 CFR 

531.604 and 531.609.) The Non-Foreign 

Area Retirement Equity Assurance Act 

of 2009 contained in subtitle B (sections 

1911–1919) of title XIX of the National 

Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 

Year 2010 (Pub. L. 111–84, October 28, 

2009) extended coverage of the locality 

pay program to employees in Alaska, 

Hawaii, and the other nonforeign areas 

in 2010. For 2011, the statute provides 

that employees in each of these areas 

receive two-thirds of the applicable 

locality rate. 

Executive Order 13561 documents 

that the Executive Schedule rates of pay 

remain at the 2010 levels. By law, 

Executive Schedule officials are not 

authorized to receive locality payments. 

Executive Order 13561 documents the 

2011 range of rates of basic pay for 

senior executives in the Senior 

Executive Service (SES) under 5 U.S.C. 

5382. The minimum rate of basic pay for 

the SES remains at $119,554 in 2011. 

The maximum rate of the SES rate range 

continues to be $179,700 (level II of the 

Executive Schedule) for SES members 

covered by a certified SES performance 

appraisal system and $165,300 (level III 

of the Executive Schedule) for SES 

members covered by an SES 

performance appraisal system that has 

not been certified. 

The minimum rate of basic pay for the 

senior-level (SL) and scientific and 

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professional (ST) rate range remains at 

$119,554 in 2011. The applicable 

maximum rate of the SL/ST rate range 

continues to be $179,700 (level II of the 

Executive Schedule) for SL or ST 

employees covered by a certified SL/ST 

performance appraisal system and 

$165,300 (level III of the Executive 

Schedule) for SL or ST employees 

covered by an SL/ST performance 

appraisal system that has not been 

certified. Agencies with certified 

performance appraisal systems in 2011 

for SES members and employees in SL 

and ST positions also must apply a 

higher aggregate limitation on pay—up 

to the Vice President’s salary ($230,700 

in 2011, the same level as in 2010). 

By law, SES members and employees 

in SL and ST positions are not 

authorized to receive locality payments. 

Note: An exception applies to SES, SL, 

and ST employees stationed in a 

nonforeign area on January 2, 2010, 

which is explained in an OPM 

memorandum, CPM 2009–27. (See 

http://www.opm.gov/oca/compmemo/ 

index.asp.) 

Executive Order 13561 provides that 

the rates of basic pay for administrative 

law judges (ALJs) under 5 U.S.C. 5372 

are not increased in 2011. The rate of 

basic pay for AL–1 remains at $155,500 

(equivalent to the rate for EX–IV). The 

rate of basic pay for AL–2 remains at 

$151,800. The rates of basic pay for AL– 

3/A through 3/F continue to range from 

$103,900 to $143,700. 

The rates of basic pay for members of 

Contract Appeals Boards are calculated 

as a percentage of the rate for level IV 

of the Executive Schedule. (See 5 U.S.C. 

5372a.) Therefore, these rates of basic 

pay are not increased in 2011. 

On December 13, 2010, the 

President’s Pay Agent extended localitybased comparability payments to certain 

categories of non-GS employees again in 

2011. The Governmentwide categories 

include ALJs and Contract Appeals 

Board members. The maximum locality 

rate of pay for these employees is the 

rate for level III of the Executive 

Schedule ($165,300 in 2011, the same 

level as in 2010). 

On December 27, 2010, OPM issued a 

memorandum (CPM 2010–20) on the 

Executive order for the 2011 pay 

schedules. (See http://www.opm.gov/ 

oca/compmemo/index.asp.) The 

memorandum transmitted Executive 

Order 13561 and provided the 2011 

salary tables, locality pay areas and 

percentages, and information on general 

pay administration matters and other 

related information. The ‘‘2011 Salary 

Tables’’ posted on OPM’s Web site at 

http://www.opm.gov/oca/11tables/ 

index.asp are the official rates of pay for 

affected employees and are hereby 

incorporated as part of this notice. 

U.S. Office of Personnel Management. 

John Berry, 

Director. 

[FR Doc. 2011–7672 Filed 3–31–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6325–39–P 

OFFICE OF PERSONNEL 

MANAGEMENT 

Hispanic Council on Federal 

Employment 

AGENCY: Office of Personnel 

Management. 

ACTION: Scheduling of council meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Hispanic Council on 

Federal Employment will hold its 

second meeting on April 15, 2011, at the 

time and location shown below. The 

Council is an advisory committee 

composed of representatives from 

Hispanic organizations and senior 

government officials. Along with its 

other responsibilities, the Council shall 

advise the Director of the Office of 

Personnel Management on matters 

involving the recruitment, hiring, and 

advancement of Hispanics in the 

Federal workforce. The Council is cochaired by the Chief of Staff of the 

Office of Personnel Management and the 

Assistant Secretary for Human 

Resources and Administration at the 

Department of Veterans Affairs. 

The meeting is open to the public. 

Please contact the Office of Personnel 

Management at the address shown 

below if you wish to present material to 

the Council at the meeting. The manner 

and time prescribed for presentations 

may be limited, depending upon the 

number of parties that express interest 

in presenting information. 

DATES: April 15, 2011 from 2–4 p.m. 

Location: U.S. Office of Personnel 

Management, Room 1416, 1st Floor, 

Theodore Roosevelt Building, 1900 E 

St., NW., Washington, DC 20415. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Veronica E. Villalobos, Director for the 

Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Office 

of Personnel Management, 1900 E St., 

NW., Suite 5305, Washington, DC 

20415. Phone (202) 606–2984 FAX (202) 

606–2183 or e-mail at 

Edgar.Gonzalez@opm.gov. 

U.S. Office of Personnel Management. 

John Berry, 

Director. 

[FR Doc. 2011–7830 Filed 3–31–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6325–46–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request 

Upon Written Request, Copies Available 

From: U.S. Securities and Exchange 

Commission, Office of Investor 

Education and Advocacy, 

Washington, DC 20549–0213. 

Extension: 

Rule 17Ac3–1(a); SEC File No. 270–96; 

OMB Control No. 3235–0151. 

Form TA–W(1669); SEC File No. 270–96; 

OMB Control No. 3235–0151. 

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 existing collection of information 

provided for in the following rule: Rule 

17Ac3–1(a) under the Securities 

Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78a et 

seq.) (‘‘Exchange Act’’). The Commission 

plans to submit this existing collection 

of information to the Office of 

Management and Budget for extension 

and approval. 

Section 17A(c)(4)(B) of the Exchange 

Act authorizes transfer agents registered 

with an appropriate regulatory agency 

(‘‘ARA’’) to withdraw from registration 

by filing with the ARA a written notice 

of withdrawal and by agreeing to such 

terms and conditions as the ARA deems 

necessary or appropriate in the public 

interest, for the protection of investors, 

or in the furtherance of the purposes of 

Section 17A. 

In order to implement Section 

17A(c)(4)(B) of the Exchange Act the 

Commission, on September 1, 1977, 

promulgated Rule 17Ac3–1(a) (17 CFR 

240.17Ac3–1(a)) and accompanying 

Form TA–W (17 CFR 249b.101). Rule 

17Ac3–1(a) provides that notice of 

withdrawal from registration as a 

transfer agent with the Commission 

shall be filed on Form TA–W. Form 

TA–W requires the withdrawing transfer 

agent to provide the Commission with 

certain information, including: (1) The 

locations where transfer agent activities 

are or were performed; (2) the reasons 

for ceasing the performance of such 

activities; (3) disclosure of unsatisfied 

judgments or liens; and (4) information 

regarding successor transfer agents. 

The Commission uses the information 

disclosed on Form TA–W to determine 

whether the registered transfer agent 

applying for withdrawal from 

registration as a transfer agent should be 

allowed to deregister and, if so, whether 

the Commission should attach to the 

granting of the application any terms or 

conditions necessary or appropriate in 

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