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scheduling priorities of the key 

participants. 

Patricia D. Rausch, 

Advisory Committee Management Officer, 

National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2017–20045 Filed 9–19–17; 8:45 am] 

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NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE 

ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 

National Endowment for the Arts 

Arts Advisory Panel Meetings 

AGENCY: National Endowment for the 

Arts, National Foundation on the Arts 

and Humanities. 

ACTION: Notice of meetings. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, as amended, 

notice is hereby given that 2 meetings of 

the Arts Advisory Panel to the National 

Council on the Arts will be held by 

teleconference. 

DATES: See the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section for individual 

meeting times and dates. All meetings 

are Eastern time and ending times are 

approximate. 

ADDRESSES: National Endowment for the 

Arts, Constitution Center, 400 7th St. 

SW., Washington, DC 20506. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Further information with reference to 

these meetings can be obtained from Ms. 

Sherry P. Hale, Office of Guidelines & 

Panel Operations, National Endowment 

for the Arts, Washington, DC 20506; 

hales@arts.gov, or call 202/682–5696. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

closed portions of meetings are for the 

purpose of Panel review, discussion, 

evaluation, and recommendations on 

financial assistance under the National 

Foundation on the Arts and the 

Humanities Act of 1965, as amended, 

including information given in 

confidence to the agency. In accordance 

with the determination of the Chairman 

of July 5, 2016, these sessions will be 

closed to the public pursuant to 

subsection (c)(6) of section 552b of title 

5, United States Code. 

The Upcoming Meetings Are: 

Creativity Connects (review of 

applications): This meeting will be 

closed. 

Date and time: October 20, 2017; 

11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. 

Creativity Connects (review of 

applications): This meeting will be 

closed. 

Date and time: October 20, 2017; 3:00 

p.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Dated: September 15, 2017. 

Sherry P. Hale, 

Staff Assistant, National Endowment for the 

Arts. 

[FR Doc. 2017–20006 Filed 9–19–17; 8:45 am] 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 50–458; NRC–2017–0141] 

River Bend Station, Unit 1 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Intent to conduct scoping 

process and prepare environmental 

impact statement; public meeting and 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission will conduct a scoping 

process to gather the information 

necessary to prepare an environmental 

impact statement (EIS) to evaluate the 

environmental impacts for renewal of 

the operating license for River Bend 

Station, Unit 1 (River Bend). The NRC 

is seeking stakeholder input on this 

action and has scheduled a public 

meeting. 

DATES: Submit comments by October 23, 

2017. Comments received after this date 

will be considered if it is practical to do 

so, but assurance of consideration 

cannot be given to comments received 

after this date. Meeting date: September 

19, 2017, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., St. 

Francisville, LA. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods (unless 

this document describes a different 

method for submitting comments on a 

specific subject): 

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2017–0141. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Carol 

Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; 

email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For 

technical questions, contact the 

individual listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

document. 

• Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, 

Office of Administration, Mail Stop 

TWFN–8–D36M, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001. 

For additional direction on obtaining 

information and submitting comments, 

see ‘‘Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments’’ in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Elaine Keegan, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001; telephone: 301–415–8517, email: 

Elaine.Keegan@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2017– 

0141 when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information regarding 

this document. You may obtain 

publicly-available information related to 

this document by any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2017–0141. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

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

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 (if it is available in 

ADAMS) is provided the first time that 

it is mentioned. The application for 

renewal of the River Bend license is 

available in ADAMS under Accession 

No. ML17153A285. The supplemental 

information which the NRC staff 

requested in order to complete the 

acceptance review is available in 

ADAMS under Accession No. 

ML17213A064. 

• 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. 

B. Submitting Comments 

Please include Docket ID NRC–2017– 

0141 in the subject line of your 

comment submission in order to ensure 

that the NRC is able to make your 

comment submission available to the 

public in this docket. 

The NRC cautions you not to include 

identifying or contact information that 

you do not want to be publicly 

disclosed in your comment submission. 

The NRC posts all comment 

submissions at http://

www.regulations.gov as well as entering 

the comment submissions into ADAMS. 

The NRC does not routinely edit 


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comment submissions to remove 

identifying or contact information. 

If you are requesting or aggregating 

comments from other persons for 

submission to the NRC, then you should 

inform those persons not to include 

identifying or contact information that 

they do not want to be publicly 

disclosed in their comment submission. 

Your request should state that the NRC 

does not routinely edit comment 

submissions to remove such information 

before making the comment 

submissions available to the public or 

entering the comment submissions into 

ADAMS. 

II. Discussion 

By letter dated May 25, 2017, Entergy 

Operations, Inc. (Entergy) submitted to 

the NRC an application for renewal of 

Facility Operating License NPF–47 for 

an additional 20 years of operation at 

River Bend, further supplemented by 

letter dated August 1, 2017. River Bend 

is located in St. Francisville, LA. The 

current operating license for River Bend 

expires on August 29, 2025. The 

application for renewal was submitted 

pursuant to part 54 of title 10 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 

and included an environmental report 

(ER), which was also supplemented. A 

separate notice of receipt and 

availability of the application was 

published in the Federal Register on 

June 28, 2017 (82 FR 29344). A notice 

of acceptance for docketing of the 

supplemented application and 

opportunity for hearing regarding 

renewal of the facility operating license 

was published in the Federal Register 

on August 14, 2017 (82 FR 37908). A 

revised notice of acceptance for 

docketing was published in the Federal 

Register on September 6, 2017 (82 FR 

42126) to correct the name of the local 

library where members of the public can 

review the LRA and ER. 

III. Request for Comments 

This notice informs the public of the 

NRC’s intention to prepare an EIS 

related the license renewal application 

and to provide the public an 

opportunity to participate in the 

environmental scoping process, as 

defined in 10 CFR 51.29. 

The regulations in 36 CFR 800.8, 

‘‘Coordination with the National 

Environmental Policy Act,’’ allows 

agencies to use their National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 

(NEPA) process to fulfill the 

requirements of Section 106 of the 

National Historic Preservation Act 

(NHPA). Therefore, pursuant to 36 CFR 

800.8(c), the NRC intends to use its 

process and documentation for the 

preparation of the EIS on the proposed 

action to comply with Section 106 of the 

NHPA in lieu of the procedures set forth 

at 36 CFR 800.3 through 800.6. 

In accordance with 10 CFR 51.53(c) 

and 10 CFR 54.23, Entergy submitted 

the ER as part of the application. To 

complete the acceptance review of the 

license renewal application, the 

applicant provided additional 

supplemental information needed to 

support the staff’s technical review of 

the proposed action (license renewal). 

The ER and supplemental information 

were prepared pursuant to 10 CFR part 

51 and are publicly available in ADAMS 

under Accession Nos. ML17156A093 

and ML17213A064, respectively. The 

ER may also be viewed on the Internet 

at http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/ 

operating/licensing/renewal/ 

applications.html. In addition, a paper 

copy of the license renewal application, 

including the ER, is available to the 

public near the site at the West 

Feliciana Parish Library, 5114 Burnett 

Road, St. Francisville, Louisiana 70775. 

The NRC intends to gather the 

information necessary to prepare a 

plant-specific supplement to the NRC’s 

‘‘Generic Environmental Impact 

Statement (GEIS) for License Renewal of 

Nuclear Plants,’’ (NUREG–1437) related 

to the application for renewal of the 

River Bend operating license for an 

additional 20 years. 

Possible alternatives to the proposed 

action include no action and reasonable 

alternative energy sources. The NRC is 

required by 10 CFR 51.95 to prepare a 

supplement to the GEIS in connection 

with the renewal of an operating 

license. This notice is being published 

in accordance with NEPA and the NRC’s 

regulations found at 10 CFR part 51. 

The NRC will first conduct a scoping 

process for the supplement to the GEIS 

and, as soon as practicable thereafter, 

will prepare a draft supplement to the 

GEIS for public comment. Participation 

in the scoping process by members of 

the public and local, State, Tribal, and 

Federal government agencies is 

encouraged. The scoping process for the 

supplement to the GEIS will be used to 

accomplish the following: 

a. Define the proposed action, which 

is to be the subject of the supplement to 

the GEIS; 

b. Determine the scope of the 

supplement to the GEIS and identify the 

significant issues to be analyzed in 

depth; 

c. Identify and eliminate from 

detailed study those issues that are 

peripheral, are not significant, or were 

covered by a prior environmental 

review; 

d. Identify any environmental 

assessments and other ElSs that are 

being or will be prepared that are 

related to, but are not part of, the scope 

of the supplement to the GEIS being 

considered; 

e. Identify other environmental 

review and consultation requirements 

related to the proposed action; 

f. Indicate the relationship between 

the timing of the preparation of the 

environmental analyses and the 

Commission’s tentative planning and 

decision-making schedule; 

g. Identify any cooperating agencies 

and, as appropriate, allocate 

assignments for preparation and 

schedules for completing the 

supplement to the GEIS to the NRC and 

any cooperating agencies; and 

h. Describe how the supplement to 

the GEIS will be prepared, including 

any contractor assistance to be used. 

The NRC invites the following entities 

to participate in scoping: 

a. The applicant, Entergy; 

b. Any Federal agency that has 

jurisdiction by law or special expertise 

with respect to any environmental 

impact involved or that is authorized to 

develop and enforce relevant 

environmental standards; 

c. Affected State and local 

government agencies, including those 

authorized to develop and enforce 

relevant environmental standards; 

d. Any affected Indian tribe; 

e. Any person who requests or has 

requested an opportunity to participate 

in the scoping process; and 

f. Any person who has petitioned or 

intends to petition for leave to 

intervene. 

IV. Public Scoping Meeting 

In accordance with 10 CFR 51.26, the 

scoping process for an EIS may include 

a public scoping meeting to help 

identify significant issues related to a 

proposed activity and to determine the 

scope of issues to be addressed in an 

EIS. The NRC has decided to hold a 

public meeting for the River Bend 

license renewal supplement to the GEIS. 

The scoping meeting will be held on 

September 19, 2017. The meeting will 

be held from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at 

the Town Hall Meeting Room of the St. 

Francisville Town Hall, 11936 

Ferdinand Street, St. Francisville, 

Louisiana 70775. There will be a 

registration period from 6:30 p.m. to 

7:00 p.m. for members of the public to 

sign in to speak. 

The meeting will be transcribed and 

will include: (1) An overview by the 

NRC staff of the NEPA environmental 

review process, the proposed scope of 

the supplement to the GEIS, and the 


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proposed review schedule; and (2) the 

opportunity for interested government 

agencies, organizations, and individuals 

to submit comments or suggestions on 

the environmental issues or the 

proposed scope of the supplement to the 

GEIS. To be considered, comments must 

be provided either at the transcribed 

public meeting or in writing, as 

discussed in the ADDRESSES section of 

this notice. 

Members of the public may register to 

speak during the registration period 

prior to the start of the meeting. 

Individual oral comments may be 

limited by the time available, depending 

on the number of persons who register. 

Public comments will be considered in 

the scoping process for the supplement 

to the GEIS. 

Participation in the scoping process 

for the supplement to the GEIS does not 

entitle participants to become parties to 

the proceeding to which the supplement 

to the GEIS relates. Matters related to 

participation in any hearing are outside 

the scope of matters to be discussed at 

this public meeting. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 14th day 

of September 2017. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Benjamin G. Beasley, 

Chief, Environmental Review and Project 

Management Branch, Division of License 

Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation. 

[FR Doc. 2017–19984 Filed 9–19–17; 8:45 am] 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

Advisory Committee on Reactor 

Safeguards (ACRS); Meeting of the 

ACRS Subcommittee on NuScale; 

Notice of Meeting 

The ACRS Subcommittee on NuScale 

will hold a meeting on September 20, 

2017, at 11545 Rockville Pike, Room T– 

2B1, Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

The meeting will be open to public 

attendance with the exception of 

portions that may be closed to protect 

information that is proprietary pursuant 

to 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4). The agenda for 

the subject meeting shall be as follows: 

Wednesday, September 20, 2017—8:30 

a.m. Until 12:00 p.m. 

The Subcommittee will review 

applicability of the AREVA fuel 

methodology to the NuScale design 

certification application. The 

Subcommittee will hear presentations 

by and hold discussions with the NRC 

staff, NuScale staff and other interested 

persons regarding this matter. The 

Subcommittee will gather information, 

analyze relevant issues and facts, and 

formulate proposed positions and 

actions, as appropriate, for deliberation 

by the Full Committee. 

Members of the public desiring to 

provide oral statements and/or written 

comments should notify the Designated 

Federal Official (DFO), Michael 

Snodderly (Telephone 301–415–2241 or 

Email: Michael.Snodderly@nrc.gov) five 

days prior to the meeting, if possible, so 

that appropriate arrangements can be 

made. Thirty-five hard copies of each 

presentation or handout should be 

provided to the DFO thirty minutes 

before the meeting. In addition, one 

electronic copy of each presentation 

should be emailed to the DFO one day 

before the meeting. If an electronic copy 

cannot be provided within this 

timeframe, presenters should provide 

the DFO with a CD containing each 

presentation at least thirty minutes 

before the meeting. Electronic 

recordings will be permitted only 

during those portions of the meeting 

that are open to the public. Detailed 

procedures for the conduct of and 

participation in ACRS meetings were 

published in the Federal Register on 

October 17, 2016, (81 FR 71543). 

Detailed meeting agendas and meeting 

transcripts are available on the NRC 

Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/doc-collections/acrs. Information 

regarding topics to be discussed, 

changes to the agenda, whether the 

meeting has been canceled or 

rescheduled, and the time allotted to 

present oral statements can be obtained 

from the Web site cited above or by 

contacting the identified DFO. 

Moreover, in view of the possibility that 

the schedule for ACRS meetings may be 

adjusted by the Chairman as necessary 

to facilitate the conduct of the meeting, 

persons planning to attend should check 

with these references if such 

rescheduling would result in a major 

inconvenience. 

If attending this meeting, please enter 

through the One White Flint North 

building, 11555 Rockville Pike, 

Rockville, Maryland. After registering 

with Security, please contact Mr. 

Theron Brown (Telephone 240–888– 

9835) to be escorted to the meeting 

room. 

Dated: September 11, 2017. 

Mark L. Banks, 

Chief, Technical Support Branch, Advisory 

Committee on Reactor Safeguards. 

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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL 

MANAGEMENT 

Hispanic Council on Federal 

Employment 

AGENCY: U.S. Office of Personnel 

Management. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Hispanic Council on 

Federal Employment (Council) meeting 

will be held on Tuesday, October 31, 

2017 at the following time and location 

shown below: 

Time: 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. 

Location: Office of Personnel 

Management, 1900 E St. NW., 

Washington, DC 20415, Executive 

Conference Room. 

The Council is an advisory committee 

composed of representatives from 

Hispanic organizations and senior 

government officials. Along with its 

other responsibilities, the Council shall 

advise the Director of the Office of 

Personnel Management on matters 

involving the recruitment, hiring, and 

advancement of Hispanics in the 

Federal workforce. The Council is cochaired by the Director of the Office of 

Personnel Management and the Chair of 

the National Hispanic Leadership 

Agenda (NHLA). 

The meeting is open to the public. 

Please contact the Office of Personnel 

Management at the address shown 

below if you wish to present material to 

the Council at any of the meetings. The 

manner and time prescribed for 

presentations may be limited, 

depending upon the number of parties 

that express interest in presenting 

information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Zina 

Sutch, Director, for the Office of 

Diversity and Inclusion, Office of 

Personnel Management, 1900 E St. NW., 

Suite 5H35, Washington, DC 20415. 

Phone (202) 606–2433, Fax (202) 606– 

6012, or email at Zina.Sutch@opm.gov. 

U.S. Office of Personnel Management. 

Kathleen M. McGettigan, 

Acting Director. 

[FR Doc. 2017–19995 Filed 9–19–17; 8:45 am] 

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[Docket Nos. MC2017–199 and CP2017–302; 

MC2017–200 and CP2017–303; MC2017–201 

and CP2017–304; MC2017–202 and CP2017– 

305; CP2017–306] 

New Postal Products 

AGENCY: Postal Regulatory Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 


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