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(4) FCIC at its sole discretion may 

authorize personnel to provide an oral 

or written interpretation, as appropriate; 

and 

(5) Any decision or settlement 

resulting from such mediation, 

arbitration, or litigation proceeding 

before FCIC provides its interpretation 

may not be binding on the parties. 

(c) If multiple parties are involved 

and have opposing interpretations a 

joint request for a final agency 

determination or an interpretation of 

procedure or policy provision not 

codified in the Code of Federal 

Regulations including both requestor 

interpretations in one request is 

encouraged. If multiple insured persons 

are parties to the proceedings, and the 

request for a final agency determination 

or an interpretation of procedure or 

policy provision not codified in the 

Code of Federal Regulations applies to 

all parties, one request may be 

submitted for all insured persons 

instead of separate requests for each 

person. In this case, the information 

required in this section must be 

provided for each person. 

§ 400.768 FCIC Obligations. 

(a) FCIC reserves the right to not 

provide a final agency determination or 

an interpretation of procedure or policy 

provision not codified in the Code of 

Federal Regulations for any request 

regarding, or that contains specific 

factual information to situations or 

cases, such as acts or failures to act of 

any participant under the terms of a 

policy, procedure, or any reinsurance 

agreement. 

(1) Regardless of whether or not FCIC 

accepts a request, FCIC will not 

consider specific factual information to 

situations or cases in any final agency 

determination. 

(2) FCIC will not consider any 

examples provided in your 

interpretation because those are fact 

specific and could be construed as a 

finding of fact by FCIC. If an example 

is required to illustrate an 

interpretation, FCIC will provide the 

example in the interpretation. 

(b) If, in the sole judgment of FCIC, 

the request is unclear, ambiguous, or 

incomplete, FCIC will not provide a 

final agency determination or an 

interpretation of procedure or policy 

provision not codified in the Code of 

Federal Regulations but notify you 

within 30 days of the date of receipt by 

FCIC that the request is unclear, 

ambiguous, or incomplete. 

(c) If FCIC notifies you that a request 

is unclear, ambiguous or incomplete 

under § 400.768(b), the 90 day time 

period for FCIC to provide a response is 

stopped on the date FCIC notifies you. 

On the date FCIC receives a clear, 

complete, and unambiguous request, 

FCIC has the balance of the days 

remaining in the 90 day period to 

provide a response to you. For example, 

FCIC receives a request for a final 

agency determination on January 10. On 

February 10, FCIC notifies you the 

request is unclear. On March 10, FCIC 

receives a clarified request that meets all 

requirements for FCIC to provide a final 

agency determination. FCIC has sixty 

days from March 10, the balance of the 

90 day period, to provide a response. 

(d) FCIC reserves the right to modify 

the request for a final agency 

determination into an interpretation of 

procedure or policy provision not 

codified in the Code of Federal 

Regulations as needed if the request 

pertains to procedures or uncodified 

policy provisions and contains the 

information required in § 400.767. 

(e) FCIC will provide you a written 

final agency determination or an 

interpretation of procedure or policy 

provision not codified in the Code of 

Federal Regulations within 90 days of 

the date of receipt for a request that 

meets all requirements in § 400.767. 

(f) If FCIC does not provide a response 

within 90 days of receipt of a request, 

you may assume your interpretation is 

correct for the applicable crop year. 

However, your interpretation shall not 

be considered generally applicable and 

shall not be binding on any other 

program participants. Additionally, in 

the case of a joint request for a final 

agency determination or an 

interpretation of procedure or policy 

provision not codified in the Code of 

Federal Regulations, if FCIC does not 

provide a response within 90 days, 

neither party may assume their 

interpretations are correct. 

(g) FCIC will publish all final agency 

determinations as specially numbered 

documents on the RMA Web site 

because they are generally applicable to 

all program participants. 

(h) FCIC will not publish any 

interpretation of procedure or policy 

provision not codified in the Code of 

Federal Regulations because they are 

only applicable to the parties in the 

dispute. You are responsible for 

providing copies of the interpretation of 

procedure or policy provision not 

codified in the Code of Federal 

Regulations to all other parties involved 

in the proceeding. 

(i) When issuing an interpretation, 

FCIC will not evaluate the insured, 

approved insurance provider, agent or 

loss adjuster as it relates to the 

performance of following FCIC policy 

provisions or procedures. 

Interpretations will not include any 

analysis of whether the insured, 

approved insurance provider, agent, or 

loss adjuster was in compliance with 

the policy provision or procedure in 

question. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on March 5, 

2015. 

Brandon Willis, 

Manager, Federal Crop Insurance 

Corporation. 

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BILLING CODE 3410–08–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

10 CFR Part 20 

[NRC–2009–0279] 

RIN 3150–AJ29 

Radiation Protection 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Advance notice of proposed 

rulemaking; extension of comment 

period. 

SUMMARY: On July 25, 2014, the U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) 

published for comment an advance 

notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) 

to obtain input from members of the 

public on the development of a draft 

regulatory basis. The draft regulatory 

basis would identify potential changes 

to the NRC’s current radiation 

protection regulations. The potential 

changes, if implemented, would achieve 

a closer alignment between the NRC’s 

radiation protection regulations and the 

recommendations of the International 

Commission on Radiological Protection 

(ICRP) contained in ICRP Publication 

103 (2007). The NRC is extending the 

comment period for the ANPR to 

provide additional time for members of 

the public to develop and submit their 

comments. 

DATES: The comment period has been 

extended and expires on June 22, 2015. 

Comments received after this date will 

be considered if it is practical to do so, 

but the NRC is able to ensure 

consideration only for comments 

received on or before this date. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods (unless 

this document describes a different 

method for submitting comments on a 

specific subject): 

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2009–0279. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Carol 


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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. 

• Email comments to: 

Rulemaking.Comments@nrc.gov. If you 

do not receive an automatic email reply 

confirming receipt, then contact us at 

301–415–1677. 

• Fax comments to: Secretary, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission at 301– 

415–1101. 

• Mail comments to: Secretary, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, ATTN: 

Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff. 

• Hand deliver comments to: 11555 

Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 

20852, between 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. 

(Eastern Time) Federal workdays; 

telephone: 301–415–1677. 

For additional direction on obtaining 

information and submitting comments, 

see ‘‘Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments’’ in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Cardelia Maupin, Office of Nuclear 

Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

301–415–2312; email: 

Cardelia.Maupin@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2009– 

0279 when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information regarding 

this document. You may obtain 

publicly-available information related to 

this document by any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2009–0279. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable 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 

ANPR document is available in ADAMS 

under Accession No. ML14183B023. 

• 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. 

B. Submitting Comments 

Please include Docket ID NRC–2009– 

0279 in your comment submission. 

The NRC cautions you not to include 

identifying or contact information that 

you do not want to be publicly 

disclosed in your comment submission. 

The NRC will post all comment 

submissions at http://

www.regulations.gov as well as enter the 

comment submissions into ADAMS. 

The NRC does not routinely edit 

comment submissions to remove 

identifying or contact information. 

If you are requesting or aggregating 

comments from other persons for 

submission to the NRC, then you should 

inform those persons not to include 

identifying or contact information that 

they do not want to be publicly 

disclosed in their comment submission. 

Your request should state that the NRC 

does not routinely edit comment 

submissions to remove such information 

before making the comment 

submissions available to the public or 

entering the comment submissions into 

ADAMS. 

II. Further Information 

On July 25, 2014 (79 FR 43284), the 

NRC published for comment an ANPR 

to obtain input from members of the 

public on the development of a draft 

regulatory basis. The draft regulatory 

basis would identify potential changes 

to the NRC’s current radiation 

protection regulations. The potential 

changes, if implemented, would achieve 

a closer alignment between the NRC’s 

radiation protection regulations and the 

recommendations in ICRP Publication 

103 (2007). The ANPR identifies 

specific questions and issues with 

respect to a possible revision of the 

NRC’s radiation protection 

requirements. Comments, including 

responses to the specific questions, will 

be considered by the NRC staff when it 

develops the draft regulatory basis. 

The Part 20 of Title 10 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations (10 CFR) ANPR 

public comment period was originally 

scheduled to close on November 24, 

2014, after a 120-day comment period. 

In response to several requests from 

members of the public received 

throughout November 2014, the NRC 

extended the public comment period on 

the ANPR, by an additional 120 days, to 

March 24, 2015 (79 FR 69065; 

November 20, 2014). 

In response to a second request, dated 

February 18, 2015, from several 

members of the public, the NRC is now 

extending the public comment period 

by an additional 90 days. The deadline 

for submitting comments is now 

extended from March 24, 2015, to June 

22, 2015. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day 

of March 2015. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Laura A. Dudes, 

Director, Division of Material Safety, State, 

Tribal and Rulemaking Programs, Office of 

Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. 

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BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

13 CFR Part 107 

RIN 3245–AG68 

Small Business Investment 

Companies—Early Stage 

AGENCY: U.S. Small Business 

Administration. 

ACTION: Advance Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking (ANPRM). 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Small Business 

Administration (SBA) is seeking input 

and comments on its Early Stage Small 

Business Investment Company (SBIC) 

initiative, promulgated in the final rule 

on April 27, 2012. The intent of the 

initiative was to license and provide 

SBA leverage to SBICs over a 5-year 

period (fiscal years 2012 through 2016) 

that would focus on making investments 

in early stage small businesses. 

Although 58 investment funds applied 

to the program, to date SBA has only 

licensed 5 Early Stage SBICs. SBA is 

seeking input from the public to 

determine whether existing market 

conditions warrant SBA continuing to 

license Early Stage SBICs past fiscal 

year 2016 on an ongoing basis and, if so, 

what changes should be made to the 

program to attract qualified early stage 

fund managers. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before May 18, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by RIN 3245–AG68, by any of 

the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Please follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail, Hand Delivery/Courier: Javier 

Saade, Associate Administrator for the 

Office of Investment and Innovation, 

U.S. Small Business Administration, 

409 Third Street SW., Washington, DC 

20416. 


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