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ventilation) and implement additional 

controls if necessary. Accordingly, these 

requirements prevent serious injury and 

death to employees who work on 

underground-construction projects. In 

addition, these records provide an 

efficient means for employees to 

evaluate the accuracy and effectiveness 

of an employer’s exposure-reduction 

program, and for OSHA compliance 

officers to determine that employers 

performed the required tests and 

implemented appropriate controls. 

III. Special Issues for Comment 

OSHA has a particular interest in 

comments on the following issues: 

• Whether the proposed information 

collection requirements are necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

Agency’s functions, including whether 

the information is useful; 

• The accuracy of OSHA’s estimate of 

the burden (time and cost) of the 

information collection requirements, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

• The quality, utility, and clarity of 

the information collected; and 

• Ways to minimize the burden of 

employers who must comply; for 

example, by using automated or other 

technological information-collection 

and transmission techniques.

IV. Proposed Actions 

OSHA is proposing to extend the 

information collection requirements in 

the Underground Construction Standard 

(29 CFR part 1926.800). The Agency 

will summarize the comments 

submitted in response to this notice and 

will include this summary in its request 

to OMB to extend the approval of these 

information collection requirements 

contained in the Standard. 

Type of Review: Extension of 

currently approved information 

collection requirements. 

Title: Underground Construction (29 

CFR part 1926.800). 

OMB Number: 1218–0067. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit; not-for-profit institutions; Federal 

government; State, local, or tribal 

governments. 

Number of Respondents: 323. 

Frequency of Response: Varies from 

recording air-quality tests twice per shift 

to posting a warning sign or notice once 

every two years. 

Average Time per Response: Varies 

from 30 seconds to read and record airquality test results to one hour to 

inspect, load test, and complete and 

maintain a certification record for a 

hoist. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours:

57,464. 

Estimated Cost (Operation and 

Maintenance): $0. 

V. Authority and Signature 

John L. Henshaw, Assistant Secretary 

of Labor for Occupational Safety and 

Health, directed the preparation of this 

notice. The authority for this notice is 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(44 U.S.C. 3506 et seq.) and Secretary of 

Labor’s Order No. 5–2002 (67 FR 

65008).

Dated: Signed at Washington, DC on 

December 7, 2004. 

John L. Henshaw, 

Assistant Secretary of Labor.

[FR Doc. 04–27352 Filed 12–13–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–26–M

NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS 

BOARD 

[53 FR 10305] 

Merger of Regional Offices

AGENCY: National Labor Relations 

Board.

ACTION: Final notice.

Notice of change in status of the 

Milwaukee Regional Office to 

Subregional Office (Subregion 30) of the 

Minneapolis Regional Office and 

transfer of supervision over the Des 

Moines Resident Office from the 

Minneapolis Regional Office to the 

Kansas City Regional Office.

SUMMARY: The National Labor Relations 

Board is reorganizing the structure of its 

office in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to 

restructure it from a Regional Office to 

a subregion of the Minneapolis Regional 

Office. As part of this reorganization, 

the supervision of the Des Moines 

Resident Office will be transferred from 

the Minneapolis Regional Office to the 

Kansas City Regional Office. The 

National Labor Relations Board is 

revising its Statement of Organization 

and Functions accordingly.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

National Labor Relations Board has 

decided to restructure the status of the 

Agency’s Milwaukee office from a 

Regional Office to a Subregion of the 

Minneapolis Regional Office and to 

transfer supervision of the Des Moines 

Resident Office from the Minneapolis 

Regional Office to the Kansas City 

Regional Office. These change are 

prompted by a decline in unfair labor 

practice and representation case filings 

in the Minneapolis and Milwaukee 

offices and a desire to equalize caseload 

and case management responsibilities in 

the three contiguous NLRB regions. 

Twenty-four comments were received 

in response to the notice of proposed 

merger published in the Federal 

Register on June 2, 2004. Those 

comments exclusively addressed the 

merger of Region 18 (Minneapolis) and 

Region 30 (Milwaukee). Each of the 

comments opposed the action proposed. 

The reasons advanced by the comments 

can be summarized as follows: 

1. Access by Wisconsin practitioners 

to the Regional Director deciding their 

cases will be impeded and 

representatives will lose their ability to 

advocate directly to the Regional 

Director. 

2. The addition of Milwaukee’s 

caseload to Region 18 will create 

overload and slow down case decisions. 

3. Combining the offices to save the 

cost of a Regional Director salary is not 

sufficient to justify the change and will 

be offset by such costs as travel between 

the offices and transportation of files. 

4. Insofar as the proposal is based 

upon a decline in case intake in Region 

30, that decline is transient and case 

intake will increase in the future. 

5. Having a smaller office absorb a 

larger office seems justified only 

because the Milwaukee Regional 

Director position is currently vacant, not 

a logical rationale for a decision to 

reorganize.

6. There are other small offices 

(Regions 11 (Winston-Salem), 15 (New 

Orleans) and 34 (Hartford)) that are not 

being consolidated. 

7. The merger will have a deleterious 

effect on promotional opportunities and 

the morale and retention of Milwaukee 

employees. 

The comments received were 

carefully considered. The Board 

(Chairman Robert J. Battista and 

Members Peter C. Schaumber and 

Ronald Meisburg; Members Liebman 

and Walsh dissenting) has approved the 

merger and restructuring set forth in the 

proposed notice of merger. The Board 

majority has confidence that the 

concerns raised by the comments will 

be addressed productively and 

successfully by the staffs of the 

Minneapolis and Milwaukee offices 

with the cooperation of the 

management-labor bar and the laborrelations communities in the State of 

Wisconsin. The Board majority also 

noted that similar concerns have been 

successfully addressed in other prior 

restructuring efforts; advances in 

technology have made communication 

far easier and will allow the Regional 

Director in Minneapolis to establish and 

maintain close relations with the 

Milwaukee Office and stakeholders of 

the Agency in Wisconsin; that the 

increased size of the case intake of the 

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restructured Region will not negatively 

impact on the quality or efficiency of 

case processing; that the merged region 

will be a mid-level region in terms of 

intake and staffing level; and that while 

not dramatic, the cost savings to be 

realized by the merger are not 

insubstantial. 

The Milwaukee Subregional Office 

will be headed by an Officer-in-Charge 

who will report to the Regional Director 

in Minneapolis. This change will vest 

the Regional Director in the 

Minneapolis Regional Office with 

casehandling authority for the 

geographic area covered by the 

Milwaukee Subregional Office. The 

geographic area covered by the 

Milwaukee Subregion will be the same 

as that covered by the Milwaukee 

Regional Office. The Statement of 

Organization and Functions published 

at 53 FR 10305–10308 on March 30, 

1998, is revised to reflect the addition 

of Subregion 30, the elimination of 

Region 30 and the transfer of the 

territory in the State of Iowa served by 

the Des Moines Resident Office from 

Region 18, Minneapolis, to Region 17, 

Kansas City. 

EFFECTIVE DATE: The changes 

announced above shall be effective on 

January 13, 2005.

Dated: Washington, DC December 9, 2004. 

By direction of the Board. 

Lester A. Heltzer, 

Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 04–27344 Filed 12–13–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7545–01–P

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. 50–315 and 50–316] 

Indiana Michigan Power Company; 

Notice of Withdrawal of Application for 

Amendment to Facility Operating 

License 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (the Commission) has 

granted the request of the Indiana 

Michigan Power Company (the licensee) 

to withdraw its February 14, 2004, 

application for proposed amendment to 

Facility Operating License Nos. DPR–58 

and DPR–74 for the Donald C. Cook 

Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2, located in 

Berrien County, Michigan. 

The proposed amendment would 

have revised the Technical 

Specifications (TSs) governing 

containment penetrations and the 

Containment Purge and Exhaust 

Isolation System, which are applicable 

during core alterations and movement of 

irradiated fuel, such that those TSs 

would only be applicable during the 

movement of recently irradiated fuel. 

The Commission had previously 

issued a Notice of Consideration of 

Issuance of Amendment published in 

the Federal Register on May 11, 2004 

(69 FR 26191). However, by letter dated 

November 4, 2004, the licensee 

withdrew the proposed change. 

For further details with respect to this 

action, see the application for 

amendment dated February 14, 2004, 

and the licensee’s letter dated November 

4, 2004, which withdrew the 

application for license amendment. 

Documents may be examined, and/or 

copied for a fee, at the NRC’s Public 

Document Room (PDR), located at One 

White Flint North, Public File Area O1 

F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), 

Rockville, Maryland. Publicly available 

records will be accessible electronically 

from the Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management Systems 

(ADAMS) Public Electronic Reading 

Room on the internet at the NRC Web 

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

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 reference staff by telephone at 

1–800–397–4209, or 301–415–4737 or 

by e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov. Note: Public 

access to ADAMS has been temporarily 

suspended so that security reviews of 

publicly available documents may be 

performed and potentially sensitive 

information removed. Please check the 

NRC Web site for updates on the 

resumption of ADAMS access.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 15th day 

of November 2004.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Carl F. Lyon, 

Project Manager, Section 1, Project 

Directorate III, Division of Licensing Project 

Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation.

[FR Doc. 04–27325 Filed 12–14–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Notice

Date: Weeks of December 13, 20, 27, 

2004, January 3, 10, 17, 2005.

Place: Commissioner’s Conference 

Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland.

Status: Public and closed.

Matters to be Considered: 

Week of December 13, 2004

Tuesday, December 14, 2004: 

12:55 p.m. Affirmation Session 

(Public Meeting) (Tentative). 

a. HYDRO RESOURCES, INC. Petition 

for Review of LBP–04–23 (Final 

Environmental Impact Statement 

Supplementation) (Tentative). 

1 p.m. Briefing on Emergency 

Preparedness Program Initiatives (Public 

Meeting) (Contact: Nader Mamish, 301–

415–1086). 

This meeting will be webcast live at 

the Web address—http://www.nrc.gov

Week of December 20, 2004—Tentative 

There are no meeting scheduled for 

the week of December 20, 2004. 

Week of December 27, 2004—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the week of December 27, 2004. 

Week of January 3, 2005—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the week of January 3, 2005. 

Week of January 10, 2005—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the week of January 10, 2005. 

Week of January 17, 2005—Tentative 

Wednesday, January 19, 2005: 

9:30 a.m. Briefing on Human Capital 

Initiatives (Closed—Ex. 2). 

The schedule for Commission 

meetings is subject to change on short 

notice. To verify the status of meetings 

call (recording)—(301) 415–1292. 

Contact person for more information: 

Dave Gamberoni, (301) 415–1651.

* * * * *

The NRC Commission Meeting 

Schedule can be found on the Internet 

at: http://www.nrc.gov/what-we-do/

policy-making/schedule.html.

* * * * *

The NRC provides reasonable 

accommodation to individuals with 

disabilities where appropriate. If you 

need a reasonable accommodation to 

participate in these public meetings, or 

need this meeting notice or the 

transcript or other information from the 

public meetings in another format (e.g.

braille, large print), please notify the 

NRC’s Disability program Coordinator, 

August Spector, at 301–415–7080, TDD: 

301–415–2100, or by e-mail at 

aks@nrc.gov. Determinations on 

requests for reasonable accommodation 

will be made on a case-by-case basis.

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