56746 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 187 / Wednesday, September 28, 2005 / Notices 

elements and features considered sitespecific. The acceptability of the 

tendered application for docketing and 

other matters relating to the requested 

rulemaking pursuant to 10 CFR 52.51 

for design certification, including 

provisions for participation of the 

public and other parties, will be the 

subject of subsequent Federal Register 

notices. 

A copy of the application will be 

available on CD–ROM for public 

inspection at the Commission’s Public 

Document Room (PDR), located at One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike 

(first floor), Rockville, Maryland. 

Publicly available records will be 

accessible from the Agencywide 

Documents Access and Management 

System (ADAMS) Public Electronic 

Reading Room on the Internet at the 

NRC Web site, http://www.nrc.gov/ 

reading-rm/adams.html. The accession 

number for the application is 

ML052450245. Future publicly available 

documents related to the application 

will also be posted in ADAMS. Persons 

who do not have access to ADAMS or 

who encounter problems in accessing 

the documents located in ADAMS, 

should contact the NRC Public 

Document Room Reference staff by 

telephone at 1–800–397–4209, 301–

415–4737 or by e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 19th day 

of September 2005. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

William D. Beckner, 

Program Director, New, Research and Test 

Reactors Program, Division of Regulatory 

Improvement Programs, Office of Nuclear 

Reactor Regulation. 

[FR Doc. E5–5285 Filed 9–27–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

OVERSEAS PRIVATE INVESTMENT 

CORPORATION 

October 20, 2005 Public Hearing 

Time and Date: 2 p.m., Thursday, 

October 20, 2005. 

Place: Offices of the Corporation, 

Twelfth Floor Board Room, 1100 New 

York Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. 

Status: Hearing Open to the Public at 

2 p.m. 

Purpose: Public Hearing in 

conjunction with each meeting of 

OPIC’s Board of Directors, to afford an 

opportunity for any person to present 

views regarding the activities of the 

Corporation. 

Procedures: 

Individuals wishing to address the 

hearing orally must provide advance 

notice to OPIC’s Corporate Secretary no 

later than 5 p.m., Wednesday, October 

12, 2005. The notice must include the 

individual’s name, title, organization, 

address, and telephone number, and a 

concise summary of the subject matter 

to be presented. 

Oral presentations may not exceed ten 

(10) minutes. The time for individual 

presentations may be reduced 

proportionately, if necessary, to afford 

all participants who have submitted a 

timely request to participate an 

opportunity to be heard. 

Participants wishing to submit a 

written statement for the record must 

submit a copy of such statement to 

OPIC’s Corporate Secretary no later than 

5 p.m., Wednesday, October 12, 2005. 

Such statements must be typewritten, 

double-spaced, and may not exceed 

twenty-five (25) pages. 

Upon receipt of the required notice, 

OPIC will prepare an agenda for the 

hearing identifying speakers, setting 

forth the subject on which each 

participant will speak, and the time 

allotted for each presentation. The 

agenda will be available at the hearing. 

A written summary of the hearing will 

be compiled, and such summary will be 

made available, upon written request to 

OPIC’s Corporate Secretary, at the cost 

of reproduction. 

Contact Person for Information: 

Information on the hearing may be 

obtained from Connie M. Downs at (202) 

336–8438, via facsimile at (202) 218–

0136, or via e-mail at cdown@opic.gov. 

Dated: September 26, 2005. 

Connie M. Downs, 

OPIC Corporate Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 05–19480 Filed 9–26–05; 12:19 pm] 

BILLING CODE 3210–01–M 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

Upon Written Request, Copies Available 

From: Securities and Exchange 

Commission, Office of Filings and 

Information Services, Washington, DC 

20549. 

Extension: 

Rule 17Ab2–1; SEC File No. 270–203; OMB 

Control No. 3235–0195. 

Form CA–1; SEC File No. 270–203; 

OMB Control No. 3235–0195. 

Notice is hereby given that pursuant 

to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Securities 

and Exchange Commission 

(‘‘Commission’’) has submitted to the 

Office of Management and Budget a 

request for approval of extension of the 

following previously approved 

collection of information as discussed 

below. 

Rule 17Ab2–1 and Form CA–1: 

Registration of Clearing Agencies 

Rule 17Ab2–1 and Form CA–1 require 

clearing agencies to register with the 

Commission and to meet certain 

requirements with regard to, among 

other things, a clearing agency’s 

organization, capacities, and rules. The 

information is collected from the 

clearing agency upon the initial 

application for registration on Form 

CA–1. Thereafter, information is 

collected by amendment to the initial 

Form CA–1 when material changes in 

circumstances necessitate modification 

of the information previously provided 

to the Commission. 

The Commission uses the information 

disclosed on Form CA–1 to (i) 

determine whether an applicant meets 

the standards for registration set forth in 

Section 17A of the Securities Exchange 

Act of 1934 (‘‘Exchange Act’’), (ii) 

enforce compliance with the Exchange 

Act’s registration requirement, and (iii) 

provide information about specific 

registered clearing agencies for 

compliance and investigatory purposes. 

Without Rule 17Ab2–1, the Commission 

could not perform these duties as 

statutorily required. 

There are currently approximately ten 

registered clearing agencies and five 

clearing agencies that have been granted 

an exemption from registration. The 

Commission staff estimates that each 

initial Form CA–1 requires 

approximately 130 hours to complete 

and submit for approval. Hours required 

for amendments to Form CA–1 that 

must be submitted to the Commission in 

connection with material changes to the 

initial CA–1 can vary, depending upon 

the nature and extent of the amendment. 

Since the Commission only receives an 

average of one submission per year, the 

aggregate annual burden associated with 

compliance with Rule 17Ab2–1 and 

Form CA–1 is 130 hours. Based upon 

the staff’s experience, the average cost to 

clearing agencies of preparing and filing 

the initial Form CA–1 is estimated to be 

$18,000. There is no recordkeeping 

requirement for Rule 17Ab2–1 or Form 

CA–1. The rule and form do not involve 

the collection of confidential 

information. Please note that 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 control 

number. 

General comments regarding the 

estimated burden hours should be 

directed to: (i) Desk Officer for the