75570 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 242 / Friday, December 17, 2004 / Notices 

Agenda: To hear presentations of current 

programming by representatives from NSF 

and NASA; to discuss current and potential 

areas of cooperation between the two 

agencies; to formulate recommendations for 

continued and new areas of cooperation and 

mechanisms for achieving them.

Dated: December 14, 2004. 

Susanne E. Bolton, 

Committee Management Office.

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

Licensing Support System Advisory 

Review Panel

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission.

ACTION: Notice of renewal of the Charter 

of the Licensing Support Network 

Advisory Review Panel (LSNARP). 

SUMMARY: The Licensing Support 

System Advisory Review Panel was 

established by the U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission as a Federal 

Advisory Committee in 1989. Its 

purpose was to provide advice on the 

fundamental issues of design and 

development of an electronic 

information management system to be 

used to store and retrieve documents 

relating to the licensing of a geologic 

repository for the disposal of high-level 

radioactive waste, and on the operation 

and maintenance of the system. This 

electronic information management 

system was known as the Licensing 

Support System (LSS). In November, 

1998 the Commission approved 

amendments to 10 CFR Part 2 that 

renamed the Licensing Support System 

Advisory Review Panel as the Licensing 

Support Network Advisory Review 

Panel. 

Membership on the Panel continues 

to be drawn from those interests that 

will be affected by the use of the LSN, 

including the Department of Energy, the 

NRC, the State of Nevada, the National 

Congress of American Indians, affected 

units of local governments in Nevada, 

the Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force, 

and a coalition of nuclear industry 

groups. Federal agencies with expertise 

and experience in electronic 

information management systems may 

also participate on the Panel. 

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

has determined that renewal of the 

charter for the LSNARP until December 

9, 2006 is in the public interest in 

connection with duties imposed on the 

Commission by law. This action is being 

taken in accordance with the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act after 

consultation with the Committee 

Management Secretariat, General 

Services Administration.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Andrew L. Bates, Office of the Secretary, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555: Telephone 301–

504–1963.

Dated: December 13, 2004. 

Andrew L. Bates, 

Advisory Committee Management Officer.

[FR Doc. 04–27612 Filed 12–16–04; 8:45 am] 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

Notice of Availability and Draft Report 

for Comment, ‘‘Evaluation of Loss of 

Offsite Power Events at Nuclear Power 

Plants: 1986–2003’’

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC).

ACTION: Notice of availability of the 

Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research 

draft report entitled, ‘‘Evaluation of Loss 

of Offsite Power Events at Nuclear 

Power Plants: 1986–2003,’’ and request 

for public comment. 

SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is announcing the 

availability of the Office of Nuclear 

Regulatory Research draft report 

entitled, ‘‘Evaluation of Loss of Offsite 

Power Events at Nuclear Power Plants: 

1986–2003.’’

DATES: Comments on this document 

should be submitted by January 31, 

2005. Comments received after that date 

will be considered to the extent 

practicable. To ensure efficient and 

complete comment resolution, 

comments should include references to 

the section, page, and line numbers of 

the document to which the comment 

applies, if possible.

ADDRESSES: Members of the public are 

invited and encouraged to submit 

written comments to Michael Lesar, 

Chief Rules and Directives Branch, 

Office of Administration, Mail Stop T–

6D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555–

0001. Hand-deliver comments attention 

to Michael Lesar, 11545 Rockville Pike, 

Rockville, Maryland, between 7:30 a.m. 

and 4:15 p.m. on Federal workdays. 

Comments may also be sent 

electronically NRCREP@nrc.gov. 

This document is available at the 

Agencywide Documents Access and 

Management System (ADAMS) Public 

Electronic Reading Room on the Internet 

at the NRC Web site at http://

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html

under Accession No. ML043380322, and 

at the NRC Public Document Room, 

11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD. 

Please note that on October 25, 2004, 

the NRC terminated public access to 

ADAMS and initiated an additional 

security review of publicly available 

documents to ensure that potentially 

sensitive information is removed from 

the ADAMS database accessible through 

the NRC’s Web site. Interested members 

of the public may obtain copies of the 

referenced documents for review and/or 

copying by contacting the Public 

Document Room pending resumption of 

public access to ADAMS. The NRC 

Public Documents Room is located at 

NRC Headquarters in Rockville, MD, 

and can be contacted at (800) 397–4209, 

(301) 415–4737 or by e-mail to 

pdr@nrc.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dale 

Rasmuson, Operating Experience Risk 

Analysis Branch, Office of Nuclear 

Regulatory Research, telephone (301) 

415–7571, e-mail dmr@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Draft Report Entitled, ‘‘Evaluation of 

Loss of Offsite Power Events at Nuclear 

Power Plants: 1986–2003’’

This report is an update of two 

previous reports analyzing loss of offsite 

power (LOOP) events at U.S. 

commercial nuclear power plants. 

LOOP data over the period 1986–2003 

were collected and analyzed. Frequency 

and duration estimates for critical and 

shutdown operations were generated for 

five categories of LOOPs: plant centered, 

switchyard centered, grid related, severe 

weather related, and extreme weather 

related. Overall, LOOP frequencies 

during critical operation have decreased 

significantly in recent years, while 

LOOP durations have increased. Various 

additional topics of interest were also 

addressed. These topics include 

potential effects of deregulation, 

seasonal impacts on LOOP frequencies, 

consequential LOOPs and others. 

Finally, additional engineering analyses 

of the LOOP data were presented. This 

information is needed in probabilistic 

risk assessment models of U.S. 

commercial nuclear power plants to 

accurately model current risk from 

LOOP and associated station blackout 

scenarios. 

The NRC is seeking public comment 

in order to receive feedback from the 

widest range of 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