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Gallagher (301) 415–5905; e-mail 

cag@nrc.gov. 

Publicly available documents created 

or received at the NRC after November 

1, 1999, are available electronically at 

the NRC’s Electronic Reading Room at 

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/

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can gain entry into the NRC’s 

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Management System (ADAMS), which 

provides text and image files of NRC’s 

public documents. If you do not have 

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problems in accessing the documents 

located in ADAMS, contact the NRC 

Public Document Room (PDR) Reference 

staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737 

or by e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Michael T. Lesar, Chief, Rules and 

Directives Branch, Division of 

Administrative Services, Office of 

Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555–

0001, Telephone: 301–415–7163 or Toll 

Free 800–368–5642, or e-mail 

mtl@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Petitioner 

The OAS is a nonprofit, voluntary, 

scientific and professional society 

incorporated in the District of Columbia. 

The membership of OAS consists of 

state radiation control directors and staff 

from the 33 Agreement States who are 

responsible for implementation of their 

respective radioactive materials 

programs. The purpose of the OAS is to 

provide a mechanism for these 

Agreement States to work with each 

other and with the NRC on regulatory 

issues associated with their respective 

agreements. Agreement States are those 

states that have entered into an effective 

regulatory discontinuance agreement 

with the NRC under subsection 274b. of 

the Atomic Energy Act (AEA). The role 

of the Agreement State is to regulate 

most types of radioactive material in 

accordance with the compatibility 

requirements of the AEA. 

Discussion 

The petitioner requests that the NRC 

amend its regulations in 10 CFR 35.55, 

10 CFR 35.190, 10 CFR 35.290, and 10 

CFR 35.390, specify the minimum 

number of didactic (classroom and 

laboratory) training hours for the 

authorized nuclear pharmacists and the 

authorized users identified in these 

sections. The NRC revised 10 CFR Part 

35, Medical Use of Byproduct Material, 

on April 24, 2002. The revised training 

and experience requirements in 10 CFR 

35.55, 35.190, 35.290 and 35.390 require 

training and experience to include both 

classroom and laboratory training and 

supervised work experience, but there is 

no specified breakdown in these 

sections of these hours. The petitioner 

states that, in the current regulations, 

minimum numbers of didactic training 

hours for radiation safety training are 

not specified or separated from the total 

training hours. Part 35, Subpart J (which 

was reinserted into the current rule but 

will expire in October 2005), does 

specify a minimum number of 

classroom and laboratory training hours 

and supervised work experience. 

The petitioner believes that the lack of 

clearly defined didactic (i.e., classroom 

and laboratory) training hours for this 

rule weakens the rule’s consistency and 

uniformity. The petitioner further 

believes that need for specified didactic 

training hours is a radiation safety issue 

rather than a ‘‘practice of medicine’’

issue. The petitioner also believes that 

radiation safety for the patient and the 

occupational radiation workers may be 

compromised. The petitioner states that 

a majority of radiation safety principles 

and procedures are learned during this 

classroom and laboratory training. The 

petitioner also asserts that the inclusion 

of a specification for a minimum 

number of hours of classroom and 

laboratory training (‘didactic’ training), 

in §§ 35.55, 35.190, 35.290, and 35.390, 

will increase consistency and 

uniformity of requirements between 

States and make it easier to maintain 

regulations that are consistent with the 

NRC’s designation of requirements for 

training and experiences as 

compatibility category B. 

Conclusion 

The NRC is currently revising the 

training and experience requirements of 

Part 35. Among the issues being 

addressed in the current rulemaking is 

whether a minimum number of didactic 

training hours should be defined and 

specified in §§ 35.55, 35.190, 35.290 and 

35.390. Therefore the NRC will address 

the issues raised in this petition as part 

of the ongoing rulemaking, ‘‘Medical 

Use of Byproduct Material—Recognition 

of Speciality Boards (RIN No. AH19).’’

A proposed rule was published in the 

Federal Register on December 9, 2003 

(68 FR 68549). Because the issues raised 

by this petition are being considered in 

a current rulemaking, NRC is not 

instituting a separate public comment 

period for this action.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd 

day of October 2004.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Annette Vietti-Cook, 

Secretary of the Commission.

[FR Doc. 04–24097 Filed 10–27–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration 

14 CFR Part 71

Docket No. FAA–2003–19053; Airspace 

Docket No. 04–ANM–10

RIN 2120–AA66

Proposed Revision of VOR Federal 

Airway 208

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA) DOT.

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking 

(NPRM). 

SUMMARY: This action proposes to 

modify Federal Airway 208 (V–208) by 

changing the originating point of the 

airway from the Santa Catalina, CA, 

Very High Frequency Omnidirectional 

Range/Tactical Air Navigation 

(VORTAC) to the Ventura, CA, 

VORTAC. The proposed modification 

would extend V–208 by incorporating a 

route segment that air traffic control 

(ATC) frequently assigns to aircraft 

arriving at the Los Angeles, CA, 

terminal area. The proposed change 

would enhance the management of 

aircraft in the Southern California area.

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before December 13, 2004.

ADDRESSES: Send comments on this 

proposal to the Docket Management 

System, U.S. Department of 

Transportation, Room Plaza 401, 400 

Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 

20590–0001. You must identify FAA 

Docket No. FAA–2004–19053 and 

Airspace Docket No. 04–ANM–10, at the 

beginning of your comments. You may 

also submit comments on the Internet at 

http://dms.dot.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ken 

McElroy, Airspace and Rules, Office of 

System Operations and Safety, Federal 

Aviation Administration, 800 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20591; telephone: (202) 

267–8783.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Comments Invited 

Interested parties are invited to 

participate in this proposed rulemaking 

by submitting such written data, views, 

or arguments, as they may desire. 

Comments that provide the factual basis 

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supporting the views and suggestions 

presented are particularly helpful in 

developing reasoned regulatory 

decisions on the proposal. Comments 

are specifically invited on the overall 

regulatory, aeronautical, economic, 

environmental, and energy-related 

aspects of the proposal. 

Communications should identify both 

docket numbers (FAA Docket No. FAA–

2004–19053 and Airspace Docket No. 

04–ANM–10) and be submitted in 

triplicate to the Docket Management 

System (see ADDRESSES section for 

address and phone number). You may 

also submit comments through the 

Internet at http://dms.dot.gov.

Commenters wishing the FAA to 

acknowledge receipt of their comments 

on this action must submit with those 

comments a self-addressed, stamped 

postcard on which the following 

statement is made: ‘‘Comments to FAA 

Docket No. FAA–2004–19053 and 

Airspace Docket No. 04–ANM–10.’’ The 

postcard will be date/time stamped and 

returned to the commenter. 

All communications received on or 

before the specified closing date for 

comments will be considered before 

taking action on the proposed rule. The 

proposal contained in this action may 

be changed in light of comments 

received. All comments submitted will 

be available for examination in the 

public docket both before and after the 

closing date for comments. A report 

summarizing each substantive public 

contact with FAA personnel concerned 

with this rulemaking will be filed in the 

docket.

Availability of NPRM’s 

An electronic copy of this document 

may be downloaded through the 

Internet at http://dms.dot.gov. Recently 

published rulemaking documents can 

also be accessed through the FAA’s Web 

page at http://www.faa.gov or the 

Federal Register’s Web page at http://

www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html.

You may review the public docket 

containing the proposal, any comments 

received and any final disposition in 

person in the Dockets Office (see

ADDRESSES section for address and 

phone number) between 9 a.m. and 5 

p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. An informal docket 

may also be examined during normal 

business hours at the office of the 

Regional Air Traffic Division, Federal 

Aviation Administration, 1601 Lind 

Avenue SW., Renton, Washington, 

98055–4056. 

Persons interested in being placed on 

a mailing list for future NPRM’s should 

call the FAA’s Office of Rulemaking, 

(202) 267–9677, for a copy of Advisory 

Circular No. 11–2A, Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking Distribution System, which 

describes the application procedure. 

Background 

Currently, the Southern California 

Terminal Radar Approach Control 

(TRACON) and the Los Angeles Air 

Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC) 

issue clearances to aircraft along 

specified radials to separate enroute 

aircraft from jet aircraft departing the 

Los Angeles International Airport. 

However, these clearances increase both 

pilot and ATC workload. As such these 

facilities request that V–208 be modified 

to incorporate these clearances. This 

proposed action responds to that 

request. 

The Proposal 

This action proposes to amend Title 

14 Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) 

part 71 (part 71) to modify Federal 

airway V–208 by changing the 

originating point of the airway from the 

Santa Catalina VORTAC to the Ventura 

VORTAC. The revision would 

incorporate routing that is currently 

issued by ATC when managing aircraft 

in the Los Angeles, CA, terminal area. 

Extending V–208 as described above 

would significantly reduce pilotcontroller communications, alleviate 

radio frequency congestion, reduce the 

potential for pilot readback errors, and 

enhance the management of aircraft 

operations in the Southern California 

area. 

The FAA has determined that this 

proposed regulation only involves an 

established body of technical 

regulations for which frequent and 

routine amendments are necessary to 

keep them operationally current. 

Therefore, this proposed regulation: (1) 

Is not a ‘‘significant regulatory action’’

under Executive Order 12866; (2) is not 

a ‘‘significant rule’’ under Department of 

Transportation (DOT) Regulatory 

Policies and Procedures (44 FR 11034; 

February 26, 1979); and (3) does not 

warrant preparation of a regulatory 

evaluation as the anticipated impact is 

so minimal. Since this is a routine 

matter that will only affect air traffic 

procedures and air navigation, it is 

certified that this proposed rule, when 

promulgated, will not have a significant 

economic impact on a substantial 

number of small entities under the 

criteria of the Regulatory Flexibility Act.

List of Subjects in 14 CFR Part 71

Airspace, Incorporation by reference, 

Navigation (air).

The Proposed Amendment 

In consideration of the foregoing, the 

Federal Aviation Administration 

proposes to amend 14 CFR part 71 as 

follows:

PART 71—DESIGNATION OF CLASS A, 

B, C, D, AND E AIRSPACE AREAS; AIR 

TRAFFIC SERVICE ROUTES; AND 

REPORTING POINTS 

1. The authority citation for part 71 

continues to read as follows:

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(g), 40103, 40113, 

40120; E.O. 10854, 24 FR 9565, 3 CFR, 1959–

1963 Comp., p. 389.

§ 71.1 [Amended] 

2. The incorporation by reference in 

14 CFR 71.1 of FAA Order 7400.9M, 

Airspace Designations and Reporting 

Points, dated August 30, 2004, and 

effective September 16, 2004, is 

amended as follows:

Paragraph 6010(a) Domestic VOR Federal 

Airways

* * * * *

V–208 [Revised] 

From Ventura, CA 175° Santa Catalina, CA, 

310° Oceanside, CA; Julian, CA; Thermal, 

CA; Twentynine Palms, CA; 20 miles, 24 

miles 73 MSL, Needles, CA; Peach Springs, 

AZ; Grand Canyon, AZ; INT Grand Canyon 

095° and Tuba City, AZ, 246° radials; Tuba 

City; Page, AZ; Hanksville, UT; Carbon, UT; 

Myton, UT; 79 MSL, Vernal, UT, 25 miles, 

105 MSL, Cherokee, WY. The airspace within 

R–2503 and the airspace below 2,000 feet 

MSL outside the United States is excluded. 

The portion outside the United States has no 

upper limit.

* * * * *

Issued in Washington, DC, October 19, 

2004. 

Reginald C. Matthews, 

Manager, Airspace and Rules.

[FR Doc. 04–24146 Filed 10–27–04; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Office of the Secretary 

14 CFR Parts 201, 203, 205, 215, 298, 

380, 385, and 389

[Docket No. OST–2004–19426] 

RIN 2105–AD43

Elimination of Commuter Air Carrier 

Registrations

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary (OST), 

Department of Transportation (DOT).

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking.

SUMMARY: The Department proposes to 

amend the regulations governing air taxi