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Family 

of one 

Family 

of two 

Family 

of three 

Family 

of four 

Family 

of five 

Family 

of six 

11,902 19,511 26,790 33,064 39,020 45,634 

12,267 20,106 27,603 34,073 40,211 47,025 

12,301 20,157 27,674 34,156 40,312 47,143 

12,299 20,160 27,671 34,161 40,310 47,151 

12,361 20,261 27,813 34,327 40,511 47,375 

12,649 20,736 28,459 35,129 41,459 48,480 

12,856 21,067 28,922 35,695 42,123 49,265 

12,875 21,100 28,970 35,758 42,201 49,357 

12,897 21,143 29,015 35,821 42,275 49,443 

13,345 21,874 30,028 37,060 43,739 51,144 

13,473 22,075 30,304 37,407 44,149 51,625 

13,490 22,108 30,353 37,471 44,216 51,716 

13,958 22,877 31,397 38,759 45,743 53,491 

14,229 23,317 32,013 39,521 46,636 54,546 

14,377 23,558 32,333 39,916 47,105 55,092 

14,692 24,065 33,040 40,784 48,131 56,285 

14,777 24,214 33,238 41,025 48,418 56,622 

14,809 24,273 33,316 41,130 48,534 56,769 

15,007 24,594 33,758 41,669 49,179 57,515 

15,084 24,719 33,941 41,891 49,438 57,811 

15,596 25,548 35,078 43,298 51,097 59,760 

16,159 26,472 36,346 44,866 52,945 61,916 

16,225 26,580 36,494 45,047 53,160 62,174 

16,630 27,252 37,404 46,172 54,494 63,720 

17,249 28,267 38,801 47,898 56,522 66,102 

17,445 28,578 39,237 48,432 57,154 66,845 

17,826 29,205 40,093 49,497 58,409 68,316 

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NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS 

BOARD 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

TIME AND DATES: 

All meetings are held at 2:30 p.m. 

Tuesday, May 4, Wednesday, May 5, 

Thursday, May 6, 2010; 

Tuesday, May 11, Wednesday, May 12, 

Thursday, May 13, 2010; 

Tuesday, May 18, Wednesday, May 19, 

Thursday, May 20, 2010; 

Tuesday, May 25, Wednesday, May 26, 

Thursday, May 27, 2010. 

PLACE: Board Agenda Room, No. 11820, 

1099 14th St., NW., Washington DC 

20570. 

STATUS: Closed. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Pursuant to 

§ 102.139(a) of the Board’s Rules and 

Regulations, the Board or a panel 

thereof will consider ‘‘the issuance of a 

subpoena, the Board’s participation in a 

civil action or proceeding or an 

arbitration, or the initiation, conduct, or 

disposition ... of particular 

representation or unfair labor practice 

proceedings under section 8, 9, or 10 of 

the [National Labor Relations] Act, or 

any court proceedings collateral or 

ancillary thereto.’’ See also 5 U.S.C. 

552b(c)(10). 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Lester A. Heltzer, Executive Secretary, 

(202) 273–1067. 

Lester A. Heltzer, 

Executive Secretary. 

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Notice of Permit Applications Received 

Under the Antarctic Conservation Act 

of 1978 (Pub. L. 95–541) 

AGENCY: National Science Foundation. 

ACTION: Notice of Permit Applications 

Received under the Antarctic 

Conservation Act of 1978, Public Law 

95–541. 

SUMMARY: The National Science 

Foundation (NSF) is required to publish 

notice of permit applications received to 

conduct activities regulated under the 

Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. 

NSF has published regulations under 

the Antarctic Conservation Act at Title 

45 Part 670 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations. This is the required notice 

of permit applications received. 

DATES: Interested parties are invited to 

submit written data, comments, or 

views with respect to this permit 

application by June 7, 2010. This 

application may be inspected by 

interested parties at the Permit Office, 

address below. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be 

addressed to Permit Office, Room 755, 

Office of Polar Programs, National 

Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson 

Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22230. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nadene G. Kennedy at the above 

address or (703) 292–7405. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

National Science Foundation, as 

directed by the Antarctic Conservation 

Act of 1978 (Pub. L. 95–541), as 

amended by the Antarctic Science, 

Tourism and Conservation Act of 1996, 

has developed regulations for the 

establishment of a permit system for 

various activities in Antarctica and 

designation of certain animals and 

certain geographic areas requiring 

special protection. The regulations 

establish such a permit system to 

designate Antarctic Specially Protected 

Areas. 

The applications received are as 

follows: 

1. Applicant: Permit Application No. 

2011–004. Sam Feola, Director, 

Raytheon Polar Services Company, 7400 

S. Tucson Way, Centennial, CO 80112. 

Activity for Which Permit is Requested 

Introduce into Antarctica. The 

applicant plans to import commercially 

available bacterial host cell, Escherichia 

coli, for experimental use at the science 

laboratories at McMurdo and Palmer 

Stations. The experimental purpose is to 

generate clones of genes and gene 

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recombinant DNA is introduced into E. 

coli which can be cultured to produce 

large quantities of the recombinant DNA 

for analysis and sequencing. E. coli 

engineered for routine cloning purposes 

belongs to the K–12 strain, which 

generally cannot survive outside the 

Lab. All cells will be autoclaved within 

the Lab to destroy all active cells. 

Location: Palmer and McMurdo 

Station laboratories. 

Dates: August 13, 2010 to March 1, 

2011. 

Nadene G. Kennedy, 

Permit Officer, Office of Polar Programs. 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[DOCKET NO. 70–143; NRC–2010–0175] 

Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc.; 

Environmental Assessment and 

Finding of No Significant Impact for 

Proposed Extension of Deadline for 

Inventory of Special Nuclear Material 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Environmental Assessment and 

Finding of No Significant Impact. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kevin M. Ramsey, Project Manager, Fuel 

Cycle Facilities Branch, Division of Fuel 

Cycle Safety and Safeguards, Office of 

Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Mail Stop EBB–2C40M, Rockville, MD 

20555–0001, Telephone (301) 492–3123; 

Fax (301) 492–3359; e-mail 

kevin.ramsey@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) staff is considering 

the issuance of a license amendment to 

Materials License SNM–124 to Nuclear 

Fuel Services, Inc. (NFS) (the licensee) 

to grant a one-time exemption from an 

inventory requirement for strategic 

special nuclear material. NRC 

regulations at Title 10 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 74.59(f)(1) 

state that a physical inventory of 

strategic special nuclear material must 

occur every six months. By letter dated 

March 10, 2010, NFS requested a 

temporary exemption from this 

requirement. 

The NRC has prepared an 

Environmental Assessment (EA) in 

support of this amendment and 

exemption request in accordance with 

the requirements of 10 CFR Part 51. 

Based on the EA, the NRC has 

concluded that a Finding of No 

Significant Impact (FONSI) is 

appropriate; therefore, an 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

will not be prepared. 

II. Environmental Assessment 

Background 

The NFS facility in Erwin, Tennessee 

is authorized, under License SNM–124 

to manufacture high-enriched nuclear 

reactor fuel. In addition, NFS is 

authorized to blend highly enriched 

uranium with natural uranium and 

manufacture low-enriched nuclear 

reactor fuel. Currently, several 

processing lines are in a safe-shutdown 

mode, in accordance with Confirmatory 

Action Letter No. 02–2010–001 dated 

January 7, 2010. Operations were shut 

down without the usual material 

processing/clean-out that is required to 

be undertaken as part of a measured 

physical inventory. NFS is currently in 

the process of implementing program 

improvements and conducting 

operational readiness reviews which 

must be reviewed and approved by NRC 

before each process line is restarted. 

After operations are authorized, each 

process line must be operated to process 

the material to a suitable form that will 

enable a measurable physical inventory 

to occur. NFS requests that the 

inventory reporting date be extended 

until 90 days after all processing lines 

are authorized to restart operations, a 

date which is currently unknown. 

Review Scope 

The purpose of this EA is to assess the 

environmental impacts of the requested 

license amendment and exemption. It 

does not approve the request. This EA 

is limited to the proposed exemption 

and any cumulative impacts on existing 

plant operations. The existing 

conditions and operations for the Erwin 

facility were evaluated by NRC for 

environmental impacts in a 1999 EA 

related to the renewal of the NFS license 

(Ref. 1) and a 2002 EA related to the first 

amendment for the Blended LowEnriched Uranium (BLEU) Project (Ref. 

2). The 2002 EA assessed the impact of 

the entire BLEU Project using 

information available at that time. A 

2003 EA (Ref. 3) and a 2004 EA (Ref. 4), 

related to additional BLEU Project 

amendments, confirmed the FONSI 

issued in 2002. 

Proposed Action 

The proposed action is to amend NRC 

Materials License SNM–124 to grant a 

one-time exemption from the 

requirement to take a physical inventory 

of strategic special nuclear material 

every six months. The exemption would 

authorize NFS to submit the physical 

inventory results after NRC has 

authorized the restart of all operations 

currently shutdown, and after NFS has 

had an opportunity to then process the 

material and complete the inventory. 

The proposed action is limited to the 

reporting deadline only. No change to 

processing, packaging, or storage 

operations is requested, and no 

construction of new facilities is 

requested. 

Need for Proposed Action 

The proposed action is being 

requested because NFS had to secure 

operations in several processing lines to 

implement program improvements. NFS 

has committed to maintain the 

processing lines in a safe-shutdown 

mode until NRC authorizes restart of 

operations. Regulations in 10 CFR 

74.59(f)(1) require a physical inventory 

of strategic special nuclear material 

every six months. To comply with this 

regulation, the material must be 

processed into a form that can be 

inventoried. Material in the processing 

lines is not in a form that can be 

inventoried, and it cannot be processed 

into the proper form until the restart of 

operations is authorized. 

Alternatives 

The alternatives available to NRC are: 

1. Approve the requested action as 

described, or 

2. No action (i.e., deny the request). 

Affected Environment 

The affected environment for the 

proposed action and the no action 

alternative is the NFS site. The NFS 

facility is located in Unicoi County, 

Tennessee, about 32 km (20 mi) 

southwest of Johnson City, Tennessee. 

The facility is within the Erwin city 

limits. The affected environment is 

identical to the affected environment 

assessed in the 2002 EA related to the 

first amendment for the BLEU Project 

(Ref. 2). A full description of the site 

and its characteristics are given in the 

2002 EA. Additional information can be 

found in the 1999 EA related to the 

renewal of the NFS license (Ref. 1). The 

site occupies about 28 hectares (70 

acres). The site is bounded to the 

northwest by the CSX Corporation 

(CSX) railroad property and the 

Nolichucky River; and by Martin Creek 

to the northeast. The plant elevation is 

about 9 m (30 ft) above the nearest point 

on the Nolichucky River. 

The area adjacent to the site consists 

primarily of residential, industrial, and 


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