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3 COL application are 52–027 and 52–

028, respectively. 

The NRC staff will perform a detailed 

technical review of the application. 

Docketing of the application does not 

preclude the NRC from requesting 

additional information from the 

applicant as the review proceeds, nor 

does it predict whether the Commission 

will grant or deny the application. The 

Commission will conduct a hearing in 

accordance with Subpart L, ‘‘Informal 

Hearing Procedures for NRC 

Adjudications,’’ of 10 CFR Part 2 and 

will receive a report on the COL 

application from the Advisory 

Committee on Reactor Safeguards in 

accordance with 10 CFR 52.87, ‘‘Referral 

to the Advisory Committee on Reactor 

Safeguards (ACRS).’’ If the Commission 

finds that the COL application meets the 

applicable standards of the Atomic 

Energy Act and the Commission’s 

regulations, and that required 

notifications to other agencies and 

bodies have been made, the Commission 

will issue a COL, in the form and 

containing conditions and limitations 

that the Commission finds appropriate 

and necessary. 

In accordance with 10 CFR Part 51, 

the Commission will also prepare an 

environmental impact statement for the 

proposed action. Pursuant to 10 CFR 

51.26, and as part of the environmental 

scoping process, the staff intends to 

hold a public scoping meeting. Detailed 

information regarding this meeting will 

be included in a future Federal Register 

notice. 

Finally, the Commission will publish 

in the Federal Register a notice of 

hearing, which will notice the 

opportunity to petition to intervene. 

Documents may be examined, and/or 

copied for a fee, at the NRC’s Public 

Document Room (PDR), located at One 

White Flint North, Public File Area O1 

F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), 

Rockville, Maryland 20852, and will be 

accessible electronically through the 

Agencywide Documents Access and 

Management System (ADAMS) Public 

Electronic Reading Room link at the 

NRC Web site http://www.nrc.gov/ 

reading-rm/adams.html. The 

application is also available at http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-licensing/ 

col.html. Persons who do not have 

access to ADAMS or who encounter 

problems in accessing documents 

located in ADAMS should contact the 

NRC PDR Reference staff by telephone 

at 1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or 

by e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 1st day 

of August 2008. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Brian Hughes, 

Senior Project Manager, AP1000 Projects 

Branch 1, Division of New Reactor Licensing, 

Office of New Reactors. 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

Office of New Reactors; 

Interim Staff Guidance on Evaluation 

and Acceptance Criteria for 10 CFR 

20.1406 to Support Design Certification 

and Combined License Applications 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC). 

ACTION: Solicitation of public comment. 

SUMMARY: The NRC is soliciting public 

comment on its Proposed Interim Staff 

Guidance (ISG) DC/COL–ISG–06 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML081850160). 

This ISG is to clarify the U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission (NRC) position 

on what is an acceptable level of detail 

and content for demonstrating 

compliance with Title 10 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations Section 20.1406 (10 

CFR 20.1406). Regulatory Guide (RG) 

4.21, ‘‘Minimization of Contamination 

and Waste Generation: Life Cycle 

Planning,’’ provides an acceptable 

method of demonstrating compliance. 

This ISG provides further clarification 

on the evaluation and acceptance 

criteria that will be used by NRC staff 

in reaching a reasonable assurance 

finding that a Design Certification (DC) 

or Combined License (COL) applicant 

has complied with the requirements of 

10 CFR 20.1406. The NRC staff issues 

DC/COL–ISGs to facilitate timely 

implementation of the current staff 

guidance and to facilitate activities 

associated with review of applications 

for DC and COLs by the Office of New 

Reactors. The NRC staff will also 

incorporate the approved DC/COL–ISG–

006 into the next revision of the 

Standard Review Plan and related 

guidance documents. 

DATES: Comments must be filed no later 

than 30 days from the date of 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register . Comments received after this 

date will be considered, if it is practical 

to do so, but the Commission is able to 

ensure consideration only for comments 

received on or before this date. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted to: Chief, Rules and 

Directives Branch, Office of 

Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC, 20555–

0001. 

Comments should be delivered to: 

11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland, Room T–6D59, between 7:30 

a.m. and 4:15 p.m. on Federal workdays. 

Persons may also provide comments via 

e-mail to Timothy J. Frye at 

timothy.frye@nrc.gov. The NRC 

maintains an Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS), which provides text and 

image files of NRC’s public documents. 

These documents may be accessed 

through the NRC’s Public Electronic 

Reading Room on the Internet at http: 

//www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. 

Persons who do not have access to 

ADAMS or who encounter problems in 

accessing the documents located in 

ADAMS should contact the NRC Public 

Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 

1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by 

e-mail at pdr@nrc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Timothy J. Frye, Chief, Health Physics 

Branch, Division of Construction, 

Inspection, & Operational Programs, 

Office of the New Reactors, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC, 20555–0001; telephone 301–415–

3900 or e-mail at timothy.frye@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

agency posts its issued staff guidance in 

the agency external Web page (http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/isg/). 

The NRC staff is issuing this notice to 

solicit public comments on the 

proposed COL/DC–ISG–006. After the 

NRC staff considers any public 

comments, it will make a determination 

regarding the proposed COL/DC–ISG–

006. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 31st day 

of July 2008. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

William D. Reckley, 

Branch Chief, Rulemaking, Guidance and 

Advanced Reactors Branch, Division of New 

Reactor Licensing, Office of New Reactors. 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Federal Register Notice 

DATES: Weeks of August 4, 11, 18, 25, 

September 1, 8, 2008. 

PLACE: Commissioners’ Conference 

Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland. 

STATUS: Public and Closed. 

Week of August 4, 2008 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the week of August 4, 2008. 

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Week of August 11, 2008—Tentative 

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 

1:30 p.m. 

Meeting with FEMA and State and 

Local Representatives on Offsite 

Emergency Preparedness Issues 

(Public Meeting) (Contact: Lisa 

Gibney, 301 415–8376). 

This meeting will be Web cast live at 

the Web address—http: //www.nrc.gov. 

Thursday, August 14, 2008 

1:30 p.m. 

Meeting with Organization of 

Agreement States (OAS) and 

Conference of Radiation Control 

Program Directors (CRCPD) (Public 

Meeting) (Contact: Andrea Jones, 

301 415–2309). 

This meeting will be Web cast live at 

the Web address—http://www.nrc.gov. 

Week of August 18, 2008—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the week of August 18, 2008. 

Week of August 25, 2008—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the week of August 25, 2008. 

Week of September 1, 2008—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the week of September 1, 2008. 

Week of September 8, 2008—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the week of September 8, 2008. 

* * * * * *The schedule for Commission 

meetings is subject to change on short 

notice. To verify the status of meetings, 

call (recording)—(301) 415–1292. 

Contact person for more information: 

Michelle Schroll, (301) 415–1662. 

* * * * * 

The NRC Commission Meeting 

Schedule can be found on the Internet 

at: http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/policymaking/schedule.html. 

* * * * * 

The NRC provides reasonable 

accommodation to individuals with 

disabilities where appropriate. If you 

need a reasonable accommodation to 

participate in these public meetings, or 

need this meeting notice or the 

transcript or other information from the 

public meetings in another format (e.g. 

braille, large print), please notify the 

NRC’s Disability Program Coordinator, 

Rohn Brown, at 301–492–2279, TDD: 

301–415–2100, or by e-mail at 

REB3@nrc.gov. Determinations on 

requests for reasonable accommodation 

will be made on a case-by-case basis. 

* * * * * 

This notice is distributed by mail to 

several hundred subscribers; if you no 

longer wish to receive it, or would like 

to be added to the distribution, please 

contact the Office of the Secretary, 

Washington, DC 20555 (301–415–1969). 

In addition, distribution of this meeting 

notice over the Internet system is 

available. If you are interested in 

receiving this Commission meeting 

schedule electronically, please send an 

electronic message to dkw@nrc.gov. 

Dated: July 31, 2008. 

R. Michelle Schroll, 

Office of the Secretary. 

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NUCLEAR WASTE TECHNICAL 

REVIEW BOARD 

Board Meeting 

Board meeting: September 24, 2008—

Las Vegas, Nevada; The U.S. Nuclear 

Waste Technical Review Board will 

meet to discuss Department of Energy 

plans for preclosure operations related 

to a proposed repository for spent 

nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive 

waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. 

Pursuant to its authority under 

section 5051 of Public Law 100–203, 

Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act 

of 1987, the U.S. Nuclear Waste 

Technical Review Board will meet in 

Las Vegas, Nevada, on Wednesday, 

September 24, 2008. At the meeting, the 

Board will review U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) activities related to 

designing and operating a waste 

management system in connection with 

the proposed repository for spent 

nuclear fuel and high level radioactive 

waste (HLW) at Yucca Mountain in 

Nevada. Among the issues that will be 

discussed are acceptance of spent 

nuclear fuel or HLW at commercial 

reactors or defense facilities; packaging 

of commercial spent nuclear fuel in 

transportation, aging, and disposal 

(TAD) canisters; transportation of the 

waste, including construction of a 

Nevada rail line; throughput of the 

waste at repository surface facilities; 

and plans for prototyping and testing of 

waste management equipment and 

facilities. The Board was charged in the 

Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act 

of 1987 with conducting an 

independent review of the technical and 

scientific validity of DOE activities 

related to the implementation of the 

Nuclear Waste Policy Act, including 

disposing of, packaging, and 

transporting spent nuclear fuel and 

HLW. 

The Board meeting will be held at the 

Suncoast Hotel & Casino, 9090 Alta 

Drive, Las Vegas (Summerlin), Nevada 

89145; (tel) 702–636–7111, (toll free) 

877–677–7111. 

A meeting agenda will be available on 

the Board’s Web site, http:// 

www.nwtrb.gov, approximately one 

week before the date of the meeting. The 

agenda also may be obtained by 

telephone request at that time. The 

meeting will be open to the public, and 

opportunities for public comment will 

be provided. 

Board Chairman B. John Garrick will 

call the meeting to order at 8 a.m. Dr. 

Garrick’s remarks will be followed by a 

DOE program overview and project 

status report. DOE then will make a 

presentation on issues related to waste 

acceptance, followed by a utility 

perspective on the same subject. After a 

break for lunch, the implications of TAD 

utilization for transportation and 

repository site operations will be 

discussed. A presentation on integrated 

systems’ operations will follow. The last 

presentation of the day will be on DOE’s 

prototyping and testing program for 

waste management equipment and 

facilities. 

Time will be set aside at the end of 

the day for public comments. Those 

wanting to speak are encouraged to sign 

the ‘‘Public Comment Register’’ at the 

check-in table. A time limit may have to 

be set on individual remarks, but 

written comments of any length may be 

submitted for the record. 

Transcripts of the meeting will be 

available on the Board’s Web site, by email, on computer disk, and on a 

library-loan basis in paper format from 

Davonya Barnes of the Board’s staff no 

later than October 20, 2008. 

A block of rooms has been reserved 

for meeting attendees at the Suncoast 

Hotel & Casino. When making a 

reservation, please state that you will be 

attending the Nuclear Waste Technical 

Review Board meeting, Group Code: 

NWTRBO8. Reservations should be 

made by August 29, 2008, to ensure 

receiving the meeting rate. To make 

reservations, call 866–636–7111 or 

access hotel reservations online at 

http://www.suncoastcasino.com. 

For more information, contact Karyn 

Severson, NWTRB External Affairs, 

2300 Clarendon Boulevard, Suite 1300, 

Arlington, VA 22201–3367; (tel) 703–

235–4473; (fax) 703–235–4495. 

Dated: July 31, 2008. 

William D. Barnard, 

Executive Director, Nuclear Waste Technical 

Review Board. 

[FR Doc. E8–17945 Filed 8–5–08; 8:45 am] 

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