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The NRC staff finds that the proposed
release of the facility for unrestricted
use and the termination of the NRC
license are in compliance with 10 CFR
20.1402. Based on its review, the staff
considered the impact of any residual
radioactivity in the laboratory and
concluded that the proposed action will
not have a significant effect on the
quality of the human environment.
Environmental Impacts of the
Alternatives to the Proposed Action:
Due to the largely administrative nature
of the proposed action, its
environmental impacts are small.
Therefore, the only alternative the staff
considered is the no-action alternative,
under which the staff would deny the
amendment request. This no-action
alternative is not feasible because it
conflicts with 10 CFR 30.36(d),
requiring that decommissioning of
byproduct material facilities be
completed and approved by the NRC
after licensed activities cease. The
NRC’s analysis of the Licensee’s final
status survey data confirmed that
release of the facility meets the
requirements of 10 CFR 20.1402 for
unrestricted use. Additionally, denying
the amendment request would result in
no change in current environmental
impacts. The environmental impacts of
the proposed action and the no-action
alternative are therefore similar, and the
no-action alternative is accordingly not
further considered.
Conclusion: The NRC staff has
concluded that the proposed action is
consistent with the NRC’s unrestricted
use criteria specified in 10 CFR 20.1402.
Because the proposed action will not
significantly impact the quality of the
human environment, the NRC staff
concludes that the proposed action is
the preferred alternative.
Agencies and Persons Contacted: NRC
provided a draft of this EA to the State
of Hawaii for review on January 22,
2006. The State of Hawaii did not
provide any comments to the draft EA.
The NRC staff has determined that the
proposed action is of a procedural
nature, and will not affect listed species
or critical habitat. Therefore, no further
consultation is required under Section 7
of the Endangered Species Act. The
NRC staff has also determined that the
proposed action is not the type of
activity that has the potential to cause
effects on historic properties. Therefore,
no further consultation is required
under Section 106 of the National
Historic Preservation Act.
III. Finding of No Significant Impact
The NRC staff has prepared this EA in
support of the proposed action. On the
basis of this EA, the NRC finds that
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there are no significant environmental
impacts from the proposed action, and
that preparation of an environmental
impact statement is not warranted.
Accordingly, the NRC has determined
that a Finding of No Significant Impact
is appropriate.
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For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
D. Blair Spitzberg,
Chief, Fuel Cycle Decommissioning Branch,
Division of Nuclear Materials Safety, Region
IV.
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IV. Further Information
Documents related to this action,
including the application for
amendment and supporting
documentation, are available
electronically at the NRC’s Electronic
Reading Room at https://www.nrc.gov/
reading-rm.html. From this site, you can
access the NRC’s Agencywide
Document Access and Management
System (ADAMS), which provides text
and image files of NRC’s public
documents. The documents related to
this action are listed below, along with
their ADAMS accession numbers.
1. NRC, ‘‘Generic Environmental
Impact Statement in Support of
Rulemaking on Radiological Criteria for
License Termination of NRC-Licensed
Nuclear Facilities,’’ NUREG–1496, July
1997 (ML042310492, ML042320379,
and ML042330385).
2. NRC, ‘‘Consolidated NMSS
Decommissioning Guidance,’’ NUREG–
1757, Volume 1, Revision 1, September
2003 (ML053260027).
3. Title 10 Code of Federal
Regulations, Part 20, Subpart E,
‘‘Radiological Criteria for License
Termination.’’
4. Title 10, Code of Federal
Regulations, Part 51, ‘‘Environmental
Protection Regulations for Domestic
Licensing and Related Regulatory
Functions.’’
5. Jacobs, Mark, Covance Clinical
Research Unit, Inc., Decommissioning
Report, October 10, 2006
(ML062900229).
6. Browder, Rachel S.,
Acknowledgment of Receipt of Final
Status Survey, October 31, 2006
(ML063040400).
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.
These documents may also be viewed
electronically on 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.
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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND
BUDGET
Draft 2007 Report to Congress on the
Costs and Benefits of Federal
Regulations
Office of Management and
Budget, Executive Office of the
President.
ACTION: Notice of availability and
request for comments.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) requests comments
on its 2007 Draft Report to Congress on
the Costs and Benefits of Federal
Regulations. The full Draft Report is
available at https://www.whitehouse.gov/
omb/inforeg/regpolreports_congress.html, and is divided
into four chapters. Chapter I examines
the costs and benefits of major Federal
regulations issued in fiscal year 2006
and summarizes the costs and benefits
of major regulations issued between
September 1996 and 2006. It also
discusses regulatory impacts on State,
local, and tribal governments, small
business, wages, and economic growth.
Chapter II examines trends in regulation
since OMB began to compile benefit and
cost estimates records in 1981. Chapter
III provides an update on
implementation of the Information
Quality Act, and Chapter IV summarizes
agency compliance with the Unfunded
Mandates Reform Act.
DATES: To ensure consideration of
comments as OMB prepares this Draft
Report for submission to Congress,
comments must be in writing and
received by June 11, 2007.
ADDRESSES: We are still experiencing
delays in the regular mail, including
first class and express mail. To ensure
that your comments are received, we
recommend that comments on this draft
report be electronically mailed to
OIRA_BC_RPT@omb.eop.gov, or faxed
to (202) 395–7245. You may also submit
comments to Mabel Echols, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget,
NEOB, Room 10201, 725 17th Street,
NW., Washington, DC 20503. All
comments submitted in response to this
notice will be made available to the
public, including by posting them on
OMB’s Web site. For this reason, please
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do not include in your comments
information of a confidential nature,
such as sensitive personal information
or proprietary information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mabel Echols, Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget, NEOB, Room
10201, 725 17th Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20503. Telephone:
(202) 395–3093.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Congress
directed the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) to prepare an annual
Report to Congress on the Costs and
Benefits of Federal Regulations.
Specifically, Section 624 of the FY 2001
Treasury and General Government
Appropriations Act, also known as the
‘‘Regulatory Right-to-Know Act,’’ (the
Act) requires OMB to submit a report on
the costs and benefits of Federal
regulations together with
recommendation for reform. The Act
states that the report should contain
estimates of the costs and benefits of
regulations in the aggregate, by agency
and agency program, and by major rule,
as well as an analysis of impacts of
Federal regulation on State, local, and
tribal governments, small businesses,
wages, and economic growth. The Act
also states that the report should go
through notice and comment and peer
review.
Steven D. Aitken,
Acting Administrator, Office of Information
and Regulatory Affairs.
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and sections 36 through 53, and the
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SUMMARY OF APPLICATION:
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investment funds formed for the benefit
of eligible current and former employees
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from certain provisions of the Act. Each
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controlling, controlled by, or under
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(the ‘‘Firm’’).
FILING DATES: The application was filed
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November 14, 2003, and November 13,
2006. Applicants have agreed to file an
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Commission’s Secretary.
ADDRESSES: Secretary, Securities and
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Applicants: One South Dearborn,
Chicago, IL 60603.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Deepak T. Pai, Senior Counsel, at (202)
551–6876 or Julia Kim Gilmer, Branch
Chief, at (202) 551–6821, (Division of
Investment Management, Office of
Investment Company Regulation).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
following is a summary of the
application. The complete application
may be obtained for a fee at the
Commission’s Public Reference Branch,
100 F Street, NE., Washington, DC
20549–0102 (telephone (202) 551–5850).
Applicants’ Representations
1. The Firm is a law firm organized
as a Delaware limited liability
partnership. The Investment Fund is a
Delaware limited liability company.
Applicants may offer additional pooled
investment vehicles to the same class of
investors eligible to invest in the
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Investment Fund (the ‘‘Subsequent
Funds,’’ and together with the
Investment Fund, the ‘‘Funds’’) which
will be substantially similar in all
material respects to the Investment
Fund except for investment objectives
and strategies, operational differences
related to the form of organization, and
differences which reflect revisions to
applicable law. Each Subsequent Fund,
if any, will be structured as a general
partnership, limited partnership or
limited liability company, although a
Subsequent Fund could be structured as
a corporation, trust or other entity. The
Funds will operate as non-diversified,
closed-end management investment
companies.
2. The Funds will enable Eligible
Investors to participate in investment
opportunities that come to the attention
of the Firm. Each entity in which a
Fund invests is referred to as a
‘‘Portfolio Company.’’ Participation as
investors in a Fund will allow Eligible
Investors (defined below) to diversify
their investments and to have the
opportunity to participate in
investments that might not otherwise be
available to them or that might be
beyond their individual means.
3. Interests in each Fund (‘‘Interests’’)
will be offered and sold in reliance
upon the exemption from registration
contained in Section 4(2) of the
Securities Act of 1933 (the ‘‘Securities
Act’’) or Regulation D under the
Securities Act. Interests will be offered
solely to investors who, at the time of
the offer, are: (a) Eligible Employees
(defined below); (b) trusts of which the
trustees and/or grantors are Eligible
Employees or of which the sole
beneficiaries are Eligible Employees and
their immediate family members
(spouses, parents, brothers, sisters,
children, spouses of children, and
grandchildren) (‘‘Eligible Trusts’’); (c)
entities, all of the voting power of which
is controlled by Eligible Employees 1
(together with Eligible Trusts,
‘‘Qualified Investment Vehicles’’); (d)
spouses of Eligible Employees; and (e)
the Firm (collectively, ‘‘Eligible
Investors’’).
4. ‘‘Eligible Employees’’ are current or
former partners of the Firm, lawyers and
other professionals employed by the
Firm, and certain current or former
1 The inclusion of entities controlled by an
Eligible Employee in the definition of Eligible
Investor is intended to enable Eligible Employees
and their immediate family members to make
investments in the Funds through private
investment vehicles for the purpose of personal and
family investment and estate planning objectives.
Eligible Employees will exercise investment
discretion and control over these investment
vehicles, thereby creating a close nexus between the
Firm and these investment vehicles.
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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
Draft 2007 Report to Congress on the Costs and Benefits of
Federal Regulations
AGENCY: Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the
President.
ACTION: Notice of availability and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requests comments on
its 2007 Draft Report to Congress on the Costs and Benefits of Federal
Regulations. The full Draft Report is available at https://
www.whitehouse.gov/omb/inforeg/regpol-reports_congress.html, and is
divided into four chapters. Chapter I examines the costs and benefits
of major Federal regulations issued in fiscal year 2006 and summarizes
the costs and benefits of major regulations issued between September
1996 and 2006. It also discusses regulatory impacts on State, local,
and tribal governments, small business, wages, and economic growth.
Chapter II examines trends in regulation since OMB began to compile
benefit and cost estimates records in 1981. Chapter III provides an
update on implementation of the Information Quality Act, and Chapter IV
summarizes agency compliance with the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act.
DATES: To ensure consideration of comments as OMB prepares this Draft
Report for submission to Congress, comments must be in writing and
received by June 11, 2007.
ADDRESSES: We are still experiencing delays in the regular mail,
including first class and express mail. To ensure that your comments
are received, we recommend that comments on this draft report be
electronically mailed to OIRA--BC--RPT@omb.eop.gov, or faxed to (202)
395-7245. You may also submit comments to Mabel Echols, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget,
NEOB, Room 10201, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503. All
comments submitted in response to this notice will be made available to
the public, including by posting them on OMB's Web site. For this
reason, please
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do not include in your comments information of a confidential nature,
such as sensitive personal information or proprietary information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mabel Echols, Office of Information
and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, NEOB, Room
10201, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503. Telephone: (202)
395-3093.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Congress directed the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) to prepare an annual Report to Congress on the Costs
and Benefits of Federal Regulations. Specifically, Section 624 of the
FY 2001 Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, also known
as the ``Regulatory Right-to-Know Act,'' (the Act) requires OMB to
submit a report on the costs and benefits of Federal regulations
together with recommendation for reform. The Act states that the report
should contain estimates of the costs and benefits of regulations in
the aggregate, by agency and agency program, and by major rule, as well
as an analysis of impacts of Federal regulation on State, local, and
tribal governments, small businesses, wages, and economic growth. The
Act also states that the report should go through notice and comment
and peer review.
Steven D. Aitken,
Acting Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
[FR Doc. E7-4375 Filed 3-9-07; 8:45 am]
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