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of, the procedures described in 21 CFR 

1301.34(b), (c), (d), (e) and (f). As noted 

in a previous notice published in the 

Federal Register on September 23, 1975, 

(40 FR 43745–46), all applicants for 

registration to import a basic class of 

any controlled substances in schedule I 

or II are and will continue to be required 

to demonstrate to the Deputy Assistant 

Administrator, Office of Diversion 

Control, Drug Enforcement 

Administration, that the requirements 

for such registration pursuant to 21 

U.S.C. 958(a); 21 U.S.C. 823(a); and 21 

CFR 1301.34(b), (c), (d), (e) and (f) are 

satisfied. 

Dated: July 24, 2007. 

Joseph T. Rannazzisi, 

Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of 

Diversion Control, Drug Enforcement 

Administration. 

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BILLING CODE 4410–09–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Office of the Secretary 

Submission for OMB Review: 

Comment Request 

July 19, 2007. 

The Department of Labor has 

submitted the following public 

information collection requests (ICR) to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13, 

44 U.S.C. chapter 35). Copies of these 

ICRs, with applicable supporting 

documentation; including inter alia a 

description of the likely respondents, 

proposed frequency of response, and 

estimated total burden may be obtained 

from the RegInfo.gov Web site at 

http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain or by contacting Darrin King 

on 202–693–4129 (this is not a toll-free 

number) / e-mail: king.darrin@dol.gov. 

Comments should be sent to Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attn: John Kraemer, OMB Desk Officer 

for the Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration (OSHA), Office of 

Management and Budget, 725 17th 

Street, NW., Room 10235, Washington, 

DC 20503, Telephone: 202–395–4816 / 

Fax: 202–395–6974 (these are not a tollfree numbers), E-mail: 

John_Kraemer@omb.eop.gov within 30 

days from the date of this publication in 

the Federal Register. In order to ensure 

the appropriate consideration, 

comments should reference the 

applicable OMB Control Number (see 

below). 

The OMB 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 submission of 

responses. 

AGENCY: Department of Labor / 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration. 

Type of Review: Extension without 

change of currently approved collection. 

Title: Crawler, Locomotive, and Truck 

Cranes Standard (29 CFR 1910.180). 

OMB Control Number: 1218–0221. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

20,000. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

174,062. 

Affected Public: Private sector: 

Business or other for-profits. 

Description: The information 

collection requirements contained in 29 

CFR 1910.180 require that monthly 

inspections be performed on cranes and 

running ropes and that a certification 

record be prepared. Ropes which have 

been idle for a month or more are 

required to undergo a thorough 

inspection and a certification record 

must be generated. The purpose of each 

of these requirements is to prevent 

employees from using unsafe cranes and 

ropes, thereby, reducing their risk of 

death or serious injury caused by a 

crane or rope failure during material 

handling. 

AGENCY: Department of Labor / 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration. 

Type of Review: Extension without 

change of currently approved collection. 

Title: Overhead and Gantry Cranes 

Standard (29 CFR 1910.179). 

OMB Control Number: 1218–0224. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

35,000. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

360,144. 

Affected Public: Private sector: 

Business or other for-profits. 

Description: The purpose of the 

information collection requirements in 

29 CFR 1910.179 is to prevent death and 

serious injuries among employees by 

ensuring that all critical components of 

the crane are inspected and tested on a 

periodic basis and that the crane is not 

used to lift loads beyond its rated 

capacity. 

AGENCY: Department of Labor / 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration. 

Type of Review: Extension without 

change of currently approved collection. 

Title: Standard on Mechanical Power 

Presses (29 CFR 1910.217(e)(1)(i) and 

(e)(1)(ii)). 

OMB Control Number: 1218–0229. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

295,000. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

1,373,054. 

Affected Public: Private sector: 

Business or other for-profits. 

Description: The inspection and 

certification records required by the 

Mechanical Power Presses Standard are 

intended to ensure that mechanical 

power presses are in safe operating 

condition, and that all safety devices are 

working properly. The failure of these 

safety devices could cause serious 

injury or death to an employee. 

Darrin A. King, 

Acting Departmental Clearance Officer. 

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BILLING CODE 4510–26–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 70–143, License No. SNM–124] 

Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc.; Notice of 

Publication of Confirmatory Order and 

Opportunity for Hearing 

The attached Confirmatory Order was 

issued on February 21, 2007. Although, 

originally, designated as Official Use 

Only, upon further review by NRC Staff, 

it has been determined that this 

Confirmatory Order can now be released 

publicly in its entirety, given that it 

does not identify current security issues. 

Accordingly, it is being published in the 

Federal Register to ensure that adequate 

notice has been given of an opportunity 

to request a hearing on the Confirmatory 

Order. The effective date of the 

Confirmatory Order remains February 

21, 2007, and its publication in the 

Federal Register does not impose any 

new or different requirements on the 

licensee. Requests for hearing from 

anyone other than the licensee must be 

filed within 20 days of the date of 

publication of this Notice in accordance 

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with Section VI of the Confirmatory 

Order. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Dated this 18th day of July 2007. 

William D. Travers, 

Regional Administrator. 

Attachment—In the Matter of Nuclear 

Fuel Services, Inc., Erwin, Tennessee; 

Confirmatory Order Modifying License 

(Effective Immediately) 

I 

Nuclear Fuel Services, Incorporated 

(Licensee) is the holder of Special 

Nuclear Materials License No. SNM–124 

issued by the Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC or Commission) 

pursuant to 10 CFR Part 70 on July 2, 

1999. The license authorizes the 

operation of NFS (facility) in accordance 

with the conditions specified therein. 

The facility is located on the Licensee’s 

site in Erwin, Tennessee. 

This Confirmatory Order is the result 

of an agreement reached during 

alternative dispute resolution (ADR) 

sessions conducted on September 28 

and November 30, 2006. 

II 

Recent NRC inspections and 

investigations at NFS have resulted in 

the identification of the following 

apparent violations for which escalated 

enforcement action is being considered: 

A. On June 22, 2005, an NFS 

supervisor willfully failed to wear a full 

face respirator while performing 

maintenance and repairs on a Building 

302 calciner as required by Safety 

Condition S–1 of Special Nuclear 

Materials License No. SNM–124, 

Section 3.1.2 and 3.1.3 of the License 

Application, Procedure NFS–GH–03, 

‘‘Radiation Work Permits, Revision 11, 

and Standard Radiation Work Permit 

(RWP # 05–04–032) (EA–06–129). 

B. On March 8, 2006, NFS failed to 

meet the performance requirements of 

Section IV of a July 2000 Confirmatory 

Order Modifying License and NFS 

Safeguards Contingency Response Plan, 

Revision 0; dated October 26, 2004; 

Section 3.3, Module 3, subparagraph 

3.3.1, during a force-on-force exercise 

(EA–06–133). 

C. On May 31, 2005, an NFS acting 

building manager willfully transferred 

solvent extraction raffinate waste 

solution to the condensate waste storage 

area, Tank–5A01, without the approval 

of Building Supervision, Industrial 

Safety or NCS through work 

instructions, as required by Safety 

Condition S–1 of Special Nuclear 

Materials License No. SNM–124, 

Section 2.7 of the License Application, 

and Standard Operating Procedure 

(SOP) 409, Caustic and Condensate 

Discard Tank, Revision 2 (EA–06–141). 

D. On March 4, June 30, and 

November 9, 2005, and on May 13, 

2006, NFS failed to secure or properly 

attend Special Nuclear Material, as 

required by the NFS Physical Protection 

Plan (PPP), Revision 2, Section 5.8; 

Storage of Strategic SNM, Subsection 

5.8.3, Process Material Access Areas 

(EA–06–160). 

E. On March 6, 2006, NFS 

inadvertently transferred high enriched 

uranyl nitrate (HEUN) solution into an 

enclosure that was not approved for 

operation. The violations involved: (1) 

The failure to establish management 

measures for the solvent extraction tray 

dissolver filter enclosure drain system 

as required by 10 CFR 70.62(d), which 

resulted in the failure to ensure that the 

filter enclosure met performance 

requirements of 10 CFR 70.61(d) for 

limiting the risk of a nuclear criticality 

accident under the credible abnormal 

condition; (2) the failure to notify the 

NRC within one hour of discovery of an 

event that constituted a condition 

whereby the licensee recognized that a 

spill of HEUN solution had occurred 

into an unapproved and unfavorable 

geometry enclosure and that no safety 

controls or items relied on for safety 

(IROFS) were available and reliable to 

prevent a nuclear criticality accident, as 

required by 10 CFR 70, Appendix A, 

(a)(4)(ii); (3) the failure to establish a 

configuration management system to 

evaluate, implement, and track changes 

to the filter enclosure M205 as required 

by 10 CFR 70.72(a); (4) the failure to 

verify proper installation of the solvent 

extraction tray dissolver filter enclosure 

drains, as required by Safety Condition 

S–1 of the license and license 

application License Application Section 

4.1.1.1.3; (5) the failure to assume in 

NCS analysis for the tray dissolver 

system as required by the license and 

license application Section 4.1.1, that a 

credible abnormal condition could 

occur, specifically fissile solution being 

misdirected from the solvent extraction 

feed transfer line to the tray dissolver 

filter enclosure, as required by the 

license and license application Section 

4.1.1; (6) the failure to conduct SNM 

operations and safety function activities 

with procedures, as required by Safety 

Condition S–1 of the license and 

Section 2.7 of the license application; 

(7) the failure to report to plant 

management, the discovery of previous 

instances of yellow solution in 

enclosure 2M05, in accordance with 

Safety Condition S–1 of the license, 

Section 2.7 of the license application, 

Procedure NFS–HS–CL–26, Nuclear 

Criticality Safety for the BLEU 

Preparation Facility, Revision 3, April 

29, 2005, Section 4.1.2, and Procedure 

NFS–GH–65, Problem Identification, 

Revision 3, October 6, 2005, Section 5.1; 

and (8) the failure to assure the 

requirements in 10 CFR 70.61(d) were 

met, in that the solvent extraction room 

did not meet performance requirements 

for criticality safety with respect to the 

credible abnormal condition of fissile 

solution accumulation on the solvent 

extraction room floor because there 

were no controls available to prevent a 

spill of fissile solution from 

accumulating into an unsafe geometry 

in the elevator pit (EA–06–179). 

F. On August 1, 2005, two security 

officers willfully failed to conduct a 

vehicle search, as required by NRC 

Interim Compensatory Measure Order, 

Attachment 1, Section B, dated August 

21, 2002, and the NFS PPP, Revision 2, 

Module 6, Access Control Subsystems 

and Procedures, Subsection 6.2, Access 

Control at the Owner Controlled Area 

(EA–06–182). 

III 

On September 28 and November 30, 

2006, the NRC and NFS met in ADR 

sessions facilitated by a professional 

mediator, arranged through Cornell 

University’s Institute on Conflict 

Resolution. ADR is a process by which 

a neutral mediator, with no decisionmaking authority, assists the parties in 

reaching an agreement to resolve their 

differences regarding a dispute. 

During the ADR sessions, the parties 

discussed the apparent violations and 

NFS’s overall enforcement history. 

Given the number and repetitive nature 

of some of the apparent violations, the 

parties acknowledged that: (1) Past 

disposition of violations via the 

enforcement policy had not resulted in 

NFS’s development of corrective actions 

capable of preventing recurrence of 

violations; (2) a deficient safety culture 

at NFS appeared to be a contributor to 

the recurrence of violations; and (3) a 

comprehensive, third party review and 

assessment of the safety culture at NFS 

represented the best approach for the 

identification and development of 

focused, relevant and lasting corrective 

actions. 

With these considerations in mind, 

the following agreement was reached as 

documented in this Confirmatory Order: 

A. NFS will conduct, via a thirdparty, an independent safety culture 

assessment(s) within the parameters 

described in Section V below. 

B. Within 60 days of the date of this 

Order, NFS will submit, for NRC 

approval, a request to amend the license 

to revise the configuration management 

(CM) program. The amendment request 

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will include a plan and schedule for 

implementation of the revised program. 

C. The NRC agrees, based on the terms 

of the agreement, that exercise of 

Enforcement Discretion is warranted for 

the EAs listed in Section II.A through F 

above, and the violations will not be 

cited. 

D. With respect to any potential 

enforcement action related to securing 

SNM after the process line shutdown, to 

the extent the NRC determines that a 

violation occurred, it will be included 

in the group of apparent violations for 

which discretion will be exercised, and 

the violation will not be cited. 

E. The proposed settlement excludes 

other potential escalated enforcement 

actions, including those that could 

result from issues previously identified 

in inspection reports and issues under 

review by the NRC’s Office of 

Investigations. However, as part of its 

deliberations, the NRC will consider the 

extent to which violations that occur 

prior to or during implementation of the 

safety culture assessment, but no longer 

than 24 months from the date of this 

Order, are the result of safety culture 

deficiencies, such that NFS’s 

implementation of the comprehensive 

safety culture initiative warrants 

mitigation or other adjustment in any 

resultant enforcement actions. 

On January 9, 2007, the Licensee 

consented to issuance of this Order with 

the commitments, as described in 

Section V below. The Licensee further 

agreed that this Order is to be effective 

upon issuance and the Licensee has 

waived its right to a hearing. 

IV 

Since the licensee has agreed to take 

additional actions to address NRC 

concerns, as set forth in Section III 

above, the NRC has concluded that its 

concerns can be resolved through 

confirmation of the Licensee’s 

commitments as outlined in this Order. 

I find that the Licensee’s 

commitments as set forth in Section V 

are acceptable and necessary and 

conclude that with these commitments, 

the public health and safety are 

reasonably assured. In view of the 

foregoing, I have determined that public 

health and safety require that the 

Licensee’s commitments be confirmed 

by this Order. Based on the above and 

the Licensee’s consent, this Order is 

immediately effective upon issuance. 

V 

Accordingly, pursuant to Sections 51, 

53, 161b, 161i, 161o, 182 and 186 of the 

Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, 

and the Commission’s regulations in 10 

CFR 2.202 and 10 CFR Part 70, it is 

hereby ordered, effective immediately, 

that license no. SNM–124 is modified as 

follows: 

1. For purposes of this agreement, 

NFS does not dispute the apparent 

violations listed in Section II above. 

Within 60 days of the date of this Order, 

NFS will provide NRC written 

documentation of the reasons for the 

violations, the corrective actions taken 

and planned to prevent recurrence, and 

the completion dates for each corrective 

action. 

2. The apparent violations associated 

with EA–06–179 raise concerns about 

configuration management (CM) that 

should be within the scope of the safety 

culture improvement program. Within 

60 days of the date of the Order 

confirming this agreement, NFS will 

submit, for NRC approval, a request to 

amend the license to revise the CM 

management program. The amendment 

request will include a plan and 

schedule for implementation of the 

revised program. 

3. NFS will conduct, via a third-party, 

an independent safety culture 

assessment(s), which includes nuclear 

material security, within the following 

parameters: 

a. Within 90 days of the date of the 

order confirming this agreement, NFS 

will identify contractor(s) for 

performing the independent third party 

safety culture assessment, will submit to 

NRC the name(s) and qualifications of 

the contractor(s) specifically, the 

experience of the contractor(s) in 

conducting a safety culture assessment, 

and will submit a plan and schedule for 

performing the safety culture 

assessment developed by the 

independent third party. The 

assessment shall include the 13 safety 

culture components discussed in the 

NRC’s Regulatory Issue Summary 2006–

013, dated July 31, 2006, and the 

commitments NFS made at the 

management meeting with NRC on 

September 18, 2006. The NRC will 

inform its review of NFS’s submittal 

using the relevant guidance contained 

in NRC Inspection Procedure (IP) 95003 

specifically, Sections 02.07–02.09, 

03.07–03.09, and Enclosures A–F. NFS 

will not be bound by any specific 

provision of the NRC guidance 

document. 

b. Within 270 days of the date of this 

Confirmatory Order, the independent 

third party will complete its safety 

culture assessment. 

c. Ninety (90) days following 

completion (i.e., upon the third party’s 

issuance of the report to NFS) of the 

safety culture assessment, NFS shall 

provide NRC the third party contractor’s 

report documenting its findings and 

assessment of the safety culture at NFS 

and a plan and schedule for 

implementing assessment 

recommendations and actions to 

address identified issues. Upon request 

by NRC, NFS shall also make available 

the supporting documentation and data 

compiled by and/or relied upon by the 

third party contractor in making its 

assessment. 

d. An acceptable safety culture 

implementation plan must include 

performance-based metrics that will be 

used to measure the success of the 

program. 

e. NFS will conduct an additional 

third-party safety culture assessment 

approximately 24 months following the 

completion (i.e., upon the third party’s 

issuance of the report to NFS) of the 

initial assessment, and provide the 

report to the NRC. 

The Director, Office of Enforcement, 

or the Regional Administrator, Region II, 

may, in writing, relax or rescind any of 

the above conditions upon 

demonstration by the Licensee of good 

cause. 

VI 

Any person adversely affected by this 

Confirmatory Order, other than the 

Licensee, may request a hearing within 

20 days of its issuance. Where good 

cause is shown, consideration will be 

given to extending the time to request a 

hearing. A request for extension of time 

must be made in writing to the Director, 

Office of Enforcement, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001, and include a 

statement of good cause for the 

extension. Any request for a hearing 

shall be submitted to the Secretary, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: 

Chief, Rulemaking and Adjudications 

Staff, Washington, DC 20555–0001. 

Copies of the hearing request shall also 

be sent to the Director, Office of 

Enforcement, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555–

0001, to the Assistant General Counsel 

for Materials Litigation and Enforcement 

at the same address, to the Regional 

Administrator, NRC Region II, 61 

Forsyth Street, SW., Atlanta, Georgia 

30303, and to the Licensee. Because of 

potential disruptions in delivery of mail 

to United States Government offices, it 

is requested that answers and requests 

for hearing be transmitted to the 

Secretary of the Commission either by 

means of facsimile transmission to 301–

415–1101 or by e-mail to 

hearingdocket@nrc.gov and also to the 

Office of the General Counsel either by 

means of facsimile transmission to 301–

415–3725 or by e-mail to 

OGCMailCenter@nrc.gov. If a person 

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other than the licensee requests a 

hearing, that person shall set forth with 

particularity the manner in which his 

interest is adversely affected by this 

Order and shall address the criteria set 

forth in 10 CFR 2.309(d) and (f). 

If the hearing is requested by a person 

whose interest is adversely affected, the 

Commission will issue an Order 

designating the time and place of any 

hearing. If a hearing is held, the issue to 

be considered at such hearing shall be 

whether this Confirmatory Order should 

be sustained. 

In the absence of any request for 

hearing, or written approval of an 

extension of time in which to request a 

hearing, the provisions specified in 

Section V above shall be final 20 days 

from the date of this Order without 

further order or proceedings. If an 

extension of time for requesting a 

hearing has been approved, the 

provisions specified in Section V shall 

be final when the extension expires if a 

hearing request has not been received. 

An answer or a request for hearing 

shall not stay the immediate 

effectiveness of this order. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Dated this 21st day of February 2007. 

Victor M. McCree for William D. Travers, 

Regional Administrator. 

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BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

Solicitation of Interest for Participation 

in U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission/Nuclear Energy Institute 

Working Groups 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Solicitation of interest in 

working group participation. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

James Smith, Project Manager, 

Technical Support Branch, Special 

Projects and Technical Support 

Directorate, Division of Fuel Cycle 

Safety and Safeguards, Office of Nuclear 

Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, MS 

EBB2–C40M, Washington, DC 20555–

0001. Telephone: (301) 492–3234; fax 

number: (301) 492–6521; e-mail: 

jas4@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) held a public 

workshop with the Nuclear Energy 

Institute (NEI) and other stakeholders on 

June 14, 2007, to discuss certain issues 

related to implementation of Subpart H 

of 10 CFR Part 70: (1) Appendix A to 

Part 70, Reportable safety events, (2) 

refinement of the definition of uranium 

solubility under Part 70, 3) use of digital 

instrumentation and control (I&C) in 

safety and process settings, (4) § 70.72 

Facility changes and change process, 

and (5) possible revisions to the NRC 

Enforcement Policy. 

Small working groups comprised of 

NRC and industry representatives, as 

well as members of the public, will be 

formed to address four of the five issues. 

The use of digital I&C in fuel cycle 

safety and process settings will not be 

addressed since it is part of a larger 

NRC/NEI effort involving use of digital 

I&C in the commercial nuclear industry. 

The goal of the working groups is to 

develop regulatory guidance which 

would ultimately be approved by the 

NRC. 

II. Summary 

The purpose of this notice is to 

provide the public an opportunity to 

participate as members of the working 

groups. The number of persons 

participating in these groups will be 

limited to one or two; therefore, the first 

one or two person expressing interest in 

a particular group will have priority for 

participation. However, all meetings of 

these working groups will be open to 

the public and notice of these meetings 

will be posted on the NRC Web site. To 

express interest in participating in one 

or more of these working groups, please 

respond to the staff contact listed above 

by August 20, 2007. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 19th day 

of July 2007. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Margie Kotzalas, 

Chief, MOX Branch, Special Projects and 

Technical Support Directorate, Division of 

Fuel Cycle Safety, and Safeguards, Office of 

Nuclear Material Safety, and Safeguards. 

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BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

NAME OF AGENCY: Postal Regulatory 

Commission. 

TIME AND DATE: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 

at 11:45 a.m. 

PLACE: Commission conference room 

901 New York Avenue, NW., Suite 200, 

Washington, DC 20268–0001. 

STATUS: Open. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Agency 

organization—whether to alter names of 

the Office of Rates, Analysis and 

Planning and Office of Public Affairs 

and Governmental Relations to better 

reflect functions and responsibilities. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Stephen L. Sharfman, General Counsel, 

Postal Regulatory Commission, 901 New 

York Avenue, NW., Suite 200, 

Washington, DC 20268–0001, 202–789–

6820. 

Dated: Thursday, July 26, 2007. 

Garry J. Sikora 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 07–3721 Filed 7–26–07; 12:52 pm] 

BILLING CODE 7710–FW–M 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request 

Extension: 

Form N–8F; SEC File No. 270–136; OMB 

Control No. 3235–0157. 

Notice is hereby given that pursuant 

to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) the Securities 

and Exchange Commission 

(‘‘Commission’’) is soliciting comments 

on the collection of information 

summarized below. The Commission 

plans to submit this existing collection 

of information to the Office of 

Management and Budget (‘‘OMB’’) for 

extension and approval. 

Form N–8F (17 CFR 274.218) is the 

form prescribed for use by registered 

investment companies in certain 

circumstances to request orders of the 

Commission declaring that the 

registration of that investment company 

ceases to be in effect. The form requests, 

from investment companies seeking a 

deregistration order, information about 

(i) The investment company’s identity, 

(ii) the investment company’s 

distributions, (iii) the investment 

company’s assets and liabilities, (iv) the 

events leading to the request to 

deregister, and (v) the conclusion of 

business. The information is needed by 

the Commission to determine whether 

an order of deregistration is appropriate. 

The Form takes approximately 3 

hours on average to complete. It is 

estimated that approximately 251 

investment companies file Form N–8F 

annually, so that the total annual 

burden for the form is estimated to be 

753 hours. The estimate of average 

burden hours is made solely for the 

purposes of the Paperwork Reduction 

Act and is not derived from a 

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