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reflect the additional work involved in

separately indexing each entry.

Policy Decision

The Copyright Office’s recordation

procedure set out in § 1615.07 of

Chapter 1600 of the Compendium is

amended to read as follows:

Single and multiple titles distinguished. A

single title that is repeated is counted as a

single ‘‘title’’ for the purpose of computing

the fee. However, when multiple issues or

numbers of a serial, or different chapters or

installments are contained in a document,

each will be indexed and therefore each is

considered to be an individual title for which

a separate fee is charged.

Dated: April 23, 1998.

Marybeth Peters,

Register of Copyrights.

[FR Doc. 98–11373 Filed 4–28–98; 8:45 am]

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

Sunshine Act Meeting

AGENCY HOLDING MEETING: National

Science Foundation, National Science

Board.

DATE AND TIME:

May 6, 1998, 1:30 p.m., Closed Session

May 7, 1998, 9:30 a.m., Open Session

May 7, 1998, 12:30 p.m., Closed Session

May 7, 1998, 2:30 p.m., Open Session

PLACE: National Science Foundation,

4201 Wilson Boulevard, Room 1225,

Arlington, VA 22230.

STATUS: Part of this meeting will be

open to the public. Part of this meeting

will be closed to the public.

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED:

Wednesday, May 6, 1998

Closed Session (1:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m.)

—Minutes, February 1998

—National Science Board and Executive

Committee Elections

Thursday, May 7, 1998

Open Session (9:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.)

—Presentation on Third International

Mathematics & Science Study (TIMSS)

—Science & Engineering Indicators Web

Demonstration

—NOVA Demonstration

Thursday, May 7, 1998

Closed Session (12:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m.)

—Executive Committee Election

—Awards and Agreements

—NSF Budget & Long Range Planning

Thursday, May 7, 1998

Open Session (2:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.)

—Minutes, February 1998

—Closed Session Items for August 1998

—Chair’s Report

—Director’s Report

—Executive Committee Annual Report

—NSB Annual Calendar

—NSB Logo

Thursday, May 7, 1998

Open Session (2:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.

continued)

—Final Report of the NSB Chairman

‘‘Teaching & Learning for the 21st Century’’

(Report of the TIMSS Task Force)

—Committee Reports

—Other Business

—Adjourn

Marta Cehelsky,

Executive Officer.

[FR Doc. 98–11469 Filed 4–24–98; 4:49 pm]

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COMMISSION

[Docket No. 72–22–ISFSI; ASLBP No. 97–

732–02–ISFSI]

Private Fuel Storage, L.L.C.

(Independent Spent Fuel Storage

Installation); Notice of Hearing

(License Application for Independent

Spent Fuel Storage Installation)

April 24, 1998.

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board

Before Administrative Judges: G. Paul

Bollwerk, III, Chairman, Dr. Jerry R. Kline,

and Dr. Peter S. Lam.

On July 31, 1997, the Commission

published in the Federal Register a

notice indicating that it (1) was

considering issuing a license pursuant

to 10 CFR Part 72 authorizing applicant

Private Fuel Storage, L.L.C. (PFS), to

possess and store reactor spent fuel in

an independent spent fuel storage

installation (ISFSI) that PFS proposed to

construct and operate on the Skull

Valley Goshute Indian Reservation in

Skull Valley, Utah; and (2) was offering

an opportunity for a hearing on the

proposed licensing action. (62 FR

41,099.) Four timely hearing petitions

and/or intervention requests challenging

the PFS application were filed by the

State of Utah (State); Ohngo Gaudadeh

Devia (OGD), a Native American group;

Confederated Tribes of the Goshute

Reservation (Confederated Tribes), a

Native American tribe, and David Pete,

the Confederated Tribes chairman; and

three ranching, farming, and land

investment companies, Castle Rock

Land and Livestock, L.C. (Castle Rock

Land), Skull Valley Co., LTD. (Skull

Valley), and Ensign Ranches of Utah,

L.C. (Ensign Ranches). Two other

entities, the Skull Valley Band of

Goshute Indians (Skull Valley Band), a

Native American tribe, and the

Scientists for Secure Waste Storage

(SSWS) also submitted intervention

petitions, the latter late-filed, indicating

they wished to participate in any

hearing in support of the PFS

application. Ultimately, these

participants proffered more than 100

contentions either opposing or

supporting the PFS application and the

accompanying safety analysis report,

environmental report, emergency plan,

physical security plan, and preliminary

decommissioning plan.

In a September 10, 1997

memorandum, the Commission referred

the pending hearing requests to the

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board

Panel for the appointment of a presiding

officer to conduct any necessary

proceedings. On September 15, 1997,

the Chief Administrative Judge of the

Panel appointed this Atomic Safety and

Licensing Board to act on the

Commission’s referral. (62 FR 49,263.)

The Board consists of Dr. Jerry R. Kline,

Dr. Peter S. Lam, and G. Paul Bollwerk,

III, who serves as Chairman of the

Board.

On January 26, 1998, accompanied by

representatives of the various

participants, the Board took a bus tour

of the eastern Tooele County, Utah area

that included views of, or stops at,

various sites in and around Skull Valley

the petitioners had identified as

potentially relevant to the issues in this

proceeding. The Board then conducted

a three-day prehearing conference

(January 27–29, 1998) during which it

heard oral presentations regarding the

standing of petitioners Confederated

Tribes and Chairman Pete and the

admissibility of most of the contentions

filed by the petitioners opposing the

PFS application. Thereafter, on March

26, 1998, the Chief Administrative Judge

issued a notice establishing a separate

licensing board to consider and rule on

all matters concerning the PSF physical

security plan. (63 FR 15,900.)

On April 22, 1998, the Licensing

Board issued a memorandum and order

ruling on the petitioners’ standing and

the admissibility of the contentions that

did not involve challenges to the PFS

physical security plan. (See Private Fuel

Storage, L.L.C. (Independent Spent Fuel

Storage Installation), LBP–98–7, 47 NRC

ll (Apr. 22, 1998).) The Board denied

the hearing requests of petitioners David

Pete, SSWS, and Ensign Ranches, the

first two because they lacked standing

and the third because it had failed to set

forth an admissible contention.

Concluding the remaining intervenors

had established their standing to

intervene and had proffered at least one

admissible contention, the Board
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*Copies of this notice of hearing were sent this

date to counsel for the applicant PFS, and to

counsel for petitioners Skull Valley Band, SSWS,

OGD, Confederated Tribes/Pete, Castle Rock Land/

Skull Valley/Ensign Ranches, and the State by

Internet e-mail transmission; and to counsel for the

NRC staff by e-mail through the agency’s wide area

network system.

granted the petitions of the State, Castle

Rock Land/Skull Valley, OGD,

Confederated Tribes, and Skull Valley

Band and admitted them as parties to

the proceeding.

In light of the foregoing, please take

notice that a hearing will be conducted

in this proceeding. This hearing will be

governed by the formal hearing

procedures set forth in 10 CFR Part 2,

Subpart G (10 CFR 2.700–.790).

During the course of the proceeding,

the Board may conduct an oral

argument, as provided in 10 CFR 2.755,

may hold additional prehearing

conferences pursuant to 10 CFR 2.752,

and may conduct evidentiary hearings

in accordance with 10 CFR 2.750–.751.

The public is invited to attend any oral

argument, prehearing conference, or

evidentiary hearing. Notices of those

sessions will be published in the

Federal Register and/or made available

to the public at the NRC Public

Document Rooms.

Additionally, as provided in 10 CFR

2.715(a), any person not a party to the

proceeding may submit a written

limited appearance statement setting

forth his or her position on the issues in

this proceeding. These statements do

not constitute evidence, but may assist

the Board and/or parties in defining the

issues being considered. Persons

wishing to submit a written limited

appearance statement should send it to

the Office of the Secretary, U.S. Nuclear

Regulatory Commission, Washington,

DC. 20555, Attention: Rulemakings and

Adjudications Staff. A copy of the

statement also should be served on the

Chairman of the Atomic Safety and

Licensing Board. At a later date, the

Board will entertain oral limited

appearance statements at a location or

locations in the vicinity of the proposed

PFS facility. Notice of these oral limited

appearance sessions will be published

in the Federal Register and/or made

available to the public at the NRC Public

Document Rooms.

Documents relating to this proceeding

are available for public inspection at the

Commission’s Public Document Room,

the Gelman Building, 2120 L Street,

NW., Washington, DC. 20555; and at the

NRC Local Public Document Room at

the University of Utah, Marriott Library,

Documents Division, 295 S. 1500 East,

Salt Lake City, Utah 84112–0860.

Rockville, Maryland, April 24, 1998.

For the Atomic Safety and Licensing

Board *.

G. Paul Bollwerk, III,

Chairman, Administrative Judge.

[FR Doc. 98–11404 Filed 4–28–98; 8:45 am]

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[Docket Nos. 50–266 and 301]

Wisconsin Electric Power Company;

Notice of Withdrawal of Application for

Amendments to Facility Operating

Licenses

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission (the Commission) has

granted the request of Wisconsin

Electric Power Company (the licensee)

to withdraw its December 13, 1995,

application for proposed amendments to

Facility Operating License Nos. DPR–24

and DPR–27 for the Point Beach Nuclear

Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2, located in

Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.

The proposed amendments would

have revised the Technical

Specifications to include the provisions

for a core operating limits report.

The Commission had previously

issued a Notice of Consideration of

Issuance of Amendments published in

the Federal Register on January 22,

1996 (61 FR 1638). However, by letter

dated April 6, 1998, the licensee

withdrew the proposed changes. For

further details with respect to this

action, see the application for

amendments dated December 13, 1995,

and the licensee’s letter dated April 6,

1998, which withdrew the application

for license amendments. The above

documents are 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 Lester Public Library,

1001 Adams Street, Two Rivers,

Wisconsin 54241.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20th day

of April 1998.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Linda L. Gundrum,

Project Manager, Project Directorate III–1,

Division of Reactor Projects—III/IV, Office of

Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

[FR Doc. 98–11340 Filed 4–28–98; 8:45 am]

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[Docket Nos. 50–282 and 50–306]

Northern States Power Company

(Prairie Island Nuclear Generating

Plant, Units 1 and 2); Environmental

Assessment and Finding of No

Significant Impact

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission (the Commission) is

considering issuance of an exemption

from certain requirements of its

regulations to Facility Operating License

Nos. DPR–42 and DPR–60, issued to

Northern States Power Company (NSP

or the licensee), for operation of Prairie

Island Nuclear Generating Plant, Units 1

and 2, located in Goodhue County,

Minnesota.

Environmental Assessment

Identification of the Proposed Action

The proposed action would permit

the licensee to use American Society of

Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Code

Case N–514 for setting the pressure

setpoint of each unit’s overpressure

protection system (OPPS) so that the

pressure-temperature (P–T) limits

required by 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix

G, could be exceeded by 10 percent

during a low temperature pressure

transient. By application dated March 6,

1998, the licensee requested an

exemption from certain requirements of

10 CFR 50.60, ‘‘Acceptance Criteria for

Fracture Prevention Measures for

Lightwater Nuclear Power Reactors for

Normal Operation,’’ and 10 CFR Part 50,

Appendix G, ‘‘Fracture Toughness

Requirements.’’

The Need for the Proposed Action

Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.60, all

lightwater nuclear power reactors must

meet the fracture toughness

requirements for the reactor coolant

pressure boundary as set forth in 10 CFR

Part 50, Appendix G. Appendix G of 10

CFR Part 50 defines P–T limits during

any condition of normal operation,

including anticipated operational

occurrences and system hydrostatic

tests to which the pressure boundary

may be subjected over its service

lifetime, and specifies that these P–T

limits must be at least as conservative as

the limits obtained by following the

methods of analysis and the margins of

safety of the ASME Code, Section XI,

Appendix G.

By letter dated March 6, 1998, NSP

submitted an exemption request to

enable the use of ASME Code Case N–

514 as an alternative method for

determining the OPPS setpoint. NSP