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1On August 22, 2011, petitioner, Ms. Bell, also 

filed a petition for rulemaking, coupled with a 

request to suspend licensing decision. Those 

requests are under review by Commission advisers 

as a separate action. 

(1) limit or guide a contractor’s 

exercise of discretion and retain control 

of government operations by both— 

(i) establishing in the contract 

specified ranges of acceptable decisions 

and/or conduct; and 

(ii) establishing in advance a process 

for subjecting the contractor’s 

discretionary decisions and conduct to 

meaningful oversight and, whenever 

necessary, final approval by an agency 

official; 

(2) assign a sufficient number of 

qualified government employees, with 

expertise to administer or perform the 

work, to give special management 

attention to the contractor’s activities, in 

particular, to ensure that they do not 

expand to include inherently 

governmental functions, are not 

performed in ways not contemplated by 

the contract so as to become inherently 

governmental, do not undermine the 

integrity of the government’s decisionmaking process as provided by 

subsections 5–1(a)(1)(ii)(b) and (c), and 

do not interfere with Federal employees’ 

performance of the closely-associated 

inherently governmental functions (see 

subsection 5–2(b)(2) for guidance on 

steps to take where a determination is 

made that the contract is being used to 

fulfill responsibilities that are 

inherently governmental); 

(3) ensure that the level of oversight 

and management that would be needed 

to retain government control of 

contractor performance and preclude 

the transfer of inherently governmental 

responsibilities to the contractor would 

not result in unauthorized personal 

services as provided by FAR 37.104; 

(4) ensure that a reasonable 

identification of contractors and 

contractor work products is made 

whenever there is a risk that Congress, 

the public, or other persons outside of 

the government might confuse 

contractor personnel or work products 

with government officials or work 

products, respectively; and 

(5) take appropriate steps to avoid or 

mitigate conflicts of interest, such as by 

conducting pre-award conflict of 

interest reviews, to ensure contract 

performance is in accordance with 

objective standards and contract 

specifications, and developing a conflict 

of interest mitigation plan, if needed, 

that identifies the conflict and specific 

actions that will be taken to lessen the 

potential for conflict of interest or 

reduce the risk involved with a 

potential conflict of interest. 

[FR Doc. 2011–23165 Filed 9–9–11; 8:45 am] 

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THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE 

ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 

Meetings of Humanities Panel 

AGENCY: The National Endowment for 

the Humanities, The National 

Foundation on the Arts and the 

Humanities. 

ACTION: Cancellation of panel meeting. 

Notice is hereby given of the 

cancellation of the following meeting of 

the Humanities Panel at the Old Post 

Office, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20506 which was 

published in the Federal Register on 

August 23, 2011, 76 FR 52698. 

Dates: September 27, 2011. 

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

Room: 315. 

Program: This meeting will review 

applications for Request for 

Proposals for A Cooperative 

Agreement with NEH to Support 

Bridging Cultures at Community 

Colleges, submitted to the Division 

Education Programs at the August 

23, 2011 deadline. 

Michael P. McDonald, 

Advisory Committee, Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2011–23264 Filed 9–9–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7536–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 50–397–LR; ASLBP No. 11– 

912–03–LR–BD01] 

Energy Northwest; Establishment of 

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 

Pursuant to delegation by the 

Commission dated December 29, 1972, 

published in the Federal Register, 37 FR 

28,710 (1972), and the Commission’s 

regulations, see, e.g., 10 CFR 2.104, 

2.105, 2.300, 2.309, 2.313, 2.318, and 

2.321, notice is hereby given that an 

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 

(Board) is being established to preside 

over the following proceeding: 

Energy Northwest (Columbia 

Generating Station) 

This proceeding involves an 

application by Energy Northwest to 

renew for twenty years its operating 

license for Columbia Generating Station, 

which is located near Richland, 

Washington. The current operating 

license expires on December 20, 2023. 

In response to a Notice of Opportunity 

for Hearing, published in the Federal 

Register on March 11, 2010 (75 FR 

11,572), a request for hearing was 

submitted by Nina Bell, Executive 

Director, Northwest Environmental 

Advocates. The request, entitled 

‘‘Petition for Hearing and Leave to 

Intervene in Operating License Renewal 

for Energy Northwest’s Columbia 

Generating Station,’’ was received via EFiling on August 22, 2011.1

The Board is comprised of the 

following administrative judges: 

Alan S. Rosenthal, Chair, Atomic Safety 

and Licensing Board Panel, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001. 

Dr. Gary S. Arnold, Atomic Safety and 

Licensing Board Panel, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001. 

Dr. William H. Reed, Atomic Safety and 

Licensing Board Panel, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001. 

All correspondence, documents, and 

other materials shall be filed in 

accordance with the NRC E-Filing rule, 

which the NRC promulgated in August 

2007 (72 FR 49,139). 

Issued at Rockville, Maryland this 6th day 

of September 2011. 

E. Roy Hawkens, 

Chief Administrative Judge, Atomic Safety 

and Licensing Board Panel. 

[FR Doc. 2011–23199 Filed 9–9–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. 52–018–COL, 52–019–COL, 

52–025–COL, 52–026–COL; ASLBP No. 11– 

913–01–COL–BD01] 

Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC; Southern 

Nuclear Operating Company; 

Establishment of Atomic Safety and 

Licensing Board 

Pursuant to delegation by the 

Commission dated December 29, 1972, 

published in the Federal Register, 37 FR 

28,710 (1972), and the Commission’s 

regulations, see, e.g., 10 CFR 2.104, 

2.105, 2.300, 2.309, 2.313, 2.318, and 

2.321, notice is hereby given that an 

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 

(Board) is being established to preside 

over this proceeding, which involves 

the following captioned cases: 

Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC, (William 

States Lee III Nuclear Station, Units 1 

and 2), Docket Nos. 52–018–COL & 

52–019–COL; 

Southern Nuclear Operating Company, 

(Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, 

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