2426 Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 10 / Thursday, January 15, 1998 / Notices

For further details with respect to the

proposed action, see the licensee’s letter

dated December 16, 1997, which is

available for public inspection at the

Commission’s Public Document Room,

which is located at The Gelman

Building, 2120 L Street, NW.,

Washington, DC, and at the local public

document room located at the Brooks

Memorial Library, 224 Main Street,

Brattleboro, VT.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day

of January 1998.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Ronald B. Eaton,

Acting Director, Project Directorate I–3,

Division of Reactor Projects—I/II, Office of

Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

[FR Doc. 98–1045 Filed 1–14–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P

NUCLEAR REGULATORY

COMMISSION

Regulatory Guides; Withdrawal

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission

is withdrawing several guides in its

Regulatory Guide Series. Regulatory

guides may be withdrawn when (1) they

are superseded by the Commission’s

regulations, (2) equivalent

recommendations have been

incorporated in approved codes or

standards, or (3) there have been

changes in methods, techniques, or the

need for specific guidance. Since the

methods discussed in these regulatory

guides fall into one of these categories,

the regulatory guides listed below are

being withdrawn. New applications for

licenses or amendments should address

current guidance. However, withdrawal

of these regulatory guides does not alter

any existing license conditions that

were based on these guides.

Applications that reference these

regulatory guides and are pending as of

the date of this notice do not need to be

withdrawn or amended.

Regulatory Guide 3.2, Efficiency Testing

of Air-Cleaning Systems Containing

Devices for Removal of Particles

(January 1973)

Regulatory Guide 3.9, Concrete

Radiation Shields (June 1973)

Regulatory Guide 3.33, Assumptions

Used for Evaluating the Potential

Radiological Consequences of

Accidental Nuclear Criticality in a

Fuel Reprocessing Plant (April 1977)

Regulatory Guide 3.34, Assumptions

Used for Evaluating the Potential

Radiological Consequences of

Accidental Nuclear Criticality in a

Uranium Fuel Fabrication Plant

(Revision 1, July 1979)

Regulatory Guide 3.35, Assumptions

Used for Evaluating the Potential

Radiological Consequences of

Accidental Nuclear Criticality in a

Plutonium Processing and Fuel

Fabrication Plant (Revision 1, July

1979)

Regulatory Guide 5.1, Serial Numbering

of Fuel Assemblies for Light-WaterCooled Nuclear Power Reactors

(December 1972)

Regulatory Guide 5.14, Use of

Observation (Visual Surveillance)

Techniques in Material Access Areas

(Revision 1, May 1980)

Regulatory Guide 5.24, Analysis and

Use of Process Data for the Protection

of Special Nuclear Material (June

1974)

Regulatory Guide 5.29, Nuclear Material

Control Systems for Nuclear Power

Plants (Revision 1, June 1975)

Regulatory Guide 5.30, Materials

Protection Contingency Measures for

Uranium and Plutonium Fuel

Manufacturing Plants (June 1974)

Regulatory Guide 5.45, Standard Format

and Content for the Special Nuclear

Material Control and Accounting

Section of a Special Nuclear Material

License Application (Including That

for a Uranium Enrichment Facility)

(December 1974)

Regulatory Guide 8.3, Film Badge

Performance Criteria (February 1973)

In addition, Draft Regulatory Guide

DG–0008, ‘‘Applications for the Use of

Sealed Sources in Portable Gauging

Devices’’ (May 1995), is being

withdrawn from consideration as a

regulatory guide. The NRC recently

published NUREG–1556, ‘‘Consolidated

Guidance About Materials Licenses:

Program-Specific Guidance About

Portable Gauge Licenses,’’ which

contains information on the same

subject.

Comments and suggestions in

connection with items for inclusion in

guides currently being developed or

improvements in all published guides

are encouraged at any time. Written

comments may be submitted to the

Rules and Directives Branch, Division of

Administrative Services, Office of

Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission, Washington, DC 20555.

(5 U.S.C. 552(a))

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd

day of December 1997.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Malcolm R. Knapp,

Acting Director, Office of Nuclear Regulatory

Research.

[FR Doc. 98–1047 Filed 1–15–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P

PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY

CORPORATION

Interest Assumption for Determining

Variable-Rate Premium; Interest on

Late Premium Payments; Interest on

Underpayments and Overpayments of

Single-Employer Plan Termination

Liability and Multiemployer Withdrawal

Liability; Interest Assumptions for

Multiemployer Plan Valuations

Following Mass Withdrawal

AGENCY: Pension Benefit Guaranty

Corporation.

ACTION: Notice of interest rates and

assumptions.

SUMMARY: This notice informs the public

to be used under certain Pension Benefit

Guaranty Corporation regulations. These

rates and assumptions are published

elsewhere (or are derivable from rates

published elsewhere), but are collected

and published in this notice for the

convenience of the public. Interest rates

are also published on the PBGC’s home

page (http://www.pbgc.gov).

DATES: The interest rate for determining

the variable-rate premium under part

4006 applies to premium payment years

beginning in January 1998. The interest

assumptions for performing

multiemployer plan valuations

following mass withdrawal under part

4281 apply to valuation dates occurring

in February 1998. The interest rates for

late premium payments under part 4007

and for underpayments and

overpayments of single-employer plan

termination liability under part 4062

and multiemployer withdrawal liability

under part 4219 apply to interest

accruing during the first quarter

(January through March) of 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Harold J. Ashner, Assistant General

Counsel, Office of the General Counsel,

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation,

1200 K Street, NW., Washington, DC

20005, 202–326–4024. (For TTY/TDD

users, call the Federal relay service tollfree at 1–800–877–8339 and ask to be

connected to 202–326–4024.)

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Variable-Rate Premiums

Section 4006(a)(3)(E)(iii)(II) of the

Employee Retirement Income Security

Act of 1974 (ERISA) and § 4006.4(b)(1)

of the PBGC’s regulation on Premium

Rates (29 CFR part 4006) prescribe use

of an assumed interest rate in

determining a single-employer plan’s

variable-rate premium. The rate is the

‘‘applicable percentage’’ (described in

the statute and the regulation) of the

annual yield on 30-year Treasury

securities for the month preceding the