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Engineer have both regular reporting 

and occasion-specific reporting. 

6. Who will be required or asked to 

respond: States and Federally 

recognized Tribes interested in 

observing or performing inspections. 

7. The estimated number of annual 

responses: 207. 

8. The estimated number of annual 

respondents: 33. 

9. The estimated number of hours 

needed annually to comply with the 

information collection requirement or 

request: 1,291. 

10. Abstract: States and Federally 

recognized Indian Tribes are involved 

and interested in monitoring the safety 

status of nuclear power plants and other 

nuclear production and utilization 

facilities. This involvement is, in part, 

in response to the States’ and Tribes’ 

public health and safety responsibilities 

and, in part, in response to their 

citizens’ desire to become more 

knowledgeable about the safety of 

nuclear power plants and other nuclear 

production and utilization facilities. 

States and Tribes have identified NRC 

inspections as one possible source of 

knowledge for their personnel regarding 

NRC licensee activities, and the NRC, 

through the policy statement, 

‘‘Cooperation With States at Commercial 

Nuclear Power Plants and Other Nuclear 

Production or Utilization Facilities’’ (57 

FR 6462; February 25, 1992), has been 

amenable to accommodating States’ and 

Tribes’ needs in this regard. The NRC 

uses the information collected under 

this information collection requirement 

to allow States and Federally recognized 

Indian Tribes to participate in or 

observe inspections at NRC-licensed 

facilities. The types of information 

collected include written requests 

identifying specific inspections States 

and Tribes wish to observe; 

identification-related information 

required for site access to NRC-licensed 

facilities; training and qualifications of 

State and Tribal personnel participating 

in inspections; information required to 

define inspection roles for States and 

Tribes; and information to coordinate 

NRC and State and Tribal inspections. 

III. Specific Requests for Comments 

The NRC is seeking comments that 

address the following questions: 

1. Is the proposed collection of 

information necessary for the NRC to 

properly perform its functions? Does the 

information have practical utility? 

2. Is the estimate of the burden of the 

information collection accurate? 

3. Is there a way to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected? 

4. How can the burden of the 

information collection on respondents 

be minimized, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology? 

Dated: April 20, 2022. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

David C. Cullison, 

NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2022–08772 Filed 4–22–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY 

CORPORATION 

Submission of Information Collection 

for OMB Review; Comment Request; 

Medical Exception Request 

AGENCY: Pension Benefit Guaranty 

Corporation. 

ACTION: Notice of request for extension 

of OMB approval of information 

collection. 

SUMMARY: The Pension Benefit Guaranty 

Corporation (PBGC) is requesting that 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) extend approval, without 

change, under the Paperwork Reduction 

Act (PRA), of a collection of information 

for its employees to request a medical 

exception to the COVID–19 vaccination 

requirement. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted by 

May 25, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. 

A copy of the request will be posted 

on PBGC’s website at https://

www.pbgc.gov/prac/laws-andregulation/federal-register-notices-openfor-comment. It may also be obtained 

without charge by writing to the 

Disclosure Division of the Office of the 

General Counsel of PBGC, 1200 K Street 

NW, Washington, DC 20005–4026; or, 

calling 202–229–4040 during normal 

business hours. If you are deaf, hard of 

hearing, or have a speech disability, 

please dial 7–1–1 to access 

telecommunications relay services. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Melissa Rifkin (rifkin.melissa@

pbgc.gov), Attorney, Regulatory Affairs 

Division, Office of the General Counsel, 

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, 

1200 K Street NW, Washington, DC 

20005–4026; 202–229–6563. If you are 

deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech 

disability, please dial 7–1–1 to access 

telecommunications relay services. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under 

Executive Order 14043, every Federal 

agency must ‘‘implement, to the extent 

consistent with applicable law, a 

program to require COVID–19 

vaccination for all of its Federal 

employees, with exceptions only as 

required by law.’’ In following this 

directive, the Pension Benefit Guaranty 

Corporation (PBGC) imposed a 

requirement that its employees must 

receive and submit proof of a COVID– 

19 vaccination. As required by 29 U.S.C. 

701 et seq. and 29 CFR part 1630, PBGC 

allows an exception from the 

vaccination requirement for employees 

who demonstrate medical reasons or 

disabilities that would make the 

COVID–19 vaccine unsafe for them. To 

obtain this exception, employees must 

complete the Request for Medical 

Exception to COVID–19 Vaccination 

Requirement form. PBGC uses the 

information on this form to verify 

employees’ assertions that they are 

entitled to an exception to the COVID– 

19 vaccination requirement because of 

their medical or disability statuses. 

The medical exception request 

collection of information has been 

approved by OMB under control 

number 1212–0075 (expires May 31, 

2022). On February 14, 2022, PBGC 

published in the Federal Register (at 87 

FR 8303) a notice informing the public 

of its intent to request an extension of 

this collection of information. PBGC 

received one comment, and the 

commenter expressed support for the 

exemption, noting that some employees 

may have disabling conditions. PBGC is 

requesting that OMB extend approval of 

the collection for 3 years. An agency 

may not conduct or sponsor, and a 

person is not required to respond to, a 

collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

PBGC estimates that an average of 2 

employees each year will submit 

Request for Medical Exception to 

COVID–19 Vaccination Requirement 

forms. The total estimated annual 

burden of the collection of information 

is 0.5 hours and $0. 

A Notice Regarding Injunctions 

As of the date that PBGC submitted 

this notice to the Federal Register, the 

vaccination requirement issued 

pursuant to E.O. 14043 is currently the 

subject of a nationwide injunction. 

While that injunction remains in place, 

PBGC will not process requests for a 

medical exception from the COVID–19 


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24350 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 79 / Monday, April 25, 2022 / Notices 

1Motion of the United States Postal Service for 

Consideration of the Stipulation and Agreement as 

the Basis for Advisory Opinion, April 14, 2022 

(Motion). 

2The Postal Service has not yet filed its motion 

to admit evidence into the record. On April 15, 

2022, the Postal Service filed a notice of revisions 

to certain direct testimonies and stated that the 

revised pages will be incorporated into the final 

version of those testimonies when they are 

presented for inclusion into the evidentiary record. 

See Notice of the United States Postal Service of 

Revisions to Certain Pages of USPS–T–1 and USPS– 

T–3—Errata, April 15, 2022, at 1–2. The Presiding 

Officer will rule on the Postal Service’s motion once 

it has been filed. 

vaccination requirement pursuant to 

E.O. 14043. PBGC will also not request 

the submission of any medical 

information related to a request for an 

exception from the vaccination 

requirement pursuant to E.O. 14043 

while the injunction remains in place. 

But PBGC may nevertheless receive 

information regarding a medical 

exception. That is because, if PBGC 

were to receive a request for an 

exception from the COVID–19 

vaccination requirement pursuant to 

E.O. 14043 during the pendency of the 

injunction, PBGC will accept the 

request, hold it in abeyance, and notify 

the employee who submitted the request 

that implementation and enforcement of 

the COVID–19 vaccination requirement 

pursuant to E.O. 14043 is currently 

enjoined and that an exception therefore 

is not necessary so long as the 

injunction is in place. In other words, 

during the pendency of the injunction, 

any information collection related to 

requests for medical exception from the 

COVID–19 vaccination requirement 

pursuant to E.O. 14043 is not 

undertaken to implement or enforce the 

COVID–19 vaccination requirement. 

Issued in Washington, DC. 

Hilary Duke, 

Assistant General Counsel for Regulatory 

Affairs, Pension Benefit Guaranty 

Corporation. 

[FR Doc. 2022–08671 Filed 4–22–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7709–02–P 

POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION 

[Docket No. N2022–1; Presiding Officer’s 

Ruling No. 1] 

Service Standard Changes 

AGENCY: Postal Regulatory Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Commission is providing 

notice that a hearing and certain 

procedural events have been removed 

from the procedural schedule in this 

proceeding. This notice informs the 

public of the modified procedural 

schedule. 

ADDRESSES: For additional information, 

Presiding Officer’s Ruling No. 1 can be 

accessed electronically through the 

Commission’s website at https://

www.prc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David A. Trissell, General Counsel, at 

202–789–6820. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April 

14, 2022, the Postal Service filed a 

motion for consideration of its 

stipulation and agreement regarding the 

advisory opinion in this proceeding in 

accordance with 39 CFR 3010.320.1 The 

Stipulation and Agreement, negotiated 

between the only two parties in this 

proceeding—the Postal Service and the 

Public Representative, concerns certain 

procedural and evidentiary matters. 

Specifically, the Postal Service and the 

Public Representative agree that the 

direct testimony of Postal Service 

witnesses, supporting Library 

References, and any designated 

response to the Presiding Officer’s 

Information Requests provide 

substantial evidence supporting an 

advisory opinion. Motion, Stipulation 

and Agreement at 2. 

They also agree that neither a hearing 

nor oral argument or examination are 

necessary in determining whether the 

proposed service standard changes are 

in accordance with the policies of Title 

39 of the United States Code and in 

furtherance of the public interest. Id. In 

addition, they agree that they will file 

no further discovery requests or 

testimony, unless requested by the 

Commission. However, both parties 

reserve the right to submit initial or 

reply briefs, if necessary. Id. 

The Postal Service states that it will 

move for the admission into record 

evidence the testimonies and supporting 

documentation. Id. The Postal Service 

also states that it will move for the 

adoption of a revised procedural 

schedule, removing the dates for the 

hearing, modifying the deadline to file 

designated materials, and shortening the 

time to file reply briefs, if necessary: 

• Deadline of Discovery Requests: April 

18, 2022 

• Deadline for Discovery Responses: 

April 25, 2022 

• Notice of Designations: April 26, 2022 

• Filing Designated Materials: April 27, 

2022 

• Initial Brief: May 11, 2022 

• Statements of Position: May 11, 2022 

• Reply Brief (if needed): May 13, 2022 

Id. at 2–3. The Motion is granted. 

Having considered the Stipulation and 

Agreement, the Presiding Officer finds 

that, based on the agreement between 

parties, certain procedural events can be 

removed from the schedule. See 39 CFR 

3020.110(b). Moreover, adopting the 

Stipulation and Agreement will not 

affect the ability of interested parties to 

participate (i.e., file statements of 

position) in this proceeding. 

Accordingly, the Presiding Officer 

adopts the revised schedule as proposed 

by the Postal Service.2 Accompanying 

this Ruling is an updated version of the 

Procedural Schedule (Attachment) for 

Docket No. N2022–1. 

Ruling 

It is ordered: 

1. The Motion of the United States 

Postal Service for Consideration of the 

Stipulation and Agreement as the Basis 

for Advisory Opinion, filed April 14, 

2022, is granted. 

2. The modified procedural schedule 

for this proceeding is set forth below the 

signature of this Ruling. 

3. The Secretary shall arrange for 

publication of this Ruling in the Federal 

Register. 

Erica A. Barker, 

Secretary. 

PROCEDURAL SCHEDULE FOR DOCKET NO. N2022–1 

[Updated April 19, 2022] 

Discovery Deadlines for the Postal Service’s Direct Case: 

Filing of Discovery Requests ................................................................................................................. April 18, 2022. 

Filing of the Postal Service’s Answers to Discovery ............................................................................. April 25, 2022. 

Deadlines in Preparation for Hearing (assuming no rebuttal case): 

Filing of Notice of Designations ............................................................................................................. April 26, 2022. 

Filing of Notices of Designated Materials .............................................................................................. April 27, 2022. 

Briefing Deadlines: 

Filing of Initial Briefs .............................................................................................................................. May 11, 2022. 


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