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the requester justifies a longer period. 

You may obtain or review copies of 

TUVAM’s requests, the assessor’s 

recommendation, and all submitted 

comments, as received, by contacting 

the Docket Office, Room N–2625, 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Labor, at the above address. Docket No. 

OSHA–2007–0043 (formerly, NRTL2–

2001) contains all materials in the 

record concerning TUVAM’s 

application. 

The NRTL Program staff will review 

all timely comments and, after 

resolution of issues raised by these 

comments, will recommend whether to 

grant TUVAM’s expansion request. The 

Assistant Secretary will make the final 

decision on granting the expansion and, 

in making this decision, may undertake 

other proceedings that are prescribed in 

Appendix A to 29 CFR Section 1910.7. 

OSHA will publish a public notice of 

this final decision in the Federal 

Register. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 1st day of 

February, 2008. 

Edwin G. Foulke, Jr., 

Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety 

and Health. 

[FR Doc. E8–2200 Filed 2–6–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–26–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

Status of the Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation’s Electronic Distribution 

Initiative 

The Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation (NRR) staff at the U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) 

is implementing an electronic 

distribution initiative (EDI) that will 

modify the method of distributing 

selected categories (e.g., operating 

reactor license amendments) of 

operating reactor licensing 

correspondence. Specifically, this 

initiative involves replacing distribution 

of paper copies with electronic 

distribution to the plant mailing list for 

documents generated by NRR’s Division 

of Operating Reactor Licensing. This 

initiative does not affect the availability 

of official agency records in NRC’s 

Agencywide Documents Access and 

Management System (ADAMS), which 

are publicly available on the NRC’s Web 

page http://www.nrc.gov. 

When this initiative is implemented, 

addressees will continue to receive the 

original correspondence, while those on 

the plant mailing list will receive 

electronic mail (e-mail). The 

distribution of safeguards information, 

proprietary or security-related 

information, or other information that is 

withheld from public disclosure will 

not be affected by this initiative. The 

NRC staff will protect the e-mail address 

from disclosure to others for privacy 

concerns. 

In order to evaluate the feasibility of 

electronic distribution, the staff engaged 

in a pilot program with Exelon 

Generation Company, LLC (West). The 

pilot program began July 1, 2007, and 

ended September 30, 2007. A Federal 

Register Notice announcing the pilot 

program was issued on June 28, 2007 

(72 FR 35520). 

During the pilot program, the method 

used for distribution was e-mail. The email contained an electronic link to 

ADAMS providing direct access to the 

correspondence. In addition, addressees 

received an Adobe AcrobatTM (pdf) 

version of the correspondence. Several 

lessons were learned from the pilot 

program. For example, the use of emails with a direct link into ADAMS 

provides an effective communication of 

correspondence. However, it generally 

takes 5 business days for a document to 

become publicly available in ADAMS. 

Unless action is taken to make the 

document publicly available sooner or 

action taken to delay sending the e-mail 

until the document becomes publicly 

available, the direct link resulted in the 

document not being available when the 

e-mail was received. As another 

example, some licensees and 

organizations that have multiple 

recipients on the plant mailing list have 

determined that it is beneficial to 

provide one email address for the plant 

mailing list. This allows these entities to 

perform additional distribution of the 

documents through automatic 

forwarding features of their e-mail 

systems. Furthermore, this allows easy 

and rapid updating of changes to these 

additional distribution addresses 

without incurring the additional cost of 

developing and approving 

communications to the NRC to make 

changes to the plant mailing list. 

To obtain information to enhance the 

EDI, steps were taken to engage 

stakeholders. In the initial Federal 

Register notice (72 FR 35520) 

announcing the pilot program and in 

our letter dated October 11, 2007, 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML072820307) 

the NRC staff requested comments on 

the EDI. The NRC staff also sent an email on October 24, 2007 (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML080160089) to all who 

participated in the pilot program to get 

their feedback. The comments (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML080170254) were 

overwhelmingly supportive of 

electronic distribution, generally 

because of the reduced need for copies 

and reduced handling costs. A few 

responders were concerned with e-mail 

box overloads and size limits. Such 

concerns can be eventually eliminated 

as individuals and organizations 

upgrade their electronic mail systems 

and will be addressed on a case-by-case 

basis. 

Because the pilot program 

demonstrated feasibility and the 

feedback received was overwhelmingly 

favorable, the NRC is taking additional 

steps to pursue implementation of 

electronic distribution of 

correspondence. Recognizing the 

potential to provide a more effective and 

efficient method of distributing 

correspondence, the NRC intends to 

implement this initiative in 2008. 

If you have specific comments 

regarding this initiative, please contact 

Mr. Russell Gibbs at 301–415–7198, or 

rag1@nrc.gov. Comments received 

within 30 days of this notice will be 

considered for implementation in the 

EDI. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 1st day 

of February 2008. 

For The Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Russell Gibbs, 

Chief, Plant Licensing Branch III–2, Division 

of Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of 

Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

[FR Doc. E8–2243 Filed 2–6–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

[Investment Company Act Release No. 

28140; 812–13386] 

PowerShares Capital Management 

LLC, et al.; Notice of Application 

February 1, 2008. 

AGENCY: Securities and Exchange 

Commission (‘‘Commission’’). 

ACTION: Notice of an application for an 

order under section 6(c) of the 

Investment Company Act of 1940 

(‘‘Act’’) for an exemption from sections 

2(a)(32), 5(a)(1) and 22(d) of the Act and 

rule 22c–1 under the Act, and under 

sections 6(c) and 17(b) of the Act for an 

exemption from sections 17(a)(1) and 

(a)(2) of the Act, and under section 

12(d)(1)(J) for an exemption from 

sections 12(d)(1)(A) and (B) of the Act. 

Applicants: PowerShares Capital 

Management LLC (the ‘‘Advisor’’), AER 

Advisors, Inc. (‘‘AER’’), AIM 

Distributors, Inc. (the ‘‘Distributor’’), 

and PowerShares Actively Managed 

Exchange-Traded Fund Trust (the 

‘‘Trust’’). 


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