Atomic Safety and Licensing Board; Before Administrative Judges: Ann Marshall Young, Chair, Dr. Paul B. Abramson, Dr. Richard F. Cole, In the Matter of: Entergy Nuclear Generation Company and Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. (Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station); Notice of Hearing and of Opportunity To Make Limited Appearance Statements, 11957-11958 [E8-4226]
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II. Review Focus
The Department of Labor is
particularly interested in comments
which: Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; evaluate the accuracy
of the agency’s estimate of the burden of
the proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
enhance the quality, utility and clarity
of the information to be collected; and
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, e.g., permitting
electronic submissions of responses.
III. Current Actions
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The Department of Labor seeks a new
approval of this information collection
in order to learn more about veteran
users of One-Stop Career Centers who
do not appear to have had successful
employment outcomes.
Type of Review: New.
Agency: Veterans’ Employment &
Training Service.
Title: Veteran Employment Services.
OMB Number: N/A.
Agency Number: CA–1032.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Total Respondents: 1,068.
Total Annual Responses: 1,068.
Average Time per Response: 15
minutes.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 267.
Frequency: One Time.
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):
$0.
Total Burden Cost (operating/
maintenance): Contractor cost of
$299,955.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget approval of the
information collection request; they will
also become a matter of public record.
Signed in Washington, DC, this 27th day of
February 2008.
John M. McWilliam,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Veterans
Employment and Training.
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[Docket No. 50–293–LR;] [ASLBP No. 06–
848–02–LR]
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board;
Before Administrative Judges: Ann
Marshall Young, Chair, Dr. Paul B.
Abramson, Dr. Richard F. Cole, In the
Matter of: Entergy Nuclear Generation
Company and Entergy Nuclear
Operations, Inc. (Pilgrim Nuclear
Power Station); Notice of Hearing and
of Opportunity To Make Limited
Appearance Statements
February 27, 2008.
This proceeding involves Entergy
Nuclear Operations, Inc.’s Application
to renew its operating license for the
Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station for an
additional 20-year period, and
Intervenor Pilgrim Watch’s challenge of
certain aspects of the Application.1 This
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board
hereby gives notice that the oral hearing
in the proceeding will be held on
Thursday, April 10, 2008. The hearing
will commence at 9 a.m., at the
Radisson Hotel, 180 Water Street in
Plymouth, Massachusetts.
In addition, the Board further hereby
gives notice that, in accordance with 10
CFR. 2.315(a), it will entertain oral
limited appearance statements from
members of the public in connection
with this proceeding on the evening of
April 9, 2008, as specified below.
Limited Appearance Statement Session
a. Date, Time, and Location of Oral
Limited Appearance Statement Session
The session will be held on the
following date at the specified location
and time:
Date: April 9, 2008.
Time: 6:30–8:30 p.m. EDT.
Location: Radisson Hotel, 180 Water
Street, Plymouth, Massachusetts 02360.
b. Participation Guidelines for Oral
Limited Appearance Statements
Members of the public will be
permitted in this session to make short
oral statements of five (5) minutes or
less on their positions on matters of
concern relating to this proceeding.
Although these statements do not
constitute testimony or evidence in the
proceeding, they nonetheless may assist
the Board and/or the parties in their
consideration of the issues.
Oral limited appearance statements
will be entertained during the hours
1 The Town of Plymouth, Massachusetts, where
the Pilgrim plant is located, is also participating in
this proceeding as an interested local governmental
body, pursuant to 10 CFR 2.315(c).
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specified above, or such lesser time as
necessary to accommodate all speakers
who are present.2 If all scheduled and
unscheduled speakers present at the
session have spoken prior to the
scheduled time to end the session, the
Board may conclude the session before
that time. In addition, if there is an
unusually large group of persons
wishing to speak, the time permitted for
each speaker may be limited to a period
of less than five (5) minutes, in order to
allow all interested persons an
opportunity to speak.
c. Submitting a Request to Make an Oral
Limited Appearance Statement
Persons wishing to make an oral
statement who have submitted a timely
written request as specified below and
who are present when their names are
called will be given priority over those
who have not filed such a request. To
be considered timely, a written request
to make an oral statement must be
mailed, faxed, or sent by e-mail so as to
be received by 5 p.m. EDT on Friday,
April 4, 2008.
Written requests to make an oral
statement should be submitted to:
Mail: Office of the Secretary,
Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–0001.
Fax: (301) 415–1101 (verification
(301) 415–1966).
E-mail: hearingdocket@nrc.gov.
In addition, using the same method of
service, a copy of the written request to
make an oral statement must be sent to
the Chair of this Licensing Board as
follows:
Mail: Administrative Judge Ann
Marshall Young, c/o: Johanna Thibault,
Esq., Law Clerk, Atomic Safety and
Licensing Board Panel, Mail Stop T–3
A2A, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001.
Fax: (301) 415–5599 (verification
(301) 415–6094).
E-mail: Johanna.Thibault@nrc.gov.
d. Submitted Written Limited
Appearance Statements
A written limited appearance
statement may be submitted to the
Board regarding this proceeding at any
time, either in lieu of or in addition to
2 Members of the public who plan to attend the
limited appearance session are advised that security
measures may be employed at the entrance to the
facility, including searches of hand-carried items
such as briefcases, backpacks, packages, etc. In
addition, although signs no larger than 18’’ by 18’’
will be permitted, they may not be waved, attached
to sticks, held up, or moved about in the room. See
Procedures for Providing Security Support for NRC
Public Meetings/Hearings, 66 FR 31,719 (June 12,
2001).
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any oral statement. Such statements
should be sent to the Office of the
Secretary using the methods prescribed
above, with a copy to the Licensing
Board Chair.
Dated: February 27, 2008, at Rockville,
Maryland.
For the Atomic Safety and Licensing
Board.
Ann Marshall Young,
Chair, Administrative Judge.
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Proposed Collection; Comment
Request
Upon Written Request, Copies Available
From: Securities and Exchange
Commission, Office of Investor
Education and Advocacy,
Washington, DC 20549–0213.
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Extension:
Rule 17d–1; SEC File No. 270–505; OMB
Control No. 3235–0562.
Notice is hereby given that pursuant
to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) the Securities
and Exchange Commission (the
‘‘Commission’’) is soliciting comments
on the collections of information
summarized below. The Commission
plans to submit these existing
collections of information to the Office
of Management and Budget for
extension and approval.
Section 17(d) (15 U.S.C. 80a–17(d)) of
the Investment Company Act of 1940
(15 U.S.C. 80a et seq.) (the ‘‘Act’’)
prohibits first- and second-tier affiliates
of a fund, the fund’s principal
underwriters, and affiliated persons of
the fund’s principal underwriters, acting
as principal, to effect any transaction in
which the fund or a company controlled
by the fund is a joint or a joint and
several participant in contravention of
the Commission’s rules. Rule 17d–1 (17
CFR 270.17d–1) prohibits an affiliated
person of or principal underwriter for
any fund (a ‘‘first-tier affiliate’’), or any
affiliated person of such person or
underwriter (a ‘‘second-tier affiliate’’),
acting as principal, from participating in
or effecting any transaction in
connection with a joint enterprise or
other joint arrangement in which the
fund is a participant, unless prior to
entering into the enterprise or
arrangement ‘‘an application regarding
(the transaction) has been filed with the
Commission and has been granted by an
order.’’ In reviewing the proposed
affiliated transaction, the rule provides
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that the Commission will consider
whether the proposal is (i) consistent
with the provisions, policies, and
purposes of the Act, and (ii) on a basis
different from or less advantageous than
that of other participants in determining
whether to grant an exemptive
application for a proposed joint
enterprise, joint arrangement, or profitsharing plan.
Rule 17d–1 also contains a number of
exceptions to the requirement that a
fund must obtain Commission approval
prior to entering into joint transactions
or arrangements with affiliates. For
example, funds do not have to obtain
Commission approval for certain
employee compensation plans, certain
tax-deferred employee benefit plans,
certain transactions involving small
business investment companies, the
receipt of securities or cash by certain
affiliates pursuant to a plan of
reorganization, and arrangements
regarding liability insurance policies.
The Commission amended rule 17d–1
most recently in 2003 to expand the
current exemptions from the
Commission approval process to permit
funds to engage in transactions with
‘‘portfolio affiliates’’—companies that
are affiliated with the fund solely as a
result of the fund (or an affiliated fund)
controlling them or owning more than
five percent of their voting securities.
This amendment was designed to
permit funds’ transactions with
portfolio affiliates without seeking
Commission approval, as long as certain
other affiliated persons of the fund (e.g.,
the fund’s adviser, persons controlling
the fund, and persons under common
control with the fund) (‘‘prohibited
participants’’) are not parties to the
transaction and do not have a ‘‘financial
interest’’ in a party to the transaction.
The rule excludes from the definition of
‘‘financial interest’’ any interest that the
fund’s board of directors (including a
majority of the directors who are not
interested persons of the fund) finds to
be not material, as long as the board
records the basis for its finding in their
meeting minutes.
Thus, the rule contains two filing and
recordkeeping requirements that
constitute collections of information.
First, rule 17d–1 requires funds that
wish to engage in a joint transaction or
arrangement with affiliates to meet the
procedural requirements for obtaining
exemptive relief from the rule’s
prohibition on joint transactions or
arrangements involving first- or secondtier affiliates. Second, rule 17d–1
permits a portfolio affiliate to enter into
a joint transaction or arrangement with
the fund if a prohibited participant has
a financial interest that the fund’s board
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determines is not material and records
the basis for this finding in their
meeting minutes. These requirements of
rule 17d–1 are designed to prevent fund
insiders from managing funds for their
own benefit, rather than for the benefit
of the funds’ shareholders.
Based on an analysis of past filings,
Commission staff estimates that 4 funds
file applications under section 17(d) and
rule 17d–1 per year. Based on a limited
survey of persons in the mutual fund
industry, the Commission staff estimates
that each applicant will spend an
average of 154 hours to comply with the
Commission’s applications process. The
Commission staff therefore estimates the
annual burden hours per year for all
funds under rule 17d–1’s application
process to be 616 hours.
Based on analysis of past filings, the
Commission’s staff estimates that 148
funds are affiliated persons of 668
issuers as a result of the fund’s
ownership or control of the issuer’s
voting securities, and that there are
approximately 1,000 such affiliate
relationships. Staff discussions with
mutual fund representatives have
suggested that no funds are currently
relying on rule 17d–1 exemptions. We
do not know definitively the reasons for
this transactional behavior, but differing
market conditions from year to year may
offer some explanation for the current
lack of fund interest in the exemptions
under rule 17d–1. Accordingly, we
estimate that annually there will be no
joint transactions under rule 17d–1 that
will result in a collection of
information. The Commission,
therefore, requests authorization to
maintain an inventory of total burden
hours per year for all funds under rule
17d–1 of 616 hours.
The estimate of average burden hours
is made solely for the purposes of the
Paperwork Reduction Act. The estimate
is not derived from a comprehensive or
even a representative survey or study of
the costs of Commission rules.
Complying with these collections of
information requirement is necessary to
obtain the benefit of relying on rule
17d–1. An agency may not conduct or
sponsor, and a person is not required to
respond to, a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid
control number.
Written comments are invited on: (a)
Whether the proposed 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 the burden of the collection of
information; (c) ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
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[Docket No. 50-293-LR;] [ASLBP No. 06-848-02-LR]
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board; Before Administrative Judges:
Ann Marshall Young, Chair, Dr. Paul B. Abramson, Dr. Richard F. Cole,
In the Matter of: Entergy Nuclear Generation Company and Entergy
Nuclear Operations, Inc. (Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station); Notice of
Hearing and of Opportunity To Make Limited Appearance Statements
February 27, 2008.
This proceeding involves Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.'s
Application to renew its operating license for the Pilgrim Nuclear
Power Station for an additional 20-year period, and Intervenor Pilgrim
Watch's challenge of certain aspects of the Application.\1\ This Atomic
Safety and Licensing Board hereby gives notice that the oral hearing in
the proceeding will be held on Thursday, April 10, 2008. The hearing
will commence at 9 a.m., at the Radisson Hotel, 180 Water Street in
Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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\1\ The Town of Plymouth, Massachusetts, where the Pilgrim plant
is located, is also participating in this proceeding as an
interested local governmental body, pursuant to 10 CFR 2.315(c).
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In addition, the Board further hereby gives notice that, in
accordance with 10 CFR. 2.315(a), it will entertain oral limited
appearance statements from members of the public in connection with
this proceeding on the evening of April 9, 2008, as specified below.
Limited Appearance Statement Session
a. Date, Time, and Location of Oral Limited Appearance Statement
Session
The session will be held on the following date at the specified
location and time:
Date: April 9, 2008.
Time: 6:30-8:30 p.m. EDT.
Location: Radisson Hotel, 180 Water Street, Plymouth, Massachusetts
02360.
b. Participation Guidelines for Oral Limited Appearance Statements
Members of the public will be permitted in this session to make
short oral statements of five (5) minutes or less on their positions on
matters of concern relating to this proceeding. Although these
statements do not constitute testimony or evidence in the proceeding,
they nonetheless may assist the Board and/or the parties in their
consideration of the issues.
Oral limited appearance statements will be entertained during the
hours specified above, or such lesser time as necessary to accommodate
all speakers who are present.\2\ If all scheduled and unscheduled
speakers present at the session have spoken prior to the scheduled time
to end the session, the Board may conclude the session before that
time. In addition, if there is an unusually large group of persons
wishing to speak, the time permitted for each speaker may be limited to
a period of less than five (5) minutes, in order to allow all
interested persons an opportunity to speak.
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\2\ Members of the public who plan to attend the limited
appearance session are advised that security measures may be
employed at the entrance to the facility, including searches of
hand-carried items such as briefcases, backpacks, packages, etc. In
addition, although signs no larger than 18'' by 18'' will be
permitted, they may not be waved, attached to sticks, held up, or
moved about in the room. See Procedures for Providing Security
Support for NRC Public Meetings/Hearings, 66 FR 31,719 (June 12,
2001).
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c. Submitting a Request to Make an Oral Limited Appearance Statement
Persons wishing to make an oral statement who have submitted a
timely written request as specified below and who are present when
their names are called will be given priority over those who have not
filed such a request. To be considered timely, a written request to
make an oral statement must be mailed, faxed, or sent by e-mail so as
to be received by 5 p.m. EDT on Friday, April 4, 2008.
Written requests to make an oral statement should be submitted to:
Mail: Office of the Secretary, Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
Fax: (301) 415-1101 (verification (301) 415-1966).
E-mail: hearingdocket@nrc.gov.
In addition, using the same method of service, a copy of the
written request to make an oral statement must be sent to the Chair of
this Licensing Board as follows:
Mail: Administrative Judge Ann Marshall Young, c/o: Johanna
Thibault, Esq., Law Clerk, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel,
Mail Stop T-3 A2A, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001.
Fax: (301) 415-5599 (verification (301) 415-6094).
E-mail: Johanna.Thibault@nrc.gov.
d. Submitted Written Limited Appearance Statements
A written limited appearance statement may be submitted to the
Board regarding this proceeding at any time, either in lieu of or in
addition to
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any oral statement. Such statements should be sent to the Office of the
Secretary using the methods prescribed above, with a copy to the
Licensing Board Chair.
Dated: February 27, 2008, at Rockville, Maryland.
For the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board.
Ann Marshall Young,
Chair, Administrative Judge.
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