75502 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 232 / Friday, December 3, 2010 / Notices 

1See generally Securities Exchange Act Release 

Nos. 60372 (Jul. 23, 2009), 74 FR 37748 (Jul. 29, 

2009) and 61973 (Apr. 23, 2010), 75 FR 22656 (Apr. 

29, 2010) (temporary exemptions in connection 

with CDS clearing by ICE Clear Europe Limited); 

Securities Exchange Act Release Nos. 60373 (Jul. 

23, 2009), 74 FR 37740 (Jul. 29, 2009) and 61975 

(Apr. 23, 2010), 75 FR 22641 (Apr. 29, 2010) 

(temporary exemptions in connection with CDS 

clearing by Eurex Clearing AG); Securities Exchange 

Act Release Nos. 59578 (Mar. 13, 2009), 74 FR 

11781 (Mar. 19, 2009), 61164 (Dec. 14, 2009), 74 FR 

67258 (Dec. 18, 2009), and 61803 (Mar. 30, 2010), 

75 FR 17181 (Apr. 5, 2010) (temporary exemptions 

in connection with CDS clearing by Chicago 

Mercantile Exchange Inc.); Securities Exchange Act 

Release Nos. 59527 (Mar. 6, 2009), 74 FR 10791 

(Mar. 12, 2009) (‘‘March 2009 ICE Trust Exemptive 

Order’’), 61119 (Dec. 4, 2009), 74 FR 65554 (Dec. 10, 

2009) (‘‘December 2009 ICE Trust Exemptive 

Order’’), and 61662 (Mar. 5, 2010), 75 FR 11589 

(Mar. 11, 2010) (‘‘March 2010 ICE Trust Exemptive 

Order,’’ and together with the March 2009 ICE Trust 

Exemptive Order and December 2009 ICE Trust 

Exemptive Order the ‘‘ICE Trust Exemptive Orders’’) 

(temporary exemptions in connection with CDS 

clearing by ICE Trust U.S. LLC); Securities 

Exchange Act Release No. 59164 (Dec. 24, 2008), 74 

FR 139 (Jan. 2, 2009) (temporary exemptions in 

connection with CDS clearing by LIFFE A&M and 

LCH.Clearnet Ltd.); and other Commission actions 

discussed in several of these orders. In addition, the 

Commission has issued interim final temporary 

rules that provide exemptions under the Securities 

Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 

1934 for CDS to facilitate the operation of one or 

more central counterparties for the CDS market. See 

Securities Act Release Nos. 8999 (Jan. 14, 2009), 74 

FR 3967 (Jan. 22, 2009) (initial approval), 9063 

(Sep. 14, 2009), 74 FR 47719 (Sep. 17, 2009) 

(extension until Nov. 30, 2010), and 9158 (Nov. 30, 

2010) (extension until Jul. 16, 2011). 

certain geographic areas requiring 

special protection. The regulations 

establish such a permit system to 

designate Antarctic Specially Protected 

Areas. 

The applications received are as 

follows: 

1. Applicant: Permit Application No. 

2011–023, Joseph Levy, Department of 

Geology, Portland State University, PO 

Box 751, Portland, OR 97207–0751. 

Activity for Which Permit is 

Requested: Take and Import into the 

USA. The applicant plans to enter the 

Garwood Valley to collect algal mats 

from sediment outcrops where exposed, 

and from the surface of ponds. The goal 

of the project is to define the rate of 

geomorphic change in Garwood Valley 

in response to changing climate 

conditions. The geomorphic record will 

be reconstructed over the past 1-=2- kyr 

to infer past climate-driven landscape 

alteration at the end of the LGM and 

examine the current episode of 

landscape changes, including assessing 

the thermal equilibrium of buried 

massive ice. The past and current 

geomorphic changes will be used as a 

guide for predicting landscape response 

in the Dry Valleys should the >130 km2

of ice-cored terrain in the valleys also 

begin to melt. 

Location: Garwood Valley, Dry 

Valleys. 

Dates: January 1, 2011 to February 1, 

2014. 

Nadene G. Kennedy, 

Permit Officer, Office of Polar Programs. 

[FR Doc. 2010–30337 Filed 12–2–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7555–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2010–0331] 

Appointments To Performance Review 

Boards for Senior Executive Service 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Appointment to Performance 

Review Board for Senior Executive 

Service. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

change in the membership of the Senior 

Executive Service Performance Review 

Board for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

October 26, 2010 (75 FR 65673), the 

NRC published its list of Performance 

Review Board appointees pursuant to 

the regulations at 5 CFR 430.310 (74 FR 

51261). This notice announces the 

appointment of Charles L. Miller to the 

Performance Review Board in place of 

Catherine Haney, who is unavailable to 

participate this year. The NRC 

Performance Review Board (PRB) is 

responsible for making 

recommendations to the appointing and 

awarding authorities on performance 

appraisal ratings and performance 

awards for Senior Executives and Senior 

Level employees. For the public’s 

convenience, an updated membership 

list of the Performance Review Board is 

provided below: 

Darren B. Ash, Deputy Executive 

Director for Corporate Management, 

Office of the Executive Director for 

Operations; 

R. W. Borchardt, Executive Director for 

Operations; 

Stephen G. Burns, General Counsel; 

Elmo E. Collins, Jr., Regional 

Administrator, Region IV; 

Margaret M. Doane, Director, Office of 

International Programs; 

James E. Dyer, Chief Financial Officer; 

Kathryn O. Greene, Director, Office of 

Administration; 

Eric J. Leeds, Director, Office of Nuclear 

Reactor Regulation; 

Charles L. Miller, Director, Office of 

Federal and State Materials and 

Environmental Management 

Programs; 

Martin J. Virgilio, Deputy Executive 

Director for Reactor and Preparedness 

Programs, Office of the Executive 

Director for Operations; 

Michael F. Weber, Deputy Executive 

Director for Materials, Waste, 

Research, State, Tribal, and 

Compliance Programs, Office of the 

Executive Director for Operations; 

James T. Wiggins, Director, Office of 

Nuclear Security and Incident 

Response. 

The following individuals will serve 

as members of the NRC PRB Panel that 

was established to review appraisals 

and make recommendations to the 

appointing and awarding authorities for 

NRC PRB members: 

Marvin L. Itzkowitz, Associate General 

Counsel for Hearings, Enforcement, 

and Administration, Office of the 

General Counsel; 

Michael R. Johnson, Director, Office of 

New Reactors; 

Brian W. Sheron, Director, Office of 

Nuclear Regulatory Research. 

All appointments are made pursuant 

to Section 4314 of Chapter 43 of Title 

5 of the United States Code. 

DATES: Effective Date: December 3, 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Secretary, Executive Resources Board, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555, (301) 492–2076. 

Dated at Bethesda, Maryland, this 23rd day 

of November, 2010. 

For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, 

Miriam Cohen, 

Secretary, Executive Resources Board. 

[FR Doc. 2010–30354 Filed 12–2–10; 8:45 am] 

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

[Release No. 34–63387; File No. S7–05–09] 

Order Extending and Modifying 

Temporary Exemptions Under the 

Securities Exchange Act of 1934 in 

Connection With Request of Ice Trust 

U.S. LLC Related to Central Clearing of 

Credit Default Swaps and Request for 

Comment 

November 29, 2010. 

I. Introduction 

The Securities and Exchange 

Commission (‘‘Commission’’) has taken 

multiple actions designed to help foster 

the prompt development of credit 

default swap (‘‘CDS’’) central 

counterparties (‘‘CCP’’), including 

granting temporary conditional 

exemptions from certain provisions of 

the Federal securities laws.1

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