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*Copies of this notice were sent this date by

Internet e-mail transmission to counsel for (1)

applicant PFS; (2) intervenors Skull Valley Band,

Ohngo Gaudadeh Devia, Confederated Tribes of the

Goshute Reservation, Southern Utah Wilderness

Alliance, and the State of Utah; and (3) the NRC

staff.

The public is advised that, in

accordance with 10 CFR 2.790(b)(6), all

or part of the sessions regarding

contentions Utah E/Confederated Tribes

F and Utah S may be closed to the

public because the matters at issue may

involve the discussion of confidential

proprietary information.

B. Date, Time, and Location of Oral

Limited Appearance Statement

Sessions

The Board will conduct sessions to

provide the public with an opportunity

to make oral limited appearance

statements on the following dates at the

specified locations and times:

1. Date: Friday, June 23, 2000.

Times: Afternoon Session—1 p.m. to 4

p.m. Mountain Daylight Time (MDT).

Evening Session—7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. MDT.

Location: Hilton Salt Lake City, Wasatch

Room—Mezzanine Level, 150 West 500

South, Salt Lake City, Utah.

2. Date: Saturday, June 24, 2000.

Times: Afternoon Session (if there is

sufficient interest)— 1:00 p.m. to 4:00

p.m. MDT.

Location: Same as Session 1 above

3. Date: Friday, June 30, 2000.

Times: Afternoon Session—1:00 p.m. to

4:00 p.m. MDT; Evening Session—7:00

p.m. to 9:30 p.m. MDT.

Location: Tooele High School Auditorium,

240 West Buffalo Blvd., Tooele, Utah

4. Date: Saturday, July 1, 2000.

Times: Afternoon Session (if there is

sufficient interest)—1:00 p.m. to 4:00

p.m. MDT.

Location: Same as Session 3 above.

C. Participation Guidelines for Oral

Limited Appearance Statements

Any person not a party to the

proceeding will be permitted to make an

oral statement setting forth his or her

position on matters of concern relating

to this proceeding. Although these

statements do not constitute testimony

or evidence, they nonetheless may help

the Board and/or the parties in their

deliberations in connection with the

issues to be considered in this

proceeding.

Oral limited appearance statements

will be entertained during the hours

specified above, or such lesser time as

may be necessary to accommodate the

speakers who are present. If, however,

all scheduled and unscheduled speakers

present at a session have made a

presentation, the Licensing Board

reserves the right to terminate the

session before the ending time listed

above. The Licensing Board also

reserves the right to cancel the Saturday

sessions scheduled above if there has

not been a sufficient showing of public

interest as reflected by the number of

preregistered speakers.

The time allotted for each statement

normally will be no more than five

minutes, but may be further limited

depending on the number of written

requests to make an oral statement that

are submitted in accordance with

section D below and/or the number of

persons present at the designated times.

D. Submitting a Request To Make an

Oral Limited Appearance Statement

Persons wishing to make an oral

statement who have submitted a timely

written request to do so will be given

priority over those who have not filed

such a request. In order to be considered

timely, a written request to make an oral

statement must be mailed, faxed, or sent

by e-mail so as to be received by close

of business (4:30 p.m. EST) on

Wednesday, May 31, 2000. The request

must specify the date (June 23, June 24,

June 30, or July 1) and the session on

that day (afternoon or evening) during

which the requester wishes to make an

oral statement. Based on its review of

the requests received on May 31, 2000,

the Licensing Board may decide that

either or both of the Saturday sessions

will not be held due to lack of adequate

interest in those sessions.

Written requests to make an oral

statement should be submitted to:

Mail: Office of the Secretary,

Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff,

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,

Washington, DC 20555–0001

Fax: (301) 415–1101 (verification (301)

415–1966)

E-mail: hearingdocket@nrc.gov

In addition, using the same method of

service, a copy of the written request to

make an oral statement should be sent

to the Chairman of this Licensing Board

as follows:

Mail: Administrative Judge G. Paul

Bollwerk, III, Atomic Safety and

Licensing Board Panel, Mail Stop T–

3F23, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission, Washington, DC 20555–

0001

Fax: (301) 415–5599 (verification (301)

415–7550)

E-mail: gpb@nrc.gov

E. Submitting Written Limited

Appearance Statements

As the Board has noted previously, a

written limited appearance statement

can be submitted at any time. Such

statements should be sent to the Office

of the Secretary using the methods

prescribed above, with a copy to the

Licensing Board Chairman.

Documents relating to the PFS license

application at issue in this proceeding

currently are on file at the Commission’s

Public Document Room, the Gelman

Building, 2120 L Street, NW,

Washington, DC 20003–1527, and at the

University of Utah, Marriott Library,

Documents Division, 295 S. 1500 East,

Salt Lake City, Utah 84112–0860.

Dated: April 19, 2000, Rockville, Maryland.

For the Atomic Safety and Licensing

Board.*

G. Paul Bollwerk, III,

Administrative Judge.

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Draft Regulatory Guide; Issuance,

Availability

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission

has issued for public comment a draft of

a new guide in its Regulatory Guide

Series. This series has been developed

to describe and make available to the

public such information as methods

acceptable to the NRC staff for

implementing specific parts of the

NRC’s regulations, techniques used by

the staff in evaluating specific problems

or postulated accidents, and data

needed by the staff in its review of

applications for permits and licenses.

The draft guide, temporarily

identified by its task number, DG–1095

(which should be mentioned in all

correspondence concerning this draft

guide), is titled ‘‘Guidance for

Implementation of 10 CFR 50.59,

‘Changes, Tests and Experiments.’ ’’

This guide is being developed to

describe methods acceptable to the NRC

staff for complying with the NRC’s

regulations with regard to the process

for evaluating changes, tests, and

experiements that a licensee wishes to

make without prior NRC approval. A

letter has been issued as part of the

guide to request public comments on

specific questions related to the

guidance. This guide proposes to

endorse, with some clarifications, a

Nuclear Energy Institute document,

Revision 1 of NEI 96–07, ‘‘Guidelines

for 10 CFR 50.59 Evaluations.’’

This draft guide has not received

complete staff approval and does not

represent an official NRC staff position.

Comments may be accompanied by

relevant information or supporting data.

Written comments may be submitted to

the Rules and Directives Branch, Office

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of Administration, U.S. Nuclear

Regulatory Commission, Washington,

DC 20555. Copies of comments received

may be examined at the NRC Public

Document Room, 2120 L Street NW.,

Washington, DC. Comments will be

most helpful if received by June 9, 2000.

You may also provide comments via

the NRC’s interactive rulemaking

website through the NRC home page

(http://www.nrc.gov). This site provides

the availability to upload comments as

files (any format), if your web browser

supports that function. For information

about the interactive rulemaking

website, contact Ms. Carol Gallagher,

(301) 415–5905; e-mail CAG@NRC.GOV.

Electronic copies of this draft guide,

under Accession Number

ML003698165, are available in NRC’s

Public Electronic Reading Room, which

can also be accessed through NRC’s web

site, <WWW.NRC.GOV>. For

information about the draft guide and

the related documents, contact Ms. E.

McKenna at (301) 415–2189; e-mail

EMM@NRC.GOV.

Although a time limit is given for

comments on this draft guide,

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.

Regulatory guides are available for

inspection at the Commission’s Public

Document Room, 2120 L Street NW.,

Washington, DC. Requests for single

copies of draft or final guides (which

may be reproduced) or for placement on

an automatic distribution list for single

copies of future draft guides in specific

divisions should be made in writing to

the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission, Washington, DC 20555,

Attention: Reproduction and

Distribution Services Section; or by fax

to (301) 415–2289, or by email to

<DISTRIBUTION@NRC.GOV>.

Telephone requests cannot be

accommodated. Regulatory guides are

not copyrighted, and Commission

approval is not required to reproduce

them.

(5 U.S.C. 552(a)).

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 12th day

of April 2000.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Charles E. Ader,

Director, Program Management, Policy

Development & Analysis Staff, Office of

Nuclear Regulatory Research.

[FR Doc. 00–10293 Filed 4–24–00; 8:45 am]

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Draft Regulatory Guide; Issuance,

Availability

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission

has placed a draft guide on the website

for public comment. This Regulatory

Guide series has been developed to

describe and make available to the

public such information as methods

acceptable to the NRC staff for

implementing specific parts of the

NRC’s regulations, techniques used by

the staff in evaluating specific problems

or postulated accidents, and data

needed by the staff in its review of

applications for permits and licenses.

This draft guide, temporarily

identified by its task number, DG–1094

(which should be mentioned in all

correspondence concerning this draft

guide), is a revision of DG–1094

(64FR58461) as a result of public

comments and a public meeting held on

February 23, 2000. A final draft guide,

identified by the task number of DG–

1097, will be published shortly for

formal comment. This guide has been

developed to provide a comprehensive

fire protection guidance document, and

to identify the scope and depth of fire

protection that the staff has determined

to be acceptable for operating nuclear

plants. This guide may be used for

licensee self-assessments and as the

deterministic basis for future

rulemaking. This guide has been

developed from a compilation of fire

protection regulations, generic

communications, Branch Technical

Positions, and other NRC guidance. In

addition, as appropriate, new guidance

is provided where the existing guidance

is weak or non-existent. The specific

NRC fire protection requirements

applicable to any given operating

reactor are a function of licensing dates,

specific license conditions, rule

applicability statements, approved

exemptions/deviations, and individual

plant Safety Evaluation Reports (SERs).

It is not possible to capture in a single

guide all the compliance alternatives

that have been previously accepted by

the NRC for a given plant. This guide

presents the best available methods for

meeting fire protection requirements

and objectives that are acceptable to the

Commission, and will be used in the

evaluation of fire protection programs

for operating nuclear power plants.

Nothing in this guide prohibits a

licensee from proposing an alternative

method(s) for complying with specified

portions of the Commission’s

regulations.

The draft guide has not received

complete staff approval and does not

represent an official NRC staff position.

Comments may be accompanied by

relevant information or supporting data.

Written comments may be submitted to

David L. Meyer, Chief, Rules and

Directives Branch, Office of

Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission, Washington, DC 20555.

Copies of comments received may be

examined at the NRC Public Document

Room, 2120 L Street, NW, (Lower

Level), Washington, DC 20555–0001.

The public comment period for this

revision of DG–1094 will close at the

same time as the public comment period

for the final draft guide identified by the

task number of DG–1097. All comments

will be incorporated in the final

regulatory guide to be issued in 2001.

You may also provide comments via

the NRC’s interactive rulemaking

website (http://www.techconf.llnl.gov/

cgi_bin/topics). This site provides the

availability to upload comments as files

(any format), if your web browser

supports this function. For information

about the interactive rulemaking

website, contact Ms. Carol Gallagher,

(301) 415–5905; e-mail CAG@nrc.gov.

For information about the draft guide

and the related documents, contact Mr.

E.A. Connell, (301) 415–2838; e-mail

EAC@nrc.gov.

Although a time limit is given for

comments on this draft guide,

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.

Regulatory guides are available for

inspection at the Commission’s Public

Document Room 2120 L Street, NW,

(Lower Level), Washington, DC. Current

draft Regulatory Guides that have been

issued for public comment can be found

at our Rulemaking site: http://

ruleforum.llnl.gov/cglbn/

rulemake?source=rg. Requests for single

copies of draft or final guides (which

may be reproduced) or for placement on

an automatic distribution list for single

copies of future draft guides in specific

divisions should be made in writing to

the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission, Washington, DC 20555–

0001, Attention: Reproduction and

Distribution Services Section; or by fax

to (301) 415–2289, or by e-mail to

<Distribution@nrc.gov>. Telephone

requests cannot be accommodated.

Regulatory Guides are not copyrighted

and Commission approval is not

required to reproduce them. (5 U.S.C.

552(a)).