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Research, Evaluation, and Technical
Assistance (RETAs), or a universe of
approximately 65 discrete projects.
The evaluation’s data collection and
analysis activities will be conducted by
COSMOS Corporation, Bethesda in
partnership with Brown University,
George Mason University, and The
McKenzie Group via a contract
administered by the NSF’s Division of
Research, Evaluation and
Communication (REC). This evaluation
involves both quantitative and
qualitative data, collected from multiple
sources using multiple methods,
including secondary analyses of projectrelated materials such as existing
databases (MSP Management
Information System—OMB 3145–0199),
annual reports, Web sites, and relevant
policy and methodological documents
and original data collection through
one-on-one interviews with key
stakeholders conducted during site
visits. For the MSP Management
Information System, the contract team
will analyze these data using
quantitative statistical models. A second
data source consists of annual project
reports and other reports submitted by
the MSP grantees to the NSF in
accordance with Federal research
project reporting requirements
established at NSF under OMB 3145–
0058. A third source is U.S. Department
of Education’s public use files on
student achievement and school
systems’ demographic characteristics.
The fourth source for data is the
proposed evaluation’s original data
collection activities. In particular and
principally a series of site visits will be
conducted during 2006, 2007, and 2008.
The evaluation plan selects a random
sample of sites to be the subject of the
2006 and 2007 site visits. In this
manner, data and lessons derived form
the earlier site visits can be the basis for
generalizing to the entire MSP Program
portfolio during 2006 and 2007. By
2008, with the entire census of study
projects covered, such a sampling logic
will no longer be relevant. The initial
random sample will be stratified so that
every grant site visit occurs before the
grant expires.
The evaluation’s overall framework
consists of several substudies each
focusing on a different, but essential
part of the MSP grantee’s work (e.g.,
partnerships, the role of disciplinary
faculty, student achievement). The
relevant evaluation design under these
conditions might be considered a metaanalytic rather than singular design—
e.g., providing a rationale for the
selection of substudies as well as some
guidance for conducting the substudies.
Consultations have occurred with a
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team of external experts on the research
design during the evaluation’s design
phase and will continue to take place
throughout the evaluation. The team of
external experts represents the nation’s
leading researchers and scholars on
methodology and content in the field of
evaluation and representatives are from
top-tier university schools of education
and departments of mathematics or
science; an education advocacy group;
and an education research council.
The data collection instruments
include face-to-face interviews, such as
focus groups, and telephone or
electronic surveys. An interview
protocol based on the evaluation
framework will be administered during
the site visits. Expected respondents at
site visits are Principal Investigators, coPrincipal Investigators, administrators,
teams of external experts, and other
stakeholders who participated in MSP.
There are not costs to respondents other
than the time involved in the interview
or survey process.
Information from the evaluation’s data
collections and analysis will be used to
improve the NSF’s program processes
and outcomes. It will enable NSF to
prepare and publish reports, and to
respond to requests from Committees of
Visitors, Congress, and the Office of
Management and Budget, particularly as
related to the Government Performance
and Results Act (GPRA) and the
Program Effectiveness Rating Tool
(PART).
The primary evaluation questions
include but are not limited to:
(1) How has the MSP Program affected
or influenced the expertise, numbers,
and diversity of the mathematics and
science teaching force, K–12 student
achievement in mathematics and
science, and other presumed program
outcomes? (2) What factors or attributes
have accelerated or constrained progress
in the MSP Program’s achievements?
and (3) How have institutions of higher
education (IHEs) disciplinary faculty
(mathematics, science, and engineering)
participated in the MSP Program, and
what has been their role in the
Program’s achievements?
Respondents: Individuals and not-forprofit institutions.
Estimated Number of Annual
Respondents: 1,200.
Burden on the Public: 3,000 hours.
Dated: August 19, 2005.
Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science
Foundation.
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY
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Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection:
Comment Request
AGENCY: 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: 10 CFR Part 30—Rules of
General Applicability to Domestic
Licensing of Byproduct Material.
2. Current OMB approval number:
3150–0017.
3. How often the collection is
required: Required reports are collected
and evaluated on a continuing basis as
events occur. There is a one-time
submittal of information to receive a
license. Renewal applications are
submitted every 10 years. Information
submitted in previous applications may
be referenced without being
resubmitted. In addition, recordkeeping
must be performed on an on-going basis.
4. Who is required or asked to report:
All persons applying for or holding a
license to manufacture, produce,
transfer, receive, acquire, own, possess,
or use radioactive byproduct material.
5. The estimated number of annual
respondents: 20,631 (4,485 NRC
licensees and 16,146 Agreement State
licensees).
6. The number of hours needed
annually to complete the requirement or
request: 248,034 (NRC licensees 53,948
hours [25,983 reporting + 27,965
recordkeeping] and Agreement State
licensees 194,086 hours [93,431
reporting + 100,655 recordkeeping] or
8.2 hours per response and 6.2 hours
her recordkeeper).
7. Abstract: 10 CFR part 30 establishes
requirements that are applicable to all
persons in the United States governing
domestic licensing of radioactive
byproduct material. The application,
reporting and recordkeeping
requirements are necessary to permit the
NRC to make a determination whether
the possession, use, and transfer of
byproduct material is in conformance
with the Commission’s regulations for
protection of the public health and
safety.
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Submit, by October 24, 2005,
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 F21, Rockville, MD
20852. OMB clearance requests are
available at the NRC World Wide Web
site: https://www.nrc.gov/publicinvolve/
doc-comment/omb/. 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–5 F52,
Washington, DC 20555–0001, by
telephone at 301–415–7233, or by
Internet electronic mail to
INFOCOLLECTS@NRC.GOV.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day
of August, 2005.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Brenda Jo. Shelton,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of Information
Services.
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Dominion Energy Kewaunee, Inc.;
Notice of Withdrawal of Application for
Amendment to Facility Operating
License
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (the Commission) has
granted the request of Dominion Energy
Kewaunee, Inc., (the licensee) to
withdraw its June 1, 2004, application
for proposed amendment to Facility
Operating License No. DPR–43 for the
Kewaunee Nuclear Plant, located in
Kewaunee County, Wisconsin.
The proposed amendment would
have modified the Technical
Specifications (TS) to revise TS 1.0,
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‘‘Definitions,’’ Table 3.5–2, ‘‘Instrument
Operation Conditions for Reactor Trip,’’
and Table 4.1–1, ‘‘Minimum
Frequencies for Checks, Calibrations,
and Test of Instrument Channels,’’
proposed to change the requirement to
perform the channel test and channel
calibration ‘‘once per operating cycle.’’
The proposed changes would have
added a definition for ‘‘staggered test
basis,’’ increase surveillance test
intervals for the analog channels and
logic cabinets of the reactor protection
system and engineered safety featured
actuation system, and would have
added a completion time for the reactor
trip breakers. Subsequently, by letter
date August 4, 2005, you withdrew the
amendment request. The Commission
had previously issued a Notice of
Consideration of Issuance of
Amendment published in the Federal
Register on July 6, 2004 (69 FR 40676).
However, by letter dated August 4,
2005, the licensee withdrew the
proposed amendment.
For further details with respect to this
action, see the application for
amendment dated June 1, 2004, and the
licensee’s letter dated August 4, 2005,
which withdrew the application for
license amendment. Documents may be
examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the
NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR),
located at One White Flint North, Public
File Area 01 F21, 11555 Rockville Pike
(first floor), Rockville, Maryland.
Publicly available records will be
accessible electronically from the
Agencywide Documents Access and
Management Systems (ADAMS) Public
Electronic Reading Room on the internet
at the NRC Web site, https://
www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams/html.
Persons who do not have access to
ADAMS or who encounter problems in
accessing the documents located in
ADAMS, should contact the NRC PDR
Reference staff by telephone at 1–800–
397–4209, or 301–415–4737 or by e-mail
to pdr@nrc.gov.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day
of August, 2005.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
L. Raghavan,
Chief, Section 1, Project Directorate III,
Division of Licensing Project Management,
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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Notice of Termination of Release of
Kerr McGee Corporation, Technical
Center, in Oklahoma City, OK for
Unrestricted Use
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of license termination
and site release for unrestricted use.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Rachel S. Browder, M.S., Health
Physicist, Nuclear Materials Licensing
Branch, Division of Nuclear Materials
Safety, Region IV, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, 611 Ryan Plaza
Drive, Suite 400, Arlington, Texas
76011; Telephone: (817) 276–6552; fax
number: (817) 860–8122; e-mail:
rsb3@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
Pursuant to 10 CFR Part 2.106, the
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC) is providing notice of termination
of Source Material License No. SUB–
986, and authorizing the release of Kerr
McGee Corporation Technical Center
(Licensee) located at 3301 NW 150th
Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for
unrestricted use. The Licensee’s request
for an amendment to authorize
decommissioning of its Technical
Center was previously noticed in the
Federal Register on July 12, 2001 (66 FR
36605) with an opportunity for hearing.
Kerr McGee Corporation provided a
final radiological status survey and
performed an indoor and outdoor dose
analysis to demonstrate the site meets
the license termination criteria in
Subpart E of 10 CFR Part 20. In
addition, NRC staff conducted
independent measurements of soils and
surfaces at the site. The NRC staff has
evaluated Kerr McGee Corporation’s
request, reviewed the results of the final
radiological survey, and determined that
the site meets the unrestricted use dose
criteria in 10 CFR 20.1402. The
Commission has concluded that the site
is suitable for release for unrestricted
use and has terminated the license for
Kerr McGee Corporation Technical
Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,
property. The NRC staff issued a Final
Safety Evaluation Report (SER) on
August 1, 2005, to support the proposed
action.
II. Further Information
The NRC has prepared a Final SER
that documents the information that was
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection:
Comment Request
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
ACTION: Notice of pending NRC action to submit an information
collection request to OMB and solicitation of public comment.
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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: 10 CFR Part 30--Rules
of General Applicability to Domestic Licensing of Byproduct Material.
2. Current OMB approval number: 3150-0017.
3. How often the collection is required: Required reports are
collected and evaluated on a continuing basis as events occur. There is
a one-time submittal of information to receive a license. Renewal
applications are submitted every 10 years. Information submitted in
previous applications may be referenced without being resubmitted. In
addition, recordkeeping must be performed on an on-going basis.
4. Who is required or asked to report: All persons applying for or
holding a license to manufacture, produce, transfer, receive, acquire,
own, possess, or use radioactive byproduct material.
5. The estimated number of annual respondents: 20,631 (4,485 NRC
licensees and 16,146 Agreement State licensees).
6. The number of hours needed annually to complete the requirement
or request: 248,034 (NRC licensees 53,948 hours [25,983 reporting +
27,965 recordkeeping] and Agreement State licensees 194,086 hours
[93,431 reporting + 100,655 recordkeeping] or 8.2 hours per response
and 6.2 hours her recordkeeper).
7. Abstract: 10 CFR part 30 establishes requirements that are
applicable to all persons in the United States governing domestic
licensing of radioactive byproduct material. The application, reporting
and recordkeeping requirements are necessary to permit the NRC to make
a determination whether the possession, use, and transfer of byproduct
material is in conformance with the Commission's regulations for
protection of the public health and safety.
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Submit, by October 24, 2005, 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 F21, Rockville, MD 20852. OMB clearance
requests are available at the NRC World Wide Web site: https://
www.nrc.gov/publicinvolve/doc-comment/omb/. 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-5 F52, Washington, DC
20555-0001, by telephone at 301-415-7233, or by Internet electronic
mail to INFOCOLLECTS@NRC.GOV.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day of August, 2005.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Brenda Jo. Shelton,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of Information Services.
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