64408 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 234 / Friday, December 5, 1997 / Notices

NUCLEAR REGULATORY

COMMISSION

Regulatory Guides; Availability

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission

has updated the Regulatory Guide List

to advise of the wide range of regulatory

guides that are available and to list all

published versions of each guide. The

Regulatory Guide Series has been

developed to describe and make

available to the public such information

as methods acceptable to the NRC staff

for implementing specific parts of the

Commission’s regulations, techniques

used by the staff in evaluating specific

problems or postulated accidents, and

data needed by the staff in its review of

applications for permits and licenses.

Single copies of the Regulatory Guide

List may be obtained free of charge by

writing the Information Management

Division, Attention: Printing, Graphics

and Distribution Branch, U.S. Nuclear

Regulatory Commission, Washington,

DC 20555–0001; or by fax at (301) 415–

5272. Single copies of regulatory guides,

both final and draft guides, may also be

obtained free of charge at this address.

Regulatory guides may also be

purchased from the National Technical

Information Service on a standing order

basis. Details on this service may be

obtained by writing NTIS, 5285 Port

Royal Road, Springfield, VA 22161.

Comments and suggestions in

connection with items for inclusion in

guides currently being developed or

improvements in all published guides

are encouraged at any time. Written

comments may be submitted to the

Rules and Directives Branch, Office of

Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission, Washington, DC 20555.

Regulatory guides and the list of

guides are available for inspection at the

Commission’s Public Document Room,

2120 L Street NW., Washington, DC.

Regulatory guides are not copyrighted,

and Commission approval is not

required to reproduce them.

(5 U.S.C. 552(a))

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 13th day

of November 1997.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Joseph A. Murphy,

Director, Division of Regulatory Applications,

Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.

[FR Doc. 97–31871 Filed 12–4–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P

RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD

Privacy Act of 1974; Proposed

Changes To Systems of Records

AGENCY: Railroad Retirement Board.

ACTION: Notice of proposed change to a

system of records.

SUMMARY: The purpose of this document

is to give notice of a proposed routine

use in one system of records and an

addition to the categories of records in

the same system.

DATES: The amendment to the categories

of records shall become effective as

proposed without further notice in 40

calendar days from the date of this

publication unless OMB approves the

RRB request for waiver of the 40-day

advanced notice requirement for new or

altered system reports, in which case

the altered system, with the exception of

the proposed routine use, will become

effective as of the date the waiver is

granted. The routine use will be

effective not earlier than 30 calendar

days from the date of this publication

unless comments are received before

this date which would result in a

contrary determination.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Beatrice

Ezerski, Secretary to the Board, Railroad

Retirement Board, 844 North Rush

Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611–2092.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

LeRoy Blommaert, Privacy Act Officer,

Railroad Retirement Board, 844 North

Rush Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611–

2092, (312) 751–4548.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Since

1938, the Railroad Retirement Board

(RRB) has provided current railroad

workers with a yearly statement of their

commulative service and compensation.

(This information is contained in

Privacy Act System of Records RRB–5,

Master File of Employees Creditable

Compensation.) For many years, the

statements were mailed to the railroad

employers for distribution to their

workers. Beginning in 1985 railroad

employers were given the option of

furnishing the RRB with address

information for their employees, in

which case, the RRB would mail the

statements to the employees. In time, all

of the Class I (large) railroads, which

account for over 80% of railroad

workers, plus many of the medium-size

railroads elected this option, so that

today the RRB mails over 96 percent of

the service and compensation

statements directly to the rail

employees.

Originally, address information

furnished by the railroad employer was

kept in computerized tape format for 1

year until the following year’s

submissions from railroad employers.

Beginning in 1994, the RRB began to

retain the address information in an online environment, so that it could be

accessed by computer terminal along

with various service and compensation

data about a particular employee.

The proposed routine use (‘‘q’’ for

RRB–5) would authorize the RRB to

disclose to a Member of Congress the

name and address of a Member’s

railroad worker constituent in order that

the Member could communicate with

him or her about legislation affecting the

railroad retirement or unemployment/

sickness insurance system.

The Railroad Retirement Board has

determined that this proposed routine

use meets the compatibility requirement

because it is a necessary and proper use.

The RRB previously published routine

uses allowing disclosure of name and

address information of retirement

annuitants and unemployment and

sickness claimants to Members of

Congress (RRB–21, ‘‘x’’; RRB–22, ‘‘ff’’).

Thus, publication of this proposed

routine use would bring this system of

records into conformity with the other

two main systems of records containing

name and address information with

respect to disclosure to Members of

Congress for the same purpose.

On November 17, 1997, the Railroad

Retirement Board filed an altered

system report for this system with the

chairmen of the designated Senate and

House committees and with the Office

of Management and Budget. This was

done to comply with Section 3 of the

Privacy Act of 1974 and OMB Circular

No. A–130, Appendix I.

By Authority of the Board.

Beatrice Ezerski,

Secretary to the Board.

RRB–5

System name:

Master File of Railroad Employees’

Creditable Compensation—RRB

* * * * *

This section is revised to read as

follows:

Categories of records in the system:

Individual name, social security

number, claim number, date of birth,

sex, race, last employer identification

number, amount of daily pay rate if

under $100, ICC occupation code,

creditable service and compensation

from 1937 to date, and home address.

* * * * *

Routine uses of records maintained in

the system, including categories of users

and the purposes of such uses:

* * * * *

A new paragraph ‘‘q’’ is added to read

as follows:

q. The name and address of a railroad

worker may be released to a Member of

Congress when the Member requests it