56496 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 186 / Tuesday, September 27, 2005 / Notices 

ACTION: Notice; SES Performance 

Review Board. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the 

appointment of members of the National 

Archives and Records Administration 

(NARA) Performance Review Board. 

DATES: This appointment is effective on 

September 27, 2005. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Steven G. Rappold, Human Resources 

Services Division (NHH), National 

Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi 

Road, College Park, MD 20740–6001, 

(301) 837–2084. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

4314(c) of Title 5, U.S.C., requires each 

agency to establish, in accordance with 

regulations prescribed by the Office of 

Personnel Management, one or more 

SES Performance Review Boards. The 

Board shall review the initial appraisal 

of a senior executive’s performance by 

the supervisor and recommend final 

action to the appointing authority 

regarding matters related to senior 

executive performance. 

The members of the Performance 

Review Board for the National Archives 

and Records Administration are: Lewis 

J. Bellardo, Deputy Archivist of the 

United States and Chief of Staff, 

Adrienne C. Thomas, Assistant 

Archivist for Administrative Services, 

and Michael J. Kurtz, Assistant 

Archivist for Records Services—

Washington, DC. These appointments 

supersede all previous appointments. 

Dated: September 22, 2005. 

Allen Weinstein, 

Archivist of the United States. 

[FR Doc. 05–19285 Filed 9–26–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7515–01–P 

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Notice of Permits Issued Under the 

Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978 

AGENCY: National Science Foundation. 

ACTION: Notice of permits issued under 

the Antarctic Conservation of 1978, 

Public Law 95–541. 

SUMMARY: The National Science 

Foundation (NSF) is required to publish 

notice of permits issued under the 

Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. 

This is the required notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nadena G. Kennedy, Permit Office, 

Office of Polar Programs, Rm.755, 

National Science Foundation, 4201 

Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22230. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On July 

27, 2005, the National Science 

Foundation published a notice in the 

Federal Register of permit applications 

received. A permit was issued on 

September 20, 2005 to: Sarah Andrews, 

Permit No. 2006–018. 

Nadene G. Kennedy, 

Permit Officer. 

[FR Doc. 05–19254 Filed 9–26–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7555–01–M 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 72–7] 

Nuclear Management Company; 

Palisades Independent Spent Fuel 

Storage Installation; Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC or Commission) is 

considering issuance of an exemption to 

Nuclear Management Company, LLC 

(NMC or licensee), pursuant to 10 CFR 

72.7, from specific provisions of 10 CFR 

72.212(a)(2), 72.212(b)(2)(i)(A), 

72.212(b)(7), and 72.214. The licensee 

wants to use the Transnuclear, Inc. (TN) 

NUHOMS Storage System, Certificate of 

Compliance No. 1004 (CoC or 

Certificate) Amendment No. 8 (32PT dry 

shielded canister (DSC)) to store spent 

nuclear fuel under a general license in 

an Independent Spent Fuel Storage 

Installation (ISFSI) associated with the 

operation of the Palisades Nuclear Plant 

(PNP), located in Van Buren County, 

Michigan. The requested exemption 

would allow NMC to store fuel in the 

TN NUHOMS–32PT system using 

revised fuel specifications and fuel 

qualification tables prior to completion 

of the proposed TN NUHOMS CoC 

Amendment No. 8 rulemaking. 

Environmental Assessment (EA) 

Identification of Proposed 

The proposed action would exempt 

NMC from the requirements of 10 CFR 

72.212(a)(2), 72.212(b)(2)(i)(A), 

72.212(b)(7), and 72.214 and enable 

NMC to use the TN NUHOMS–32PT 

cask design as amended by proposed TN 

NUHOMS CoC No. 1004, Amendment 

No. 8 at PNP. These regulations 

specifically require storage in casks 

approved under the provisions of 10 

CFR Part 72 and compliance with the 

conditions set forth in the CoC for each 

dry spent fuel storage cask used by an 

ISFSI general licensee. The TN 

NUHOMS CoC provides requirements, 

conditions, and operating limits in 

Attachment A, Technical Specifications. 

The proposed action would exempt 

NMC from the requirements of 10 CFR 

72.212(a)(2) and 72.214 enabling the 

licensee to store fuel in the TN 

NUHOMS–32PT DSC system prior to 

the effective date of the final rule 

change for the Amendment No. 8 

approving the issuance of this amended 

CoC. The proposed action would also 

exempt NMC from the requirements of 

10 CFR 72.212(b)(2)(i)(A) and 

72.212(b)(7) to allow the use of revised 

fuel specification and fuel qualification 

tables in the proposed CoC for 

Amendment No. 8. Specifically, the 

exemption would be from the 

requirement that does not include 

provisions for the loading of low 

enrichment/high burnup fuel, 

assemblies with stainless steel plugging 

clusters, and reconstituted fuel into the 

NUHOMS–32PT storage system. NMC 

requested that the exemptions remain in 

effect for 90 days following the effective 

date of the final rule change to 10 CFR 

72.214 to incorporate TN CoC No. 1004, 

Amendment No. 8. The proposed action 

would allow NMC to use the 32PT 

system as described in the proposed TN 

NUHOMS CoC Amendment No. 8 

requests currently under staff review. 

The proposed action is in accordance 

with the licensee’s request for 

exemption dated August 22, 2005, as 

supplemented on September 20, 2005, 

Need for the Proposed Action 

The proposed action is needed 

because NMC plans to initiate the 

transfer of the PNP spent fuel pool 

contents to the ISFSI in October 2005. 

The NMC transfer campaign includes 

loading fuel assemblies with low 

enrichment/high burnup, assemblies 

with stainless steel plugging clusters, 

and reconstituted fuel from the spent 

fuel pool into the 32PT DSC. Loading of 

these types of fuel assemblies would not 

be permitted based on the current TS for 

the NUHOMS–32PT storage system. 

The proposed Amendment No. 8 to CoC 

No. 1004, as transmitted by TN in a 

letter dated, June 10, 2005, includes 

proposed changes to TS 1.2.1, ‘‘Fuel 

Specifications.’’ The proposed TS 

changes contain provisions for low 

enrichment/high burnup fuel, 

assemblies with stainless steel plugging 

clusters, and reconstituted fuel to be 

loaded into the NUHOMS–32PT DSC. 

The proposed action is necessary 

because the 10 CFR 72.214 rulemaking 

to implement the TN NUHOMS CoC 

Amendment No. 8 is not projected for 

completion until late Fall 2005, which 

will not support the PNP fuel transfer 

and dry cask storage loading schedule.