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National Credit Union Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission to OMB for 

Review; Comment Request 

AGENCY: National Credit Union 

Administration (NCUA). 

ACTION: Request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The NCUA intends to submit 

the following information collection to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and clearance under 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(Pub. L. 104–13, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). 

This information collection is published 

to obtain comments from the public. 

DATES: Comments will be accepted until 

October 13, 2006. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties are 

invited to submit written comments to 

NCUA Clearance Officer listed below: 

Clearance Officer: Mr. Neil 

McNamara, National Credit Union 

Administration, 1775 Duke Street, 

Alexandria, Virginia 22314–3428, Fax 

No. 703–837–2861, E-mail: 

mcnamara@ncua.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Requests for 

additional information or a copy of the 

information collection request should be 

directed to Tracy Sumpter at the 

National Credit Union Administration, 

1775 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA 

22314–3428, or at (703) 518–6440. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Proposal 

for the following collection of 

information: 

OMB Number: 3133–0121. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Title: Notice of Change of Officials 

and Senior Executive Officers. 

Description: The regulations direct 

newly chartered and troubled credit 

unions to provide NCUA with 30 days 

notice before making a management 

change. 12 CFR Parts 701.14 and 

741.205. 

Estimated No. of Respondents/ 

Recordkeepers: 589. 

Estimated Burden Hours Per 

Response: 2.0 hours. 

Frequency of Response: Reporting and 

on occasion. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 1178. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: $0. 

By the National Credit Union 

Administration Board on August 9, 2006. 

Mary Rupp, 

Secretary of the Board. 

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NATIONAL CREDIT UNION 

ADMINISTRATION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission to OMB for 

Review; Comment Request 

AGENCY: National Credit Union 

Administration (NCUA). 

ACTION: Request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The NCUA intends to submit 

the following information collection to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and clearance under 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(Public Law 104–13, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 

35). This information collection is 

published to obtain comments from the 

public. 

DATES: Comments will be accepted until 

October 13, 2006. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties are 

invited to submit written comments to 

NCUA Clearance Officer listed below: 

Clearance Officer: Mr. Neil 

McNamara, National Credit Union 

Administration, 1775 Duke Street, 

Alexandria, Virginia 22314–3428, Fax 

No. 703–837–2861, E-mail: 

mcnamara@ncua.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or a 

copy of the information collection 

request should be directed to Tracy 

Sumpter at the National Credit Union 

Administration, 1775 Duke Street, 

Alexandria, VA 22314–3428, or at (703) 

518–6440. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Proposal 

for the following collection of 

information: 

OMB Number: 3133–0139. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Title: Organization and Operation of 

Federal Credit Unions 

Description: Federal Credit Unions 

wishing to pay lending-related 

incentives to employees must establish 

written policies. 

Respondents: Certain Federal Credit 

Unions. 

Estimated No. of Respondents/Record 

keepers: 2,000. 

Estimated Burden Hours Per 

Response: One. 

Frequency of Response: On Occasion. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 5,000. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: 

$125,000. 

By the National Credit Union 

Administration Board on August 8, 2006. 

Mary Rupp, 

Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. E6–13266 Filed 8–11–06; 8:45 am] 

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Notice of Plan for Collection of 

Meteorites Issued Under the Antarctic 

Conservation Act of 1978, as Amended 

AGENCY: National Science Foundation. 

ACTION: Notice of availability of a plan 

for collection of meteorites; invitation 

for comments. 

SUMMARY: On March 31, 2003, the 

National Science Foundation (NSF) 

issued a final rule that authorized the 

collection of meteorites in Antarctica for 

scientific purposes only. These 

regulations implement Article 7 of the 

Protocol on Environmental Protection to 

the Antarctic Treaty and are issued 

pursuant to Section 6 of the Antarctic 

Conservation Act, as amended by the 

Antarctic Science, Tourism and 

Conservation Act of 1996. The 

regulations require appropriate 

collection, handling, and curation of 

Antarctic meteorites to preserve their 

scientific value. Antarctic expeditions 

planning to collect meteorites in 

Antarctica are required to submit their 

plans for the collection, handling, and 

curation of the meteorites to the 

National Science Foundation. NSF is 

providing notice of availability of a 

meteorite collection plan and inviting 

comments on the plan. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nadene G. Kennedy, Permit Office, 

Office of Polar Programs, Rm. 755, 

National Science Foundation, 4201 

Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22230. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A 

meteorite collection plan has been 

received from Dr. Ralph Harvey of Case 

Western Reserve University. Interested 

parties are invited to submit written 

data, comments, or views with respect 

to this plan by August 29, 206. This 

plan may be inspected by interested 

parties at the Permit Office, address 

listed above. 

Nadene G. Kennedy, 

Permit Officer. 

[FR Doc. 06–6894 Filed 8–11–06; 8:45 am] 

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Proposal Review Panel for Ocean 

Sciences; Notice of Meeting 

In accordance with the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–

463, as amended), the National Science 

Foundation announces the following 

meeting. 

Name: Proposal Review Panel for 

Ocean Sciences (#10752). 


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Date & Time: August 14, 2006, 8 a.m.–

7 p.m., August 15–16, 2006, 8 a.m.–5 

p.m., August 17, 2006, 8 a.m.–3:00 p.m. 

Place: Monterey Bay Aquarium 

Research Institute (MBARI), in Moss 

Landing, CA. 

Type of Meeting: Open. 

Contact Person: Dr. Alexandria Isern, 

Program Director, Division of Ocean 

Science, National Science Foundation, 

4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 

22230. 

Purpose of Meeting: To review the 

scope and system level implementation 

plans for the Ocean Observatories 

Initiative (OOI) including management 

plans and budgeting, and determine 

whether all major risks with his project 

have been identified and whether 

appropriate initial system development 

specifications has been established for 

each sub-element of the OOI. 

Reason for Late Notice: 

Administrative Oversight. 

Agenda: To review elements of the 

initial Ocean Observatories Initiative 

(OOI) Project Execution Plan (PEP) and 

the project’s plans for further 

development of the OOI to the 

Preliminary Design phrase of project 

maturity. 

August 14, 2006—Plenary session 

designed to orient the review panel and 

NSF staff to progress on high level 

activities related to OOI science, 

engineering, and management by the 

project staff and associated experts. 

Review of management issues. At the 

end of the day the panel will present 

concerns to the project team to be 

addressed at the start of day 2. After this 

presentation, the breakout groups will 

meet with Project leads for Level-2 

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) 

elements to coordinate for breakout 

sessions on day 2. 

August 15, 2006—Break out sessions 

will review specific OOI WBS elements. 

At the end of the day the panel will 

present concerns to the project team to 

be addressed at the start of day 3. There 

will be a site tour of facilities and 

activities related to OOI on the second 

day. 

August 16, 2006—Breakout sessions 

continue in the morning. Meet plenary 

at the end of the day to address any 

lingering questions of the Panel. 

August 17, 2006—Review Panel drafts 

Critical Design review (CDR) report and 

presents a summary of the report 

findings to the project team at a closeout 

session. 

Dated: August 8, 2006. 

Susanne Bolton, 

Committee Management Officer. 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

Pressurized Thermal Shock; Reports 

on the Technical Basis and Public 

Workshop 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of availability; notice of 

workshop. 

SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is making available 

reports documenting the technical basis 

for a proposed revision of the NRC’s 

pressurized thermal shock regulations. 

The NRC will also be conducting a twoday public workshop on this topic. The 

workshop is open to the public and all 

interested parties may attend. 

DATES: The NRC is not soliciting 

comments at this time; however, NRC 

will request formal public comments 

when a notice of proposed rulemaking 

is published in the Federal Register. 

The public workshop will be: 

September 7, 2006, from 8:30 a.m.–12 

p.m., Room T10–A1, and from 1 p.m.–

4:45 p.m., Room T9–A1; September 8, 

2006, from 9:30 a.m.–3:45 p.m., Room 

T9–A1. If you plan to attend the 

workshop you are encouraged to 

preregister in order to facilitate security 

check-in on the day of the meeting. 

ADDRESSES: Documents related to the 

proposed technical basis can be 

accessed electronically at http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams/webbased.html. From this site, you can 

access ADAMS, which provides text 

and image files of the NRC’s publicly 

available documents. If you do not have 

access to ADAMS or if you experience 

problems accessing documents in 

ADAMS, contact the NRC’s Public 

Document Room (PDR) reference staff 

by telephone at 1–800–397–4209 or 

301–415–4737, or by e-mail to 

PDR@nrc.gov. These documents may 

also be viewed on public computers 

located in the NRC’s Public Document 

Room, Room O1–F21, One White Flint 

North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland, 20852. The PDR reproduction 

contractor will provide hard copies of 

the documents for a fee. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Mark T. Kirk, Office of Nuclear 

Regulatory Research, Component 

Integrity Branch, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001, telephone (301) 415–

6015, facsimile 301–415–5074; e-mail 

MTK@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: During the 

operation of a nuclear power plant, the 

walls of the reactor pressure vessel 

(RPV) are exposed to neutron radiation, 

resulting in localized embrittlement of 

the vessel steel and weld materials in 

the core area. If an embrittled RPV had 

an existing flaw of critical size and 

certain postulated severe system 

transients were to occur, the flaw could 

very rapidly propagate through the 

vessel, resulting in a through-wall crack 

and challenging the integrity of the RPV. 

The postulated severe transients of 

concern, known as pressurized thermal 

shock (PTS) events, are characterized by 

a rapid cooling (i.e., thermal shock) of 

the internal RPV surface in combination 

with repressurization of the RPV. The 

coincident occurrence of critical-size 

flaws, embrittled vessel steel and weld 

material, and a severe PTS transient is 

a very low-probability event. 

Additionally, only a few currently 

operating pressurized-water reactors are 

projected to closely approach the 

current statutory limit on the level of 

embrittlement, as set forth in Title 10, 

Section 50.61, of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (10 CFR 50.61), ‘‘Fracture 

Toughness Requirements for Protection 

Against Pressurized Thermal Shock 

Events,’’ during their planned 

operational life. 

Advancements in our understanding 

and knowledge of materials behavior, 

our ability to realistically model plant 

systems and operational characteristics, 

and our ability to better evaluate PTS 

transients to estimate loads on vessel 

walls led NRC to conclude that the 

earlier analysis, conducted in the course 

of developing the PTS Rule in the 

1980s, contained significant 

conservatism. Consistent with the NRC’s 

Strategic Plan and the strategy to use 

realistically conservative, safety-focused 

research programs to resolve safetyrelated issues, the NRC’s Office of 

Nuclear Regulatory Research (RES) 

undertook a project in 1999 to develop 

a technical basis to support a riskinformed revision of 10 CFR 50.61. Two 

central features of the research approach 

include a focus on the use of realistic 

input values and models and an explicit 

treatment of uncertainties (using 

currently available uncertainty analysis 

tools and techniques). This approach 

improved significantly upon that 

employed to establish the embrittlement 

limits in 10 CFR 50.61, which originally 

included intentional and unquantified 

conservatism in many aspects of the 

analysis and treated uncertainties 

implicitly by incorporating them into 

the models. 

In early 2005, RES completed a series 

of reports that describe in detail the 

results of the project initiated in 1999. 

The information in these reports 

demonstrates that even through the 


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