64998 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 216 / Tuesday, November 9, 2004 / Notices 

1 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).

2 17 CFR 240.19b-4.

3See letter from John Boese, Vice President, Chief 

Regulatory Officer, BSE, to Nancy Sanow, Assistant 

Director, Division of Market Regulation 

(‘‘Division’’), Commission, dated July 22, 2004 and 

accompanying Form 19b–4 (‘‘Amendment No. 1’’). 

Amendment No. 1 replaced and superceded the 

originally filed proposed rule change.

4See letter from John Boese, Vice President, Chief 

Regulatory Officer, BSE, to Nancy Sanow, Assistant 

Director, Division, Commission, dated August 18, 

2004 (‘‘Amendment No. 2’’). Amendment No. 2 

replaced and superceded BSE Rule Chapter XV, 

Section 17, Paragraph (a) of the previously filed 

proposed rule change.

5See letter from John Boese, Vice President, Chief 

Regulatory Officer, BSE, to Nancy Sanow, Assistant 

Director, Division, Commission, dated August 19, 

2004 (‘‘Amendment No. 3’’). Amendment No. 3 

replaced and superceded BSE Rule Chapter XV, 

Section 17, Paragraph (a) of the previously filed 

proposed rule change.

6See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 50287 

(August 27, 2004), 69 FR 53966.

7See letter from John Boese, Vice President, Chief 

Regulatory Officer, BSE, to Nancy Sanow, Assistant 

Director, Division, Commission, dated October 6, 

2004 (‘‘Amendment No. 4’’). In Amendment No. 4, 

the BSE proposed permanent approval of the SPEP 

by deleting Paragraph (f) of Chapter XV, DealerSpecialists, Section 17, Specialist Performance 

4. Assurance 

The Safety Program required by 

§ 70.62(a) should have provisions for 

implementing the appropriate 

management controls to maintain the 

validity of the IEFs. Consideration 

should also be given to commitments in 

the QA program or a specific license 

condition. 

References

U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, title 10, 

part 70, ‘‘Domestic Licensing of Special 

Nuclear Material,’’ U.S. Government 

Printing Office, January 1, 2003. 

NUREG–1520, ‘‘Standard Review Plan for the 

Review of a License Application for a Fuel 

Cycle Facility,’’ U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Office of Nuclear Material 

Safety and Safeguards, March 2002. 

NUREG–1718, ‘‘Standard Review Plan for the 

Review of an Application for a Mixed 

Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility,’’

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Office of Nuclear Material Safety and 

Safeguards, August 2000.

IV. Further Information 

Comments and questions should be 

directed to the NRC contact listed above 

by December 9, 2004. Comments 

received after this date will be 

considered if it is practical to do so, but 

assurance of consideration cannot be 

given to comments received after this 

date.

Dated in Rockville, Maryland, this 3rd day 

of November, 2004. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Melanie A. Galloway, 

Chief, Technical Support Group, Division of 

Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, Office of 

Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.

[FR Doc. 04–24890 Filed 11–8–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P

POSTAL RATE COMMISSION

Briefing on New Postal Service 

Rollforward Model

AGENCY: Postal Rate Commission.

ACTION: Notice of public briefing.

SUMMARY: The Postal Service will 

present a briefing and demonstration of 

its new PC-based rollforward model 

software on Tuesday, November 16, 

2004 at 10 a.m. in the Commission’s 

hearing room. The briefing will address 

the history of the Postal Service’s 

rollforward model, reasons why the new 

version was developed, and components 

of the new model. A question-andanswer session will follow. The meeting 

is open to the public.

DATES: Tuesday, November 16, 2004.

ADDRESSES: Postal Rate Commission 

(hearing room), 1333 H Street NW., 

Washington, DC 20268–0001, Suite 300.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Stephen L. Sharfman, General Counsel, 

202–789–6818.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Regulatory History 

69 FR 7530, February 17, 2004. 

Earlier this year, the Postal Rate 

Commission gave a public 

demonstration of the new computer 

software model it has developed to 

handle the cost model/rollforward 

function in rate cases. The Postal 

Service has likewise been involved in 

updating its rollforward software. For 

the Postal Service, this would mean 

moving from a mainframe platform to a 

PC-based platform. This presentation 

will be quite similar in content and 

format to that provided by the 

Commission. As with the Commission’s 

new software, the primary purpose of 

the Postal Service’s new model is not to 

change the substance of the rollforward 

methodology, but rather to perform the 

same computational operations and 

achieve the same results using a 

different computer platform. The 

demonstration will use the rollforward 

model from the last omnibus rate case 

to illustrate how the model works. 

The Postal Service anticipates having 

a version of the model available on the 

Commission’s Web site, http://

www.prc.gov, so that interested 

observers can load the model and follow 

along on their own computers. There are 

a limited number of computer outlets in 

the hearing room which will be 

available for use during the 

presentation. Interested persons should 

contact Steven W. Williams at 202–789–

6842.

Steven W. Williams, 

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 04–24943 Filed 11–8–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7710–FW–P

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

[Release No. 34–50622; File No. SR–BSE–

2004–25] 

Self-Regulatory Organizations; Boston 

Stock Exchange, Inc.; Order Approving 

a Proposed Rule Change and 

Amendment Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Thereto 

and Notice of Filing and Order 

Granting Accelerated Approval to 

Amendment No. 4 Thereto Relating to 

the Specialist Performance Evaluation 

Program 

November 2, 2004. 

I. Introduction 

On June 21, 2004, the Boston Stock 

Exchange, Inc. (‘‘BSE’’ or ‘‘Exchange’’) 

filed with the Securities and Exchange 

Commission (‘‘Commission’’), pursuant 

to Section 19(b)(1) of the Securities 

Exchange Act of 1934 (‘‘Act’’) 1 and Rule 

19b–4 thereunder,2 a proposed rule 

change to amend its rules concerning its 

Specialist Performance Evaluation 

Program (‘‘SPEP’’). On July 26, 2004, the 

BSE submitted Amendment No. 1 to the 

proposed rule change.3 On August 25, 

2004, the BSE submitted Amendment 

Nos. 2 4 and 3 5 to the proposed rule 

change. The proposed rule change, as 

amended by Amendment Nos. 1, 2 and 

3, was published for comment in the 

Federal Register on September 3, 2004.6

The Commission received no comments 

on the proposed rule change.

On October 15, 2004, the BSE 

submitted Amendment No. 4 to the 

proposed rule change.7 This order