10538 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 32 / Thursday, February 15, 2001 / Notices

DATES: The meeting will be held on

February 21, 2001 from 8:30 am–5 pm;

February 22, 2001 from 8:30 am–12

noon. Registration will begin at 8 am

each day. To facilitate maximum

participation and information sharing,

the meeting will be open to the public.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at

the NRC’s Region IV Office, 611 Ryan

Plaza Drive, Suite 400, Arlington, Texas

76011–8064.

Members of the public who are unable

to attend the meeting can send

comments to the Office of the Secretary,

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,

Washington, DC 20555–0001, Attention:

National Materials Program Working

Group.

A notice about this meeting is also

published at the NRC web site, News

and Information, Public Meetings, Other

Meetings (http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/

PUBLIC/meet.html#OTHER).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

James Myers, Project Manager, Office of

State and Tribal Programs, U.S. Nuclear

Regulatory Commission, Washington,

DC 20555; Telephone: 301–415–2328; Email: jhm@nrc.gov

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 32

Agreement States (AS) regulate about 70

percent of the total number of

radioactive materials licensees. NRC is

forecasting three more AS by FY 2003.

This will bring the percentage of

licensees regulated by AS to more than

80 percent. With a declining number of

licensees, NRC believes that its

activities that support the national

program infrastructure (rulemaking,

guidance development, information

technology systems, technical support,

event follow up and the Integrated

Materials Performance Evaluation

Program) will have a significant impact

on an increasingly smaller number of

NRC licensees.

The NRC staff determined that the

following issues were key to defining

and implementing State and Federal

roles under a national program:

delineate the scope of activities to be

covered by the program and need for

statutory changes at the State and

Federal levels; establish formal program

coordination mechanisms; establish

performance indicators, a program

assessment process to measure

performance and ensure program

evolution; and provisioning and

budgeting of both State and Federal

resources for the program. Additionally,

it was directed that the project be

completed by May 1, 2001.

To assure adequate coordination and

sharing of information with OAS,

CRCPD and the public, it is the

intention of the working group to place

information at the Office of State and

Tribal Programs web site http://

www.hsrd.ornl.gov/nrc/home.html.

Notices of future meetings will be

posted at the NRC web site’s Public

Meeting Notice area: http://

www.nrc.gov/NRC/PUBLIC/

meet.html#OTHER. To facilitate

maximum participation and information

sharing, the working group’s meetings

will be open to the public. Future

meeting notices will be published at the

NRC web site, News and Information,

Public Meetings, Other Meetings.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 8th day

of February, 2001.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Frederick C. Combs,

Deputy Director, Office of State and Tribal

Programs.

[FR Doc. 01–3826 Filed 2–14–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P

NUCLEAR REGULATORY

COMMISSION

Correction to Biweekly Notice

Applications and Amendments to

Operating Licenses Involving No

Significant Hazards Consideration

On February 7, 2001 (66 FR 9377), the

Federal Register published the

‘‘Biweekly Notice of Applications and

Amendments to Operating Licenses

Involving No Significant Hazards

Considerations.’’ On page 9377, column

3, second paragraph, ‘‘January 29, 2001,

through February 9, 2001’’ should read

‘‘January 16, 2001 through January 26,

2001.’’

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day

of February 2001.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

John A. Zwolinski,

Director, Division of Licensing Project

Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor

Regulation.

[FR Doc. 01–3827 Filed 2–14–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P

PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY

CORPORATION

Interest Assumption for Determining

Variable-Rate Premium; Interest

Assumptions for Multiemployer Plan

Valuations Following Mass Withdrawal

AGENCY: Pension Benefit Guaranty

Corporation.

ACTION: Notice of interest rates and

assumptions.

SUMMARY: This notice informs the public

of the interest rates and assumptions to

be used under certain Pension Benefit

Guaranty Corporation regulations. These

rates and assumptions are published

elsewhere (or are derivable from rates

published elsewhere), but are collected

and published in this notice for the

convenience of the public. Interest rates

are also published on the PBGC’s web

site (http://www.pbgc.gov).

DATES: The interest rate for determining

the variable-rate premium under part

4006 applies to premium payment years

beginning in February 2001. The

interest assumptions for performing

multiemployer plan valuations

following mass withdrawal under part

4281 apply to valuation dates occurring

in March 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Harold J. Ashner, Assistant General

Counsel, Office of the General Counsel,

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation,

1200 K Street, NW., Washington, DC

20005, 202–326–4024. (For TTY/TDD

users, call the Federal relay service tollfree at 1–800–877–8339 and ask to be

connected to 202–326–4024.)

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Variable-Rate Premiums

Section 4006(a)(3)(E)(iii)(II) of the

Employee Retirement Income Security

Act of 1974 (ERISA) and § 4006.4(b)(1)

of the PBGC’s regulation on Premium

Rates (29 CFR part 4006) prescribe use

of an assumed interest rate in

determining a single-employer plan’s

variable-rate premium. The rate is the

‘‘applicable percentage’’ (currently 85

percent) of the annual yield on 30-year

Treasury securities for the month

preceding the beginning of the plan year

for which premiums are being paid (the

‘‘premium payment year’’). The yield

figure is reported in Federal Reserve

Statistical Releases G.13 and H.15.

The assumed interest rate to be used

in determining variable-rate premiums

for premium payment years beginning

in February 2001 is 4.71 percent (i.e., 85

percent of the 5.54 percent yield figure

for January 2001).

The following table lists the assumed

interest rates to be used in determining

variable-rate premiums for premium

payment years beginning between

March 2000 and February 2001.

For premium payment years

beginning in

The assumed

interest rate is

March 2000 ........................... 5.30

April 2000 ............................. 5.14

May 2000 .............................. 4.97

June 2000 ............................. 5.23

July 2000 .............................. 5.04

August 2000 ......................... 4.97

September 2000 ................... 4.86

October 2000 ........................ 4.96

November 2000 .................... 4.93

December 2000 .................... 4.91