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hearing held would take place before

the issuance of any amendment.

A request for a hearing or a petition

for leave to intervene must be filed with

the Secretary of the Commission, U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission,

Washington, DC 20555–0001, Attention:

Docketing and Services Branch, or may

be delivered to the Commission’s Public

Document Room, the Gelman Building,

2120 L Street, NW., Washington, DC, by

the above date. Where petitions are filed

during the last 10 days of the notice

period, it is requested that the petitioner

promptly so inform the Commission by

a toll-free telephone call to Western

Union at 1–(800) 248–5100 (in Missouri

1–(800) 342–6700). The Western Union

operator should be given Datagram

Identification Number N1023 and the

following message addressed to John F.

Stolz, Director, Project Directorate I–2:

petitioner’s name and telephone

number, date petition was mailed, plant

name, and publication date and page

number of this Federal Register notice.

A copy of the petition should also be

sent to the Office of the General

Counsel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission, Washington, DC 20555–

0001, and to Jay Silberg, Esquire, Shaw,

Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge, 2300 N

Street NW., Washington, DC 20037,

attorney for the licensee.

Nontimely filings of petitions for

leave to intervene, amended petitions,

supplemental petitions and/or requests

for hearing will not be entertained

absent a determination by the

Commission, the presiding officer or the

presiding Atomic Safety and Licensing

Board that the petition and/or request

should be granted based upon a

balancing of the factors specified in 10

CFR 2.714(a)(1) (i)–(v) and 2.714(d).

For further details with respect to this

action, see the application for

amendment dated April 4, 1997, which

is available for public inspection at the

Commission’s Public Document Room,

the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street,

NW., Washington, DC, and at the local

public document room, located at the

Osterhout Free Library, Reference

Department, 71 South Franklin street,

Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day

of April 1997.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Chester Poslusny,

Senior Project Manager, Project Directorate

I–2, Division of Reactor Projects—I/II, Office

of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

[FR Doc. 97–9911 Filed 4–16–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P

PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY

CORPORATION

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Proposed Collection;

Comment Request; Firms with

Significant Pension Plan Underfunding

AGENCY: Pension Benefit Guaranty

Corporation.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Pension Benefit Guaranty

Corporation intends to request that the

Office of Management and Budget

(‘‘OMB’’) extend the approval for a

collection of information under the

Paperwork Reduction Act. The

information collection relates to the

opportunity the PBGC gives companies

maintaining single-employer pension

plans with significant underfunding to

correct data that the PBGC has on their

plans’ underfunding. The effect of this

notice is to solicit public comment on

this collection of information prior to

the PBGC’s request for an extension of

approval.

DATES: Comments should be submitted

to the PBGC by June 16, 1997.

ADDRESSES: All written comments

should be addressed to: The Office of

the General Counsel, Pension Benefit

Guaranty Corporation, Suite 340, 1200 K

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20005. The

comments will be available for public

inspection at the PBGC

Communications and Public Affairs

Department, Suite 240, 1200 K Street,

NW., Washington, DC 20005, between

the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Copies

of the materials may be obtained free of

charge by writing to the PBGC

Communications and Public Affairs

Department at the above address.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

James L. Beller, Attorney, Office of the

General Counsel, Suite 340, 1200 K

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20005,

202–326–4024 (202–326–4179 for TTY

and TDD). (These are not toll-free

numbers.)

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The PBGC

administers the pension plan

termination insurance programs under

Title IV of the Employee Retirement

Income Security Act of 1974 (‘‘ERISA’’)

(29 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.). To address

concerns about the potential

vulnerability of the single-employer

insurance program to large claims, the

PBGC needs current information on the

funded status of plans with large

amounts of underfunding. Information

otherwise available to the PBGC is

either not current enough (Form 5500

filings), not complete enough (PBGC

Form 1 filings), or not public (filings

under ERISA section 4010).

Since 1990, the PBGC has collected

information on the companies whose

underfunded plans present the largest

potential claims against the PBGC by

taking data from public corporate

annual reports and the PBGC premium

filings and adjusting that information to

a standard interest rate and mortality

table. Because the annual report data

often includes foreign and other nonPBGC covered plans and the premium

filings are not complete enough for this

purpose, companies (and the PBGC)

were concerned about the accuracy and

completeness of the data. After the first

public use of this data, companies

suggested that the PBGC give them a

chance to review the data.

As a result, the PBGC now annually

contacts companies with the largest

underfunding and requests that they

verify (or correct) and, if they wish,

supplement PBGC information on the

amount of accumulated and vested

benefits, the amount of plan assets, and

the interest and mortality assumptions

they used to value benefits in their

covered plans. Respondents also may

choose to recalculate accumulated,

vested, and guaranteed benefits, and

administrative expense loading charges,

as well as to provide information on

additional contributions made to the

plans. The PBGC provides two simple

response forms (which are not required

to be used). In response to requests from

companies, the PBGC also provides

sample enrolled actuary certifications.

These certifications are required for

companies that elect to recalculate

benefits or administrative expenses.

The PBGC uses the responses to

improve the accuracy, timeliness, and

completeness of information obtained

from other sources. The data is used in

various agency efforts, including

estimating the potential exposure of the

single-employer termination insurance

program, legislative and other policy

analyses, selecting plans for monitoring,

responding to congressional requests for

information on companies whose plans

are significantly underfunded, and

identifying for the public those

companies with large levels of

underfunding (including the amount of

underfunding by company) or poor

funding ratios.

The PBGC expects to contact about

400 companies annually (more if the

interest rate is low; fewer if the interest

rate is high) whose underfunding for

vested benefits is greater than $25

million. Based on prior experience, the

PBGC assumes that 90% of those

contacted (360 responses) will choose to

respond (even though this collection of

information is voluntary). The PBGC

estimates that the total annual hour
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burden that will result from this

collection is 1,440 hours and that the

total annual cost burden is $216,000.

The PBGC is soliciting public

comments to:

(i) Evaluate whether the proposed

collection of information is necessary

for the proper performance of the

functions of the agency, including

whether the information will have

practical utility;

(ii) Evaluate the accuracy of the

agency’s estimate of the burden of the

proposed collection of information,

including the validity of the

methodology and assumptions used;

(iii) Enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and

(iv) Minimize the burden of the

collection of information on those who

are to respond, including through the

use of appropriate automated,

electronic, mechanical, or other

technological collection techniques or

other forms of information technology,

e.g., permitting electronic submission of

responses.

Issued in Washington, DC this 14th day of

April, 1997.

John Seal,

Acting Executive Director, Pension Benefit

Guaranty Corporation.

[FR Doc. 97–9929 Filed 4–16–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7708–01–P]

PHYSICIAN PAYMENT REVIEW

COMMISSION

Commission Meeting

AGENCY: Physician Payment Review

Commission.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: The Commission will hold its

next public meeting on Thursday, May

1, 1997 and Friday, May 2, 1997 at the

Washington Marriott, 1221 22nd Street

NW, Washington, D.C. The May 1

meeting will be in the West End Salon

and the May 2 meeting will be in the

DuPont Ballroom. The meetings are

tentatively scheduled to begin at 10:00

a.m. on May 1 and at 9:00 a.m. on May

2.

At the meeting, the Commission will

review drafts of reports due to the

Congress later this spring concerning

volume performance standards and

conversion factor updates, beneficiary

access to care under fee for service, and

beneficiary financial liability. It will

also discuss the Administration’s fiscal

year 1998 budget proposal.

The Commission also plans to hear

from outside experts concerning several

issues on its work plan:

• Monitoring access under managed

care;

• Serving vulnerable populations in

managed care;

• Monitoring changes in the health

care market; and

• Coordinating retiree health coverage

with Medicare.

Final agendas will be mailed on April

24, 1997 and will be available on the

Commission’s web site (www.pprc.gov)

at that time.

ADDRESS: 2120 L Street, N.W.; Suite 200;

Washington, D.C. 20037. The telephone

number is 202/653–7220.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Debbie Kramer, Executive Assistant, at

202/653–7220.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: If you are

not on the Commission mailing list and

wish to receive an agenda, please call

202/653–7220 after April 24, 1997.

Lauren LeRoy,

Executive Director.

[FR Doc. 97–9872 Filed 4–16–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6820–SE–M

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

[Declaration of Disaster #2933; Amendment

#4]

Commonwealth of Kentucky

In accordance with a notice from the

Federal Emergency Management

Agency, dated April 7, 1997, the abovenumbered Declaration is hereby

amended to include the Counties of

Adair and Metcalfe in the

Commonwealth of Kentucky as a

disaster area due to damage caused by

severe storms, tornadoes, and flooding

beginning on March 1, 1997 and

continuing through March 31, 1997.

In addition, applications for economic

injury loans from small businesses

located in the following contiguous

counties may be filed until the specified

date at the previously designated

location: Casey and Russell in the

Commonwealth of Kentucky. Any

counties contiguous to the above-named

primary counties and not listed herein

have already been covered.

All other information remains the

same, i.e., the deadline for filing

applications for physical damage is May

3, 1997 and for economic injury the

termination date is December 4, 1997.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Program Nos. 59002 and 59008)

Dated: April 9, 1997.

Bernard Kulik,

Associate Administrator for Disaster

Assistance.

[FR Doc. 97–9892 Filed 4–16–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 8025–01–P

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

[Declaration of Disaster #2933]

Commonwealth of Kentucky

(Amendment #5)

In accordance with a notice from the

Federal Emergency Management

Agency, dated April 9, 1997, the abovenumbered Declaration is hereby

amended to include the Counties of

Barren, Boyle, Green, Johnson, Knott,

Letcher, Logan, Marion, Muhlenberg,

Perry, Russell, Taylor, and Trigg in the

Commonwealth of Kentucky as a

disaster area due to damage caused by

severe storms, tornadoes, and flooding

beginning on March 1, 1997 and

continuing through March 31, 1997.

In addition, applications for economic

injury loans from small businesses

located in the following contiguous

counties may be filed until the specified

date at the previously designated

location: Breathitt, Clay, Clinton,

Harlan, Leslie, Lincoln, Owsley,

Pulaski, and Wayne in the

Commonwealth of Kentucky. Any

counties contiguous to the above-named

primary counties and not listed herein

have already been covered.

All other information remains the

same, i.e., the deadline for filing

applications for physical damage is May

3, 1997 and for economic injury the

termination date is December 4, 1997.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Program Nos. 59002 and 59008.)

Dated: April 10, 1997.

Herbert Mitchell,

Acting Associate Administrator for Disaster

Assistance.

[FR Doc. 97–9944 Filed 4–16–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 8025–01–P

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

[Declaration of Disaster #2945]

State of Tennessee

As a result of the President’s major

disaster declaration on April 2, 1997, I

find that the following counties in the

State of Tennessee constitute a disaster

area due to damages caused by severe

storms and tornadoes on March 28

through March 29, 1997: Bradley,

Hamilton, Polk, Sequatchie, and Smith.

Applications for loans for physical

damages may be filed until the close of

business on June 1, 1997, and for loans

for economic injury until the close of

business on January 2, 1998 at the

address listed below or other locally

announced locations: U.S. Small

Business Administration, Disaster Area