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4Some documents determined by the staff to 

contain ‘‘sensitive’’ information are publicly 

available only in redacted form; non-sensitive 

documents are publicly available in their complete 

form. In addition, some documents that may 

contain information proprietary to AES are publicly 

available only in redacted form. 

5Copies of this order were sent on this date by 

the agency’s E-Filing system to the counsel/ 

representatives for: (1) Joint Intervenors Nuclear 

Information and Resource Services, Beyond 

Nuclear, Public Citizen Energy Program, and 

Southern Maryland Citizens Alliance for Renewable 

Energy Solutions; (2) UniStar Nuclear Operating 

Services, LLC and Calvert Cliffs-3 Nuclear Project, 

LLC; (3) NRC Staff; and (4) State of Maryland. 

relating to this proceeding. Although 

these statements do not constitute 

testimony or evidence, they nonetheless 

may assist the Board or the parties in 

their consideration of the issues in this 

proceeding. 

A written limited appearance 

statement may be submitted at any time 

and should be sent to the Office of the 

Secretary using one of the methods 

prescribed below: 

Mail: Office of the Secretary, 

Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20444–0001. 

Fax: (301) 415–1101. 

Email: hearingdocket@nrc.gov. 

In addition, using the same method of 

service, a copy of the written limited 

appearance statement should be sent to 

the Chairman of this Licensing Board as 

follows: 

Mail: Administrative Judge Ronald M. 

Spritzer, Atomic Safety and Licensing 

Board Panel, Mail Stop T–3F23, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Fax: (301) 415–5599. 

Email: ronald.spritzer@nrc.gov. 

VII. Availability of Documentary 

Information Regarding the Proceeding 

Applicants’ application, along with 

various NRC Staff documents relating to 

the application, are available on the 

NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/ 

reactors/new-reactors/col/calvertcliffs.html. These and other documents 

relating to this proceeding are available 

for public inspection at the 

Commission’s Public Document Room 

(PDR), located at One White Flint North, 

11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), 

Rockville, Maryland, 20352, or 

electronically from the publiclyavailable records component of the 

NRC’s document system (ADAMS). 

ADAMS is accessible from the NRC web 

site at www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams/ 

html (the Public Electronic Reading 

Room).4 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 (800) 

397–4209 or (301) 415–4737 (available 

between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Eastern Time, 

Monday through Friday except federal 

holiday), or by email to pdr@nrc.gov. 

VIII. Conference Call 

The Board intends on holding a 

conference call with the parties in early 

January to discuss further 

administrative details regarding this 

evidentiary hearing. 

It is so ordered. 

Dated in Rockville, Maryland, November 9, 

2011. For the Atomic Safety And Licensing 

Board.5

Ronald M. Spritzer, 

Chairman, Administrative Judge. 

[FR Doc. 2012–335 Filed 1–10–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2011–0288] 

Preliminary Amendment Request 

Review Process 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Draft interim staff guidance; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC or the Commission) 

is issuing for use of, and to solicit public 

comment on, draft Interim Staff 

Guidance (ISG) COL–ISG–025 ‘‘Interim 

Staff Guidance on Changes During 

Construction Under 10 CFR Part 52.’’ 

This ISG provides guidance to the NRC 

staff on the Preliminary Amendment 

Request (PAR) review process available 

to the initial combined license (COL) 

holders for use as an elective precursor 

to the license amendment process. 

DATES: Submit comments by March 26, 

2012. Comments received after this date 

will be considered, if it is practical to do 

so, but the Commission is able to ensure 

consideration only for comments 

received on or before this date. 

ADDRESSES: Please include Docket ID 

NRC–2011–0288 in the subject line of 

your comments. For additional 

instructions on submitting comments 

and instructions on accessing 

documents related to this action, see 

‘‘Submitting Comments and Accessing 

Information’’ in the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section of this document. 

You may submit comments by any one 

of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for documents filed under Docket ID 

NRC–2011–0288. Address questions 

about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher, 

telephone: (301) 492–3668; email: 

Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. 

• Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, 

Chief, Rules, Announcements, and 

Directives Branch (RADB), Office of 

Administration, Mail Stop: TWB–05– 

B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001. 

• Fax comments to: RADB at (301) 

492–3446. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Amy E. Cubbage, Chief, Policy Branch, 

Division of Advance Reactors and 

Rulemaking, Office of New Reactors, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

(301) 415–6332, email: 

Amy.Cubbage@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Submitting Comments and Accessing 

Information 

Comments submitted in writing or in 

electronic form will be posted on the 

NRC Web site and on the Federal 

rulemaking Web site, http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Because your 

comments will not be edited to remove 

any identifying or contact information, 

the NRC cautions you against including 

any information in your submission that 

you do not want to be publicly 

disclosed. 

The NRC requests that any party 

soliciting or aggregating comments 

received from other persons for 

submission to the NRC inform those 

persons that the NRC will not edit their 

comments to remove any identifying or 

contact information, and therefore, they 

should not include any information in 

their comments that they do not want 

publicly disclosed. 

You can access publicly available 

documents related to this document 

using the following methods: 

• NRC’s Public Document Room 

(PDR): The public may examine and 

have copied, for a fee, publicly available 

documents at the NRC’s PDR, O1–F21, 

One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): Publicly available documents 

created or received at the NRC are 

available online in the NRC Library at 

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

adams.html. From this page, the public 

can gain entry into ADAMS, which 

provides text and image files of the 

NRC’s public documents. If you do not 

have access to ADAMS or if there are 

problems in accessing the documents 

located in ADAMS, contact the NRC’s 

PDR reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 

301–415–4737, or by email to 


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1United States Postal Service Notice of Status of 

the Moratorium on Post Office Discontinuance 

Actions, December 15, 2011, (Notice). 

pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The COL–ISG– 

025 ‘‘Interim Staff Guidance on Changes 

During Construction Under 10 CFR Part 

52’’ is available electronically under 

ADAMS Accession Number 

ML111530026. 

• Federal Rulemaking Web Site: 

Public comments and supporting 

materials related to this notice can be 

found at http://www.regulations.gov by 

searching on Docket ID NRC–2011– 

0288. 

Background 

The NRC staff is issuing this notice for 

use of, and to solicit public comments 

on, draft COL–ISG–025. This ISG 

provides guidance to the staff on the 

PAR review process available to the 

initial Title 10 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (10 CFR) part 52 COL 

holders for use as an elective precursor 

to the license amendment process. The 

PAR process will facilitate the 

installation and testing of plant changes 

during construction. The NRC staff 

intends to use and evaluate the PAR 

change process during the construction 

of the initial nuclear power plants 

licensed under 10 CFR part 52 and 

finalize this ISG for inclusion in the 

next major revision of Regulatory Guide 

1.187, ‘‘Guidance for Implementation of 

10 CFR 50.59, Changes, Tests, and 

Experiments,’’ November 2000 (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML003759710). 

Licensees may voluntarily follow the 

PAR process described in this draft ISG. 

Because the PAR process in this ISG is 

only in draft form, it does not represent 

a staff position under 10 CFR 50.109 or 

raise any issue finality concerns under 

10 CFR part 52. For this reason, if the 

NRC staff makes any changes to this 

draft ISG when it finalizes the ISG, these 

changes would not constitute ‘‘new’’ or 

‘‘different’’ staff positions within the 

meaning of the definition of 

‘‘backfitting’’ in 10 CFR 50.109(a)(1) nor 

an action inconsistent with any of the 

issue finality provisions in 10 CFR part 

52. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 13th day 

of December 2011. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Amy E. Cubbage, 

Chief, Policy Branch, Division of Advanced 

Reactors and Rulemaking, Office of New 

Reactors. 

[FR Doc. 2012–342 Filed 1–10–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION 

[Docket No. A2012–99; Order No. 1100] 

Post Office Closing 

AGENCY: Postal Regulatory Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This document informs the 

public that an appeal of the closing of 

the Elk River, Idaho post office has been 

filed. It identifies preliminary steps and 

provides a procedural schedule. 

Publication of this document will allow 

the Postal Service, petitioners, and 

others to take appropriate action. 

DATES: January 24, 2012, 4:30 p.m., 

Eastern Time: Deadline for Petitioner’s 

Form 61; February 13, 2012, 4:30 p.m., 

Eastern Time: Deadline for answering 

brief in support of the Postal Service. 

See the Procedural Schedule in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for 

other dates of interest. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments 

electronically by accessing the ‘‘Filing 

Online’’ link in the banner at the top of 

the Commission’s Web site (http:// 

www.prc.gov) or by directly accessing 

the Commission’s Filing Online system 

at https://www.prc.gov/prc-pages/filingonline/login.aspx. Commenters who 

cannot submit their views electronically 

should contact the person identified in 

the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

section as the source for case-related 

information for advice on alternatives to 

electronic filing. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stephen L. Sharfman, General Counsel, 

at (202) 789–6820 (case-related 

information) or DocketAdmins@prc.gov 

(electronic filing assistance). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given that, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 

404(d), the Commission received a 

petition for review of the Postal 

Service’s determination to close the Elk 

River post office in Elk River, Idaho. 

The petition for review received 

December 20, 2011, was filed by Dawn 

Tillson (Petitioner). The postmark date 

is December 13, 2011. The Commission 

hereby institutes a proceeding under 39 

U.S.C. 404(d)(5) and establishes Docket 

No. A2012–99 to consider Petitioner’s 

appeal. If Petitioner would like to 

further explain her position with 

supplemental information or facts, 

Petitioner may either file a Participant 

Statement on PRC Form 61 or file a brief 

with the Commission no later than 

January 24, 2012. 

Notwithstanding the Postal Service’s 

determination to close this post office, 

on December 15, 2011, the Postal 

Service advised the Commission that it 

‘‘will delay the closing or consolidation 

of any Post Office until May 15, 2012.’’ 1

The Postal Service further indicated that 

it ‘‘will proceed with the 

discontinuance process for any Post 

Office in which a Final Determination 

was already posted as of December 12, 

2011, including all pending appeals.’’ 

Id. It stated that the only ‘‘Post Offices’’ 

subject to closing prior to May 16, 2012, 

are those that were not in operation on, 

and for which a Final Determination 

was posted as of, December 12, 2011. It 

affirmed that it ‘‘will not close or 

consolidate any other Post Office prior 

to May 16, 2012.’’ Id. Lastly, the Postal 

Service requested the Commission ‘‘to 

continue adjudicating appeals as 

provided in the 120-day decisional 

schedule for each proceeding.’’ Id. 

The Postal Service’s Notice outlines 

the parameters of its newly announced 

discontinuance policy. Pursuant to the 

Postal Service’s request, the 

Commission will fulfill its appellate 

responsibilities under 39 U.S.C. 

404(d)(5). 

Categories of issues apparently raised. 

Petitioner contends that the Postal 

Service failed to consider the effect of 

the closing on the community (see 39 

U.S.C. 404(d)(2)(A)(i)). 

After the Postal Service files the 

administrative record and the 

Commission reviews it, the Commission 

may find that there are more legal issues 

than those set forth above, or that the 

Postal Service’s determination disposes 

of one or more of those issues. The 

deadline for the Postal Service to file the 

applicable administrative record is 

within 15 days after the date on which 

the petition for review was filed with 

the Commission. See 39 CFR 3001.113. 

In addition, the due date for any 

responsive pleading by the Postal 

Service is also within 15 days after the 

date on which the petition for review 

was filed with the Commission. 

Availability; Web site posting. The 

Commission has posted the appeal and 

supporting material on its Web site at 

http://www.prc.gov. Additional filings 

in this case and participant’s 

submissions also will be posted on the 

Web site, if provided in electronic 

format or amenable to conversion, and 

not subject to a valid protective order. 

Information on how to use the 

Commission’s Web site is available 

online or by contacting the 

Commission’s webmaster via telephone 

at (202) 789–6873 or via electronic mail 

at prc-webmaster@prc.gov. 

The appeal and all related documents 

are also available for public inspection 


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