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Type of Review: Reinstatement, 

without change, of a previously 

approved collection. 

Title: 12 CFR part 701.22 Organization 

and Operation of Federal Credit 

Unions—Loan Participations. 

Description: NCUA has authorized 

federal credit unions to engage in loan 

participations, provided they establish 

written policies and enter into a written 

loan participation agreement. NCUA 

believes written policies are necessary 

to ensure a plan is fully considered 

before being adopted by the Board. 

Respondents: All Federal Credit 

Unions. 

Estimated No. of Respondents/ 

Recordkeepers: 1,000. 

Estimated Burden Hours per 

Response: 4 hours. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 4,000. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: 

$100,000. 

By the National Credit Union 

Administration Board on March 22, 2007. 

Mary Rupp, 

Secretary of the Board. 

[FR Doc. E7–5661 Filed 3–27–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7535–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

Notice of Consideration of Approval of 

Transfer of Facility Licenses and 

Conforming Amendments, and 

Opportunity for a Hearing 

General Electric Company; Vallecitos 

Boiling Water Reactor (Docket No. 50–

18); General Electric Test Reactor 

(Docket No. 50–70); Nuclear Test 

Reactor (Docket No. 50–73); Esada 

Vallecitos Experimental Superheat 

Reactor (Docket No. 50–183) 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (the Commission) is 

considering the issuance of an order 

under 10 CFR 50.80 approving the 

direct transfer of the Facility Licenses, 

which are numbered DPR–1 for the 

Vallecitos Boiling Water Reactor 

(VBWR), TR–1 for the General Electric 

Test Reactor (GETR), R–33 for the 

Nuclear Test Reactor (NTR), and DR–10 

for the ESADA Vallecitos Experimental 

Superheat Reactor (EVESR) currently 

held by General Electric Company, as 

owner and licensed operator. The 

transfer would be to GE-Hitachi Nuclear 

Energy Americas, LLC. The Commission 

is also considering amending the 

licenses for administrative purposes to 

reflect the proposed transfer. 

According to an application for 

approval filed by General Electric 

Company, GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy 

Americas, LLC, a newly formed entity, 

would acquire ownership of the 

facilities following approval of the 

proposed license transfer, and would be 

responsible for the operations and 

maintenance of the VBWR, GETR, NTR 

and EVESR facilities. This new entity 

will be wholly owned by GE-Hitachi 

Nuclear Energy Holdings, LLC, created 

as a parent company. A U.S. subsidiary 

or subsidiaries of Hitachi Ltd, a 

Japanese company, will hold a 40% 

ownership interest in GE-Hitachi 

Nuclear Energy Holdings, LLC and the 

General Electric Company, through 

various subsidiaries, will hold a 60% 

ownership interest. 

No physical changes to the facilities 

or other changes are being proposed in 

the application. 

The proposed amendments would 

replace references to General Electric 

Company in the licenses with references 

to GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas, 

LLC, to reflect the proposed transfer. 

Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.80, no license, 

or any right thereunder, shall be 

transferred, directly or indirectly, 

through transfer of control of the 

license, unless the Commission shall 

give its consent in writing. The 

Commission will approve an 

application for the direct transfer of a 

license, if the Commission determines 

that the proposed transferee is qualified 

to hold the license and that the transfer 

is otherwise consistent with applicable 

provisions of law, regulations, and 

orders issued by the Commission 

pursuant thereto. 

Before issuance of the proposed 

conforming license amendments, the 

Commission will have made findings 

required by the Atomic Energy Act of 

1954, as amended (the Act), and the 

Commission’s regulations. 

As provided in 10 CFR 2.1315, unless 

otherwise determined by the 

Commission with regard to a specific 

application, the Commission has 

determined that any amendment to the 

license of a utilization facility which 

does no more than conform the license 

to reflect the transfer action involves no 

significant hazards consideration. No 

contrary determination has been made 

with respect to this specific license 

amendment application. In light of the 

generic determination reflected in 10 

CFR 2.1315, no public comments with 

respect to significant hazards 

considerations are being solicited, 

notwithstanding the general comment 

procedures contained in 10 CFR 50.91. 

The filing of requests for hearing and 

petitions for leave to intervene, and 

written comments with regard to the 

license transfer application, are 

discussed below. 

Within 20 days from the date of 

publication of this notice, any person 

whose interest may be affected by the 

Commission’s action on the application 

may request a hearing and, if not the 

applicant, may petition for leave to 

intervene in a hearing proceeding on the 

Commission’s action. Requests for a 

hearing and petitions for leave to 

intervene should be filed in accordance 

with the Commission’s rules of practice 

set forth in Subpart C ‘‘Rules of General 

Applicability: Hearing Requests, 

Petitions to Intervene, Availability of 

Documents, Selection of Specific 

Hearing Procedures, Presiding Officer 

Powers, and General Hearing 

Management for NRC Adjudicatory 

Hearings,’’ of 10 CFR Part 2. In 

particular, such requests and petitions 

must comply with the requirements set 

forth in 10 CFR 2.309. Untimely 

requests and petitions may be denied, as 

provided in 10 CFR 2.309(c)(1), unless 

good cause for failure to file on time is 

established. In addition, an untimely 

request or petition should address the 

factors that the Commission will also 

consider, in reviewing untimely 

requests or petitions, set forth in 10 CFR 

2.309(c)(1)(i)–(viii). 

Requests for a hearing and petitions 

for leave to intervene should be served 

upon Mr. Donald J. Silverman, Morgan 

Lewis & Bockius, LLP, 1111 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20004 (tel: 202–739–

5502; fax: 202–739–3001; e-mail: 

dsilverman@morganlewis.com); the 

General Counsel, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001 (e-mail address for 

filings regarding license transfer cases 

only: OGCLT@NRC.gov); and the 

Secretary of the Commission, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, Attention: 

Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff, in 

accordance with 10 CFR 2.302 and 

2.305. 

The Commission will issue a notice or 

order granting or denying a hearing 

request or intervention petition, 

designating the issues for any hearing 

that will be held and designating the 

Presiding Officer. A notice granting a 

hearing will be published in the Federal 

Register and served on the parties to the 

hearing. 

As an alternative to requests for 

hearing and petitions to intervene, 

within 30 days from the date of 

publication of this notice, persons may 

submit written comments regarding the 

license transfer application, as provided 

for in 10 CFR 2.1305. The Commission 

will consider and, if appropriate, 


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respond to these comments, but such 

comments will not otherwise constitute 

part of the decisional record. Comments 

should be submitted to the Secretary, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, Attention: 

Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff, 

and should cite the publication date and 

page number of this Federal Register 

notice. 

For further details with respect to this 

action, see the application dated January 

19, 2007, available for public inspection 

at the Commission’s Public Document 

Room (PDR), located at One White Flint 

North, Public File Area O1 F21, 11555 

Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, 

Maryland. Publicly available records 

will be accessible electronically from 

the Agency wide Documents Access and 

Management System’s (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 located in 

ADAMS should contact the NRC PDR 

Reference staff by telephone at 1–800–

397–4209, or 301–415–4737 or by e-mail 

to pdr@nrc.gov. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 21st day 

of March 2007. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Marvin M. Mendonca, 

Senior Project Manager, Research and Test 

Reactors Branch B, Division of Policy and 

Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation. 

[FR Doc. E7–5641 Filed 3–27–07; 8:45 am] 

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[IA–07–008] 

In the Matter of James Francis 

Mattocks; Order Prohibiting 

Involvement in NRC-Licensed 

Activities (Immediately Effective) 

I 

Mr. James Francis Mattocks was 

employed as a contract security officer 

at Florida Power and Light Company’s 

St. Lucie Nuclear Plant (Licensee) from 

approximately September 6, 2005, to 

January 7, 2006. Licensee holds license 

Nos. DPR–67 and NPF–16, issued by the 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

(NRC or Commission) pursuant to 10 

CFR Part 50 on March 1, 1976 (Unit 1), 

and June 10, 1983 (Unit 2). The license 

authorizes the operation of the St. Lucie 

Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2, in 

accordance with the conditions 

specified therein. The facility is located 

on the Licensee’s site in St. Lucie 

County, Florida. 

II 

In 2006, Florida law enforcement 

officials conducted a criminal 

investigation into the theft of a weapon 

and thermal imaging scope from the 

Licensee’s facility. As a result of the 

investigation, the State of Florida 

concluded that in December 2005, Mr. 

Mattocks, while employed as a contract 

security officer, deliberately removed a 

Bushmaster .223 Caliber M4/A3 assault 

rifle and thermal imaging scope from 

the Licensee’s facility without 

authorization. On December 20, 2006, 

Mr. Mattocks entered a plea of guilty to 

the charge of Grand Theft—Firearm in 

the Circuit Court for St. Lucie County 

and was adjudged guilty of the charge 

upon the Court’s acceptance of his plea. 

Mr. Mattocks was sentenced to 14 

months of incarceration to be followed 

by 2 years probation. 

License Nos. DPR–67 and NPF–16, 

Section 3.F, Physical Protection, require 

the Licensee to fully implement and 

maintain in effect all provisions of the 

Commission-approved physical 

security, training and qualification, and 

safeguards contingency plans including 

amendments. The Licensee’s Physical 

Security Plan (PSP), Section 15.6, 

establishes the requirement that the 

Licensee maintain a firearms program to 

ensure firearms function properly. The 

PSP states, in part, that the program is 

described in facility procedures and 

includes provisions to account for 

Licensee firearms. Licensee 

implementing procedure, SEC–AD–

1003, Section 5.1.2 states, in part, that 

for any weapon that is taken from the 

station’s inventory for disposal or sale, 

the station will document the weapon 

by make, model, name of institution or 

individual the weapon’s accountability 

was transferred to, signature of the 

Security Manager/designee releasing 

ownership of the weapon, and the date 

the weapon was released from the 

station’s inventory. In this case, Mr. 

Mattocks removed the weapon and 

scope from station inventory without 

any authorization or approvals. 

III 

Based on the above, Mr. James Francis 

Mattocks, a former employee of the 

Licensee, has engaged in deliberate 

misconduct that has caused the 

Licensee to be in violation of 10 CFR 

50.5. NRC must be able to rely on the 

Licensee and its employees to comply 

with NRC requirements with honesty 

and integrity. Mr. Mattocks’ actions in 

this case caused the Licensee to violate 

its PSP and raise serious doubt as to 

whether he can be relied upon to 

comply with NRC requirements with 

honesty and integrity. Consequently, I 

lack the requisite reasonable assurance 

that licensed activities can be conducted 

in compliance with the Commission’s 

requirements and that the health and 

safety of the public will be protected if 

Mr. James Francis Mattocks were 

permitted at this time to be involved in 

NRC licensed activities. Therefore, the 

public health, safety and interest require 

that Mr. James Francis Mattocks be 

prohibited from any involvement in 

NRC-licensed activities for a period of 

five years from the date of this Order. 

Additionally, Mr. James Francis 

Mattocks is required to notify the NRC 

of his first employment in NRC-licensed 

activities for a period of three years 

following expiration of the prohibition 

period. Furthermore, pursuant to 10 

CFR 2.202, I find that the significance of 

Mr. James Francis Mattocks’ conduct 

described above is such that the public 

health, safety and interest require that 

this Order be immediately effective. 

IV 

Accordingly, pursuant to sections 

103, 104b, 161b, 161i, 182 and 186 of 

the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as 

amended, and the Commission’s 

regulations in 10 CFR 2.202, 10 CFR 

50.5, and 10 CFR 150.20, It is hereby 

ordered, effective immediately, that: 

1. Mr. James Francis Mattocks is 

prohibited from engaging in NRClicensed activities for a period of five 

years from the date of this Order. NRClicensed activities are those activities 

that are conducted pursuant to a 

specific or general license issued by the 

NRC, including, but not limited to, 

those activities of Agreement State 

licensees conducted pursuant to the 

authority granted by 10 CFR 150.20. 

2. If Mr. James Francis Mattocks is 

currently involved in licensed activities 

on behalf of an NRC licensee, he must 

immediately cease those activities, 

inform the NRC of the name, address 

and telephone number of the licensee 

employer, and provide a copy of this 

order to the licensee employer. 

3. For a period of three years after the 

five year period of prohibition has 

expired, Mr. James Francis Mattocks 

shall, within 20 days of acceptance of an 

offer of employment involving his 

performance of NRC-licensed activities 

or his becoming involved in NRClicensed activities, as defined in 

Paragraph IV.1 above, provide notice to 

the Director, Office of Enforcement (OE), 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, of the 

name, address, and telephone number of 

the employer or the entity on whose 


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