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the applicant on a material issue of law

or fact. Contentions shall be limited to

matters within the scope of the

amendment under consideration. The

contention must be one which, if

proven, would entitle the petitioner to

relief. A petitioner who fails to file such

a supplement which satisfies these

requirements with respect to at least one

contention will not be permitted to

participate as a party.

Those permitted to intervene become

parties to the proceeding, subject to any

limitations in the order granting leave to

intervene, and have the opportunity to

participate fully in the conduct of the

hearing, including the opportunity to

present evidence and cross-examine

witnesses.

If the amendment is issued before the

expiration of the 30-day hearing period,

the Commission will make a final

determination on the issue of no

significant hazards consideration. If a

hearing is requested, the final

determination will serve to decide when

the hearing is held.

If the final determination is that the

amendment request involves no

significant hazards consideration, the

Commission may issue the amendment

and make it immediately effective,

notwithstanding the request for a

hearing. Any hearing held would take

place after issuance of the amendment.

If the final determination is that the

amendment request involves a

significant hazards consideration, any

hearing held would take place before

the issuance of any amendment.

A request for a hearing or a petition

for leave to intervene must be filed with

the Secretary of the Commission, U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission,

Washington, DC 20555–0001, Attention:

Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff, or

may be delivered to the Commission’s

Public Document Room, located at One

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike

(first floor), Rockville, Maryland, by the

above date. A copy of the petition

should also be sent to the Office of the

General Counsel, U.S. Nuclear

Regulatory Commission, Washington,

DC 20555–0001, and to Jay Silberg, Esq.,

at Shaw, Pittman, Potts, and

Trowbridge, 2300 N Street, NW.,

Washington, DC 20037, attorney for the

licensee.

Nontimely filings of petitions for

leave to intervene, amended petitions,

supplemental petitions and/or requests

for hearing will not be entertained

absent a determination by the

Commission, the presiding officer or the

presiding Atomic Safety and Licensing

Board that the petition and/or request

should be granted based upon a

balancing of the factors specified in 10

CFR 2.714(a)(1)(i)–(v) and 2.714(d).

For further details with respect to this

action, see the application for

amendment dated February 1, 2001,

which is available for public inspection

at the Commission’s Public Document

Room, located at One White Flint North,

11555 Rockville Pike (first floor),

Rockville, Maryland, and accessible

electronically through the ADAMS

Public Electronic Reading Room link at

the NRC Web site (http://www.nrc.gov).

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day

of February 2001.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Carl F. Lyon,

Project Manager, Section 1, Project

Directorate III, Division of Licensing Project

Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor

Regulation.

[FR Doc. 01–3608 Filed 2–14–01; 8:45 am]

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY

COMMISSION

Notice of a Public Meeting on

Assessing Future Regulatory Research

Needs

AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission (NRC) will hold a fourth

and final meeting of nuclear experts

from the government, the nuclear

industry, academia, and the public on

February 21, 2001. As a result of the

first two meetings, the nuclear experts

issued a draft report composed of the

individual views of the experts on the

role and direction of regulatory

research. The draft report contains a

number of recommendations. The third

meeting focused on strategies for

implementing recommendations and

briefings by the NRC licensing offices

and the regions. The purpose of this

meeting is to review, discuss, and

propose individual recommendations

on the role and future direction of

regulatory research for Commission

consideration. The Expert Panel will

also discuss their perspectives and

responses to questions posed to the

panel by NRC Chairman Richard A.

Meserve. The meeting is open to the

public and all interested parties may

attend.

DATES: The meeting will be held from

9:15 a.m. to 5 p.m. on February 21,

2001, at the Center for Strategic and

International Studies (CSIS) located at

1800 K Street, NW., in Washington, DC

(corner of 18th and K Streets). The

telephone number for CSIS is 202–775–

3115 (Lisa Hyland).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Questions with respect to this meeting

should be referred to James W. Johnson,

Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research,

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission at

(301) 415–6293; fax (301) 415–5153; Email jwj@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Parking is

available in the vicinity of the CSIS

location for a modest cost. CSIS can also

be reached by Metro. CSIS is located

one block west of the Farragut North

Metro stop on the Red Line and one

block north of the Farragut West Metro

stop on the orange and blue lines.

Seating for the public is limited and

therefore will be on a first-come, firstserve basis.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 9th day

of February 2001.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Ashok C. Thadani,

Director, Office of Nuclear Regulatory

Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission.

[FR Doc. 01–3829 Filed 2–14–01; 8:45 am]

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY

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National Materials Program Working

Group

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory

Commission.

ACTION: Notice of formation of working

group and public meeting.

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission (NRC) has formed a

working group to provide the

Commission with regulatory program

options for a proposed National

Materials Program. The working group

is composed of the Organization of

Agreement States (OAS), Conference of

Radiation Control Program Directors,

Inc., (CRCPD) and NRC representatives.

The working group held its first

meeting in March 2000 and will

produce a paper for the Commission

that examines the impact of an

increased number of Agreement States

(AS) on the NRC’s regulatory program

and provides options for the

Commission’s consideration. The

completion date for the working group’s

product is May 2001. To assure that the

broadest possible alternatives are

considered, the working group intends

to hold a stakeholder’s meeting to garner

additional ideas for the working group’s

consideration as it finalizes the options

it is considering.

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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]

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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]

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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