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Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC’s)
Division of Facilities and Security, Mail Stop
T–6E46, one completed, legible standard
fingerprint card (Form FD–258,
ORIMDNRCOOOZ) or, where practicable,
other fingerprint records for each individual
seeking unescorted access to the spent fuel
storage facility, to the Director of the Division
of Facilities and Security, marked for the
attention of the Division’s Criminal History
Check Section. Copies of these forms may be
obtained by writing the Office of Information
Services, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–0001,
by calling (301) 415–5877, or via e-mail to
forms@nrc.gov. Practicable alternative
formats are set forth in 10 CFR 73.4. The
licensee shall establish procedures to ensure
that the quality of the fingerprints taken
results in minimizing the rejection rate of
fingerprint cards due to illegible or
incomplete cards.
The NRC will review submitted fingerprint
cards for completeness. Any Form FD–258
fingerprint record containing omissions or
evident errors will be returned to the licensee
for corrections. The fee for processing
fingerprint checks includes one resubmission
if the initial submission is returned by the
FBI because the fingerprint impressions
cannot be classified. The one free resubmission must have the FBI Transaction
Control Number reflected on the
resubmission. If additional submissions are
necessary, they will be treated as initial
submittals and will require a second payment
of the processing fee.
Fees for processing fingerprint checks are
due upon application. Licensees shall submit
payment with the application for processing
fingerprints by corporate check, certified
check, cashier’s check, money order, or
electronic payment, made payable to ‘‘U.S.
NRC.’’ [For guidance on making electronic
payments, contact the Facilities Security
Branch, Division of Facilities and Security, at
(301) 415–7404]. Combined payment for
multiple applications is acceptable. The
application fee (currently $27) is the sum of
the user fee charged by the FBI for each
fingerprint card or other fingerprint record
submitted by the NRC on behalf of a licensee,
and an NRC processing fee, which covers
administrative costs associated with NRC
handling of licensee fingerprint submissions.
The Commission will directly notify
licensees, who are subject to this regulation
of any fee changes.
The Commission will forward, to the
submitting licensee, all data received from
the FBI as a result of the licensee’s
application(s) for criminal history records
checks, including the FBI fingerprint record.
Right To Correct and Complete Information
Prior to any final adverse determination,
the licensee shall make available, to the
individual, the contents of any criminal
records, obtained from the FBI, for the
purpose of assuring correct and complete
information. Written confirmation by the
individual of receipt of this notification must
be maintained by the licensee for a period of
one (1) year from the date of the notification.
If, after reviewing the record, an individual
believes that the record is incorrect or
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incomplete in any respect and wishes to
change, correct, or update the alleged
deficiency, or to explain any matter in the
record, the individual may initiate challenge
procedures. These procedures include either
direct application, by the individual
challenging the record, to the agency (i.e.,
law enforcement agency) that contributed the
questioned information, or direct challenge
as to the accuracy or completeness of any
entry on the criminal history record to the
Assistant Director, Federal Bureau of
Investigation Identification Division,
Washington, DC 20537–9700 (as set forth in
28 CFR 16.30 through 16.34). In the latter
case, the FBI forwards the challenge to the
agency that submitted the data and requests
that agency to verify or correct the challenged
entry. Upon receipt of an official
communication directly from the agency that
contributed the original information, the FBI
Identification Division makes any changes
necessary, in accordance with the
information supplied by that agency. The
licensee must allow at least ten (10) days for
an individual to initiate an action
challenging the results of an FBI criminal
history records check after the record is made
available for his/her review. The licensee
may make a final determination for
unescorted access to the spent fuel storage
facility based on the criminal history records
check, only upon receipt of the FBI’s ultimate
confirmation or correction of the record.
Upon a final adverse determination for
unescorted access to the spent fuel storage
facility, the licensee shall provide the
individual its documented basis for denial.
During this review process for assuring
correct and complete information, unescorted
access to the spent fuel storage facility shall
not be granted to an individual.
Protection of Information
1. Each licensee that obtains a criminal
history records check for an individual,
pursuant to this Order, shall establish and
maintain a system of files and procedures for
protecting the record and the personal
information from unauthorized disclosure.
2. The licensee may not disclose the record
nor personal information collected and
maintained to persons other than the subject
individual, his/her representative, or to those
who have a need to access the information
in performing assigned duties in the process
of determining unescorted access to the spent
fuel storage facility. No individual authorized
to have access to the information may
redisseminate the information to any other
individual who does not have a need-toknow.
3. The personal information obtained on an
individual from a criminal history records
check may be transferred to another licensee
if the licensee holding the criminal history
record receives the individual’s written
request to redisseminate the information
contained in his/her file, and the gaining
licensee verifies information such as the
individual’s name, date of birth, social
security number, sex, and other applicable
physical characteristics, for identification
purposes.
4. The licensee shall make criminal history
records, obtained under this section,
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available for examination by an authorized
NRC representative, to determine compliance
with the regulations and laws.
5. The licensee shall retain all fingerprint
and criminal history records received from
the FBI, or a copy, if the individual’s file has
been transferred, for three (3) years after
termination of employment or denial to
unescorted access to the spent fuel storage
facility. After the required three (3) year
period, these documents shall be destroyed
by a method that will prevent reconstruction
of the information in whole, or in part.
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Notice of Availability; Draft NUREG–
1574, Revision 2, ‘‘Standard Review
Plan on Transfer and Amendment of
Antitrust License Conditions and
Antitrust Enforcement’’
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Standard Review Plan.
SUMMARY: The NRC is seeking public
comment on draft NUREG–1574,
Revision 2, entitled ‘‘Standard Review
Plan on Transfer and Amendment of
Antitrust License Conditions and
Antitrust Enforcement.’’ This standard
review plan (SRP) documents
procedures and guidance to be used by
the staff to analyze license transfer
applications and license amendment
applications involving existing antitrust
license conditions, to report to the
Attorney General information indicating
that a licensee’s use of atomic energy
appears to have violated the antitrust
laws, and to take appropriate
enforcement action for a licensee’s
violation of its antitrust license
conditions. Because the SRP describes
internal agency procedures and is based
on existing Commission guidance in
this area, the SRP is being published for
interim use. However, the Commission
is inviting public comment on the SRP
and is interested in possible
improvements to it. Public comments
will be considered in evaluating the
NRC review process in this area.
The public is invited to submit
comments on the SRP by July 9, 2007.
Comments received after this date will
be considered if it is practical to do so,
but assurance of consideration cannot
be given except as to comments received
on or before this date. On the basis of
the submitted comments, the
Commission will determine whether to
modify the SRP before issuing it in final
form.
DATES:
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You may submit comments
by any one of the following methods.
Comments submitted in writing or
electronic form will be made available
for public inspection. Mail comments
to: Chief, Rulemaking, Directives, and
Editing Branch, Office of
Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Mail Stop T6–D59,
Washington, DC 20555–0001. Hand
deliver comments, addressed to the
above, to: 11555 Rockville Pike,
Rockville, Maryland 20852, between
7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. on Federal
workdays.
Publicly available documents may be
viewed electronically on the public
computers located at the NRC’s Public
Document Room (PDR), One White Flint
North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Room O1–
F21, Rockville, Maryland. The PDR
reproduction contractor will copy
documents for a fee. The public can gain
entry into the NRC’s Agencywide
Document Access and Management
System (ADAMS) through the agency’s
public Web site at https://www.nrc.gov.
This web site provides text and image
files of the NRC’s public documents. 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 email to
pdr@nrc.gov.
A copy of the final 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,
Maryland.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Steven R. Hom, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, Division of Policy
and Rulemaking, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555, telephone (301) 415–1537, email srh@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The draft
NUREG–1574, Revision 2, entitled
‘‘Standard Review Plan on Transfer and
Amendment of Antitrust License
Conditions and Antitrust Enforcement’’
[ML070160586] reflects the Energy
Policy Act of 2005’s removal of the
NRC’s antitrust review responsibilities
for applications for licenses under
sections 103 and 104 of the Atomic
Energy Act of 1954, as amended. The
SRP provides guidance on the
appropriate disposition of antitrust
license conditions during license
transfers and for the review of
applications to amend antitrust license
conditions outside of license transfers.
The SRP also provides guidance
regarding the NRC’s responsibility to
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refer certain antitrust matters to the
Attorney General, and regarding the
NRC’s enforcement of antitrust license
conditions. The SRP supersedes
NUREG–1574, Standard Review Plan on
Antitrust Reviews, published December
1997, in its entirety.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 29th day
of May, 2007.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Michael J. Case,
Director, Division of Policy and Rulemaking,
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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MANAGEMENT
Civil Service Retirement System;
Normal Cost Percentages
Office of Personnel
Management.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Office of Personnel
Management (OPM) is providing notice
of revised normal cost percentages for
employees covered by the Civil Service
Retirement System (CSRS).
DATES: The revised normal cost
percentages are effective at the
beginning of the first pay period
commencing on or after October 1, 2007.
ADDRESSES: Send or deliver requests for
actuarial assumptions and data to the
Board of Actuaries, care of Gregory
Kissel, Manager, Office of Actuaries,
Strategic Human Resources Policy
Division, Office of Personnel
Management, Room 4307, Washington,
DC 20415.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jessica Johnson, (202) 606–0299.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Most
Federal employees hired before 1984 are
under the Civil Service Retirement
System (CSRS). Section 8334 of title 5,
United States Code, provides for the
mandated percentage of basic pay as an
employee deduction and agency
contributions that are paid into the Civil
Service Retirement and Disability Fund
(Fund) for CSRS. The ‘‘normal cost’’ is
the percentage of salary that must be
contributed at the time service is
performed in order to pay the full cost
of retirement benefits, assuming that the
contributions begin at first creditable
employment, and that the system will
continue. The normal cost percentages
change from time to time based upon
changes in the underlying economic
assumptions. To fully fund the
retirement system, the normal cost
percentage of basic pay must be paid
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into the Retirement Fund at the time
service is performed. Under CSRS, the
employee deductions and agency
contributions are statutorily mandated
and unlike FERS, CSRS is not fully
funded. The normal costs for CSRS
reflect the percentage of basic pay that
would have to be contributed to the
Fund for CSRS to be fully funded.
Additionally, there are a few entities
that must pay the full normal cost for
their CSRS employees.
CSRS offset refers to those employees
who are simultaneously covered by the
Old Age, Survivors, and Disability
Insurance (OASDI) tax and CSRS.
Section 8334(k) of title 5, United States
Code, and subpart J of part 831 of title
5, Code of Federal Regulations, describe
the employee deductions and agency
contributions for CSRS offset. Normal
cost percentages are different for regular
CSRS and CSRS offset because of
differences in their benefit structures.
Recently, the Board of Actuaries of
the Civil Service Retirement System
approved a revised set of economic
assumptions for use in the dynamic
actuarial valuations of CSRS. These
assumptions were adopted after the
Board reviewed statistical data prepared
by the OPM actuaries and considered
trends that may affect future experience
under the System.
Based on its analysis, the Board
concluded that it would be appropriate
to assume a rate of investment return of
6.25 percent, with no difference from
the current rate of 6.25 percent. The
Board increased the anticipated
inflation rate from 3.25 percent to 3.50
percent, and increased the projected rate
of General Schedule salary increases
from 4.00 percent to 4.25 percent. These
salary increases are in addition to
assumed within-grade increases that
reflect past experience.
The new assumptions anticipate that,
over the long term, the annual rate of
investment return will exceed inflation
by 2.75 percent and General Schedule
salary increases will exceed inflation by
.75 percent a year, as compared to 3
percent and .75 percent, respectively,
under the previous assumptions.
The normal cost calculations depend
on both the economic and demographic
assumptions. The demographic
assumptions are determined separately
for each of a number of special groups,
in cases where separate experience data
is available. Based on the new economic
assumptions and the change in the
demographic assumption concerning
the rate of early retirements, OPM has
determined the normal cost percentage
for each category of employees. The
Government wide normal cost
percentages for CSRS, without offset,
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Notice of Availability; Draft NUREG-1574, Revision 2, ``Standard
Review Plan on Transfer and Amendment of Antitrust License Conditions
and Antitrust Enforcement''
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Standard Review Plan.
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SUMMARY: The NRC is seeking public comment on draft NUREG-1574,
Revision 2, entitled ``Standard Review Plan on Transfer and Amendment
of Antitrust License Conditions and Antitrust Enforcement.'' This
standard review plan (SRP) documents procedures and guidance to be used
by the staff to analyze license transfer applications and license
amendment applications involving existing antitrust license conditions,
to report to the Attorney General information indicating that a
licensee's use of atomic energy appears to have violated the antitrust
laws, and to take appropriate enforcement action for a licensee's
violation of its antitrust license conditions. Because the SRP
describes internal agency procedures and is based on existing
Commission guidance in this area, the SRP is being published for
interim use. However, the Commission is inviting public comment on the
SRP and is interested in possible improvements to it. Public comments
will be considered in evaluating the NRC review process in this area.
DATES: The public is invited to submit comments on the SRP by July 9,
2007. Comments received after this date will be considered if it is
practical to do so, but assurance of consideration cannot be given
except as to comments received on or before this date. On the basis of
the submitted comments, the Commission will determine whether to modify
the SRP before issuing it in final form.
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ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any one of the following methods.
Comments submitted in writing or electronic form will be made available
for public inspection. Mail comments to: Chief, Rulemaking, Directives,
and Editing Branch, Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Mail Stop T6-D59, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Hand deliver
comments, addressed to the above, to: 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville,
Maryland 20852, between 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. on Federal workdays.
Publicly available documents may be viewed electronically on the
public computers located at the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR), One
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Room O1-F21, Rockville,
Maryland. The PDR reproduction contractor will copy documents for a
fee. The public can gain entry into the NRC's Agencywide Document
Access and Management System (ADAMS) through the agency's public Web
site at https://www.nrc.gov. This web site provides text and image files
of the NRC's public documents. 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 email to pdr@nrc.gov.
A copy of the final 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, Maryland.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steven R. Hom, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, Division of Policy and Rulemaking, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555, telephone (301) 415-1537,
e-mail srh@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The draft NUREG-1574, Revision 2, entitled
``Standard Review Plan on Transfer and Amendment of Antitrust License
Conditions and Antitrust Enforcement'' [ML070160586] reflects the
Energy Policy Act of 2005's removal of the NRC's antitrust review
responsibilities for applications for licenses under sections 103 and
104 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended. The SRP provides
guidance on the appropriate disposition of antitrust license conditions
during license transfers and for the review of applications to amend
antitrust license conditions outside of license transfers. The SRP also
provides guidance regarding the NRC's responsibility to refer certain
antitrust matters to the Attorney General, and regarding the NRC's
enforcement of antitrust license conditions. The SRP supersedes NUREG-
1574, Standard Review Plan on Antitrust Reviews, published December
1997, in its entirety.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 29th day of May, 2007.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Michael J. Case,
Director, Division of Policy and Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation.
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