Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 159 / Friday, August 15, 2008 / Notices 47983 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Gregory Trussell, 

Acting NRC Clearance Officer, Office of 

Information Services. 

[FR Doc. E8–18919 Filed 8–14–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

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 

March 25, 2008. 

1. Type of submission, new, revision, 

or extension: Extension. 

2. The title of the information 

collection: 10 CFR Part 20—Standards 

for Protection Against Radiation. 

3. Current OMB approval number: 

3150–0014. 

4. The form number if applicable: 

N/A. 

5. How often the collection is 

required: Annually for most reports and 

at license termination for reports 

dealing with decommissioning. 

6. Who will be required or asked to 

report: NRC licensees, including those 

requesting license terminations. 

7. An estimate of the number of 

annual responses: 4152. 

8. The estimated number of annual 

respondents: 3740. 

9. An estimate of the total number of 

hours needed annually to complete the 

requirement or request: 108,894 hours 

(4,434 hours for reporting plus 104,460 

hours for recordkeeping. 

10. Abstract: 10 CFR Part 20 

establishes standards for protection 

against ionizing radiation resulting from 

activities conducted under licenses 

issued by the NRC. These standards 

require the establishment of radiation 

protection programs, maintenance of 

radiation protection programs, 

maintenance of radiation records 

recording of radiation received by 

workers, reporting of incidents which 

could cause exposure to radiation, 

submittal of an annual report to NRC of 

the results of individual monitoring, 

and submittal of license termination 

information. These mandatory 

requirements are needed to protect 

occupationally exposed individuals 

from undue risks of excessive exposure 

to ionizing radiation and to protect the 

health and safety of 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 15, 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 (3150–0014), 

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 11th day 

of August 2008. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Gregory Trussell, 

Acting NRC Clearance Officer, Office of 

Information Services. 

[FR Doc. E8–18921 Filed 8–14–08; 8:45 am] 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

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Draft Regulatory Guide: Denial of 

Extension of Comment Period 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of denial of request to 

extend the comment period of Draft 

Regulatory Guide (DG)–1200, ‘‘An 

Approach for Determining the Technical 

Adequacy of Probabilistic Risk 

Assessment Results for Risk-Informed 

Activities.’’

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mary Drouin, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555–

0001, telephone: (301) 415–6675 or email to Mary.Drouin@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) issued for public 

comment DG–1200, which was 

published in the Federal Register, 73 FR 

35170, on June 20, 2008. DG–1200 is 

proposed Revision 2 of Regulatory 

Guide 1.200 in the agency’s Regulatory 

Guide Series. This series has been 

developed to describe and make 

available to the public such information 

as methods that are acceptable to the 

NRC staff for implementing specific 

parts of the NRC’s regulations, 

techniques that the staff uses in 

evaluating specific problems or 

postulated accidents, and data that the 

staff needs in its review of applications 

for permits and licenses. 

II. Further Information 

The NRC staff requested receipt of 

comments on DG–1200 by August 25, 

2008, (including any implementation 

schedule) and its associated regulatory 

analysis or value/impact statement. 

Comments received after August 25, 

2008, would be considered if practical 

to do so, but the NRC is able to ensure 

consideration only for comments 

received on or before this date. 

Although a time limit is given, 

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. 

III. Request to Extend the Comment 

Period 

Basis for the Request 

The NRC received the following 

extension request: 

‘‘This draft regulatory guide revision 

delineates the NRC’s expectations for 

technical adequacy of PRA 

[probabilistic risk assessment] 

information used in support of risk 

applications and represents a significant 

expansion over the current Revision by 

including detailed technical information 

on fire and external events PRAs. NEI 

[Nuclear Energy Institute] is 

coordinating industry comments with 

the NSSS [nuclear steam supply system] 

owners group, vendors and licensees to 

ensure that the comments submitted by 

industry are of high quality and that 

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47984 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 159 / Friday, August 15, 2008 / Notices 

1 39 CFR § 3020.31(a), (c). 

2 Id. § 3020.31(d). 

3 Id. § 3020.31(b). 

4 Id. § 3020.31(f). 

5 Id. § 3020.31(e). 

6 Id. § 3015.5(a). 

7 Id. § 3015.5(b). 

they reflect a consensus industry 

perspective. However, the comment 

period provided in the June 20 Federal 

Register Notice is insufficient given the 

volume of material and need for a 

thorough technical review. Extending 

the comment period would provide the 

time necessary to fully assess the impact 

of these proposed changes and arrive at 

a set of comments that are of value to 

the NRC staff.’’

Response to Request 

The request for an extension to the 

comment period is denied. 

The information contained in DG–

1200 regarding internal fire and external 

events has been available to the public 

prior to the issuance of DG–1200 in June 

of 2008 for public comment. Therefore, 

DG–1200 does not ‘‘represent a 

significant expansion over the current 

Revision [Revision 1] by including 

detailed technical information on fire 

and external events PRAs.’’

DG–1200 provides high level 

discussions on what constitutes a 

technically acceptable Level 1 and Level 

2 PRA for internal and external events, 

which has been in the previous 

revisions of the guide. Specifically, the 

information for external events in DG–

1200 has not changed since the previous 

revision. The information for internal 

fires in DG–1200 was revised from the 

previous revision; however, the 

information is high level and was 

revised to be consistent with the 

standard (i.e., there was not anything 

added to the DG–1200 that was new or 

differing from the standard). 

With regard to the internal fire 

standard (Part 3 of the ASME/ANS RA–

S–2008 standard), as documented in 

DG–1200, the staff has no objections to 

the majority of the standard’s 

requirements. The staff has continually 

noted its position during development 

of the standard and in a formal letter to 

ASME in November 2007 (ADAMS 

(http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

adams.html), under Accession No. 

073030364), and in an April 2008 

interoffice letter from M. Cunningham 

to C. Lui (ADAMS under Accession No. 

080880202) which are publicly 

available. 

The staff issued DG–1138 in 

September 2004 which provided the 

staff position on Revision 0 of the 

American Nuclear Society (ANS) 

external events standard. Revision 1 of 

the ANS standard (which is Part 4 of the 

ASME/ANS RA–S–2008 PRA standard) 

addressed the majority of the staff 

objections. The staff position in DG–

1200, for the objections not addressed in 

Part 4 of the ASME/ANS RA–S–2008 

standard, is unchanged from DG–1138. 

Requests for technical information 

about DG–1200 may be directed to the 

NRC contact, Mary Drouin at (301) 415–

6675 or e-mail to Mary.Drouin@nrc.gov. 

Electronic copies of DG–1200 are 

available through the NRC’s public Web 

site under Draft Regulatory Guides in 

the ‘‘Regulatory Guides’’ collection of 

the NRC’s Electronic Reading Room at 

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/. Electronic copies are also 

available in ADAMS (http:// 

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

under Accession No. ML081200566. 

In addition, regulatory guides are 

available for inspection at the NRC’s 

Public Document Room (PDR), which is 

located at 11555 Rockville Pike, 

Rockville, Maryland. The PDR’s mailing 

address is USNRC PDR, Washington, DC 

20555–0001. The PDR can also be 

reached by telephone at (301) 415–4737 

or (800) 397–4205, by fax at (301) 415–

3548, and by e-mail to 

pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 

Regulatory guides are not 

copyrighted, and Commission approval 

is not required to reproduce them. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day 

of August 2008. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Stephen C. O’Connor, 

Acting Chief, Regulatory Guide Development 

Branch, Division of Engineering, Office of 

Nuclear Regulatory Research. 

[FR Doc. E8–18920 Filed 8–14–08; 8:45 am] 

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POSTAL SERVICE 

Request of the Postal Service To Add 

Express Mail Contract to Competitive 

Product List 

AGENCY: Postal Service. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the 

request of the Postal Service to add a 

new product (Express Mail Contract) to 

the competitive product list. 

DATES: Effective Date: August 15, 2008. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Daniel J. Foucheaux, Jr., 202–268–2989. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Postal 

Service in accordance with 39 U.S.C. 

3642 and 39 CFR 3020.30 et seq. is filing 

a Request before the Postal Regulatory 

Commission, the addition of a new 

product, Express Mail Contract 1, to the 

competitive product list of the Mail 

Classification Schedule. As required by 

39 U.S.C. 3642(d)(1), the Request is 

being published in the Federal Register. 

The Request is set out below. 

Neva R. Watson, 

Attorney, FOIA/Privacy and Government 

Relations. 

Before the Postal Regulatory 

Commission 

Washington, DC 20268–0001 

[Docket No. MC2008–5] 

Modification of the Mail Classification 

Schedule; Addition to Competitive 

Product Category; Express Mail 

Contract 1 

Request of the United States Postal 

Service To Add Express Mail Contract 

to Competitive Product List and Notice 

of Establishment of Rates and Class Not 

of General Applicability 

July 21, 2008. 

In accordance with 39 U.S.C. 3642 

and 39 CFR 3020.30 et seq., the United 

States Postal Service hereby requests 

modification of the Mail Classification 

Schedule product list. The Postal 

Service proposes to add Express Mail 

Contract 1 to the competitive product 

list.1 This is a competitive product not 

of general applicability within the 

meaning of 39 U.S.C. 3632(b)(3).2 A 

redacted version of the Governors’

Decision establishing the price and 

classification and a certification of the 

Governors’ vote is provided in 

Attachment A.3 Attachment B shows the 

requested changes in the Mail 

Classification product list with the 

addition in brackets.4 Attachment C 

provides a statement of supporting 

justification for this request, as specified 

in 39 CFR 3020.32.5

As explained in the supporting 

justification, the Postal Service believes 

that it is appropriate to add this contract 

to the list of competitive products. The 

Commission should therefore approve 

this request as set forth in its rules. As 

required by 39 U.S.C. 3642(d)(1), this 

Request is being published in the 

Federal Register . 

The Postal Service also gives notice, 

pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 3632(b)(3) and 39 

CFR 3015.5, that the Governors have 

established prices and classifications 

not of general applicability for this 

contract.6 The prices and class are to be 

effective one day after the Commission 

approves the required addition to the 

product list.7 An explanation and 

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