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for leave to intervene. Submissions 

should be in Portable Document Format 

(PDF) in accordance with the NRC 

guidance available on the NRC’s public 

Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/sitehelp/e-submittals.html. A filing is 

considered complete at the time the 

documents are submitted through the 

NRC’s E–Filing system. To be timely, an 

electronic filing must be submitted to 

the E–Filing system no later than 11:59 

p.m. Eastern Time on the due date. 

Upon receipt of a transmission, the E– 

Filing system time-stamps the document 

and sends the submitter an email notice 

confirming receipt of the document. The 

E–Filing system also distributes an 

email notice that provides access to the 

document to the NRC’s Office of the 

General Counsel and any others who 

have advised the Office of the Secretary 

that they wish to participate in the 

proceeding, so that the filer need not 

serve the documents on those 

participants separately. Therefore, 

applicants and other participants (or 

their counsel or representative) must 

apply for and receive a digital ID 

certificate before a hearing request/ 

petition to intervene is filed so that they 

can obtain access to the document via 

the E–Filing system. 

A person filing electronically using 

the agency’s adjudicatory E–Filing 

system may seek assistance by 

contacting the NRC Meta System Help 

Desk through the ‘‘Contact Us’’ link 

located on the NRC Web site at http:// 

www.nrc.gov/site-help/esubmittals.html, by email at 

MSHD.Resource@nrc.gov, or by a tollfree call at 1–(866) 672–7640. The NRC 

Meta System Help Desk is available 

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

Time, Monday through Friday, 

excluding government holidays. 

Participants who believe that they 

have a good cause for not submitting 

documents electronically must file an 

exemption request, in accordance with 

10 CFR 2.302(g), with their initial paper 

filing requesting authorization to 

continue to submit documents in paper 

format. Such filings must be submitted 

by: (1) First class mail addressed to the 

Office of the Secretary of the 

Commission, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001, Attention: Rulemaking and 

Adjudications Staff; or (2) courier, 

express mail, or expedited delivery 

service to the Office of the Secretary, 

Sixteenth Floor, One White Flint North, 

11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland, 20852, Attention: 

Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff. 

Participants filing a document in this 

manner are responsible for serving the 

document on all other participants. 

Filing is considered complete by firstclass mail as of the time of deposit in 

the mail, or by courier, express mail, or 

expedited delivery service upon 

depositing the document with the 

provider of the service. A presiding 

officer, having granted an exemption 

request from using E–Filing, may 

require a participant or party to use E– 

Filing if the presiding officer 

subsequently determines that the reason 

for granting the exemption from use of 

E–Filing no longer exists. 

Documents submitted in adjudicatory 

proceedings will appear in NRC’s 

electronic hearing docket which is 

available to the public at http:// 

ehd1.nrc.gov/ehd/, unless excluded 

pursuant to an order of the Commission, 

or the presiding officer. Participants are 

requested not to include personal 

privacy information, such as social 

security numbers, home addresses, or 

home phone numbers in their filings, 

unless an NRC regulation or other law 

requires submission of such 

information. With respect to 

copyrighted works, except for limited 

excerpts that serve the purpose of the 

adjudicatory filings and would 

constitute a Fair Use application, 

participants are requested not to include 

copyrighted materials in their 

submission. 

Petitions for leave to intervene must 

be filed no later than 20 days from the 

date of publication of this notice. Nontimely filings will not be entertained 

absent a determination by the presiding 

officer that the petition or request 

should be granted or the contentions 

should be admitted, based on a 

balancing of the factors specified in 10 

CFR 2.309(c)(1)(i)–(viii). 

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. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 15th day 

of February 2012. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Carleen J. Sanders, 

Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch I– 

2, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, 

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

[FR Doc. 2012–4559 Filed 2–24–12; 8:45 am] 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2011–0097] 

Thermal Overload Protection for 

Electric Motors on Motor-Operated 

Valves 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Regulatory guide; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC or Commission) is 

issuing a revision to Regulatory Guide 

(RG) 1.106, ‘‘Thermal Overload 

Protection for Electric Motors on MotorOperated Valves.’’ This regulatory guide 

describes a method acceptable to NRC’s 

staff for complying with NRC 

requirements for the application of 

thermal overload protection devices that 

are integral with the motor starter for 

electric motors on motor-operated 

valves. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2011–0097 when contacting the 

NRC about the availability of 

information regarding this document. 

You may access information related to 

this document, which the NRC 

possesses and is publicly-available, 

using the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2011–0097. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Carol 

Gallagher; telephone: 301–492–3668; 

email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may access publiclyavailable documents online in the NRC 

Library at http://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/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 in this notice (if 

that document is available in ADAMS) 

is provided the first time that a 

document is referenced. The regulatory 

guide is available electronically under 

ADAMS Accession Number 

ML112580358. The regulatory analysis 

may be found in ADAMS under 

Accession Number ML120170063. 

• 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. 


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Regulatory guides are not 

copyrighted, and NRC approval is not 

required to reproduce them. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Edward O’Donnell, Regulatory Guide 

Development Branch, Division of 

Engineering, Office of Nuclear 

Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001, telephone: 301–251– 

7455; email: Edward.ODonnell@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The NRC is issuing a revision to an 

existing guide in the NRC’s ‘‘Regulatory 

Guide’’ series. This series was 

developed to describe and make 

available to the public information such 

as methods that are acceptable to the 

NRC staff for implementing specific 

parts of the agency’s regulations, 

techniques that the staff uses in 

evaluating specific problems or 

postulated accidents, and data that the 

staff needs in its review of applications 

for permits and licenses. 

Revision 2 of RG 1.106 was issued 

with a temporary identification as Draft 

Regulatory Guide, DG–1264. This 

regulatory guide describes a method 

acceptable to the NRC staff regarding the 

application of thermal overload 

protection devices. This method would 

ensure that the thermal overload 

protection devices will not needlessly 

prevent the motor from performing its 

safety-related function. 

II. Further Information 

DG–1264, was published in the 

Federal Register on May 02, 2011 (76 

FR 24538) for a 60-day public comment 

period. The public comment period 

closed on June 28, 2011. The NRC staff’s 

responses to the public comments on 

DG–1264 are available under ADAMS 

Accession Number ML112580363. 

III. Backfitting and Issue Finality 

Issuance of this final regulatory guide 

does not constitute backfitting as 

defined in 10 CFR 50.109 (the Backfit 

Rule) and is not otherwise inconsistent 

with the issue finality provisions in 10 

CFR Part 52. As discussed in the 

‘‘Implementation’’ discussion of this 

regulatory guide, the NRC has no 

current intention to impose this 

regulatory guide on holders of current 

operating licenses or combined licenses. 

Accordingly, the issuance of this 

regulatory guide does not constitute 

‘‘backfitting’’’ as defined in 10 CFR 

50.109(a)(1) or is otherwise inconsistent 

with the applicable issue finality 

provisions in 10 CFR Part 52. 

This regulatory guide may be applied 

to applications for operating licenses 

and combined licenses docketed by the 

NRC as of the date of issuance of the 

final regulatory guide, as well as future 

applications for operating licenses and 

combined licenses submitted after the 

issuance of the regulatory guide. Such 

action does not constitute backfitting as 

defined in 10 CRF 50.109(a)(1) or is 

otherwise inconsistent with the 

applicable issue finality provision in 10 

CFR Part 52, inasmuch as such 

applicants or potential applicants are 

not within the scope of entities 

protected by the Backfit Rule or the 

relevant issue finality provisions in 10 

CFR Part 52. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 17th day 

of February 2012. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Mark P. Orr, 

Acting Chief, Regulatory Guide Development 

Branch, Division of Engineering, Office of 

Nuclear Regulatory Research. 

[FR Doc. 2012–4552 Filed 2–24–12; 8:45 am] 

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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL 

MANAGEMENT 

January 2012 Pay Schedules 

AGENCY: U.S. Office of Personnel 

Management. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The President has signed an 

Executive order containing the 2012 pay 

schedules for certain Federal civilian 

employees. The rates of pay for these 

employees will not be increased in 2012 

and remain at 2010/2011 levels, except 

for employees in nonforeign areas. This 

notice serves as documentation for the 

public record. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lisa 

Dismond, Pay and Leave, Employee 

Services, U.S. Office of Personnel 

Management; (202) 606–2858; Fax (202) 

606–0824; or email to pay-leavepolicy@opm.gov 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

December 19, 2011, the President signed 

Executive Order 13594 (76 FR 80191), 

which documented the January 2012 

pay schedules. Pursuant to Public Law 

111–242, as amended by Public Law 

111–322 (December 22, 2010), the 

Executive order provides that the 2012 

pay rates for most civilian employee pay 

schedules covered by the order are not 

adjusted and remain at 2010/2011 

levels. Schedule 1 of Executive Order 

13594 provides the rates for the 2012 

General Schedule (GS) and reflects no 

increase from 2010/2011. Executive 

Order 13594 also includes the 

percentage amounts of the 2012 locality 

payments, which remain at 2010/2011 

levels except for employees in 

nonforeign areas. (See Section 5 and 

Schedule 9 of Executive Order 13594.) 

The publication of this notice satisfies 

the requirement in section 5(b) of 

Executive Order 13594 that the U.S. 

Office of Personnel Management (OPM) 

publish appropriate notice of the 2012 

locality payments in the Federal 

Register. 

GS employees receive locality 

payments under 5 U.S.C. 5304. Locality 

payments apply in the United States (as 

defined in 5 U.S.C. 5921(4)) and its 

territories and possessions. In 2012, 

locality payments ranging from 14.16 

percent to 35.15 percent apply to GS 

employees in the 34 locality pay areas. 

The 2012 locality pay area definitions 

can be found at http://www.opm.gov/ 

oca/12tables/locdef.asp. 

The 2012 locality pay percentages 

became effective on the first day of the 

first pay period beginning on or after 

January 1, 2012 (January 1, 2012). An 

employee’s locality rate of pay is 

computed by increasing his or her 

scheduled annual rate of pay (as defined 

in 5 CFR 531.602) by the applicable 

locality pay percentage. (See 5 CFR 

531.604 and 531.609.) As provided 

under the Nonforeign Area Retirement 

Equity Assurance Act of 2009 (subtitle 

B of title XIX of the National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 

(Pub. L. 111–84, October 28, 2009)), the 

locality rate for each nonforeign area 

will be set at the full applicable locality 

rate in January 2012. Employees in 

nonforeign areas entitled to cost-ofliving allowances (COLAs) (i.e., Alaska, 

Hawaii, and other nonforeign areas as 

defined in 5 CFR 591.207) have 

corresponding reductions in their 

COLAs when locality rates increase. 

Executive Order 13594 documents 

that the Executive Schedule rates of pay 

remain at the 2010/2011 levels. By law, 

Executive Schedule officials are not 

authorized to receive locality payments. 

Executive Order 13594 documents the 

2012 range of rates of basic pay for 

members of the Senior Executive 

Service (SES) under 5 U.S.C. 5382. The 

minimum rate of basic pay for the SES 

remains at $119,554 in 2012. The 

maximum rate of the SES rate range 

continues to be $179,700 (level II of the 

Executive Schedule) for SES members 

covered by a certified SES performance 

appraisal system and $165,300 (level III 

of the Executive Schedule) for SES 

members covered by an SES 

performance appraisal system that has 

not been certified. 

The minimum rate of basic pay for the 

senior-level (SL) and scientific and 

professional (ST) rate range remains at 


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