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B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001, or by fax to RDB at (301) 492– 

3446. 

You can access publicly available 

documents related to this notice using 

the following methods: 

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 O1 F21, One White Flint 

North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland. 

NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access 

and Management System (ADAMS): 

Publicly available documents created or 

received at the NRC are available 

electronically at the NRC’s Electronic 

Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/ 

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 

problems in accessing the documents 

located in ADAMS, contact the NRC’s 

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

301–415–4737, or by e-mail to 

pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 

Federal Rulemaking Web site: Public 

comments and supporting materials 

related to this notice can be found at 

http://www.regulations.gov by searching 

on Docket ID: NRC–2010–0033. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

John P. Segala, Chief, Balance of Plant 

Branch 1, Division of Safety Systems 

and Risk Assessment, Office of New 

Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001; telephone at 301–415–1992 or email john.segala@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/), ADAMS Accession No. 

ML092640035. 

The NRC staff is issuing this notice to 

solicit public comments on the 

proposed DC/COL–ISG–021. After the 

NRC staff considers any public 

comments, it will make a determination 

regarding the proposed DC/COL–ISG– 

021. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day 

of January 2010. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

William F. Burton, 

Branch Chief, Rulemaking and Guidance 

Development Branch, Division of New Reactor 

Licensing, Office of New Reactors. 

[FR Doc. 2010–2287 Filed 2–2–10; 8:45 am] 

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[NRC–2009–0550] 

Notice of Extension of Comment 

Period for NUREG–1921, EPRI/NRC– 

RES Fire Human Reliability Analysis 

Guidelines, Draft Report for Comment 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Extension of public comment 

period. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) issued for public 

comment a document entitled ‘‘NUREG– 

1921 (EPRI 1019196), EPRI/NRC–RES 

Fire Human Reliability Analysis 

Guidelines, Draft Report for Comment’’ 

(December 11, 2009; 74 FR 65810). This 

document extends the public comment 

period from February 15, 2010, to March 

19, 2010. 

DATES: The public comment period 

closes on March 19, 2010. Comments 

received after this date will be 

considered if it is practical to do so, but 

the NRC staff is able to ensure 

consideration only for comments 

received on or before this date. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any one of the following methods. 

Please include Docket ID NRC–2009– 

0550 in the subject line of your 

comments. Comments submitted in 

writing or in electronic form will be 

posted on the NRC Web site and on the 

Federal rulemaking Web site 

Regulations.gov. Because your 

comments will not be edited to remove 

any identifying or contact information, 

the NRC cautions you against including 

any information in your submission that 

you do not want to be publicly 

disclosed. 

The NRC requests that any party 

soliciting or aggregating comments 

received from other persons for 

submission to the NRC inform those 

persons that the NRC will not edit their 

comments to remove any identifying or 

contact information, and therefore, they 

should not include any information in 

their comments that they do not want 

publicly disclosed. 

Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for documents filed under Docket ID 

NRC–2009–0550. Address questions 

about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher 

301–492–3668; e-mail 

Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. 

Mail comments to: Michael T. Lesar, 

Chief, Rulemaking and Directives 

Branch (RDB), Division of 

Administrative Services, Office of 

Administration, Mail Stop: TWB–05– 

B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001, or by fax to RDB at (301) 492– 

3446. 

You can access publicly available 

documents related to this notice using 

the following methods: 

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 O1 F21, One White Flint 

North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland. 

NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access 

and Management System (ADAMS): 

Publicly available documents created or 

received at the NRC are available 

electronically at the NRC’s Electronic 

Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/ 

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 

problems in accessing the documents 

located in ADAMS, contact the NRC’s 

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

301–415–4737, or by e-mail to 

pdr.resource@nrc.gov. NUREG–1921 

‘‘EPRI/NRC–RES Fire Human Reliability 

Analysis Guidelines’’ is available 

electronically under ADAMS Accession 

Number ML093340307. 

Federal Rulemaking Web site: Public 

comments and supporting materials 

related to this notice can be found at 

http://www.regulations.gov by searching 

on Docket ID: NRC–2009–0550. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kendra Hill, Division of Risk Analysis, 

Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001. 

Telephone: 301–251–3300, e-mail: 

Kendra.Hill@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NUREG– 

1921 (EPRI 1019196), ‘‘EPRI/NRC–RES 

Fire Human Reliability Analysis 

Guidelines, Draft Report for Comment’’ 

was written as a collaborative effort by 

the NRC’s Office of Nuclear Regulatory 

Research (RES) and the Electric Power 

Research Institute (EPRI) to provide 

guidance on how to perform the human 

reliability analysis (HRA) for a fire 

probabilistic risk analysis. In 2007, EPRI 

and NRC–RES embarked on a 

cooperative project to develop explicit 

guidance for estimating human error 

probabilities for human error events 

under fire generated conditions, 

building upon existing HRA methods. 

This report describes the methodology 

and guidance developed through this 

project. This report includes guidance 

on addressing the range of fire 

procedures used in existing plants, the 


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range of strategies for main control room 

abandonment, and the potential impact 

of fire-induced spurious electrical 

effects on crew performance. 

Due to the detailed nature of the 

processes described in this report and 

the level of effort required to provide a 

quality review, a request was submitted 

to the NRC for an extension of the 

public comment period for NUREG– 

1921 (EPRI 1019196). NRC–RES 

reviewed this request and has agreed to 

extend the public comment period an 

additional 32 days to March 19, 2010. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day 

of January, 2010. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Mark Salley, 

Chief, Fire Research Branch, Division of Risk 

Analysis, Office of Nuclear Regulatory 

Research. 

[FR Doc. 2010–2289 Filed 2–2–10; 8:45 am] 

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FEDERAL REGISTER CITATION OF PREVIOUS

ANNOUNCEMENT: 75 FR 4429 (January 27, 

2010). 

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED TIME AND DATE: 

Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 11 a.m. 

CHANGES IN THE MEETING: The 

Commission is adding item no. 13– 

discussion of confidential commercial 

information relative to a potential 

Commission contract (closed) to its 

February meeting agenda. This action is 

being taken pursuant to a determination 

of the Commission, by recorded vote, as 

to the need for the change in the agenda, 

the status of the new agenda item, and 

the inability to provide earlier notice. 

There is a related General Counsel 

certification as to the appropriateness of 

closing agenda item no. 13 to public 

observation. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION: Stephen L. Sharfman, 

General Counsel, Postal Regulatory 

Commission, at 202-789-6820 or 

stephen.sharfman@prc.gov. 

Dated: February 1, 2010. 

Shoshana M. Grove, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2010–2450 Filed 2–1–E8; 4:15 pm] 

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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

[License No. 01/01–0414] 

Ironwood Mezzanine Fund II, L.P.; 

Notice Seeking Exemption Under 

Section 312 of the Small Business 

Investment Act, Conflicts of Interest 

Notice is hereby given that Ironwood 

Mezzanine Fund II, L.P. 200 Fisher 

Drive, Avon, CT 06001–3723, a Federal 

Licensee under the Small Business 

Investment Act of 1958, as amended 

(‘‘the Act’’), in connection with the 

financing of a small concern, has sought 

an exemption under Section 312 of the 

Act and Section 107.730, Financings 

which Constitute Conflicts of Interest of 

the Small Business Administration 

(‘‘SBA’’) Rules and Regulations (13 CFR 

107.730). Ironwood Mezzanine Fund II, 

L.P. proposes to provide debt/equity 

security financing to Action Carting 

Environmental Services, Inc., 451 

Frelinghuysen Avenue, Newark, NJ 

07114. The financing is contemplated as 

part of a debt/equity issuance, the 

proceeds of which will be used for 

planned acquisitions. 

The financing is brought within the 

purview of § 107.730(a) of the 

Regulations because Ironwood Equity 

Fund, L.P., an Associate of Ironwood 

Mezzanine Fund II, L.P., owns more 

than ten percent of Action Carting 

Environmental Services, Inc., and this 

transaction is considered a Financing of 

an Associate requiring an exemption to 

the Regulations. 

Notice is hereby given that any 

interested person may submit written 

comments on the transaction, within 15 

days of the date of publication, to the 

Associate Administrator for Investment, 

U.S. Small Business Administration, 

409 Third Street, SW., Washington, DC 

20416. 

Dated: January 19, 2010. 

Sean Greene, 

Associate Administrator for Investment. 

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OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND 

TECHNOLOGY POLICY 

Grand Challenges of the 21st Century; 

Request for Information 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: On September 21, 2009, 

President Barack Obama released his 

‘‘Strategy for American Innovation.’’ The 

strategy outlines the Administration’s 

plans to foster innovation for 

sustainable growth and the creation of 

high-quality jobs. 

One of the goals of the President’s 

strategy is to harness science and 

technology to address the ‘‘grand 

challenges’’ of the 21st century. This 

Request for Information (RFI) is 

designed to collect input from the 

public regarding (1) The grand 

challenges that were identified in the 

strategy document; (2) other grand 

challenges that the Administration 

should consider, such as those 

identified by the National Academy of 

Engineering; (3) partners (e.g., 

companies, investors, foundations, 

social enterprises, non-profit 

organizations, philanthropists, research 

universities, consortia, etc.) that are 

interested in collaborating with each 

other and the Administration to achieve 

one or more of these goals, and (4) 

models for creating an ‘‘architecture of 

participation’’ that allows many 

individuals and organizations to 

contribute to these grand challenges. 

RFI Guidelines: Responses to this RFI 

should be submitted by 11:59 p.m. 

Eastern Time on April 15, 2010. 

Responses to this RFI must be delivered 

electronically as an attachment to an 

e-mail sent to challenge@ostp.gov. 

Responses to this notice are not offers 

and cannot be accepted by the 

Government to form a binding contract 

or issue a grant. Information obtained as 

a result of this RFI may be used by the 

government for program planning on a 

non-attribution basis. Do not include 

any information that might be 

considered proprietary or confidential. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

questions about the content of this RFI 

should be sent to challenge@ostp.gov. 

Additional information regarding this 

RFI is at http://www.ostp.gov/ 

grandchallenges/. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Obama Administration believes that 

grand challenges should be an 

important organizing principle for 

America’s science, technology and 

innovation policy. Grand challenges can 

address key national priorities, catalyze 

innovations that catalyze economic 

growth and quality jobs, spur the 

formation of multidisciplinary teams of 

researcher and multi-sector 

collaborators, bring new expertise to 

bear on important problems, strengthen 

the ‘‘social contract’’ between science 

and society, and inspire students to 

pursue careers in science, technology, 

engineering, and mathematics. 

There are multiple types of grand 

challenges. Some define important 

problems in a particular field of science 

and engineering. For example, in 1900, 

the German mathematics professor 

David Hilbert posed 23 ‘‘mathematical 


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