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number. The NRC published a Federal 

Register Notice with a 60-day comment 

period on this information collection on 

March 17, 2008. No comments were 

received. 

1. Type of submission, new, revision, 

or extension: Revision. 

2. The title of the information 

collection: 48 CFR 20, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission Acquisition 

Regulation (NRCAR). 

3. The form number if applicable: 

N/A. 

4. How often the collection is 

required: On occasion; one time. 

5. Who will be required or asked to 

report: Potential contractors. 

6. An estimate of the number of 

annual responses: 3,837 responses 

(3,482 responses + 355 recordkeepers). 

7. The estimated number of annual 

respondents: There are 355 potential 

contractors who could respond to NRC 

solicitations. 

8. An estimate of the total number of 

hours needed annually to complete the 

requirement or request: There is both a 

reporting and recordkeeping burden 

associated with this collection. The NRC 

estimates there will be 3,482 report 

submissions amounting to 25,462 

burden hours annually. The annual 

recordkeeping burden is estimated to be 

633 hours for 65 respondents. This 

amounts to an overall annual burden of 

26,095 hours. 

9. An indication of whether Section 

3507(d), Public Law 104–13 applies: 

N/A. 

10. Abstract: The mandatory 

requirements of the NRCAR implement 

and supplement the government-wide 

Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), 

and ensure that the regulations 

governing the procurement of goods and 

services within the NRC satisfy the 

particular needs of the agency. Because 

of differing statutory authorities among 

Federal agencies, the FAR authorizes 

agencies to issue regulations to 

implement FAR policies and procedures 

internally and to include additional 

policies and procedures, solicitation 

provisions or contract clauses to satisfy 

the specific need of the agency. 

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, MD 

20852. OMB clearance requests are 

available at the NRC World Wide Web 

site: http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/ 

doc-comment/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 12, 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 

(3150–0169), 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 6th day 

of August, 2008. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Gregory Trussell, 

Acting NRC Clearance Officer, Office of 

Information Services. 

[FR Doc. E8–18703 Filed 8–12–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 72–27] 

Notice of Docketing and Issuance of 

Amendment to Materials License SNM–

2514; Pacific Gas and Electric 

Company; Humboldt Bay Independent 

Spent Fuel Storage Installation 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of Issuance of 

Amendment to Materials License SNM–

2514. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

James R. Hall, Senior Project Manager, 

Division of Spent Fuel Storage and 

Transportation, Office of Nuclear 

Material Safety and Safeguards, Mail 

Stop EBB–3D–02M, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001. Telephone: (301) 492–

3319; e-mail: randy.hall@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

November 17, 2005, the U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission (NRC or the 

Commission) issued NRC Materials 

License No. SNM–2514 to the Pacific 

Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) for 

the Humboldt Bay Independent Spent 

Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI), located 

in Humboldt County, California. The 

license authorizes PG&E to receive, 

possess, store, and transfer spent 

nuclear fuel and associated radioactive 

materials resulting from the operation of 

the Humboldt Bay Power Plant in an 

ISFSI at the power plant site for a term 

of 20 years. The NRC staff also issued 

an Environmental Assessment and 

Finding of No Significant Impact related 

to the issuance of the initial ISFSI 

license on November 16, 2005, in 

accordance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act, and in 

conformance with the applicable 

requirements of 10 CFR part 51. 

On March 5, 2008, PG&E submitted an 

application to NRC, in accordance with 

10 CFR Part 72, requesting an 

amendment to NRC Materials License 

No. SNM–2514. PG&E’s license 

amendment request proposes to revise 

the minimum initial fuel enrichment 

limit identified in the Technical 

Specifications (TS), so that all of the 

fuel assemblies currently stored in the 

plant’s spent fuel pool may be 

transferred and stored in the ISFSI, as 

intended. Specifically, PG&E identified 

a discrepancy in the minimum initial 

fuel enrichment limit listed in TS Table 

2.1–1, ‘‘MPC–HB–HB Fuel Assembly 

Limits,’’ during its documentation 

verification review in preparation for 

loading spent fuel into dry storage casks 

at the ISFSI. The current license allows 

PG&E to store in the ISFSI spent fuel 

assemblies that have a minimum initial 

fuel enrichment of 2.09 wt-percent 

Uranium 235 (U-235). Humboldt Bay, 

however, has some spent fuel 

assemblies that have an initial fuel 

enrichment of 2.08 wt-percent U-235. 

NRC approval of the proposed change is 

required so that PG&E can store those 

fuel assemblies with an initial 

enrichment of 2.08 wt-percent U-235 in 

the Humboldt Bay ISFSI. 

Pursuant to 10 CFR 72.46, the NRC 

has docketed, approved and issued 

Amendment No. 1 to Materials License 

No. SNM–2514 held by PG&E for the 

receipt, possession, transfer, and storage 

of spent fuel at the Humboldt Bay ISFSI. 

Amendment No. 1 authorizes the 

storage of spent fuel assemblies with an 

initial enrichment of 2.08 wt-percent U235 in the Humboldt Bay ISFSI. 

Amendment No. 1 is effective as of the 

date of issuance. 

Amendment No. 1 complies with the 

standards and requirements of the 

Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended 

(the Act), and the Commission’s rules 

and regulations. The Commission has 

made appropriate findings, as required 

by the Act and the Commission’s rules 

and regulations in 10 CFR Chapter I, 

which are set forth Amendment No. 1. 

The issuance of Amendment No. 1 

satisfied the criteria specified in 10 CFR 

51.22(c)(11) for a categorical exclusion. 

Thus, the preparation of an 

environmental assessment or an 

environmental impact statement is not 

required. 

In accordance with 10 CFR 

72.46(b)(2), the NRC has determined 


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that Amendment No. 1 does not present 

a genuine issue as to whether public 

health and safety will be significantly 

affected. Therefore, the publication of a 

notice of proposed action and an 

opportunity for hearing or a notice of 

hearing is not warranted. Notice is 

hereby given of the right of interested 

persons to request a hearing on whether 

the action should be rescinded or 

modified. 

Further Information 

For further details with respect to this 

action, see the application dated March 

5, 2008, and Amendment No. 1, which 

are available electronically, at NRC’s 

Electronic Reading Room, at: http:// 

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

From this site, you can access NRC’s 

Agencywide Document Access and 

Management System (ADAMS), which 

provides text and image files of NRC’s 

public documents. The ADAMS 

accession number for the application is 

ML080710491 and the ADAMS 

accession number for Amendment No. 1 

is ML082030222. If you do not have 

access to ADAMS, or if there are 

problems in accessing the documents 

located in ADAMS, contact NRC’s 

Public Document Room (PDR) Reference 

staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, 

or by e-mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 

These documents may also be viewed 

electronically on the public computers 

located at NRC’s PDR, O1–F21, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. The PDR 

reproduction contractor will copy 

documents, for a fee. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 6th day 

of August, 2008. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

James R. Hall, 

Senior Project Manager, Licensing Branch, 

Division of Spent Fuel Storage and 

Transportation, Office of Nuclear Material 

Safety and Safeguards. 

[FR Doc. E8–18702 Filed 8–12–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND 

BUDGET 

Financial Reporting for Grants and 

Cooperative Agreements: Federal 

Financial Report (FFR) 

AGENCY: Office of Federal Financial 

Management, Office of Management and 

Budget. 

ACTION: Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request. 

Title: Federal Financial Report (FFR). 

OMB No.: New Collection. 

Description: The Office of 

Management and Budget is 

consolidating and replacing four 

existing financial reporting forms (SF–

269, SF–269A, SF–272, and SF–272A) 

with a single Federal Financial Report 

(FFR). The purpose of the FFR is to give 

recipients of grants and cooperative 

agreements a standard format for 

reporting the financial status of their 

grants and cooperative agreements 

(hereby referred to collectively as 

awards). Federal awarding agencies 

developed the FFR as part of their 

implementation of the Federal Financial 

Assistance Management Improvement 

Act of 1999 (Pub. L. 106–107). 

Respondents: Federal Grants making 

agencies and their grantees. 

Additional Information: Copies of the 

proposed collection may be obtained by 

going to OMB’s main Web page at 

http://www.OMB.gov and clicking on 

the ‘‘Grants Management,’’ then 

‘‘Forms’’ then Proposed GovernmentWide Standard Grants Reporting Forms 

links. 

OMB Comment: OMB is required to 

make a decision concerning the 

collection of information between 30 

and 60 days after publication of this 

document in the Federal Register. 

Therefore, a comment is best assured of 

having its full effect if OMB receives it 

within 30 days of publication. Interested 

parties are encouraged to send 

comments to the Office of Information 

and Regulatory Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk 

Officer for the Office of Federal 

Financial Management, Office of 

Management and Budget, Room 10235, 

Washington, DC 20503, Telephone: 

202–395–7316/Fax: 202–395–6974 

(these are not toll-free numbers), E-mail: 

OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov within 

30 days from the date of this publication 

in the Federal Register. Please include 

‘‘FFR comments’’ in the subject line of 

the e-mail message; please also include 

the full body of your comments in the 

text of the message and as an 

attachment. Include your name, title, 

organization, postal address, telephone 

number, and e-mail address in your 

message. 

I. Comments and Responses on 

December 7, 2007 Federal Register 

Notice 

The December 7, 2007 announcement 

in the Federal Register [72 FR 69236] 

generated comments from Federal 

agencies and some grantees. These 

comments and responses to them can be 

found on the OMB Proposed Forms Web 

site at http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/ 

grants/grants_standard_report_

forms.html. 

II. Burden Estimate 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 1,200,000. 

Estimated Cost: There is no expected 

cost to the respondents or to OMB. 

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Instrument Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Average 

burden hours 

per response 

Total burden 

hours 

Federal Financial Report (FFR) ....................................................................... 60,000 10 1.50 900,000 

Federal Financial Report (FFR) Attachment ................................................... 60,000 10 0.50 300,000 

III. Summary of Actions 

The FFR provides a standard format 

from which agencies can determine data 

elements that recipients must complete 

to report on the cash management and 

financial status of single or multiple 

awards. Consistent with governmentwide grant streamlining objectives, the 

FFR will result in the use of standard 

reporting period end dates and due 

dates for the submission of cash 

management and financial information. 

As soon as possible after October 1, 

2008, and no later than October 1, 2009, 

each agency must transition from the 

SF–269, SF–269A, SF–272, and SF–

272A to the FFR, by requiring recipients 

to use the FFR for all financial reports 

submitted after the date it makes the 

transition. In making the transition, an 

agency would incorporate the 

requirement to use the FFR into terms 

and conditions of new and ongoing 

grant and cooperative agreement 

awards, State plans, and/or program 


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