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1Public Law 109–291 (2006). 

• Noise: Ambient, sources, and 

sensitive receptors; 

• Historical and Cultural Resources: 

Historical, archaeological, and 

traditional cultural resources; 

• Visual and Scenic Resources: 

Landscape characteristics, manmade 

features and viewshed; 

• Socioeconomics: Demography, 

economic base, labor pool, housing, 

transportation, utilities, public services/ 

facilities, and education; 

• Environmental Justice: Potential 

disproportionately high and adverse 

impacts to minority and low-income 

populations; 

• Public and Occupational Health: 

Potential public and occupational 

consequences from construction, 

routine operation, transportation, and 

credible accident scenarios (including 

natural events); 

• Waste Management: Types of 

wastes expected to be generated, 

handled, and stored; and 

• Cumulative Effects: Impacts from 

past, present, and reasonably 

foreseeable actions at and near the 

site(s). 

This list is not intended to be all 

inclusive, nor is it a predetermination of 

potential environmental impacts. 

5.0 The NEPA Process 

The SEIS for the Antelope and JAB 

Uranium Project will be prepared 

pursuant to the NRC’s NEPA 

Regulations at 10 CFR part 51. The NRC 

will continue its environmental review 

of the application and as soon as 

practicable, the NRC and its contractor 

will prepare and publish a draft SEIS. 

The NRC currently plans to have a 45- 

day public comment period for the draft 

SEIS. Availability of the draft SEIS and 

the dates of the public comment period 

will be announced in the Federal 

Register and the NRC Web site: http:// 

www.nrc.gov. The final SEIS will 

include responses to public comments 

received on the draft SEIS. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 6th day 

of August 2009. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Christepher McKenney, 

Acting Deputy Director, Environmental 

Protection and Performance Assessment 

Directorate, Division of Waste Management 

and Environmental Protection, Office of 

Federal and State Materials and 

Environmental Management Programs. 

[FR Doc. E9–19542 Filed 8–13–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

Reporting Requirements Submitted for 

OMB Review 

AGENCY: Small Business Administration. 

ACTION: Notice of Reporting 

Requirements Submitted for OMB 

Review; Correction. 

SUMMARY: The Small Business 

Administration published a document 

in the Federal Register of August 7, 

2009, concerning Reporting and 

Recordkeeping Requirements. The 

document contained an incorrect word 

in the title. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Curtis Rich, 202–205–7030. 

Correction: 

In the Federal Register of August 7, 

2009, FR document E9–18948, Volume 

74, Number 151, page 39727, under 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION ‘‘Title’’ 

should read: 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Disaster Home/Business Loan 

Inquiry Record. 

Dated: August 7, 2009. 

Curtis B. Rich, 

Acting, Chief Administrative Information 

Branch. 

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BILLING CODE 8025–01–P 

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

Reporting Requirements Submitted for 

OMB Review 

AGENCY: Small Business Administration. 

ACTION: Notice of Reporting 

Requirements Submitted for OMB 

Review; Correction. 

SUMMARY: The Small Business 

Administration published a document 

in the Federal Register of August 10, 

2009, concerning Reporting and 

Recordkeeping Requirements. The 

document contained an incorrect title. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Curtis Rich, 202–205–7030. 

Correction 

In the Federal Register of August 10, 

2009, FR document E9–19013, Volume 

74, Number 152, page 39991, under the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION ‘‘Title’’ 

should read: 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Information for Small Business 

Size Determination. 

Dated: August 10, 2009. 

Curtis B. Rich, 

Acting, Chief Administrative Information 

Branch. 

[FR Doc. E9–19491 Filed 8–13–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8025–01–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

[File No. 500–1] 

U.S. Canadian Minerals, Inc.; Order of 

Suspension of Trading 

August 12, 2009. 

It appears to the Securities and 

Exchange Commission that there is a 

lack of current and accurate information 

concerning the securities of U.S. 

Canadian Minerals, Inc. (OTC Bulletin 

Board symbol: USCN), a Nevada 

corporation. Questions have been raised 

about the accuracy and adequacy of 

publicly disseminated information 

concerning, among other things, U.S. 

Canadian Minerals’ liabilities, stock 

issuances, recent merger transaction, 

business prospects, and recently 

acquired purported assets. 

The Commission is of the opinion that 

the public interest and the protection of 

investors require a suspension of trading 

in the securities of U.S. Canadian 

Minerals, Inc. 

Therefore, it is ordered, pursuant to 

Section 12(k) of the Securities Exchange 

Act of 1934, that trading in the 

securities of the above-listed company is 

suspended for the period from 9:30 a.m. 

EDT, August 12, 2009, through 11:59 

p.m. EDT, on August 25, 2009. 

By the Commission. 

Florence E. Harmon, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–19627 Filed 8–12–09; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 8010–01–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

[Release No. 34–60473; August 10, 2009] 

Order Providing NRSROs a Temporary 

Exemption From the Requirement in 

Rule 17g–2(d) (Incorporating the 

Provisions of Rule 17g–2(a)(8)) of the 

Securities Exchange Act of 1934 That 

CUSIP Numbers Be Displayed 

I. Background 

The Credit Rating Agency Reform Act 

of 2006 (‘‘Rating Agency Act’’) 1 defined 

the term ‘‘nationally recognized 

statistical rating organization’’ 

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2 17 CFR 240.17g–2. 

3See Amendments to Rules for Nationally 

Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations, 

Exchange Act Release No. 59342 (February 2, 2009), 

74 FR 6456 (‘‘February 2009 Adopting Release’’). 

4 17 CFR 240.17g–2(a)(8). 

5 17 CFR 240.17g–2(d). 

6 Id. 

7 Id. The February 2009 Adopting Release 

specified a compliance date of 180 days after 

publication in the Federal Register. 

8Notice Regarding the Requirement to Use 

eXtensible Business Reporting Language Format to 

Make Publicly Available the Information Required 

Pursuant to Rule 17g–2(d) of the Exchange Act, 

Exchange Act Release No. 60451, August 5, 2009 

(‘‘August 5, 2009 Notice’’). 

9Section 36 of the Exchange Act authorizes the 

Commission, by rule, regulation, or order, to 

conditionally or unconditionally exempt any 

person from any rule under the Exchange Act, to 

the extent that the exemption is necessary or 

appropriate in the public interest and is consistent 

with the protection of investors. 15 U.S.C. 78mm. 

(‘‘NRSRO’’) and provided authority for 

the Securities and Exchange 

Commission (‘‘Commission’’) to 

implement registration, recordkeeping, 

financial reporting, and oversight rules 

with respect to registered credit rating 

agencies. The regulations implemented 

by the Commission pursuant to this 

mandate include Securities Exchange 

Act of 1934 (‘‘Exchange Act’’) Rule 17g– 

2,2 which requires an NRSRO to make 

and retain certain records relating to its 

business and to retain certain other 

business records made in the normal 

course of business operations. 

On February 2, 2009, the Commission 

adopted amendments to its NRSRO 

rules imposing additional requirements 

on NRSROs in order to address concerns 

about the integrity of their credit rating 

procedures and methodologies.3 Among 

other things, the rule amendments 

added new paragraphs (a)(8) and (d) to 

Rule 17g–2. New paragraph (a)(8) of 

Rule 17g–2 requires an NRSRO to make 

and retain a record for each outstanding 

credit rating it maintains showing all 

rating actions (initial rating, upgrades, 

downgrades, placements on watch for 

upgrade or downgrade, and 

withdrawals) ‘‘identified by the name of 

the rated security or obligor and, if 

applicable, the CUSIP of the rated 

security or the Central Index Key (CIK) 

number of the rated obligor.’’ 4 New 

paragraph (d) of Rule 17g–2 requires an 

NRSRO to make publicly available, on 

a six-month delayed basis, the ratings 

histories for a random sample of 10% of 

the credit ratings paid for by the obligor 

being rated or by the issuer, 

underwriter, or sponsor of the security 

being rated (‘‘issuer-paid credit ratings’’) 

pursuant to paragraph (a)(8) of Rule 

17g–2 for each class of credit rating for 

which the NRSRO is registered and has 

issued 500 or more issuer-paid credit 

ratings.5

Paragraph (d) of Rule 17g–2 further 

requires that this information be made 

public on the NRSRO’s corporate 

Internet Web site in eXtensible Business 

Reporting Language (‘‘XBRL’’) format.6

The rule provides that in preparing the 

XBRL disclosure, an NRSRO must use 

the List of XBRL Tags for NRSROs as 

specified on the Commission’s Web 

site.7 The Commission established a 

compliance date of August 10, 2009 for 

this provision. 

The XBRL tags are not yet available. 

Therefore, the Commission issued a 

Notice on August 5, 2009 that an 

NRSRO subject to the disclosure 

provisions of Rule 17g–2(d) can satisfy 

the requirement to make publicly 

available ratings history information in 

an XBRL format by using an XBRL 

format or any other machine readable 

format until such time as the 

Commission provides further notice.8

As noted above, the required rating 

actions information includes, if 

applicable, the CUSIP of each rated 

security and the CIK number of each 

rated obligor. Although CIK numbers are 

available free of charge on the 

Commission’s Web site, CUSIPs are 

owned and distributed by private 

parties. 

Subsequent to the issuance of the 

August 5, 2009 Notice, several NRSROs 

have notified Commission staff that, 

despite their efforts, they have not been 

able to resolve certain issues with the 

managers of the CUSIP program. The 

Commission believes, however, that 

users of credit ratings would benefit 

from having ratings action information 

available by the August 10, 2009 

implementation date for Rule 17g–2(d), 

even if CUSIP numbers are not included 

for a limited time. We note that 

identifying information, such as the 

name of the security, will be included. 

For these reasons, the Commission 

finds that providing NRSROs a partial 

temporary exemption from Rule 17g– 

2(d) (incorporating the provisions of 

Rule 17g–2(a)(8)) is necessary and 

appropriate in the public interest and is 

consistent with the protection of 

investors.9 Therefore, the Commission is 

providing NRSROs with a 30-day 

exemption from the requirement in Rule 

17g–2(d) (incorporating the provisions 

of Rule 17g–2(a)(8)) that the CUSIP for 

each rated security be included with the 

ratings action information. 

II. Conclusion 

Accordingly, pursuant to Section 36 

of the Exchange Act, 

It is hereby ordered that NRSROs are 

temporarily exempt from the 

requirement in Rule 17g–2(d) 

(incorporating the provisions of Rule 

17g–2(a)(8)) that the CUSIP for each 

rated security be included with the 

ratings action information for thirty 

days, until September 9, 2009. 

By the Commission. 

Elizabeth M. Murphy, 

Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 8010–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 6724] 

Bureau of Political-Military Affairs: 

Directorate of Defense Trade Controls; 

Notifications to the Congress of 

Proposed Commercial Export Licenses 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the Department of State has forwarded 

the attached Notifications of Proposed 

Export Licenses to the Congress on the 

dates indicated on the attachments 

pursuant to sections 36(c) and 36(d) and 

in compliance with section 36(f) of the 

Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 

2776). 

DATES: Effective Date: As shown on each 

of the 15 letters. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Robert S. Kovac, Managing Director, 

Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, 

Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, 

Department of State (202) 663–2861. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

36(f) of the Arms Export Control Act 

mandates that notifications to the 

Congress pursuant to sections 36(c) and 

36(d) must be published in the Federal 

Register when they are transmitted to 

Congress or as soon thereafter as 

practicable. 

May 21, 2009. 

Hon. Nancy Pelosi, 

Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

Dear Madam Speaker: Pursuant to Section 

36(c) and 36(d) of the Arms Export Control 

Act, I am transmitting, herewith, certification 

of a proposed manufacturing license 

agreement for the manufacture of significant 

military equipment abroad and the export of 

defense services and defense articles in the 

amount of $50,000,000 or more. 

The transaction contained in the attached 

certification involves the export of defense 

articles, including technical data, and 

defense services to Mexico for the 

manufacture of components for use in 

Auxiliary Power Units and Propulsion 

Engines for end use on various U.S. and nonU.A. approved military platforms. 

The United States Government is prepared 

to license the export of these items having 

taken into account political, military, 

economic, human rights and arms control 

considerations. 

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