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person meeting will be held on February 

20, 2024, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 at 

NCPC, which is the same as that for 

submission of written comments below. 

ADDRESSES: Written public comments 

on the draft may be submitted by either 

method: U.S. mail, courier, or hand 

deliver: Introduction Chapter Public 

Comment, National Capital Planning 

Commission, 401 9th Street NW, Suite 

500N, Washington, DC 20004; or 

Electronically: https://www.ncpc.gov/ 

initiatives/Intro. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Brittney Drakeford at (202) 482–4210 or 

info@ncpc.gov. 

Authority: 40 U.S.C. 8721(e)(2). 

Dated: December 7, 2023. 

Anne R. Schuyler, 

General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2023–27285 Filed 12–12–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

The National Science Board’s 

Committee on Oversight (CO) hereby 

gives notice of the scheduling of a 

videoconference meeting for the 

transaction of National Science Board 

business pursuant to the National 

Science Foundation Act and the 

Government in the Sunshine Act. 

TIME AND DATE: Thursday, December 14, 

2023, from 12:30–1:30 p.m. Eastern. 

PLACE: This meeting will be held in 

person and by videoconference through 

the National Science Foundation 

headquarters at 2415 Eisenhower Ave., 

Alexandria, VA 22314. 

STATUS: One portion open and one 

portion closed. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

Closed: 12:30–1:05 p.m. Matters to be 

considered—Chairman’s opening 

remarks regarding the agenda; and 

presentation and discussion of a pilot 

program to include experts in Broader 

Impacts on NSF Committees of Visitors. 

Open: 1:05–1:30 p.m. Matters to be 

considered—Chairman’s opening 

remarks; discussion regarding a 

presentation by the Inspector General 

and Assistant Inspector General for 

Audits regarding the FY 2024 Annual 

Audit Plan; and Chief Financial Officer 

update. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Point of contact for this meeting is: 

(Chris Blair, cblair@nsf.gov), 703/292– 

7000. Members of the public can 

observe the public portion of this 

meeting through a YouTube livestream. 

The YouTube link will be available from 

the NSB web page. 

Ann E. Bushmiller, 

Senior Legal Counsel to the National Science 

Board. 

[FR Doc. 2023–27279 Filed 12–11–23; 11:15 am] 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2022–0149] 

Discontinuation of the Mississippi 

Agreement State Program’s 

Probationary Period 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) has discontinued 

Mississippi’s Probationary period. 

DATES: December 12, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2022–0149 when contacting the 

NRC about the availability of 

information regarding this document. 

You may obtain publicly available 

information related to this document 

using any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2022–0149. Address 

questions about Docket IDs in 

Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; 

telephone: 301–415–0624; email: 

Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical 

questions, contact the individuals listed 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this document. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly 

available documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

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

adams.html. To begin the search, 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, at 

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: The PDR, where you 

may examine and order copies of 

publicly available documents, is open 

by appointment. To make an 

appointment to visit the PDR, please 

send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov 

or call 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415– 

4737, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern 

time (ET), Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Robert Johnson, Office of Nuclear 

Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

301–415–7314; email: Robert.Johnson@

nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

274b of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, 

as amended, (AEA) provides the 

statutory basis by which the NRC may 

enter into an agreement with the 

governor of a State to discontinue 

portions of its regulatory authority to 

license and regulate byproduct 

materials, source materials, and certain 

quantities of special nuclear materials. 

States may assume the authority to 

regulate those materials after the NRC 

determines that a perspective State’s 

radiation control program is adequate to 

protect public health and safety and 

compatible with the NRC’s regulatory 

program. Through the Agreement State 

program, 39 States have signed 

agreements with the NRC. The NRC 

retains an oversight role for adequacy to 

protect public health and safety, and 

compatibility with the NRC’s regulatory 

program. 

Section 274j of the AEA, requires that 

the NRC periodically review each 

Agreement State to ensure that the 

Agreement State’s regulatory programs 

are adequate and compatible. It is the 

policy of the NRC to evaluate the 

radiation control program’s performance 

in an integrated manner, using 

performance indicators, to ensure that 

public health and safety is being 

adequately protected. The periodic 

review process for an Agreement State’s 

regulatory program and the NRC’s 

radioactive materials program is called 

the Integrated Materials Performance 

Evaluation Program (IMPEP). 

The IMPEP review team presents the 

findings to a Management Review Board 

(MRB). The MRB Chair then makes the 

final determination regarding a 

radiation control program’s overall 

performance in a public meeting. 

Information considered by the MRB 

Chair includes the proposed final 

IMPEP report which presents suggested 

performance indicator ratings and 

recommendations prepared by the 

IMPEP team, input from MRB members, 

and information provided by the 

radiation control program at the MRB 

meeting. For most IMPEP reviews, no 

action other than issuance of the final 

IMPEP report is needed. For those 

infrequent reviews where additional 

action is needed, the MRB Chair may 

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Oversight, and recommendations for 

Probation, Suspension, or Termination. 

The most significant actions—Probation, 

Suspension, or Termination—require 

Commission approval. 

In 2022, the MRB Chair 

recommended, and the Commission 

agreed, to place Mississippi on 

Probation, due to a significant decline in 

Program performance (87 FR 60212). 

The MRB Chair directed staff to conduct 

a follow-up IMPEP review in 

approximately 1 year from the 2022 

IMPEP review. 

During the 2023 IMPEP review, the 

team found that the changes made by 

Mississippi in response to the 2022 

IMPEP review resulted in significant 

performance improvements across the 

Program and improved its performance 

findings relative to five indicators. The 

team found Mississippi’s performance 

to be satisfactory for the following four 

performance indicators: Status of 

Materials Inspection Program; Technical 

Quality of Inspections; Technical 

Quality of Incident and Allegation 

Activities; and Legislation, Regulations, 

and Other Program Elements. The team 

found Mississippi’s performance to be 

satisfactory but needs improvement for 

the following two performance 

indicators: Technical Staffing and 

Training and Technical Quality of 

Licensing Actions. The performance 

finding for the indicator Technical 

Staffing and Training remained the 

same, as satisfactory but needs 

improvement. 

On June 29, 2023, the MRB met to 

discuss the results of the 2023 IMPEP 

review. Based on the results of the 2023 

IMPEP review, the MRB Chair closed 

the 2017 IMPEP review 

recommendation, closed 9 of the 10 

recommendations made during the 2022 

IMPEP, and opened one new 

recommendation. The MRB Chair also 

found Mississippi’s performance 

adequate to protect public health and 

safety but needs improvement and 

compatible with the NRC’s program. 

The MRB Chair directed staff to conduct 

a periodic meeting take place in 

approximately 1 year with the next 

IMPEP review taking place in 

approximately 2 years. On July 27, 2023, 

the staff issued the final IMPEP report 

documenting the bases for these 

findings (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML23188A186). 

As a result of improved performance 

seen during Mississippi’s 2023 IMPEP 

review and the significant progress 

made on completing the actions in the 

Program Improvement Plan, the MRB 

Chair requested that the Commission 

discontinue Mississippi’s Probationary 

period and be placed on a period of 

Heightened Oversight. The Commission 

agreed with the recommendations to 

discontinue Mississippi’s Probationary 

Period and the Governor of Mississippi 

has been notified of this decision. 

Dated: December 7, 2023. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Kenneth T. Erwin, 

Acting Director, Division of Materials Safety, 

Security, State, and Tribal Programs, Office 

of Material Safety and Safeguards. 

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BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2023–0001] 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

TIME AND DATE: Week of December 11, 

2023. 

PLACE: Via Webcast. 

STATUS: Open. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

Week of December 11, 2023 

Tuesday, December 12, 2023 

9:55 a.m. Affirmation Session (Public 

Meeting) (Tentative), Kairos Power, 

LLC (Hermes Test Reactor 

Construction Permit Application), 

Docket No. 50–7513–CP, Mandatory 

Hearing Decision (Tentative) 

(Contact: Wesley Held: 301–287– 

3591) 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: By a vote of 4– 

0 on December 8 and 11, 2023, the 

Commission determined pursuant to 5 

U.S.C. 552b(e)(1) and 10 CFR 9.107 that 

this item be affirmed with less than one 

week notice to the public. The item will 

be affirmed in the meeting being held on 

December 12, 2023. The public is 

invited to attend the Commission’s 

meeting live by webcast at the Web 

address—https://video.nrc.gov/. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

For more information or to verify the 

status of meetings, contact Wesley Held 

at 301–287–3591 or via email at 

Wesley.Held@nrc.gov. The schedule for 

Commission meetings is subject to 

change on short notice. 

The NRC Commission Meeting 

Schedule can be found on the internet 

at: https://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/ 

public-meetings/schedule.html. 

The NRC provides reasonable 

accommodation to individuals with 

disabilities where appropriate. If you 

need a reasonable accommodation to 

participate in these public meetings or 

need this meeting notice or the 

transcript or other information from the 

public meetings in another format (e.g., 

braille, large print), please notify Anne 

Silk, NRC Disability Program Specialist, 

at 301–287–0745, by videophone at 

240–428–3217, or by email at 

Anne.Silk@nrc.gov. Determinations on 

requests for reasonable accommodation 

will be made on a case-by-case basis. 

Members of the public may request to 

receive this information electronically. 

If you would like to be added to the 

distribution, please contact the Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Office of the 

Secretary, Washington, DC 20555, at 

301–415–1969, or by email at 

Betty.Thweatt@nrc.gov or 

Samantha.Miklaszewski@nrc.gov. 

The NRC is holding the meetings 

under the authority of the Government 

in the Sunshine Act, 5 U.S.C. 552b. 

Dated: December 11, 2023. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Wesley W. Held, 

Policy Coordinator, Office of the Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2023–27479 Filed 12–11–23; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. MC2024–99 and CP2024–102] 

New Postal Products 

AGENCY: Postal Regulatory Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Commission is noticing a 

recent Postal Service filing for the 

Commission’s consideration concerning 

a negotiated service agreement. This 

notice informs the public of the filing, 

invites public comment, and takes other 

administrative steps. 

DATES: Comments are due: December 

15, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments 

electronically via the Commission’s 

Filing Online system at http://

www.prc.gov. Those who cannot submit 

comments electronically should contact 

the person identified in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section by 

telephone for advice on filing 

alternatives. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David A. Trissell, General Counsel, at 

202–789–6820. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Table of Contents 

I. Introduction 

II. Docketed Proceeding(s) 

I. Introduction 

The Commission gives notice that the 

Postal Service filed request(s) for the 

Commission to consider matters related 

to negotiated service agreement(s). The 


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