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of August 2009.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrea D. Valentin,
Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch,
Division of Engineering, Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. E9–22558 Filed 9–17–09; 8:45 am]
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Proposed Standard Review Plan;
Branch Technical Position 18–1 on
Guidance for Evaluating Minimum
Inventory of Alarms, Controls, and
Displays for New Light-Water Reactor
Plant Designs
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AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC).
ACTION: Solicitation of public comment.
SUMMARY: The NRC is requesting public
comment on NUREG–0800, ‘‘Standard
Review Plan for the Review of Safety
Analysis Reports for Nuclear Power
Plants,’’ Branch Technical Position
(BTP) 18–1, on Guidance for Evaluating
Minimum Inventory of Alarms,
Controls, and Displays for New Light
Water Reactor Plant Designs
(Agencywide Documents Access and
Management System (ADAMS)
Accession No. ML092330826). This BTP
is to be cited as the acceptance criteria
for the minimum inventory of controls,
displays, and alarms in the Standard
Review Plan (SRP) Chapter 18, Section
II.A.7, item 8 for those standard designs
that have not been certified prior to the
date of this BTP. When BTP 18–1 is
issued as final, Chapter 18, Section
II.A.7, item 8, which currently states,
‘‘8. A minimum inventory of controls,
displays, and alarms,’’ will be revised to
read, ‘‘8. A minimum inventory of
controls, displays, and alarms (See the
guidance in BTP 18–1 for designs that
the NRC has not previously certified).’’
(Material in parenthesis is added as a
pointer to the BTP.)
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to facilitate timely implementation of
current staff guidance and to facilitate
activities associated with the review of
applications for design certification (DC)
and combined licenses (COLs) by the
Office of New Reactors (NRO). The NRC
staff will also incorporate the revised
SRP section and BTP 18–1 into the next
revisions of Regulatory Guide 1.206 and
any related guidance documents.
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DATES: Comments must be filed no later
than 60 days from the date of
publication of this notice in the Federal
Register. Comments received after this
date will be considered, if it is practical
to do so, but the Commission is able to
ensure consideration only for comments
received on or before this date.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be
submitted to: Mr. Michael T. Lesar,
Chief, Rulemaking & Directives Branch,
MS: TWB–05–B01M, Office of
Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001.
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contact the NRC Public Document Room
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415–4737, or by e-mail at
PDR.Resource@nrc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Michael A. Junge, Chief, Operator
Licensing and Human Performance
Branch, Division of Construction
Inspection and Operational Programs,
Office of New Reactors, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001; telephone 301–415–
6855 or e-mail at
Michael.Junge@nrc.gov.
This SRP,
NUREG–0800, has been prepared to
establish criteria that the NRO staff use
to evaluate if DC and COL applications
meet the NRC’s regulations. The SRP is
not a substitute for the NRC’s
regulations, and compliance with it is
not required. However, applicants are
required to identify differences in
design features, analytical techniques,
and procedural measures proposed for a
facility and corresponding SRP
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the proposed alternatives to the
acceptance criteria provide an
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solicit public comments on proposed
BTP 18–1, which is being issued for the
first time. After the NRC staff considers
any public comments, it will make a
determination regarding proposed BTP
18–1.
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Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day
of September 2009.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
William F. Burton,
Chief, Rulemaking and Guidance
Development Branch, Division of New Reactor
Licensing, Office of New Reactors.
[FR Doc. E9–22557 Filed 9–17–09; 8:45 am]
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Request for a License To Export
Radioactive Waste
Pursuant to 10 CFR 110.70 (b) ‘‘Public
Notice of Receipt of an Application,’’
please take notice that the U. S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (NRC) has
received the following request for an
export license. Copies of the request are
available electronically through ADAMS
and can be accessed through the Public
Electronic Reading Room (PERR) link
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm.html at
the NRC Homepage.
A request for a hearing or petition for
leave to intervene may be filed within
thirty days after publication of this
notice in the Federal Register. Any
request for hearing or petition for leave
to intervene shall be served by the
requestor or petitioner upon the
applicant, the office of the General
Counsel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555;
the Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555;
and the Executive Secretary, U.S.
Department of State, Washington, DC
20520.
A request for a hearing or petition for
leave to intervene may be filed with the
NRC electronically in accordance with
NRC’s E–Filing rule promulgated in the
August 28 2007 Federal Register, 72 FR
49139. Information about filing
electronically is available on the NRC’s
public Web site at https://www.rnc.gov/
site-help/e-submittals.html. To ensure
timely electronic filing, at least 5 (five)
days prior to the filing deadline, the
petitioner/requestor should contact the
Office of the Secretary by e-mail at
HEARINGDOCKET@NRC.GOV, or by
calling (301) 415–1677, to request a
digital ID certificate and allow for the
creation of an electronic docket.
In addition to a request for hearing or
petition for leave to intervene, written
comments, in accordance with 10 CFR
110.81, should be submitted within
thirty (30) days after publication of this
notice in the Federal Register to Office
of the Secretary, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
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The information concerning this
export license application follows.
NRC EXPORT LICENSE APPLICATION
Name of applicant, date of
application, date received,
application No., Docket No.
Eastern Technologies, Inc.
(ETI); August 3, 2009; August 5, 2009; XW016;
11005825.
Description of material
End use
Material type
Class A radioactive waste as
slightly contaminated secondary waste resulting from
the dissolving and decontamination of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) dissolvable protective clothing and related
items (e.g., zippers, hook &
loop material, elastic, etc.)
along with the process filters
used to decontaminate the
dissolved clothing retrieved
from the combustible Class
A radioactive waste imported in accordance with
NRC license IW016.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Dated this 8th day of September 2009 at
Rockville, Maryland.
Scott W. Moore,
Deputy Director, Office of International
Programs.
[FR Doc. E9–22560 Filed 9–17–09; 8:45 am]
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PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY
CORPORATION
Approval of Amendment to Special
Withdrawal Liability Rules for Service
Employees International Union Local 1
Pension Trust Fund
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AGENCY: Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corporation.
ACTION: Notice of approval.
SUMMARY: The Service Employees
International Union Local 1 Pension
Trust Fund requested the Pension
Benefit Guaranty Corporation (‘‘PBGC’’)
to approve a plan amendment providing
for special withdrawal liability rules for
employers that maintain the Plan. PBGC
published a Notice of Pendency of the
Request for Approval of the amendment
on March 2, 2009 (74 FR 9114) (‘‘Notice
of Pendency’’). In accordance with the
provisions of the Employee Retirement
Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended (‘‘ERISA’’), PBGC is now
advising the public that the agency has
approved the requested amendment.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eric
Field, Attorney, Office of the Chief
Counsel, Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corporation, 1200 K Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20005–4026; telephone
202–326–4020. (TTY and TDD users
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The total quantity authorized
for export will not exceed
quantities imported in accordance with NRC license
IW016.
may call the Federal relay service tollfree at 1–800–877–8339 and ask to be
connected to 202–326–4020).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Under section 4201 of ERISA, an
employer who completely or partially
withdraws from a defined benefit
multiemployer pension plan becomes
liable for a proportional share of the
plan’s unfunded vested benefits. The
statute specifies that a ‘‘complete
withdrawal’’ occurs whenever an
employer either permanently (1) ceases
to have an obligation to contribute to the
plan, or (2) ceases all operations covered
under the plan. See ERISA section
4203(a). Under the first test, an
employer who remains in business but
no longer has an obligation to contribute
to the plan will incur withdrawal
liability. Under the second test, an
employer who closes or sells its
operations will also incur withdrawal
liability. The ‘‘partial withdrawal’’
provisions of sections 4205 and 4206
impose a lesser measure of liability
upon employers who reduce, but do not
eliminate, the obligations or operations
that generate contributions to the plan.
The withdrawal liability provisions of
ERISA are a critical factor in
maintaining the solvency of these
pension plans and reducing claims
made on the multiemployer plan
insurance fund maintained by PBGC.
Without withdrawal liability rules, an
employer who participates in an
underfunded multiemployer plan would
have a powerful economic incentive to
reduce expenses by withdrawing from
the plan.
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The secondary waste resulting
from the Laguna Verde material will be shipped to Impact Services, Oak Ridge,
TN for further volume reduction and then returned to
ETI for export back to Laguna Verde in Mexico.
Recipient
country
Mexico.
Congress nevertheless allowed for the
possibility that, in certain industries,
the fact that particular employers go out
of business (or cease operations in a
specific geographic region) might not
result in permanent damage to the
pension plan’s contribution base. In the
construction industry, for example, the
funding base of a pension plan is the
construction projects in the area covered
by the collective bargaining agreements
under which a pension plan is
maintained. Even if the amount of work
performed by a particular employer
fluctuates markedly in any given year,
individual employees will typically
continue to work for other contributing
employers in the same geographic area.
Consequently, the withdrawal of an
employer does not remove jobs from or
damage the pension plan’s contribution
base unless the employer continues to
work in the geographic area covered by
collective bargaining agreement without
contributing to the plan.
This reasoning led Congress to adopt
a special definition of the term
‘‘withdrawal’’ for construction industry
plans. Section 4203(b)(2) of ERISA
provides that a complete withdrawal
occurs only if an employer ceases to
have an obligation to contribute under
a plan, but nevertheless continues to
perform previously covered work in the
jurisdiction of the collective bargaining
agreement or resumes such work within
five years after the date on which the
obligations to contribute ceased.1 There
1 Section 4203(c)(1) of ERISA applies a similar
definition of complete withdrawal to the
entertainment industry, except that the pertinent
jurisdiction is the jurisdiction of the plan rather
than the jurisdiction of the collective bargaining
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2009-0405]
Request for a License To Export Radioactive Waste
Pursuant to 10 CFR 110.70 (b) ``Public Notice of Receipt of an
Application,'' please take notice that the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) has received the following request for an export
license. Copies of the request are available electronically through
ADAMS and can be accessed through the Public Electronic Reading Room
(PERR) link https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm.html at the NRC Homepage.
A request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene may be
filed within thirty days after publication of this notice in the
Federal Register. Any request for hearing or petition for leave to
intervene shall be served by the requestor or petitioner upon the
applicant, the office of the General Counsel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555; the Secretary, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555; and the Executive
Secretary, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC 20520.
A request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene may be
filed with the NRC electronically in accordance with NRC's E-Filing
rule promulgated in the August 28 2007 Federal Register, 72 FR 49139.
Information about filing electronically is available on the NRC's
public Web site at https://www.rnc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html. To
ensure timely electronic filing, at least 5 (five) days prior to the
filing deadline, the petitioner/requestor should contact the Office of
the Secretary by e-mail at HEARINGDOCKET@NRC.GOV, or by calling (301)
415-1677, to request a digital ID certificate and allow for the
creation of an electronic docket.
In addition to a request for hearing or petition for leave to
intervene, written comments, in accordance with 10 CFR 110.81, should
be submitted within thirty (30) days after publication of this notice
in the Federal Register to Office of the Secretary, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
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The information concerning this export license application follows.
NRC Export License Application
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Name of applicant, date of Description of material
application, date received, ------------------------------------------ End use Recipient
application No., Docket No. Material type Total quantity country
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Eastern Technologies, Inc. Class A radioactive The total quantity The secondary Mexico.
(ETI); August 3, 2009; August waste as slightly authorized for waste resulting
5, 2009; XW016; 11005825. contaminated export will not from the Laguna
secondary waste exceed quantities Verde material
resulting from the imported in will be shipped
dissolving and accordance with to Impact
decontamination of NRC license IW016. Services, Oak
polyvinyl alcohol Ridge, TN for
(PVA) dissolvable further volume
protective reduction and
clothing and then returned to
related items ETI for export
(e.g., zippers, back to Laguna
hook & loop Verde in Mexico.
material, elastic,
etc.) along with
the process
filters used to
decontaminate the
dissolved clothing
retrieved from the
combustible Class
A radioactive
waste imported in
accordance with
NRC license IW016.
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For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Dated this 8th day of September 2009 at Rockville, Maryland.
Scott W. Moore,
Deputy Director, Office of International Programs.
[FR Doc. E9-22560 Filed 9-17-09; 8:45 am]
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