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Local Public Document Room

location: Van Wylen Library, Hope

College, Holland, Michigan 49423.

Public Service Electric & Gas Company,

Docket No. 50–354, Hope Creek

Generating Station, Salem County, New

Jersey

Date of application for amendment:

December 19, 1997, as supplemented

March 6, 1998.

Brief description of amendment: This

amendment changes the wording of

Section 4.2.2, ‘‘Terrestrial Ecology

Monitoring,’’ of the Environmental

Protection Plan to include completion of

the Salt Drift Monitoring Program.

Date of issuance: May 8, 1998.

Effective date: As of the date of

issuance, to be implemented within 60

days.

Amendment No.: 111.

Facility Operating License No. NPF–

57: This amendment revised the

Technical Specifications.

Date of initial notice in Federal

Register: January 28, 1998 (63 FR 4321)

The March 6, 1998, supplement

provided clarifying information that did

not change the initial proposed no

significant hazards consideration

determination or expand the scope of

the original Federal Register notice.

The Commission’s related evaluation

of the amendment is contained in a

Safety Evaluation dated May 8, 1998.

No significant hazards consideration

comments received: No.

Local Public Document Room

location: Pennsville Public Library, 190

S. Broadway, Pennsville, NJ 08070.

Southern Nuclear Power Company, Inc.,

Georgia Power Company, Oglethorpe

Power Corporation, Municipal Electric

Authority of Georgia, City of Dalton,

Georgia, Docket Nos. 50–424 and 50–

425, Vogtle Electric Generating Plant,

Units 1 and 2, Burke County, Georgia

Date of application for amendments:

January 22, 1998, as supplemented by

letter dated March 18, 1998, April 21,

1998, and May 15, 1998.

Brief description of amendments: The

amendments change the Technical

Specifications to allow an extended

allowed outage time for one emergency

diesel generator of 14 days.

Date of issuance: May 20, 1998.

Effective date: As of the date of

issuance to be implemented within 30

days.

Amendment Nos.: Unit 1–100; Unit

2–78.

Facility Operating License Nos. NPF–

68 and NPF–81: Amendments revised

the Technical Specifications and

Operating Licenses.

Date of initial notice in Federal

Register: February 11, 1998 (63 FR

6998) The March 18, 1998, April 21,

1998, and May 15, 1998, supplements

provided clarifying information that did

not change the scope of the January 22,

1998, application and the initial

proposed no significant hazards

consideration determination.

The Commission’s related evaluation

of the amendments is contained in a

Safety Evaluation dated May 20, 1998.

No significant hazards consideration

comments received: No.

Local Public Document Room

location: Burke County Library, 412

Fourth Street, Waynesboro, Georgia.

Tennessee Valley Authority, Docket

Nos. 50–260 and 50–296, Browns Ferry

Nuclear Plant , Units No. 2 and 3,

Limestone County, Alabama

Date of amendment request:

December 11, 1996, as supplemented by

letter dated November 3, 1997 (TS–386).

Description of amendment request:

The amendment modifies the Appendix

A Technical Specifications (TSs)

Limiting Safety System Setting 2.2.A,

which relates to the main steam safety/

relief valve set points and the set point

tolerance. Specifically, the revision

increases the set point tolerance to ±3%

vice the current ± 11 pound per square

inch (approximately 1% of set point

value) tolerance. Bases 1.2 and 3.6D/

4.6D also are revised.

Date of issuance: May 18, 1998.

Effective date: May 18, 1998.

Amendment No.: 251 and 210.

Facility Operating License Nos. DPR–

33, DPR–52, and DPR–68. Amendment

revised the TSs.

Date of initial notice in Federal

Register: January 15, 1997 (62 FR 2194).

The licensee’s letter dated November 3,

1997, provided additional supporting

information that did not change the

initial proposed no significant hazards

consideration determination.

The Commission’s related evaluation

of the amendment is contained in a

Safety Evaluation dated May 18, 1998.

No significant hazards consideration

comments received: No.

Local Public Document Room

location: Athens Public Library, 405

South Street, Athens, Alabama 35611.

Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power

Corporation, Docket No. 50–271,

Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station,

Vernon, Vermont

Date of application for amendment:

March 20, 1998

The licensee proposed to modify the

licensing basis by limiting the time the

large (18′′) purge and vent valves may be

open to 90 hours per year. This is a

change to the Final Safety Analysis

Report (FSAR) and technical

specification bases.

Date of Issuance: May 14, 1998.

Effective date: May 14, 1998.

Amendment No.: 161.

Facility Operating License No. DPR–

28: Amendment authorizes revision to

the FSAR.

Date of initial notice in Federal

Register: March 27, 1998 (63 FR 14976).

The Commission’s related evaluation

of this amendment is contained in a

Safety Evaluation dated May 14, 1998.

No significant hazards consideration

comments received: No.

Local Public Document Room

location: Brooks Memorial Library, 224

Main Street, Brattleboro, VT 05301.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 27th day

of May 1998.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Elinor G. Adensam,

Acting Director, Division of Reactor Projects—

III/IV, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL

MANAGEMENT

Submission for OMB Review;

Comment Request for Revision of

Information Collection, RI 20–64 & RI

20–64A

AGENCY: Office of Personnel

Management.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In accordance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub.

L. 104–13, May 22, 1995), this notice

announces that the Office of Personnel

Management will submit to the Office of

Management and Budget a request for

revision of the following information

collection. RI 20–64, Former Spouse

Survivor Annuity Election, is used by

the Civil Service Retirement System to

provide information about the amount

of annuity payable after a survivor

reduction and obtain a survivor benefits

election form from annuitants who are

eligible to elect to provide survivor

benefits for a former spouse. RI 20–64A,

Information On Electing A Survivor

Annuity For Your Former Spouse, is a

pamphlet that provides important

information to retirees under the Civil

Service Retirement System who want to

provide a survivor annuity for a former

spouse.

Approximately 30 RI 20–64 forms are

completed annually. Each form takes

about 45 minutes to complete. The

annual estimated burden is 23 hours.

For copies of this proposal, contact

Jim Farron on (202) 418–3208, or E-mail

to jmfarron@mail.opm.gov
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DATES: Comments on this proposal

should be received within 30 calendar

days from the date of this publication.

ADDRESSES: Send or deliver comments

to—

Lorraine E. Dettman, Chief, Operations

Support Division, Retirement and

Insurance Service, U.S. Office of

Personnel Management, 1900 E Street,

NW, Room 3349, Washington, DC

20415–0001

and

Joseph Lackey, OPM Desk Officer,

Office of Information and Regulatory

Affairs, Office of Management and

Budget, New Executive Office

Building, NW, Room 3002,

Washington, DC 20503

FOR INFORMATION REGARDING

ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATION—CONTACT:

Mary Beth Smith-Toomey, Budget &

Administrative Service Division, (202)

606–0623.

Office of Personnel Management.

Janice R. Lachance,

Director.

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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL

MANAGEMENT

January 1998 Pay Adjustments

AGENCY: Office of Personnel

Management.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The rates of basic pay and

locality payments for certain categories

of Federal employees were adjusted in

January 1998, as authorized by the

President. This notice documents those

pay adjustments for the public record.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Sharon Herzberg, Office of

Compensation Administration,

Workforce Compensation and

Performance Service, Office of

Personnel Management, (202) 606–2858,

FAX (202) 606–0864, or email to

payleave@opm.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August

29, 1997, the President transmitted to

Congress an alternative plan under the

authority of 5 U.S.C. 5303(b) and 5304a

that established the January 1998 acrossthe-board adjustments for statutory pay

systems and the 1998 locality pay

adjustments for General Schedule (GS)

employees in the 48 contiguous States

and the District of Columbia. On

December 29, 1997, the President signed

Executive Order 13071 (62 FR 68521).

This order implemented increases in

rates of basic pay for various categories

of Federal employees in 1998, as

required by 5 U.S.C. 5303 and other

statutes. The 1998 General Schedule,

reflecting the 2.3 percent general

increase, was published as Schedule 1

of Executive Order 13071. Executive

Order 13071 also included the

percentage amounts of the 1998 locality

payments as established by the

President’s alternative plan of August

29, 1997. (See Section 5 and Schedule

9 of Executive Order 13071.) The

publication of this notice satisfies the

requirement in section 5(b) of Executive

Order 13071 that the Office of Personnel

Management (OPM) publish appropriate

notice of the 1998 locality payments in

the Federal Register.

Locality payments are authorized for

General Schedule employees under 5

U.S.C. 5304 and 5304a. They apply in

the 48 contiguous States and the District

of Columbia. In 1998, there are 32

separate locality pay areas with locality

payments ranging from 5.42 percent to

12.06 percent. These 1998 locality pay

percentages, which replaced the locality

pay percentages that were applicable in

1997, became effective on the first day

of the first applicable pay period

beginning on or after January 1, 1998.

An employee’s locality-adjusted annual

rate of pay is computed by increasing

his or her scheduled annual rate of basic

pay (as defined in 5 U.S.C. 5302(8) and

5 CFR 531.602) by the applicable

locality pay percentage. (See 5 CFR

531.604 and 531.605.)

On December 4, 1997, the Director of

OPM, on behalf of the President’s Pay

Agent, extended the 1998 locality-based

comparability payments to the same

Governmentwide and single-agency

categories of non-GS employees that

were authorized to receive the 1997

locality payments. The

Governmentwide categories include

members of the Senior Executive

Service (SES), the Foreign Service, the

Senior Foreign Service, employees in

senior-level (SL) and scientific or

professional (ST) positions,

administrative law judges, and members

of Boards of Contract Appeals. By law,

the maximum locality rate of pay for

these employees is the rate for level III

of the Executive Schedule.

Executive Order 13071 shows the

1998 Executive Schedule reflecting the

2.3 percent pay adjustment granted

under 5 U.S.C. 5318. The Executive

order also reflects a decision by the

President to increase the rates of basic

pay for members of the Senior Executive

Service (SES) by 2.3 percent (rounded to

the nearest $100) at levels ES–1 through

ES–6. Because of previous pay cap

restrictions, the new ES–5 and ES–6

rates of basic pay are the same.

The rates of basic pay for

administrative law judges (ALJs) and

Board of Contract Appeals (BCA)

members are calculated as a percentage

of the rate for level IV of the Executive

Schedule. (See 5 U.S.C. 5372 and

5372a.) Therefore, ALJ and BCA rates

have been increased by 2.3 percent.

Also, the maximum rate of basic pay for

senior-level (SL) and scientific or

professional (ST) positions has been

increased by 2.3 percent (to $118,400)

because it is tied to the rate for level IV

of the Executive Schedule. The

minimum rate for SL/ST positions is

equal to 120 percent of the minimum

rate of basic pay for GS–15, and it has

been increased by 2.3 percent (to

$87,030) because of the 2.3 percent

across-the-board GS pay adjustment.

(See 5 U.S.C. 5376.)

OPM has published ‘‘Salary Tables for

1998’’ (OPM Doc. 124–48–6, March

1998), which provides complete salary

tables incorporating the 1998 pay

adjustments, information on general pay

administration matters, locality pay area

definitions, Internal Revenue Service

withholding tables, and other related

information. The rates of pay shown in

‘‘Salary Tables for 1998’’ are the official

rates of pay for affected employees and

are hereby incorporated as part of this

notice. Copies of ‘‘Salary Tables for

1998’’ may be purchased from the

Government Printing Office (GPO) by

calling (202) 512–1800 or FAX (202)

512–2250. Copies of ‘‘Salary Tables for

1998’’ may also be ordered directly from

GPO on the Internet at http://

www.gpo.gov/suldocs/sale/prf/

prf.html.

In addition, pay tables may be

downloaded from OPM’s Internet

website at http://www.opm.gov/ oca/

payrates/ index.htm. Pay schedules also

may be downloaded directly from

OPM’s electronic bulletin board, OPM

ONLINE, which is reached by dialing

(202) 606–4800 via modem.

Office of Personnel Management.

Janice R. Lachance,

Director.

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