61420 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 200 / Monday, October 18, 2004 / Notices 

Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, 

telephone (301) 415–2840, e-mail 

mxs3@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Draft NUREG/CR–6850, ‘‘EPRI/NRC–

RES Fire PRA Methodology for Nuclear 

Power Facilities’’

The purpose of EPRI/NRC–RES Fire 

PRA Methodology for Nuclear Power 

Facilities Draft Report for Comment 

(NUREG/CR–6850) is to provide stateof-the-art methods, tools, and data for 

the conduct of fire Probabilistic Risk 

Assessment (PRA). This methodology 

was developed under the program, the 

Fire Risk Requantification Study, which 

was conducted as a joint activity 

between EPRI and RES under the terms 

of an EPRI/RES Memorandum of 

Understanding on Cooperative Nuclear 

Safety Research and accompanying Fire 

Risk Addendum. Licensee applications 

and U.S. NRC review guidance with 

respect to many regulatory activities 

such as the risk-informed, performancebased fire protection rule (endorsing 

NFPA 805) will benefit for more robust 

methods. This research addresses the 

full breadth of FRA technical issues for 

power operations, and includes 

consideration of large early release 

frequency. The current scope excludes 

low power/shutdown operations, spent 

fuel pool accidents, sabotage, and PRA 

level 3 estimates of consequence. While 

the primary objective of the project was 

to consolidate existing research from 

EPRI and NRC in state-of-the-art 

methods, the newly documented 

methods represent a significant 

advancement in many areas over 

previously documented methods. 

The NRC is seeking public comment 

in order to receive feedback from the 

widest range of interested parties and to 

ensure that all information relevant to 

developing this document is available to 

the NRC staff. This document is issued 

for comment only and is not intended 

for interim use. The NRC will review 

public comments received on the 

document, incorporate suggested 

changes as necessary, and issue the final 

NUREG/CR–6850 for use.

Dated at Rockville, MD, this 8th day of 

October 2004.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Mark A. Cunningham, 

Acting Deputy Director, Division of Risk 

Analysis and Applications, Office of Nuclear 

Regulatory Research.

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Extension: 

Rule 53, SEC File No. 270–376, OMB 

Control No. 3235–0426; Rule 57 and 

Form U–33–S, SEC File No. 270–376, 

OMB Control No. 3235–0429.

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 

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Office of Management and Budget 

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previously approved collections of 

information discussed below. 

Sections 32 and 33 of the Public 

Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, 

as amended (‘‘Act’’), and rules 53, 54, 

and 57(b) under the Act, permit, among 

other things, utility holding companies 

registered under the Act to make direct 

or indirect investments in exempt 

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foreign utility companies (‘‘FUCOs’’), as 

defined in sections 32 and 33 of the Act, 

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a reporting burden for respondents. 

These rules do, however, contain 

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the Commission mandates the 

maintenance of certain books and 

records identifying investments in and 

earnings from all subsidiary EWGs or 

FUCOs in order to measure their 

financial effect on the registered 

systems. 

The Commission estimates that the 

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Under rule 57(b) there is an annual 

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Commission to monitor overseas 

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The Commission estimates that the 

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