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Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 53 / Monday, March 20, 2006 / Notices Purpose of Meeting: To provide advice and recommendations to the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on issues within the field of astronomy and astrophysics that are of mutual interest and concern to the agencies. Agenda: To hear presentations of current programming by representatives from NSF, NASA, DOE and other agencies relevant to astronomy and astrophysics; to discuss current and potential areas of cooperation between the agencies; to formulate recommendations for continued and new areas of cooperation and mechanisms for achieving them. Dated: March 15, 2006. Susanne E. Bolton, Committee Management Officer. [FR Doc. 06–2637 Filed 3–17–06; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7555–01–M NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Advisory Committee for Polar Programs; Notice of Meeting In accordance with Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–463, as amended), the National Science Foundation announces the following meeting: Name: Advisory Committee for Polar Programs (1130). Date/Time: May 18, 2006, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 19, 2006, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Place: National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Room 1235. Type of Meeting: Open. Contact Person: Sue LaFratta, Office of Polar Programs (OPP). National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22230 (703) 292–8030. Minutes: May be obtained from the contact person list above. Purpose of Meeting: To advise NSF on the impact of its policies, programs, and activities of the polar research community, to provide advice to the Director of OPP on issues related to long-range planning. Agenda: Staff presentations on program updates; discussions on International Polar Year; discussions on resupply. Dated: March 14, 2006. Susanne Bolton, Committee Management Officer. [FR Doc. 06–2638 Filed 3–17–06; 8:45am] wwhite on PROD1PC61 with NOTICES BILLING CODE 7555–01–M NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [Docket Nos. 50–250 and 50–251] Florida Power and Light Company; Notice of Withdrawal of Application for Amendment to Facility Operating License The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the Commission) has granted the request of Florida Power and Light Company (the licensee) to withdraw its March 22, 2005, application for proposed amendment to Facility Operating License Nos. DPR–31 and DPR–41 for the Turkey Point Nuclear Plant, Unit Nos. 3 and 4, located in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The proposed amendment would have revised the Technical Specifications pertaining to the Reactor Protection System functional units. Specifically, the steam/feedwater flow mismatch coincident with steam generator water level—low reactor trip would be deleted, the reactor trip on turbine trip interlock would be changed from P–7 to P–8, and the value of the P–8 interlock setpoint would be changed from 45 percent rated thermal power (RTP) to 40 percent RTP. The Commission had previously issued a Notice of Consideration of Issuance of Amendment published in the Federal Register on May 10, 2005 (70 FR 24651). However, by letter dated January 25, 2006, the licensee withdrew the proposed change. For further details with respect to this action, see the application for amendment dated March 22, 2005, and the licensee’s letter dated January 25, 2006, 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 22nd day of February 2006. VerDate Aug<31>2005 20:35 Mar 17, 2006 Jkt 208001 PO 00000 Frm 00074 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 14017 For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Brendan T. Moroney, Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch II– 2, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. [FR Doc. E6–3978 Filed 3–17–06; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590–01–P NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Sunshine Federal Register Notice Date: Week of March 13, 2006. Place: Commissioners’ Conference Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland. Status: Public and Closed. Additional Matters to be Considered Week of March 13, 2006 Friday, March 17, 2006 9 a.m.—Briefing by Executive Branch (closed—ex. 1). * * * * * *The schedule for Commission meetings is subject to change on short notice. To verify the status of meetings call (recording)—(301) 415–1292. Contact person for more information: Michelle Schroll, (301) 415–1662. * * * * * Addition Information: By a vote of 5– 0 on March 13 and 14, 2006, the Commission determined pursuant to U.S.C. 552b(e) and 9.107(a) of the Commission’s rules that ‘‘Briefing by Executive Branch (closed—ex. 1)’’ be held March 17, 2006, and on less than one week’s notice to the public. * * * * * The NRC Commission Meeting Schedule can be found on the Internet at: https://www.nrc.gov/what-we-do/ policy-making/schedule.html. * * * * * The NRC provides reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities where appropriate. If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in these public meetings, or need this meeting notice or the transcript or other information from the public meetings in another format (e.g. braille, large print), please notify the NRC’s Disability Program Coordinator, Deborah Chan, at 301–415–7041, TDD: 301–415–2100, or be e-mail at DLC@nrc.gov. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis. * * * * * This notice is distributed by mail to several hundred subscribers; if you no longer wish to receive it, or would like to be added to the distribution, please E:\FR\FM\20MRN1.SGM 20MRN1 14018 Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 53 / Monday, March 20, 2006 / Notices contact the Office of the Secretary, Washington, DC 20555 (301–415–1969). In addition, distribution of this meeting notice over the Internet system is available. If you are interested in receiving this Commission meeting schedule electronically, please send an electronic message to dkw@nrc.gov. Dated: March 14, 2006. R. Michelle Schroll, Office of the Secretary. [FR Doc. 06–2714 Filed 3–16–06; 2:27 pm] BILLING CODE 7590–01–M NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Notice of Availability of Draft Interim Staff Guidance Document for Fuel Cycle Facilities I. Introduction The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) continues to prepare and issue Interim Staff Guidance (ISG) documents for fuel cycle facilities. These ISG documents provide clarifying guidance to the NRC staff when reviewing licensee integrated safety analysis, license applications or amendment requests or other related licensing activities for fuel cycle facilities under 10 CFR part 70. draft and the dispositioning of these comments is also provided. These documents are being issued to support a public meeting scheduled for April 28, 2006, at the NRC Headquarters Auditorium in which the NRC will discuss revision of the guidance document and its resolution of comments received on Revision 1. A separate meeting notice will be provided shortly, to give specific details regarding the meeting agenda. III. Further Information Commission, Washington, DC 20005– 0001. Telephone: (301) 415–6459; fax number: (301) 415–5370; e-mail: jas4@nrc.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: II. Summary Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Notice of availability. AGENCY: FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James Smith, Project Manager, Technical Support Group, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory The purpose of this notice is to provide the public an opportunity to review a draft ISG, FCSS–ISG–10, Revision 2, which provides guidance to NRC staff to determine whether the minimum margin of subcriticality is sufficient to provide an adequate assurance of subcriticality for safety to demonstrate compliance with the performance requirements of 10 CFR 70.61(d). Additionally, listing of comments received on the previous The documents related to this action are available electronically at the NRC’s Electronic Reading Room at https:// www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. From this site, you can access the NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS), which provides text and image files of NRC’s public documents. The ADAMS ascension numbers for the documents related to this notice are provided in the following table. If you do not have access to ADAMS or if there are problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, contact the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) Reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov. ADAMS accession No. Interim staff guidance Draft FCSS Interim Staff Guidance—10, Revision 2 .............................................................................................................. Comments on Draft FCSS ISG–10, Rev. 1 and Resolution ................................................................................................... This document may also be viewed electronically on the public computers located at the NRC’s PDR, O 1 F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. The PDR reproduction contractor will copy documents for a fee. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 7th day of March 2006. Melanie A. Galloway, Chief, Technical Support Group, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. Draft FCSS Interim Staff Guidance–10, Revision 2 Justification for Minimum Margin of Subcriticality for Safety wwhite on PROD1PC61 with NOTICES Prepared by Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Issue Technical justification for the selection of the minimum margin of subcriticality for safety for fuel cycle facilities, as required by 10 CFR 70.61(d) VerDate Aug<31>2005 20:35 Mar 17, 2006 Jkt 208001 Introduction 10 CFR 70.61(d) requires, in part, that licensees or applicants (henceforth to be referred to as ‘‘licensees’’) demonstrate that ‘‘under normal and credible abnormal conditions, all nuclear processes are subcritical, including use of an approved margin of subcriticality for safety.’’ There are a variety of methods that may be used to demonstrate subcriticality, including use of industry standards, handbooks, hand calculations, and computer methods. Subcriticality is assured, in part, by providing margin between actual conditions and expected critical conditions. This interim staff guidance (ISG), however, applies only to margin used in those methods that rely on calculation of keff, including deterministic and probabilistic computer methods. The use of other methods (e.g., use of endorsed industry standards, widely accepted handbooks, certain hand calculations), containing varying amounts of margin, is outside the scope of this ISG. PO 00000 Frm 00075 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 ML060260479 ML060470150 For methods relying on calculation of keff, margin may be provided either in terms of limits on physical parameters of the system (of which keff is a function), or in terms of limits on keff directly, or both. For the purposes of this ISG, the term margin of safety will be used to refer to the margin to criticality in terms of system parameters, and the term margin of subcriticality (MoS) will refer to the margin to criticality in terms of keff. A common approach to ensuring subcriticality is to determine a maximum keff limit below which the licensee’s calculations must fall. This limit will be referred to in this ISG as the Upper Subcritical Limit (USL). Licensees using calculational methods perform validation studies, in which critical experiments similar to actual or anticipated facility applications are chosen and then analyzed to determine the bias and uncertainty in the bias. The bias is a measure of the systematic differences between calculational method results and experimental data. The uncertainty in the bias is a measure E:\FR\FM\20MRN1.SGM 20MRN1

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[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 53 (Monday, March 20, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14017-14018]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-2714]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Sunshine Federal Register Notice

    Date: Week of March 13, 2006.
    Place: Commissioners' Conference Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, 
Rockville, Maryland.
    Status: Public and Closed.

Additional Matters to be Considered

Week of March 13, 2006

Friday, March 17, 2006
9 a.m.--Briefing by Executive Branch (closed--ex. 1).
* * * * *
    *The schedule for Commission meetings is subject to change on short 
notice. To verify the status of meetings call (recording)--(301) 415-
1292. Contact person for more information: Michelle Schroll, (301) 415-
1662.
* * * * *
    Addition Information: By a vote of 5-0 on March 13 and 14, 2006, 
the Commission determined pursuant to U.S.C. 552b(e) and 9.107(a) of 
the Commission's rules that ``Briefing by Executive Branch (closed--ex. 
1)'' be held March 17, 2006, and on less than one week's notice to the 
public.
* * * * *
    The NRC Commission Meeting Schedule can be found on the Internet 
at: https://www.nrc.gov/what-we-do/policy-making/schedule.html.
* * * * *
    The NRC provides reasonable accommodation to individuals with 
disabilities where appropriate. If you need a reasonable accommodation 
to participate in these public meetings, or need this meeting notice or 
the transcript or other information from the public meetings in another 
format (e.g. braille, large print), please notify the NRC's Disability 
Program Coordinator, Deborah Chan, at 301-415-7041, TDD: 301-415-2100, 
or be e-mail at DLC@nrc.gov. Determinations on requests for reasonable 
accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.
* * * * *
    This notice is distributed by mail to several hundred subscribers; 
if you no longer wish to receive it, or would like to be added to the 
distribution, please

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contact the Office of the Secretary, Washington, DC 20555 (301-415-
1969). In addition, distribution of this meeting notice over the 
Internet system is available. If you are interested in receiving this 
Commission meeting schedule electronically, please send an electronic 
message to dkw@nrc.gov.

    Dated: March 14, 2006.
R. Michelle Schroll,
Office of the Secretary.
[FR Doc. 06-2714 Filed 3-16-06; 2:27 pm]
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