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Good cause is hereby found for not 

utilizing notice and public comment 

procedure thereon prior to the issuance 

of these determinations as prescribed in 

5 U.S.C. 553 and not providing for delay 

in the effective date as prescribed in that 

section, because the necessity to issue 

current construction industry wage 

determinations frequently and in large 

volume causes procedures to be 

impractical and contrary to the public 

interest. 

General wage determination 

decisions, and modifications and 

supersedeas decisions thereto, contain 

no expiration dates and are effective 

from their date of notice in the Federal 

Register, or on the date written notice 

is received by the agency, whichever is 

earlier. These decisions are to be used 

in accordance with the provisions of 29 

CFR parts 1 and 5. Accordingly, the 

applicable decision, together with any 

modifications issued, must be made a 

part of every contract for performance of 

the described work within the 

geographic area indicated as required by 

an applicable Federal prevailing wage 

law and 29 CFR part 5. The wage rates 

and fringe benefits, notice of which is 

published herein, and which are 

contained in the Government Printing 

Office (GPO) document entitled 

‘‘General Wage Determinations Issued 

Under The Davis-Bacon And Related 

Acts,’’ shall be the minimum paid by 

contractors and subcontractors to 

laborers and mechanics. 

Any person, organization, or 

governmental agency having an interest 

in the rates determined as prevailing is 

encouraged to submit wage rate and 

fringe benefit information for 

consideration by the Department. 

Further information and selfexplanatory forms for the purpose of 

submitting this data may be obtained by 

writing to the U.S. Department of Labor, 

Employment Standards Administration, 

Wage and Hour Division, Division of 

Wage Determinations, 200 Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Room S–3014, 

Washington, DC 20210.

Modification to General Wage 

Determination Decisions 

The number of the decisions listed to 

the Government Printing Office 

document entitled ‘‘General Wage 

Determinations Issued Under the DavisBacon and related Acts’’ being modified 

are listed by Volume and State. Dates of 

publication in the Federal Register are 

in parentheses following the decisions 

being modified.

Volume I 

Massachusetts 

MA030016 (Jun. 13, 2003) 

Rhode Island 

RI030005 (Jun. 13, 2003) 

Volume II 

Virginia 

VA030014 (Jun. 13, 2003) 

VA030044 (Jun. 13, 2003) 

VA030059 (Jun. 13, 2003) 

VA030067 (Jun. 13, 2003) 

Volume III 

None 

Volume IV 

Illinois 

IL030001 (Jun. 13, 2003) 

IL030002 (Jun. 13, 2003) 

IL030004 (Jun. 13, 2003) 

IL030005 (Jun. 13, 2003) 

IL030023 (Jun. 13, 2003) 

IL030039 (Jun. 13, 2003) 

IL030056 (Jun. 13, 2003) 

IL030059 (Jun. 13, 2003) 

IL030060 (Jun. 13, 2003) 

IL030062 (Jun. 13, 2003) 

IL030064 (Jun. 13, 2003) 

Volume V 

Arkansas 

AR030001 (Jun. 13, 2003) 

AR030008 (Jun. 13, 2003) 

AR030027 (Jun. 13, 2003) 

Missouri 

MO030003 (Jun. 13, 2003) 

MO030006 (Jun. 13, 2003) 

MO030010 (Jun. 13, 2003) 

Volume VI 

Utah 

UT030034 (Jun. 3, 2003) 

Wyoming 

WY030006 (Jun. 13, 2003) 

WY030007 (Jun. 13, 2003) 

WY030008 (Jun. 13, 2003) 

Volume VII 

California 

CA030004 (Jun. 3, 2003) 

CA030013 (Jun. 3, 2003) 

CA030029 (Jun. 3, 2003) 

CA030030 (Jun. 3, 2003) 

CA030032 (Jun. 3, 2003) 

CA030033 (Jun. 3, 2003) 

Nevada 

NV030005 (Jun. 13, 2003)

General Wage Determination 

Publication 

General wage determinations issued 

under the Davis-Bacon and related Acts, 

including those noted above, may be 

found in the Government Printing Office 

(GPO) document entitled ‘‘General Wage 

determinations Issued Under the DavisBacon and Related Acts’’. This 

publication is available at each of the 50 

Regional Government Depository 

Libraries and many of the 1,400 

Government Depository Libraries across 

the country. 

General wage determinations issued 

under the Davis-Bacon and related Acts 

are available electronically at no cost on 

the Government Printing Office site at 

http://www.access.gpo.gov/davisbacon.

They are also available electronically by 

subscription to the Davis-Bacon Online 

Service (http://

davisbacon.fedworld.gov) of the 

National Technical Information Service 

(NTIS) of the U.S. Department of 

Commerce at 1–800–363–2068. This 

subscription offers value-added features 

such as electronic delivery of modified 

wage decisions directly to the user’s 

desktop, the ability to access prior wage 

decisions issued during the year, 

extensive Help desk Support, etc. 

Hard-copy subscriptions may be 

purchased from: Superintendent of 

Documents, U.S. Government Printing 

Office, Washington, DC 20402. (202) 

512–1800. 

When ordering hard-copy 

subscription(s), be sure to specify the 

State(s) of interest, since subscriptions 

may be ordered for any or all of the six 

separate Volumes, arranged by State. 

Subscriptions include an annual edition 

(issued in January or February) which 

includes all current general wage 

determinations for the States covered by 

each volume. Throughout the remainder 

of the year, regular weekly updates will 

be distributed to subscribers.

Signed in Washington, DC this 9th day of 

December, 2004. 

Terry Sullivan, 

Acting Chief, Branch of Construction Wage 

Determinations.

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

NSF–NASA–Astronomy and 

Astrophysics Advisory Committee 

#13883; Notice of Meeting 

In accordance with the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–

463, as amended), the National Science 

Foundation announces the following 

NSF–NASA–Astronomy and 

Astrophysics Advisory Committee 

meeting (#13883):

Date and Time: January 18–19, 2005. 

Place: National Science Foundation, 4201 

Wilson Boulevard, Room 330, Arlington, VA. 

Type of Meeting: Open. 

Contact Person: Dr. G. Wayne Van Citters, 

Director, Division of Astronomical Sciences, 

Suite 1045, National Science Foundation, 

4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230. 

Telephone: (703) 292–4908. 

Purpose of Meeting: To provide advice and 

recommendations to the National Science 

Foundation (NSF) and the National 

Aeronautics and Space Administration 

(NASA) on issues within the field of 

astronomy and astrophysics that are of 

mutual interest and concern to the two 

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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.

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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