24230 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 80 / Tuesday, April 25, 2000 / Notices

that these meetings will be closed to the

public pursuant to subsections (c) (4),

and (6) of section 552b of Title 5, United

States Code.

1. Date: May 25, 2000.

Time: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Room: 315.

Program: This meeting will review

applications for Extending the Reach Faculty

Research Grants in Faculty Research Grants,

submitted to the Division of Research

Programs at the April 10, 2000 deadline.

Laura S. Nelson,

Advisory Committee Management Officer.

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NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION

SAFETY BOARD

Sunshine Act Meeting

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING: National

Transportation Safety Board.

TIME AND DATE: 9:30 a.m., Wednesday,

May 3, 2000.

PLACE: NTSB Board Room, 429 L’Enfant

Plaza, SW, Washington, DC 20594.

STATUS: Open to the public.

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

5299F ‘‘Most Wanted’’ Safety

Recommendation Program Status

Report and Suggested Modifications.

7256 Special Investigation Report:

Actions to Reduce Fatalities, Injuries,

and Crashes Involving the Hard Core

Drinking Driver.

NEWS MEDIA CONTRACT: Telephone: (202)

314–6100.

Individuals requesting specific

accommodation should contact Mrs.

Barbara Bush at (202) 314–6220 by

Friday April 28, 2000.

CONTRACT PERSON FOR MORE

INFORMATION: Rhonda Underwood (202)

314–6065.

April 21, 2000.

Rhonda Underwood,

Federal Register Liaison Officer.

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Agency Information Collection

Activities: Proposed Collection:

Comment Request

AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission (NRC).

ACTION: Notice of the pending NRC

action to submit an information

collection request to OMB and

solicitation of public comment.

SUMMARY: The NRC is preparing a

submittal to OMB for review of

continued approval of Information

collections under the provisions of the

Paperwork Reduction Act 1995 (44

U.S.C. Chapter 35).

Information pertaining to the

requirement to be submitted:

1. The title of the information

collection: Applicant Self-Assessment

Form.

2. Current OMB approval number:

NRC Form 563.

3. How often is the collection

required: On-going.

4. Who will be required or asked to

report: Basically qualified external

applicants applying for engineering and

scientific positions with the NRC.

5. The number of annual respondents:

1,200.

6. The number of hours needed

annually to complete the requirement or

request: 100 hours (five minutes per

response).

7. Abstract: The Applicant SelfAssessment will be used to collect

uniform information from external

applicants as to which technical

specialties they possess that are unique

to the needs of the NRC. This

information will be reviewed by Office

of Human Resources staff and used to

match applicants’ technical specialties

with those required by selecting officials

when an engineering or scientific

vacancy position is to be filled.

Submit, by June 26, 2000, comments

that address the following questions:

1. Is the proposed collection of

information necessary for the NRC to

properly perform its functions? Does the

information have practical utility?

2. Is the burden estimate accurate?

3. Is there a way to enhance the

quality, utility, and clarity of the

information to be collected?

4. How can the burden of the

information collection be minimized,

including the use of automated

collection techniques or other forms of

information technology?

A copy of the draft supporting

statement may be viewed free of charge

at the NRC Public Document Room,

2120 L Street, NW. (lower level),

Washington, DC. OMB clearance

requests are available at the NRC

worldwide web site (http://

www.nrc.gov/NRC/PUBLIC/OMB/

index.html). The document will be

available on the NRC home page site for

60 days after the signature date of this

notice.

Comments and questions about the

information collection requirements

may be directed to the NRC Clearance

Officer, Brenda Jo. Shelton, U.S. Nuclear

Regulatory Commission, T–6 E6,

Washington, DC 20555–0001, by

telephone at 301–415–7233, or by

Internet electronic mail at

BJS1@NRC.GOV.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 19th day

of April 2000.

Brenda Jo. Shelton,

NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief

Information Officer.

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[Docket No. 72–22–ISFSI; ASLBP No. 97–

732–02–ISFSI]

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board:

Before Administrative Judges: G. Paul

Bollwerk, III, Chairman, Dr. Jerry R.

Kline, Dr. Peter S. Lam

In the Matter of Private Fuel Storage,

L.L.C. (Independent Spent Fuel Storage

Installation); Notice (Notice of Hearing

and of Opportunity to Make Oral or

Written Limited Appearance

Statements)

April 19, 2000.

The Atomic Safety and Licensing

Board hereby gives notice that it will

convene an evidentiary hearing to

receive testimony and exhibits and

allow the cross-examination of

witnesses relating to certain matters at

issue in this proceeding regarding the

June 1997 application of Private Fuel

Storage, L.L.C., (PFS) for a license under

10 CFR part 72 to construct and operate

an independent spent fuel storage

installation (ISFSI) on the reservation of

the Skull Valley Band of Goshute

Indians (Skull Valley Band) in Skull

Valley, Utah. In addition, the Board

gives notice that, in accordance with 10

CFR 2.715(a), it will entertain oral

limited appearance statements from

members of the public in connection

with this proceeding.

A. Date, Time, and Location of

Evidentiary Hearing

The Board will conduct an

evidentiary hearing on certain issues

relating to this proceeding, currently

scheduled to include contentions Utah

E/Confederated Tribes F, Financial

Assurance; Utah H, Inadequate Thermal

Design; Utah R, Emergency Plan; and

Utah S, Decommissioning, beginning at

9:30 a.m., on Monday, June 19, 2000, in

the Hilton Salt Lake City, Wasatch

Room, Mezzanine Level, 150 West 500

South, Salt Lake City, Utah. The hearing

on these issues shall continue from dayto-day until concluded.

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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