22986 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 93 / Friday, May 15, 2009 / Notices 

I. Introduction 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC or Commission) is 

issuing a revision to an existing guide in 

the agency’s ‘‘Regulatory Guide’’ series. 

This series was developed to describe 

and make available to the public 

information such as methods that are 

acceptable to the NRC staff for 

implementing specific parts of the 

agency’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. 

Regulatory Guide 1.213 was issued 

with a temporary identification as Draft 

Regulatory Guide, DG–1149. This 

regulatory guide describes a method that 

the staff of the NRC deems acceptable 

for complying with the Commission’s 

regulations for qualification of safetyrelated motor control centers for nuclear 

power plants. 

The Commission’s regulations in Title 

10, Part 50, ‘‘Domestic Licensing of 

Production and Utilization Facilities,’’ 

of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 

CFR part 50), require that structures, 

systems, and components in a nuclear 

power plant that are important to safety 

be designed to accommodate the effects 

of environmental conditions (i.e., they 

must remain functional under 

postulated design-basis events (DBEs)). 

Toward that end, General Design 

Criteria 1, 2, 4, and 23 of Appendix A, 

‘‘General Design Criteria for Nuclear 

Power Plants,’’ to 10 CFR Part 50 

contain the general requirements. 

Augmenting those general requirements 

are the specific requirements pertaining 

to qualification of certain electrical 

equipment important to safety that 

appear in 10 CFR 50.49, ‘‘Environmental 

Qualification of Electric Equipment 

Important to Safety for Nuclear Power 

Plants.’’ In addition, Criterion III, 

‘‘Design Control,’’ of Appendix B, 

‘‘Quality Assurance Criteria for Nuclear 

Power Plants and Fuel Reprocessing 

Plants,’’ to 10 CFR part 50, requires that 

test programs, when used to verify the 

adequacy of a specific design feature, 

should include suitable qualification 

testing of a prototype unit under the 

most severe DBE. 

II. Further Information 

In July 2008, DG–1149 was published 

with a public comment period of 60 

days from the issuance of the guide. The 

public comment period closed on 

September 19, 2008. The staff’s 

responses to the public comments are 

located in the NRC’s Agencywide 

Documents Access and Management 

System (ADAMS), Accession Number 

ML083010458. 

Electronic copies of Regulatory Guide 

1.213 are available through the NRC’s 

public Web site under ‘‘Regulatory 

Guides’’ at http://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/doc-collections/. 

In addition, regulatory guides are 

available for inspection at the NRC’s 

Public Document Room (PDR), which is 

located at Room O–1F21, One White 

Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, 

Rockville, Maryland 20852–2738. 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) 397–4209, by 

fax at (301) 415–3548, and by e-mail to 

pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 

Regulatory guides are not 

copyrighted, and NRC approval is not 

required to reproduce them. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day 

of May, 2009. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Richard A. Jervey, 

Acting Chief, Regulatory Guide Development 

Branch, Division of Engineering, Office of 

Nuclear Regulatory Research. 

[FR Doc. E9–11389 Filed 5–14–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD 

Agency Forms Submitted for OMB 

Review, Request for Comments 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Railroad 

Retirement Board (RRB) is forwarding 

two (2) Information Collection Requests 

(ICR) to the Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) to 

request extensions without change of 

currently approved collections of 

information. Our ICR describes the 

information we seek to collect from the 

public. Review and approval by OIRA 

ensures that we impose appropriate 

paperwork burdens. 

The RRB invites comments on the 

proposed collections of information to 

determine (1) The practical utility of the 

collections; (2) the accuracy of the 

estimated burden of the collections; (3) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information that is the 

subject of collection; and (4) ways to 

minimize the burden of collections on 

respondents, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Comments to RRB or OIRA must contain 

the OMB control number of the ICR. For 

proper consideration of your comments, 

it is best if RRB and OIRA receive them 

within 30 days of publication date 

1. Application for Survivor Death 

Benefits; OMB 3220–0031 

Under Section 6 of the Railroad 

Retirement Act (RRA), lump-sum death 

benefits are payable to surviving widow 

and widowers, children and certain 

other dependents. Lump-sum death 

benefits are payable after the death of a 

railroad employee only if there are no 

qualified survivors of the employee 

immediately eligible for annuities. With 

the exception of the residual death 

benefit, eligibility for survivor benefits 

depends on whether the employee was 

‘‘insured’’ under the RRA at the time of 

death. If a deceased employee was not 

so insured, jurisdiction of any survivor 

benefits payable is transferred to the 

Social Security Administration and 

survivor benefits are paid by that agency 

instead of the RRB. The collection 

obtains the information required by the 

RRB to determine entitlement to and 

amount of the survivor death benefits 

applied for. 

The RRB currently utilizes Form(s) 

AA–11a (Designation for Change of 

Beneficiary for Residual Lump-Sum), 

AA–21cert, (Application Summary and 

Certification), AA–21 (Application for 

Lump-Sum Death Payment and 

Annuities Unpaid at Death), G–131 

(Authorization of Payment and Release 

of All Claims to a Death Benefit or 

Accrued Annuity Payment), and G–273a 

(Funeral Director’s Statement of Burial 

Charges), to obtain the necessary 

information. One response is requested 

of each respondent. Completion is 

required to obtain benefits. 

The estimated annual respondent 

burden is as follows: 

ESTIMATE OF ANNUAL RESPONDENT BURDEN

Form No.(s) Annual 

responses 

Time 

(min) 

Burden 

(hrs) 

AA–11a .................................................................................................................................................... 200 10 33 

AA–21cert (with assistance) .................................................................................................................... 5,400 20 1,800 

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ESTIMATE OF ANNUAL RESPONDENT BURDEN—Continued 

Form No.(s) Annual 

responses 

Time 

(min) 

Burden 

(hrs) 

AA–21 manual (without assistance) ........................................................................................................ 300 40 200 

G–131 ...................................................................................................................................................... 600 5 50 

G–273a .................................................................................................................................................... 5,000 10 833 

Total .................................................................................................................................................. 11,500 .................... 2,916 

Previous Requests for Comments: The 

RRB has already published the initial 

60-day notice (74 FR 7274 & 7275 on 

February 13, 2009) required by 44 

U.S.C. 3506(c)(2). That request elicited 

no comments. 

Information Collection Request (ICR) 

Title: Application for Survivor Death 

Benefits. 

OMB Control Number: OMB 3220– 

0031. 

Form(s) submitted: AA–11a, AA– 

21cert, AA–21, G–131, G–273a. 

Expiration date of current OMB 

clearance: 5/31/2009. 

Type of request: Extension without 

change of a currently approved 

collection. 

Affected public: Individuals or 

households. 

Abstract: The collection obtains the 

information needed to pay death 

benefits and annuities due but unpaid at 

death under the Railroad Retirement 

Act. Benefits are paid to designated 

beneficiaries or to survivors in a priority 

designated by law. 

Changes proposed: The RRB proposes 

no changes to the forms in the 

collection. 

The total burden estimate for the ICR 

is as follows: 

Estimated annual number of 

respondents: 11,500. 

Total annual responses: 11,500. 

Total annual reporting hours: 2,916. 

2. Pension Plan Reports; OMB 3220– 

0089 

Under Section 2(b) of the Railroad 

Retirement Act (RRA), the Railroad 

Retirement Board (RRB) pays 

supplemental annuities to qualified RRB 

employee annuitants. A supplemental 

annuity, which is computed according 

to Section 3(e) of the RRA, can be paid 

at age 60 if the employee has at least 30 

years of creditable railroad service or at 

age 65 if the employee has 25–29 years 

of railroad service. In addition to 25 

years of service, a ‘‘current connection’’ 

with the railroad industry is required. 

Eligibility is further limited to 

employees who had at least one month 

of rail service before October 1981 and 

were awarded regular annuities after 

June 1966. Further, if an employee’s 

65th birthday was prior to September 2, 

1981, he or she must not have worked 

in rail service after certain closing dates 

(generally the last day of the month 

following the month in which age 65 is 

attained). 

Under Section 2(h)(2) of the RRA, the 

amount of the supplemental annuity is 

reduced if the employees receive 

monthly pension payments, or lumpsum pension payments, from their 

former railroad employer, which are 

based in whole or in part on 

contributions from that railroad 

employer. The employees’ own 

contributions to their pension accounts 

do not cause a reduction. An employer 

private pension is described in 20 CFR 

216.40–216.42. 

The RRB requires the following 

information from railroad employers to 

calculate supplemental annuities: (a) 

The current status of railroad employer 

pension plans and whether such 

employer pension plans cause 

reductions to the RRB supplemental 

annuity; (b) the amount of the employer 

private pension being paid to the 

employee; (c) whether or not the 

employer made contributions to the 

pension; (d) whether or not the 

employee was cashed out before 

attaining retirement age under the 

employer pension plan or received the 

pension in a lump-sum payment in lieu 

of monthly pension payments; and (e) 

whether the employer pension plan 

continues when the employer status 

under the RRA changes. The 

requirement that railroad employers 

furnish pension information to the RRB 

is contained in 20 CFR 209.2. 

The RRB currently utilizes Form(s) G– 

88p (Employer’s Supplemental Pension 

Report), G–88r (Request for Information 

About New or Revised Pension Plan), 

and G–88r.1 (Request for Additional 

Information about Employer Pension 

Plan in Case of Change of Employer 

Status or Termination of Pension Plan), 

to obtain the necessary information from 

railroad employers. Multiple responses 

may be received from a respondent 

employer. Completion is mandatory. 

The estimated annual respondent 

burden is as follows: 

ESTIMATE OF ANNUAL RESPONDENT BURDEN

Form No.(s) Annual 

responses 

Time 

(min) 

Burden 

(hrs) 

G–88p ...................................................................................................................................................... 750 8 100 

G–88r ....................................................................................................................................................... 10 10 2 

G–88r.1 .................................................................................................................................................... 5 7 1 

Total .................................................................................................................................................. 765 .................... 103 

22988 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 93 / Friday, May 15, 2009 / Notices 

Previous Requests for Comments: The 

RRB has already published the initial 

60-day notice (74 FR 10971 & 10972 on 

March 13, 2009) required by 44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2). That request elicited no 

comments. 

Information Collection Request (ICR) 

Title: Pension Plan Reports. 

OMB Control Number: OMB 3220– 

0089. 

Form(s) submitted: G–88p, G–88r and 

G88r.1. 

Expiration date of current OMB 

clearance: 5/31/2009. 

Type of request: Extension with 

change of a currently approved 

collection. 

Affected public: Business or other for 

profit. 

Abstract: The Railroad Retirement Act 

provides for payment of a supplemental 

annuity to a qualified railroad 

retirement annuitant. The collection 

obtains information from the annuitant’s 

employer to determine (a) the existence 

of a railroad employer pension plans 

and whether such plans, if they exist, 

require a reduction to supplemental 

annuities paid to the employer’s former 

employees and (b) the amount of 

supplemental annuities due railroad 

employees. 

Changes Proposed: The RRB proposes 

no changes to the forms in the 

collection. 

The total burden estimate for the ICR 

is as follows: 

Estimated annual number of 

respondents: 500. 

Total annual responses: 765. 

Total annual reporting hours: 103. 

Additional Information or Comments: 

Copies of the form and supporting 

documents can be obtained from 

Charles Mierzwa, the agency clearance 

officer at (312–751–3363) or 

Charles.Mierzwa@rrb.gov. 

Comments regarding the information 

collection should be addressed to 

Ronald J. Hodapp, Railroad Retirement 

Board, 844 North Rush Street, Chicago, 

Illinois, 60611–2092 or 

Ronald.Hodapp@rrb.gov and to the 

OMB Desk Officer for the RRB, at the 

Office of Management and Budget, 

Room 10230, New Executive Office 

Building, Washington, DC 20503. 

Charles Mierzwa, 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–11404 Filed 5–14–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7905–01–P 

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

[Disaster Declaration #11740 and #11741] 

Alabama Disaster #AL–00022 

AGENCY: U.S. Small Business 

Administration. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This is a Notice of the 

Presidential declaration of a major 

disaster for Public Assistance Only for 

the State of Alabama (FEMA–1836–DR), 

dated 05/08/2009. 

Incident: Severe Storms, Flooding, 

Tornadoes, and Straight-line Winds. 

Incident Period: 04/10/2009 through 

04/13/2009. 

Effective Date: 05/08/2009. 

Physical Loan Application Deadline 

Date: 07/07/2009. 

Economic Injury (EIDL) Loan 

Application Deadline Date: 02/08/2010. 

ADDRESSES: Submit completed loan 

applications to: U.S. Small Business 

Administration, Processing and 

Disbursement Center, 14925 Kingsport 

Road, Fort Worth, TX 76155. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A. 

Escobar, Office of Disaster Assistance, 

U.S. Small Business Administration, 

409 3rd Street, SW., Suite 6050, 

Washington, DC 20416. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given that as a result of the 

President’s major disaster declaration on 

05/08/2009, Private Non-Profit 

organizations that provide essential 

services of governmental nature may file 

disaster loan applications at the address 

listed above or other locally announced 

locations. 

The following areas have been 

determined to be adversely affected by 

the disaster: 

Primary Counties: Cullman, Dekalb, 

Jackson, Jefferson, Marshall. 

The Interest Rates are: 

Percent 

Other (Including Non-Profit Organizations) With Credit Available 

Elsewhere ................................. 4.500. 

Businesses and Non-Profit Organizations Without Credit Available Elsewhere ......................... 4.000. 

The number assigned to this disaster 

for physical damage is 11740B and for 

economic injury is 11741B. 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Numbers 59002 and 59008) 

James E. Rivera, 

Acting Associate Administrator for Disaster 

Assistance. 

[FR Doc. E9–11391 Filed 5–14–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8025–01–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

Upon Written Request, Copies Available 

From: Securities and Exchange 

Commission, Office of Investor 

Education and Advocacy, 

Washington, DC 20549–0213. 

Extension: Rule 489 and Form F–N; SEC File 

No. 270–361; OMB Control No. 3235– 

0411. 

Notice is hereby given that, pursuant 

to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Securities 

and Exchange Commission (the 

‘‘Commission’’) has submitted to the 

Office of Management and Budget a 

request for extension of the previously 

approved collection of information 

discussed below: 

Rule 489 (17 CFR 230.489) under the 

Securities Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. 77a et 

seq.) requires foreign banks and foreign 

insurance companies and holding 

companies and finance subsidiaries of 

foreign banks and foreign insurance 

companies that are exempted from the 

definition of ‘‘investment company’’ by 

virtue of Rules 3a–1 (17 CFR 270.3a–1), 

3a–5 (17 CFR 270.3a–5), and 3a–6 (17 

CFR 270.3a–6) under the Investment 

Company Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a–1 

et seq.) to file Form F–N (17 CFR 

239.43), under the Securities Act of 

1933 to appoint an agent for service of 

process when making a public offering 

of securities in the United States. 

Approximately 19 entities are required 

by Rule 489 to file Form F–N, which is 

estimated to require an average of one 

hour to complete. The estimated annual 

burden of complying with the rule’s 

filing requirement is approximately 24 

hours, as some of the entities submitted 

multiple filings. 

The estimates of average burden hours 

are made solely for the purposes of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) and are not derived 

from a comprehensive or even 

representative survey or study of the 

cost of Commission rules and forms. 

The collection of information under 

Form F–N is mandatory. The 

information provided by the Form is not 

kept confidential. An agency may not 

conduct or sponsor, and a person is not 

required to respond to, a collection of 

information unless it displays a 

currently valid control number. 

Please direct general comments 

regarding the above information to the 

following persons: (i) Desk Officer for 

the Securities and Exchange 

Commission, Office of Management and 

Budget, Room 10102, New Executive