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83,367, Pixel Playground, Inc., 

Woodland Hills, California. 

85,595, Quad/Graphics, Woodstock, 

Illinois. 

85,613, Midair, USA Inc., Rome, New 

York. 

85,619, Oracle America, Inc., 

Morrisville, North Carolina. 

85,633, Microsoft, Calabasas, California. 

Determinations Terminating 

Investigations of Petitions for Worker 

Adjustment Assistance 

After notice of the petitions was 

published in the Federal Register and 

on the Department’s Web site, as 

required by section 221 of the Act (19 

U.S.C. 2271), the Department initiated 

investigations of these petitions. 

The following determinations 

terminating investigations were issued 

because the petitioner has requested 

that the petition be withdrawn. 

85,675, Hewlett Packard Company, 

Corvallis, Oregon. 

85,690, Apex Tool Group, LLC., 

Garland, Texas. 

The following determinations 

terminating investigations were issued 

in cases where these petitions were not 

filed in accordance with the 

requirements of 29 CFR 90.11. Every 

petition filed by workers must be signed 

by at least three individuals of the 

petitioning worker group. Petitioners 

separated more than one year prior to 

the date of the petition cannot be 

covered under a certification of a 

petition under section 223(b), and 

therefore, may not be part of a 

petitioning worker group. For one or 

more of these reasons, these petitions 

were deemed invalid. 

85,673, Quantum Foods, Bolingbrook, 

Illinois. 

85,681, Atmel Corporation, Colorado 

Springs, Colorado. 

85,692, Honeywell, Canton, 

Massachusetts. 

The following determinations 

terminating investigations were issued 

because the petitioning groups of 

workers are covered by active 

certifications. Consequently, further 

investigation in these cases would serve 

no purpose since the petitioning group 

of workers cannot be covered by more 

than one certification at a time. 

85,658, SMC Electrical Products, Inc., 

Delta, Colorado. 

I hereby certify that the 

aforementioned determinations were 

issued during the period of December 8, 

2014 through December 12, 2014. These 

determinations are available on the 

Department’s Web site www.tradeact/

taa/taa_search_form.cfm under the 

searchable listing of determinations or 

by calling the Office of Trade 

Adjustment Assistance toll free at 888– 

365–6822. 

Signed at Washington DC, this 22nd day of 

December 2014. 

Michael W. Jaffe, 

Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment 

Assistance. 

[FR Doc. 2014–30512 Filed 12–29–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–FN–P 

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Notice and Request for Comments on 

the National Science Foundation (NSF) 

Implementation of Proposed NSF 

Management Fee Policy 

AGENCY: National Science Foundation. 

ACTION: Notice and Request for 

Comments on the National Science 

Foundation (NSF) Implementation of 

Proposed NSF Management Fee Policy. 

SUMMARY: The payment of a small but 

appropriate management fee has been a 

long standing practice at the National 

Science Foundation (NSF) in limited 

circumstances related to the 

construction and operation of major 

facility projects. NSF is strengthening 

both the criteria used to establish such 

management fees and the controls that 

may be necessary to ensure that uses of 

fees are consistent with those 

established criteria. These efforts have 

resulted in a revised policy that we are 

providing here for public comment. 

DATES: Comments on the proposed NSF 

Management Fee are welcome before 

February 13, 2015. Comments will be 

useful in shaping the agency’s 

implementation. All comments received 

before the close of the comment period 

will be available for public inspection, 

including any personally identifiable or 

confidential business information that is 

included. Because they will be made 

public, comments should not include 

any sensitive information. Please send 

written comments regarding the 

management fee policy to Suzanne 

Plimpton, Reports Clearance Officer, 

National Science Foundation, 4201 

Wilson Blvd., Rm. 1265, Arlington, VA 

22230, or by email to splimpto@nsf.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Suzanne Plimpton on (703) 292–7556 or 

send email to splimpto@nsf.gov. 

Individuals who use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877– 

8339, which is accessible 24 hours a 

day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year 

(including federal holidays). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

following proposed NSF Management 

Fee Policy can be found in the NSF 

Large Facilities Manual: 

Section 4.2.2.2 Management Fee 

Management fee is an amount of 

money paid to a recipient in excess of 

a cooperative agreement’s or cooperative 

support agreement’s allowable costs. 

Generally, NSF does not pay profit or 

fee to organizations under financial 

assistance, except for the specific 

exception of profits to commercial 

organizations performing Small 

Business Innovation Research (SBIR) or 

Small Business Technology Transfer 

(SBTR) work. However, a management 

fee may be authorized for awards to 

non-profit organizations in the limited 

circumstance of construction or 

operation of a large facility under an 

NSF assistance award when the 

organization has limited or no other 

financial resources to cover certain 

ordinary and necessary business 

expenses that may not be reimbursable 

under the governing cost principles. 

When requested and justified by an 

awardee and subsequently authorized 

by NSF, management fee will be paid 

once negotiated by the NSF Grants and 

Agreements Officer. Any amount 

negotiated shall be expressly set forth in 

the terms and conditions of the award. 

NSF recognizes the following criteria 

for the negotiation and award of 

management fee: 

• Working capital necessary to fund 

operations under an award 

• Facilities capital necessary to 

acquire assets for performance 

• Amounts for other expenses that are 

ordinary and necessary for business 

operations but that are not otherwise 

reimbursable under the governing cost 

principles 

Amounts for working capital may be 

necessary to ensure a level of retained 

earnings available to the organization in 

order to secure credit and borrowing to 

assure the financial health of the 

organization. An amount for facilities 

capital may be necessary to allow the 

organization to acquire major assets and 

to address expenses that require 

immediate substantive financial outlays 

but that are only reimbursed through 

depreciation or amortization over a 

period of years. Amounts for other 

expenses that are ordinary and 

necessary but not otherwise 

reimbursable can provide a reasonable 

allowance for management initiative 

and investments that will directly or 

indirectly benefit NSF. Examples of 

potential appropriate needs include 

contract terminations and losses, certain 

appropriate educational and public 

outreach activities, and providing 

financial incentives to obtain and retain 

high caliber staff. Amounts for this 

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criterion warrant careful consideration 

of the benefits that may be obtained by 

NSF when providing management fee. 

Although not an exhaustive list, the 

following are examples of expenses that 

do not benefit NSF: 

• Alcoholic beverages 

• Tickets to concerts, sporting and 

other events 

• Vacation or other travel for nonbusiness purposes 

• Charitable contributions 

• Social or sporting club 

memberships 

• Meals for non-business purposes or 

so extravagant as to constitute 

entertainment 

• Luxury or personal items 

• Lobbying as set forth in the Uniform 

Guidance at 2 CFR 200.450 

Costs that are otherwise reimbursable 

as described in the Uniform Guidance at 

Subpart E should not be included as 

part of the management fee negotiation. 

The fee proposal must provide 

sufficient visibility into each criterion to 

identify its intended purpose. The 

proposal must also include a schedule 

of all federal, non-federal, and other 

sources of income to justify that 

alternate sources of income are not 

available to address potential needs 

covered in the proposal. Agreement on 

management fee amounts shall be 

completed and a sum certain 

established prior to the initiation of 

work under an award or any subsequent 

period not authorized as part of the 

initial award. Recipients may draw 

down management fee in proportion to 

costs incurred during the performance 

period. Fee established for a period 

longer than one year shall be subject to 

adjustment in the event of a significant 

change to the budget or work scope. 

Even though management fee 

represents an amount in excess of cost 

and therefore not subject to application 

of the cost principles set forth at 2 CFR 

part 200, subpart E, NSF maintains a 

strong interest in how those monies are 

used. Information on actual uses of 

management fee previously awarded by 

NSF in the preceding five-year period 

under any award shall be included in 

the proposing organization’s fee 

proposal. For incumbent awardees, fee 

proposals submitted in response to a 

NSF program solicitation shall include 

information regarding their management 

fee usage under the preceding award(s). 

NSF will examine the extent to which 

awardee fee proposals have proven 

reliable when compared with actual 

uses of management fee. NSF will also 

perform periodic reviews of 

management fee usage under an award. 

Repeated, unexplained failure to 

reasonably adhere to planned uses of fee 

will result in reduction of future 

management fee amounts under the 

award. 

Dated: December 19, 2014. 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation. 

[FR Doc. 2014–30244 Filed 12–29–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7555–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 52–024; NRC–2008–0233] 

Entergy Operations, Inc.; Combined 

License Application for Grand Gulf 

Station Unit 3 Exemption 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Exemption; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing an 

exemption in response to an October 16, 

2014, letter from Entergy Operations, 

Inc. (EOI) which requested an 

exemption to suspend maintaining the 

Departures Report and the design 

control document (DCD) Update Report 

until December 31, 2015, or coincident 

with resuming the review of the for 

Grand Gulf Nuclear Station (GGNS) 

Combined License (COL) application, 

whichever comes first. The NRC staff 

reviewed this request and determined 

that it is appropriate to grant the 

exemption. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2008-0233 when contacting the 

NRC about the availability of 

information regarding this document. 

You may access publicly-available 

information related to this action by the 

following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2008-0233. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Carol 

Gallagher; telephone: 301–287–3422; 

email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For 

technical questions, contact the 

individual listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

document. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may access publicly 

available documents online in the NRC 

Library at http://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/adams.html. To begin the search, 

select ‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and 

then select ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS 

Search.’’ For problems with ADAMS, 

please contact the NRC’s Public 

Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 

1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by 

email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The 

ADAMS accession number for each 

document referenced in this document 

(if that document is available in 

ADAMS) is provided the first time that 

the document is referenced. 

• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and 

purchase copies of public documents at 

the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Lynnea Wilkins, Office of New Reactors, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

301–415–1377; email: Lynnea.Wilkins@

nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

following sections include the text of 

the exemption in its entirety as issued 

to EOI. 

I. Background 

The NRC accepted for docketing the 

Grand Gulf Nuclear Station Unit 3 

(GGNS3) COL application on April 17, 

2008 (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML081050460, Docket No. 52–024). On 

January 9, 2009, EOI requested that the 

NRC temporarily suspend review of the 

application and the NRC granted EOI’s 

request (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML090080523) while the application 

remained docketed. On October 16, 

2014, (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML14289A520), EOI requested an 

exemption from the requirements of 10 

CFR part 52, Appendix E, Paragraphs 

X.A.1, X.A.2, and X.B.3.b until 

December 31, 2015 or coincident with 

resuming the review of the for RBS3 

COL application, whichever comes first. 

II. Request/Action 

10 CFR part 52, Appendix E, 

Paragraph X.A.1 requires that the 

applicant for this appendix shall 

maintain a copy of the generic DCD 

[design control document] that includes 

all generic changes it makes to Tier 1 

and Tier 2, and the generic TS and other 

operational requirements. The applicant 

shall maintain sensitive unclassified 

non-safeguards information (including 

proprietary information and securityrelated information) and safeguards 

information referenced in the generic 

DCD for the period that this appendix 

may be referenced, as specified in 

Section VII of this appendix. 

10 CFR part 52, Appendix E, 

Paragraph X.A.2 requires that an 

applicant or licensee who references 

this appendix shall maintain the plantspecific DCD to accurately reflect both 

generic changes to the generic DCD and 

plant-specific departures made under 

Section VIII of this appendix throughout 

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