76794 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 245 / Wednesday, December 22, 2004 / Notices 

Worker data element as a separate date 

item. Gender specific data will no 

longer be available from the Current 

Employment Statistics program. 

However, data on the total number of 

employees will continue to be collected. 

The present CES hours and earnings 

series, which apply only to production 

and non-supervisory workers, are 

seriously limited in scope. This limits 

their value as overall economic 

indicators. Expanding the concept of 

hours and earnings to cover all 

employees, and adding a series on gross 

monthly earnings will be especially 

beneficial to the Bureau of Economic 

Analysis for derivation of personal 

income estimates, and also for the BLS 

productivity estimates. Both personal 

income and productivity estimates use 

the current production/non-supervisory 

worker-based CES series as a proxy for 

all employee hours and earnings data. 

The production worker series will be 

dropped only after the new series are 

well established and acceptable to BLS 

and its users, including having 

sufficient data observations to allow for 

seasonal adjustment. 

An additional motivation for change 

is the difficulty of collecting hours and 

earnings information from respondents 

using the current CES production/nonsupervisory worker definitions. Many 

respondents’ payroll records do not 

allow them to readily identify workers 

according to CES definitions. Interviews 

with respondents and large payroll 

processing firms indicate that all 

employee payroll would be more 

reportable. 

The decision to eliminate collection 

of a separate women workers data item 

is based on several factors: (1) 

Respondent burden; (2) an assessment 

of the relative number of users of this 

series; and (3) the availability of these 

data from other sources such as the 

Current Population Survey (which 

provides a large body of other related 

demographic information). Because this 

data series does not have a large number 

of users and there is an alternative 

source for these data, the BLS believes 

that the respondent burden to continue 

collection of these data is not justified, 

especially considering the increase in 

burden associated with collecting the 

new data elements which have more 

wide-ranging uses. 

IV. Current Action 

Office of Management and Budget 

Clearance is being sought for the Report 

on Employment, Payroll, and Hours 

(BLS–790). 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

Title: Report on Employment, Payroll, 

and Hours (BLS–790). 

OMB Number: 1220–0011. 

Affected Public: State or local 

governments; Businesses or other forprofit; Non-profit institutions; Small 

businesses or organizations.

Form Number of respondents 

Minutes per 

report 

Frequency of 

response 

Annual responses Annual burden hours 

A—Natural Resources and Mining .......................................... 1,400 10 12 16,800 2,800 

B—Construction ....................................................................... 12,800 10 12 153,600 25,600 

C—Manufacturing .................................................................... 18,000 10 12 216,000 36,000 

E—Service Providing Industries .............................................. 153,300 10 12 1,839,600 306,600 

G—Public Administration ......................................................... 56,700 5 12 680,400 56,700 

S—Education ........................................................................... 4,000 5 12 48,000 4,000 

F1, F2, F3 Fax Forms .............................................................. 36,400 10 12 436,800 72,800 

Total ...................................................................................... 282,600 ........................ ........................ 3,391,200 504,500 

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):

$0. 

Total Burden Cost (operating/

maintenance): $0. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget approval of the 

information collection request; they also 

will become a matter of public record.

Signed at Washington, DC, this 13th day of 

December 2004. 

Cathy Kazanowski, 

Chief, Division of Management Systems, 

Bureau of Labor Statistics.

[FR Doc. E4–3731 Filed 12–21–04; 8:45 am] 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

Review; Comment Request

AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC).

ACTION: Notice of pending NRC action to 

submit an information collection 

request to OMB and solicitation of 

public comment. 

SUMMARY: The NRC is preparing a 

submittal to OMB for review of 

continued approval of information 

collections under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. Chapter 35). 

Information pertaining to the 

requirement to be submitted: 

1. The Title of the Information 

Collection: 10 CFR Part 72, Licensing 

Requirements for the Independent 

Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel and HighLevel Radioactive Waste. 

2. Current OMB Approval Number:

3150–0132. 

3. How Often the Collection is 

Required: Required reports are collected 

and evaluated on a continuing basis as 

events occur; submittal of reports varies 

from less than one per year under some 

rule sections to up to an average of 

about 100 per year under other rule 

sections. Applications for new licenses, 

certificates of compliance (CoCs), and 

amendments may be submitted at 

anytime; applications for renewal of 

licenses are required every 20 years for 

an Independent Spent Fuel Storage 

Installation (ISFSI) or Certificate of 

Compliance (CoC) and every 40 years 

for a Monitored Retrievable Storage 

(MRS) facility. 

4. Who is Required or Asked to 

Report: Certificate holders of casks for 

the storage of spent fuel, licensees and 

applicants for a license to possess power 

reactor spent fuel and other radioactive 

materials associated with spent fuel 

storage in an ISFSI, and the Department 

of Energy for licenses to receive, 

transfer, package and possess power 

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reactor spent fuel, high-level waste, and 

other radioactive materials associated 

with spent fuel and high-level waste 

storage in an MRS. 

5. The Estimated Number of Annual 

Respondents: 50. 

6. The Number of Hours Needed 

Annually to Complete the Requirement 

or Request: 25,551 (22,781 hours for 

reporting [71 hours per response plus 

2,770 hours for recordkeeping 55 hours 

per recordkeeper]). 

7. Abstract: 10 CFR part 72 establishes 

mandatory requirements, procedures, 

and criteria for the issuance of licenses 

to receive, transfer, and possess power 

reactor spent fuel and other radioactive 

materials associated with spent fuel 

storage in an ISFSI, and requirements 

for the issuance of licenses to the 

Department of Energy to receive, 

transfer, package, and possess power 

reactor spent fuel and high-level 

radioactive waste, and other associated 

radioactive materials, in an MRS. The 

information in the applications, reports 

and records is used by NRC to make 

licensing and other regulatory 

determinations.

Submit, by February 22, 2005, 

comments that address the following 

questions: 

1. Is the proposed collection of 

information necessary for the NRC to 

properly perform its functions? Does the 

information have practical utility? 

2. Is the burden estimate accurate? 

3. Is there a way to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected? 

4. How can the burden of the 

information collection be minimized, 

including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology? 

A copy of the draft supporting 

statement may be viewed free of charge 

at the NRC Public Document Room, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Room O–1 F21, Rockville, MD 

20852. OMB clearance requests are 

available at the NRC worldwide Web 

site: http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/ 

doc-comment/omb/ index.html. The 

document will be available on the NRC 

home page site for 60 days after the 

signature date of this notice. 

Comments and questions about the 

information collection requirements 

may be directed to the NRC Clearance 

Officer, Brenda Jo. Shelton, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, T–5 F52, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, by 

telephone at 301–415–7233, or by 

Internet electronic mail to 

INFOCOLLECTS@NRC.GOV.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 15th day 

of December 2004.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Brenda Jo. Shelton, 

NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer.

[FR Doc. 04–27945 Filed 12–21–04; 8:45 am] 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 50–219] 

Amergen Energy Company, LLC; 

Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating 

Station Environmental Assessment 

and Finding of No Significant Impact 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is considering 

issuance of an exemption from certain 

requirements of Title 10 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations (10 CFR), 

Subsection 2.109(b), for Facility 

Operating License No. DPR–16, which 

authorizes operation of the Oyster Creek 

Nuclear Generating Station (OCNGS), a 

boiling-water reactor facility, located in 

Ocean County, New Jersey. Therefore, as 

required by 10 CFR 51.21, the NRC is 

issuing this environmental assessment 

and finding of no significant impact. 

Environmental Assessment 

Identification of the Proposed Action 

Subsection 109(b) of 10 CFR part 2 

states, ‘‘If the licensee of a nuclear 

power plant licensed under 10 CFR 

50.21(b) or 50.22 files a sufficient 

application for renewal of an operating 

license at least 5 years prior to the 

expiration of the existing license, the 

existing license will not be deemed to 

have expired until the application has 

been finally determined.’’ This 

requirement for license renewal 

applications was established in 

December 1991 in conjunction with the 

publication of the final license renewal 

rule, 10 CFR part 54, ‘‘Requirements for 

Renewal of Operating Licenses for 

Nuclear Power Plants’’ (56 FR 64943). 

AmerGen’s application requested an 

exemption from the timing requirements 

of 10 CFR 2.109(b), for submittal of the 

OCNGS license renewal application. 

The exemption would allow the 

submittal of the renewal application 

with less than 5 years remaining prior 

to expiration of the operating license 

while maintaining the protection of the 

timely renewal provision in 10 CFR 

2.109(b). 

The proposed action is in accordance 

with the licensee’s application for 

exemption dated August 10, 2004. 

The Need for the Proposed Action 

AmerGen stated that the OCGNS 

license renewal application would be 

submitted in July 2005 and that 

application of the 5-year term in 10 CFR 

2.109(b) for filing a license renewal 

application is not necessary in this 

situation to achieve the purpose of the 

regulation. The July 2005 filing date, 

which is approximately 44 months 

before expiration of the existing license 

in April 2009, according to AmerGen 

will provide the NRC staff with ample 

time in which to perform a full and 

adequate review. 

The licensee proposed an exemption 

from the requirements of 10 CFR 

2.109(b), to allow submittal of the 

license renewal application with less 

than 5 years remaining prior to 

expiration of the operating license, 

while maintaining the protection of the 

timely renewal provision in 10 CFR 

2.109(b). 

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed 

Action 

The NRC has completed its evaluation 

of the proposed action and concludes 

that the pursuant to 10 CFR 50.12(a), the 

proposed exemption is authorized by 

law, will not endanger life or property 

or common defense and security, and is, 

otherwise, in the public interest. In 

addition, special circumstances exist to 

justify the proposed exemption. The 

details of the staff’s evaluation will be 

provided in the exemption that will be 

issued as part of the letter to the 

licensee approving the exemption to the 

regulation. 

The proposed action will not 

significantly increase the probability or 

consequences of accidents. No changes 

are being made in the types of effluents 

that may be released offsite. There is no 

significant increase in the amount of 

any effluent release offsite. There is no 

significant increase in occupational or 

public radiation exposure. Therefore, 

there are no significant radiological 

environmental impacts associated with 

the proposed action. 

With regard to potential nonradiological impacts, the proposed 

action does not have a potential to affect 

any historic sites. It does not affect nonradiological plant effluents and has no 

other environmental impact. Therefore, 

there are no significant non-radiological 

environmental impacts associated with 

the proposed action. 

Accordingly, the NRC staff concludes 

that there are no significant 

environmental impacts associated with 

the proposed action. 

Environmental Impacts of the 

Alternatives to the Proposed Action 

As an alternative to the proposed 

action, the NRC staff considered denial 

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