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information from civilian personnel or 

medical records. 

Estimated total annual burden hours: 

2,671 hours. 

Abstract: In accordance with rules 

issued by the Office of Personnel 

Management, the National Personnel 

Records Center (NPRC) of the National 

Archives and Records Administration 

(NARA) administers Official Personnel 

Folders (OPF) and Employee Medical 

Folders (EMF) of former Federal civilian 

employees. The authority for this 

information collection is contained in 

36 CFR 1228.164. When former Federal 

civilian employees and other authorized 

individuals request information from or 

copies of documents in OPF’s or EMF’s, 

they must provide in forms or in letters 

certain information about the employee 

and the nature of the request. The NA 

Form 13022, Returned Request Form, is 

used to request additional information 

about the former Federal employee. The 

NA Form 13064, Reply to Request 

Involving Relief Agencies, is used to 

request additional information about the 

former relief agency employee. The NA 

Form 13068, Walk-In Request for OPM 

Records or Information, is used by 

members of the public, with proper 

authorization, to request a copy of a 

Personnel or Medical record. 

Dated: December 7, 2006. 

Martha Morphy, 

Assistant Archivist for Information Services. 

[FR Doc. E6–21312 Filed 12–13–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7515–01–P 

NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE 

ARTS AND HUMANITIES 

Notification and Federal Employee 

Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act 

of 2002 

AGENCY: National Endowment for the 

Arts. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given to 

National Endowment for the Arts 

employees, former employees and 

applicants for Federal employment 

about the rights and remedies available 

under the antidiscrimination, 

whistleblower protection, and 

retaliation laws applicable to them. 

DATES: Effective immediately. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Craig McCord, Director of Human 

Resources, National Endowment for the 

Arts, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Room 627, Washington, DC 20506, (202) 

682–5473; or Angelia C. Richardson, 

Director, Civil Rights Office, National 

Endowment for the Arts, 1100 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Room 219, 

Washington, DC 20506, (202) 682–5454. 

Persons who cannot access this No 

FEAR Act Notice through the Internet 

may request a paper or electronic copy 

by contacting the Civil Rights Office at 

the address and telephone number 

listed above. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 

15, 2002, Congress enacted the 

‘‘Notification and Federal Employee 

Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act 

of 2002,’’ which is now known as the 

No FEAR Act. One purpose of the Act 

is to require that Federal agencies be 

accountable for violations of 

antidiscrimination and whistleblower 

protection laws. In support of this 

purpose, Congress found that ‘‘agencies 

cannot be run effectively if Federal 

agencies practice or tolerate 

discrimination.’’ Public Law 107–174, 

Section 101(1), 1216 Stat. 566. The Act 

also requires the National Endowment 

for the Arts to provide this notice to 

Federal employees, former Federal 

employees and applicants for Federal 

employment to inform them of the 

rights and protections available to them 

under Federal antidiscrimination, 

whistleblower protection, and 

retaliation laws. 

Antidiscrimination Laws 

A Federal agency cannot discriminate 

against an employee or applicant with 

respect to the terms, conditions or 

privileges of employment on the basis of 

race, color, religion, sex, national origin, 

age, disability, marital status, or 

political affiliation. Discrimination on 

these bases is prohibited by one or more 

of the following statutes: 5 U.S.C. 

2302(b)(1), 29 U.S.C. 206(d), 29 U.S.C. 

631, 29 U.S.C. 633a, 29 U.S.C. 791, and 

42 U.S.C. 2000e–16. If you believe that 

you have been the victim of unlawful 

discrimination on the basis of race, 

color, religion, sex, national origin or 

disability, you must contact the Equal 

Employment Opportunity (EEO) 

counselor within 45 calendar days of 

the alleged discriminatory action, or, in 

the case of a personnel action, within 45 

calendar days of the effective date of the 

action, before you can file a formal 

complaint of discrimination with our 

agency. See, e.g. 29 CFR part 1614. If 

you believe that you have been the 

victim of unlawful discrimination on 

the basis of age, you must either contact 

an EEO counselor as noted above or give 

notice of intent to sue to the Equal 

Employment Opportunity Commission 

(EEOC) within 180 calendar days of the 

alleged discriminatory action. If you are 

alleging discrimination based on marital 

status or political affiliation, you may 

file a written complaint with the U.S. 

Office of Special Counsel (OSC) (contact 

information listed under whistleblower 

Protection Laws). In the alternative (or 

in some cases, in addition), you may 

pursue a discrimination complaint by 

filing a grievance through your agency’s 

administrative or negotiated grievance 

procedures, if such procedures apply 

and are available. 

Whistleblower Protection Laws 

A Federal employee with authority to 

take, direct others to take, recommend 

or approve any personnel action must 

not use that authority to take or fail to 

take, or threaten to take or fail to take, 

a personnel action against an employee 

or applicant because of disclosure of 

information by that individual that is 

reasonably believed to evidence 

violations of law, rule or regulations; 

gross mismanagement; gross waste of 

funds; an abuse of authority; or a 

substantial and specific danger to public 

health or safety, unless disclosure of 

such information is specifically 

prohibited by law and such information 

is specifically required by Executive 

order to be kept secret in the interest of 

national defense or the conduct of 

foreign affairs. Retaliation against an 

employee or applicant for making a 

protected disclosure is prohibited by 5 

U.S.C. 2302(b)(8). If you believe that you 

have been the victim of whistleblower 

retaliation, you may file a written 

complaint (Form OSC–11) with the U.S. 

Office of Special Counsel at 1730 M 

Street, NW., Suite 218, Washington, DC 

20036–4505 or online through the OSC 

Web site—http://www.osc.gov. 

Retaliation for Engaging in Protected 

Activity 

A Federal agency cannot retaliate 

against an employee or applicant 

because that individual exercises his or 

her rights under any of the Federal 

antidiscrimination or whistleblower 

protection laws listed above. If you 

believe that you are the victim of 

retaliation for engaging in protected 

activity, you must follow, as 

appropriate, the procedures described in 

the Antidiscrimination Laws and 

Whistleblower Protection Laws sections 

or, if applicable, the administrative or 

negotiated grievance procedures in 

order to pursue any legal remedy. 

Disciplinary Actions 

Under the existing laws, each agency 

retains the right, where appropriate, to 

discipline a Federal employee for 

conduct that is inconsistent with 

Federal Antidiscrimination and 

Whistleblower Protection Laws up to 

and including removal. If OSC has 


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initiated an investigation under 5 U.S.C. 

1214, however, according to 5 U.S.C. 

1214(f), agencies must seek approval 

from the Special Counsel to discipline 

employees for, among other activities, 

engaging in prohibited retaliation. 

Nothing in the No FEAR Act alters 

existing laws or permits an agency to 

take unfounded disciplinary action 

against a Federal employee or to violate 

the procedural rights of a Federal 

employee who has been accused of 

discrimination. 

Additional Information 

For further information regarding the 

No FEAR Act regulations, refer to 5 CFR 

part 724, as well as the appropriate 

offices within your agency (e.g., Civil 

Rights/EEO Office, Human Resources 

Office, or Office of General Counsel). 

Additional information regarding 

Federal antidiscrimination, 

whistleblower protection, and 

retaliation laws can be found at the 

EEOC Web site—http://www.eeoc.gov—

and the OSC Web site—http:// 

www.osc.gov. 

Existing Rights Unchanged 

Pursuant to Section 205 of the No 

FEAR Act, neither the Act nor this 

notice creates, expands or reduces any 

rights otherwise available to any 

employee, former employee or applicant 

under the laws of the United States, 

including the provisions of law 

specified in 5 U.S.C. 2302(d). 

Karen Elias, 

Acting General Counsel, National Endowment 

for the Arts. 

[FR Doc. 06–9689 Filed 12–13–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7036–01–M 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

Review; Comment Request 

AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC). 

ACTION: Notice of the OMB review of 

information collection and solicitation 

of public comment. 

SUMMARY: The NRC has recently 

submitted to OMB for review the 

following proposal for the collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. Chapter 35). The NRC hereby 

informs potential respondents that an 

agency may not conduct or sponsor, and 

that a person is not required to respond 

to, a collection of information unless it 

displays a current valid OMB control 

number. 

1. Type of submission, new, revision, 

or extension: Revision. 

2. The title of the information 

collection: NRC Form 664, ‘‘General 

Licensee Registration’’. 

3. The form number if applicable: 

NRC Form 664. 

4. How often the collection is 

required: Annually. 

5. Who is required or asked to report: 

General Licensees of the NRC who 

possess devices subject to registration 

under 10 CFR 31.5. 

6. An estimate of the number of 

responses: 1,000. 

7. The estimated number of annual 

respondents: 1,000. 

8. The number of hours needed 

annually to complete the requirement or 

request: 333 hours annually (1,000 

respondents × 20 minutes per form). 

9. An indication of whether Section 

3507(d), Pub. L. 104–13 applies: Not 

applicable. 

10. Abstract: NRC Form 664 is used 

by NRC general licensees to make 

reports regarding certain generally 

licensed devices subject to registration. 

The registration program allows NRC to 

better track general licensees, so that 

they can be contacted or inspected as 

necessary, and to make sure that 

generally licensed devices can be 

identified even if lost or damaged, and 

to further ensure that general licensees 

are aware of and understand the 

requirements for the possession of 

devices containing byproducts material. 

Greater awareness helps to ensure that 

general licensees will comply with the 

requirements for proper handling and 

disposal of generally licensed devices 

and would reduce the potential for 

incidents that could result in 

unnecessary radiation exposure to the 

public and contamination of property. 

A copy of the final supporting 

statement may be viewed free of charge 

at the NRC Public Document Room, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Room O–1 F21, Rockville, MD 

20852. OMB clearance requests are 

available at the NRC worldwide Web 

site: http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/ 

doc-comment/omb/index.html. The 

document will be available on the NRC 

home page site for 60 days after the 

signature date of this notice. 

Comments and questions should be 

directed to the OMB reviewer listed 

below by January 16, 2007. Comments 

received after this date will be 

considered if it is practical to do so, but 

assurance of consideration cannot be 

given to comments received after this 

date. OMB Desk Officer, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs 

(3150–0198), NEOB–10202, Office of 

Management and Budget, Washington, 

DC 20503. 

Comments can also be submitted by 

telephone at (202) 395–3087. 

The NRC Clearance Officer is 

Margaret A. Janney, 301–415–7245. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 7th day 

of December, 2006. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Margaret A. Janney, 

NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. E6–21271 Filed 12–13–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 50–293] 

Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., 

Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station; Notice 

of Availability of The Draft Supplement 

29 to the Generic Environmental 

Impact Statement for License Renewal 

of Nuclear Plants, and Public Meeting 

for the License Renewal of Pilgrim 

Nuclear Power Station 

Notice is hereby given that the U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC, 

Commission) has published a draft 

plant-specific supplement to the 

Generic Environmental Impact 

Statement for License Renewal of 

Nuclear Plants (GEIS), NUREG–1437, 

regarding the renewal of operating 

license DPR–35 for an additional 20 

years of operation for the Pilgrim 

Nuclear Power Station (Pilgrim). Pilgrim 

is located on the western shore of Cape 

Cod in the Town of Plymouth, 

Plymouth County, Massachusetts. It is 

38 miles southeast of Boston, 

Massachusetts, and 44 miles east of 

Providence, Rhode Island. Possible 

alternatives to the proposed action 

(license renewal) include no action and 

reasonable alternative energy sources. 

The draft Supplement 29 to the GEIS 

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://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/ 

dologin.htm. The Accession Number for 

the draft Supplement 29 to the GEIS is 

ML063260173. 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 1–800–397–4209, or 301–415–4737, 


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