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appropriate action will be taken on this

Petition. The Petition and the NRC’s

acknowledgment letter are available in

ADAMS for inspection at the

Commission’s Public Document Room

(PDR), located at One White Flint North,

11555 Rockville Pike (first floor),

Rockville, Maryland, and from the

ADAMS Public Library component on

the NRC’s Web site, http://www.nrc.gov

(the Public Electronic Reading Room) at

Accession Nos. ML011150296 and

ML011410223, respectively. If you do

not have access to ADAMS or if there

are problems in accessing the

documents located in ADAMS, contact

the NRC Public Document Room

Reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301–

415–4737 or by e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 29th day

of May 2001.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Jon R. Johnson,

Deputy Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor

Regulation.

[FR Doc. 01–13896 Filed 6–1–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P

NUCLEAR WASTE TECHNICAL

REVIEW BOARD

Joint Panel Meeting: June 20–21,

2001—Las Vegas, Nevada

Discussions of the Department of

Energy’s Supplemental Science and

Performance Analyses (SSPA) report,

which is expected to be released around

the time of the meeting. Presentations

on how the SSPA addresses four

priority areas previously identified by

the Nuclear Waste Technical Review

Board as essential elements of any

recommendation of the possible

repository site at Yucca Mountain,

Nevada.

Pursuant to its authority under

section 5051 of Public Law 100–203,

Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act

of 1987, on Wednesday, June 20, and

Thursday, June 21, 2001, members of

the Nuclear Waste Technical Review

Board’s (Board) Panel on Performance

Assessment and its Panel on the

Repository will hold a joint meeting in

Las Vegas, Nevada, to discuss the U.S.

Department of Energy’s (DOE)

Supplemental Science and Performance

Analyses (SSPA). The SSPA, which is

expected to be released around the time

of the meeting, will cover recent

scientific and engineering studies and

analyses not reported in previous DOE

publications related to the possible

repository site at Yucca Mountain,

Nevada. The meeting will be open to the

public, and opportunities for public

comment will be provided. The Board is

charged by Congress with reviewing the

technical and scientific validity of DOE

activities related to civilian radioactive

waste management.

The joint panel meeting will be held

at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 4255 South

Paradise Road, Las Vegas, Nevada

89109. The telephone number is (702)

369–4400; the fax number is (702) 369–

3770. Meeting times are 1:00 p.m. to

5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 20, and

8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, June

21.

On June 20, the DOE will present the

purpose, content, and overall results of

the SSPA.

On June 21, the DOE will describe in

detail how the SSPA addresses four

priority areas identified by the Board at

its January 2001 meeting in Amargosa

Valley, Nevada, as essential elements of

any potential site recommendation:

• Meaningful quantification of

conservatisms and uncertainties in the

DOE’s performance assessments

• Progress in understanding the

underlying fundamental processes

involved in predicting the rate of waste

package corrosion

• An evaluation and a comparison of

the base-case repository design with a

low-temperature design

• Development of multiple lines of

evidence to support the safety case of

the proposed repository. The lines of

evidence should be derived

independently of performance

assessment and thus not be subject to

the limitations of performance

assessment.

Time will be set aside at the end of

each day for public comments. Those

wanting 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. Interested

parties also will have the opportunity to

submit questions in writing.

A detailed agenda will be available

approximately one week before the

meeting. Copies of the agenda can be

requested by telephone or obtained from

the Board’s Web site at www.nwtrb.gov.

Transcripts of the meeting will be

available on the Board’s Web site, via email, on computer disk, and on a

library-loan basis in paper format from

Davonya Barnes of the Board staff,

beginning on July 30, 2001.

A block of rooms has been reserved at

the Crowne Plaza. Reservations must be

made by May 25 to receive the meeting

rate. When making a reservation, please

state that you are attending the Nuclear

Waste Technical Review Board meeting.

For more information, contact the

NWTRB: Karyn Severson, External

Affairs; 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. The Board’s purpose is to

evaluate the technical and scientific

validity of activities undertaken by the

Secretary of Energy related to managing

the disposal of the nation’s spent

nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive

waste. In the same legislation, Congress

directed the DOE to characterize a site

at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, to

determine its suitability as the location

of a potential repository for the

permanent disposal of spent nuclear

fuel and high-level radioactive waste.

Dated: May 17, 2001.

William D. Barnard,

Executive Director, Nuclear Waste Technical

Review Board.

[FR Doc. 01–13868 Filed 6–1–01; 8:45 am]

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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL

MANAGEMENT

Proposed Collection; Comment

Request for Reclearance of Previously

Approved Collections; SF 85, SF 85P,

SF 85P–S, SF 86, SF 86A

AGENCY: U.S. Office of Personnel

Management.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In accordance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995

(Public Law 104–13, May 2, 1995) and

5 CFR 1320.5(a)(1)(iv), this notice

announces that OPM intends to submit

to the Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) a request for reclearance of five

(5) information collections described

below and solicits comments on them.

Executive Order 12968 dated August 2,

1995, establishes a uniform Federal

personnel security program. In addition,

Executive Order 10450 requires an

investigation appropriate to position

sensitivity level.

The Standard Form 85, Questionnaire

for Non-Sensitive Positions, is

completed by appointees to nonsensitive duties with the Federal

government. Information collected on

this form is used by the Office of

Personnel Management and by other

Federal agencies to initiate the

background investigations required to

determine basic suitability for Federal

employment in accordance with 5 U.S.C

3301, 3302 and 3304 and E.O. 10577 (5

CFR Rule V) as amended by E.O. 12107.