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systems, procedures, and management 

activities that can contribute to program 

risk. Priority is given to those programs 

that involve the safety of human flight. 

The major subjects covered will be: 

Space Shuttle Program, International 

Space Station Program, and CrossProgram Areas. The Aerospace Safety 

Advisory Panel is composed of nine 

members and one ex-officio member. 

The meeting will be open to the 

public up to the seating capacity of the 

room (50). Seating will be on a firstcome basis. Please contact Ms. Susan 

Burch on (202) 358–0914 at least 24 

hours in advance to reserve a seat. 

Visitors will be requested to sign a 

visitor’s register. Photographs will only 

be permitted during the first 10 minutes 

of the meeting. During the first 30 

minutes of the meeting, members of the 

public may make a 5-minute verbal 

presentation to the Panel on the subject 

of safety in NASA. To do so, please 

contact Ms. Susan Burch on (202) 358–

0914 at least 24 hours in advance. 

Any member of the public is 

permitted to file a written statement 

with the Panel at the time of the 

meeting. Verbal presentations and 

written comments should be limited to 

the subject of safety in NASA.

P. Diane Rausch, 

Advisory Committee Management Officer, 

National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration.

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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND 

SPACE ADMINSTRATION 

[Notice 04–148] 

NASA Robotic and Human Exploration 

of Mars Strategic Roadmapping 

Committee; Meeting

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and 

Space Administration (NASA).

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public 

Law 92–463, as amended, the National 

Aeronautics and Space Administration 

announces a meeting of the NASA 

Robotic and Human Exploration of Mars 

Strategic Roadmapping Committee.

DATES: Tuesday, January 4, 2005, 8 a.m. 

to 5 p.m., Wednesday, January 5, 2005, 

8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday, January 6, 

2005, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Pacific standard 

time.

ADDRESSES: Spitzer Science Center/

Keith Spalding, Room 410, 200 East 

California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 

91125.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Tracey Abbott at (818) 393–7106.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

meeting will be open to the public up 

to the seating capacity of the meeting 

room. Attendees will be requested to 

sign a register. 

The agenda for the meeting is as 

follows:

—Mars science: What we know today. 

—Science planning for exploring Mars. 

—Overview of robotic science missions. 

—Challenges of Mars robotic and 

human exploration. 

—Human mission studies, options, and 

technology needs. 

—Key issues to be studied.

It is imperative that the meeting be 

held on this date to accommodate the 

scheduling priorities of the key 

participants.

P. Diane Rausch, 

Advisory Committee Management Officer, 

National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration.

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THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE 

ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 

Meetings of Humanities Panel

AGENCY: The National Endowment for 

the Humanities.

ACTION: Notice of meetings.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the provisions of 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(Pub. L. 92–463, as amended), notice is 

hereby given that the following 

meetings of the Humanities Panel will 

be held at the Old Post Office, 1100 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20506.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Daniel Schneider, Advisory Committee 

Management Officer, National 

Endowment for the Humanities, 

Washington, DC 20506; telephone (202) 

606–8322. Hearing-impaired individuals 

are advised that information on this 

matter may be obtained by contacting 

the Endowment’s TDD terminal on (202) 

606–8282.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

proposed meetings are for the purpose 

of panel review, discussion, evaluation 

and recommendation on applications 

for financial assistance under the 

National Foundation on the Arts and the 

Humanities Act of 1965, as amended, 

including discussion of information 

given in confidence to the agency by the 

grant applicants. Because the proposed 

meetings will consider information that 

is likely to disclose trade secrets and 

commercial or financial information 

obtained from a person and privileged 

or confidential and/or information of a 

personal nature the disclosure of which 

would constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy, pursuant 

to authority granted me by the 

Chairman’s Delegation of Authority to 

Close Advisory Committee meetings, 

dated July 19, 1993, I have determined 

that these meetings will be closed to the 

public pursuant to subsections (c) (4), 

and (6) of section 552b of Title 5, United 

States Code. 

1. Date: January 7, 2005. 

Time: 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 

Room: 714. 

Program: This meeting will review 

applications for Humanities Projects in 

Media, submitted to the Division of 

Public Programs at the November 3, 

2004 deadline. 

2. Date: January 14, 2005. 

Time: 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 

Room: 315. 

Program: This meeting will review 

applications for Humanities Projects in 

Media, submitted to the Division of 

Public Programs at the November 3, 

2004 deadline.

3. Date: January 24, 2005. 

Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Room: 315. 

Program: This meeting will review 

applications for Scholarly Editions 

(British and American Literature) 

submitted to the Division of Research 

Programs at the November 1, 2004 

deadline. 

4. Date: January 25, 2005. 

Time: 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 

Room: 415. 

Program: This meeting will review 

applications for Humanities Projects in 

Media, submitted to the Division of 

Public Programs at the November 3, 

2004 deadline. 

5. Date: January 27, 2005. 

Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Room: 315. 

Program: This meeting will review 

applications for Scholarly Editions 

(Religion, Philosophy, Science, and the 

Arts) submitted to the Division of 

Research Programs at the November 1, 

2004 deadline. 

6. Date: January 28, 2005. 

Time: 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 

Room: 415. 

Program: This meeting will review 

applications for Humanities Projects in 

Media, submitted to the Division of 

Public Programs at the November 3, 

2004 deadline. 

7. Date: January 28, 2005. 

Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Room: 315. 

Program: This meeting will review 

applications for Collaborative Research 

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Division of Research Programs at the 

November 1, 2004 deadline. 

8. Date: January 31, 2005. 

Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Room: 315. 

Program: This meeting will review 

applications for Collaborative Research 

(Archaeology), submitted to the Division 

of Research Programs at the November 

1, 2004 deadline.

Daniel Schneider, 

Advisory Committee, Management Officer.

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[Docket Nos. 50–275 AND 50–323] 

Pacific Gas and Electric Company; 

Notice of Consideration of Issuance of 

Amendments to Facility Operating 

Licenses, Proposed No Significant 

Hazards Consideration Determination, 

and Opportunity for a Hearing 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (the Commission) is 

considering issuance of amendments to 

Facility Operating License Nos. DPR–80 

and DPR–82 issued to Pacific Gas and 

Electric Company (the licensee) for 

operation of the Diablo Canyon Power 

Plant (DCPP), Unit Nos. 1 and 2 located 

in San Luis Obispo County, California. 

The proposed amendments would 

revise Technical Specification (TS) 

3.7.17 and TS 4.3 for Cycles 14–16 to 

allow installation and use of a 

temporary cask pit spent fuel storage 

rack (cask pit rack) for DCPP Unit Nos. 

1 and 2. The total spent fuel pool (SFP) 

storage capacity for each unit would be 

increased to 1478 fuel assemblies for 

Cycles 14–16. 

Before issuance of the proposed 

license amendments, the Commission 

will have made findings required by the 

Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended 

(the Act), and the Commission’s 

regulations. 

The Commission has made a 

proposed determination that the 

amendment request involves no 

significant hazards consideration. Under 

the Commission’s regulations in Title 10 

of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 

CFR), Section 50.92, this means that 

operation of the facility in accordance 

with the proposed amendment would 

not (1) involve a significant increase in 

the probability or consequences of an 

accident previously evaluated; or (2) 

create the possibility of a new or 

different kind of accident from any 

accident previously evaluated; or (3) 

involve a significant reduction in a 

margin of safety. As required by 10 CFR 

50.91(a), the licensee has provided its 

analysis of the issue of no significant 

hazards consideration, which is 

presented below:

1. The proposed change does not involve 

a significant increase in the probability or 

consequences of an accident previously 

evaluated. 

The proposed changes to temporarily 

increase the spent fuel storage capacity with 

a cask pit rack were evaluated for impact on 

the following previously evaluated events: 

1. A fuel handling accident (FHA). 

2. A heavy load drop into the cask pit. 

3. A loss of spent fuel pool (SFP) cooling. 

4. A stored fuel criticality event. 

5. A seismic event. 

The probability of a FHA is not 

significantly increased by the proposed 

changes, because the same equipment (e.g., 

the spent fuel handling crane) and 

procedures will be used to handle fuel 

assemblies and the frequency of fuel 

movement will be essentially the same, with 

or without a cask pit rack. The FHA 

radiological consequences are not 

significantly increased because the source 

term of a single fuel assembly will remain 

unchanged, and the cask pit rack will be 

installed at the same water depth as the 

existing SFP racks, with the same iodine 

decontamination factors assumed in the FHA 

analysis. The structural consequences of 

dropping a fuel assembly on a cask pit rack 

were evaluated and found to be acceptable. 

In accordance with NUREG–0612 [‘‘Control 

of Heavy Loads at Nuclear Power Plants’’], 

heavy load drops are not required to be 

postulated if a single failure-proof crane is 

used for heavy load movements. If drops are 

postulated, then the consequences must be 

acceptable. PG&E plans to install a single 

failure-proof crane in accordance with 

NUREG–0612, prior to heavy load 

movements associated with the cask pit rack 

and platform. In the event that a single 

failure-proof crane is not available, PG&E has 

also performed heavy load drop analyses for 

the cask pit rack and platform, which have 

shown acceptable results in accordance with 

NUREG–0612. Therefore, the probability and 

the consequences of a heavy load drop in the 

cask pit are not significantly increased. 

The probability of a loss of SFP cooling is 

unaffected and its consequences are not 

significantly increased with the cask pit rack 

installed. With the cask pit rack installed, 

loss of forced cooling results in a sufficient 

time-to-boil for the operator to recognize the 

condition and establish SFP makeup to 

compensate for water lost due to pool bulk 

boiling, and thereby maintain a sufficient 

water blanket over the stored spent fuel.

The probability and consequences of a 

stored fuel criticality event are not increased 

by the addition of a cask pit rack. The 

reactivity analysis for the new cask pit rack 

demonstrates that reactivity remains 

subcritical (below 0.95) for the worst-case 

fuel-mispositioning event with credit for 

soluble boron. 

The probability of a seismic event is 

unaffected and its consequences are not 

increased with the cask pit rack installed, 

because the structural analysis of the cask pit 

rack demonstrates that the fuel storage 

function of the rack is maintained during a 

seismic event. 

Therefore, the proposed change does not 

involve a significant increase in the 

probability or consequences of an accident 

previously evaluated. 

2. The proposed change does not create the 

possibility of a new or different kind of 

accident from any accident previously 

evaluated. 

The proposed change to add a cask pit rack 

does not alter the operating requirements of 

the plant or the equipment credited in the 

mitigation of design basis accidents, nor do 

the proposed changes affect any of the 

important parameters required to ensure the 

safe storage of spent fuel. A new rack 

material (MetamicTM) is introduced into the 

pool under these changes; but, based on 

testing results, there are no mechanisms that 

create a new or different kind of accident. 

The NRC has also approved the use of 

MetamicTM generically for SFPs. The same 

equipment (e.g., the spent fuel handling 

crane) and procedures will be used to handle 

fuel assemblies for the new cask pit rack as 

are used for existing spent fuel storage. The 

fuel storage configuration in the cask pit rack 

will be similar to the configuration in the 

existing SFP storage racks, and a fuel drop or 

mispositioning event in the new racks does 

not represent a new or different kind of 

accident from fuel handling and 

mispositioning events previously evaluated. 

Therefore, the proposed change does not 

create the possibility of a new or different 

accident from any accident previously 

evaluated. 

3. The proposed change does not involve 

a significant reduction in a margin of safety. 

The effect of the proposed change on 

current margins of safety was evaluated for 

spent fuel storage functionality and 

criticality, spent fuel and SFP cooling, and 

SFP/cask pit structural integrity. The design 

of the new cask pit rack uses proven 

technology which preserves the proper safety 

margins for spent fuel storage to provide a 

coolable and subcritical geometry under both 

normal and abnormal/accident conditions. 

The rack design complies with 10 CFR 50 

Appendix A General Design Criterion (GDC) 

62, the O.T. Position for Review and 

Acceptance of Spent Fuel Storage and 

Handling Applications, Regulatory Guide 

1.13, and ANSI/American Nuclear Society 

(ANS) 52.2. Handling of the cask pit rack and 

its platform in accordance with the defensein-depth approach of NUREG–0612 with 

temporary lift devices designed to ANSI 

N14.6 preserves the proper margin of safety 

to preclude a heavy load drop in the cask pit. 

The proposed SFP cooling system design 

basis is consistent with the previous 

licensing basis in FSAR [Final Safety 

Analysis Report], Section 9.1, for SFP 

temperature limits during normal and 

abnormal core offload conditions. The rack 

and SFP thermal-hydraulic analyses 

demonstrate that the proposed SFP cooling 

system design basis is met, and that no bulk 

boiling will occur in the cask pit rack or SFP 

with minimum cooling available. In the event