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State Approval Agency for Nurse 

Education 

1. Maryland Board of Nursing (MBN) 

(Current Scope: State agency for the 

approval of nurse education. 

Submission of Written Comments: 

Written comments must be received by 

March 4, 2013, in the 

accreditationcommittees@ed.gov 

mailbox and include the subject line 

‘‘Written Comments: re (agency name).’’ 

The email must include the name, title, 

affiliation, mailing address, email 

address, telephone and facsimile 

numbers and Web site (if any) of the 

person/group making the comment. 

Comments should be submitted as a 

Microsoft Word document or in a 

medium compatible with Microsoft 

Word (not a PDF file) that is attached to 

an electronic mail message (email) or 

provided in the body of an email 

message. Comments about an agency’s 

compliance report must relate to the 

issues raised and the criteria for 

recognition cited in the Secretary’s letter 

that requested the report. Comments 

about the renewal of an agency’s 

recognition must relate to its 

compliance with the Criteria for the 

Recognition of Accrediting Agencies or 

the Criteria and Procedures for 

Recognition of State Agencies for 

Approval of Nurse Education, as 

appropriate, which are available at 

http://www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/ 

accred/index.html. Third parties having 

concerns about agencies regarding 

matters outside the scope of the petition 

should report those concerns to the 

Department. Only material submitted by 

the deadline to the email address listed 

in this notice, and in accordance with 

these instructions, become part of the 

official record concerning agencies 

scheduled for review and are considered 

by the Department and the NACIQI in 

their deliberations. Please do not send 

material directly to the NACIQI 

members. 

Submission of Requests To Make an 

Oral Comment: There are two methods 

the public may use to make a third-party 

oral comment of three to five minutes. 

All comments must concern one of the 

agencies scheduled for review at the 

June 6–7, 2013 meeting, and must relate 

to the Criteria for Recognition of 

accrediting agencies or the Criteria and 

Procedures for Recognition of State 

Agencies for Approval of Nurse 

Education, as appropriate. These criteria 

are available at: http://www.ed.gov/ 

admins/finaid/accred/index.html 

Method One: Submit a request by 

email to the 

accreditationcommittees@ed.gov 

mailbox. Please do not send material 

directly to NACIQI members. Requests 

must be received by March 4, 2013, and 

include the subject line ‘‘Oral Comment 

Request: re (agency name).’’ The email 

must include the name, title, affiliation, 

mailing address, email address, 

telephone and facsimile numbers and 

Web site (if any) of the person/group 

requesting to speak. All individuals or 

groups submitting an advance request in 

accordance with this notice will be 

afforded an opportunity to speak for a 

maximum of five minutes each. Each 

request must concern the recognition of 

a single agency or institution tentatively 

scheduled in this notice for review, be 

no more than one page (maximum), and 

must include: 

1. The name, title, affiliation, mailing 

address, email address, telephone and 

facsimile numbers, and Web site (if any) 

of the person/group requesting to speak; 

and, 

2. A brief summary of the principal 

points to be made during the oral 

presentation. 

Method Two: Register at the meeting 

location on June 6 or June 7, 2013, to 

make an oral comment during the 

NACIQI’s deliberations concerning a 

particular agency or institution 

scheduled for review that day. The 

requestor must provide his or her name, 

title, affiliation, mailing address, email 

address, telephone and facsimile 

numbers, and Web site (if any). A total 

of up to fifteen minutes during each 

agency review will be allotted for 

commenters who register on June 6 or 

June 7, 2013. Individuals or groups will 

be selected on a first-come, first-served 

basis. If selected, each commenter may 

speak from three to five minutes, 

depending on the number of individuals 

or groups who signed up the day of the 

meeting. 

If a person or group requests, in 

advance, to make comments they cannot 

also register for an oral presentation 

opportunity on June 6 or June 7, 2013. 

The oral comments made will become 

part of the official record and will be 

considered by the Department and 

NACIQI in their deliberations. No 

individual or group in attendance or 

making oral presentations may 

distribute written materials at the 

meeting. 

Access to Records of the Meeting: The 

Department will post the official report 

of the meeting on the NACIQI Web site 

shortly after the meeting. Pursuant to 

the FACA, the public may also inspect 

the materials at 1990 K Street NW., 

Washington, DC, by emailing 

aslrecordsmanager@ed.gov or by calling 

(202) 219–7067 to schedule an 

appointment. 

Reasonable Accommodations: The 

meeting site is accessible to individuals 

with disabilities. If you will need an 

auxiliary aid or service to participate in 

the meeting (e.g., interpreting service, 

assistive listening device, or materials in 

an alternate format), notify the contact 

person listed in this notice at least two 

weeks before the scheduled meeting 

date. Although we will attempt to meet 

a request received after that date, we 

may not be able to make available the 

requested auxiliary aid or service 

because of insufficient time to arrange 

it. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Carol Griffiths, Executive Director, 

NACIQI, U.S. Department of Education, 

1990 K Street NW., Room 8073, 

Washington, DC 20006–8129, telephone: 

(202) 219–7035, fax: (202) 219–7005, or 

email: Carol.Griffiths@ed.gov. 

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Specifically, through the advanced 

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the Department. 

David A. Bergeron, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary 

Education. 

[FR Doc. 2013–03314 Filed 2–12–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Notice of Availability of Draft Section 

3116 Basis for Determination for 

Closure of H Tank Farm at the 

Savannah River Site 

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy 

(DOE) announces the availability of the 

Draft Section 3116 Basis for 

Determination for Closure of the H Tank 

Farm at the Savannah River Site (Draft 

HTF 3116 Basis Document) for public 

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comment. DOE prepared the Draft HTF 

3116 Basis Document pursuant to 

section 3116(a) of the Ronald W. Reagan 

National Defense Authorization Act for 

Fiscal Year 2005 (NDAA), which 

provides that the Secretary of Energy 

may, in consultation with the U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), 

determine that certain waste from 

reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel is not 

high-level radioactive waste if the 

provisions set forth in section 3116(a) 

are satisfied. To make this 

determination, the Secretary of Energy 

must determine that the waste in the 

HTF: (1) Does not require permanent 

isolation in a deep geologic repository 

for spent fuel or high-level radioactive 

waste; (2) has had highly radioactive 

radionuclides removed to the maximum 

extent practical; and (3)(A) does not 

exceed concentration limits for Class C 

low-level waste and will be disposed of 

in compliance with the performance 

objectives in 10 CFR Part 61, Subpart C 

and pursuant to a State approved 

closure plan or State-issued permit; or 

(3)(B) exceeds concentration limits for 

Class C low-level waste but will be 

disposed of in compliance with the 

performance objectives of 10 CFR Part 

61, Subpart C; pursuant to a State 

approved closure plan or State-issued 

permit; and pursuant to plans 

developed by DOE in consultation with 

the NRC. Although not required by the 

NDAA, DOE is making the Draft HTF 

3116 Basis Document available for 

public comment. The Draft HTF 3116 

Basis Document demonstrates that the 

cleaned and stabilized HTF tanks, 

ancillary structures and their stabilized 

residuals at HTF closure meet the public 

dose limits and other criteria in section 

3116. DOE is consulting with the NRC 

and will consider public comments 

before preparing a final HTF 3116 Basis 

Document and issuing a Secretarial 

determination under section 3116. 

DATES: The comment period will end on 

May 1, 2013. Comments received after 

this date will be considered to the 

extent practicable. 

ADDRESSES: The Draft HTF Section 3116 

Basis document is available on the 

Internet at http://sro.srs.gov/ 

f_htankfarmsdocuments.htm. 

Written comments on the draft HTF 

Section 3116 Basis document may be 

submitted by U.S. mail to the following 

address: Ms. Sherri Ross, DOE–SR, 

Building 704–S, Room 43, U.S. 

Department of Energy, Savannah River 

Operations Office, Aiken, SC 29802 

(ATTN: H-Tank Farm Draft Basis). 

Alternatively, comments may also be 

filed electronically by email to 

sherri.ross@srs.gov, or by Fax at (803) 

208–7414. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The HTF 

is a 45-acre site, located at the Savannah 

River Site (SRS) near Aiken, South 

Carolina. The HTF consists of 29 

underground radioactive waste storage 

tanks and supporting ancillary 

structures. The major HTF ancillary 

structures are three evaporator systems, 

transfer lines, eight diversion boxes, one 

catch tank, a concentrate transfer 

system, ten pump pits, nine pump 

tanks, and eleven valve boxes. There are 

four waste tank types (Type I, II, III/IIIA, 

and IV) in HTF with operating 

capacities ranging from 750,000 gallons 

to 1,300,000 gallons. The waste tanks 

have varying degrees of secondary 

containment and in-tank structural 

features such as cooling coils and 

columns. All HTF waste tanks are 

constructed of carbon steel. The HTF 

tanks and ancillary structures contain, 

in part, waste from the prior 

reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, and 

from various SRS production, 

processing and laboratory facilities. 

DOE is in the process of closing the 

HTF and is engaged in an expansive 

campaign to clean, stabilize, and close 

the tanks and ancillary structures in the 

HTF, using a process that includes 

removing bulk waste from tanks and 

applicable ancillary structures, followed 

by deployment of tested technologies to 

remove the majority of the remaining 

waste. After completing cleaning 

operations, a small amount of residual 

radioactive waste will remain in the 

tanks and ancillary structures. DOE 

plans to stabilize the residuals in the 

tanks and certain ancillary structures in 

place with grout, followed by a closure 

cap system for the HTF. Tank waste 

storage and removal operations in the 

HTF are governed by a South Carolina 

Department of Health and 

Environmental Control (SCDHEC) 

industrial wastewater operating permit. 

Removal of tanks from service and 

stabilization of the HTF waste tanks and 

ancillary structures will be carried out 

pursuant to a State-approved closure 

plan, the Industrial Wastewater General 

Closure Plan for H-Area Waste Tank 

Systems. Specific Closure Modules for 

each tank or ancillary structure or 

groupings of tanks and ancillary 

structures will be developed and 

submitted to SCDHEC for approval. 

After SCDHEC approval of the specific 

and final closure configuration 

documentation and grouting, the 

applicable tank or ancillary structure 

will be removed from the State’s 

industrial wastewater permit. Where 

appropriate, the Draft HTF 3116 Basis 

Document draws upon DOE’s 

experience in cleaning and closing tanks 

at the similar F-Area Tank Farm at SRS, 

for which the Secretary of Energy issued 

a Section 3116 Determination in March 

2012. 

As demonstrated and documented in 

the Draft HTF 3116 Basis Document, the 

stabilized HTF tanks, ancillary 

structures and residuals at closure meet 

the public dose performance objective 

and other criteria set forth in section 

3116(a) of the NDAA. DOE is consulting 

with the NRC pursuant to section 3116, 

and will consider this consultation as 

well as public comments before 

preparing a final HTF 3116 Basis 

Document. DOE anticipates that the 

final HTF 3116 Basis Document will 

serve as a predicate for the Secretary to 

determine whether or not the stabilized 

HTF tanks, ancillary structures and 

residuals at closure meet the criteria in 

section 3116(a), are not high-level 

radioactive waste, and may be disposed 

of in place as low-level waste. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on February 6, 

2013. 

Mark A. Gilbertson, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Site 

Restoration. 

[FR Doc. 2013–03305 Filed 2–12–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Combined Notice of Filings #1 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following electric rate 

filings: 

Docket Numbers: ER12–1643–001. 

Applicants: ISO New England Inc. 

Description: ISO New England Inc. 

submits Order No. 755 Regulation Mkt. 

Compliance Changes to be effective 12/ 

31/9998. 

Filed Date: 2/6/13. 

Accession Number: 20130206–5047. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. e.t. 2/27/13. 

Docket Numbers: ER12–2277–003. 

Applicants: Midwest Independent 

Transmission System Operator, Inc. 

Description: Midwest Independent 

Transmission System Operator, Inc. 

submits 2013–02–05 SA 2457 G631–2– 

3 Term to be effective 4/6/2013. 

Filed Date: 2/5/13. 

Accession Number: 20130205–5158. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. e.t. 2/26/13. 

Docket Numbers: ER13–886–000. 

Applicants: Midwest Independent 

Transmission System Operator, Inc. 

Description: Midwest Independent 

Transmission System Operator, Inc. 

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