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1 15 U.S.C.78s(b)(1). 

2 17 CFR 240.19b–4. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking website: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID: NRC–2018–0111. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer 

Borges; telephone: 301–287–9127; 

email: Jennifer.Borges@nrc.gov. For 

technical questions, contact the 

individual listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

document. 

• Mail comments to: May Ma, Office 

of Administration, Mail Stop: TWFN–7– 

A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001. 

For additional direction on obtaining 

information and submitting comments, 

see ‘‘Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments’’ in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

G. Lamb, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001, telephone: 301–415–3100; email: 

John.Lamb@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2018– 

0111 when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information for this 

action. You may obtain publiclyavailable information related to this 

action by any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking website: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2018–0111. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

adams.html. To begin the search, select 

‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then 

select ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS 

Search.’’ For problems with ADAMS, 

please contact the NRC’s Public 

Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 

1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by 

email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The 

ADAMS accession number for each 

document referenced (if it is available in 

ADAMS) is provided the first time that 

it is mentioned in this document. 

• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and 

purchase copies of public documents at 

the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

B. Submitting Comments 

Please include Docket ID NRC–2018– 

0111 in your comment submission. 

The NRC cautions you not to include 

identifying or contact information that 

you do not want to be publicly 

disclosed in your comment submission. 

The NRC will post all comment 

submissions at http://

www.regulations.gov as well as enter the 

comment submissions into ADAMS. 

The NRC does not routinely edit 

comment submissions to remove 

identifying or contact information. 

If you are requesting or aggregating 

comments from other persons for 

submission to the NRC, then you should 

inform those persons not to include 

identifying or contact information that 

they do not want to be publicly 

disclosed in their comment submission. 

Your request should state that the NRC 

does not routinely edit comment 

submissions to remove such information 

before making the comment 

submissions available to the public or 

entering the comment submissions into 

ADAMS. 

II. Discussion 

Exelon is the holder of Renewed 

Facility Operating License No. DPR–16 

for Oyster Creek. The license provides, 

among other things, that the facility is 

subject to all rules, regulations, and 

orders of the NRC now or hereafter in 

effect. The facility consists of one 

boiling-water reactor located in Ocean 

County, New Jersey. By letter dated 

January 7, 2011 (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML110070507), the licensee submitted 

Notification of Permanent Cessation of 

Power Operations for Oyster Creek. In 

this letter, Exelon notified the NRC of its 

intent to permanently cease operations 

at Oyster Creek no later than December 

31, 2019. By letter dated February 14, 

2018 (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML18045A084), the licensee submitted 

its revised Notification of Permanent 

Cessation of Power Operations for 

Oyster Creek. In this letter, Exelon 

notified the NRC of its intent to 

permanently cease operations at Oyster 

Creek no later than October 31, 2018. 

On May 21, 2018, Exelon submitted 

the PSDAR, including the site-specific 

DCE for Oyster Creek, in accordance 

with § 50.82(a)(4)(i) of title 10 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML18141A775). The 

PSDAR includes a description of the 

planned decommissioning activities, a 

proposed schedule for their 

accomplishment, the site-specific DCE, 

and a discussion that provides the basis 

for concluding that the environmental 

impacts associated with the site-specific 

decommissioning activities will be 

bounded by appropriate, previously 

issued generic and plant-specific 

environmental impact statements. In a 

separate letter, Exelon submitted its 

update to the spent fuel management 

plan for Oyster Creek on May 21, 2018 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML18141A486). 

III. Request for Comment and Public 

Meeting 

The NRC is requesting public 

comments on the PSDAR, including the 

DCE, for Oyster Creek. The NRC will 

conduct a public meeting to discuss the 

PSDAR, including the DCE, and receive 

comments on Tuesday, July 17, 2018, 

from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m., at the 

Community Hall—Lacey Township, 101 

North Main Street, Forked River, New 

Jersey 08731. The NRC requests that 

comments that are not provided during 

the meeting be submitted as noted in 

Section I, ‘‘Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments,’’ of this 

document in writing by September 10, 

2018. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day 

of June, 2018. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Douglas A. Broaddus, 

Chief, Special Projects and Process Branch, 

Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, 

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

[FR Doc. 2018–12429 Filed 6–8–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

[Release No. 34–83385; File No. SR– 

NYSEArca–2018–25] 

Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE 

Arca, Inc.; Notice of Designation of a 

Longer Period for Commission Action 

on a Proposed Rule Change to List and 

Trade Shares of the Natixis Loomis 

Sayles Short Duration Income ETF 

June 5, 2018. 

On April 16, 2018, NYSE Arca, Inc. 

filed with the Securities and Exchange 

Commission (‘‘Commission’’), pursuant 

to Section 19(b)(1) of the Securities 

Exchange Act of 1934 (‘‘Act’’) 1 and Rule 

19b–4 thereunder,2 a proposed rule 

change to list and trade shares of the 

Natixis Loomis Sayles Short Duration 

Income ETF pursuant to NYSE Arca 

Rule 8.600–E, which governs the listing 

and trading of Managed Fund Shares. 

The proposed rule change was 

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3See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 83122 

(April 27, 2018), 83 FR 19578. 

4 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(2). 

5 Id. 

6 17 CFR 200.30–3(a)(31). 

1As used herein, a ‘‘Future Fund’’ is any 

investment company (or investment portfolio or 

series thereof), other than an Existing Fund, 

designed to be sold to VA Accounts and/or VLI 

Accounts and to which BlackRock or its affiliates 

may in the future serve as investment adviser, subadviser, manager, administrator, principal 

underwriter or sponsor. 

Register on May 3, 2018.3 The 

Commission has received no comment 

letters on the proposed rule change. 

Section 19(b)(2) of the Act 4 provides 

that within 45 days of the publication of 

notice of the filing of a proposed rule 

change, or within such longer period up 

to 90 days as the Commission may 

designate if it finds such longer period 

to be appropriate and publishes its 

reasons for so finding, or as to which the 

self-regulatory organization consents, 

the Commission shall either approve the 

proposed rule change, disapprove the 

proposed rule change, or institute 

proceedings to determine whether the 

proposed rule change should be 

disapproved. The 45th day after 

publication of the notice for this 

proposed rule change is June 17, 2018. 

The Commission is extending this 45- 

day time period. 

The Commission finds it appropriate 

to designate a longer period within 

which to take action on the proposed 

rule change so that it has sufficient time 

to consider the proposed rule change. 

Accordingly, the Commission, pursuant 

to Section 19(b)(2) of the Act,5

designates August 1, 2018 as the date by 

which the Commission shall either 

approve or disapprove, or institute 

proceedings to determine whether to 

disapprove, the proposed rule change 

(File No. SR–NYSEArca–2018–25). 

For the Commission, by the Division of 

Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated 

authority.6

Eduardo A. Aleman, 

Assistant Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2018–12433 Filed 6–8–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8011–01–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

[Investment Company Act Release No. 

33119; 812–14901] 

BlackRock Variable Series Funds, Inc., 

et al. 

June 6, 2018. 

AGENCY: Securities and Exchange 

Commission (‘‘Commission’’). 

ACTION: Notice. 

Notice of application pursuant to 

Section 6(c) of the Investment Company 

Act of 1940, as amended (the ‘‘1940 

Act’’), seeking exemptions from 

Sections 9(a), 13(a), 15(a) and 15(b) of 

the 1940 Act and Rules 6e–2(b)(15) and 

6e–3(T)(b)(15) thereunder. 

APPLICANTS: BlackRock Variable Series 

Funds, Inc., BlackRock Series Fund, 

Inc., BlackRock Variable Series Funds II, 

Inc., BlackRock Series Fund II, Inc. 

(each a ‘‘Company’’ and together, the 

‘‘Companies’’), and BlackRock Advisors, 

LLC (‘‘BlackRock’’, and collectively 

with the Companies, the ‘‘Applicants’’). 

SUMMARY OF APPLICATION: Applicants 

request an order granting exemptions 

from Sections 9(a), 13(a), 15(a), and 

15(b) of the 1940 Act and Rules 6e– 

2(b)(15) and 6e–3(T)(b)(15) thereunder, 

in cases where a life insurance separate 

account supporting variable life 

insurance contracts, whether or not 

registered as an investment company 

with the Commission (‘‘VLI Accounts’’), 

holds shares of an existing portfolio of 

a Company that is designed to be sold 

to VLI Accounts or VA Accounts (as 

defined below) for which BlackRock or 

any of its affiliates may serve as 

investment adviser, sub-adviser, 

manager, administrator, principal 

underwriter or sponsor (‘‘Existing 

Fund’’) or ‘‘Future Fund’’ 1 (any Existing 

Fund or Future Fund is referred to 

herein as a ‘‘Fund’’ and collectively, the 

‘‘Funds’’), and one or more of the 

following other types of investors also 

hold shares of the Funds: (i) Any life 

insurance company separate account 

supporting variable annuity contracts, 

whether or not registered as an 

investment company with the 

Commission (‘‘VA Accounts’’), and any 

VLI Account; (ii) trustees of qualified 

group pension or group retirement plans 

outside the separate account context 

(‘‘Qualified Plans’’); (iii) the investment 

adviser or any subadviser to a Fund or 

affiliated persons of the adviser or 

subadviser (representing seed money 

investments in a Fund) (‘‘Advisers’’); 

and (iv) any general account of an 

insurance company depositor of VA 

Accounts and/or VLI Accounts 

(‘‘General Accounts’’). 

FILING DATE: The application was filed 

on April 27, 2018. 

HEARING OR NOTIFICATION OF HEARING: 

An order granting the application will 

be issued unless the Commission orders 

a hearing. Interested persons may 

request a hearing by writing to the 

Secretary of the Commission and 

serving Applicants with a copy of the 

request, personally or by mail. Hearing 

requests should be received by the 

Commission by 5:30 p.m. on July 2, 

2018, and should be accompanied by 

proof of service on Applicants, in the 

form of an affidavit or, for lawyers, a 

certificate of service. Hearing requests 

should state the nature of the writer’s 

interest, the reason for the request, and 

the issues contested. Persons may 

request notification of a hearing by 

writing to the Secretary of the 

Commission. 

ADDRESSES: Secretary, Securities and 

Exchange Commission, 100 F Street NE, 

Washington, DC 20549–1090. 

Applicants: 55 East 52nd Street, New 

York, NY 10055. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jessica Shin, Attorney-Adviser, or 

Andrea Ottomanelli Magovern, Branch 

Chief, at (202) 551–6762 (Division of 

Investment Management, Chief 

Counsel’s Office). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

following is a summary of the 

application. The complete application 

may be obtained via the Commission’s 

website by searching for the file 

number, or for an applicant using the 

Company name box, at http://

www.sec.gov/search.htm, or by calling 

(202) 551–8090. 

Applicants’ Representations 

1. BlackRock Variable Series Funds, 

Inc. was organized as a Maryland 

corporation on October 16, 1981 and is 

registered under the 1940 Act as an 

open-end management investment 

company (Reg. File No. 811–3290). The 

Company is a series investment 

company as defined by Rule 18f–2 

under the 1940 Act and is currently 

comprised of twenty portfolios, all of 

which are managed by BlackRock. The 

Company issues a separate series of 

shares of common stock for each of its 

portfolios and has filed a registration 

statement under the Securities Act of 

1933, as amended (the ‘‘Securities Act’’) 

on Form N–1A (Reg. File No. 002– 

74452) to register such shares. The 

Company may establish additional 

portfolios in the future and additional 

classes of shares for such portfolios. 

Shares of the portfolios of the Company 

are not and will not be offered to the 

general public. 

2. BlackRock Series Fund, Inc. was 

organized as a Maryland corporation on 

September 4, 1980 and is registered 

under the 1940 Act as an open-end 

management investment company (Reg. 

File No. 811–3091). The Company is a 

series investment company as defined 

by Rule 18f–2 under the 1940 Act and 

is currently comprised of thirteen 


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