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1The ‘‘Phase I Claimants’’ are Program Suppliers, 

Joint Sports Claimants, Public Television Claimants 

(represented by Public Broadcasting Service), 

Commercial Television Claimants (represented by 

National Association of Broadcasters), Music 

Claimants (represented by American Society of 

Composers, Authors and Publishers, Broadcast 

Music, Inc., and SESAC, Inc.), Canadian Claimants 

Group, National Public Radio, and Devotional 

Claimants. In what has become known as Phase I 

of a cable royalty distribution proceeding, the 

Judges allocate royalties among certain categories of 

claimants whose broadcast programming has been 

retransmitted by cable systems. The Phase I 

Claimants who are the moving parties in this 

requested partial distribution represent the 

traditional claimant categories. The Judges have not 

and do not by this notice determine the universe 

of claimant categories for 2013 cable retransmission 

royalties. In Phase II of a cable royalty distribution 

proceeding, the Judges determine how the allocated 

royalties are to be distributed among claimants 

within each of the Phase I categories. 

copy of the consent decree upon written 

request and payment of reproduction 

costs. Please mail your request and 

payment to: Consent Decree Library, 

U.S. DOJ—ENRD, P.O. Box 7611, 

Washington, DC 20044–7611. 

Please enclose a check or money order 

for $6.25 (25 cents per page 

reproduction cost) payable to the United 

States Treasury. 

Henry Friedman, 

Assistant Section Chief, Environmental 

Enforcement Section, Environment and 

Natural Resources Division. 

[FR Doc. 2015–04417 Filed 3–3–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Notice of Lodging of Proposed 

Consent Decree Under the Resource 

Conservation and Recovery Act 

On February 26, 2015, the Department 

of Justice lodged a proposed consent 

decree with the United States District 

Court for the District of Nevada in the 

lawsuit entitled United States and State 

of Nevada v. Barrick Goldstrike Mines, 

Inc., Civil Action No. 3:15-cv-0017– 

RCJ–VPC. 

In this action, the United States and 

the State of Nevada filed a complaint 

under the Resource Conservation and 

Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq., 

and the State of Nevada’s Disposal of 

Hazardous Waste statutes, set forth at 

Title 40 (‘‘Public Health and Safety’’), 

Chapter 459 (‘‘Hazardous Materials’’) of 

the Nevada Revised Statutes (NRS 

459.400 to 459.600) alleging violations 

at a gold mining and processing facility 

located near Elko, Nevada. The consent 

decree requires Barrick to pay a civil 

penalty of $196,000.00. 

The publication of this notice opens 

a period for public comment on the 

consent decree. Comments should be 

addressed to the Assistant Attorney 

General, Environment and Natural 

Resources Division, and should refer to 

United States v. Barrick Goldstrike 

Mines, Inc., D.J. Ref. No. 90–7–1–10581. 

All comments must be submitted no 

later than thirty (30) days after the 

publication date of this notice. 

Comments may be submitted either by 

email or by mail: 

To submit 

comments: Send them to: 

By email ....... pubcommentees.enrd@usdoj.gov. 

By mail ......... Assistant Attorney General, 

U.S. DOJ—ENRD, P.O. 

Box 7611, Washington, DC 

20044–7611. 

During the public comment period, 

the consent decree may be examined 

and downloaded at this Justice 

Department Web site: http:// 

www.usdoj.gov/enrd/ 

Consent_Decrees.html. We will provide 

a paper copy of the consent decree upon 

written request and payment of 

reproduction costs. Please mail your 

request and payment to: Consent Decree 

Library, U.S. DOJ—ENRD, P.O. Box 

7611, Washington, DC 20044–7611. 

Please enclose a check or money order 

for $6.50 (25 cents per page 

reproduction cost) payable to the United 

States Treasury. 

Henry Friedman, 

Assistant Section Chief, Environmental 

Enforcement Section, Environment and 

Natural Resources Division. 

[FR Doc. 2015–04418 Filed 3–3–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–15–P 

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 

Copyright Royalty Board 

[Docket No. 14–CRB–0010–CD (2013)] 

Distribution of 2013 Cable Royalty 

Funds 

AGENCY: Copyright Royalty Board, 

Library of Congress. 

ACTION: Notice requesting comments. 

SUMMARY: The Copyright Royalty Judges 

solicit comments on a motion of Phase 

I claimants for partial distribution of 

2013 cable royalty funds. 

DATES: Comments are due on or before 

April 3, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties may 

submit comments electronically to crb@

loc.gov. In the alternative, interested 

parties may send an original, five 

copies, and an electronic copy on a CD 

either by mail or hand delivery. 

Commenters shall not use multiple 

means of transmission. Interested 

parties may not deliver comments by an 

overnight delivery service other than the 

U.S. Postal Service Express Mail. If 

commenters use U.S. mail (including 

overnight delivery), the appropriate 

address is: Copyright Royalty Board, 

P.O. Box 70977, Washington, DC 20024– 

0977. If a private party delivers 

comments by hand, they must be 

brought to the Library of Congress, 

James Madison Memorial Building, LM– 

401, 101 Independence Avenue SE., 

Washington, DC 20559–6000. If a party 

delivers comments by a commercial 

courier, the comments must go to the 

Congressional Courier Acceptance Site 

located at 2nd and D Streets NE., 

Washington, DC, in an envelope 

addressed to: Copyright Royalty Board, 

Library of Congress, James Madison 

Memorial Building, LM–403, 101 

Independence Avenue SE., Washington, 

DC 20559–6000. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

LaKeshia Keys, Program Specialist, by 

telephone at (202) 707–7658 or email at 

crb@loc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Each year 

cable systems must submit royalty 

payments to the Register of Copyrights 

as required by the statutory license set 

forth in section 111 of the Copyright Act 

for the retransmission to cable 

subscribers of over-the-air television 

and radio broadcast signals. See 17 

U.S.C. 111(d). The Copyright Royalty 

Judges (Judges) oversee distribution of 

royalties to copyright owners whose 

works were included in a qualifying 

transmission and who timely filed a 

claim for royalties. Allocation of the 

royalties collected occurs in one of two 

ways. In the first instance, the Judges 

may authorize distribution in 

accordance with a negotiated settlement 

among all claiming parties. 17 U.S.C. 

111(d)(4)(A). If all claimants do not 

reach agreement with respect to the 

royalties, the Judges must conduct a 

proceeding to determine the distribution 

of any royalties that remain in 

controversy. 17 U.S.C. 111(d)(4)(B). 

Alternatively, the Judges may, on 

motion of claimants and on notice to all 

interested parties, authorize a partial 

distribution of royalties, reserving on 

deposit sufficient funds to resolve 

identified disputes. 17 U.S.C. 

111(d)(4)(C), 801(b)(3)(C). 

On January 21, 2015, representatives 

of the Phase I claimant categories (the 

‘‘Phase I Claimants’’) 1 filed with the 

Judges a motion requesting a partial 

distribution amounting to 60% of the 

2013 cable royalty funds pursuant to 

section 801(b)(3)(C) of the Copyright 

Act. 17 U.S.C. 801(b)(3)(C). That section 

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requires that, before ruling on the 

motion, the Judges publish a notice in 

the Federal Register seeking responses 

to the motion for partial distribution to 

ascertain whether any claimant entitled 

to receive the subject royalties has a 

reasonable objection to the requested 

distribution. Accordingly, this Notice 

seeks comments from interested 

claimants on whether any reasonable 

objection exists that would preclude the 

distribution of 60% of the 2013 cable 

royalty funds to the Phase I Claimants. 

Parties making objection to the partial 

distribution must advise the Judges of 

the existence and extent of all objections 

by the end of the comment period. The 

Judges will not consider any objections 

with respect to the partial distribution 

motion that come to their attention after 

the close of the comment period. 

The Judges have caused the Motion of 

the Phase I Claimants for Partial 

Distribution to be posted on the 

Copyright Royalty Board Web site at 

http://www.loc.gov/crb. 

Dated: February 26, 2015. 

Suzanne M. Barnett, 

Chief U.S. Copyright Royalty Judge. 

[FR Doc. 2015–04509 Filed 3–3–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 1410–72–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2015–0045] 

Reviewing and Assessing the Financial 

Condition of Operating Power Reactor 

Licensees, Including Requests for 

Additional Information 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Interim staff guidance; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing Interim 

Staff Guidance (ISG), OL/FR–ISG–2014– 

01, ‘‘Reviewing and Assessing the 

Financial Condition of Operating Power 

Reactor Licensees, Including Requests 

for Additional Information,’’ dated 

February 17, 2015. The ISG provides 

clarifying guidance to the NRC staff 

when reviewing licensee financial 

information, and when requesting 

additional information regarding 

licensee financial conditions, as 

authorized under the NRC’s regulations. 

Such review and inquiry are performed 

by NRC staff for currently operating 

power reactor licensees, absent a 

licensing action such as a license 

transfer. 

DATES: The ISG is available March 4, 

2015. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2015–0045 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 Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2015–0045. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Carol 

Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; 

email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For 

technical questions, contact the 

individual 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 

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 in this notice (if 

that document is available in ADAMS) 

is provided the first time that a 

document is referenced. The ISG is 

available in ADAMS under Accession 

No. ML14218A625. 

• 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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Richard Turtil, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001; telephone: 301–415–2308; email: 

Richard.Turtil@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Discussion 

The purpose of this ISG is to clarify 

the process by which the NRC will 

review financial conditions of, and 

financial concerns about, currently 

operating power reactor licensees. This 

guidance is intended to provide 

consistency and transparency with 

regard to the NRC’s financial review 

process for licensees (in the absence of 

a license transfer or other similar 

licensing action). It addresses the NRC’s 

basis for financial Requests for 

Additional Information from licensees 

during operations, the NRC staff’s 

evaluation of Requests for Additional 

Information responses, and the closure 

of such inquiries. This ISG is intended 

to enhance the NRC’s financial review 

guidance presented in Section III(1)(d)— 

Post-OL Non-transfer Reviews, of 

NUREG–1577, Revision 1, ‘‘Standard 

Review Plan on Power Reactor Licensee 

Financial Qualifications and 

Decommissioning Funding Assurance,’’ 

dated December 2001, (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML013330264). The 

guidance in this ISG will be included in 

the next update to NUREG–1577. 

II. Backfitting and Issue Finality 

The NRC is issuing interim guidance 

for the NRC staff regarding its review of 

operating power reactor licensees’ 

financial information. Issuance of the 

ISG does not constitute backfitting as 

defined in § 50.109 of Title 10 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 

(the Backfit Rule) and is not otherwise 

inconsistent with the issue finality 

provisions in 10 CFR part 52. The NRC’s 

position is based upon the following 

considerations. 

1. The ISG positions do not constitute 

backfitting, inasmuch as the ISG is 

internal guidance to NRC staff. 

The ISG provides interim guidance to 

the NRC staff on how to review 

licensees’ financial information and 

request additional financial information. 

Changes in internal staff guidance are 

not matters for which applicants or 

licensees are protected under 10 CFR 

50.109 or issue finality provisions in 10 

CFR part 52. 

2. The NRC has no intention to 

impose the ISG on existing nuclear 

power plant licenses either now or in the 

future (absent a voluntary request for 

change from the licensee). 

The NRC staff does not intend to 

impose or apply the positions described 

in the ISG to existing (already issued) 

licenses (e.g., operating licenses and 

combined licenses). Hence, the ISG— 

even if considered guidance which is 

within the purview of the issue finality 

provisions in 10 CFR part 52—need not 

be evaluated as if it were a backfit or as 

being inconsistent with issue finality 

provisions. 

Even if, in the future, the NRC staff 

seeks to impose a position in the ISG on 

holders of already issued licenses, such 

imposition would not provide any basis 

for the Backfit Rule or issue finality 

provisions to apply. The ISG concerns, 

in part, the NRC’s request for operating 

power reactor licensees’ financial 

information. Information collection and 

reporting requirements such as these are 

not subject to the Backfit Rule and issue 

finality provisions. 

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