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STEM degree completion, and career 

choices. Research and demonstration 

projects also investigate effective 

practices for transitioning students with 

disabilities across critical academic 

junctures, retaining students in 

undergraduate and graduate STEM 

degree programs, and graduating 

students with STEM associate, 

baccalaureate and graduate degrees. 

Research, demonstration, and 

enrichment project results inform the 

delivery of innovative, transformative 

and successful practices employed by 

the Alliances for Students with 

Disabilities in STEM to increase the 

number of students with disabilities 

completing associate, undergraduate 

and graduate degrees in STEM and to 

increase the number of students with 

disabilities entering our nation’s science 

and engineering workforce. RDE 

projects contribute to closing the gaps 

occurring for people with disabilities in 

STEM fields by successfully 

disseminating findings, project 

evaluation results, and proven good 

practices and products to the public. 

The original information collection, 

approved by OMB in 1996, surveyed 

three groups of students: students with 

disabilities in STEM fields, student with 

disabilities in other fields, and students 

without disabilities in STEM fields. 

These data allowed NSFD to understand 

more fully the population of students 

with disabilities in STEM fields and the 

issues they faced. The collection that 

will be submitted for reinstatement 

focuses more specifically on the 

outcomes of the RDE program, and how 

alliances and researchers receiving NSF 

RDE funding have improved the 

academic environment for students with 

disabilities. This information collection 

will consist of an on-line data 

instrument that RDE awardees will use 

to submit annual data on their project 

activities and participants, as well as 

future evaluation activities. 

Use of the Information 

This information is required for 

effective administration, 

communication, program and project 

monitoring and evaluation, and for 

measuring attainment of NSF’s program, 

project and strategic goals, as required 

by the President’s Management agenda 

as represented by the Office of 

Management and Budget’s (OMB) 

Program Assessment Rating Tool 

(PART) and the NSF’s Strategic Plan. 

The Foundation’s FY 2006–2011 

Strategic Plan describes four strategic 

outcome goals of Discovery, Learning, 

Research Infrastructure, and 

Stewardship. NSF’s complete strategic 

plan may be found at: http:// 

www.nsf.gov/publications/ 

pubsumm.jsp?ods_key=nsf0648. 

Data collected will be used for 

accountability purposes, including 

responding from queries from 

Committees of Visitors and other 

scientific experts, and for separate 

research and evaluation studies. 

Estimate of Burden 

Respondents: Principal Investigators 

and/or project staff receiving NSF RDE 

awards. 

Number of Respondents: 45. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 1220 hours. 

Frequency of Responses: Data will be 

collected from awardees annually, and 

on an as-needed basis for future 

evaluation work. 

Dated: August 7, 2009. 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation. 

[FR Doc. E9–19343 Filed 8–11–09; 8:45 am] 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2009–0074; Docket No. 50–414] 

Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC; Notice of 

Withdrawal of Application for 

Amendment to Facility Operating 

License 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (the Commission) has 

granted the request of Duke Energy 

Carolinas, LLC (the licensee) to 

withdraw its November 20, 2008, 

application, as supplemented by letter 

dated February 26, 2009, for proposed 

amendment to Facility Operating 

License No. 50–414 for Catawba Nuclear 

Station, Unit 2 (Catawba 2), located in 

York County, South Carolina. 

The proposed amendment would 

have updated the leak-before-break 

evaluation for Catawba 2 and made 

associated updates to the Updated Final 

Safety Analysis Report for this unit. 

The Commission had previously 

issued a Notice of Consideration of 

Issuance of Amendment published in 

the Federal Register on February 24, 

2009 (74 FR 8273). However, by letter 

dated March 31, 2009, the licensee 

withdrew the proposed change. 

For further details with respect to this 

action, see the application for 

amendment dated November 20, 2008, 

the supplement to the amendment dated 

February 26, 2009, and the licensee’s 

letter dated March 31, 2009, which 

withdrew the application for license 

amendment. Documents may be 

examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the 

NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR), 

located at One White Flint North, Public 

File Area O1 F21, 11555 Rockville Pike 

(first floor), Rockville, Maryland. 

Publicly available records will be 

accessible electronically from the 

Agencywide Documents Access and 

Management System (ADAMS) Public 

Electronic Reading Room on the Internet 

at the NRC Web site, http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. 

Persons who do not have access to 

ADAMS or who encounter problems in 

accessing the documents located in 

ADAMS should contact the NRC PDR 

Reference staff by telephone at 1–800– 

397–4209, or 301–415–4737 or by e-mail 

to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day 

of August 2009. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Jon H. Thompson, 

Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch 2– 

1, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, 

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

[FR Doc. E9–19296 Filed 8–11–09; 8:45 am] 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2009–0351] 

Draft Regulatory Guide: Issuance, 

Availability 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of Issuance and 

Availability of Draft Regulatory Guide, 

DG–1236, ‘‘Initial Startup Test Program 

to Demonstrate Remote Shutdown 

Capability for Water-Cooled Nuclear 

Power Plants.’’ 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jonathan Ortega-Luciano, U. S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001, telephone: (301) 415– 

1159 or e-mail Jonathan.OrtegaLuciano@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing for public 

comment a draft guide in the agency’s 

‘‘Regulatory Guide’’ series. This series 

was developed to describe and make 

available to the public such information 

as methods that are acceptable to the 

NRC staff for implementing specific 

parts of the NRC’s regulations, 

techniques that the staff uses in 

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staff needs in its review of applications 

for permits and licenses. 

The draft regulatory guide (DG), 

entitled, ‘‘Initial Startup Test Program to 

Demonstrate Remote Shutdown 

Capability for Water-Cooled Nuclear 

Power Plants,’’ is temporarily identified 

by its task number, DG–1236, which 

should be mentioned in all related 

correspondence. DG–1236 is proposed 

Revision 2 of Regulatory Guide 1.68.2, 

dated July 1978. 

This guide describes an initial startup 

test program acceptable to the NRC staff 

for demonstrating hot shutdown 

capability and the potential for cold 

shutdown from outside the control 

room. This guide is applicable to watercooled nuclear power plants. 

Title 10, Part 50, of the Code of 

Federal Regulations (10 CFR Part 50), 

‘‘Domestic Licensing of Production and 

Utilization Facilities,’’ and 10 CFR Part 

52, ‘‘Licenses, Certifications, and 

Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants,’’ 

10 CFR 50.34, ‘‘Contents of 

Applications; Technical Information,’’ 

and 10 CFR 52.79, ‘‘Contents of 

Application, Technical Information in 

FSAR,’’ require, in part, that an 

applicant for a license to operate a 

production or utilization facility 

provide a safety analysis report (SAR) 

that includes the principal design 

criteria for the proposed facility. The 

introduction to Appendix A, ‘‘General 

Design Criteria for Nuclear Power 

Plants,’’ to 10 CFR Part 50 states that 

these principal design criteria are to 

establish the necessary design, 

fabrication, construction, testing, and 

performance requirements for 

structures, systems, and components 

(SSCs) important to safety (i.e., SSCs 

that provide reasonable assurance that 

the facility can be operated without 

undue risk to the health and safety of 

the public). 

II. Further Information 

The NRC staff is soliciting comments 

on DG–1236. Comments may be 

accompanied by relevant information or 

supporting data and should mention 

DG–1236 in the subject line. Comments 

submitted in writing or in electronic 

form will be made available to the 

public in their entirety through the 

NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access 

and Management System (ADAMS). 

Because your comments will not be 

edited to remove any identifying or 

contact information, the NRC cautions 

you against including any information 

in your submission that you do not want 

to be publicly disclosed. 

The NRC requests that any party 

soliciting or aggregating comments 

received from other persons for 

submission to the NRC inform those 

persons that the NRC will not edit their 

comments to remove any identifying or 

contact information, and therefore, they 

should not include any information in 

their comments that they do not want 

publicly disclosed. You may submit 

comments by any of the following 

methods: 

1. Mail comments to: Rulemaking and 

Directives Branch, Mail Stop: TWB–05– 

B01M, Division of Administrative 

Services, Office of Administration, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001. 

2. Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for documents filed under Docket ID 

[NRC–2009–0351]. Address questions 

about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher, 

301–492–3668; e-mail 

Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. 

3. Fax comments to: Rulemaking and 

Directives Branch, Office of 

Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission at (301) 492–3446. 

Requests for technical information 

about DG–1236 may be directed to the 

NRC contact, Jonathan Ortega-Luciano 

at (301) 251–7627 or e-mail to 

Jonathan.Ortega-Luciano@nrc.gov. 

Comments would be most helpful if 

received by October 9, 2009. Comments 

received after that date will be 

considered if it is practical to do so, but 

the NRC is able to ensure consideration 

only for comments received on or before 

this date. Although a time limit is given, 

comments and suggestions in 

connection with items for inclusion in 

guides currently being developed or 

improvements in all published guides 

are encouraged at any time. 

Electronic copies of DG–1236 are 

available through the NRC’s public Web 

site under Draft Regulatory Guides in 

the ‘‘Regulatory Guides’’ collection of 

the NRC’s Electronic Reading Room at 

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/. Electronic copies are also 

available in ADAMS (http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html), 

under Accession No. ML091210435. 

In addition, regulatory guides are 

available for inspection at the NRC’s 

Public Document Room (PDR) located at 

11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland. The PDR’s mailing address is 

USNRC PDR, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001. The PDR can also be reached by 

telephone at (301) 415–4737 or (800) 

397–4205, by fax at (301) 415–3548, and 

by e-mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 

Regulatory guides are not 

copyrighted, and Commission approval 

is not required to reproduce them. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 4th day 

of August, 2009. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

John N. Ridgely, 

Acting Chief, Regulatory Guide Development 

Branch, Division of Engineering, Office of 

Nuclear Regulatory Research. 

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NUCLEAR WASTE TECHNICAL 

REVIEW BOARD 

Notice of Meeting 

Board meeting: September 23, 2009– 

National Harbor, MD; the U.S. Nuclear 

Waste Technical Review Board will 

meet to discuss the implications of fuelcycle technologies for nuclear waste 

management and disposal. 

Pursuant to its authority under 

section 5051 of Public Law 100–203, 

Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act 

of 1987, the U.S. Nuclear Waste 

Technical Review Board will meet at 

National Harbor, Maryland, on 

Wednesday, September 23, 2009, to 

discuss the implications of alternative 

technological strategies for the 

management and disposal of spent 

nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive 

waste. The Board will receive an update 

on the Fuel Cycle Study being 

conducted at the Massachusetts Institute 

of Technology, and a panel of industry 

representatives will discuss their 

proposals to the U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) for recycling, 

reprocessing, and burning spent nuclear 

fuel in fast reactors. The Board also has 

invited a representative of the Nuclear 

Energy Agency to present an overview 

of efforts in other countries to manage 

and dispose of nuclear waste. 

Information presented at the meeting 

will be used by the Board as part of its 

ongoing effort to inform Congress, the 

Secretary of Energy, and a blue-ribbon 

commission of technical issues and 

questions that should be addressed 

related to waste-management 

alternatives. The Nuclear Waste Policy 

Amendments Act of 1987 requires the 

Board to conduct an independent 

review of the technical and scientific 

validity of DOE activities related to 

nuclear waste management, including 

transporting, packaging, and disposing 

of spent nuclear fuel and high-level 

radioactive waste. 

The Board meeting will be held at the 

Gaylord Hotel; 201 Waterfront Street; 

National Harbor, MD 20745; (tel.) 301– 

965–2000, (fax) 301–965–2039. 

A detailed meeting agenda will be 

available on the Board’s Web site, http: 

//www.nwtrb.gov, approximately one 

week before the meeting. The agenda 

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