55632 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 183 / Thursday, September 22, 2005 / Notices 

• Discussion on Workshop II: 

December 16, 2005 

Joint Session: Committee on Strategy 

and Budget and Committee on 

Programs and Plans (11 a.m.–11:45 

a.m.), Room 1235 

• Centers and the NSF Portfolio 

• Funding Rates, Award Size and 

Duration 

• FY 2004 Funding for Highly 

Successful PIs 

Committee on Strategy and Budget 

(11:45 a.m.–12:05 p.m.), Room 1235 

• Approval of August 2005 Minutes 

• Discussion of CSB Contribution to 

Vision for NSF Document 

• Status of FY 2006 Budget Request to 

Congress 

Committee on Programs and Plans 

(12:55 p.m.–3 p.m.), Room 1235 

• Approval of Minutes 

• Charge to the International Science 

Effort 

• Status Reports 

Æ Long-Lived Digital Data 

Collections: Enabling Research and 

Education in the 21st Century 

Æ Transformative Research Task 

Force 

Æ Subcommittee on Polar Issues 

• Process for Sending Information 

and Actions to CPP & NSB—

Revised Guidelines 

• Major Research Facilities: 

Æ Setting Priorities for Large Research 

Facilities Projects Supported by the 

National Science Foundation: Final 

document 

Æ Facilities Plan 

Æ Timeline 

• Cyberinfrastructure Vision: 

Continuing Discussion 

• Hurricane Research and the Federal 

Government 

• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 

Committee on Education and Human 

Resources (3 p.m.–5 p.m.), Room 

1235 

• Approval of August 2005 Minutes 

• CEOSE Summary: Decennial and 

2004 Biennial Reports to Congress 

• NSF Integration of Research and 

Education 

• NSB Commission on Education 

• NSB/EHR Committee’s 

Contribution to Board’s Vision for 

NSF 

• NSB Items 

• Subcommittee on Science and 

Engineering Indicators 

• Update on Workshop on 

‘‘Engineering Workforce Issues and 

Engineering Education: What are 

the Linkages?’’

Closed 

Committee on Programs and Plans 

Subcommittee on Polar Issues (9 

a.m.–9:30 a.m.), Room 1235 

• NSB Action Item 

Committee on Strategy and Budget 

(12:05 p.m.–12:15 p.m.), Room 1235 

• Status of FY 2007 Budget 

Submission to OMB 

Committee on Programs and Plans 

(12:45 p.m.–12:55 p.m.), Room 1235 

• NSB Action Item 

Thursday, September 29, 2005 

Open 

Committee on Audit and Oversight (8:30 

a.m.–10 a.m.), Room 1235 

• Approval of August 2005 Minutes 

• Discussion and Committee 

Approval of NSF Merit Review 

System Review 

• Discussion of NSF Vision 

Document: NSB Roles and 

Responsibilities 

• Committee Approval of NSB Policy 

Statement on Respective Roles of 

the OIG and NSF Management in 

the Pursuit and Settlement of 

Administrative Investigatory 

Matters 

• CFO Update 

• OIG FY 2006 Audit Plan 

Executive Committee (10:30 a.m.–11 

a.m.), Room 1235 

• Approval of August 2005 Minutes 

• Updates or New Business from 

Committee Members 

• Update on 2006 NSB Retreat and 

Off-Site Visit 

• Presentation on NSF Sexual 

Harassment Policies 

Closed Session 

Committee on Audit and Oversight (10 

a.m.–10:30 a.m.), Room 1235 

• Pending Investigations 

Executive Committee (11 a.m.–11:15 

a.m.), Room 1235 

• Board Member Proposal 

• Director’s Items 

Æ Specific Personnel Matters 

Æ Future Budgets 

Plenary Session of the Board (1 p.m.–

3:30 p.m.) 

Executive Closed Session (1 p.m.–1:15 

p.m.), Room 1235 

• Approval of August 2005 Executive 

Closed Minutes 

• Board Member Proposal 

Closed Session (1:15 p.m.–1:30 p.m.), 

Room 1235 

• Approval of August 2005 Closed 

Session Minutes 

• Closed Committee Reports 

Æ Awards and Resolutions 

Open Session (1:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m.), 

Room 1235 

• Approval of August 2005 Minutes 

• Resolution to Close November–

December 2005 

• Chairman’s Report 

• Director’s Report 

Æ NSF Congressional Update 

• Committee Reports 

Michael P. Crosby, 

Executive Officer and NSB Office Director. 

[FR Doc. 05–19083 Filed 9–20–05; 3:34 pm] 

BILLING CODE 7555–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 50–285] 

Omaha Public Power District; Notice of 

Withdrawal of Application for 

Amendment to Facility Operating 

License 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (the Commission) has 

granted the request of Omaha Public 

Power District (the licensee) to 

withdraw its July 25, 2003, application 

for proposed amendment to Facility 

Operating License No. DPR–40 for the 

Fort Calhoun Station, Unit No. 1 (FCS), 

located in Washington County, 

Nebraska. 

The proposed amendment would 

have revised the facility technical 

specifications pertaining to FCS 

Technical Specification Section 3.0.2, 

Table 3–2, Table 3–5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, and 

the Definitions Section. This proposed 

change would have provided a riskinformed alternative to the existing 

surveillance interval for the integrated 

Engineered Safety Features (ESF) and 

Loss-of-Offsite Power testing required to 

be performed on each ESF equipment 

train during each outage. The proposed 

change would have modified the 

surveillance interval requirement for 

these refueling interval surveillance 

requirements to go to a staggered test 

basis scheme. Using a staggered test 

basis, only one train would be tested 

each refueling outage. Omaha Public 

Power District stated that this 

amendment was modeled after the 

Improved Standard Technical 

Specifications and is based on a study 

conducted by the Westinghouse Electric 

Company, LLC on behalf of the 

Combustion Engineering Owners Group 

in topical report WCAP–15830–P, 

‘‘Staggered Integrated ESF Testing,’’ and 

Technical Specification Task Force 450. 

The Commission had previously 

issued a Notice of Consideration of 

Issuance of Amendment published in 

the Federal Register on August 19, 2003 

(68 FR 49818). However, by letter dated 

September 9, 2005, the licensee 

withdrew the proposed change. 

For further details with respect to this 

action, see the application for 

amendment dated July 25, 2003, and the 

Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 183 / Thursday, September 22, 2005 / Notices 55633 

licensee’s letter dated September 9, 

2005, which withdrew the application 

for the license amendment. Documents 

may be examined, and/or copied for a 

fee, at the NRC’s Public Document 

Room (PDR), located at One White Flint 

North, Public File Area 01 F21, 11555 

Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, 

Maryland. Publicly available records 

will be accessible electronically from 

the Agencywide Documents Access and 

Management Systems (ADAMS) Public 

Electronic Reading Room on the internet 

at the NRC Web site, 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 PDR 

Reference staff by telephone at 1–800–

397–4209, or 301–415–4737 or by e-mail 

to pdr@nrc.gov. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 14th day 

of September 2005. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Alan B. Wang, 

Project Manager, Section 2, Project 

Directorate IV, Division of Licensing Project 

Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation. 

[FR Doc. 05–18916 Filed 9–21–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 50–244] 

R.E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant, LLC, 

R.E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant; Notice 

of Consideration of Issuance of 

Amendment to Facility Operating 

License and Opportunity for a Hearing 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (the Commission) is 

considering issuance of an amendment 

to Facility Operating License No. DPR–

18, issued to R.E. Ginna Nuclear Power 

Plant, LLC (the licensee), for operation 

of the R.E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant 

(Ginna) located in Wayne County, New 

York. 

The proposed amendment would 

revise the facility operating license and 

technical specifications (TSs) to 

authorize an increase in the maximum 

steady-state thermal power level at 

Ginna from 1520 megawatts thermal 

(MWt) to 1775 MWt, which is a 16.8 

percent increase. This increase in power 

level is generally referred to as an 

extended power uprate. Specifically, the 

proposed amendment would change the 

TSs to revise: (1) The Definition of 

Rated Thermal Power (RTP), (2) the RTP 

for the Required Action for Condition O 

in Limiting Condition for Operation 

(LCO) 3.3.1, ‘‘Reactor Trip System,’’ (3) 

the Power Range Neutron Flux—High 

Limiting Safety System Setting, (4) the 

Reactor Trip System Interlocks—Power 

Range Neutron Flux, P–8 Limiting 

Safety System Setting, (5) the RTP 

reference in Table 3.3.1–1, Footnote (h), 

(6) the Steam Line Isolation High Steam 

Flow Limiting Safety System Setting, (7) 

the Steam Line Isolation High—High 

Steam Flow Limiting Safety System 

Setting, (8) decrease the upper lift 

setting in LCO 3.4.10, ‘‘Pressurizer 

Safety Valves,’’ (9) the required volume 

in surveillance requirement (SR) 3.7.6.1 

for TS 3.7.6, ‘‘Condensate Storage Tanks 

(CSTs).’’ In addition, the proposed 

amendment would change the TSs to 

provide margin improvement, but are 

not part of the extended power uprate 

(EPU), to revise: (1) The Safety Injection 

Pressurizer Pressure—Low Limiting 

Safety System Setting, (2) the 

Containment Spray Containment 

Pressure—High High Limiting Safety 

System Settings for narrow range and 

wide range, and (3) the Steam Line 

Isolation Coincident with Tavg-Low 

Limiting Safety System Setting. The 

proposed amendment also includes a 

change to the licensing basis for control 

room dose for the loss-of-coolant 

accident and the rod ejection accident 

dose consequences because of the EPU 

conditions. 

Before issuance of the proposed 

license amendment, the Commission 

will have made findings required by the 

Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended 

(the Act), and the Commission’s 

regulations. 

Within 60 days after the date of 

publication of this notice, the licensee 

may file a request for a hearing with 

respect to issuance of the amendment to 

the subject facility operating license and 

any person whose interest may be 

affected by this proceeding and who 

wishes to participate as a party in the 

proceeding must file a written request 

for a hearing and a petition for leave to 

intervene. Requests for a hearing and a 

petition for leave to intervene shall be 

filed in accordance with the 

Commission’s ‘‘Rules of Practice for 

Domestic Licensing Proceedings’’ in 10 

CFR Part 2. Interested persons should 

consult a current copy of 10 CFR 2.309, 

which is available at the Commission’s 

public document room (PDR), located at 

One White Flint North, Public File Area 

01F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), 

Rockville, Maryland. Publicly available 

records will be accessible from the 

Agencywide Documents Access and 

Management System’s (ADAMS) Public 

Electronic Reading Room on the Internet 

at the NRC Web site, http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/cfr/. If a request for a hearing 

or petition for leave to intervene is filed 

by the above date, the Commission or a 

presiding officer designated by the 

Commission or by the Chief 

Administrative Judge of the Atomic 

Safety and Licensing Board Panel, will 

rule on the request and/or petition; and 

the Secretary or the Chief 

Administrative Judge of the Atomic 

Safety and Licensing Board will issue a 

notice of a hearing or an appropriate 

order. 

As required by 10 CFR 2.309, a 

petition for leave to intervene shall set 

forth with particularity the interest of 

the petitioner/requestor in the 

proceeding, and how that interest may 

be affected by the results of the 

proceeding. The petition should 

specifically explain the reasons why 

intervention should be permitted with 

particular reference to the following 

general requirements: (1) The name, 

address and telephone number of the 

requestor or petitioner; (2) the nature of 

the requestor’s/petitioner’s right under 

the Act to be made a party to the 

proceeding; (3) the nature and extent of 

the requestor’s/petitioner’s property, 

financial, or other interest in the 

proceeding; and (4) the possible effect of 

any decision or order which may be 

entered in the proceeding on the 

requestor’s/petitioner’s interest. The 

petition must also identify the specific 

contentions which the petitioner/ 

requestor seeks to have litigated at the 

proceeding. 

Each contention must consist of a 

specific statement of the issue of law or 

fact to be raised or controverted. In 

addition, the petitioner/requestor shall 

provide a brief explanation of the basis 

for the contention and a concise 

statement of the alleged facts or expert 

opinion which support the contention 

and on which the petitioner intends to 

rely in proving the contention at the 

hearing. The petitioner must also 

provide references to those specific 

sources and documents of which the 

petitioner is aware and on which the 

petitioner intends to rely to establish 

those facts or expert opinion. The 

petition must include sufficient 

information to show that a genuine 

dispute exists with the applicant on a 

material issue of law or fact. 

Contentions shall be limited to matters 

within the scope of the amendment 

under consideration. The contention 

must be one which, if proven, would 

entitle the petitioner/requestor to relief. 

A petitioner/requestor who fails to 

satisfy these requirements with respect 

to at least one contention will not be 

permitted to participate as a party.