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All comments and recommendations 

submitted in response to this notice will 

be made available to the public, 

including by posting them on OMB’s 

Web site. For this reason, please do not 

include in your comments information 

of a confidential nature, such as 

sensitive personal information or 

proprietary information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget, NEOB, Room 10102, 725 17th 

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503. 

Telephone: (202) 395–3741. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Congress 

directed the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) to prepare an annual 

Report to Congress on the Costs and 

Benefits of Federal Regulations. 

Specifically, Section 624 of the FY 2001 

Treasury and General Government 

Appropriations Act, also known as the 

‘‘Regulatory Right-to-Know Act,’’ (the 

Act) requires OMB to submit a report on 

the costs and benefits of Federal 

regulations together with 

recommendation for reform. The Act 

states that the report should contain 

estimates of the costs and benefits of 

regulations in the aggregate, by agency 

and agency program, and by major rule, 

as well as an analysis of impacts of 

Federal regulation on State, local, and 

Tribal governments, small businesses, 

wages, and economic growth. The Act 

also states that the report should be 

subject to notice and comment and peer 

review. 

In this draft Report, available at: 

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/ 

inforeg_regpol_reports_congress/, OMB 

offers the following recommendations: 

1. Consistent with Executive Order 13563, 

regulatory decisions and priority-setting 

should be made in a way that is attentive to 

the importance of promoting economic 

growth, innovation, job creation, and 

competitiveness. 

2. Agencies should accompany all 

economically significant regulations with (1) 

a tabular presentation, placed prominently 

and offering a clear statement of qualitative 

and quantitative benefits and costs of the 

proposed or planned action, together with (2) 

a presentation of uncertainties and (3) similar 

information for reasonable alternatives to the 

proposed or planned action. 

3. Agencies should continue to use 

‘‘breakeven analysis’’ when quantification is 

not possible, with such analysis defined as 

the specification of how high the 

unquantified or unmonetized benefits would 

have to be in order for the benefits to justify 

the costs. 

4. Consistent with OMB Circular A–4, for 

regulations intended to reduce mortality 

risks, agencies should consider the use of 

cost-effectiveness analysis and, specifically, 

the development of estimates for the ‘‘net cost 

per life saved.’’ 

5. Consistent with Executive Order 13563, 

and in particular the emphasis on ‘‘the open 

exchange of information and perspectives 

among state, local, and tribal officials, 

experts in relevant disciplines, affected 

stakeholders in the private sector, and the 

public as a whole,’’ agencies should promote 

public participation and transparency 

through the use of regulations.gov and other 

technological means. 

6. In order to promote trade and exports, 

agencies should promote regulatory 

cooperation initiatives alongside key trading 

partners. 

Consistent with Executive Order 

13563, OMB is especially interested in 

how to improve retrospective analysis of 

existing rules. OMB requests 

information about published and 

unpublished studies, conceptual and 

empirical, involving such retrospective 

analysis. OMB also requests suggestions 

about how to improve understanding of 

the accuracy of prospective analyses of 

rules and how to undertake 

retrospective analysis. Methodological 

suggestions are particularly welcome. 

Suggestions about particular rules that 

should be reevaluated, as well as studies 

of particular rules, should be directed to 

the agencies themselves. 

Cass R. Sunstein, 

Administrator, Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs. 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

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[Docket No. 50–156; NRC–2010–0203] 

University of Wisconsin; Notice of 

Issuance of Renewed Facility License 

No. R–74 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC, the Commission) has 

issued renewed Facility License No. R– 

74, held by the University of Wisconsin 

(the licensee), which authorizes 

continued operation of the University of 

Wisconsin Nuclear Reactor (UWNR), 

located in Madison, Dane County, 

Wisconsin. The UWNR is a pool-type, 

light-water-moderated and cooled 

TRIGA (Training, Research, Isotope 

Production, General Atomics) reactor 

licensed to operate at a steady-state 

power levels up to and including 

1 megawatt thermal and short duration 

power pulses with reactivity insertions 

up to 1.4% Dk/k. The renewed Facility 

License No. R–74 will expire at 

midnight 20 years from its date of 

issuance. 

The renewed facility license complies 

with the standards and requirements of 

the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as 

amended (the Act), and the 

Commission’s rules and regulations. 

The Commission has made appropriate 

findings as required by the Act and the 

Commission’s regulations in Title 10, 

Chapter 1, ‘‘Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission,’’ of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (10 CFR), and sets forth 

those findings in the renewed facility 

license. The agency afforded an 

opportunity for hearing in the Notice of 

Opportunity for Hearing published in 

the Federal Register on June 18, 2010 

(75 FR 34769–34774). The NRC received 

no request for a hearing or petition for 

leave to intervene following the notice. 

The NRC staff prepared a safety 

evaluation report for the renewal of 

Facility License No. R–74 and 

concluded, based on that evaluation, the 

licensee can continue to operate the 

facility without endangering the health 

and safety of the public. The NRC staff 

also prepared an Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact for the renewal of the 

facility license, noticed in the Federal 

Register on September 16, 2010 (75 FR 

56597–56601), and concluded that 

renewal of the facility license will not 

have a significant impact on the quality 

of the human environment. 

For details with respect to the 

application for renewal, see the 

licensee’s letter dated May 9, 2000 

(ML093570404), as supplemented on 

September 7, 2004 (ML093570441); 

October 17, 2008 (ML100740573); June 

16, 2010 (two letters, ML101690137 and 

ML101690083), July 8, 2010 

(ML102110051), August 11, 2010 

(ML102320209), November 22, 2010 

(ML103300040), December 8, 2010 

(ML103480028); January 28, 2011 

(ML110340310), and February 8, 2011 

(ML110410534). Documents may be 

examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the 

NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR), 

located at One White Flint North, 11555 

Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, 

Maryland. Publicly available records 

will be accessible electronically from 

the Agencywide Documents Access and 

Management System (ADAMS) Public 

Electronic Reading Room on the NRC 

Web site, http://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/adams.html. Persons who do not 

have access to ADAMS or who 

encounter problems in accessing the 

documents located in ADAMS should 

contact the NRC PDR Referencestaff at 

1–800–397–4209 or 301–415–4737, or 

send an e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 25th day 

of March 2011. 

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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] 

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[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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