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6002, Washington, DC 20579.
Telephone: (202) 616–6988.
Mauricio J. Tamargo,
Chairman
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Office of Justice Programs
[OJP (OJP)–1420]
Meeting of the Global Justice
Information Sharing Initiative Federal
Advisory Committee
Office of Justice Programs
(OJP), Justice.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This is an announcement of a
meeting of the Global Justice
Information Sharing Initiative (Global)
Federal Advisory Committee (GAC) to
discuss the Global Initiative, as
described at https://www.it.ojp.gov/
global.
The meeting will take place on
Thursday, October 20, 2005, from 9 a.m.
to 3 p.m. e.t.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place
at the Sheraton Crystal City Hotel, 1800
Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA
22202; phone: (703) 486–1111.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: J.
Patrick McCreary, Global Designated
Federal Employee (DFE), Bureau of
Justice Assistance, Office of Justice
Programs, 810 7th Street, Washington,
DC 20531; phone: (202) 616–0532 (note:
this is not a toll-free number); e-mail:
James.P.McCreary@usdoj.gov.
DATES:
This
meeting is open to the public. Due to
security measures, however, members of
the public who wish to attend this
meeting must register with J. Patrick
McCreary at the above address at least
seven (7) days in advance of the
meeting. Registrations will be accepted
on a space available basis. Access to the
meeting will not be allowed without
registration. All attendees will be
required to sign in at the meeting
registration desk. Please bring photo
identification and allow extra time prior
to the meeting.
Anyone requiring special
accommodations should notify J. Patrick
McCreary at least seven (7) days in
advance of the meeting.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Purpose
The GAC will act as the focal point to
explore and recommend policies
regarding national justice information
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sharing issues in support of the
Administration’s justice priorities.
The GAC will support the
development of justice information
sharing concepts. It will advise the
Attorney General, and the President
(through the Attorney General); and
local, state, tribal, and federal
policymakers in the executive,
legislative, and judicial branches. The
GAC will also promote strategies for
accomplishing justice information
sharing capabilities.
Interested persons whose registrations
have been accepted may be permitted to
participate in the discussions at the
discretion of the meeting chairman and
with approval of the DFE.
J. Patrick McCreary,
Global DFE, Bureau of Justice Assistance,
Office of Justice Programs.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Proposed Collection; Comment
Request
ACTION:
Notice.
SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as
part of its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden,
conducts a pre-clearance consultation
program to provide the general public
and Federal agencies an opportunity to
comment on proposed and/or
continuing collections of information in
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA95) (44
U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). This program
helps to ensure that requested data can
be provided in the desired format,
reporting burden (time and financial
resources) is minimized, collection
instruments are clearly understood, and
the impact of collection requirements on
respondents can be properly assessed.
Currently, the Bureau of Labor Statistics
(BLS) is soliciting comments concerning
the proposed revision of the ‘‘Local Area
Unemployment Statistics (LAUS)
Program.’’ A copy of the proposed
information collection request (ICR) can
be obtained by contacting the individual
listed below in the Addresses section of
this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
Addresses section below on or before
October 17, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Amy A.
Hobby, BLS Clearance Officer, Division
of Management Systems, Bureau of
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Labor Statistics, Room 4080, 2
Massachusetts Avenue, NE.,
Washington, DC 20212, telephone
number 202–691–7628 (This is not a toll
free number.)
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Amy A. Hobby, BLS Clearance Officer,
telephone number 202–691–7628. (See
Addresses section.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The BLS has been charged by
Congress (29 U.S.C. Section 1 and 2)
with the responsibility of collecting and
publishing monthly information on
employment, the average wage received,
and the hours worked by area and
industry. The process for developing
residency-based employment and
unemployment estimates is a
cooperative Federal-State program
which uses employment and
unemployment inputs available in State
Workforce Agencies.
The labor force estimates developed
and issued in this program are used for
economic analysis and as a tool in the
implementation of Federal economic
policy in such areas as employment and
economic development under the
Workforce Investment Act and the
Public Works and Economic
Development Act, among others.
The estimates also are used in
economic analysis by public agencies
and private industry, and for State and
area funding allocations and eligibility
determinations according to legal and
administrative requirements.
Implementation of current policy and
legislative authorities could not be
accomplished without collection of the
data.
The reports and manual covered by
this request are integral parts of the
LAUS program insofar as they insure
and/or measure the timeliness, quality,
consistency, and adherence to program
directions of the LAUS estimates and
related research.
II. Current Action
The BLS is revising the information
collection request that makes up the
LAUS program. All aspects of the
program are automated. All data are
entered directly into BLS-provided
systems.
The BLS, as part of its responsibility
to develop concepts and methods by
which States prepare estimates under
the LAUS program, developed a manual
for use by the States. The manual
explains the conceptual framework for
the State and area estimates of
employment and unemployment,
specifies the procedures to be used,
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provides input information, and
discusses the theoretical and empirical
basis for each procedure. This manual is
updated on a regular schedule. The
LAUS program implemented a major
program redesign in January 2005. The
Redesign was announced in the Federal
Register on November 8, 2004.
The increase in the number of
responses from the last collection is due
to the increase in the number of areas
covered by the program.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Title: Local Area Unemployment
Statistics (LAUS) Program.
OMB Number: 1220–0017.
Affected Public: State government.
Total Respondents: 52.
Frequency: Monthly and Annually.
Total Responses: 95,069.
Average Time Per Response: 1.50
hours.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
142,298 hours.
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):
$0.
Total Burden Cost (operating/
maintenance): $0.
III. Desired Focus of Comments
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is
particularly interested in comments
that:
• Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
• Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
• Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
• Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submissions
of responses.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget approval of the
information collection request; they also
will become a matter of public record.
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Signed at Washington, DC, this 9th day of
August, 2005.
Cathy Kazanowski,
Chief, Division of Management Systems,
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY
COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50–368]
Entergy Operations, Incorporated;
Notice of Consideration of Issuance of
Amendment to Facility Operating
License, Proposed No Significant
Hazards Consideration Determination,
and Opportunity for a Hearing
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (the Commission, NRC) is
considering issuance of an amendment
to Facility Operating License No. NFP–
6, issued to Entergy Operations
Incorporated (the licensee), for
operation of Arkansas Nuclear One Unit
2 (ANO–2), located in Pope county.
The proposed amendment would
define spent fuel loading restrictions for
the Holtec International HI–STORM 100
Cask System Multi–Purpose Canister
(MPC)–32. The licensee will be
removing spent fuel from the spent fuel
pool and placing it in dry storage as
early as September 2005. This activity
will restore the full-core offload
capability at ANO–2.
The licensee believed that the
calculation that considered the
requirements of 10 CFR 50.68 for
loading/unloading an MPC–32 met the
criteria of 10 CFR 50.59 and 10 CFR
50.36, and did not require NRC review
and approval. However, based on
Regulatory Information Summary (RIS)
2005–05, ‘‘Regulatory Issues Regarding
Criticality Analyses for Spent Fuel Pools
and Independent Spent Fuel Storage
Installations,’’ the licensee submitted a
pre-application letter to the NRC
outlining the plans to submit a nonexigent technical specification (TS)
change and justification for continued
operations without prior NRC approval
based on guidance contained in
Administrative Letter 98–10,
‘‘Dispositioning of Technical
Specifications that are Insufficient to
Assure Plant Safety,’’ and Generic Letter
91–18, ‘‘Information to Licensees
Regarding Two NRC Inspection Manual
Sections on Resolution of Degraded and
Nonconforming Conditions and on
Operabiltiy.’’ In a teleconference
between the licensee and the NRC staff
held on July 19, 2005, the NRC stated
that it did not believe ANO–2 was in
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compliance with 10 CFR 50.68 and,
therefore, the proposed change required
NRC approval prior to proceeding with
cask loading activities.
Before issuance of the proposed
license amendment, the Commission
will have made findings required by the
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended
(the Act) and the Commission’s
regulations.
Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.91(a)(6) for
amendments to be granted under
exigent circumstances, the NRC staff
must determine that the amendment
request involves no significant hazards
consideration. Under the Commission’s
regulations in 10 CFR 50.92, this means
that operation of the facility in
accordance with the proposed
amendment would not (1) involve a
significant increase in the probability or
consequences of an accident previously
evaluated; or (2) create the possibility of
a new or different kind of accident from
any accident previously evaluated; or
(3) involve a significant reduction in a
margin of safety. As required by 10 CFR
50.91(a), the licensee has provided its
analysis of the issue of no significant
hazards consideration, which is
presented below:
1. Does the proposed change involve a
significant increase in the probability or
consequences of an accident previously
evaluated?
Response: No.
The fuel handling accidents described
below can be postulated to increase
reactivity. However, for these accident
conditions, the double contingency principle
of ANS N16.1–1975 is applied. This states
that it is unnecessary to assume two unlikely,
independent, concurrent events to ensure
protection against a criticality accident.
Thus, for accident conditions, the presence of
soluble boron in the SFP [spent fuel pool]
water can be assumed as a realistic initial
condition since its absence would be a
second unlikely event.
Loading/unloading a storage cask in the
SFP does not affect the previously evaluated
fuel handling accidents (i.e., criticality
effects) in the SFP. The ANO–2 TS for SFP
boron concentration ensures subcritical
conditions in the SFP during fuel movement
activities, whether within the SFP racks or to
a storage cask during normal and accident
conditions.
The cask configuration for the storage cask
(MPC–32) is sufficiently similar to spent fuel
racks in the SFP as to not induce new or
different spent fuel assembly damage in the
unlikely event of the occurrence of a fuel
handling accident during storage cask
loading/unloading activities. The fuel
handling accident includes four drop
scenarios (fuel drop horizontally on a cask,
fuel drop on a fuel assembly, fuel drop next
to a cask, and a fuel drop on the cask basket).
The same equipment and procedural controls
for controlling fuel within the SFP are
utilized when loading/unloading a storage
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[FR Doc No: 05-16191]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Proposed Collection; Comment Request
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to
reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a pre-clearance
consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies
an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing collections of
information in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA95) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). This program helps to ensure that
requested data can be provided in the desired format, reporting burden
(time and financial resources) is minimized, collection instruments are
clearly understood, and the impact of collection requirements on
respondents can be properly assessed. Currently, the Bureau of Labor
Statistics (BLS) is soliciting comments concerning the proposed
revision of the ``Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) Program.''
A copy of the proposed information collection request (ICR) can be
obtained by contacting the individual listed below in the Addresses
section of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the
Addresses section below on or before October 17, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Amy A. Hobby, BLS Clearance Officer,
Division of Management Systems, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Room 4080,
2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE., Washington, DC 20212, telephone number
202-691-7628 (This is not a toll free number.)
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Amy A. Hobby, BLS Clearance Officer,
telephone number 202-691-7628. (See Addresses section.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The BLS has been charged by Congress (29 U.S.C. Section 1 and 2)
with the responsibility of collecting and publishing monthly
information on employment, the average wage received, and the hours
worked by area and industry. The process for developing residency-based
employment and unemployment estimates is a cooperative Federal-State
program which uses employment and unemployment inputs available in
State Workforce Agencies.
The labor force estimates developed and issued in this program are
used for economic analysis and as a tool in the implementation of
Federal economic policy in such areas as employment and economic
development under the Workforce Investment Act and the Public Works and
Economic Development Act, among others.
The estimates also are used in economic analysis by public agencies
and private industry, and for State and area funding allocations and
eligibility determinations according to legal and administrative
requirements. Implementation of current policy and legislative
authorities could not be accomplished without collection of the data.
The reports and manual covered by this request are integral parts
of the LAUS program insofar as they insure and/or measure the
timeliness, quality, consistency, and adherence to program directions
of the LAUS estimates and related research.
II. Current Action
The BLS is revising the information collection request that makes
up the LAUS program. All aspects of the program are automated. All data
are entered directly into BLS-provided systems.
The BLS, as part of its responsibility to develop concepts and
methods by which States prepare estimates under the LAUS program,
developed a manual for use by the States. The manual explains the
conceptual framework for the State and area estimates of employment and
unemployment, specifies the procedures to be used,
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provides input information, and discusses the theoretical and empirical
basis for each procedure. This manual is updated on a regular schedule.
The LAUS program implemented a major program redesign in January 2005.
The Redesign was announced in the Federal Register on November 8, 2004.
The increase in the number of responses from the last collection is
due to the increase in the number of areas covered by the program.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Title: Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) Program.
OMB Number: 1220-0017.
Affected Public: State government.
Total Respondents: 52.
Frequency: Monthly and Annually.
Total Responses: 95,069.
Average Time Per Response: 1.50 hours.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 142,298 hours.
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): $0.
Total Burden Cost (operating/maintenance): $0.
III. Desired Focus of Comments
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is particularly interested in
comments that:
Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency,
including whether the information will have practical utility;
Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of information, including the
validity of the methodology and assumptions used;
Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
Minimize the burden of the collection of information on
those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate
automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submissions of responses.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget
approval of the information collection request; they also will become a
matter of public record.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 9th day of August, 2005.
Cathy Kazanowski,
Chief, Division of Management Systems, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
[FR Doc. 05-16191 Filed 8-15-05; 8:45 am]
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