Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 148 / Thursday, July 31, 2008 / Notices 44777 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 28th day of 

July 2008. 

Edwin G. Foulke, Jr., 

Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational 

Safety and Health. 

[FR Doc. E8–17565 Filed 7–30–08; 8:45 am] 

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Comment Request 

AGENCY: National Science Foundation. 

ACTION: Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request. 

SUMMARY: The National Science 

Foundation (NSF) has submitted the 

following information collection 

requirement to OMB for review and 

clearance under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104–

13. The full submission may be found 

at: http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. This is the second notice; the 

first notice was published at 73 FR 

30421 and no comments were received. 

Comments regarding (a) whether the 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of burden including 

the validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; (c) ways to enhance 

the quality, utility and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (d) 

ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including through the 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology 

should be addressed to: Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs of 

OMB, Attention: Desk Officer for 

National Science Foundation, 725—17th 

Street, NW., Room 10235, Washington, 

DC 20503, and to Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National 

Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson 

Boulevard, Suite 295, Arlington, 

Virginia 22230 or send e-mail to 

splimpto@nsf.gov. Comments regarding 

these information collections are best 

assured of having their full effect if 

received within 30 days of this 

notification. Copies of the submission(s) 

may be obtained by calling 703–292–

7556. 

NSF may not conduct or sponsor a 

collection of information unless the 

collection of information displays a 

currently valid OMB control number 

and the agency informs potential 

persons who are to respond to the 

collection of information that such 

persons are not required to respond to 

the collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title of Collection: Fellowship 

Applications and Award Forms. 

OMB Approval Number: 3145–0023. 

Type of Request: Intent to seek 

approval to extend without revision an 

information collection for three years. 

Abstract 

Section 10 of the National Science 

Foundation Act of 1950 (42 U.S.C. 1861 

et seq.), as amended, states that ‘‘The 

Foundation is authorized to award, 

within the limits of funds made 

available * * * scholarships and 

graduate fellowships for scientific study 

or scientific work in the mathematical 

physical, medical, biological, 

engineering, social, and other sciences 

at appropriate nonprofit American or 

nonprofit foreign institutions selected 

by the recipient of such aid, for stated 

periods of time.’’

The Foundation Fellowship Programs 

are designed to meet the following 

objectives: 

• To assure that some of the Nation’s 

most talented students in the sciences 

obtain the education necessary to 

become creative and productive 

scientific researchers. 

• To train or upgrade advanced 

scientific personnel to enhance their 

abilities as teachers and researchers. 

• To promote graduate education in 

the sciences, mathematics, and 

engineering at institutions that have 

traditionally served ethnic minorities. 

• To encourage pursuit of advanced 

science degrees by students who are 

members of ethnic groups traditionally 

under-represented in the Nation’s 

advanced science personnel pool. 

The list of fellowship award programs 

sponsored by the Foundation may be 

found via FastLane through the NSF 

Web site: http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov. 

Estimate of Burden: These are annual 

award programs with application 

deadlines varying according to the 

fellowship program. Public burden may 

also vary according to program, however 

it is estimated that each submission is 

averaged to be 12 hours per respondent. 

Respondents: Individuals. 

Estimated Number of Responses: 

8,500. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 102,000 hours. 

Frequency of Responses: Annually. 

Dated: July 28, 2008. 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation. 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

Review; Comment Request 

AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC). 

ACTION: Notice of the OMB review of 

information collection and solicitation 

of public comment. 

SUMMARY: The NRC has recently 

submitted to OMB for review the 

following proposal for the collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. Chapter 35). The NRC hereby 

informs potential respondents that an 

agency may not conduct or sponsor, and 

that a person is not required to respond 

to, a collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. The NRC published a Federal 

Register Notice with a 60-day comment 

period on this information collection on 

May 8, 2008. 

1. Type of submission, new, revision, 

or extension: Extension. 

2. The title of the information 

collection: 10 CFR Part 31, General 

Domestic Licenses for Byproduct 

Material. 

3. Current OMB approval number: 

3150–0016. 

4. The form number if applicable: N/ 

A. 

5. How often the collection is 

required: Reports are submitted as 

events occur. General license 

registration requests may be submitted 

at any time. Changes to the information 

on the registration may be submitted as 

they occur. 

6. Who will be required or asked to 

report: Persons receiving, possessing, 

using, or transferring devices containing 

byproduct material. 

7. An estimate of the number of 

annual responses: 35,663 (1,073 NRC 

responses + 3,900 NRC recordkeepers + 

11,290 Agreement State responses + 

19,400 Agreement State recordkeepers). 

8. The estimated number of annual 

respondents: Approximately 3,900 NRC 

general licensees and 19,400 Agreement 

State general licensees. 

9. An estimate of the total number of 

hours needed annually to complete the 


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requirement or request: 10,868 hours 

(1,460 hours for NRC licensees [485 

hours reporting and 975 hours 

recordkeeping] and 9,408 hours for 

Agreement State licensees [4,558 hours 

reporting and 4,850 hours 

recordkeeping]). 

10. Abstract: 10 CFR Part 31 

establishes general licenses for the 

possession and use of byproduct 

material in certain devices. General 

licensees are required to keep testing 

records and submit event reports 

identified in Part 31, which assist NRC 

in determining with reasonable 

assurance that devices are operated 

safely and without radiological hazard 

to users or the public. 

A copy of the final supporting 

statement may be viewed free of charge 

at the NRC Public Document Room, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Room O–1 F21, Rockville, 

Maryland 20852. OMB clearance 

requests are available at the NRC 

worldwide Web site: http:// 

www.nrc.gov/public-involve/doccomment/omb/index.html. The 

document will be available on the NRC 

home page site for 60 days after the 

signature date of this notice. 

Comments and questions should be 

directed to the OMB reviewer listed 

below by September 2, 2008. Comments 

received after this date will be 

considered if it is practical to do so, but 

assurance of consideration cannot be 

given to comments received after this 

date. 

Nathan J. Frey, Office of Information 

and Regulatory Affairs (3150–0016), 

NEOB–10202, Office of Management 

and Budget, Washington, DC 20503. 

Comments can also be e-mailed to 

Nathan_J._Frey@omb.eop.gov or 

submitted by telephone at (202) 395–

7345. 

The NRC Clearance Officer is Russell 

Nichols, (301) 415–6874. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day 

of July, 2008. 

Tremaine Donnell, 

Acting NRC Clearance Officer, Office of 

Information Services. 

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[NRC–2008–0332] 

Notice of Availability and Solicitation 

of Public Comments on Documents 

Under Consideration To Establish the 

Technical Basis for New PerformanceBased Emergency Core Cooling 

System Requirements 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of availability and 

request for public comment. 

SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is announcing the 

availability of Research Information 

Letter (RIL) 0801, ‘‘Technical Basis for 

Revision of Embrittlement Criteria in 10 

CFR 50.46’’ and NUREG/CR–6967, 

‘‘Cladding Embrittlement During 

Postulated Loss-of-Coolant Accidents,’’

and is seeking public comment on these 

documents. The NRC is soliciting 

comment on the subject documents to 

confirm that a sufficient technical basis 

exists to proceed with new 

performance-based regulations on 

emergency core cooling system (ECCS) 

acceptance criteria, and to identify 

issues that may arise with respect to 

experimental data development or 

regulatory costs or impacts of new 

requirements. 

DATES: Comments on these documents 

should be submitted by September 5, 

2008. Comments received after this date 

will be considered to the extent 

practical, but assurance of consideration 

cannot be given to comments received 

after this date. 

ADDRESSES: Members of the public are 

invited and encouraged to submit 

comments by mail to Michael Lesar, 

Chief, Rulemaking, Directives and 

Editing Branch, Office of 

Administration, Mail Stop T6–D59, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001. 

You may also submit comments 

electronically at the federal rulemaking 

portal, http://www.regulations.gov; 

search on rulemaking docket ID: NRC–

2008–0332. 

To ensure efficient and complete 

comment resolution, comments should 

include references to the section and 

page numbers of the document to which 

the comment applies, if possible. 

Comments will be discussed during a 10 

CFR 50.46(b) public workshop 

tentatively scheduled for September 

2008 (specific date and location to be 

noticed separately). 

You can access publicly available 

documents related to this notice using 

the following methods: Federal eRulemaking Portal: Documents related 

to this action, including public 

comments, are accessible at the federal 

rulemaking portal, http:// 

www.regulations.gov, by searching on 

rulemaking docket ID: NRC–2008–0332. 

The NRC also tracks all rulemaking 

actions in the ‘‘NRC Regulatory Agenda: 

Semiannual Report (NUREG–0936).’’

NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR): 

The public may examine and have 

copied for a fee, publicly available 

documents at the NRC’s PDR, Public 

File Area O–1F21, One White Flint 

North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland. 

NRC’s Agencywide Document Access 

and Management System (ADAMS): RIL 

0801, Technical Basis for Revision of 

Embrittlement Criteria in 10 CFR 50.46’’

(ADAMS ML081350225) and NUREG/ 

CR–6967, ‘‘Cladding Embrittlement 

During Postulated Loss-of-Coolant 

Accidents’’ (ADAMS ML081780360) are 

available electronically at the NRC’s 

Electronic Reading Room at http:// 

www.nrc.gov/NRC/reading-rm/ 

adams.html. From this page, the public 

can gain entry into ADAMS, which 

provides text and image files of NRC’s 

public documents. If you do not have 

access to ADAMS or if there are any 

problems in accessing the documents 

located in ADAMS, contact the NRC 

PDR Reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 

301–415–4737 or by e-mail to 

PDR.resource@nrc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul 

M. Clifford, Division of Safety Systems, 

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, 

telephone: (301) 415–4043, e-mail: 

Paul.Clifford@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In early 

2003, the Commission directed the NRC 

staff to complete the technical basis and 

move forward with rulemaking to 

establish improved, performance-based 

ECCS acceptance criteria in 10 CFR 

50.46(b), ‘‘Acceptance Criteria for 

Emergency Core Cooling Systems for 

Light-Water Nuclear Power Reactors.’’

The NRC sponsored an extensive 

research and testing program at Argonne 

National Laboratory (ANL) to develop 

the body of technical information 

needed to support the new regulations. 

This information has been summarized 

in RIL 0801 and the detailed 

experimental results are contained in 

NUREG/CR–6967. Because of the 

importance of this regulation, the staff 

has decided to release the technical 

documentation for domestic and 

international public comment. With this 

approach, the NRC can address 

stakeholder questions and respond to 

comments early in the process. The 


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