Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 94 / Monday, May 15, 2000 / Notices 31017

1Campbell, Guy G., ‘‘Request for Exemption from

10 CFR 50, Appendix K, for Boric Acid

Precipitation Control Methodology (TAC No.

MA7831),’’ Letter to NRC from Vice President,

Nuclear, FirstEnergy, Davis-Besse Nuclear Power

Station, March 15, 2000.

2Campbell, Guy G., ‘‘Supplemental Information

Regarding the Request for Exemption from 10 CFR

50, Appendix K, for Boric Acid Precipitation

Control Methodology (TAC No. MA7831),’’ Letter to

NRC from Vice President Nuclear, FirstEnergy,

Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station, April 3, 2000.

check in at the Information Desk to be

cleared to the 3rd floor.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.

Beverly Farmarco, Code ZC, National

Aeronautics and Space Administration,

Washington, DC 20546, 202/358–1903.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

meeting will be open to the public up

to the seating capacity of the room. The

agenda for the meeting is as follows:

—First Flight Centennial Foundation of

North Carolina

—Inventing Flight of Dayton, Ohio

—Logo Use Policy

It is imperative that the meeting be

held on this date to accommodate the

scheduling priorities of the key

participants.

Visitors will be requested to sign a

visitor’s register.

Dated: May 9, 2000.

Matthew M. Crouch,

Advisory Committee Management Officer,

National Aeronautics and Space

Administration.

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BILLING CODE 7510–01–P

NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE

ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES

National Endowment for the Arts

Proposed Collection; Comment

Request

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The National Endowment for

the Arts (NEA), as part of its continuing

effort to reduce paperwork and

respondent burden, conducts a

preclearance consultation program to

provide the general public and federal

agencies with an opportunity to

comment on proposed and/or

continuing collections of information in

accordance with the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA95) [44

U.S.C. 3506(c)(A)]. This program helps

to ensure that requested data can be

provided in the desired format,

reporting burden (time and financial

resources) is minimized, collection

instruments are clearly understood, and

the impact of collection requirements on

respondents can be properly assessed.

Currently, the NEA is soliciting

comments concerning the proposed

information collection of: Jazz Musician

Questionnaire. A copy of the current

information collection request can be

obtained by contacting the office listed

below in the address section of this

notice.

DATES: Written comments must be

submitted to the office listed in the

address section below on or before July

18, 2000. The NEA is particularly

interested in comments which:

• Evaluate whether the proposed

collection of information is necessary

for the proper performance of the

functions of the agency, including

whether the information will have

practical utility;

• Evaluate the accuracy of the

agency’s estimate of the burden of the

proposed collection of information

including the validity of the

methodology and assumptions used;

• Enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and

• Minimize the burden of the

collection of information on those who

are to respond, including through the

use of appropriate automated,

electronic, mechanical, or other

technological collection techniques or

other forms of information technology,

e.g., permitting electronic submissions

of responses.

ADDRESSES: Tom Bradshaw, Research

Division, National Endowment for the

Arts, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.,

Room 617, Washington, DC 20506–

0001, telephone (202) 682–5432 (this is

not a toll-free number), fax (202) 682–

5677.

Murray Welsh,

Director, Administrative Services, National

Endowment for the Arts.

[FR Doc. 00–12052 Filed 5–12–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7536–01–M

NUCLEAR REGULATORY

COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50–346]

FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating

Company, (Davis-Besse Nuclear Power

Station); Exemption

I

FirstEnergy (the licensee) is the

holder of Facility Operating License No.

NPF–3, which authorizes the operation

of the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power

Station (DBNPS). The license states that

the licensee is subject to all rules,

regulations, and orders of the Nuclear

Regulatory Commission (NRC or the

Commission) now or hereafter in effect.

The Commission is taking an action to

approve this request prior to publication

in the Federal Register of its

Environmental Assessment and Finding

of No Significant Impact. In accordance

with 10 CFR 51.13, the Commission has

determined that emergency

circumstances are present to support the

issuance of this exemption prior to

publication in the Federal Register in

that failure to act in a timely way would

result in prevention of resumption of

plant operation.

The facility consists of a pressurizedwater reactor at the licensee’s site

located in Ottawa County, Ohio.

II

The DBNPS is planning to implement

a plant modification during the twelfth

refueling outage, which is scheduled to

end in May 2000. The modification will

change the equipment used to prevent

boric acid precipitation following

certain loss-of-coolant accidents

(LOCAs) to enhance the flow of water

through the core, thus controlling the

accumulation of boric acid in the core

and preventing boric acid precipitation.

The Code of Federal Regulations at 10

CFR 50.46 provides acceptance criteria

for the ECCS, including long-term

cooling requirements in 50.46(b)(5) and

an option to develop the ECCS

evaluation model (EM) in conformance

with appendix K requirements (10 CFR

50.46(a)(1)(ii)). 10 CFR part 50,

appendix K, Section 1.D.1, in turn,

requires that accident evaluations use

the combination of ECCS subsystems

assumed to be operative ‘‘after the most

damaging single failure of ECCS

equipment has taken place.’’ In

addition, Appendix K Section I.A.4.

specifies a requirement to assume decay

heat generation rate is equal to 1.2 times

the values for infinite operating time in

a specified ANS standard.

The proposed action would exempt

the Licensee from the single-failure

requirement for very low probability

scenarios under certain conditions. The

exemption is limited to the systems

required for preventing boron

precipitation during the long-term

cooling phase of a LOCA. In addition,

the action would exempt the Licensee

from the decay heat generation rate

assumption specified in Appendix K,

Section I.A.4.

Specifically, DBNPS requested the

following exemption by its letters dated

March 15, and April 3, 2000: 1, 2

FirstEnergy, with respect to the DavisBesse Nuclear Power Station, is exempt from

the single failure criterion requirement of 10

CFR part 50, appendix K, Section I.D.1, with