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information to be collected; and (d) 

ways, including the use of information 

technology, to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on 

respondents; and (e) whether small 

businesses are affected by this 

collection. The comments that are 

submitted will be summarized and 

included in the NARA request for Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval. All comments will become a 

matter of public record. In this notice, 

NARA is soliciting comments 

concerning the following information 

collection: 

Title: Online Reproduction Orders for 

National Archives Records. 

OMB number: 3095–NEW. 

Agency form number: N/A. 

Type of review: Regular. 

Affected public: Individuals or 

households. 

Estimated number of respondents: 

13,270. 

Estimated time per response: 10 

minutes. 

Frequency of response: On occasion. 

Estimated total annual burden hours: 

2,680 hours. 

Abstract: In December, 2003, NARA 

launched Order Online!, its online 

ordering mechanism. With the 

availability of an Internet-based 

ordering system (Order Online!), NARA 

has made accessible online certain 

reproduction order forms (replicas of 

the NATF Series 80 Forms and the 

NATF 36). In the near future, NARA 

plans to make available custom orders 

for the remaining types of reproduction 

services, to allow researchers to submit 

reproduction orders and remit payment 

electronically. 

The information that NARA proposes 

to collect for quoted reproduction orders 

includes the descriptive information 

(information necessary to search for the 

records), payment information (e.g., 

credit card type, credit card number, 

and expiration date), customer name, 

shipping and billing address, and phone 

number. NARA also proposes to offer 

customers the option of submitting their 

e-mail address as a means of facilitating 

communication such as order 

confirmation, status updates, and issue 

handling. 

Dated: November 30, 2005. 

L. Reynolds Cahoon, 

Assistant Archivist for Information Services. 

[FR Doc. E5–6978 Filed 12–6–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7515–01–P 

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Comment Request 

AGENCY: National Science Foundation. 

ACTION: Submission for OMB review; 

comment request. 

SUMMARY: The National Science 

Foundation (NSF) has submitted the 

following information collection 

requirement to OMB for review and 

clearance under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, Pub. L. 104–13. 

This is the second notice for public 

comment; the first was published in the 

Federal Register at 70 FR 54584, and 

two comments were received. NSF is 

forwarding the proposed renewal 

submission to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for clearance 

simultaneously with the publication of 

this second notice. Comments regarding 

(a) whether the collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of burden including 

the validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; (c) ways to enhance 

the quality, utility and clarity of the 

information to be collected; (d) ways to 

minimize the burden of the collection of 

information on those who are to 

respond, including through the use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology should be 

addressed to: Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs of OMB, Attention: 

Desk Officer for National Science 

Foundation, 725—17th Street, NW., 

Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503, 

and to Suzanne H. Plimpton, Reports 

Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, 

Suite 295, Arlington, Virginia 22230 or 

send e-mail to splimpto@nsf.gov. 

Comments regarding these information 

collections are best assured of having 

their full effect if received within 30 

days of this notification. Copies of the 

submission(s) may be obtained by 

calling 703–292–7556. 

NSF may not conduct or sponsor a 

collection of information unless the 

collection of information displays a 

currently valid OMB control number 

and the agency informs potential 

persons who are to respond to the 

collection of information that such 

persons are not required to respond to 

the collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Comment: On September 15, 2005, we 

published in the Federal Register (70 

FR 54584) a 60-day notice of our intent 

to request renewal of this information 

collection authority from OMB. In that 

notice, we solicited public comments 

for 60 days ending November 14, 2005. 

Two comments were received from the 

same person in response to the public 

notice (the second in response to NSF’s 

reply). The comments came from B. 

Sachau of Florham Park, NJ, via e-mail 

on September 20, 2005 and October 12, 

2005. Ms. Sachau objected to the 

information collection but had no 

specific suggestions for altering the data 

collection plans other than suggesting 

that teachers could pay for their own 

courses. 

Response: We responded to Ms. 

Sachau on October 12, 2005 describing 

the program and noting that these 

experiences are valuable for teachers 

because they take back to their 

classrooms knowledge they gained and 

experiences they as a result of exposure 

to the research component of technology 

commercialization. On October 12, 2005 

we received a follow-up reply from Ms. 

Sachau restating that she dislikes the 

program. NSF believes that because the 

comment does not pertain to the 

collection of information on the 

required forms for which NSF is seeking 

OMB approval, NSF is preceding with 

the clearance request. 

Title: Evaluation of the Research 

Experiences for Teachers (RET) 

Program. 

OMB Control Number: 3145–0198. 

Abstract: The Directorate for 

Engineering (ENG) initiated the 

Research Experiences for Teachers 

(RET) Supplements activity in FY 2001 

to be add-ons to active awards funded 

by ENG programs. The intent was to 

build on the popular NSF-wide 

Research Experiences for 

Undergraduates (REU) Supplements 

activity by providing opportunities for 

K–12 teachers to conduct hands-on 

experiences in the laboratories/facilities 

of ENG-funded researchers. The 

assumption was that, like 

undergraduates, the teachers could 

benefit from involvement in research 

and direct exposure to the scientific 

method, and they could transfer what 

they learned into classroom activities. 

Typically the supplements supported 

one or two teachers. Beginning in FY 

2002, ENG has also funded RET Site 

awards, which are similar to REU Sites 

in that NSF awards fund groups of 

teachers to work with faculty members 

at the same institution and to engage in 

group activities related to the research. 

In 2003, community college faculty 

became eligible as participants in RET 

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awards. By design, all RET awards are 

made to the university in whose 

research the teachers participate. 

The initial study of the program just 

concluded focused on participants in 

ENG-funded RET Supplement and Site 

awards in 2001 through 2003. That 

study resulted in modifications to the 

RET program announcement for the FY 

2006 competition. The proposed followup study will be very similar to the 

initial study and focus on teachers who 

participated in RET during 2004 and 

2005. The follow-on study will examine 

how RET experience have affected 

participating teachers’ subsequent 

teaching techniques, attitudes about 

teaching, and professional development 

activities. Outcomes and impacts 

beyond the teachers’ own classrooms, 

such as knowledge transfer activities, 

formal partnerships formed between the 

RET Principal Investigators (PIs)—the 

awardees—and the teachers’ school 

system/district will also be examined. 

The first survey found that follow-up 

interaction between PIs and teachers 

were strongly related to reported 

positive effects. Accordingly, the followup study will explore this aspect of the 

experience in somewhat greater detail 

than was done in the first survey. The 

survey data collection will be done on 

the World Wide Web as before. 

Estimate of Burden: Public reporting 

burden for this collection of information 

is estimated to average 15–30 minutes 

per response. 

Respondents: Individuals. 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Form: 456. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 206 hours (456 

respondents at 15–30 minutes per 

response). 

Frequency of Response: One time. 

Dated: December 2, 2005. 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation. 

[FR Doc. 05–23708 Filed 12–6–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7555–01–M 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

Regulatory Guide: Issuance, 

Availability 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) has issued a new 

guide in the agency’s Regulatory Guide 

Series. This series has been developed 

to describe and make available to the 

public such information as methods that 

are acceptable to the NRC staff for 

implementing specific parts of the 

NRC’s regulations, techniques that the 

staff uses in evaluating specific 

problems or postulated accidents, and 

data that the staff needs in its review of 

applications for permits and licenses. 

Regulatory Guide 1.204, ‘‘Guidelines 

for Lightning Protection of Nuclear 

Power Plants,’’ provides guidance for 

NRC licensees and applicants to use in 

developing and implementing practices 

that the staff finds acceptable for 

complying with the agency’s regulatory 

requirements in Criterion 2, ‘‘Design 

Bases for Protection Against Natural 

Phenomena,’’ as it appears in Appendix 

A, ‘‘General Design Criteria for Nuclear 

Power Plants,’’ to Title 10, part 50, of 

the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR 

part 50). Specifically, Criterion 2 

requires, in part, that nuclear power 

plant (NPP) structures, systems, and 

components (SSCs) that are important to 

safety must be designed to withstand 

the effects of natural phenomena 

without losing their capability to 

perform their respective safety 

functions. 

While the regulations address 

lightning protection for safety-related 

electrical equipment, they do not 

explicitly provide guidance concerning 

the design and installation of lightning 

protection systems (LPSs) to ensure that 

electrical transients resulting from 

lightning phenomena do not cause 

spurious operation safety-related 

systems or render them inoperable. 

Toward that end, Regulatory Guide 

1.204 augments the regulations by 

establishing explicit guidance that is 

consistent with LPS design and 

installation practices that are currently 

applied throughout the commercial 

power industry. 

The scope of the guidance includes 

protection of (1) the power plant and 

relevant ancillary facilities, with the 

boundary beginning at the service 

entrance of buildings; (2) the plant 

switchyard; (3) the electrical 

distribution system, safety-related 

instrumentation and control (I&C) 

systems, communications, and 

personnel within the power plant; and 

(4) other important equipment in remote 

ancillary facilities that could impact 

safety. The scope includes signal lines, 

communication lines, and power lines, 

as well as testing and maintenance. The 

scope does not cover testing and design 

practices that are specifically intended 

to protect safety-related I&C systems 

against the secondary effects of 

lightning discharges [i.e., low-level 

power surges and electromagnetic and 

radio-frequency interference (EMI/RFI)]. 

These practices are covered in 

Regulatory Guide 1.180, ‘‘Guidelines for 

Evaluating Electromagnetic and RadioFrequency Interference in SafetyRelated Instrumentation and Control 

Systems.’’ Regulatory Guide 1.180, 

which the NRC issued in January 2000 

and revised in October 2003, addresses 

design, installation, and testing 

practices for dealing with the effects of 

EMI/RFI and power surges on safetyrelated I&C systems. 

In Regulatory Guide 1.204, the NRC 

staff has selected for endorsement a total 

of four standards issued by the Institute 

of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 

(IEEE), which taken together, provide 

comprehensive lightning protection 

guidance for nuclear power plants. 

Specifically, the four standards are IEEE 

Std. 665–1995 (reaffirmed 2001), IEEE 

Guide for Generating Station 

Grounding, IEEE Std. 666–1991 

(reaffirmed 1996), IEEE Design Guide for 

Electrical Power Service Systems for 

Generating Stations, IEEE Std. 1050–

1996, IEEE Guide for Instrumentation 

and Control Equipment Grounding in 

Generating Stations, and IEEE Std. 

C62.23–1995 (reaffirmed 2001), IEEE 

Application Guide for Surge Protection 

of Electric Generating Plants. 

In February 2005, the NRC staff 

published a draft of this guide as Draft 

Regulatory Guide DG–1137. Following 

the closure of the public comment 

period on April 20, 2005, the staff 

resolved all stakeholder comments in 

the course of preparing the new 

Regulatory Guide 1.204. 

The NRC staff encourages and 

welcomes comments and suggestions in 

connection with improvements to 

published regulatory guides, as well as 

items for inclusion in regulatory guides 

that are currently being developed. You 

may submit comments by any of the 

following methods. 

Mail comments to: Rules and 

Directives Branch, Office of 

Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555–

0001. 

Hand-deliver comments to: Rules and 

Directives Branch, Office of 

Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, 11555 Rockville Pike, 

Rockville, Maryland 20852, between 

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

workdays. 

Fax comments to: Rules and 

Directives Branch, Office of 

Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, at (301) 415–5144. 

Requests for technical information 

about Regulatory Guide 1.204 may be 

directed to Christina E. Antonescu at 

(301) 415–6792 or via e-mail to 

CEA1@nrc.gov. 

Regulatory guides are available for 

inspection or downloading through the 

NRC’s public Web site in the Regulatory