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Name Position title 

SHATZ, EILEEN M ......................... SPECIAL LITIGATION COUNSEL. 

SMITH, COREY J ........................... SENIOR TRIAL ATTORNEY. 

STEHLIK, NOREENE C ................. SENIOR TRIAL ATTORNEY. 

SULLIVAN, JOHN ........................... SENIOR TRIAL ATTORNEY. 

WEAVER, JAMES E ....................... SENIOR TRIAL ATTORNEY. 

WARD, RICHARD ........................... CHIEF, CIVIL TRIAL SECTION WESTERN REGION. 

U.S. Marshals Service—USMS 

HARLOW, DAVID ........................... DEPUTY DIRECTOR. 

AUERBACH, GERALD ................... GENERAL COUNSEL. 

BROWN, SHANNON B ................... ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, JPATS. 

MOHAN, KATHERINE T ................. ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, HUMAN RESOURCES. 

DRISCOLL, DERRICK .................... ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, INVESTIGATIVE OPERATIONS. 

MATHIAS, KARL ............................. ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY. 

BOLEN, JOHN ................................ ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, JUDICIAL SECURITY. 

EDWARDS, SOPHIA ...................... DIRECTOR, BUSINESS STRATEGY AND NTEGRATION. 

MUSEL, DAVID F ........................... ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, ADMINISTRATION. 

SNELSON, WILLIAM D .................. ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, OPERATIONS. 

VIRTUE, TIMOTHY ......................... ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, ASSET FORFEITURE. 

HACKMASTER, NELSON .............. ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, PRISONER OPERATIONS. 

DICKINSON. LISA .......................... ATTORNEY ADVISOR. 

O’BRIEN-ROGAN, CAROLE .......... PROCUREMENT EXECUTIVE, FINANCIAL SERVICES. 

O’BRIEN, HOLLEY ......................... CHIEF, FINANCIAL OFFICER, FINANCIAL SERVICES. 

O’’HEARN, DONALD ...................... ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY. 

PAN, MAUREEN ............................. (ACTING) ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, MANAGEMENT SUPPORT. 

ANDERSON, DAVID ....................... ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, TRAINING. 

Community Relations Service—CRS 

RATIFF, GERRI .............................. DEPUTY DIRECTOR. 

Rule of Law Office—ROL 

FAIRCHILD, FORDE ...................... JUSTICE ATTACHE, AFGHANISTAN. 

U.S. National Central Bureau INTERPOL—USNCB 

SALZGABER, WAYNE ................... DEPUTY DIRECTOR. 

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BILLING CODE 4410–CH–P 

NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE 

ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 

National Endowment for the Arts 

National Council on the Arts 192nd 

Meeting 

AGENCY: National Endowment for the 

Arts, National Foundation on the Arts 

and Humanities. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 10(a)(2) of 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 

amended, notice is hereby given that a 

meeting of the National Council on the 

Arts will be held. Open to the public on 

a space available basis. 

DATES: See the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section for meeting time 

and date. The meeting is Eastern time 

and the ending time is approximate. 

ADDRESSES: Russell Senate Building, 

Room #SR–485, 2 Constitution Avenue 

NE., Washington, DC 20002. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Victoria Hutter, Office of Public Affairs, 

National Endowment for the Arts, 

Washington, DC 20506, at 202/682– 

5570. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: If, in the 

course of the open session discussion, it 

becomes necessary for the Council to 

discuss non-public commercial or 

financial information of intrinsic value, 

the Council will go into closed session 

pursuant to subsection (c)(4) of the 

Government in the Sunshine Act, 5 

U.S.C. 552b, and in accordance with the 

July 5, 2016 determination of the 

Chairman. Additionally, discussion 

concerning purely personal information 

about individuals, such as personal 

biographical and salary data or medical 

information, may be conducted by the 

Council in closed session in accordance 

with subsection (c)(6) of 5 U.S.C. 552b. 

Any interested persons may attend, as 

observers, to Council discussions and 

reviews that are open to the public. If 

you need special accommodations due 

to a disability, please contact the Office 

of Accessibility, National Endowment 

for the Arts, Constitution Center, 400 

7th St. SW., Washington, DC 20506, 

202/682–5733, Voice/T.T.Y. 202/682– 

5496, at least seven (7) days prior to the 

meeting. 

The upcoming meeting is: 

National Council on the Arts 192nd 

Meeting 

This meeting will be open. 

Date and time: October 26, 2017; 

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

From 10:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.— 

Opening remarks and voting on 

recommendations for grant funding and 

rejection, followed by updates from the 

Chairman. There also will be the 

following presentations (times are 

approximate): from 10:30 a.m. to 11:00 

a.m.—Presentation from Missoula 

Children’s Theatre (Michael McGill, 

Executive Director, Missoula Children’s 

Theatre); from 11:00 a.m. to 11:30 

a.m.—Presentation from Appalshop 

(Ada Smith, Institutional Development 


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Director, Appalshop); and from 11:30 

a.m.–12:00 p.m.—Remarks from 

Members of Congress. 

Dated: October 12, 2017. 

Sherry P. Hale, 

Staff Assistant, National Endowment for the 

Arts. 

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BILLING CODE 7537–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 50–255; NRC–2017–0207] 

Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.; 

Palisades Nuclear Plant 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Exemption; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing an 

exemption in response to a June 29, 

2017, request from Entergy Nuclear 

Operations, Inc. (Entergy or the 

licensee) from certain regulatory 

requirements. The exemption would 

allow, as a minimum, a certified fuel 

handler (CFH), in addition to a licensed 

senior operator, to approve the 

suspension of security measures for 

Palisades Nuclear Plant (Palisades) 

during certain emergency conditions or 

during severe weather after the 

certifications of permanent cessation of 

operations and permanent removal of 

fuel from the reactor vessel are 

docketed. 

DATES: The exemption was issued on 

October 11, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2017–0207 when contacting the 

NRC about the availability of 

information regarding this document. 

You may obtain publicly-available 

information related to this document 

using any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2017–0207. 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. 

• 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 

a 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: 

Scott P. Wall, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001; telephone: 301–415–2855; email: 

Scott.Wall@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Entergy is the holder of Renewed 

Facility Operating License No. DPR–20 

for Palisades. The license provides, 

among other things, that the facility is 

subject to all applicable rules, 

regulations, and orders of the NRC now 

or hereafter in effect. The Palisades 

facility consists of a pressurized-water 

reactor located in Van Buren County, 

Michigan. 

By letter dated January 4, 2017 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML17004A062), 

the licensee submitted a Notification of 

Permanent Cessation of Power 

Operations for Palisades. In this letter, 

Entergy provided notification to the 

NRC of its intent to permanently cease 

power operations at Palisades no later 

than October 1, 2018. 

In accordance with §§ 50.82(a)(1)(i) 

and (ii), and 50.82(a)(2) of title 10 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), 

the 10 CFR part 50 license for the 

facility will no longer authorize reactor 

operation or emplacement or retention 

of fuel in the reactor vessel after 

certifications of permanent cessation of 

operations and permanent removal of 

fuel from the reactor vessel are docketed 

for Palisades. 

By letter dated August 21, 2017 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML17151A350), 

the NRC approved the CFH Training 

and Retraining Program for Palisades. 

II. Request/Action 

By letter dated June 29, 2017 (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML17180A004), the 

licensee requested an exemption from 

§ 73.55(p)(1)(i) and (ii), pursuant to 

§ 73.5, ‘‘Specific exemptions.’’ Section 

73.55(p)(1)(i) and (ii) requires, in part, 

that the suspension of security measures 

during certain emergency conditions or 

during severe weather be approved as a 

minimum by a licensed senior operator 

before taking this action. Entergy 

requested an exemption from these rules 

to allow as a minimum either a licensed 

senior operator or a CFH to approve the 

suspension of security measures at 

Palisades after the certifications 

required by § 50.82(a)(1)(i) and (ii) have 

been submitted. There is no need for an 

exemption from these rules for a 

licensed senior operator to approve the 

suspension of security measures 

because the current regulation allows 

this. However, the exemption is needed 

to also allow, as a minimum, a CFH to 

provide this approval after the 

certifications required by § 50.82(a)(1)(i) 

and (ii) have been submitted. 

III. Discussion 

The NRC’s security rules have long 

recognized the potential need to 

suspend security or safeguards measures 

under certain conditions. Accordingly, 

§ 50.54(x) and (y), first published in 

1983, allow a licensee to take reasonable 

actions in an emergency that depart 

from license conditions or technical 

specifications when those actions are 

immediately ‘‘needed to protect the 

public health and safety,’’ and no 

actions consistent with license 

conditions and technical specifications 

that can provide adequate or equivalent 

protection are immediately apparent (48 

FR 13970; April 1, 1983). This departure 

from license conditions or technical 

specifications must be approved, as a 

minimum, by a licensed senior operator. 

In 1986, in its final rule, ‘‘Miscellaneous 

Amendments Concerning the Physical 

Protection of Nuclear Power Plants’’ (51 

FR 27817; August 4, 1986), the 

Commission issued § 73.55(a), which 

provided, in part, that, in accordance 

with § 50.54(x) and (y), the licensee may 

suspend any safeguards measures 

pursuant to § 73.55 in an emergency 

when this action is immediately needed 

to protect the public health and safety 

and no action consistent with license 

conditions and technical specifications 

that can provide adequate or equivalent 

protection is immediately apparent. The 

regulation further requires that this 

suspension be approved as a minimum 

by a licensed senior operator prior to 

taking the action. 

In 1996, the NRC made a number of 

regulatory changes to address 

decommissioning. One of the changes 

was to amend § 50.54(x) and (y) to 

authorize a non-licensed operator called 

a ‘‘Certified Fuel Handler,’’ in addition 

to a licensed senior operator, to approve 

such protective actions in an emergency 

situation. In addressing the role of the 

CFH during emergencies in § 50.54(y), 


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