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affected by the proposed action. The 

California Office of Historic 

Preservation concurred in this 

determination by letter dated October 

25, 2005. 

III. Finding of No Significant Impact 

On the basis of the EA, the NRC has 

concluded that there are no significant 

environmental impacts from the 

proposed action of constructing and 

operating the Humboldt Bay ISFSI and 

has determined not to prepare an 

environmental impact statement. 

IV. Further Information 

Documents related to this action, 

including the application for 

amendment and supporting 

documentation, are available 

electronically at the NRC’s Electronic 

Reading Room at http://www.NRC.gov/ 

reading-rm/adams.html. From this site, 

you can access the NRC’s Agencywide 

Document Access and Management 

System (ADAMS), which provides text 

and image files of NRC’s public 

documents. The ADAMS accession 

numbers for the documents related to 

this notice are: 

Document date Description ADAMS 

accession No. 

10/30/2005 ................................................ NRC staff’s EA for the proposed ISFSI .................................................................... ML052430106 

12/15/2003 ................................................ PG&E’s transmittal letter ........................................................................................... ML033640441 

12/15/2003 ................................................ PG&E’s Environmental Report .................................................................................. ML033640453 

ML033640677 

7/15/2005 .................................................. NRC staff letter transmitting the pre-decisional draft EA to the CEC ....................... ML051780043 

7/29/2005 .................................................. NRC staff’s transmittal of determination of no effect to USFWS/AFWO .................. ML052030228 

7/29/2005 .................................................. NRC staff’s transmittal of determination of no effect to NOAA Fisheries ................. ML051380126 

10/25/2005 ................................................ SHPO concurrence on NRC staff determination of no adverse affect ..................... ML053040051 

If you do not have access to ADAMS 

or if there are problems in accessing the 

documents located in ADAMS, contact 

the NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR) 

Reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301–

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

These documents may also be viewed 

electronically on the public computers 

located at the NRC’s PDR, O 1 F21, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. The PDR 

reproduction contractor will copy 

documents for a fee. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 4th day 

of November, 2005. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Scott C. Flanders, 

Deputy Director, Environmental & 

Performance Assessment Directorate, 

Division of Waste Management and 

Environmental Protection, Office of Nuclear 

Material Safety and Safeguards. 

[FR Doc. E5–6315 Filed 11–15–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act; Meeting 

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETINGS: Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission. 

DATE: Weeks of November 14, 21, 28, 

December 5, 12, 19, 2005. 

PLACE: Commissioners’ Conference 

Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland. 

STATUS: Public and Closed. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

Week of November 14, 2005 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the Week of November 14, 2005. 

Week of November 21, 2005—Tentative 

Monday, November 21, 2005 

9:25 a.m. Affirmation Session (Public 

Meeting) (Tentative) 

a. U.S. Department of Energy (High 

Level Waste Repository: PreApplication Matters); NRC staff 

request for stay of LBP—05–27 

(Tentative). 

b. Louisiana Energy Services, L.P. 

(National Enrichment Facility) 

Remaining Claims in Petition for 

Review of LBP–05–13 

(Environmental Contentions) 

(Tentative). 

9:30 a.m. Briefing on Status of New 

Reactor Issues, Part 1 (Public 

Meeting); (Contact: Laura Dudes, 

301–415–0146) 

This meeting will be webcast live at 

the Web address—http://www.nrc.gov 

1:30 p.m. Briefing on Status of New 

Reactor Issues, Part 2 (Public 

Meeting); (Contact: Laura Dudes, 

301–415–0146) 

This meeting will be webcast live at 

the Web address—http://www.nrc.gov. 

Week of November 28, 2005—Tentative 

Tuesday, November 29, 2005 

9:30 a.m. Discussion of Management 

Issues (Closed-Ex. 2). 

Wednesday, November 30, 2005 

9:30 a.m. Briefing on EEO Program 

(Public Meeting); (Contact: 

Corenthis Kelley, 301–415–7380). 

This meeting will be webcast live at 

the Web address—http://www.nrc.gov. 

Week of December 5, 2005—Tentative 

Thursday, December 8, 2005 

1 p.m. Meeting with the Advisory 

Committee on Reactor Safeguards 

(ACRS); (Contact: John Larkins, 

301–415–7360). 

This meeting will be webcast live at 

the Web address—http://www.nrc.gov. 

Week of December 12, 2005—Tentative 

Monday, December 12, 2005 

9:30 a.m. Discussion of Security Issues 

(Closed-Ex. 1). 

Wednesday, December 14, 2005 

1:30 p.m. Discussion of Security Issues 

(Closed—Ex. 1). 

Thursday, December 15, 2005 

1:30 p.m. Briefing on Threat 

Environment Assessment (Closed—

Ex. 1). 

Week of December 19, 2005—Tentative 

There are not meetings scheduled for 

the Week of December 19, 2005. 

*The schedule for Commission 

meetings is subject to change on short 

notice. To verify the status of meetings 

call (recording)—(301) 415–1292. 

Contact person for more information: 

Michelle Schroll, (301) 415–1662. 

* * * * * 

The NRC Commission Meeting 

Schedule can be found on the Internet 

at: http://www.nrc.gov/what-we-do/ 

policy-making/schedule.html. 

* * * * * 

The NRC provides reasonable 

accommodation to individuals with 

disabilities where appropriate. If you 

need a reasonable accommodation to 

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1The radioactive materials are: (a) Byproduct 

materials as defined in section 11e.(1) of the Act; 

(b) byproduct materials as defined in section 11e.(2) 

of the Act; (c) source materials as defined in section 

11z. of the Act; and (d) special nuclear materials as 

defined in section 11aa. of the Act, restricted to 

quantities not sufficient to form a critical mass. 

participate in these public meetings, or 

need this meeting notice or the 

transcript or other information from the 

public meetings in another format (e.g., 

braille, large print), please notify the 

NRC’s Disability Program Coordinator, 

August Spector, at (301) 415–7080, 

TDD: 301–415–2100, or by e-mail at 

aks@nrc.gov. Determinations on 

requests for reasonable accommodation 

will be made on a case-by-case basis. 

* * * * * 

This notice is distributed by mail to 

several hundred subscribers; if you no 

longer wish to receive it, or would like 

to be added to the distribution, please 

contact the Office of the Secretary, 

Washington, DC 20555 (301–415–1969). 

In addition, distribution of this meeting 

notice over the Internet system is 

available. If you are interested in 

receiving this Commission meeting 

schedule electronically, please send an 

electronic message to dkw@nrc.gov. 

Dated: November 9, 2005. 

R. Michelle Schroll, 

Office of the Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 05–22796 Filed 11–14–05; 10:07 

am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–M 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

State of Minnesota: NRC Draft Staff 

Assessment of a Proposed Agreement 

Between the Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission and the State of 

Minnesota 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of a Proposed Agreement 

with the State of Minnesota. 

SUMMARY: By letter dated July 6, 2004, 

Governor Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota 

requested that the U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission (NRC) enter 

into an Agreement with the State as 

authorized by section 274 of the Atomic 

Energy Act of 1954, as amended (Act). 

Under the proposed Agreement, the 

Commission would discontinue, and 

Minnesota would assume, portions of 

the Commission’s regulatory authority 

exercised within the State. As required 

by the Act, NRC is publishing the 

proposed Agreement for public 

comment. NRC is also publishing the 

summary of a Draft Staff Assessment of 

the Minnesota Program. Comments are 

requested on the proposed Agreement 

and the NRC Draft Staff Assessment 

which finds the Program adequate to 

protect public health and safety and 

compatible with NRC’s program for 

regulation of agreement material. 

The proposed Agreement would 

release (exempt) persons who possess or 

use certain radioactive materials in 

Minnesota from portions of the 

Commission’s regulatory authority. The 

Act requires that NRC publish those 

exemptions. Notice is hereby given that 

the pertinent exemptions have been 

previously published in the Federal 

Register and are codified in the 

Commission’s regulations as 10 CFR 

part 150. 

DATES: The comment period expires 

December 9, 2005. Comments received 

after this date will be considered if it is 

practical to do so, but the Commission 

cannot assure consideration of 

comments received after the expiration 

date. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments may be 

submitted to Mr. Michael T. Lesar, 

Chief, Rules and Directives Branch, 

Division of Administrative Services, 

Office of Administration, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001. Comments may be 

submitted electronically 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. The documents may be 

accessed through the NRC’s Public 

Electronic Reading Room on the Internet 

at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

adams.html. If you do not have access 

to ADAMS or if there are problems in 

accessing the documents located in 

ADAMS, contact the NRC Public 

Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 

(800) 397–4209, or (301) 415–4737, or 

by e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov. 

Copies of comments received by NRC 

may be examined at the NRC Public 

Document Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, 

Public File Area O–1–F21, Rockville, 

Maryland. Copies of the request for an 

Agreement by the Governor of 

Minnesota including all information 

and documentation submitted in 

support of the request, and copies of the 

full text of the NRC Draft Staff 

Assessment are also available for public 

inspection in the NRC’s Public 

Document Room—ADAMS Accession 

Numbers: ML041960496, ML041960499, 

ML052440344, ML050130375, 

ML050140452, ML051330043, 

ML051740384, ML051650073, 

ML052200424, and ML053060372. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Cardelia Maupin, Office of State and 

Tribal Programs, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001. Telephone (301) 415–

3340 or e-mail CHM1@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Since 

section 274 of the Act was added in 

1959, the Commission has entered into 

Agreements with 33 States. The 

Agreement States currently regulate 

approximately 17,200 agreement 

material licenses, while NRC regulates 

approximately 4,700 licenses. Under the 

proposed Agreement, approximately 

167 NRC licenses will transfer to 

Minnesota. NRC periodically reviews 

the performance of the Agreement States 

to assure compliance with the 

provisions of section 274. 

Section 274e requires that the terms of 

the proposed Agreement be published 

in the Federal Register for public 

comment once each week for four 

consecutive weeks. This Notice is being 

published in fulfillment of the 

requirement. 

I. Background 

(a) Section 274d of the Act provides 

the mechanism for a State to assume 

regulatory authority, from the NRC, over 

certain radioactive materials 1 and 

activities that involve use of the 

materials. 

In a letter dated July 6, 2004, 

Governor Pawlenty certified that the 

State of Minnesota has a program for the 

control of radiation hazards that is 

adequate to protect public health and 

safety within Minnesota for the 

materials and activities specified in the 

proposed Agreement, and that the State 

desires to assume regulatory 

responsibility for these materials and 

activities. Included with the letter was 

the text of the proposed Agreement, 

which is shown in Appendix A to this 

Notice. 

The radioactive materials and 

activities (which together are usually 

referred to as the ‘‘categories of 

materials’’) which the State of 

Minnesota requests authority over are: 

(1) The possession and use of byproduct 

materials as defined in section 11e.(1) of 

the Act; (2) the possession and use of 

source materials; and (3) the possession 

and use of special nuclear materials in 

quantities not sufficient to form a 

critical mass, as provided for in 

regulations or orders of the Commission. 

(b) The proposed Agreement contains 

articles that: 

—Specify the materials and activities 

over which NRC’s authority is 

discontinued and transferred; 

—Specify the activities over which the 

Commission will retain regulatory 

authority;