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environmental impact statement for the

Yucca Mountain site. A detailed agenda

will be available approximately two

weeks before the meeting. Call for a

copy, or visit the Board’s web site at

www.nwtrb.gov.

Time has been set aside for the public

to comment on the technical issues

raised during the meeting. Those

wishing to speak are encouraged to sign

the ‘‘Public Comment Register’’ at the

check-in table. A time limit may have to

be set on individual remarks, but

written comments of any length may be

submitted for the record.

The meeting will be held at the

Crowne Plaza Hotel, 4225 South

Paradise Road, Las Vegas, Nevada

89109; (tel) 702–369–4400; (fax) 702–

369–3770. Reservations for

accommodations should be made by

June 1, 1998. Please mention that you

are attending the Nuclear Waste

Technical Review Board meeting to

receive the preferred rate.

Transcripts of this meeting will be

available via e-mail, on computer disk,

or on a library-loan basis in paper

format from Davonya Barnes, Board

staff, beginning July 20, 1998. For

further information, contact the Frank

Randall, External Affairs, at the Board’s

offices, at 2300 Clarendon Boulevard,

Suite 1300, Arlington, Virginia 22201–

3367; (tel) 703–235–4473; (fax) 703–

235–4495; (e-mail) info@nwtrb.gov.

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review

Board was created by Congress in the

Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act

of 1987 to evaluate the technical and

scientific validity of activities

undertaken by the Secretary of Energy to

manage the disposal of the nation’s

commercial spent nuclear fuel and

defense high-level waste. In the same

legislation, Congress directed the

Secretary to characterize a site at Yucca

Mountain, Nevada, for its suitability as

a potential permanent repository for

disposing of that waste.

Dated: May 18, 1998.

William Barnard,

Executive Director, Nuclear Waste Technical

Review Board.

[FR Doc. 98–13693 Filed 5–21–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6820–AM–M

THE PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL ON

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

The Nineteenth Meeting of the

President’s Council on Sustainable

Development (PCSD) in Washington,

DC

SUMMARY: The President’s Council on

Sustainable Development (PCSD), a

Presidential Commission with

representation from industry,

government, environmental, and Native

American organizations, will convene

its nineteenth meeting in Washington,

D.C. on Thursday, June 4, 1998.

Under its current charter from the

Clinton Administration, the Council is

(1) continuing to forge consensus on

policy, (2) demonstrating

implementation, (3) getting the word out

about sustainable development, and (4)

evaluating progress. The Council will

advise the President in four specific

areas: domestic implementation of

policy options to reduce greenhouse gas

emissions, next steps in building the

new environmental management system

of the 21st century, promoting multijurisdictional and community

cooperation in metropolitan and rural

areas, and policies that foster the United

States’ leadership role in sustainable

development internationally.

At the Council’s last meeting in

Atlanta, GA on November 20, 1997, the

members listened to and questioned

invited experts as they presented their

views on the possibilities and

limitations of new technologies to

reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The

Council also heard from people in the

Atlanta region about ways in which the

climate change issues are affecting, and

could affect, their lives.

At the June 4th meeting the Council

will hear presentations, discuss a wide

array of business, and decide on

important next steps.

June 4 Public Meeting

9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

• National Town Meetings for a New

American Dream. Progress on the goals,

vision, audiences, anchor events, and

overall planning for this seminal event

taking place in Detroit and in

communities across America on May 2–

5, 1999.

• Benefits and opportunities for

community-based greenhouse gas

emissions reduction strategies.

• Progress of the Pacific Northwest

Regional Council and Metropolitan and

Rural Strategies Task Force.

12:00–1:00 p.m.—Lunch

1:00–4:00 p.m.—Public Meeting

Continued

• Presentations ‘‘The Importance of

Incentives for Early Action on Climate

Change’’.

• Priority Climate Technologies and

Barriers.

• Environmental Management Task

Force’s ‘‘Proposed Environmental

Management Framework’’.

• Public Comment.

Public comment period: The Council

will seek public comment on the

Council’s activities to implement the

Administration’s directive. Public

comment will be taken during the

substantive sessions as time permits,

and during the allotted time for public

comment identified in the agenda

above. Written comments may be

submitted before or during the public

meeting. All written and oral comments

will become part of the public record.

Specifically, the Council is interested

in hearing from the public comments in

the following areas:

• The Climate Task Force of the

President’s Council agreed last fall on

the important role of technology in

addressing climate change, stating that,

‘‘To protect the climate cost effectively,

technology breakthroughs, technology

incentives, and the elimination of

barriers for the deployment of existing

technologies are needed. Broad-based

cooperative programs to stimulate

markets and develop and disseminate

new and existing technology to

industrialized and developing countries,

must be a high priority.’’ What in your

view is the most important new

technology or class of technologies for

reducing greenhouse gas emissions?

What are the barriers to their adoption?

• The Climate Task Force of the

President’s Council agreed last fall on

the need for incentives for early action

stating that, ‘‘Greenhouse gases have

atmospheric lifetimes ranging from

decades to over a century, and both the

concentration and the rate of increase of

these gases in the atmosphere are

important factors in determining the

risk of climate change. Therefore,

policies to reduce emissions of

greenhouse gases and other measures to

protect the climate should include

incentives for early action.’’ What key

issues must be addressed in any system

designed to create early incentives to

reduce greenhouse gas emissions’?

• The Council’s Charter directs the

Council to ‘‘Get the Word Out About

Sustainable Development.’’ In the

context of climate change, what

strategies should the Council use to

share its consensus views on the climate

change issue?

• How can community-based

strategies be used to address climate

change?

• What are the most interesting

innovations now underway in

environmental management that are

advancing or could advance the

economic, environmental and social

goals of sustainable development?

The Council’s previous

recommendations to the President may

be found in two reports: Sustainable
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America: A New Consensus for

Prosperity, Opportunity, and a Healthy

Environment for the Future (March

1996) and Building on Consensus: A

Progress Report on Sustainable America

(January 1997). Copies of both reports

can be ordered by calling 1–800–363–

3732 or downloaded off the Internet at

‘‘http://www.whitehouse.gov/PCSD’’.

Dates/Times: Thursday, June 4, 1998

from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Place: Ronald Reagan International

Trade Center Building, 1300

Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, DC.

Enter at main entrance on 14th Street

and proceed down stairs or escalator to

the open courtyard and follow signs to

the event.

Status: Open to the public. Public

comments are welcome and may be

submitted orally on Thursday June 4 or

in writing any time prior to or during

the meeting. Please submit written

comments prior to the meeting to:

PCSD, Public Comments, 730 Jackson

Place, NW, Washington, D.C. 20503, or

fax to: 202/408–6839, E-mail:

‘‘infopcsd@aol.com’’.

Contact: Paul Flaim, Administrative

Assistant, at 202/408–5296.

Sign Language Interpreter: Please

notify the contact if you will need a sign

language interpreter.

Martin A. Spitzer,

Executive Director, President’s Council on

Sustainable Development.

[FR Doc. 98–13887 Filed 5–20–98; 2:20 pm]

BILLING CODE 3125–01–P

Railroad Retirement Board

Privacy Act of 1974; System of

Records

AGENCY: Railroad Retirement Board.

ACTION: Notice of proposed changes to

systems of records.

SUMMARY: The purposes of this

document are to give notice of 26 nonsubstantial revisions of existing routine

uses in 15 systems of records; to delete

one routine use in one system of

records; to delete 11 systems of records;

and to give notice of several nonsubstantial changes in other categories

for several systems of records.

DATES: The changes are effective as of

May 22, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Leroy Blommaert, Privacy Act Officer,

Railroad Retirement Board, 844 N. Rush

St., Chicago, IL 60611–2092, (312) 751–

4548.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Part I: Minor revisions to existing

routine uses

The following 26 existing routine uses

in the following 15 systems of records

are being revised to better express what

information is being disclosed and for

what purposes, or to change the name

of the organization to which the

information can be disclosed due to the

renaming of the organization, or to limit

the conditions under which the

disclosure can be made:

RRB–1 ‘‘n’’

RRB–3 ‘‘c’’

RRB–5 ‘‘k’’

RRB–6 ‘‘b,’’ ‘‘c,’’ ‘‘i,’’ and ‘‘l’’

RRB–7 ‘‘e,’’ ‘‘h’’, and ‘‘o’’

RRB–9 ‘‘g’’

RRB–12 ‘‘a’’ ‘‘a’’ and ‘‘b’’

RRB–17 ‘‘d’’

RRB–19 ‘‘b,’’ ‘‘c,’’ and ‘‘e’’

RRB–20 ‘‘p’

RRB–21 ‘‘c,’’ ‘‘d,’’ ‘‘j,’’ and ‘‘r’’

RRB–22 ‘‘w’’

RRB–34 ‘‘b’’

RRB–42 ‘‘c’’

RRB–43 ‘‘a’’

These revisions do not constitute new

or expanded disclosures.

Part II: Deletion of routine uses

We have deleted routine use ‘‘b’’ in

System of Records RRB–17 because it is

not applicable.

Part III: Deletions of systems of records

The following nine systems of records

are being deleted because they no longer

meet the definition of ‘‘systems of

records’’ under the Privacy Act: RRB–

13, RRB–14, RRB–15, RRB–23, RRB–35,

RRB–38, RRB–39, RRB–40, and RRB–47.

System of records RRB–24 and RRB–

25 are being deleted because they are

being consolidated into another,

renamed system. These two systems are

being consolidated into RRB–26.

Part IV: Changes in other categories

System name: We changed the system

name for systems RRB–3, RRB–8, RRB–

16, and RRB–26, to better express the

content of these systems.

System locations: We revised this

category for system RRB–3 and RRB–4

to reflect the current location.

Categories of individuals covered by

the system: We revised this category for

systems RRB–12, RRB–26, RRB–42, and

RRB–43 to better or more

comprehensively described the

individuals covered by the system.

None of these revisions reflect new

groups of individuals covered by the

system.

Categories of records in the system:

We revised this category for systems

RRB–1, RRB–3, RRB–7, RRB–8, RRB–11,

RRB–26, RRB–42, and RRB–43 to

correctly or more comprehensively

describe the categories of records in

these systems. None of the revisions

reflect any new categories of records

added to the systems.

Storage: We revised this category for

systems RRB–4, RRB–8, RRB–18, RRB–

19, RRB–21, RRB–26, RRB–43 to reflect

current practice or better express the

media use.

Safeguards: We revised this category

for systems RRB–3, RRB–4, RRB–10,

RRB–11, RRB–17, RRB–26, RRB–43 to

reflect current practice or better express

safeguard procedures.

Retention and disposal: We revised

this category for systems RRB–1, RRB–

3, RRB–4, RRB–8, RRB–10, RRB–11,

RRB–17, RRB–19, RRB–20, RRB–21,

RRB–22, RRB–26, RRB–42, RRB–43, and

RRB–44 to bring it into conformity with

actual practice and approval records

disposal schedules.

System manager(s) and notification

procedure: Because of organizational

changes, we changed the name of the

system manager and/or the official to

contact in the following systems: RRB–

1, RRB–2, RRB–3, RRB–4, RRB–5, RRB–

6, RRB–7, RRB–8, RRB–12, RRB–16,

RRB–18, RRB–19, RRB–20, RRB–21,

RRB–22, RRB–26, RRB–27, and RRB–29.

Record source categories: We revised

this category in systems of records RRB–

4, RRB–10, RRB–17, RRB–20, and RRB–

26 to better or more comprehensively

describe the record sources for

information in the system.

Part V: Existing systems covered by this

document:

RRB–1 Social Security Benefit Vouchering

System

RRB–2 Medical Examiner’s Index

RRB–3 Medicare Part B

RRB–4 Microfiche of Estimated Annuity,

Total Compensation and Residual

Amount File

RRB–5 Master File of Railroad Employee’s

Creditable Compensation

RRB–6 Unemployment Insurance Record

File

RRB–7 Applications for Unemployment

Benefits and Placement Service Under

the Railroad Unemployment Insurance

Act

RRB–8 Railroad Retirement Tax

Reconciliation System

RRB–9 Protest and Appeals under the

Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act

RRB–10 Legal Opinion Files

RRB–11 Files on Concluded Litigation

RRB–12 Railroad Employees’ Registration

File

RRB–13 Disclosure of Information Files

RRB–14 Freedom of Information Register

RRB–15 Covered Abandoned Railroads

RRB–16 Social Security Administration

Summary Earnings File

RRB–17 Appeal Decisions from Initial

Denials for Benefits under the Provisions

of the Railroad Examining System