28664 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 98 / Friday, May 21, 2010 / Notices 

Dated: May 17, 2010. 

Richard W. Sherman, 

Deputy General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2010–12161 Filed 5–20–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7510–13–P 

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND 

SPACE ADMINISTRATION 

[Notice (10–055)] 

Government-Owned Inventions, 

Available for Licensing 

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and 

Space Administration. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability of 

Inventions for Licensing. 

SUMMARY: Patent applications on the 

inventions listed below assigned to the 

National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration, have been filed in the 

United States Patent and Trademark 

Office, and are available for licensing. 

DATES: May 21, 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Robert M. Padilla, Patent Counsel, Ames 

Research Center, Code 202A–4, Moffett 

Field, CA 94035–1000; telephone (650) 

604–5104; fax (650) 604–2767. 

NASA Case No. ARC–14653–1: Air 

Traffic Management Evaluation Tool 

(FACET). 

NASA Case No. ARC–16320–1: 

Model-Based Prognostics for Batteries. 

NASA Case No. ARC–16342–1: 

Advanced Sensor Technology for Algai 

Biotechnology (ASTAB). 

NASA Case No. ARC–16370–1: A 

Truss Beam Having Convex-Curved 

Rods, Shear Web Panels, and SelfAligning Adapters. 

NASA Case No. ARC–16407–1: 

Content Analysis to Detect High Stress 

in Oral Interviews and Text Documents. 

Dated: May 17, 2010. 

Richard W. Sherman, 

Deputy General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2010–12163 Filed 5–20–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7510–13–P 

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND 

SPACE ADMINISTRATION 

[Notice (10–058)] 

Government-Owned Inventions, 

Available for Licensing 

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and 

Space Administration. 

ACTION: Notice of availability of 

inventions for licensing. 

SUMMARY: The inventions listed below 

assigned to the National Aeronautics 

and Space Administration, have been 

filed in the United States Patent and 

Trademark office, and are available for 

licensing. 

DATES: May 21, 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Edward K. Fein, Patent Counsel, 

Johnson Space Center, Mail Code AL, 

2101 NASA Parkway, Houston, TX 

77058, (281) 483–4871; (281) 483–6936 

[Facsimile]. 

NASA Case No. MSC–24490–1: High 

Altitude Hydration System. 

Dated: May 17, 2010. 

Richard W. Sherman, 

Deputy General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2010–12179 Filed 5–20–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7510–13–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 52–011; NRC–2008–0252] 

Southern Nuclear Operating Company; 

Notice of Availability of Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact for License 

Amendment to Early Site Permit Issued 

to Southern Nuclear Operating 

Company et al., for Vogtle Electric 

Generating Plant ESP Site Located in 

Burke County, GA 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Chandu Patel, Project Manager, AP1000 

Branch 1, Division of New Reactors 

Licensing, Office of New Reactors, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001. 

Telephone: (301) 415–3025; fax number: 

(301) 415–6350; e-mail: 

Chandu.Patel@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

(NRC) is considering issuance of an 

amendment to Early Site Permit (ESP) 

No. ESP–004, issued to Southern 

Nuclear Operating Company (SNC) and 

several co-applicants (Georgia Power 

Company, Oglethorpe Power 

Corporation, Municipal Electric 

Authority of Georgia, and the City of 

Dalton, Georgia), for the Vogtle Electric 

Generating Plant (VEGP) ESP site 

located in Burke County, Georgia. The 

proposed amendment would modify the 

Vogtle Electric Generating Plant ESP site 

safety analysis report (SSAR) to allow 

the use of Category 1 and 2 backfill 

obtained from onsite borrow areas not 

specifically identified in the VEGP ESP 

SSAR. 

NRC has prepared an Environmental 

Assessment (EA) in support of this 

amendment 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. The amendment 

will be issued following the publication 

of this Notice. 

II. EA Summary 

The purpose of the proposed 

amendment is to authorize a change to 

the early site permit issued to SNC for 

the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant ESP 

site located in Burke County, Georgia. 

Specifically, the proposed amendment 

would modify the Vogtle Electric 

Generating Plant ESP site safety analysis 

report (SSAR) to allow the use of 

Category 1 and 2 backfill obtained from 

onsite borrow areas that were not 

specifically identified in the VEGP ESP 

SSAR. On April 20, 2010, as 

supplemented on April 23 and 28, and 

May 5, 10, and 13, 2010, SNC requested 

that NRC approve the proposed 

amendment. By letter dated May 13, 

2010, the applicant requested that the 

NRC consider issuing a limited scope 

approval (LSA) of a subset of the 

requested onsite borrow locations 

pending the NRC determination on the 

remainder of the borrow sources 

identified in the license amendment 

request (LAR). The LSA request 

proposed NRC approval of SNC’s use of 

borrow material from certain onsite 

locations where impacts from site 

preparation activities were already 

anticipated and previously evaluated in 

NUREG–1872, ‘‘Final Environmental 

Impact Statement for an Early Site 

Permit (ESP) at the Vogtle Electric 

Generating Plant Site.’’ SNC’s request for 

the proposed change was previously 

noticed in the Federal Register on May 

6, 2010 (75 FR 24993), with a notice of 

an opportunity to request a hearing. 

The staff has prepared the EA in 

support of its review of the proposed 

license amendment. Because the LSA 

requests separate approval of a subset of 

the locations described by the LAR, this 

EA separately evaluates the activities 

associated with acquiring additional 

backfill from those onsite borrow 

sources and summarizes the radiological 

and non-radiological environmental 

impacts that may result from granting 

the LSA portion of the amendment 

request. The staff has determined that 

granting the proposed amendment 

would not result in significant nonradiological impacts to land use, surface 

and groundwater resources, terrestrial 

and aquatic resources, threatened and 


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