39716 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 151 / Friday, August 7, 2009 / Notices 

Dated: August 4, 2009. 

P. Diane Rausch, 

Advisory Committee Management Officer, 

National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration. 

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[NRC–2009–0346] 

Request for Information on Low-Level 

Radioactive Waste Disposal and Notice 

of Public Meeting 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting and 

request for information. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) staff is conducting a 

public meeting to gather information to 

assess the effect of a lack of access to 

low-level waste (LLW) disposal facilities 

on those who use radioactive sources or 

materials in conducting research such as 

universities and hospitals. The purpose 

of this information gathering is to 

identify important research that has 

been impacted and/or stopped because 

of a lack of disposal options for 

radioactive sources or materials. This 

information will be provided to the 

Commission to inform future 

Commission decisionmaking. The NRC 

is planning to host a public meeting on 

this topic at its Rockville, MD 

Headquarters on the morning of October 

7, 2009. 

DATES: The public is invited to provide 

information related to the above topic 

until October 20, 2009. Comments 

submitted by mail should be 

postmarked by that date to ensure 

consideration. Comments received after 

that date will be considered to the 

extent practical. The NRC is planning to 

host a public meeting at its Rockville, 

MD Headquarters to solicit public input 

on the questions identified below on 

October 7, 2009. Because of anticipated 

interest, the meeting will be Web cast. 

Please check the NRC public Web site 

at http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/ 

public-meetings/index for the meeting 

and Web cast details. 

ADDRESSES: Members of the public are 

invited and encouraged to submit 

comments by any of the following 

methods. Please include Docket ID 

NRC–2009–0346 in the subject line of 

your comments/responses. Comments 

submitted in writing or in electronic 

form will be posted on the NRC Web 

site and on the Federal rulemaking Web 

site Regulations.gov. Because your 

comments/responses 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. 

Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for documents filed under Docket ID 

NRC–2009–0346. Address questions 

about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher 

301–492–3668; e-mail 

Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. 

Mail comments to: Michael T. Lesar, 

Chief, Rulemaking and Directives 

Branch (RDB), Division of 

Administrative Services, Office of 

Administration, Mail Stop: TWB–05– 

B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001, or by fax to RDB at (301) 492– 

3446. 

You can access publicly available 

documents related to this notice using 

the following methods: 

NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR): 

The public may examine and have 

copied, for a fee, publicly available 

documents at the NRC’s PDR, Public 

File Area 01 F21, One White Flint 

North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland. 

NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access 

and Management System (ADAMS): 

Publicly available documents created or 

received at the NRC are available 

electronically at the NRC’s Electronic 

Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/ 

reading-rm/adams.html. From this page, 

the public can gain entry into ADAMS, 

which provides text and image files of 

NRC’s public documents. If you do not 

have access to ADAMS or if there are 

problems in accessing the documents 

located in ADAMS, contact the NRC’s 

PDR reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 

301–415–4737, or by e-mail to 

pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 

Federal Rulemaking Web site: Public 

comments received in response to this 

notice can be found at http:// 

www.regulations.gov by searching on 

Docket ID: NRC–2009–0346. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

James Shaffner, Project Manager, LowLevel Waste Branch, Division of Waste 

Management and Environmental 

Protection, Office of Federal and State 

Materials and Environmental 

Management Programs, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Rockville, MD 

20852. Telephone: (301) 415–5496; fax 

number: (301) 415–5369; e-mail: 

james.shaffner@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The NRC staff briefed the Commission 

on the status of the LLW program on 

April 17, 2009. External stakeholders 

who briefed the Commission noted that 

the use of radioactive material in 

nuclear medicine biomedical research 

needed cost effective disposal for lowlevel radioactive waste and that key 

radionuclide research products are no 

longer available due to high radiological 

waste disposal costs. Following the 

briefing, the Commission directed the 

staff to work with stakeholders to 

develop a list or catalog of important 

research that has been impacted and/or 

stopped because of a lack of disposal 

options for radioactive sources. In its 

approach to complying with 

Commission direction, the staff decided 

to expand its inquiry to include the use 

of other radioactive material as well. 

Therefore, the NRC staff is requesting 

information and soliciting public 

comment to identify and catalog 

important research that has been 

impacted or stopped because of a lack 

of disposal options for sealed sources or 

radioactive materials. The staff is 

requesting that persons consider and 

address the following 13 questions as 

they develop and provide their remarks. 

1. Are you involved in research 

involving the use of radioactive sources 

or materials, and if so, in what specific 

area (medical, academic, medical 

administration, etc.) 

2. If you answered yes to question no. 

1, please describe the research 

procedure(s) that is performed, or was 

performed prior to disposal access 

limitations. 

3. Have alternative technologies taken 

the place of radioactive materials 

because of LLW disposal access, and if 

so, what have been the impacts, both 

positive and negative? 

4. In what State and LLW Compact is 

the research facility that you’re 

addressing located? 

5. What kind of licensee uses the 

radioactive sources or materials that are 

being addressed (university, hospital, 

private research, other)? 

6. How do you or did you disposition 

the spent sources or radioactive 

materials? 

a. LLW disposal facility 

b. Store onsite 


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d. Other, explain 

7. Have you historically disposed of 

spent sources or radioactive materials at 

a low-level waste disposal facility? 

8. If your answer to question no. 7 

was yes, has your research been affected 

by the lack of access to a low-level 

waste disposal facility for either spent 

radioactive sources or radioactive 

materials? If so, please explain. 

9. Are you currently storing onsite 

radioactive sources or materials that 

would have been disposed of offsite had 

disposal access been available? 

10. Has the lack of disposal access for 

either radioactive sources or materials 

caused you to re-evaluate research 

needs and techniques? 

11. What adaptations have you made 

to reduce waste volume and improve 

the management of low-level radioactive 

waste disposal? 

a. Increased onsite storage capacity 

b. Increased use of nonradioactive 

sources 

c. Limit number of authorized users 

d. Reduce volume of waste shipped 

12. Has the cost of low-level 

radioactive waste disposal affected your 

research? If so, describe how. 

13. Provide any additional comments. 

In conjunction for this request for 

information, the NRC staff plans to 

enhance information gathering on this 

topic by providing the public with the 

opportunity to participate via Web cast. 

Please refer to NRC’s public Web site, 

http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/ 

public-meetings/index, starting in late 

September for specific meeting and Web 

cast details. 

II. Further Information 

The April 17, 2009 Commission Brief 

can be viewed via the NRC Web cast 

archive: http://video.nrc.gov/ 

nrcArch.cfm and the transcripts, slides, 

and materials from the April 17, 2009 

public meeting can be found at http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/commission/tr/2009. For 

questions related to this questionnaire, 

please contact Gregory Suber, 301–415– 

8087, gregory.suber@nrc.gov. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 31st day 

of July 2009. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Patrice M. Bubar, 

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. E9–18947 Filed 8–6–09; 8:45 am] 

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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL 

MANAGEMENT 

[OMB Control No. 3206–0131] 

Revision of Information Collection: 

Combined Federal Campaign 

Applications 

AGENCY: Office of Personnel 

Management. 

ACTION: 30-day notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. 

L. 104–13, May 22, 1995), this notice 

announces that the Office of Personnel 

Management intends to submit to the 

Office of Management and Budget a 

request for clearance to revise 

information collection Combined 

Federal Campaign Applications OMB 

Control No. 3206–0131, which include 

OPM Forms 1647 A–E. Combined 

Federal Campaign Eligibility 

Applications are used to review the 

eligibility of national, international, and 

local charitable organizations that wish 

to participate in the Combined Federal 

Campaign. The proposed revisions 

reflect changes in eligibility guidance 

from the Office of Personnel 

Management and recommendations 

from a review conducted by the 

Government Accountability Office. On 

June 5, 2009, we published a 60-day 

notice and request for comments. We 

received no comments. 

We estimate 20,000 responses to this 

information collection annually. Each 

form takes approximately three hours to 

complete. The annual estimated burden 

is 60,000 hours. 

Comments are particularly invited on: 

whether this information is necessary 

for the proper performance of functions 

of the Office of Personnel Management, 

and whether it will have practical 

utility; whether our estimate of the 

public burden of this collection of 

information is accurate, and based on 

valid assumptions and methodology; 

and ways in which we can minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on those who are to respond, through 

the appropriate use of technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

DATES: Comments on this information 

collection should be received within 30 

calendar days from the date of this 

publication. 

ADDRESSES: Send or deliver comments 

to— 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management Budget, 

725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20503, Attention: Desk Officer for the 

Office of Personnel Management. 

or send via electronic mail to— 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov or fax 

to (202) 395–6974. 

U.S. Office of Personnel Management. 

John Berry, 

Director. 

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RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD 

Correction to Agency Forms Submitted 

for OMB Review, Request for 

Comments 

SUMMARY: The Railroad Retirement 

Board is making corrections to the July 

23, 2009 document appearing on page 

36540, FR Doc. E9–17510 titled, Agency 

Forms Submitted for OMB Review. 

Specifically, the Request for Comments 

for Information Collection Review (ICR); 

Application for Survivor Insurance 

Annuities (OMB 3220–0030) which was 

published with errors regarding the 

annual burden computation for the 

information collection. 

Correction of Publication 

In the table titled ‘‘Estimate of Annual 

Respondent Burden’’, the AA–17b total 

burden hours should be 204 (not 270) 

and the total annual responses should 

be 3,722 (not 4,022). 

Under the Information Collection 

Request (ICR) heading, the ‘‘Estimated 

annual number of respondents’’ should 

be 3,722 (not 4,022) and the ‘‘Total 

annual responses’’ should be 3,722 (not 

4,022). 

Charles Mierzwa, 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–18929 Filed 8–6–09; 8:45 am] 

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request 

Upon Written Request; Copies 

Available From: Securities and 

Exchange Commission, Office of 

Investor and Advocacy, Washington, DC 

20549–0213. 

Extension: 

Form T–4, OMB Control No. 3235–0107, 

SEC File No. 270–124. 

Notice is hereby given that, pursuant 

to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Securities 

and Exchange Commission 


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