Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 186 / Thursday, September 25, 1997 / Notices 50409

Date and Time: October 16–17, 1997; 8:30

a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Place: National Science Foundation, 4201

Wilson Blvd., Room 1175 Arlington, VA

22230.

Type of Meeting: Closed.

Contact Person(s): Tatsuya Suda, Program

Director, CISE/NCRI, Room 1175, National

Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard,

Arlington, VA 22230, (703) 306–1950.

Purpose of Meeting: To provide advice and

recommendations concerning proposals

submitted to NSF for financial support.

Agenda: To review & evaluate proposals

submitted for the Networking and

Communications Program.

Reason for Closing: The proposals being

reviewed include information of a

proprietary or confidential nature, including

technical information; financial data, such as

salaries, and personal information

concerning individuals associated with the

proposals. These matters are exempt under 5

U.S.C. 552b.(c)(4) and (6) of the Government

in the Sunshine Act.

Dated: September 22, 1997.

M. Rebecca Winkler,

Committee Management Officer.

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

Advisory Panel for Neuroscience;

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: Advisory Panel for Neuroscience

(1158).

Date and Time: October 16 & 17, 1997; 9:00

a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Place: Room 340, 4201 Wilson Boulevard,

Arlington, VA.

Type of Meeting: Part-Open.

Contact Persons: Dr. Emmeline Edwards,

Program Director, Behavioral Neuroscience;

Dr. Daniel Hartline, Program Director,

Computational Neuroscience; Division of

Integrative Biology and Neuroscience; room

685, National Science Foundation, 4201

Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230;

Telephone: (703) 306–1416.

Purpose of Meeting: To provide advice and

recommendations concerning proposals

submitted to NSF for financial support.

Minutes: May be obtained from the contact

persons listed above.

Agenda: Open Session: October 17, 1997;

10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., To discuss research

trends and opportunities in Behavioral and

Computational Neuroscience. Closed

Session: October 16, 1997; 9:00 a.m. to 6:00

p.m.; October 17, 1997, 9:00 a.m. to 10:00

a.m.; 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. To review and

evaluate Behavioral and Computational

Neuroscience proposals as part of the

selection process for awards.

Reason For Closing: The proposals being

reviewed include information of a

proprietary or confidential nature, including

technical information; financial data, such as

salaries; and personal information

concerning individuals associated with the

proposals. These matters are exempt under 5

U.S.C. 552b(c) (4) and (6) of the Government

in the Sunshine Act.

Dated: September 22, 1997.

M. Rebecca Winkler,

Committee Management Officer.

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY

COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50–261]

Carolina Power & Light Company; H.B.

Robinson Steam Electric Plant, Unit

No. 2 Environmental Assessment and

Finding of No Significant Impact

1.0 Introduction

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission (the Commission) is

considering issuance of an amendment

to Facility Operating License No. DPR–

23 issued to the Carolina Power & Light

Company (CP&L or the licensee) for

operation of the H.B. Robinson Steam

Electric Plant, Unit No. 2 (Robinson)

located at the licensee’s site in

Darlington County, South Carolina.

Environmental Assessment

Identification of the Proposed Action

This Environmental Assessment has

been prepared to address potential

environmental issues related to the

licensee’s application dated August 27,

1996, as supplemented by letters dated

January 17, February 18, March 27,

April 4, April 25, April 29, May 30, June

2, June 13, June 18, August 4, August 8,

and September 10, 1997. The proposed

amendment will replace the current

Robinson Technical Specifications

(CTS) in their entirety with Improved

Technical Specifications (ITS) based on

Revison 1 to NUREG–1431, ‘‘Standard

Technical Specifications Westinghouse

Plants’’ dated April 1995, and the CTS

for Robinson.

In the application of August 27, 1996,

the licensee also requested an

amendment to the Appendix B TS to

relocate certain radiological and

environmental reporting requirements

to a licensee-controlled document.

Appendix B TS contain environmental

reporting requirements which were

relocated to Appendix B as an interim

action in 1976 pending reissuance of

comprehensive Appendix B

Environmental TS. These requirements

are comparable to portions of other

Radiological Environmental Monitoring

TS that are also being separately

relocated because they do not relate to

mitigating a design basis accident or

transient.

The Need for the Proposed Action

It has been recognized that nuclear

safety in all plants would benefit from

improvement and standardization of TS.

The Commission’s ‘‘NRC Interim Policy

Statement on Technical Specification

Improvements for Nuclear Power

Reactors,’’ (52 FR 3788, February 6,

1987), and later the Commission’s

‘‘Final Policy Statement on Technical

Specification Improvements for Nuclear

Power Reactors,’’ 58 FR 39132 (July 22,

1993), formalized this need. To facilitate

the development of individual

improved TS, each reactor vendor

owners group (OG) and the NRC staff

developed standard TS (STS). For

Westinghouse plants, the STS are

published as NUREG–1431, and this

document was the basis for the new

Robinson TS. The NRC Committee to

Review Generic Requirements (CRGR)

reviewed the STS and made note of the

safety merits of the STS and indicated

its support of conversion to the STS by

operating plants.

Description of the Proposed Change

The proposed revision to the TS is

based on NUREG–1431 and on guidance

provided in the Final Policy Statement.

Its objective is to completely rewrite,

reformat, and streamline the existing

TS. Emphasis is placed on human

factors principles to improve clarity and

understanding. The Bases section has

been significantly expanded to clarify

and better explain the purpose and

foundation of each specification. In

addition to NUREG–1431, portions of

the existing TS were also used as the

basis for the ITS. Plant-specific issues

(unique design features, requirements,

and operating practices) were discussed

at length with the licensee, and generic

matters with the OG.

The proposed changes from the

existing TS can be grouped into four

general categories, as follows:

1. Non-technical (administrative)

changes, which were intended to make

the ITS easier to use for plant operations

personnel. They are purely editorial in

nature or involve the movement or

reformatting of requirements without

affecting technical content. Every

section of the Robinson TS has

undergone these types of changes. In

order to ensure consistency, the NRC

staff and the licensee have used

NUREG–1431 as guidance to reformat

and make other administrative changes.

2. Relocation of requirements, which

includes items that were in the existing