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6(b) of the Act on December 16, 2004 

(69 FR 75346). 

Patricia A. Brink, 

Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust 

Division. 

[FR Doc. E8–18182 Filed 8–7–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–11–M 

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS 

ADMINISTRATION 

Records Schedules; Availability and 

Request for Comments 

AGENCY: National Archives and Records 

Administration (NARA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability of 

proposed records schedules; request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The National Archives and 

Records Administration (NARA) 

publishes notice at least once monthly 

of certain Federal agency requests for 

records disposition authority (records 

schedules). Once approved by NARA, 

records schedules provide mandatory 

instructions on what happens to records 

when no longer needed for current 

Government business. They authorize 

the preservation of records of 

continuing value in the National 

Archives of the United States and the 

destruction, after a specified period, of 

records lacking administrative, legal, 

research, or other value. Notice is 

published for records schedules in 

which agencies propose to destroy 

records not previously authorized for 

disposal or reduce the retention period 

of records already authorized for 

disposal. NARA invites public 

comments on such records schedules, as 

required by 44 U.S.C. 3303a(a). 

DATES: Requests for copies must be 

received in writing on or before 

September 8, 2008. Once the appraisal 

of the records is completed, NARA will 

send a copy of the schedule. NARA staff 

usually prepare appraisal 

memorandums that contain additional 

information concerning the records 

covered by a proposed schedule. These, 

too, may be requested and will be 

provided once the appraisal is 

completed. Requesters will be given 30 

days to submit comments. 

ADDRESSES: You may request a copy of 

any records schedule identified in this 

notice by contacting the Life Cycle 

Management Division (NWML) using 

one of the following means: 

Mail: NARA (NWML), 8601 Adelphi 

Road, College Park, MD 20740–6001. 

E-mail: requestschedule@nara.gov. 

Fax: 301–837–3698. 

Requesters must cite the control 

number, which appears in parentheses 

after the name of the agency which 

submitted the schedule, and must 

provide a mailing address. Those who 

desire appraisal reports should so 

indicate in their request. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Laurence Brewer, Director, Life Cycle 

Management Division (NWML), 

National Archives and Records 

Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road, 

College Park, MD 20740–6001. 

Telephone: 301–837–1539. E-mail: 

records.mgt@nara.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Each year 

Federal agencies create billions of 

records on paper, film, magnetic tape, 

and other media. To control this 

accumulation, agency records managers 

prepare schedules proposing retention 

periods for records and submit these 

schedules for NARA’s approval, using 

the Standard Form (SF) 115, Request for 

Records Disposition Authority. These 

schedules provide for the timely transfer 

into the National Archives of 

historically valuable records and 

authorize the disposal of all other 

records after the agency no longer needs 

them to conduct its business. Some 

schedules are comprehensive and cover 

all the records of an agency or one of its 

major subdivisions. Most schedules, 

however, cover records of only one 

office or program or a few series of 

records. Many of these update 

previously approved schedules, and 

some include records proposed as 

permanent. 

The schedules listed in this notice are 

media neutral unless specified 

otherwise. An item in a schedule is 

media neutral when the disposition 

instructions may be applied to records 

regardless of the medium in which the 

records are created and maintained. 

Items included in schedules submitted 

to NARA on or after December 17, 2007, 

are media neutral unless the item is 

limited to a specific medium. (See 36 

CFR 1228.24(b)(3).) 

No Federal records are authorized for 

destruction without the approval of the 

Archivist of the United States. This 

approval is granted only after a 

thorough consideration of their 

administrative use by the agency of 

origin, the rights of the Government and 

of private persons directly affected by 

the Government’s activities, and 

whether or not they have historical or 

other value. 

Besides identifying the Federal 

agencies and any subdivisions 

requesting disposition authority, this 

public notice lists the organizational 

unit(s) accumulating the records or 

indicates agency-wide applicability in 

the case of schedules that cover records 

that may be accumulated throughout an 

agency. This notice provides the control 

number assigned to each schedule, the 

total number of schedule items, and the 

number of temporary items (the records 

proposed for destruction). It also 

includes a brief description of the 

temporary records. The records 

schedule itself contains a full 

description of the records at the file unit 

level as well as their disposition. If 

NARA staff has prepared an appraisal 

memorandum for the schedule, it too 

includes information about the records. 

Further information about the 

disposition process is available on 

request. 

Schedules Pending 

1. Department of Agriculture, Food 

and Nutrition Service (N1–462–04–3, 4 

items, 4 temporary items). Inputs, 

master file and Web site records 

associated with a Web-based food 

ordering system used by state and local 

governments, the Federal Government, 

and private industry. The proposed 

disposition instructions are limited to 

electronic records for certain items and 

to paper records for other items. 

2. Department of Agriculture, Food 

Safety and Inspection Service (N1–462–

04–9, 1 item, 1 temporary item). Master 

file associated with an electronic 

information system that provides 

information on microbiological, 

chemical, and pathological analyses of 

domestic and imported meat and 

poultry and their processed products. 

The proposed disposition instructions 

are limited to electronic records. 

3. Department of Justice, Federal 

Bureau of Investigation (N1–65–08–20, 

1 item, 1 temporary item). This schedule 

requests authority to destroy case 29J–

OC–63713, which pertains exclusively 

to the investigation of the captioned 

individual. This request responds to a 

Federal Pre-Trial Diversion Program 

court order to delete the records of the 

captioned individual. 

4. Department of State, Bureau of Near 

Eastern Affairs (N1–59–08–10, 7 items, 

4 temporary items). Subject files, 

biographic files, extra copies of briefing 

books, and departmental task force/ 

working group files. Proposed for 

permanent retention are bureau-level 

task force/working group files, 

geographic office briefing books, and 

unique collections of records relating to 

historically significant events within the 

geographic region covered by the 

bureau. The proposed disposition 

instructions for permanent items are 

limited to paper records. 

5. Federal Housing Finance Board, 

Office of the Inspector General (N1–

485–08–2, 10 items, 10 temporary 


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items). Records relating to audits, 

policies, procedures, legislation, 

regulations, and workload. The 

proposed disposition instructions are 

limited to paper records. 

6. National Reconnaissance Office, 

Management Services and Operations 

(N1–525–08–2, 1 item, 1 temporary 

item). Audio and video tapes of 

polygraph interviews of agency staff and 

contractors containing adverse 

information. 

7. Office of Personnel Management, 

Federal Investigative Services Division 

(N1–478–08–2, 8 items, 8 temporary 

items). Records pertaining to the 

government-wide security background 

investigation program including 

investigation case files, reports, indexes, 

adjudications, and appraisals of agency 

security/suitability investigation 

programs. 

8. Office of Personnel Management, 

Office of the Inspector General (N1–

478–08–1, 16 items, 16 temporary 

items). Records include administrative 

sanction files, audit files, investigative 

files, legislative files, and legal files. The 

proposed disposition instructions are 

limited to paper records for most items. 

Dated: August 1, 2008. 

Michael J. Kurtz, 

Assistant Archivist for Records Services—

Washington, DC. 

[FR Doc. E8–18380 Filed 8–7–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7515–01–P 

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Notice of Permits Issued Under the 

Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978 

AGENCY: National Science Foundation. 

ACTION: Notice of permits issued under 

the Antarctic Conservation of 1978, 

Public Law 95–541. 

SUMMARY: The National Science 

Foundation (NSF) is required to publish 

notice of permits issued under the 

Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. 

This is the required notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nadene G. Kennedy, Permit Office, 

Office of Polar Programs, Rm. 755, 

National Science Foundation, 4201 

Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22230. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On July 2, 

2008, the National Science Foundation 

published a notice in the Federal 

Register of permit applications received. 

A permit was issued on August 5, 2008 

to: Kristin M. O’Brien, Permit No. 2009–

011. 

Nadene G. Kennedy, 

Permit Officer. 

[FR Doc. E8–18317 Filed 8–7–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7555–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No.: 40–8905] 

Environmental Assessment and 

Finding of No Significant Impact for 

Site Protection Measures From Surface 

Water Flow, License Amendment No. 

59; Rio Algom Mining, LLC, Ambrosia 

Lake, NM—SUA–1473 

AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Issuance of Environmental 

Assessment. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Thomas McLaughlin, Project Manager, 

Materials Decommissioning Branch, 

Division of Waste Management and 

Environmental Protection, Office of 

Federal and State Materials and 

Environmental Management Programs, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC, 20555. Telephone: 

(301) 415–5869; fax number: (301) 415–

5369; e-mail: tgm@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

By letter dated October 24, 2007, as 

supplemented on January 31, 2008, and 

March 21, 2008, Rio Algom Mining, 

LLC, (Rio Algom, or the Licensee) 

submitted an application to the U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), 

requesting an amendment to Source 

Materials License SUA–1473 for the 

Ambrosia Lake Mill Facility, in 

Ambrosia Lake, New Mexico. Rio Algom 

seeks the approval of its proposed site 

erosion protection measures designed to 

prevent surface water flow from 

damaging its uranium mill tailings site. 

The NRC prepared an Environmental 

Assessment (EA) for this proposed 

action in accordance with the 

requirements of 10 CFR Part 51. Based 

on the EA, the NRC concluded that a 

Finding of No Significant Impact 

(FONSI) is appropriate with respect to 

the proposed action. The amendment 

would be issued following the 

publication of this FONSI and EA in the 

Federal Register. 

The Licensee has indicated that the 

proposed site erosion protection 

measures from surface water flow are 

the final component of the overall site 

reclamation plan. The Licensee 

previously has addressed, and NRC has 

approved, the remaining site-wide 

reclamation plan elements through 

separate licensing actions, including the 

original reclamation plan for Tailings 

Cells 1, 2, and 3 (approved in September 

1990), mill demolition, relocation of 

lined evaporation pond sediments, soil 

decommissioning plan, and 

groundwater remediation. The 

expansion of Tailings Cell 2 was 

approved by License Amendment No. 

58. The current licensing action is to 

protect the Tailing Cells from erosion 

from surface water by constructing a 

channel to divert water flow around 

them. 

II. Environmental Assessment 

1.0 Background 

The Ambrosia Lake site is in the 

Ambrosia Lake Mining District of New 

Mexico, 25 miles north of Grants, New 

Mexico. Rio Algom began processing ore 

in 1958, and processed approximately 

33 million tons of ore through 1985. The 

site continued to be an active uranium 

production facility through December 

2002. Site reclamation activities 

commenced in 1989 with some work on 

the top surface of the largest tailings 

cell. There are three tailings/waste cells 

situated adjacent to each other at the Rio 

Algom site: The large Tailings Cell 1, 

Tailings Cell 2 to the west of Cell 1, and 

a small Cell 3 east of Cell 1 that was 

used to dispose of contaminated 

windblown material. Reclamation of 

Cell 1 is complete, and cover 

construction of Cells 2 and 3 is still 

ongoing and almost complete. 

Reclamation activities have at times 

included unlined evaporation pond 

residue excavation and disposal, 

contaminated windblown soil cleanup, 

tailings impoundment reclamation, 

surface water erosion protection feature 

construction, and mill building 

demolition. 

In meetings and discussions with the 

Licensee in 2006 and 2007, the NRC 

staff was informed that Rio Algom 

intended to leave remaining 

contaminants under Ponds 4, 5, and 6 

in place in the Arroyo del Puerto 

floodplain. Ponds 4, 5, and 6 were 

unlined and uranium, radium-226, and 

thorium-230, have been found to extend 

to 10 feet deep in some areas. The top 

4 to 5 feet of contaminated soil in these 

Ponds have been removed and the 

material placed in Tailings Cell 3, then 

the footprint was covered with 1 to 2 

feet of clean soil. The staff expressed 

concerns that the remaining 

contaminates under the Ponds needed 

to be protected from erosion due to 


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