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information to be collected; and (d)
ways, including the use of information
technology, to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on
respondents; and (e) whether small
businesses are affected by this
collection. The comments that are
submitted will be summarized and
included in the NARA request for Office
of Management and Budget (OMB)
approval. All comments will become a
matter of public record. In this notice,
NARA is soliciting comments
concerning the following information
collection:
Title: Online Reproduction Orders for
National Archives Records.
OMB number: 3095–NEW.
Agency form number: N/A.
Type of review: Regular.
Affected public: Individuals or
households.
Estimated number of respondents:
13,270.
Estimated time per response: 10
minutes.
Frequency of response: On occasion.
Estimated total annual burden hours:
2,680 hours.
Abstract: In December, 2003, NARA
launched Order Online!, its online
ordering mechanism. With the
availability of an Internet-based
ordering system (Order Online!), NARA
has made accessible online certain
reproduction order forms (replicas of
the NATF Series 80 Forms and the
NATF 36). In the near future, NARA
plans to make available custom orders
for the remaining types of reproduction
services, to allow researchers to submit
reproduction orders and remit payment
electronically.
The information that NARA proposes
to collect for quoted reproduction orders
includes the descriptive information
(information necessary to search for the
records), payment information (e.g.,
credit card type, credit card number,
and expiration date), customer name,
shipping and billing address, and phone
number. NARA also proposes to offer
customers the option of submitting their
e-mail address as a means of facilitating
communication such as order
confirmation, status updates, and issue
handling.
Dated: November 30, 2005.
L. Reynolds Cahoon,
Assistant Archivist for Information Services.
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Comment Request
National Science Foundation.
Submission for OMB review;
comment request.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
SUMMARY: The National Science
Foundation (NSF) has submitted the
following information collection
requirement to OMB for review and
clearance under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, Pub. L. 104–13.
This is the second notice for public
comment; the first was published in the
Federal Register at 70 FR 54584, and
two comments were received. NSF is
forwarding the proposed renewal
submission to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for clearance
simultaneously with the publication of
this second notice. Comments regarding
(a) whether the collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of burden including
the validity of the methodology and
assumptions used; (c) ways to enhance
the quality, utility and clarity of the
information to be collected; (d) ways to
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 should be
addressed to: Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs of OMB, Attention:
Desk Officer for National Science
Foundation, 725—17th Street, NW.,
Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503,
and to Suzanne H. Plimpton, Reports
Clearance Officer, National Science
Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard,
Suite 295, Arlington, Virginia 22230 or
send e-mail to splimpto@nsf.gov.
Comments regarding these information
collections are best assured of having
their full effect if received within 30
days of this notification. Copies of the
submission(s) may be obtained by
calling 703–292–7556.
NSF may not conduct or sponsor a
collection of information unless the
collection of information displays a
currently valid OMB control number
and the agency informs potential
persons who are to respond to the
collection of information that such
persons are not required to respond to
the collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Comment: On September 15, 2005, we
published in the Federal Register (70
FR 54584) a 60-day notice of our intent
to request renewal of this information
collection authority from OMB. In that
notice, we solicited public comments
for 60 days ending November 14, 2005.
Two comments were received from the
same person in response to the public
notice (the second in response to NSF’s
reply). The comments came from B.
Sachau of Florham Park, NJ, via e-mail
on September 20, 2005 and October 12,
2005. Ms. Sachau objected to the
information collection but had no
specific suggestions for altering the data
collection plans other than suggesting
that teachers could pay for their own
courses.
Response: We responded to Ms.
Sachau on October 12, 2005 describing
the program and noting that these
experiences are valuable for teachers
because they take back to their
classrooms knowledge they gained and
experiences they as a result of exposure
to the research component of technology
commercialization. On October 12, 2005
we received a follow-up reply from Ms.
Sachau restating that she dislikes the
program. NSF believes that because the
comment does not pertain to the
collection of information on the
required forms for which NSF is seeking
OMB approval, NSF is preceding with
the clearance request.
Title: Evaluation of the Research
Experiences for Teachers (RET)
Program.
OMB Control Number: 3145–0198.
Abstract: The Directorate for
Engineering (ENG) initiated the
Research Experiences for Teachers
(RET) Supplements activity in FY 2001
to be add-ons to active awards funded
by ENG programs. The intent was to
build on the popular NSF-wide
Research Experiences for
Undergraduates (REU) Supplements
activity by providing opportunities for
K–12 teachers to conduct hands-on
experiences in the laboratories/facilities
of ENG-funded researchers. The
assumption was that, like
undergraduates, the teachers could
benefit from involvement in research
and direct exposure to the scientific
method, and they could transfer what
they learned into classroom activities.
Typically the supplements supported
one or two teachers. Beginning in FY
2002, ENG has also funded RET Site
awards, which are similar to REU Sites
in that NSF awards fund groups of
teachers to work with faculty members
at the same institution and to engage in
group activities related to the research.
In 2003, community college faculty
became eligible as participants in RET
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awards. By design, all RET awards are
made to the university in whose
research the teachers participate.
The initial study of the program just
concluded focused on participants in
ENG-funded RET Supplement and Site
awards in 2001 through 2003. That
study resulted in modifications to the
RET program announcement for the FY
2006 competition. The proposed followup study will be very similar to the
initial study and focus on teachers who
participated in RET during 2004 and
2005. The follow-on study will examine
how RET experience have affected
participating teachers’ subsequent
teaching techniques, attitudes about
teaching, and professional development
activities. Outcomes and impacts
beyond the teachers’ own classrooms,
such as knowledge transfer activities,
formal partnerships formed between the
RET Principal Investigators (PIs)—the
awardees—and the teachers’ school
system/district will also be examined.
The first survey found that follow-up
interaction between PIs and teachers
were strongly related to reported
positive effects. Accordingly, the followup study will explore this aspect of the
experience in somewhat greater detail
than was done in the first survey. The
survey data collection will be done on
the World Wide Web as before.
Estimate of Burden: Public reporting
burden for this collection of information
is estimated to average 15–30 minutes
per response.
Respondents: Individuals.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Form: 456.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 206 hours (456
respondents at 15–30 minutes per
response).
Frequency of Response: One time.
Dated: December 2, 2005.
Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science
Foundation.
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) has issued a new
guide in the agency’s Regulatory Guide
Series. This series has been developed
to describe and make available to the
public such information as methods that
are acceptable to the NRC staff for
implementing specific parts of the
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NRC’s regulations, techniques that the
staff uses in evaluating specific
problems or postulated accidents, and
data that the staff needs in its review of
applications for permits and licenses.
Regulatory Guide 1.204, ‘‘Guidelines
for Lightning Protection of Nuclear
Power Plants,’’ provides guidance for
NRC licensees and applicants to use in
developing and implementing practices
that the staff finds acceptable for
complying with the agency’s regulatory
requirements in Criterion 2, ‘‘Design
Bases for Protection Against Natural
Phenomena,’’ as it appears in Appendix
A, ‘‘General Design Criteria for Nuclear
Power Plants,’’ to Title 10, part 50, of
the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR
part 50). Specifically, Criterion 2
requires, in part, that nuclear power
plant (NPP) structures, systems, and
components (SSCs) that are important to
safety must be designed to withstand
the effects of natural phenomena
without losing their capability to
perform their respective safety
functions.
While the regulations address
lightning protection for safety-related
electrical equipment, they do not
explicitly provide guidance concerning
the design and installation of lightning
protection systems (LPSs) to ensure that
electrical transients resulting from
lightning phenomena do not cause
spurious operation safety-related
systems or render them inoperable.
Toward that end, Regulatory Guide
1.204 augments the regulations by
establishing explicit guidance that is
consistent with LPS design and
installation practices that are currently
applied throughout the commercial
power industry.
The scope of the guidance includes
protection of (1) the power plant and
relevant ancillary facilities, with the
boundary beginning at the service
entrance of buildings; (2) the plant
switchyard; (3) the electrical
distribution system, safety-related
instrumentation and control (I&C)
systems, communications, and
personnel within the power plant; and
(4) other important equipment in remote
ancillary facilities that could impact
safety. The scope includes signal lines,
communication lines, and power lines,
as well as testing and maintenance. The
scope does not cover testing and design
practices that are specifically intended
to protect safety-related I&C systems
against the secondary effects of
lightning discharges [i.e., low-level
power surges and electromagnetic and
radio-frequency interference (EMI/RFI)].
These practices are covered in
Regulatory Guide 1.180, ‘‘Guidelines for
Evaluating Electromagnetic and Radio-
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Frequency Interference in SafetyRelated Instrumentation and Control
Systems.’’ Regulatory Guide 1.180,
which the NRC issued in January 2000
and revised in October 2003, addresses
design, installation, and testing
practices for dealing with the effects of
EMI/RFI and power surges on safetyrelated I&C systems.
In Regulatory Guide 1.204, the NRC
staff has selected for endorsement a total
of four standards issued by the Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE), which taken together, provide
comprehensive lightning protection
guidance for nuclear power plants.
Specifically, the four standards are IEEE
Std. 665–1995 (reaffirmed 2001), IEEE
Guide for Generating Station
Grounding, IEEE Std. 666–1991
(reaffirmed 1996), IEEE Design Guide for
Electrical Power Service Systems for
Generating Stations, IEEE Std. 1050–
1996, IEEE Guide for Instrumentation
and Control Equipment Grounding in
Generating Stations, and IEEE Std.
C62.23–1995 (reaffirmed 2001), IEEE
Application Guide for Surge Protection
of Electric Generating Plants.
In February 2005, the NRC staff
published a draft of this guide as Draft
Regulatory Guide DG–1137. Following
the closure of the public comment
period on April 20, 2005, the staff
resolved all stakeholder comments in
the course of preparing the new
Regulatory Guide 1.204.
The NRC staff encourages and
welcomes comments and suggestions in
connection with improvements to
published regulatory guides, as well as
items for inclusion in regulatory guides
that are currently being developed. You
may submit comments by any of the
following methods.
Mail comments to: Rules and
Directives Branch, Office of
Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001.
Hand-deliver comments to: Rules and
Directives Branch, Office of
Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, 11555 Rockville Pike,
Rockville, Maryland 20852, between
7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. on Federal
workdays.
Fax comments to: Rules and
Directives Branch, Office of
Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, at (301) 415–5144.
Requests for technical information
about Regulatory Guide 1.204 may be
directed to Christina E. Antonescu at
(301) 415–6792 or via e-mail to
CEA1@nrc.gov.
Regulatory guides are available for
inspection or downloading through the
NRC’s public Web site in the Regulatory
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request
AGENCY: National Science Foundation.
ACTION: Submission for OMB review; comment request.
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SUMMARY: The National Science Foundation (NSF) has submitted the
following information collection requirement to OMB for review and
clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Pub. L. 104-13.
This is the second notice for public comment; the first was published
in the Federal Register at 70 FR 54584, and two comments were received.
NSF is forwarding the proposed renewal submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for clearance simultaneously with the
publication of this second notice. Comments regarding (a) whether the
collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including whether the information will
have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of
burden including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used;
(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the information
to be collected; (d) ways to 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 should
be addressed to: Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs of OMB,
Attention: Desk Officer for National Science Foundation, 725--17th
Street, NW., Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503, and to Suzanne H.
Plimpton, Reports Clearance Officer, National Science Foundation, 4201
Wilson Boulevard, Suite 295, Arlington, Virginia 22230 or send e-mail
to splimpto@nsf.gov. Comments regarding these information collections
are best assured of having their full effect if received within 30 days
of this notification. Copies of the submission(s) may be obtained by
calling 703-292-7556.
NSF may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless
the collection of information displays a currently valid OMB control
number and the agency informs potential persons who are to respond to
the collection of information that such persons are not required to
respond to the collection of information unless it displays a currently
valid OMB control number.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Comment: On September 15, 2005, we published in the Federal
Register (70 FR 54584) a 60-day notice of our intent to request renewal
of this information collection authority from OMB. In that notice, we
solicited public comments for 60 days ending November 14, 2005. Two
comments were received from the same person in response to the public
notice (the second in response to NSF's reply). The comments came from
B. Sachau of Florham Park, NJ, via e-mail on September 20, 2005 and
October 12, 2005. Ms. Sachau objected to the information collection but
had no specific suggestions for altering the data collection plans
other than suggesting that teachers could pay for their own courses.
Response: We responded to Ms. Sachau on October 12, 2005 describing
the program and noting that these experiences are valuable for teachers
because they take back to their classrooms knowledge they gained and
experiences they as a result of exposure to the research component of
technology commercialization. On October 12, 2005 we received a follow-
up reply from Ms. Sachau restating that she dislikes the program. NSF
believes that because the comment does not pertain to the collection of
information on the required forms for which NSF is seeking OMB
approval, NSF is preceding with the clearance request.
Title: Evaluation of the Research Experiences for Teachers (RET)
Program.
OMB Control Number: 3145-0198.
Abstract: The Directorate for Engineering (ENG) initiated the
Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Supplements activity in FY 2001
to be add-ons to active awards funded by ENG programs. The intent was
to build on the popular NSF-wide Research Experiences for
Undergraduates (REU) Supplements activity by providing opportunities
for K-12 teachers to conduct hands-on experiences in the laboratories/
facilities of ENG-funded researchers. The assumption was that, like
undergraduates, the teachers could benefit from involvement in research
and direct exposure to the scientific method, and they could transfer
what they learned into classroom activities. Typically the supplements
supported one or two teachers. Beginning in FY 2002, ENG has also
funded RET Site awards, which are similar to REU Sites in that NSF
awards fund groups of teachers to work with faculty members at the same
institution and to engage in group activities related to the research.
In 2003, community college faculty became eligible as participants in
RET
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awards. By design, all RET awards are made to the university in whose
research the teachers participate.
The initial study of the program just concluded focused on
participants in ENG-funded RET Supplement and Site awards in 2001
through 2003. That study resulted in modifications to the RET program
announcement for the FY 2006 competition. The proposed follow-up study
will be very similar to the initial study and focus on teachers who
participated in RET during 2004 and 2005. The follow-on study will
examine how RET experience have affected participating teachers'
subsequent teaching techniques, attitudes about teaching, and
professional development activities. Outcomes and impacts beyond the
teachers' own classrooms, such as knowledge transfer activities, formal
partnerships formed between the RET Principal Investigators (PIs)--the
awardees--and the teachers' school system/district will also be
examined. The first survey found that follow-up interaction between PIs
and teachers were strongly related to reported positive effects.
Accordingly, the follow-up study will explore this aspect of the
experience in somewhat greater detail than was done in the first
survey. The survey data collection will be done on the World Wide Web
as before.
Estimate of Burden: Public reporting burden for this collection of
information is estimated to average 15-30 minutes per response.
Respondents: Individuals.
Estimated Number of Responses per Form: 456.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 206 hours (456
respondents at 15-30 minutes per response).
Frequency of Response: One time.
Dated: December 2, 2005.
Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science Foundation.
[FR Doc. 05-23708 Filed 12-6-05; 8:45 am]
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