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• Baselines and Integrated Priority 

Lists 

• Plutonium Toxicity Tutorial 

• Issue Manager Training 

• New Board Member Orientation 

• Questions for the New 

Administration 

Public Participation: The meeting is 

open to the public. The EM SSAB, 

Hanford, welcomes the attendance of 

the public at its advisory committee 

meetings and will make every effort to 

accommodate persons with physical 

disabilities or special needs. If you 

require special accommodations due to 

a disability, please contact Paula Call at 

least seven days in advance of the 

meeting at the phone number listed 

above. Written statements may be filed 

with the Board either before or after the 

meeting. Individuals who wish to make 

oral statements pertaining to agenda 

items should contact Paula Call at the 

address or telephone number listed 

above. Requests must be received five 

days prior to the meeting and reasonable 

provision will be made to include the 

presentation in the agenda. The Deputy 

Designated Federal Officer is 

empowered to conduct the meeting in a 

fashion that will facilitate the orderly 

conduct of business. Individuals 

wishing to make public comment will 

be provided a maximum of five minutes 

to present their comments. 

Minutes: Minutes will be available by 

writing or calling Paula Call’s office at 

the address or phone number listed 

above. Minutes will also be available at 

the following Web site: http:// 

www.hanford.gov/ 

?page=413&parent=397. 

Issued at Washington, DC on January 12, 

2009. 

Rachel Samuel, 

Deputy Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–893 Filed 1–15–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Environmental Management SiteSpecific Advisory Board, Portsmouth 

AGENCY: Department of Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

meeting of the Environmental 

Management Site-Specific Advisory 

Board (EM SSAB), Portsmouth. The 

Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. 

L. No. 92–463, 86 Stat. 770) requires 

that public notice of this meeting be 

announced in the Federal Register. 

DATES: Thursday, February 5, 2009, 6 

p.m. 

ADDRESSES: Ohio State University, 

Endeavor Center, 1862 Shyville Road, 

Piketon, Ohio 45661. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Kozlowski, Deputy Designated 

Federal Officer, Department of Energy 

Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office, Post 

Office Box 700, Piketon, Ohio 45661, 

(740) 897–2759, 

David.Kozlowski@lex.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of the Board: The purpose of 

the Board is to make recommendations 

to DOE in the areas of environmental 

restoration, waste management and 

related activities. 

Tentative Agenda: 

• Call to Order, Introductions, Review 

of Agenda 

• Deputy Designated Federal Officer’s 

Comments 

• Federal Coordinator’s Comments 

• Liaisons’ Comments 

• Presentations 

• Administrative Issues—Actions: 

Æ Committee Updates 

Æ Motions 

• Public Comments 

• Final Comments 

• Adjourn 

Breaks taken as appropriate. 

Public Participation: The meeting is 

open to the public. The EM SSAB, 

Portsmouth, welcomes the attendance of 

the public at its advisory committee 

meetings and will make every effort to 

accommodate persons with physical 

disabilities or special needs. If you 

require special accommodations due to 

a disability, please contact David 

Kozlowski at least seven days in 

advance of the meeting at the phone 

number listed above. Written statements 

may be filed with the Board either 

before or after the meeting. Individuals 

who wish to make oral statements 

pertaining to agenda items should 

contact David Kozlowski at the address 

or telephone number listed above. 

Requests must be received five days 

prior to the meeting and reasonable 

provision will be made to include the 

presentation in the agenda. The Deputy 

Designated Federal Officer is 

empowered to conduct the meeting in a 

fashion that will facilitate the orderly 

conduct of business. Individuals 

wishing to make public comment will 

be provided a maximum of five minutes 

to present their comments. 

Minutes: Minutes will be available by 

writing or calling David Kozlowski at 

the address and phone number listed 

above. Minutes will also be available at 

the following Web site: http:// 

www.ports-ssab.org/ 

publicmeetings.html. 

Issued at Washington, DC on January 13, 

2009. 

Rachel Samuel, 

Deputy Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–896 Filed 1–15–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Notice of Availability: Office of Civilian 

Radioactive Waste Management; 

National Transportation Plan, 

Revision 0 

AGENCY: Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy’s 

(DOE’s) Office of Civilian Radioactive 

Waste Management (OCRWM) is making 

available its National Transportation 

Plan, Revision 0 (DOE/RW–0603, 

January 2009) for public review and 

comment. The National Transportation 

Plan outlines OCRWM’s current strategy 

and planning for developing and 

implementing the transportation system 

that will be required to transport spent 

nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level 

radioactive waste (HLW) from where the 

material is generated or stored to the 

proposed repository at Yucca Mountain, 

Nevada. OCRWM does not expect actual 

shipments to begin before 2020, but has 

started the transportation planning 

process well in advance to ensure the 

concerns and input of State, Tribal and 

local officials, as well as other involved 

and interested parties, are taken into 

account. OCRWM’s National 

Transportation Plan will be updated as 

appropriate to accommodate changes to 

the waste management system, reflect 

progress in the development and 

implementation of the transportation 

system, and incorporate stakeholder and 

public comments. OCRWM also 

anticipates that detailed implementation 

plans will be developed in collaboration 

with the stakeholder community. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before April 30, 

2009. 

ADDRESSES: The document is being 

made available on the OCRWM Web site 

at http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov. Persons 

wishing to receive a print copy via 

regular mail should contact: Mr. Frank 

Moussa, U.S. Department of Energy, 

OCRWM Office of Logistics 

Management, 1000 Independence 

Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20585– 

0001. Written comments should be 

submitted electronically via the Web at 

http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov, or by 

regular mail to Mr. Frank Moussa at the 

address identified above. 

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, as 

amended (NWPA) establishes a process 

for the siting, construction and 

operation of one or more national 

repositories for permanent disposal of 

the Nation’s SNF and HLW. Pursuant to 

the NWPA, Yucca Mountain has been 

designated as the site for the Nation’s 

first SNF and HLW repository, and DOE 

has submitted an application to the 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) 

for approval to construct the repository. 

As part of its obligations under the 

NWPA, DOE is also responsible for 

developing and implementing a system 

to transport SNF and HLW to the Yucca 

Mountain repository. 

OCRWM’s National Transportation 

Plan, Revision 0 describes the elements 

of the national transportation system 

that OCRWM is developing, the phases 

of that development effort, and how 

OCRWM will collaborate with 

stakeholders in the development and 

implementation of that system. This 

Plan describes the transportation system 

that will be needed when the repository 

is operating at full capacity. The 

transportation system will be developed 

in stages that are consistent with waste 

acceptance schedules and the start-up 

and subsequent operation of the 

repository. The transportation 

infrastructure will continue to expand 

until full operating capability is 

achieved. The development and 

operations of the OCRWM 

transportation system will build on 

many decades of safe and secure 

transportation of SNF in the United 

States and abroad. 

This Plan will be updated as 

appropriate to reflect progress in the 

development and implementation of the 

transportation system, accommodate 

changes to the waste management 

system, and incorporate stakeholder and 

public comments. OCRWM also 

anticipates that detailed implementation 

plans will be developed in the future in 

collaboration with the stakeholder 

community. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on January 12, 

2009. 

Edward F. Sproat III, 

Director, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste 

Management, U.S. Department of Energy. 

[FR Doc. E9–894 Filed 1–15–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Southwestern Power Administration 

Integrated System Rate Schedules 

AGENCY: Southwestern Power 

Administration, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice of rate order. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to Delegation Order 

Nos. 00–037.00, effective December 6, 

2001, and 00–001.00C, effective January 

31, 2007, the Deputy Secretary has 

approved and placed into effect on an 

interim basis Rate Order No. SWPA–61, 

which provides the following Integrated 

System Rate Schedules: 

Rate Schedule P–06A, Wholesale 

Rates for Hydro Peaking Power. 

Rate Schedule NFTS–06A, Wholesale 

Rates for Non-Federal Transmission 

Service. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

James K. McDonald, Assistant 

Administrator, Office of Corporate 

Operations, Southwestern Power 

Administration, Department of Energy, 

One West Third Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma 

74103, (918) 595–6690, 

jim.mcdonald@swpa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 2008 

Power Repayment Studies indicated 

that rates prescribed by Rate Schedules 

P–06, Wholesale Rates for Hydro 

Peaking Power, and NFTS–06, 

Wholesale Rates for Non-Federal 

Transmission Service, as approved in 

Docket No. EF07–4011–000, for the 

period October 1, 2006, through 

September 30, 2010, are sufficient to 

meet repayment criteria and do not 

require any adjustment. However, it is 

necessary to make technical, nonrevenue impacting changes to the terms 

and conditions of both rates. The Real 

Power Losses provisions in rate 

schedules P–06 and NFTS–06 were 

revised to specify that all real power 

losses associated with deliveries of nonFederal energy transmitted by 

Southwestern on behalf of transmission 

customers must be scheduled and 

delivered (self-supplied) to 

Southwestern by such customers during 

the second month after such real power 

losses were incurred by Southwestern. 

Prior to these new provisions, 

transmission customers were provided 

the option to either purchase losses 

from Southwestern or elect, on an 

annual basis, to self-provide their 

respective loss energy subject to certain 

conditions. These new provisions 

incorporate comments received by 

Southwestern during customer meetings 

held throughout 2008. As a result of 

these informal meetings, it was 

determined that the revised rate 

schedule provisions can provide costsavings to Southwestern’s transmission 

customers, operational benefits to 

Southwestern, and are consistent with 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 

(FERC) Order No. 888. 

Rate Schedule P–06A applies to 

wholesale customers purchasing hydro 

peaking power and peaking energy from 

the Integrated System. This rate 

schedule is designed for the sale of 

Federal power and energy. Rate 

Schedule NFTS–06A applies to 

wholesale customers purchasing NonFederal Point-to-Point and Network 

Transmission Service. In developing the 

revised real power losses rate schedules 

provisions, the title of the P–06 and 

NFTS–06 rate schedules were changed 

to P–06A and NFTS–06A respectively, 

to reflect the fact that revisions have 

been made. In addition to replacing the 

section entitled ‘‘Rates for Real Power 

Losses’’ within the rate schedules, 

minor corrections and modifications 

were incorporated to clarify and update 

any sections of the rate schedules 

containing references to real power 

losses. These changes will have no 

impact on the amortization or status of 

repayment forecasted in the power 

repayment studies and will not require 

rate changes. Revenues based on current 

rates remain sufficient to meet 

repayment criteria. 

The Administrator, Southwestern 

Power Administration (Southwestern) 

has followed Title 10, Part 903, Subpart 

A of the Code of Federal Regulations, 

‘‘Procedures for Public Participation in 

Power and Transmission Rate 

Adjustments and Extensions,’’ in 

connection with the rate schedule 

revisions being proposed. The public 

was advised by notice published in the 

Federal Register (73 FR 63969), October 

28, 2008, of proposed rate schedule 

changes and of the opportunity to 

provide written comments for a period 

of 30 days ending November 28, 2008. 

Accordingly, several informal meetings 

were held with customers and 

interested parties to discuss the 

proposed changes. No comments were 

received during the period of public 

participation related to the proposed 

rate schedule changes. 

Following review of Southwestern’s 

proposal within the Department of 

Energy, I approved Rate Order No. 

SWPA–61 on an interim basis for the 

period January 1, 2009, through 

September 30, 2010, or until confirmed 

and approved on a final basis by the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. 

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