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document the status of the individual’s 

teeth and gums and to document when 

the individual was examined. It will 

also be used by the contractor’s 

reviewing dentist to document whether 

or not the individual is dentally cleared 

to deploy to the Polar regions. 

5. Medical Waivers: Any individual 

who is determined to be not physically 

qualified for polar deployment may 

request an administrative waiver of the 

medical screening criteria. This 

information includes signing a Request 

for Waiver that is notarized or otherwise 

legally acceptable in accordance with 

penalty of perjury statutes, and 

obtaining an Employer Statement of 

Support. Individuals on a case-by-case 

basis may also be asked to submit 

additional medical documentation and a 

letter from the individual’s physician(s) 

regarding the individual’s medical 

condition and his or her suitability for 

Antarctic deployment. 

6. Other information requested: In 

addition to the numbered forms and 

other information mentioned above, the 

USAP medical screening package 

includes the following: 

• The Medical Risks for NSF– 

Sponsored Personnel Traveling to 

Antarctica or Greenland. 

• The NSF Privacy Notice. 

• The NSF Medical Screening for 

Blood-borne Pathogens/Consent for HIV 

Testing. 

• The NSF Authorization for 

Treatment of Field-Team Member/ 

Participant Under the Age of 18 Years. 

This form will only be sent to the 

individuals who are under 18 years of 

age. 

• The Dear Doctor and Dear Dentist 

letters, which provide specific 

laboratory and x-ray requirements, as 

well as other instructions. 

• The influenza vaccination 

requirement letter. 

7. There are two other, non-medical 

forms included in the mailing: 

• The Personal Information Form— 

NSF Form Number 1424 includes a 

Privacy Act Notice. This form is used to 

collect information on current address 

and contact numbers, date and place of 

birth, nationality, citizenship, 

emergency point of contact information, 

travel dates, clothing sizes so that we 

may properly outfit those individuals 

who deploy, work-site information and 

prior deployment history. 

• The Participant Notifications— 

Important Notice for Participants in the 

United States Antarctic or Arctic 

Program. These forms provide 

information on the laws, of the nations 

through which program participants 

must transit en route to Antarctica or 

Greenland, regarding the transport, 

possession and use of illegal substances 

and the possibility of criminal 

prosecution if caught, tried and 

convicted. 

Estimate of Burden: Public reporting 

burden for this collection of information 

varies according to the overall health of 

the individual, the amount of research 

required to complete the forms, the time 

it takes to make an appointment, take 

the examination and schedule and 

complete any follow-up medical, dental 

or psychological requirements, the 

method used to complete the forms and 

the completeness of the forms 

submitted. The estimated time is up to 

six weeks from the time the individual 

receives the forms until he or she is 

notified by the contractor of their final 

clearance status. An additional period of 

up to eight weeks may be required for 

the individual who was disqualified to 

be notified of the disqualification, to 

request and receive the waiver packet, 

to obtain employer support and 

complete the waiver request, to do any 

follow-up testing, to return the waiver 

request to the contractor plus any 

follow-up information, for the 

contractor to get the completed packet 

to the National Science Foundation, and 

for NSF to make and promulgate a 

decision. 

Respondents: All individuals 

deploying to the Antarctic under the 

auspices of the United States Antarctic 

Program and certain Arctic areas must 

complete these forms. There are 

approximately 3,000 submissions per 

year, with a small percentage (c.3%) 

under the age of 40 who provide annual 

submissions but with less information. 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Form: Responses range from 2 to 

approximately 238 responses. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 28,728 hours; fewer if the 

individual has previously deployed and 

saved his or her prior year’s data for 

future use. 

Frequency of Responses: Physical 

qualifications are valid for 12 months. 

Individuals must complete the forms 

annually or not earlier than six months 

prior to their anticipated deployment 

date, if they are infrequent travelers. 

Depending on individual medical status 

some persons may require additional 

laboratory results to be current within 

two to six-weeks of anticipated 

deployment. 

Frequency of Responses: Individuals 

must complete the forms annually to be 

current within 12 months of their 

anticipated deployment dates. 

Depending on individual medical status 

some persons may require additional 

laboratory results to be current within 

two to six weeks of anticipated 

deployment. 

Dated: January 25, 2011. 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation. 

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[Docket No. 50–382; NRC–2011–0023] 

Entergy Operations, Inc., Waterford 

Steam Electric Station, Unit 3, 

Environmental Assessment and 

Finding of No Significant Impact 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC or the Commission) 

is considering issuance of an exemption, 

pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations (10 CFR), 26.9, 

‘‘Specific exemptions,’’ from paragraphs 

(c) and (d) of 10 CFR 26.205, ‘‘Work 

hours,’’ for Facility Operating License 

No. NPF–38, issued to Entergy 

Operations, Inc. (Entergy, the licensee), 

for operation of the Waterford Steam 

Electric Station, Unit 3 (Waterford 3), 

located in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. 

In accordance with 10 CFR 51.21, the 

NRC prepared an environmental 

assessment documenting its finding. 

The NRC concluded that the proposed 

actions will have no significant impact. 

Environmental Assessment 

Identification of the Proposed Action 

The proposed action would consider 

approval of an exemption for Waterford 

3, from some of the requirements of 10 

CFR part 26, ‘‘Fitness for duty 

programs.’’ Specifically, the licensee 

requests approval of an exemption from 

the requirements of 10 CFR 26.205(c), 

‘‘Work hours scheduling,’’ and (d), 

‘‘Work hour controls,’’ to allow for 

sequestering site personnel prior to and 

following the entry and exit conditions 

(i.e., emergency declaration) related to 

adverse weather conditions caused by a 

hurricane. 

The licensee states that during 

declaration of severe weather 

conditions, such as hurricane watches 

and warnings or inland hurricane wind 

watches and warnings caused by a 

hurricane impacting the coast, 

adherence to all work hour controls 

requirements could impede the 

licensee’s ability to use whatever staff 

resources may be necessary to respond 

to a plant emergency and ensure that the 

plant reaches and maintains a safe and 

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Since 10 CFR 26.207(d), ‘‘Plant 

emergencies,’’ already provides an 

exception for the time period associated 

with a declared emergency, the 

exemption requested per 10 CFR 26.9 

only applies to the applicable time 

periods prior to and following the 10 

CFR 26.207(d) exception, requiring the 

sequestering of Waterford 3 response 

personnel and related staff resource 

limitations. 

The proposed exemption will allow 

the licensee not to meet the 

requirements of 10 CFR 26.205(c) and 

(d), from the time the existing entry 

conditions for declaring an emergency 

condition that hurricane watches and 

warnings or inland hurricane wind 

watches and warnings caused by a 

hurricane impacting the coast 

sequestering conditions are met until 

severe weather exit conditions are 

satisfied. The exemption will only apply 

to individuals performing certain types 

of duties defined in 10 CFR 26.4(a)(1) 

through (a)(5), namely, (1) Operating or 

onsite directing of the operation of 

structures, systems and components 

(SSCs) that a risk-informed evaluation 

process has shown to be significant to 

public health and safety; (2) performing 

health physics or chemistry duties 

required as a member of the onsite 

emergency response organization 

minimum shift complement; (3) 

performing the duties of a fire brigade 

member who is responsible for 

understanding the effects of fire and fire 

suppressants on safe shutdown 

capability; (4) performing maintenance 

or onsite directing of the maintenance of 

SSCs that a risk-informed evaluation 

process has shown to be significant to 

public health and safety; and (5) 

performing security duties as an armed 

security force officer, alarm station 

operator, response team leader, or 

watchperson. When crew sequestering 

exit conditions are met, full compliance 

with 10 CFR 26.205(c) and (d) will be 

required. 

The proposed action is in accordance 

with the licensee’s application dated 

May 27, 2010, as supplemented by 

letters dated November 3 and 29, 2010, 

which are available to the public in the 

NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access 

and Management System (ADAMS) 

Accession Nos. ML101520325, 

ML103090716, and ML103350158, 

respectively. 

The Need for the Proposed Action 

The proposed action is needed 

because the licensee is unable to meet 

the requirements of 10 CFR 26.205(c) 

and (d) during existing entry and exit 

conditions when declarations of severe 

weather conditions that could result due 

to prevailing hurricane watches and 

warnings or inland hurricane wind 

watches and warnings caused by a 

hurricane impacting the coast impacting 

the facility are made. 

Compliance with work hour control 

requirements would impede the 

licensee’s ability to use whatever staff 

resources may be necessary to respond 

to a plant emergency and ensure that the 

plant reaches and maintains a safe and 

secure status. 

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed 

Action 

The NRC has completed its evaluation 

of the proposed action and concludes 

that there are no environmental impacts 

associated with the proposed 

exemption. The details of the staff’s 

safety evaluation will be provided in the 

exemption, if approved by the NRC, that 

will be issued as part of the letter to the 

licensee approving the exemption to the 

regulation. 

The proposed action will not 

significantly increase the probability or 

consequences of accidents. No changes 

are being made in the types of effluents 

that may be released offsite. There is no 

significant increase in the amount of 

any effluent released offsite. There is no 

significant increase in occupational or 

public radiation exposure. Therefore, 

there are no significant radiological 

environmental impacts associated with 

the proposed action. 

The proposed action does not result 

in changes to land use or water use, or 

result in changes to the quality or 

quantity of non-radiological effluents. 

No changes to the National Pollution 

Discharge Elimination System permit 

are needed. No effects on the aquatic or 

terrestrial habitat in the vicinity of the 

plant, or to threatened, endangered, or 

protected species under the Endangered 

Species Act, or impacts to essential fish 

habitat covered by the MagnusonStevens Act are expected. There are no 

impacts to the air or ambient air quality. 

There are no impacts to historical and 

cultural resources. There would be no 

noticeable effect on socioeconomic 

conditions in the region. Therefore, no 

changes or different types of nonradiological environmental impacts are 

expected as a result of the proposed 

action. Accordingly, the NRC concludes 

that there are no significant 

environmental impacts associated with 

the proposed action; therefore, the staff 

has determined not to prepare an 

environmental impact statement for the 

proposed action. 

Environmental Impacts of the 

Alternatives to the Proposed Action 

As an alternative to the proposed 

action, the NRC staff considered denial 

of the proposed action (i.e., the ‘‘noaction’’ alternative). Denial of the 

exemption request would result in no 

change in current environmental 

impacts. If the proposed action was 

denied, the licensee would have to 

comply with the work hour control 

requirements in 10 CFR 26.205(c) and 

(d). This would cause unnecessary 

burden on the licensee, without a 

significant benefit in environmental 

impacts. The environmental impacts of 

the proposed exemption and the ‘‘noaction’’ alternative are similar. 

Alternative Use of Resources 

The action does not involve the use of 

any different resources than those 

previously considered by the NRC staff 

in the Final Environmental Statement 

for Waterford 3, dated September 1981 

(NUREG–0779). 

Agencies and Persons Consulted 

In accordance with its stated policy, 

on January 4, 2011, the NRC staff 

consulted with the Louisiana State 

official, JiYoung Wiley, Department of 

Radiological Emergency Preparedness 

and Response, regarding the 

environmental impact of the proposed 

action. The Louisiana State official had 

no comments. 

Finding of No Significant Impact 

On the basis of the above 

environmental assessment which, 

pursuant to 10 CFR 51.32(a)(4) is 

incorporated into this finding of no 

significant impact by reference, the NRC 

concludes that the proposed action will 

not have a significant effect on the 

quality of the human environment. 

Accordingly, the NRC has determined 

not to prepare an environmental impact 

statement for the proposed action. 

For further details with respect to the 

proposed action, see the licensee’s letter 

dated May 27, 2010, as supplemented 

by letters dated November 3 and 29, 

2010. Documents may be examined, 

and/or copied for a fee, at the NRC’s 

Public Document Room (PDR), located 

at One White Flint North, Room O1– 

F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), 

Rockville, Maryland 20852–2338. 

Publicly available records will be 

accessible electronically from the 

ADAMS Public Electronic Reading 

Room on the Internet at the NRC Web 

site, http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

adams.html. Persons who do not have 

access to ADAMS or who encounter 

problems in accessing the documents 

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NRC PDR Reference staff by telephone 

at 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415–4737, or 

send an e-mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 21st day 

of January 2011. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Nageswaran Kalyanam, 

Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch IV, 

Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, 

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

[FR Doc. 2011–2034 Filed 1–28–11; 8:45 am] 

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[Docket Numbers 50–498, 50–499; NRC– 

2010–0375] 

STP Nuclear Operating Company; 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement and 

Conduct the Scoping Process for 

South Texas Project, Units 1 and 2 

STP Nuclear Operating Company 

(STPNOC) has submitted an application 

for renewal of Facility Operating 

Licenses NPF–76 and NPF–80 for an 

additional 20 years of operation at the 

South Texas Project (STP), Units 1 and 

2. STP is located near Wadsworth, TX. 

The current operating license for STP 

Unit 1 expires on August 20, 2027, and 

Unit 2 expires on December 15, 2028. 

The application for renewal, dated 

October 25, 2010, was submitted 

pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 54, 

which included an environmental 

report (ER). A separate notice of receipt 

and availability of the application was 

published in the Federal Register on 

December 9, 2010 (75 FRN 76757). A 

notice of acceptance for docketing of the 

application and opportunity for hearing 

regarding renewal of the facility 

operating license was also published in 

the Federal Register on January 13, 

2011 (76 FRN 2426). The purpose of this 

notice is to inform the public that the 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

(NRC) will be preparing an 

environmental impact statement (EIS) 

related to the review of the license 

renewal application and to provide the 

public an opportunity to participate in 

the environmental scoping process, as 

defined in 10 CFR 51.29. 

As outlined in 36 CFR 800.8, 

‘‘Coordination with the National 

Environmental Policy Act,’’ the NRC 

plans to coordinate compliance with 

Section 106 of the National Historic 

Preservation Act (NHPA) in meeting the 

requirements of the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 

(NEPA). Pursuant to 36 CFR 800.8(c), 

the NRC intends to use its process and 

documentation for the preparation of 

the EIS on the proposed action to 

comply with Section 106 of the NHPA 

in lieu of the procedures set forth at 36 

CFR 800.3 through 800.6. 

In accordance with 10 CFR 51.53(c) 

and 10 CFR 54.23, STPNOC submitted 

the ER as part of the application. The ER 

was prepared pursuant to 10 CFR part 

51 and is publicly available at the NRC 

Public Document Room (PDR), located 

at One White Flint North, 11555 

Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 

20852, or from the NRC’s Agencywide 

Documents Access and Management 

System (ADAMS). The ADAMS Public 

Electronic Reading Room is accessible 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. The ADAMS 

Accession Number for the STP ER is 

ML103010263. Persons who do not have 

access to ADAMS or who encounter 

problems in accessing the documents 

located in ADAMS should contact the 

NRC’s PDR reference staff by telephone 

at 800–397–4209 or 301–415–4737 or by 

e-mail at pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The ER 

may also be viewed on the Internet at 

http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/ 

licensing/renewal/applications/southtexas-project.html. In addition, paper 

copies of the ER are available to the 

public for viewing near the site at the 

Bay City Public Library, 1100 7th Street, 

Bay City, TX 77414. 

Public comments and supporting 

materials related to this notice can be 

found at the Federal Rulemaking Web 

site, http://www.regulations.gov, by 

searching on Docket ID NRC–2010– 

0375. 

This notice advises the public that the 

NRC intends to gather the information 

necessary to prepare a plant-specific 

supplement to the NRC’s ‘‘Generic 

Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) 

for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants,’’ 

(NUREG–1437) related to the review of 

the application for renewal of the STP 

operating licenses for an additional 20 

years. 

Possible alternatives to the proposed 

action (license renewal) include no 

action and reasonable alternative energy 

sources. The NRC is required by 10 CFR 

51.95 to prepare a supplement to the 

GEIS in connection with the renewal of 

an operating license. This notice is 

being published in accordance with 

NEPA and the NRC’s regulations found 

at 10 CFR part 51. 

The NRC will first conduct a scoping 

process for the supplement to the GEIS 

and, as soon as practicable thereafter, 

will prepare a draft supplement to the 

GEIS for public comment. Participation 

in the scoping process by members of 

the public and local, State, Tribal, and 

Federal government agencies is 

encouraged. The scoping process for the 

supplement to the GEIS will be used to 

accomplish the following: 

a. Define the proposed action, which 

is to be the subject of the supplement to 

the GEIS; 

b. Determine the scope of the 

supplement to the GEIS and identify the 

significant issues to be analyzed in 

depth; 

c. Identify and eliminate from 

detailed study those issues that are 

peripheral or that are not significant; 

d. Identify any environmental 

assessments and other EISs that are 

being or will be prepared that are 

related to, but are not part of, the scope 

of the supplement to the GEIS being 

considered; 

e. Identify other environmental 

review and consultation requirements 

related to the proposed action; 

f. Indicate the relationship between 

the timing of the preparation of the 

environmental analyses and the 

Commission’s tentative planning and 

decision-making schedule; 

g. Identify any cooperating agencies 

and, as appropriate, allocate 

assignments for preparation and 

schedules for completing the 

supplement to the GEIS to the NRC and 

any cooperating agencies; and 

h. Describe how the supplement to 

the GEIS will be prepared and include 

any contractor assistance to be used. 

The NRC invites the following entities 

to participate in scoping: 

a. The applicant, STPNOC; 

b. Any Federal agency that has 

jurisdiction by law or special expertise 

with respect to any environmental 

impact involved or that is authorized to 

develop and enforce relevant 

environmental standards; 

c. Affected State and local 

government agencies, including those 

authorized to develop and enforce 

relevant environmental standards; 

d. Any affected Indian tribe; 

e. Any person who requests or has 

requested an opportunity to participate 

in the scoping process; and 

f. Any person who has petitioned or 

intends to petition for leave to 

intervene. 

In accordance with 10 CFR 51.26, the 

scoping process for an EIS may include 

a public scoping meeting to help 

identify significant issues related to a 

proposed activity and to determine the 

scope of issues to be addressed in an 

EIS. The NRC has decided to hold 

public meetings for the STP license 

renewal supplement to the GEIS. The 


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