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meeting those needs as evidenced by 

resolution of State-specific and national 

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Dated: February 24, 2010. 

Alexa Posny, 

Assistant Secretary for Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services. 

[FR Doc. 2010–4176 Filed 2–26–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Letter From Secretary of Energy 

Accepting Defense Nuclear Facilities 

Safety Board (Board) Recommendation 

2009–2 

AGENCY: Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy 

(DOE) is making available the February 

2, 2010, Secretary’s letter to the Board 

accepting the Board’s recommendation 

2009–2 regarding seismic safety at the 

Los Alamos National Laboratory 

Plutonium Facility. 

ADDRESSES: U.S. Department of Energy, 

HS–1.1, 1000 Independence Ave, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DOE is 

making this letter available for public 

information and solicits comments from 

the public. Comments may be sent to 

the address above. The text of the 

document is below. It may also be 

viewed at: http://www.hss.energy.gov/ 

deprep/default.asp. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on February 23, 

2010. 

Mark B. Whitaker, 

Departmental Representative to the Defense 

Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. 

February 2, 2010. 

The Honorable John E. Mansfield, Vice 

Chairman, Defense Nuclear 

Facilities Safety Board, 625 Indiana 

Avenue, NW., Suite 700, 

Washington, DC 20004. 

Dear Mr. Vice Chairman: The 

Department of Energy (DOE) 

acknowledges receipt of Defense 

Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (Board) 

Recommendation 2009–2, Los Alamos 

National Laboratory Plutonium Facility 

Seismic Safety, issued on October 26, 

2009, and I accept the recommendation. 

In December 2008, the National 

Nuclear Security Administration 

(NNSA) Los Alamos Site Office (LASO) 

approved a new Documented Safety 

Analysis (DSA) for the Plutonium 

Facility at Los Alamos National 

Laboratory (LANL), the first major 

upgrade to the Plutonium Facility’s 

Safety Basis since 1996. The DSA 

conservatively describes potentially 

high mitigated consequences to the 

maximally exposed off-site individual 

(i.e., the public) from a first-floor fire 

following a seismic event, 

approximately two orders of magnitude 

higher than our evaluation guideline for 

selecting safety class controls. 

Approval of the DSA included 

recognition of weaknesses in the 

facility’s control set and the need to 

upgrade a number of safety systems in 

order to meet DOE nuclear safety 

policies. As a result, Los Alamos 

National Security (LANS) has initiated a 

number of improvements to address 

safety issues identified in the DSA, 

including transitioning to an active 

confinement ventilation strategy. 

LANS recently submitted to LASO an 

update of the facility’s DSA that 

includes revised seismic accident 

scenarios to more accurately, but 

conservatively, evaluate the 

consequences of such scenarios. The 

DSA annual update, to be reviewed and 

approved by LASO, includes about a 

factor of 15 reduction from the previous 

DSA of the mitigated consequences to 

the maximally exposed off-site 

individual from a post-seismic fire. This 

proposed reduction is accomplished by 

establishing stricter limits to the overall 

material at risk allowed in the facility 

and by defining specific material 

quantity limits for various forms of 

material such as liquid, metal, and 

oxide and for heat-source plutonium. 

However, additional upgrades will be 

needed in order to meet DOE nuclear 

safety policies. 

A significant number of actions have 

been completed recently or are planned 

in the near future that improve the 

safety posture of the facility. For 

example, in the near term, NNSA will 

incentivize LANS to accomplish the 

following in FY 10: 

• Install an automatic seismic 

shutdown capability for non-vital 

laboratory room electrical loads that 

provides an engineered control to 

reduce laboratory room electrical 

ignition sources; 

• Develop conceptual designs for 

potential seismic upgrades to key active 

confinement ventilation subsystems and 

to the fire suppression system; 

• Robustly package or otherwise 

disposition greater than 250 kilograms 

of plutonium-equivalent material; 

• Reduce first floor material at risk 

limit by 40 percent; and 

• Complete safety class encapsulation 

of the existing inventory of heat-source 

plutonium currently stored in Russian 

Product Containers (RPCs) that will 

subsequently be stored in the vault 

water baths. 

NNSA has also provided additional 

funding to LANS for FY 10 to support 

the repackaging and disposition of 

material, risk reduction activities, and 

new generation container development. 

Also, for FY 10, LASO and LANS have 

developed performance-based 

incentives of about $1.3M for materials 

repackaging and disposition, updated 

seismic analyses, and safety upgrades to 

the Plutonium Facility. These actions in 

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FY 10 build upon actions taken by 

LANS in FY 09 and early FY 10, 

including the following: 

• Removed nearly 11 tons of 

combustible material from the facility, 

primarily first-floor laboratory rooms; 

• Repackaged 60 existing RPCs with 

pressure safety concerns into new safety 

class containers; 

• Replaced 195 high efficiency 

particulate air (HEPA) filters with 

500°F-rated HEPA filters; and 

• Developed a hydraulic model of the 

Fire Suppression System that identified 

weaknesses that are being addressed 

and will be used to inform decisionmaking for making this system safety 

class. 

A more comprehensive summary of key 

actions is provided in the enclosure to 

this letter. 

As noted above, the changes to the 

DSA currently under review would 

reduce the potential consequences at the 

site boundary due to a post-seismic fire 

event by a factor of 15. Approving 

updates to the DSA and Technical 

Safety Requirements is the binding 

mechanism by which DOE directs 

changes to the nuclear safety posture of 

its facilities. DOE is expediting its 

review of the updated DSA to achieve 

its implementation at the earliest 

feasible date. 

I have assigned Mr. James J. 

McConnell, Acting Assistant Deputy 

Administrator for Nuclear Safety and 

Operations, Office of Defense Programs, 

NNSA, to be the Department’s 

responsible manager for developing the 

Implementation Plan. He can be reached 

at (202) 586–4379. 

Sincerely, 

Steven Chu 

[FR Doc. 2010–4128 Filed 2–26–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP10–64–000] 

Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company; 

Notice of Application 

February 19, 2010. 

Take notice that on February 9, 2010, 

Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company 

(Tennessee), 1001 Louisiana Street, 

Houston, Texas 77002, filed in the 

above referenced docket an application 

pursuant to section 7(b) of the Natural 

Gas Act (NGA) and Part 157 of the 

Commission’s regulations, requesting 

authorization to abandon in place an 

inactive supply lateral designed as Line 

No. 527A–1300 and associated 

appurtenances located in Federal waters 

offshore Louisiana. Tennessee states 

that the subject facilities incurred 

extensive damage during Hurricane 

Gustav and have since been inactive, all 

as more fully set forth in the application 

which is on file with the Commission 

and open to public inspection. The 

filing is available for review at the 

Commission in the Public Reference 

Room or may be viewed on the 

Commission’s Web site Web at http:// 

www.ferc.gov using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. 

Enter the docket number excluding the 

last three digits in the docket number 

field to access the document. For 

assistance, contact FERC at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

toll-free, (886) 208–3676 or TTY, (202) 

502–8659. 

Any questions concerning this 

application may be directed to Thomas 

G. Joyce, Manager, Certificates, 

Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, 1001 

Louisiana Street, Houston, Texas 77002, 

by telephone at (713) 420–3299, by 

facsimile at (713) 420–1605, or by e-mail 

at tom.joyce@elpaso.com; or Kathy 

Cash, Principal Analyst, Rates and 

Regulatory Affairs, Tennessee Gas 

Pipeline Company, 1001 Louisiana 

Street, Houston, Texas 77002, by 

telephone at (713) 420–3290, by 

facsimile at (713) 420–1605, or by e-mail 

at kathy.cash@elpaso.com. 

There are two ways to become 

involved in the Commission’s review of 

this project. First, any person wishing to 

obtain legal status by becoming a party 

to the proceedings for this project 

should, on or before the comment date 

stated below file with the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426, 

a motion to intervene in accordance 

with the requirements of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (18 CFR 385.214 or 385.211) 

and the Regulations under the NGA (18 

CFR 157.10). A person obtaining party 

status will be placed on the service list 

maintained by the Secretary of the 

Commission and will receive copies of 

all documents filed by the applicant and 

by all other parties. A party must submit 

14 copies of filings made in the 

proceeding with the Commission and 

must mail a copy to the applicant and 

to every other party. Only parties to the 

proceeding can ask for court review of 

Commission orders in the proceeding. 

However, a person does not have to 

intervene in order to have comments 

considered. The second way to 

participate is by filing with the 

Secretary of the Commission, as soon as 

possible, an original and two copies of 

comments in support of or in opposition 

to this project. The Commission will 

consider these comments in 

determining the appropriate action to be 

taken, but the filing of a comment alone 

will not serve to make the filer a party 

to the proceeding. The Commission’s 

rules require that persons filing 

comments in opposition to the project 

provide copies of their protests only to 

the party or parties directly involved in 

the protest. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filings of comments, protests 

and interventions in lieu of paper using 

the ‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://www.ferc.gov. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 14 copies 

of the protest or intervention to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

This filing is accessible on-line at 

http://www.ferc.gov, using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link and is available for 

review in the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room in Washington, DC. 

There is an ‘‘eSubscription’’ link on the 

Web site that enables subscribers to 

receive e-mail notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC 

Online service, please e-mail 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call 

(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call 

(202) 502–8659. 

Comment Date: March 1, 2010. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2010–4090 Filed 2–26–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Combined Notice of Filings No. 1 

February 18, 2010. 

Take notice that the Commission has 

received the following Natural Gas 

Pipeline Rate and Refund Report filings: 

Docket Numbers: RP10–383–000. 

Applicants: CenterPoint Energy Gas 

Transmission Co. 

Description: CenterPoint Energy Gas 

Transmission Co submits Ninth Revised 

Sheet No. 1 et al. to FERC Gas Tariff, 

Sixth Revised Volume No. 1. 

Filed Date: 02/16/2010. 

Accession Number: 20100217–0223. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Monday, March 1, 2010. 

Docket Numbers: RP10–384–000. 

Applicants: Columbia Gas 

Transmission, LLC. 

Description: Columbia Gas 

Transmission, LLC submits petition for 

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