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authority to act for the petitioners/

requestors with respect to that 

contention.

Those permitted to intervene become 

parties to the proceeding, subject to any 

limitations in the order granting leave to 

intervene, and have the opportunity to 

participate fully in the conduct of the 

hearing. Since the Commission has 

made a final determination that the 

amendment involves no significant 

hazards consideration, if a hearing is 

requested, it will not stay the 

effectiveness of the amendment. Any 

hearing held would take place while the 

amendment is in effect. 

A request for a hearing or a petition 

for leave to intervene must be filed by: 

(1) First class mail addressed to the 

Office of the Secretary of the 

Commission, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555–

0001, Attention: Rulemaking and 

Adjudications Staff; (2) courier, express 

mail, and expedited delivery services: 

Office of the Secretary, Sixteenth Floor, 

One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland, 20852, 

Attention: Rulemaking and 

Adjudications Staff; (3) e-mail 

addressed to the Office of the Secretary, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

HearingDocket@nrc.gov; or (4) facsimile 

transmission addressed to the Office of 

the Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC, 

Attention: Rulemakings and 

Adjudications Staff at (301) 415–1101, 

verification number is (301) 415–1966. 

A copy of the request for hearing and 

petition for leave to intervene should 

also be sent to the Office of the General 

Counsel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555–

0001, and it is requested that copies be 

transmitted either by means of facsimile 

transmission to (301) 415–3725 or by email to OGCMailCenter@nrc.gov. A copy 

of the request for hearing and petition 

for leave to intervene should also be 

sent to the attorney for the licensee. 

Nontimely requests and/or petitions 

and contentions will not be entertained 

absent a determination by the 

Commission or the presiding officer or 

the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 

that the petition, request and/or the 

contentions should be granted based on 

a balancing of the factors specified in 10 

CFR 2.309(a)(1)(I)–(viii). 

STP Nuclear Operating Company, 

Docket No. 50–498, South Texas Project, 

Unit 1, Matagorda County, Texas 

Date of amendment request: January 

6, 2005. 

Description of amendment request:

The amendment revises Technical 

Specification (TS) 3.7.4, ‘‘Essential 

Cooling Water System,’’ and the 

associated TS for systems supported by 

the Essential Cooling Water (ECW), to 

extend the allowed outage time for an 

additional 7 days for ECW Train B as a 

one-time change for the purpose of 

making repairs to the Train B ECW 

pump. 

Date of issuance: January 10, 2005. 

Effective date: Effective as of the date 

of issuance and shall be implemented 

immediately. 

Amendment No.: 169. 

Facility Operating License No. NPF–

76: Amendment revises the technical 

specifications. 

Public comments requested as to 

proposed no significant hazards 

consideration (NSHC): No. 

The Commission’s related evaluation 

of the amendment, finding of emergency 

circumstances, state consultation, and 

final NSHC determination are contained 

in a safety evaluation dated January 10, 

2005. 

Attorney for licensee: A.H. Gutterman, 

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, 1111 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20004. 

NRC Section Chief: Michael K. Webb, 

Acting.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day 

of January 2005.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Ledyard B. Marsh, 

Director, Division of Licensing Project 

Management Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation.

[FR Doc. 05–1574 Filed 1–31–05; 8:45 am] 

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Notice of Availability of Draft NUREG–

1800, Revision 1; ‘‘Standard Review 

Plan for Review of License Renewal 

Applications for Nuclear Power Plants’’

and Draft NUREG–1801, Revision 1; 

‘‘Generic Aging Lessons Learned 

(GALL) Report’’

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC).

ACTION: Issuance of draft NUREG–1800 

‘‘Standard Review Plan for Review of 

License Renewal Applications for 

Nuclear Power Plants’’ and draft 

NUREG–1801, ‘‘Generic Aging Lessons 

Learned (GALL) Report’’ for public 

comment; and announcement of public 

workshop. 

SUMMARY: The NRC staff is issuing drafts 

of the revised NUREG–1800; ‘‘Standard 

Review Plan for License Renewal 

Applications for Nuclear Power Plants’’

(SRP–LR); and the revised NUREG–

1801, ‘‘Generic Aging Lessons Learned 

(GALL) Report’’ for public comment. 

These revised documents describe 

methods acceptable to the NRC staff for 

implementing the license renewal rule, 

Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations 

part 54 (10 CFR part 54), as well as 

techniques used by the NRC staff in 

evaluating applications for license 

renewals. The NRC is also announcing 

a public workshop to facilitate gathering 

public comments on the drafts of these 

revised documents. These draft 

documents supersede the preliminary 

draft documents that were publicly 

announced and placed on the NRC’s 

Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/

operating/licensing/renewal/guidance/

updated-guidance.html on September 

30, 2004. The NRC is especially 

interested in stakeholder comments that 

will improve the safety, effectiveness, 

and efficiency of the license renewal 

process.

DATES: Comments may be submitted on 

revised SRP-LR and the draft GALL 

Report, accompanied by supporting 

data, by March 30, 2005. Comments 

received after this date will be 

considered, if it is practical to do so, but 

the NRC staff is able to ensure 

consideration only for comments 

received on or before this date. A public 

workshop is planned for March 2, 2005, 

at NRC’s headquarters and is announced 

on the NRC’s Web site at http://

www.nrc.gov/public-involve/publicmeetings/meeting-schedule.html.

ADDRESSES: Written comments may be 

submitted to: Chief Rules and Directives 

Branch, Division of Administrative 

Services, Office of Administration, 

Mailstop T–6D59, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC, 20555–0001. Comments should be 

delivered to: 11545 Rockville Pike, 

Rockville, Maryland, Room T–6D59, 

between 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. on 

Federal workdays. Comments may also 

be provided via e-mail at 

NRCREP@NRC.GOV. The NRC 

maintains an Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS), which provides text and 

image files of NRC’s public documents. 

These documents may be accessed 

through the NRC’s Public Electronic 

Reading Room on the Internet at http:

//www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. 

Persons who do not have access to 

ADAMS, or who encounter problems in 

accessing the documents located in 

ADAMS, should contact the NRC’s PDR 

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

301–414–4737, or by e-mail to 

pdr@nrc.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Jerry Dozier, License Renewal Project 

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Manager, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation, Mail Stop O–11F1, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, telephone 

301 415–1014, or e-mail jxd@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Draft Standard Review Plan for License 

Renewal 

The NRC staff proposes to revise the 

July 2001 version of NUREG–1800, 

‘‘Standard Review Plan for Review of 

License Renewal Applications for 

Nuclear Power Plants’’ (SRP–LR). The 

SRP–LR provides guidance to NRC staff 

reviewers in performing safety reviews 

of applications to renew licenses of 

nuclear power plants in accordance 

with the license renewal rule. The draft 

SRP–LR is under ADAMS Accession 

number ML050190137. The SRP–LR is 

being revised to incorporate lessons 

learned from the review of a number of 

previous license renewal applications, 

as well as to make changes 

corresponding to the update of the 

GALL Report. The draft SRP–LR 

contains four major chapters: (1) 

Administrative Information; (2) Scoping 

and Screening Methodology for 

Identifying Structures and Components 

Subject to Aging Management Review, 

and Implementation Results; (3) Aging 

Management Review Results; and (4) 

Time-Limited Aging Analyses. In 

addition, three Branch Technical 

Positions are in an Appendix to the 

SRP–LR. 

Draft Generic Aging Lessons Learned 

Report, Revision 1 

The Generic Aging Lessons Learned 

(GALL) Report, Revision 1, is an update 

to the July 2001 version; the report 

format is largely unchanged. The GALL 

Report Volumes 1 and 2 are available 

under ADAMS accession number 

ML050270004 and ML050270052, 

respectively. The adequacy of the 

generic aging management programs in 

managing certain aging effects for 

particular structures and components 

will continue to be evaluated based on 

the review of the following ten program 

elements: (1) Scope of program, (2) 

preventive actions, (3) parameters 

monitored or inspected, (4) detection of 

aging effects, (5) monitoring and 

trending, (6) acceptance criteria, (7) 

corrective actions, (8) confirmation 

process, (9) administrative controls, and 

(10) operating experience. The GALL 

Report is a technical basis document for 

the SRP–LR and should be treated in the 

same manner as an approved topical 

report that is applicable generically. 

Solicitation of Comments 

The comments should include 

supporting justification in enough detail 

for the NRC staff to evaluate the need for 

changes in the guidance, as well as 

references to the operating experience, 

industry standards, or other relevant 

reference materials that provide a sound 

technical basis for such changes. The 

NRC is also interested in comments that 

will improve the clarity of the 

documents so that the improved 

guidance will provide a stable and 

predictable evaluation standard for 

future renewal applications. Editorial 

and style comments are not necessary 

because we expect that the guidance 

documents will need to be reformatted 

and edited before they are issued in 

final form. 

Questions for Public Comments 

Although the NRC invites public 

comments on all information contained 

in these draft documents, responses to 

the following question are particularly 

solicited. 

The GALL Report evaluates many 

existing programs for their adequacy to 

manage aging for license renewal. The 

license renewal guidance documents 

reference plant-specific aging 

management programs (AMP) when it is 

not clear if an appropriate widely-used 

(generic) AMP is available. Are there 

alternative generic AMPs that can be 

substituted for the plant-specific 

evaluations that are still referenced in 

Chapters II–VIII of the GALL Report? 

The commenter should provide 

justification to support any suggestions. 

Public Workshop 

A public workshop is scheduled 

during the public comment period. 

Scheduled for March 2, 2005, this 

workshop will be held in the 

Commissioners’ Hearing Room, O–

1G16, at OWFN, the NRC headquarters. 

The formal meeting notice is available at 

http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/

public-meetings/meeting-schedule.html.

It is anticipated that the workshop will 

provide the participants an opportunity 

to obtain further information, to ask 

questions, to make comments to add to 

the discussion, or otherwise to facilitate 

the public in formulating and preparing 

written comments for NRC staff 

consideration on these revised license 

renewal guidance documents. To ensure 

that all of the ideas raised are recorded, 

the workshop will be transcribed and 

the NRC staff will prepare a summary 

report to categorize the comments.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 27th day 

of January 2005.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Pao-Tsin Kuo, 

Program Director, License Renewal and 

Environmental Impacts Program, Division of 

Regulatory Improvement Programs, Office of 

Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

[FR Doc. 05–1887 Filed 1–31–05; 8:45 am] 

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CORPORATION 

Submission of Information Collections 

for OMB Review; Comment Request; 

Multiemployer Plan Regulations

AGENCY: Pension Benefit Guaranty 

Corporation.

ACTION: Notice of request for extension 

of OMB approval. 

SUMMARY: The Pension Benefit Guaranty 

Corporation (PBGC) is requesting that 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) extend approval, under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, of collections 

of information in the PBGC’s regulations 

on multiemployer plans under the 

Employee Retirement Income Security 

Act of 1974 (ERISA). This notice 

informs the public of the PBGC’s request 

and solicits public comment on the 

collections of information.

DATES: Comments must be submitted by 

March 3, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be 

mailed to the Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs of the Office of 

Management and Budget, Attention: 

Desk Officer for Pension Benefit 

Guaranty Corporation, Washington, DC 

20503. Copies of the request for 

extension (including the collections of 

information) may be obtained without 

charge by writing to or visiting the 

PBGC’s Communications and Public 

Affairs Department, suite 240, 1200 K 

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20005–

4026, or calling 202–326–4040. (TTY 

and TDD users may call 800–877–8339 

and request connection to (202) 326–

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

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the General Counsel, Pension Benefit 

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NW., Washington, DC 20005–4026, 

(202) 326–4024. (For TTY/TDD users, 

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person is not required to respond to, a