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includes the control number assigned to

each schedule, and briefly describes the

records proposed for disposal. The

records schedule contains additional

information about the records and their

disposition. Further information about

the disposition process will be

furnished to each requester.

Schedules Pending

1. Department of the Army (N1–335–

96–1). Routine administrative records of

the 50th Anniversary of World War II

Commemoration Committee.

2. Department of Energy (N1–434–96–

5). Administrative, housekeeping,

production, shipping, and stockpile

support records for the nuclear weapons

program. Historically significant policy

direction, program management,

weapon effects testing, and nuclear

surety files are retained as permanent.

Records relating to accidental exposure

or other epidemiological concerns will

be retained for 75 years.

3. Department of Justice, Federal

Bureau of Investigation (N1–065–95–

01). Administrative field files relating to

applicant matters.

4. Department of Justice, Federal

Bureau of Investigation (N1–065–95–

02). Administrative field files relating to

training matters.

5. Department of Justice, Immigration

and Naturalization Service (N1–085–96–

4). Consenting Alien Program records.

6. Department of State, Bureau of

Public Affairs (N1–059–95–27). Routine,

facilitative, and duplicative records of

the office of the assistant secretary.

7. Department of Transportation,

Federal Aviation Administration (N1–

237–96–6). Administrator’s Consumer

Hotline files.

8. Department of the Treasury,

Internal Revenue Service (N1–058–95–

3). Tracking reports and work papers

relating to the operations of the

Taxpayer Ombudsman’s Problem

Resolution Program.

9. National Archives and Records

Administration (N2–260–96–1).

Duplicated motion picture film relating

to the administration of the Ryukyu

Islands, accumulated by the U.S. Civil

Administration Ryukyu Islands.

10. Social Security Administration

(N1–047–96–2). Records of the office of

the Inspector General.

11. Social Security Administration

(N1–047–96–3). Records of the Office of

the General Counsel.

Dated: April 25, 1996.

James W. Moore,

Assistant Archivist for Records

Administration.

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BILLING CODE 7515–01–M

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

Special Emphasis Panel in Materials

Research; Notice of Meetings

In accordance with the Federal

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–

463 as amended), the National Science

Foundation announces the following

meetings:

Name: Special Emphasis Panel in Materials

Research (DMR) #1203.

Dates, and Times: May 12, 1996, 6 p.m.–

9 p.m.; May 13–17, 1996, 8 a.m.–9 p.m.; May

19, 6 p.m.–9 p.m.; May 20–24, 1996, 8 a.m.–

9 p.m.

Place: National Science Foundation; 4201

Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA; Rooms 360,

375, 390, & 430.

Type of Meetings: Closed.

Contact Person: Dr. W. Lance Haworth, Dr.

Carmen Huber, or Dr. Ulrich Strom, Program

Directors, Materials Research Science and

Engineering Centers, Division of Materials

Research, Room 1065, National Science

Foundation, Arlington, VA 22230. Telephone

(703) 306–1810.

Purpose of Meetings: To provide advice

and recommendations concerning proposals

submitted to NSF for financial support.

Agenda: Review and evaluate proposals as

part of the selection process to determine

finalists considered for Materials Research

Science and Engineering Center awards.

Reason for Closing: The proposals being

reviewed include information of a

proprietary or confidential nature, including

technical information, financial data such as

salaries, and personal information

concerning individuals associated with the

proposals. These matters are exempt under 5

U.S.C. 552b.(c) (4) and (6) of the Government

in the Sunshine Act.

Reason for Late Notice: Times and dates

could not be finalized until approval by Dr.

William C. Harris, Assistant Director,

Directorate for Mathematical and Physical

Sciences. This approval was contingent upon

Program Director recommendations based

upon the MRSEC Special Emphasis Panel

which met April 15–17, 1996.

Dated: April 29, 1996.

M. Rebecca Winkler,

Committee Management Officer.

[FR Doc. 96–10944 Filed 5–1–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7555–01–M

NUCLEAR REGULATORY

COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. 50–282, 50–306]

Receipt of Addendum to Petition for

Director’s Decision Under 10 CFR

2.206

In the matter of Northern States Power

Company; Prairie Island Nuclear Generating

Plant.

Notice is hereby given that by letter

dated March 13, 1996, the Nuclear

Information and Resource Service and

the Prairie Island Coalition request that

the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission (NRC) take immediate

action with regard to steam generator

tube inspections at the Prairie Island

Nuclear Generating Plant. The letter was

a second addendum to an earlier

Petition dated June 5, 1995. A first

addendum was received from the

Petitioners in a letter dated February 19,

1996.

The Petitioners request that the NRC

require Northern States Power Company

to place Prairie Island Nuclear

Generating Plant Units 1 and 2 in midcycle outages to inspect the full length

of the steam generator tubes using the

Zetec Plus Point Probe and any state-ofthe-art eddy current test capable of

finding circumferentially oriented

cracking. If these inspections are not

performed, the Petitioners request that

the NRC hold an informal public

hearing in or near Red Wing, Minnesota,

to inform the public why such

inspections are not needed.

As the basis for this request, the

Petitioners state that the NRC and

nuclear utilities operating pressurizedwater reactor facilities in the U.S. have

known for years that the bobbin coil

eddy current inspection probe is not

effective at finding circumferentially

oriented cracking. Circumferential and

axial cracks have been found in the

tubesheet region of steam generators;

inspections with advanced technology

probes that are effective in detecting

circumferential cracks, such as the Plus

Point Probe, are performed in the

tubesheet region. The Petitioners state

that since axially oriented cracks have

been identified in steam generator freespan regions, circumferentially oriented

cracks may also be present there. Thus

a full-length tube inspection using stateof-the-art eddy current probe technology

would be prudent.

This addendum to the Petition is

being treated pursuant to 10 CFR 2.206

of the Commission’s regulations and has

been referred to the Director of the

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. As

provided by 10 CFR 2.206, appropriate

action will be taken on the Petition

within a reasonable time. By letter dated

April 22, 1996, the Director denied the

request for immediate action to require

that Prairie Island Units 1 and 2 be

placed in mid-cycle outages to inspect

the full length of the steam generator

tubes.

Copies of the addenda to the Petition

and the Director’s letter are available for

inspection at the Commission’s Public

Document Room at 2120 L Street, NW.,

Washington, DC, and at the Local Public

Document Room, Minneapolis Public

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Department, 300 Nicollet Mall,

Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd

day of April 1996.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

William T. Russell,

Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor

Regulation.

[FR Doc. 96–10899 Filed 5–1–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P

Notice of Availability of Draft

Regulatory Guide and Public Meeting

SUMMARY: The NRC is announcing the

availability for public comment of Draft

Regulatory Guide DG–1046, ‘‘Guidelines

for Reporting Reliability and

Availability Information for RiskSignificant Systems and Equipment in

Nuclear Power Plants.’’

The NRC is also announcing a public

meeting on June 4, 1996, to discuss both

Draft Regulatory Guide DG–1046 and a

proposed regulation, ‘‘Reporting

Reliability and Availability Information

for Risk-Significant Systems and

Equipment,’’ Section 50.76, which is

proposed for 10 CFR Part 50, ‘‘Domestic

Licensing of Production and Utilization

Facilities.’’ The agenda for the meeting

appears in the Supplementary

Information Section.

DATES: Comments regarding any aspect

of the draft regulatory guide are due to

the NRC by July 5, 1996. Comments

received after that date will be

considered if it is practicable to do so,

but the NRC can give no assurance of

consideration for late comments.

Comments on the proposed rule,

Section 50.76, are due by June 11, 1996.

The public meeting is scheduled for

Tuesday, June 4, 1996, from 8:30 AM to

5:00 PM in the auditorium of NRC’s

headquarters at Two White Flint North,

11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville,

Maryland. Comments on the proposed

rule and the draft regulatory guide may

be presented at the public meeting.

ADDRESSES: Mail written comments to

Chief, Rules Review and Directives

Branch, Division of Freedom of

Information and Publications Services,

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,

Washington, DC 20555–0001. Copies of

DG–1046, the proposed rule Section

50.76, and all comments received may

be examined or copied for a fee at the

NRC Public Document Room, 2120 L

Street NW., Washington, DC.

A free single copy of DG–1046 may be

requested by writing to the Distribution

and Mail Services Section, U.S. Nuclear

Regulatory Commission, Washington,

DC 20555–0001, or by fax to (301) 415–

2260.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Dennis Allison, Office for Analysis and

Evaluation of Operational Data, U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission,

Washington, DC 20555–0001, telephone

(301) 415–6835, e-mail DPA@NRC.GOV.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Nuclear Regulatory Commission has

issued for public comment a draft of a

guide planned for its Regulatory Guide

Series. This series has been developed

to describe and make available to the

public such information as methods

acceptable to the NRC staff for

implementing specific parts of the

Commission’s regulations, techniques

used by the staff in evaluating specific

problems or postulated accidents, and

data needed by the staff in its review of

applications for permits and licenses.

Regulatory guides are not copyrighted,

and NRC approval is not required to

reproduce them.

Draft Regulatory Guide DG–1046

The draft guide, temporarily

identified by its task number, DG–1046

(which should be mentioned in all

correspondence concerning this draft

guide), is titled ‘‘Guidelines for

Reporting Reliability and Availability

Information for Risk-Significant Systems

and Equipment in Nuclear Power

Plants.’’ The guide will be in Division

1, ‘‘Power Reactors.’’ This regulatory

guide is being developed to provide

guidance on methods acceptable to the

NRC staff for meeting the requirements

of a proposed regulation, Section 50.76,

which was published for public

comment in the Federal Register on

February 12, 1996 (61 FR 5318). Section

50.76 would require that licensees for

commercial nuclear power reactors

report plant-specific summaries of

reliability and availability data for

selected systems and equipment to the

NRC. It would also require that records

and documentation of each occurrence

of a demand, failure, or unavailable

period that provides the basis for the

summary data that was reported to the

NRC be maintained on site and be made

available for NRC inspection.

The draft guide has not received

complete staff review and does not

represent an official NRC staff position.

Public comments are being solicited

on the guide. Comments should be

accompanied by supporting data.

Comments may be submitted as

proposed modified text for the

regulatory guide that incorporates the

comments, or as discussions of

examples of particular recordkeeping

methods, equipment operation, or

reportable events that illustrate a

particular point regarding collecting and

submitting the summary data. To assist

efficient and complete comment

resolution, commenters are requested to

reference the numbered sections in DG–

1046 (for example, Regulatory Position

1.1), with page numbers related to their

comments as appropriate.

Electronic Submittal of Comments

Comments also may be submitted

electronically, in either ASCII text or

Wordperfect format (version 5.1 or

later), by calling the NRC Electronic

Bulletin Board on FedWorld. The

bulletin board may be accessed using a

personal computer, a modem, and one

of the commonly available

communications software packages, or

directly via Internet.

If using a personal computer and

modem, the NRC subsystem on

FedWorld can be accessed directly by

dialing the toll free number: 1–800–

303–9672. Communication software

parameters should be set as follows:

parity to none, data bits to 8, and stop

bits to 1 (N,8,1). Using ANSI or VT–100

terminal emulation, the NRC NUREGs

and RegGuides for Comment subsystem

can then be accessed by selecting the

‘‘Rules Menu’’ option from the ‘‘NRC

Main Menu.’’ For further information

about options available for NRC at

FedWorld, consult the ‘‘Help/

Information Center’’ from the ‘‘NRC

Main Menu.’’ Users will find the

‘‘FedWorld Online User’s Guides’’

particularly helpful. Many NRC

subsystems and data bases also have a

‘‘Help/Information Center’’ option that

is tailored to the particular subsystem.

The NRC subsystem on FedWorld can

also be accessed by a direct dial phone

number for the main FedWorld BBS,

703–321–3339, or by using Telnet via

Internet, fedworld.gov. If using 703–

321–3339 to contact FedWorld, the NRC

subsystem will be accessed from the

main FedWorld menu by selecting the

‘‘Regulatory, Government

Administration and State Systems,’’

then selecting ‘‘Regulatory Information

Mall.’’ At that point, a menu will be

displayed that has an option ‘‘U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission’’ that

will take you to the NRC Online main

menu. The NRC Online area also can be

accessed directly by typing ‘‘/go nrc’’ at

a FedWorld command line. If you access

NRC from FedWorld’s main menu, you

may return to FedWorld by selecting the

‘‘Return to FedWorld’’ option from the

NRC Online Main Menu. However, if

you access NRC at FedWorld by using

NRC’s toll-free number, you will have

full access to all NRC systems but you

will not have access to the main

FedWorld system.

If you contact FedWorld using Telnet,

you will see the NRC area and menus,