67326 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 249 / Friday, December 28, 2001 / Notices

Programs at the October 15, 2001

deadline.

Laura S. Nelson,

Advisory Committee Management Officer.

[FR Doc. 01–31874 Filed 12–27–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7536–01–M

NUCLEAR REGULATORY

COMMISSION

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Proposed Collection;

Comment Request

AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission (NRC).

ACTION: Notice of pending NRC action to

submit an information collection

request to OMB and solicitation of

public comment.

SUMMARY: The NRC is preparing a

submittal to OMB for review of

continued approval of information

collections under the provisions of the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44

U.S.C. Chapter 35).

Information pertaining to the

requirement to be submitted:

1. The title of the information

collection: NRC Form 64, ‘‘Travel

Voucher (Part 1)’’ NRC Form 64A,

‘‘Travel Voucher (Part 2)’’ NRC Form

64B, ‘‘Optional Travel Voucher (Part

2)’’.

2. Current OMB approval number:

3150–0192.

3. How often the collection is

required: On occasion.

4. Who is required or asked to report:

Contractors, consultants and invited

NRC travelers who travel in the course

of conducting business for the NRC.

5. The number of annual respondents:

100.

6. The number of hours needed

annually to complete the requirement or

request: 100.

7. Abstract: As a part of completing

the travel process, the traveler must file

travel reimbursement vouchers and trip

reports. The respondent universe for the

above forms includes consultants and

contractors and those who are invited

by the NRC to travel, e.g., prospective

employees. Travel expenses that are

reimbursed are confined to those

expenses essential to the transaction of

official business for an approved trip.

Submit, by February 28, 2002,

comments that address the following

questions:

1. Is the proposed collection of

information necessary for the NRC to

properly perform its functions? Does the

information have practical utility?

2. Is the burden estimate accurate?

3. Is there a way to enhance the

quality, utility, and clarity of the

information to be collected?

4. How can the burden of the

information collection be minimized,

including the use of automated

collection techniques or other forms of

information technology?

A copy of the draft supporting

statement may be viewed free of charge

at the NRC Public Document Room, One

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville

Pike, Room O–1 F23, Rockville, MD

20852. OMB clearance requests are

available at the NRC worldwide Web

site (http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/PUBLIC/

OMB/index.html). The document will

be available on the NRC home page site

for 60 days after the signature date of

this notice.

Comments and questions about the

information collection requirements

may be directed to the NRC Clearance

Officer, Brenda Jo. Shelton, U.S. Nuclear

Regulatory Commission, T–6 E 6,

Washington, DC, 20555–0001, by

telephone at 301–415–7233, or by

Internet electronic mail at

BJS1@NRC.GOV.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20th day

of December 2001.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Brenda Jo. Shelton,

NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief

Information Officer.

[FR Doc. 01–31924 Filed 12–27–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P

NUCLEAR REGULATORY

COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50–219]

AmerGen Energy Company, LLC

(Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating

Station); Exemption

I

AmerGen Energy Company (AmerGen

or the licensee) is the holder of Facility

Operating License No. DPR–16, which

authorizes operation of the Oyster Creek

Nuclear Generating Station at power

levels not to exceed 1930 megawatts

thermal. The facility consists of one

boiling-water reactor located at the

licensee’s site in Ocean County, New

Jersey. The license provides, among

other things, that the licensee is subject

to all rules, regulations, and orders of

the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission (NRC or Commission) now

or hereafter in effect.

II

Section IV.F.2.b of Appendix E to

Title 10 of the Code of Federal

Regulations (10 CFR) part 50 requires

each licensee at each site to conduct an

exercise of its onsite emergency plan

every 2 years and indicates the exercise

may be included in the biennial exercise

required by paragraph 2.c. Paragraph 2.c

requires offsite plans for each site to be

exercised biennially with participation

by each offsite authority having a role

under the plan.

During such biennial exercises, the

NRC evaluates onsite emergency

preparedness activities and the Federal

Emergency Management Agency

(FEMA) evaluates offsite emergency

preparedness activities. The licensee

successfully conducted a fullparticipation exercise for Oyster Creek

on October 5, 1999. By letter dated

October 8, 2001, the licensee requested

an exemption from Section IV.F.2.c of

Appendix E regarding the conduct of a

full-participation exercise originally

scheduled for October 16, 2001.

Specifically, the licensee proposed

rescheduling the exercise originally

scheduled for October 16, 2001, to

sometime before the end of 2002.

However, the next exercise will

continue to be scheduled biennially

from 2001.

AmerGen is among several licensees

requesting exercise exemptions in the

wake of the National Emergency of

September 11, 2001. It is recognized that

it was not appropriate to conduct an

exercise during the period of disruption

and heightened security directly after

the National Emergency. The State of

New Jersey was initially involved with

the recovery response to the National

Emergency and the Federal Emergency

Management Agency (FEMA) Region II

is deeply involved with recovery efforts

in New York City. Further, New Jersey

has been deeply involved with the

response to mail-based terrorism in the

weeks that followed the National

Emergency. Considering the

extraordinary circumstances, a

schedular exemption was expected and

is acceptable. However, in this period of

heightened security concerns regarding

nuclear plant vulnerability, it is prudent

to conduct the full-participation

exercise as soon as practical to

demonstrate (and maintain) readiness.

The licensee is faced with a difficult

task to coordinate and schedule an

exercise that involves multiple

governmental agencies at the Federal,

State, and local level. Many local

response organizations depend on

volunteers. In order to accommodate

this difficult task, the NRC has allowed

licensees to schedule full-participation

exercises at any time during the

calendar biennium. This gives the

licensee the flexibility to schedule the

exercise within a 12- to 36-month