Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 87 / Thursday, May 4, 2000 / Notices 25963

NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE

ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES

Meeting of the National Museum

Services Board

AGENCY: Institute of Museum and

Library Services.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the

agenda of a forthcoming meeting of the

National Museum Services Board. This

notice also describes the function of the

board. Notice of this meeting is required

under the Government through the

Federal Advisory Committee Act 5

U.S.C. App., and regulations of the

Institute of Museum and Library

Services, 45 CFR 1180.84.

Time/Date: 1:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m. on

Thursday, May 18, 2000.

Status: Open.

Address: The Walter Art Gallery,

Hackerman House Conference Room,

600 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD2

20004, (410) 547–9000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Elizabeth Lyons, Special Assistant to the

Director, Institute of Museum and

Library Services, 1100 Pennsylvania

Avenue, NW, Room 510, Washington,

DC 20506, (202) 606–4649.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

National Museum Services Board is

established pursuant to 20 U.S.C.

Section 9175. The Board has

responsibility for the general policies

with respect to the powers, duties, and

authorities vested in the Institute under

the Museum Services Act.

The meeting on Thursday, May 18,

2000 will be open to the public. If you

need special accommodations due to a

disability, please contact: Institute of

Museum and Library Services, 1100

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington,

DC 20506—(202) 606–8536—TDD (202)

606–8636 at least seven (7) days prior to

the meeting date.

Agenda

78th Meeting of the National Museum

Services Board in The Hackerman House

Conference Room at the Walter Art Gallery,

600 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21201

on Thursday, May 18, 2000, 1:30 pm–3:30

pm

I. Chairperson’s Welcome and Minutes of the

77th NMSB Meeting—November 5, 2000

II. Director’s Report

III. Departmental Reports

Legislative/Public Affairs Report

Office of Research and Technology Report

Office of Museum Services Program Report

Office of Library Services Program Report

IV. Museums, Libraries and the 21st Century

Learner

V. Perspectives on Fundraising

Dated: April 28, 2000.

Linda Bell,

Director of Policy, Planning and Budget,

National Foundation on the Arts and

Humanities, Institute of Museum and Library

Services.

[FR Doc. 00–11186 Filed 5–1–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 70386–01–M

NUCLEAR REGULATORY

COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50–317, 50–318, and 72–8]

Baltimore Gas and Electric Company,

Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, Unit

Nos. 1 and 2 and Calvert Cliffs

Independent Spent Fuel Storage

Installation; Notice of Consideration of

Approval of Transfer of Renewed

Facility Operating Licenses and

Materials License and Conforming

Amendment, and Opportunity for a

Hearing

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission (the Commission) is

considering the issuance of an order

under 10 CFR 50.80 approving the

transfer of Renewed Facility Operating

Licenses Nos. DPR–53 and DPR–69 for

the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant,

Unit Nos. 1 and 2 (CCNPP), and

Materials License No. SNM–2505 for the

Calvert Cliffs Independent Spent Fuel

Storage Installation (ISFSI) currently

held by Baltimore Gas and Electric

Company (BGE), as owner and licensed

operator of CCNPP and the ISFSI. The

transfer would be to Calvert Cliffs, Inc.

The Commission is also considering

amending the licenses and Technical

Specifications (TSs) for administrative

purposes to reflect the proposed

transfer.

By application dated February 29,

2000, as supplemented April 7, 2000,

BGE requested the Commission’s

approval of the proposed license

transfers as part of the corporate

restructuring of BGE in accordance with

Maryland’s Electric Customer Choice

and Competition Act of 1999. Under

this restructuring, Constellation Energy

Group, Inc. (‘‘Constellation Energy’’),

the parent of BGE, has formed a wholly

owned subsidiary, Constellation

Nuclear Group, LLC (‘‘CN’’). BGE

proposes to transfer ownership of and

the licenses for CCNPP and the ISFSI to

a subsidiary of BGE, Calvert Cliffs, Inc.

(‘‘Company’’). BGE will then transfer the

ownership of Company to Constellation

Energy, which in turn will transfer the

ownership of Company to CN. The

result will be that CN, as owned by

Constellation Energy, will own

Company, which will be the owner and

licensee of CCNPP and the ISFSI.

The proposed amendments would

revise the licenses and the ISFSI TSs, to

reflect their transfer from BGE to

Company.

Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.80 and 10 CFR

72.50, no license, or any right

thereunder, shall be transferred, directly

or indirectly, through transfer of control

of the license, unless the Commission

shall give its consent in writing. The

Commission will approve an

application for the transfer of a license,

if the Commission determines that the

proposed transferee is qualified to be

the holder of the license, and that the

transfer is otherwise consistent with

applicable provisions of law,

regulations, and orders issued by the

Commission pursuant thereto.

Before issuance of the proposed

conforming license amendments, the

Commission will have made findings

required by the Atomic Energy Act of

1954, as amended (the Act), and the

Commission’s regulations.

As provided in 10 CFR 2.1315, unless

otherwise determined by the

Commission with regard to a specific

application, the Commission has

determined that any amendment to the

license of a utilization facility or the

license of an ISFSI which does no more

than conform the license to reflect the

transfer action, involves respectively,

‘‘no significant hazards consideration’’

or ‘‘no genuine issue as to whether the

health and safety of the public will be

significantly affected.’’ No contrary

determination has been made with

respect to this specific license

amendment application. In light of the

generic determinations reflected in 10

CFR 2.1315, no public comments with

respect to significant hazards

considerations are being solicited,

notwithstanding the general comment

procedures contained in 10 CFR 50.91.

The filing of requests for hearing and

petitions for leave to intervene, and

written comments with regard to the

license transfer application, are

discussed below.

By May 24, 2000, any person whose

interest may be affected by the

Commission’s action on the application

may request a hearing, and, if not the

applicants, may petition for leave to

intervene in a hearing proceeding on the

Commission’s action. Requests for a

hearing and petitions for leave to

intervene should be filed in accordance

with the Commission’s rules of practice

set forth in Subpart M, ‘‘Public

Notification, Availability of Documents

and Records, Hearing Requests and

Procedures for Hearings on License

Transfer Applications,’’ of 10 CFR part

2. In particular, such requests and

petitions must comply with the

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requirements set forth in 10 CFR 2.1306,

and should address the considerations

contained in 10 CFR 2.1308(a).

Untimely requests and petitions may be

denied, as provided in 10 CFR

2.1308(b), unless good cause for failure

to file on time is established. In

addition, an untimely request or

petition should address the factors that

the Commission will also consider, in

reviewing untimely requests or

petitions, set forth in 10 CFR

2.1308(b)(1)–(2).

Requests for a hearing and petitions

for leave to intervene should be served

upon Jay Silberg, Esq., counsel for BGE,

at Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge,

2300 N Street, NW, Washington, DC

20037 (tel: 202–663–8063; fax: 202–

663–8007; e-mail:

jay.silberg@shawpittman.com); the

General Counsel, U.S. Nuclear

Regulatory Commission, Washington,

DC 20555 (e-mail address for filings

regarding license transfer cases only:

OGCLT@NRC.gov); and the Secretary of

the Commission, U.S. Nuclear

Regulatory Commission, Washington,

DC 20555–0001, Attention: Rulemakings

and Adjudications Staff, in accordance

with 10 CFR 2.1313.

The Commission will issue a notice or

order granting or denying a hearing

request or intervention petition,

designating the issues for any hearing

that will be held and designating the

Presiding Officer. A notice granting a

hearing will be published in the Federal

Register and served on the parties to the

hearing.

As an alternative to requests for

hearing and petitions to intervene, by

June 5, 2000, persons may submit

written comments regarding the license

transfer application, as provided for in

10 CFR 2.1305. The Commission will

consider and, if appropriate, respond to

these comments, but such comments

will not otherwise constitute part of the

decisional record. Comments should be

submitted to the Secretary, U.S. Nuclear

Regulatory Commission, Washington,

DC 20555–0001, Attention: Rulemakings

and Adjudications Staff, and should cite

the publication date and page number of

this Federal Register notice.

For further details with respect to this

action, see the application dated

February 29, 2000, as supplemented

April 7, 2000, available for public

inspection at the Commission’s Public

Document Room, the Gelman Building,

2120 L Street, NW., Washington, DC,

and accessible electronically through

the ADAMS Public Electronic Reading

Room link at the NRC Web site (http:/

/www.nrc.gov).

Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 28th day

of April 2000.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Elinor G. Adensam,

Director, Project Directorate I, Division of

Licensing Project Management, Office of

Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

[FR Doc. 00–11102 Filed 5–3–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P

NUCLEAR REGULATORY

COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50–116]

Iowa State University, UTR–10

Research Reactor; Environmental

Assessment and Finding of No

Significant Impact

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission (the Commission) is

considering the issuance of a license

amendment to Facility License No. R–

59, issued to Iowa State University (ISU

or the licensee), that would allow

decommissioning of the UTR–10

Research Reactor located on the west

edge of the main campus of the ISU, in

Ames, Iowa.

Environmental Assessment

Identification of the Proposed Action

By application dated January 6, 1999,

the licensee submitted a

decommissioning plan in accordance

with 10 CFR 50.82(b), in order to

dismantle the 10-kilowatt (thermal) ISU

UTR–10 Argonaut Research Reactor, to

dispose of its component parts and

radioactive material, and to

decontaminate the facility in accordance

with the proposed dismantling plan to

meet the Commission’s unrestricted

release criteria. After the Commission

verifies that the release criteria have

been met, Facility License No. R–59

would be terminated. The licensee

submitted an Environmental Report,

dated January 4, 1999, that addresses

the estimated environmental impacts

resulting from decommissioning the

UTR–10 reactor.

ISU ceased operating the reactor in

May 1998. All the reactor fuel has been

removed from the facility.

A ‘‘Notice of Application for

Decommissioning Amendment, Iowa

State University UTR–10 Research

Reactor’’ was published in the Federal

Register on January 25, 1999, 64 FR

3725. A ‘‘Notice and Solicitation of

Comments Pursuant to 10 CFR 20.1405

and 10 CFR 50.82(b)(5) Concerning

Proposed Action to Decommission Iowa

State University UTR–10 Research

Reactor’’ was published in the Federal

Register on February 12, 1999, 64 FR

7214, and in the Ames, Iowa daily

newspaper, The Tribune, on February

19, 1999. There were no comments.

Need for the Proposed Action

The proposed action is necessary

because of ISU’s decision to cease

operations permanently. As specified in

10 CFR 50.82, any licensee may apply

to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

for authority to surrender a license

voluntarily and to decommission the

affected facility. Further, 10 CFR

51.53(d) stipulates that each applicant

for a license amendment to authorize

decommissioning of a production or

utilization facility shall submit with its

application an environmental report

that reflects any new information or

significant environmental change

associated with the proposed

decommissioning activities. ISU is

planning to use the area that would be

released for other academic purposes.

Environmental Impact of the Proposed

Action

All decontamination will be

performed by trained personnel in

accordance with previously reviewed

procedures, and will be overseen by

experienced health physics staff. Solid

and liquid waste will be removed from

the facility and managed in accordance

with NRC requirements. The operations

are calculated to result in a total

occupational radiation exposure of 2.4

person-rem. Radiation exposure to the

general public during decommissioning

is expected to be zero. This will be

accomplished by keeping the public at

a safe distance and by eliminating

effluent releases during

decommissioning.

Occupational and public exposure

may result from offsite disposal of the

low-level residual radioactive material

from the ISU. The handling, storage, and

shipment of this radioactive material are

to meet the requirements of 10 CFR

20.2006, and ‘‘Transfer for Disposal and

Manifest,’’ 49 CFR parts 100–177,

‘‘Transportation of Hazardous

Materials.’’ The proposed low-level

radioactive waste facility (LLRW) has

the licenses and permits to accept and

dispose LLRW from reactor

decommissioning projects. The

materials that are classified LLRW will

be packaged and shipped from ISU

directly to this facility for disposal.

The NRC Final Rule on License

Termination, 10 CFR 20.1402, provides

radiological criteria for release of a site

for unrestricted use. Release criteria for

unrestricted use is a maximum Total

Effective Dose Equivalent (TEDE) of 25

mrem per year from residual

radioactivity above background.