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use of appropriate automated,

electronic, mechanical, or other

technological collection techniques or

other forms of information technology,

e.g., permitting electronic submissions

of responses.

ADDRESSES: Comments are to be

submitted to the Docket Office, Docket

No. ICR–96–1, U.S. Department of

Labor, Room N–2625, 200 Constitution

Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20210,

telephone: (202) 219–7894. Written

comments limited to 10 pages or less in

length may also be transmitted by

facsimile to (202) 219–5046.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Anne C. Cyr, Office of Information and

Consumer Affairs, Occupational Safety

and Health Administration, U.S.

Department of Labor, Room N–3647,

200 Constitution Avenue, NW,

Washington, D.C. 20210, telephone:

(202) 219–8148. Copies of the

referenced information collection

request are available for inspection and

copying in the Docket Office and will be

mailed immediately to persons who

request copies by telephoning Vivian

Allen at (202) 219–8076. For electronic

copies, contact the Labor News Bulletin

Board (202) 219–4784; or OSHA’s

WebPage on Internet at http://

www.osha.gov/.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

The Occupational Safety and Health

Administration (OSHA) currently has

approval from the Office of Management

and Budget (OMB) for certain

information collection requirements

contained in 29 CFR 1910.146. That

approval will expire on September 30,

1997, unless OSHA applies for an

extension of the OMB approval. This

notice initiates the process for OSHA to

request an extension of the current OMB

approval.

As part of OMB’s and OSHA’s

continuing paperwork reduction effort,

OSHA seeks to reduce the paperwork

burden hours in 29 CFR 1910.146 based

upon input from parties interested in

the regulatory scope of that regulation.

The purpose of this notice is to solicit

public comment on OSHA’s existing

paperwork burden estimates from those

interested parties and to seek public

response to several questions related to

the development of OSHA’s estimation.

Interested parties are requested to

review OSHA’s existing estimates,

which are based upon information

available during rulemaking, and to

comment on their accuracy or

appropriateness in today’s workplace

situation. OSHA bases its existing

estimates upon information made

available to the Agency during the

initial rulemaking effort for 29 CFR

1910.146 (January 14, 1993; 58 FR 4462)

and believes that this data may be

outdated.

II. Current Actions

This notice requests an extension of

the current OMB approval of the

paperwork requirements in 29 CFR

1910.146, Permit-Required Confined

Spaces.

Type of Review: Extension of

currently approved collection.

Agency: Occupational Safety and

Health Administration, U.S. Department

of Labor.

Title: Permit-Required Confined

Spaces (29 CFR 1910.146).

OMB Number: 1218–0203.

Agency Number: Docket No. ICR–96–

1.

Frequency: When needed to safely

enter a permit-required confined space.

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit, Federal government, and State,

Local or Tribal governments.

Number of Respondents: 238,853.

Estimated Time Per Respondent: 10.6

hours.

Total Estimated Cost: $38,163,639.

Total Burden Hours: 2,173,088.

Comments submitted in response to

this notice will be summarized and/or

included in the request for Office of

Management and Budget approval of the

information collection request. They

will also become a matter of public

record.

Dated: January 19, 1996.

Thomas H. Seymour,

Acting Director, Directorate of Safety

Standards Programs.

[FR Doc. 96–1234 Filed 1–24–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4510–26–M

NUCLEAR REGULATORY

COMMISSION

Regulatory Information Conference

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory

Commission.

ACTION: Notice of Meeting.

SUMMARY: The objectives of the

conference are to give the licensees and

the public insights into our approach to

safety regulations and to provide a

forum for feedback from those in

attendance on their concerns about our

overall approach, as well as feedback on

differences that may exist on technical

issues. NRC staff will provide

information regarding on-going

programs and potential new initiatives

as a basis for discussion.

Discussions will proceed from general

(i.e., the plenary sessions) to specific

issues (i.e., the breakout sessions), with

emphasis on plant operations and the

NRC view of these operations based on

experience in carrying out its regulatory

mission. Three plenary sessions are

planned, two of which will be followed

by breakout sessions that will include

presentations by the NRC staff and

industry representatives.

DATES: Conference will be held April 9–

10, 1996.

ADDRESSES: The conference will be held

at the Capital Hilton Hotel, 16th and K

Street, N.W., Washington DC 20036

Telephone: (202) 393–1000 Fax (202)

639–5742 (Refer to NRC Group)

FOR REGISTRATION INFORMATION CONTACT:

ES Inc., by facsimile on (202) 835–0118

or by phone on (202) 835–1585, after

February 1, 1996.

PARTICIPATION: This conference is open

to the general public; however, advance

registration is required by March 18,

1996. The following is the preliminary

program for the conference:

Tuesday, April 9, 1996—(8:30 a.m.–5:15

p.m.)

1. Welcome and Introductory Remarks—

William T. Russell, Director Office of

Nuclear Reactor Regulation

2. Morning Speaker: NRC Chairman Shirley

A. Jackson

3. Morning Plenary Session: Regulatory

Trends

4. Breakout Sessions:

1. Probabilistic Safety Assessment

Implementation Plan

2. Dry Cask Storage

3. Improved Technical Specification

Conversion

4. Operator Licensing Examination

Changes

5. Luncheon Speaker: James M. Taylor, NRC

Executive Director for Operations

6. Afternoon Plenary Session: Regional

Administrator Panel Issues:

1. Inspection Program Performance-based

Changes

2. Enforcement Policy: Experience to Date

3. Plant Performance Review Process

4. Self Assessment

7. Breakout Sessions:

1. Integrated Performance Assessment

Program—Activities and Results

2. Electronic Information Exchange

3. Core Performance and Reactor Fuel

Issues

4. Revised Decommissioning Rule and

Implementation

Wednesday, April 10, 1996—(8:30 a.m.–4:45

p.m.)

1. Breakout Sessions:

1. NRC/Licensee Interface and

Communications, REGION I

2. NRC/Licensee Interface and

Communications, REGION II

3. NRC/Licensee Interface and

Communications, REGION III
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4. NRC/Licensee Interface and

Communications, REGION IV

2. Breakout Sessions:

1. Competition, Utility Restructuring,

Mergers, and NRC Licensing Activities

2. Steam Generator Issues

3. Fire Protection Issues

4. Maintenance Rule Implementation

3. Luncheon Speaker: To Be Determined

4. Breakout Sessions:

1. Reactor Vessel and Internals Issues

2. License Renewal Update

3. Shutdown Rule

4. Spent Fuel Pool Issues

5. Closing Plenary Session: NRR Executive

Team and Regional Administrators

Note: There will be a question and answer

period after each session each day.

Next year’s conference is scheduled for

April 1–2, 1997, at the Capital Hilton Hotel,

Washington, DC.

Dated in Rockville, Maryland this 18th day

of Jan. 1996.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Marylee M. Slosson,

Chief, Planning, Program, and Management

Support Branch, Division of Inspection and

Support Programs, Office of Nuclear Reactor

Regulation.

[FR Doc. 96–1150 Filed 1–24–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P

[Docket Nos. 50–255, 50–266, 50–301, 50–

313, 50–368, 72–5, 72–7, 72–13, and 72–

1007]

Consumers Power Company,

Wisconsin Electric Power Company,

and Entergy Operations, Inc.;

Palisades Plant; Point Beach Nuclear

Plant, Units 1 and 2; and Arkansas

Nuclear One, Units 1 and 2; Receipt of

Petition for Director’s Decision Under

10 CFR 2.206

Notice is hereby given that by a

Petition dated November 17, 1995,

Fawn Shillinglaw requests that the

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)

prohibit the loading of VSC–24 casks at

any nuclear site until a particular cask

at the Palisades Plant, in which

indications have been detected in a

weld, is unloaded and the unloading

procedure evaluated.

As the basis for this request, the

Petitioner notes that the NRC has

determined that the unloading

procedures developed by licensees have

tended to be simplistic in that they fail

to account for certain contingencies and

assumptions and that these types of

deficiencies are discovered through

experience with the casks. She therefore

asks that no additional casks be loaded

until the defective cask at the Palisades

Plant is unloaded. She also states that

certain procedures concerning the casks

require detailed NRC review and asks

that they not be left to the licensees to

perform without NRC oversight.

The Petition is being treated pursuant

to Section 2.206 of Title 10 of the Code

of Federal Regulations. The Petition has

been referred to the Director of the

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

(NRR). As provided by Section 2.206,

appropriate action will be taken on this

Petition within a reasonable time.

A copy of the Petition is available for

inspection at the Commission’s Public

Document Room at 2120 L Street, NW.,

Washington, DC, and at the local public

document rooms for Palisades Plant:

Van Wylen Library, Hope College,

Holland, Michigan; Point Beach Nuclear

Plant: Joseph Mann Library, 1516 16th

Street, Two Rivers, Wisconsin; and

Arkansas Nuclear One: Tomlinson

Library, Arkansas Tech University,

Russellville, Arkansas.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 18th day

of January 1996.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

William T. Russell,

Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor

Regulation.

[FR Doc. 96–1151 Filed 1–24–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P

Regulatory Guide; Issuance,

Availability

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission

has issued a revision to a guide in 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.

Revision 1 of Regulatory Guide 1.152,

‘‘Criteria for Digital Computers in Safety

Systems of Nuclear Power Plants,’’

describes a method acceptable to the

NRC staff for complying with the

Commission’s regulations for promoting

high functional reliability and design

quality for the use of digital computers

in safety systems of nuclear power

plants. This guide endorses the Institute

of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Standard Std 7–4.3.2–1993, ‘‘Standard

Criteria for Digital Computers in Safety

Systems of Nuclear Power Generating

Stations.’’

Comments and suggestions in

connection with items for inclusion in

guides currently being developed or

improvements in all published guides

are encouraged at any time. Written

comments may be submitted to the

Rules Review and Directives Branch,

Division of Freedom of Information and

Publications Services, Office of

Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission, Washington, DC 20555.

Regulatory guides are available for

inspection at the Commission’s Public

Document Room, 2120 L Street NW.,

Washington, DC. Single copies of

regulatory guides may be obtained free

of charge by writing the Office of

Administration, Attention: Distribution

and Services Section, U.S. Nuclear

Regulatory Commission, Washington,

DC 20555–0001, or by fax at (301)415–

2260. Issued guides may also be

purchased from the National Technical

Information Service on a standing order

basis. Details on this service may be

obtained by writing NTIS, 5285 Port

Royal Road, Springfield, VA 22161.

Regulatory guides are not copyrighted,

and Commission approval is not

required to reproduce them.

(5 U.S.C. 552(a))

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11 day

of December 1995.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

David L. Morrison,

Director, Office of Nuclear Regulatory

Research.

[FR Doc. 96–1152 Filed 1–24–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P

POSTAL RATE COMMISSION

[Order No. 1098; Docket No. A96–9]

Issued: January 19, 1996.

Before Commissioners: Edward J. Gleiman,

Chairman; W.H. ‘‘Trey’’ LeBlanc III, ViceChairman; George W. Haley; H. Edward

Quick, Jr.

In the Matter of: Morrison, Iowa 50657

(Donna, Cooley, et al., Petitioners);

Notice and Order Accepting Appeal

and Establishing Procedural Schedule

Under 39 U.S.C. 404(b)(5)

Docket Number: A96–9

Name of Affected Post Office:

Morrison, Iowa 50657

Name(s) of Petitioner(s): Donna

Cooley, et al.

Type of Determination: Consolidation

Date of Filing of Appeal Papers:

January 11, 1996

Categories of Issues Apparently

Raised:

1. Effect on postal services [39 U.S.C.

§ 404(b)(2)(C)].

2. Effect on the community [39 U.S.C.

§ 404(b)(2)(A)].

After the Postal Service files the

administrative record and the

Commission reviews it, the Commission

may find that there are more legal issues

than those set forth above. Or, the

Commission may find that the Postal

Service’s determination disposes of one

or more of those issues.