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Materials Research, Room 1065, National 

Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, 

Arlington, VA 22230, Telephone (703) 292– 

4914. 

Purpose of Meeting: To provide advice and 

recommendations concerning further support 

of the MRSEC at Cornell University. 

Agenda 

Sunday, Aug 23, 2009 

6 p.m.–7 p.m. Closed—Executive Session. 

7 p.m.–9 p.m. Open—Poster Session. 

Monday, Aug 24, 2009 

7:45 a.m.–4:45 p.m. Open—Review of the 

Cornell MRSEC. 

4:45 p.m.–6:30 p.m. Closed—Executive 

Session. 

6:30 p.m.–9 p.m. Open—Dinner. 

Tuesday, Aug 25, 2009 

8 a.m.–9 a.m. Closed—Executive session. 

9 a.m.–10:45 a.m. Open—Review of the 

Cornell MRSEC. 

10:45 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Closed—Executive 

Session, Draft and Review Report. 

Reason for Closing: The work being 

reviewed may include information of a 

proprietary or confidential nature, including 

technical information; financial data, such as 

salaries and personal information concerning 

individuals associated with the proposals. 

These matters are exempt under 5 U.S.C. 552 

b(c), (4) and (6) of the Government in the 

Sunshine Act. 

Dated: July 14, 2009. 

Susanne Bolton, 

Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–17028 Filed 7–16–09; 8:45 am] 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. STN 50–528, STN 50–529, and 

STN 50–530; NRC–2009–0316] 

Arizona Public Service Company, et 

al.; Palo Verde Nuclear Generating 

Station, Units 1, 2, and 3; 

Environmental Assessment and 

Finding of No Significant Impact 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is considering 

issuance of an exemption from Title 10 

of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 

CFR) Part 55, Section 55.47, for Facility 

Operating License Nos. NPF–41, NPF– 

51, and NPF–74, issued to the Arizona 

Public Service Company (APS, or the 

licensee), for operation of the Palo 

Verde Nuclear Generating Station 

(PVNGS, the facility) Units 1, 2, and 3, 

respectively, located in Maricopa 

County, Arizona. Therefore, as required 

by 10 CFR 51.21, the NRC is issuing this 

environmental assessment and finding 

of no significant impact. 

Environmental Assessment 

Identification of the Proposed Action 

The proposed action would allow Mr. 

Mark A. Sharp, who was licensed as a 

senior reactor operator (SRO) at the 

PVNGS from December 1996 to 

December 2006, to be re-licensed as an 

SRO at the PVNGS without having to 

take and pass the NRC-required written 

examination or operating test specified 

in 10 CFR 55.43 or 10 CFR 55.45, 

respectively. The proposed action 

would exempt the SRO license 

candidate from meeting one specific 

criterion of 10 CFR 55.47, which allows 

NRC to grant waivers of the testing 

requirements. 

The proposed action is in accordance 

with the licensee’s application for 

exemption dated February 6, 2009 

(Agencywide Documents Access and 

Management System (ADAMS) 

Accession No. ML091550607). 

The Need for the Proposed Action 

The proposed exemption would allow 

Mr. Mark A. Sharp to re-obtain an SRO 

license at PVNGS without the need to 

take the NRC-administered written 

examination and operating tests 

required by 10 CFR 55.43 and 10 CFR 

55.45, respectively. The NRC is 

authorized to grant a waiver from these 

requirements by 10 CFR 55.47; however, 

the operator license candidate in this 

case did not meet one specific waiver 

criterion, 10 CFR 55.47(a)(1), which 

requires that the candidate have 

extensive actual operating experience at 

PVNGS (or a comparable facility) within 

2 years before the date of application. 

Therefore, an exemption to this waiver 

criterion was requested by APS to allow 

Mr. Sharp to receive his SRO license 

and resume licensed operator duties at 

PVNGS more quickly than he could if 

he had to take and pass the NRCadministered examinations, which are 

currently scheduled for November 2009. 

APS has initiated an effort to increase 

the number of licensed operators at 

PVNGS, in response to an NRC violation 

involving the excessive use of operator 

overtime, and the granting of this 

exemption would further that effort. 

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed 

Action 

The NRC has completed its 

environmental evaluation of the 

proposed action and concludes that relicensing Mr. Sharp as a senior reactor 

operator at PVNGS without his taking 

and passing an NRC licensing 

examination will not result in an 

adverse impact on the environment. The 

details of the staff’s safety evaluation 

will be provided in the exemption that 

will be issued as part of the letter to the 

licensee approving the exemption to the 

regulation. 

The proposed action will not 

significantly increase the probability or 

consequences of accidents. No changes 

are being made in the types of effluents 

that may be released offsite. There is no 

significant increase in the amount of 

any effluent released offsite. There is no 

significant increase in occupational or 

public radiation exposure. Therefore, 

there are no significant radiological 

environmental impacts associated with 

the proposed action. 

With regard to potential nonradiological impacts, the proposed 

action does not have a potential to affect 

any historic sites. It does not affect nonradiological plant effluents and has no 

other environmental impact. Therefore, 

there are no significant non-radiological 

environmental impacts associated with 

the proposed action. 

Accordingly, the NRC concludes that 

there are no significant environmental 

impacts associated with the proposed 

action. 

Environmental Impacts of the 

Alternatives to the Proposed Action 

As an alternative to the proposed 

action, the staff considered denial of the 

proposed exemption (i.e., the ‘‘noaction’’ alternative). Denial of the 

application for exemption would result 

in no change in current environmental 

impacts. Thus the environmental 

impacts of the proposed action and the 

alternative action are similar. 

Alternative Use of Resources 

The action does not involve the use of 

any different resources than those 

previously considered in the Final 

Environmental Statement for the Palo 

Verde Nuclear Generating Station, Units 

1, 2, and 3, NUREG–0841, dated 

February 1982. 

Agencies and Persons Consulted 

In accordance with its stated policy, 

on June 3, 2009, the staff consulted with 

the Arizona State official, Mr. Aubrey 

Godwin of the Arizona Radiation 

Regulatory Agency, regarding the 

environmental impact of the proposed 

action. The State official had no 

comments. 

Finding of No Significant Impact 

On the basis of the environmental 

assessment, the NRC concludes that the 

proposed action will not have a 

significant effect on the quality of the 

human environment. Accordingly, the 

NRC has determined not to prepare an 

environmental impact statement for the 

proposed action. 

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For further details with respect to the 

proposed action, see the licensee’s letter 

dated February 6, 2009. Documents may 

be examined, and/or copied for a fee, at 

the NRC’s Public Document Room 

(PDR), located at One White Flint North, 

Public File Area O1 F21, 11555 

Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, 

Maryland. Publicly available records 

will be accessible electronically from 

the ADAMS Public Electronic Reading 

Room on the Internet at the NRC Web 

site, http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

adams.html. Persons who do not have 

access to ADAMS or who encounter 

problems in accessing the documents 

located in ADAMS should contact the 

NRC PDR Reference staff by telephone 

at 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415–4737, or 

send an e-mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 10th day 

of July 2009. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

James R. Hall, 

Senior Project Manager, Plant Licensing 

Branch IV, Division of Operating Reactor 

Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation. 

[FR Doc. E9–17050 Filed 7–16–09; 8:45 am] 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2009–0315] 

Withdrawal of Regulatory Guide 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Withdrawal of Regulatory Guide 

6.3, ‘‘Design, Construction, and Use of 

Radioisotopic Power Generators for 

Certain Land and Sea Applications.’’ 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Robert G. Carpenter, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001, telephone 301–251– 

7483 or e-mail 

Robert.Carpenter@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is withdrawing 

Regulatory Guide (RG) 6.3, ‘‘Design, 

Construction, and Use of Radioisotopic 

Power Generators for Certain Land and 

Sea Applications,’’ published in March 

1974. RG 6.3 provides guidance on the 

safe design, construction, and use of 

radioisotopic power generators. The 

NRC is withdrawing this regulatory 

guide because it is no longer required. 

RG 6.3 supported activities requiring 

a license pursuant to Title 10 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations, Parts 30, 

40, and 70. The guidance in RG 6.3 

applies to types of devices that are no 

longer used and have been replaced by 

other technology. Therefore, no 

licensing actions for these devices are 

being submitted or reviewed by license 

reviewers and the guidance is no longer 

needed. 

II. Further Information 

The withdrawal of RG 6.3 does not 

alter any prior or existing licensing 

commitments based on its use. The 

guidance provided in this regulatory 

guide is no longer necessary. Regulatory 

guides may be withdrawn when their 

guidance is superseded by congressional 

action or no longer provides useful 

information. 

Regulatory guides are available for 

inspection or downloading through the 

NRC’s public Web site under 

‘‘Regulatory Guides’’ in the NRC’s 

Electronic Reading Room at http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections. Regulatory guides are also 

available for inspection at the NRC’s 

Public Document Room (PDR), Room O– 

1 F21, One White Flint North, 11555 

Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852– 

2738. The PDR’s mailing address is US 

NRC PDR, Washington, DC 20555–0001. 

The PDR staff can be reached by 

telephone at 301–415–4737 or 800–397– 

4209, by fax at 301–415–3548, and by email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 

Regulatory guides are not 

copyrighted, and NRC approval is not 

required to reproduce them. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 29th day 

of June 2009. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

R.A. Jervey, 

Acting Chief, Regulatory Guide Development 

Branch, Division of Engineering, Office of 

Nuclear Regulatory Research. 

[FR Doc. E9–17048 Filed 7–16–09; 8:45 am] 

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

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

Retirement Board (RRB) is forwarding 

three (3) Information Collection 

Requests (ICR) to the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs 

(OIRA), Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB). 

The RRB invites comments on the 

proposed ICR’s 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. Employee Representative’s Status 

and Compensation Reports; OMB 3220– 

0014 

Under Section 1(b)(1) of the Railroad 

Retirement Act (RRA), the term 

‘‘employee’’ includes an individual who 

is an employee representative. As 

defined in Section 1(c) of the RRA, an 

employee representative is an officer or 

official representative of a railway labor 

organization other than a labor 

organization included in the term 

‘‘employer,’’ as defined in the RRA, who 

before or after August 29, 1935, was in 

the service of an employer under the 

RRA and who is duly authorized and 

designated to represent employees in 

accordance with the Railway Labor Act, 

or, any individual who is regularly 

assigned to or regularly employed by 

such officer or official representative in 

connection with the duties of his or her 

office. The requirements relating to the 

application for employee representative 

status and the periodic reporting of the 

compensation resulting from such status 

is contained in 20 CFR 209.10. 

The RRB utilizes Forms DC–2a, 

Employee Representative’s Status 

Report, and DC–2, Employee 

Representative’s Report of 

Compensation, to obtain the information 

needed to determine employee 

representative status and to maintain a 

record of creditable service and 

compensation resulting from such 

status. Completion is required to obtain 

or retain a benefit. One response is 

requested of each respondent. 

No changes are proposed to Form 

DC–2a and Form DC–2. The completion 

time for Form DC–2 is estimated at 30 

minutes per response. The RRB 

estimates that approximately 65 Form 

DC–2’s are completed annually. The 

RRB estimates that less than 10 Form 

DC–2a’s are completed annually. 

Previous Requests for Comments: The 

RRB has already published the initial 

60-day notice (74 FR 17895 on April 17, 

2009) required by 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2). 

That request elicited no comments. 

Information Collection Request (ICR) 

Title: Employee Representatives’ 

Status and Compensation Reports. 

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