Advisory Committee for Mathematical and Physical Sciences; Notice of Meeting, 14996-14997 [2011-6397]

Download as PDF 14996 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 53 / Friday, March 18, 2011 / Notices Signed at Washington, DC, this 14th day of March 2011. Jane Oates, Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training Administration. Governor’s and the state Workforce Investment Board’s involvement in drafting, reviewing and commenting. Work-Flex Quarterly Report: Instructions [FR Doc. 2011–6427 Filed 3–17–11; 8:45 am] Report for each waiver granted: 1. Waiver (assigned by State) 2. Date received 3. Date granted 4. Local Area(s) requesting waiver 5. Purpose (brief statement) 6. Regulation/statute affected. 7. State-imposed conditions of waiver use, as appropriate. 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. Emcdonald on DSK2BSOYB1PROD with NOTICES III. Current Actions Type of Review: Extension with minor revisions. Title: Work-Flex Plan Submission and Reporting Requirements. OMB Number: 1205–0432. Affected Public: State and local governments. Form: See above instructions. There is no form. Total Estimated Annual Respondents: 5. Estimates Annual Frequency: 5 state plans annually; 20 quarterly reports. Average Time per Response: 38.4 hours. Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 960. Comments submitted in response to this comment request 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. VerDate Mar<15>2010 18:30 Mar 17, 2011 Jkt 223001 BILLING CODE 4510–FN–P DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Employment and Training Administration Request for Certification of Compliance—Rural Industrialization Loan and Grant Program Employment and Training Administration, Labor. ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: The Employment and Training Administration is issuing this notice to announce the receipt of a ‘‘Certification of Non-Relocation and Market and Capacity Information Report’’ (Form 4279–2) for the following: Applicant/Location: SoloPower, Inc., Wilsonville, Oregon. Principal Product/Purpose: The loan, guarantee, or grant application is to expand operations and increase production capacity by opening a new facility in Wilsonville, Oregon. The NAICS industry code for this enterprise is: 334413 (Solar cells manufacturing). DATES: All interested parties may submit comments in writing no later than April 1, 2011. Copies of adverse comments received will be forwarded to the applicant noted above. ADDRESSES: Address all comments concerning this notice to Anthony D. Dais, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Room S–4231, Washington, DC 20210; or e-mail Dais.Anthony@dol.gov; or transmit via fax (202) 693–3015 (this is not a toll-free number). FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Anthony D. Dais, at telephone number (202) 693–2784 (this is not a toll-free number). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 188 of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act of 1972, as established under 29 CFR Part 75, authorizes the United States Department of Agriculture to make or guarantee loans or grants to finance industrial and business activities in rural areas. The Secretary of Labor must review the application for financial assistance for the purpose of certifying to the Secretary of Agriculture that the assistance is not calculated, or SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00103 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 likely, to result in: (a) A transfer of any employment or business activity from one area to another by the loan applicant’s business operation; or, (b) An increase in the production of goods, materials, services, or facilities in an area where there is not sufficient demand to employ the efficient capacity of existing competitive enterprises unless the financial assistance will not have an adverse impact on existing competitive enterprises in the area. The Employment and Training Administration within the Department of Labor is responsible for the review and certification process. Comments should address the two bases for certification and, if possible, provide data to assist in the analysis of these issues. Signed: At Washington, DC, this 14th day of March 2011. Jane Oates, Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training. [FR Doc. 2011–6402 Filed 3–17–11; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4510–FN–P NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Advisory Committee for Mathematical and Physical Sciences; 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: Mathematical and Physical Sciences Advisory Committee (#66). Date/Time: April 7, 2010 8 a.m.–6 p.m., April 8, 2010 8 a.m.–3 p.m. Place: National Science Foundation, Room 1235, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington. Type of Meeting: Open. Contact Person: Dr. Morris L. Aizenman, Senior Science Associate, Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Room 1005, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22230. (703) 292–8807. Purpose of Meeting: To provide advice and recommendations concerning NSF science and education activities within the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences. Agenda: Update on current status of Directorate Report of MPS Committee of Visitors Report of NSF Advisory Working Groups Meeting of MPSAC with Divisions within MPS Directorate Discussion of MPS Long-term Planning Activities Summary Minutes: May be obtained from the contact person listed above. E:\FR\FM\18MRN1.SGM 18MRN1 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 53 / Friday, March 18, 2011 / Notices Dated: March 15, 2011. Susanne E. Bolton, Committee Management Officer. [FR Doc. 2011–6397 Filed 3–17–11; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7555–01–P NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [NRC–2011–0060; Docket No. 50–271; License No. DPR–28] Emcdonald on DSK2BSOYB1PROD with NOTICES In the Matter of Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee, LLC and Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.; Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station; Director’s Decision I. Introduction By letters dated January 12, 2010, from Mr. Michael Mulligan, February 8, 2010, from Mr. Raymond Shadis, and February 20, 2010, from Mr. Thomas Saporito, these individuals (collectively ‘‘Petitioners’’) filed separate petitions pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), Section 2.206, requesting the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the Commission) take actions with regard to the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station (VY). Mr. Mulligan requested in his petition that: (1) The radioactive leak into the environment of VY be immediately stopped, VY be immediately shut down, and all leaking paths be isolated; and (2) VY disclose its preliminary ‘‘root cause analysis,’’ and the NRC release its preliminary investigative report on that analysis before plant startup. Mr. Shadis on behalf of New England Coalition (NEC) requested in his petition that the NRC: (1) Require VY to go into cold shutdown and depressurize all systems in order to slow or stop the leak; (2) act promptly to stop or mitigate the leak(s); (3) require VY to reestablish its licensing basis by physically tracing records and reporting physical details of all plant systems that would be within scope as ‘‘Buried Pipes and Tanks,’’ in NUREG–1801, ‘‘Generic Aging Lessons Learned (GALL) Report,’’ and under the requirements of 10 CFR 50.54, ‘‘Conditions of licenses’’; (4) investigate and determine why Entergy has been allowed to operate VY since 2002 without a working knowledge of all plant systems and why the NRC’s Reactor Oversight Process (ROP) and review process for license renewal amendment did not detect this dereliction; (5) take notice of VY’s many maintenance and management failures (from 2000–2010) and the ROP’s failure to detect them early and undertake a full diagnostic evaluation team inspection using NRC Inspection Procedure 95003, VerDate Mar<15>2010 18:30 Mar 17, 2011 Jkt 223001 ‘‘Supplemental Inspection for Repetitive Degraded Cornerstones, Multiple Degraded Cornerstones, Multiple Yellow Inputs or One Red Input’’; and (6) require VY to apply for an amendment to its license renewal application that would address both aging analysis and aging management of all buried piping carrying or with the potential to carry radionuclides and/or the potential to interact with any safety or safety-related system. Mr. Saporito requested in his petition that the NRC: (1) Order a cold shutdown mode of operation for VY because of leaking radioactive tritium; and (2) issue a confirmatory order modifying the NRC-issued license for VY so that the licensee must bring the nuclear reactor to a cold shutdown mode of operation until the licensee can provide definitive reasonable assurance to the NRC, under affirmation, that the reactor will be operated in full compliance with the regulations in 10 CFR Part 50, ‘‘Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities,’’ and Appendix A, ‘‘General Design Criteria for Nuclear Power Plants,’’ to 10 CFR Part 50, Criterion 60, ‘‘Control of Releases of Radioactive Materials to the Environment,’’ and Criterion 64, ‘‘Monitoring Radioactivity Releases,’’ and other NRC regulations and authority. Mr. Shadis stated during a public teleconference with the PRB on March 3, 2010, that the tritium leak is just one example of many maintenance and management failures at VY. All three petitioners raised a concern regarding what they perceive as the NRC’s failure to examine the deficiencies at VY in an integrated manner. This concern has met the criteria for review in accordance with NRC’s Management Directive (MD) 8.11 ‘‘Review Process for 10 CFR 2.206 Petitions.’’ In an acknowledgment letter dated June 25, 2010, the petitioners were informed of the PRB’s decision to deny the request for an immediate cold shutdown of VY because the PRB did not identify any urgent safety concerns. The NRC also informed the petitioners that their petitions were consolidated per the guidance in MD 8.11. The consolidated petition was accepted for review for the following specific issues and concerns stated by the petitioners in the petitions and/or supplemented during the teleconferences: (1) Increasing concentrations of radiocontaminants in the soil and groundwater at VY, as well as an increasing area of contamination, are manifest on a daily basis. VY risks aggravating the contamination by continuing to run the reactor at full power while attempting over a period of PO 00000 Frm 00104 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 14997 a month to triangulate the location of a presumed leak by drilling a series of test wells in the affected area. (2) During the license renewal application proceeding, the licensee averred that it was unaware of the existence of some buried pipes, now uncovered, and it has yet to discover their path and purpose. (3) Entergy has, in 8 years of ownership, failed to learn and understand VY’s design, layout, and construction. This failure to comprehend and understand the layout, function, and potentially the interaction of the plant’s own piping systems constitutes a loss of design basis. (4) The NRC’s ROP has apparently failed to capture, anticipate, and prevent ongoing maintenance, engineering, quality assurance, and operation issues that have manifested themselves in a series of high-profile incidents since Entergy took over VY. The agency has repeatedly failed to detect root cause trends until they have, as in this instance, become grossly self-revealing. (5) The NRC should ensure that Entergy has adequate decommissioning funds. The tritium leak will increase decommissioning costs because of the need for site radiological examination and soil remediation. Copies of the petitions are available for inspection at the Commission’s Public Document Room (PDR) at One White Flint North, Room O1–F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland 20852, and from the NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Public Electronic Reading Room on the NRC Web site at https://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/adams.html under ADAMS Accession Nos. ML100190688, ML100470430, and ML100621374. Refer to NRC’s Management Directive 8.11, ‘‘Review Process for 10 CFR 2.206 Petitions,’’ (ADAMS Accession No. ML041770328), for a description of the petition review process. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who have problems in accessing the documents 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.resource@nrc.gov. II. Discussion On January 7, 2010, Entergy reported to the NRC that water samples taken from groundwater monitoring well GZ– 3 onsite at VY showed tritium levels above background. GZ–3 is about 70 feet from the Connecticut River. Tritium is another name for the radioactive nuclide hydrogen-3. Tritium occurs naturally in the environment because of cosmic ray interactions. It is also E:\FR\FM\18MRN1.SGM 18MRN1

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[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 53 (Friday, March 18, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14996-14997]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-6397]


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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION


Advisory Committee for Mathematical and Physical Sciences; 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: Mathematical and Physical Sciences Advisory Committee 
(66).
    Date/Time: April 7, 2010 8 a.m.-6 p.m., April 8, 2010 8 a.m.-3 
p.m.
    Place: National Science Foundation, Room 1235, 4201 Wilson 
Boulevard, Arlington.
    Type of Meeting: Open.
    Contact Person: Dr. Morris L. Aizenman, Senior Science 
Associate, Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Room 
1005, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, 
VA 22230. (703) 292-8807.
    Purpose of Meeting: To provide advice and recommendations 
concerning NSF science and education activities within the 
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences.
    Agenda:

Update on current status of Directorate
Report of MPS Committee of Visitors
Report of NSF Advisory Working Groups
Meeting of MPSAC with Divisions within MPS Directorate
Discussion of MPS Long-term Planning Activities

    Summary Minutes: May be obtained from the contact person listed 
above.


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    Dated: March 15, 2011.
Susanne E. Bolton,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2011-6397 Filed 3-17-11; 8:45 am]
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