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require about 10 years to complete and

would be an expensive alternative.

The alternative technologies that

could create additional storage capacity

involve additional fuel handling with an

attendant opportunity for a fuel

handling accident, involve higher

cumulative dose to workers affecting the

fuel transfers, require additional

security measures that are significantly

more expensive, and would not result in

a significant improvement in

environmental impacts compared to the

proposed reracking modifications.

Reduction of Spent Fuel Generation

Generally, improved usage of the fuel

and/or operation at a reduced power

level would be an alternative that would

decrease the amount of fuel being stored

in the SFPs and thus, increase the

amount of time before the maximum

storage capacities of the SFPs are

reached. With extended burnup of fuel

assemblies, the fuel cycle would be

extended and fewer off-loads would be

necessary. This is not an alternative for

resolving the loss of full core off-load

capability that will occur as a result of

the Kewaunee refueling outage

scheduled for the Fall 2001, because the

spent fuel to be transferred to the pool

for storage has almost completed its

operating history in the core. In

addition, operating the plant at a

reduced power level would not make

effective use of available resources and

would cause unnecessary economic

hardship on the licensee and its

customers. Therefore, reducing the

amount of spent fuel generated by

increasing burnup further or reducing

power is not considered a practical

alternative.

The No-Action Alternative

Also, the NRC staff considered denial

of the proposed action (i.e., the ‘‘noaction’’ alternative). Denial of the

application would result in no

significant change in current

environmental impacts. The

environmental impacts of the proposed

action and the alternative actions are

similar.

Alternative Use of Resources

This action does not involve the use

of any resources not previously

considered in the Final Environmental

Statement for Kewaunee.

Agencies and Persons Contacted

In accordance with its stated policy,

on October 12, 2000, the NRC staff

consulted with the Wisconsin State

official, S. Jenkins of the Wisconsin

Public Service Commission, regarding

the environmental impact of the

proposed action. The state official had

no comments.

Finding of No Significant Impact

On the basis of the environmental

assessment, the NRC concludes that the

proposed action will not have a

significant effect on the quality of the

human environment. Accordingly, the

NRC has determined not to prepare an

environmental impact statement for the

proposed action.

For further details with respect to the

proposed action, see the licensee’s letter

dated November 18, 1999, as

supplemented by letter dated August 7,

2000, which are available for public

inspection at the NRC’s Public

Document Room, located at One White

Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike (first

floor), Rockville, Maryland. Publicly

available records will be accessible

electronically from the ADAMS Public

Library component on the NRC Web

site, http://www.nrc.gov (the Electronic

Reading Room).

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 30th day

of November, 2000.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,

Claudia M. Craig,

Section Chief, Section 1, Project Directorate

III, Division of Licensing Project Management,

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL

MANAGEMENT

Excepted Service

AGENCY: Office of Personnel

Management.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This gives notice of positions

placed or revoked under Schedules

placed under Schedule C in the

excepted service, as required by Civil

Service Rule VI, Exceptions from the

Competitive Service.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Pam

Shivery, Director, Washington Service

Center, Employment Service (202) 606–

1015.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office

of Personnel Management published its

last monthly notice updating appointing

authorities established or revoked under

the Excepted Service provisions of 5

CFR 213 October 25, 2000 (65 FR

63903). Individual authorities

established or revoked under Schedule

C between October 1, 2000, and October

31, 2000, appear in the listing below.

Future notices will be published on the

fourth Tuesday of each month, or as

soon as possible thereafter. A

consolidated listing of all authorities as

of June 30 is published each year.

Schedule C

The following Schedule C authorities

were established during October 2000:

Department of Agriculture

Confidential Assistant to the Director,

Office of Communications. Effective

October 23, 2000.

Special Assistant to the

Administrator, Foreign Agriculture

Service. Effective October 23, 2000.

Department of Commerce

Director of Advance to the Deputy

Chief of Staff for External Affairs.

Effective October 4, 2000.

Confidential Assistant to the Deputy

Chief of Staff for External Affairs.

Effective October 4, 2000.

Policy Advisor for International and

Economic Affairs to the Assistant to the

Secretary and Director, Office of Policy

and Strategic Planning. Effective

October 11, 2000.

Department of Defense

Defense Fellow to the Special

Assistant for White House Liaison.

Effective October 13, 2000.

Department of Education

Confidential Assistant to the Deputy

Assistant Secretary for

Intergovernmental Affairs, Constituent

Relations and Corporate Liaison.

Effective October 4, 2000.

Confidential Assistant to the Deputy

Assistant Secretary, Regional Services,

Office of Intergovernmental and

Interagency Affairs. Effective October 4,

2000.

Special Assistant to the Counselor to

the Secretary. Effective October 23,

2000.

Department of Energy

Special Assistant to the Chief

Financial Officer. Effective October 11,

2000.

Special Assistant to the Director,

Office of Scheduling and Advance.

Effective October 26, 2000.

Special Assistant to the Director,

Secretary of Energy Advisory Board.

Effective October 27, 2000.

Department of Health and Human

Services

Confidential Assistant to the

Executive Secretary to the Department

of Health and Human Services. Effective

October 27, 2000.

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Department of Housing and Urban

Development

General Deputy Assistant Secretary

for Housing to the Assistant Secretary

for Housing-Federal Housing

Commissioner. Effective October 4,

2000.

Intergovernmental Relations

Specialist to the Deputy Assistant

Secretary for Congressional and

Intergovernmental Relations. Effective

October 13, 2000.

Department of Justice

Assistant to the Attorney General

(Director of Scheduling). Effective

October 27, 2000.

Department of Labor

Advisor to the Secretary of Labor.

Effective October 24, 2000.

Staff Assistant to the Director of

Scheduling and Advance. Effective

October 27, 2000.

Director of Scheduling and Advance

to the Chief of Staff. Effective October

27, 2000.

Department of State

Staff Assistant to the Senior Advisor

to the Secretary and White House

Liaison. Effective October 27, 2000.

Department of Transportation

Deputy Assistant Administrator to the

Assistant Administrator for Government

and Industry Affairs. Effective October

4, 2000.

Office of National Drug Control Policy

Staff Assistant (Office Automation) to

the Chief of Staff, Office of National

Drug Control Policy. Effective October 4,

2000.

Staff Assistant (Office Automation) to

the Director, Office of National Drug

Control Policy. Effective October 4,

2000.

Small Business Administration

Senior Advisor to the Associate

Administrator for Veteran’s Business

Development. Effective October 11,

2000.

Confidential Advisor to the Deputy

Administrator and Director of External

Affairs. Effective October 16, 2000.

Speechwriter and Special Assistant to

the Associate Administrator for

Communications and Public Liaison.

Effective October 27, 2000.

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 3301 and 3302; E.O.

10577, 3 CFR 1954–1958 Comp., p. 218

Office of Personnel Management.

Janice R. Lachance,

Director.

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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL

MANAGEMENT

Privacy Act of 1974; Computer

Matching Program Between the Office

of Personnel Management and the

Social Security Administration

AGENCY: Office of Personnel

Management (OPM).

ACTION: Notice of a computer matching

program between the OPM and the

Social Security Administration (SSA)

for public comment.

SUMMARY: OPM is publishing notice of

its computer matching program with

SSA to meet the reporting and

publication requirements of Public Law

100–503, the Computer Matching and

Privacy Protection Act of 1988. In this

match, SSA records are used in

redetermining and recomputing certain

annuitants’ benefits where

computations are based, in part, on

military service performed after

December 1956 under the Civil Service

Retirement System (CSRS) and for

annuitants under the Federal

Employees’ Retirement System (FERS)

who have a CSRS component in their

FERS annuity computation. The

purpose of this match is to identify

these beneficiaries.

DATES: This matching program will

become effective in November 2000, or

40 days after the agreements by the

parties participating in the match have

been submitted to Congress and the

Office of Management and Budget

(OMB), unless either the Congress or

OMB objects thereto. Any public

comment on this matching program

must be submitted on or before January

8, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Any interested party may

submit written comments to William J.

Washington, Acting Assistant Director

for Systems, Finance and

Administration, Retirement and

Insurance Service, Office of Personnel

Management, 1900 E Street NW., Room

4312, Washington, DC 20415.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Marc Flaster, (202) 606–2115.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OPM and

SSA have concluded an agreement to

conduct a computer matching program

between the two agencies. The purpose

of the agreement is to establish the

conditions under which SSA agrees to

the disclosure of Social Security benefit

and/or tax information to OPM. OPM, as

specified in 5 U.S.C. 8332(j)(1), has an

obligation to use post 1956 earnings

data in redetermining and recomputing

annuities for certain CSRS and FERS

annuitants. Section 1106 of the Social

Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1306) requires

that SSA disclose the needed data to

OPM.

Office of Personnel Management.

Janice R. Lachance,

Director.

Report of Computer Matching

Agreement Between the Office of

Personnel Management and the Social

Security Administration

A. Participating Agencies

OPM and SSA

B. Purpose of the Matching Program

Chapters 83 and 84 of title 5, United

States Code (U.S.C.), provide the basis

for computing annuities under the Civil

Service Retirement System and the

Federal Employees’ Retirement System

respectively, and require release of

information by SSA in order to

administer post 1956 data exchanges. In

this match, SSA records are used in

redetermining and recomputing certain

annuitants’ benefits where

computations are based, in part, on

military service performed after

December 1956 under the Civil Service

Retirement System (CSRS) and for

annuitants under the Federal

Employees’ Retirement System (FERS)

who have a CSRS component in their

FERS annuity calculation. The purpose

of this match is to identify these

beneficiaries.

C. Authority for Conducting the Match

Program

Chapters 83 and 84, title 5, United

States Code, section 1106 of the Social

Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1306) and the

Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. 6103).

D. Categories of Records and

Individuals Covered by the Match

SSA will disclose information from its

Master Beneficiary Record (MBR) and

its Earnings Recording and SelfEmployment Income System (MEF) and

manually extracted post 1956 military

wage information from SSA’s ‘‘1086’’

microfilm file when required. SSA has

published routine uses for these systems

of records, last published for the MBR,

60–0090 (SSA/OSR) on January 6, 1995

at 60 FR 2144 and for the MEF, 60–0059

(SSA/OSR), on December 5, 1994 at 59

FR 62407.

OPM’s records consist of annuity data

from its system of records entitled OPM/

Central-1, Civil Service Retirement and

Insurance Records, last published in the

Federal Register at 64 FR 54930,

October 8, 1999, as amended May 3,

2000 (65 FR 25775).