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potential entitlement of 34 weeks will
increase to a maximum potential
entitlement of 47 weeks in the EUC08
program.
Information for Claimants
The duration of benefits payable in
the EUC program, and the terms and
conditions under which they are
payable, are governed by Public Laws
110–252, 110–449, 111–5, 111–92, 111–
118, 111–144, 111–157, 111–205 and
111–312, and the operating instructions
issued to the states by the U.S.
Department of Labor. Persons who
believe they may be entitled to
additional benefits under the EUC08
program, or who wish to inquire about
their rights under the program, should
contact their State Workforce Agency.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Scott Gibbons, U.S. Department of
Labor, Employment and Training
Administration, Office of
Unemployment Insurance, 200
Constitution Avenue, NW., Frances
Perkins Bldg. Room S–4231,
Washington, DC 20210, telephone
number (202) 693–3008 (this is not a
toll-free number) or by e-mail:
gibbons.scott@dol.gov.
Signed in Washington, DC, this 28th day of
March 2011.
Jane Oates,
Assistant Secretary, Employment and
Training Administration.
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AGENCY:
Announcement regarding
Pennsylvania’s triggering ‘‘off’’ Tier Four
of Emergency Unemployment
Compensation 2008 (EUC08).
Public Law 111–312 extended
provisions in Public Law 111–92 which
amended prior laws to create a Third
and Fourth Tier of benefits within the
EUC08 program for qualified
unemployed workers claiming benefits
in high unemployment states. The
Department of Labor produces a trigger
notice indicating which states qualify
for EUC08 benefits within Tiers Three
and Four and provides the beginning
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Information for Claimants
The duration of benefits payable in
the EUC program, and the terms and
conditions under which they are
payable, are governed by Public Laws
110–252, 110–449, 111–5, 111–92, 111–
118, 111–144, 111–157, 111–205 and
111–312, and the operating instructions
issued to the states by the U.S.
Department of Labor. Persons who
believe they may be entitled to
additional benefits under the EUC08
program, or who wish to inquire about
their rights under the program, should
contact their State Workforce Agency.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Announcement Regarding
Pennsylvania Triggering ‘‘Off’’ Tier
Four of Emergency Unemployment
Compensation 2008 (EUC08).
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and ending dates of payable periods for
each qualifying state. The trigger notice
covering state eligibility for the EUC08
program can be found at: https://
ows.doleta.gov/unemploy/
claims_arch.asp.
Based on data published March 10,
2011, by the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
the following trigger change has
occurred for Pennsylvania in the EUC08
program:
• The seasonally-adjusted total
unemployment rate for the 3-month
period ending January 2011 for
Pennsylvania fell below the 8.5%
threshold to remain ‘‘on’’ Tier Four of
the EUC08 program. As a result, the
payable period for Pennsylvania in Tier
Four of the EUC08 program will
conclude April 2, 2011, and the
maximum potential entitlement of 47
weeks will decrease to a maximum
potential entitlement of 34 weeks in the
EUC08 program.
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Scott Gibbons, U.S. Department of
Labor, Employment and Training
Administration, Office of
Unemployment Insurance, 200
Constitution Avenue, NW., Frances
Perkins Bldg., Room S–4231,
Washington, DC 20210, telephone
number (202) 693–3008 (this is not a
toll-free number) or by e-mail:
gibbons.scott@dol.gov.
Signed in Washington, DC, this 28th day of
March 2011.
Jane Oates,
Assistant Secretary, Employment and
Training Administration.
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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND
BUDGET
Draft 2011 Report to Congress on the
Benefits and Costs of Federal
Regulations
Office of Management and
Budget, Executive Office of the
President.
ACTION: Notice of availability and
request for comments.
AGENCY:
The Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) requests comments
on its Draft 2011 Report to Congress on
the Benefits and Costs of Federal
Regulations. The Draft Report is divided
into four chapters. Chapter I examines
the benefits and costs of major Federal
regulations issued in fiscal year 2010
and summarizes the benefits and costs
of major regulations issued between
October 2000 and September 2010. It
also discusses regulatory impacts on
State, local, and Tribal governments,
small business, wages, and economic
growth. Chapter II offers
recommendations for regulatory reform.
Chapter III provides an update on
implementation of the Information
Quality Act. Chapter IV summarizes
agency compliance with the Unfunded
Mandates Reform Act.
DATES: To ensure consideration of
comments as OMB prepares the final
version of this draft Report for
submission to Congress, comments must
be in writing and received by May 16,
2011. Comments on retrospective
analysis studies are particularly
appreciated by May 2, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments by one of
the following methods:
• E-mail:
Æ For comments on the Draft 2011
Report to Congress on the Benefits and
Costs of Federal Regulations: cbreport@omb.eop.gov.
Æ For comments on retrospective
analysis studies: retroanalysis@omb.eop.gov. Suggestions
about particular rules that should be
reevaluated, as well as studies of
particular rules, should be directed to
the agencies themselves.
• Fax: (202) 395–7285.
• Mail: Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget, NEOB, Room
10102, 725 17th Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20038. 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
submitted.
SUMMARY:
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All comments and recommendations
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 do not
include in your comments information
of a confidential nature, such as
sensitive personal information or
proprietary information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, NEOB, Room 10102, 725 17th
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503.
Telephone: (202) 395–3741.
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 be
subject to notice and comment and peer
review.
In this draft Report, available at:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/
inforeg_regpol_reports_congress/, OMB
offers the following recommendations:
1. Consistent with Executive Order 13563,
regulatory decisions and priority-setting
should be made in a way that is attentive to
the importance of promoting economic
growth, innovation, job creation, and
competitiveness.
2. Agencies should accompany all
economically significant regulations with (1)
a tabular presentation, placed prominently
and offering a clear statement of qualitative
and quantitative benefits and costs of the
proposed or planned action, together with (2)
a presentation of uncertainties and (3) similar
information for reasonable alternatives to the
proposed or planned action.
3. Agencies should continue to use
‘‘breakeven analysis’’ when quantification is
not possible, with such analysis defined as
the specification of how high the
unquantified or unmonetized benefits would
have to be in order for the benefits to justify
the costs.
4. Consistent with OMB Circular A–4, for
regulations intended to reduce mortality
risks, agencies should consider the use of
cost-effectiveness analysis and, specifically,
the development of estimates for the ‘‘net cost
per life saved.’’
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5. Consistent with Executive Order 13563,
and in particular the emphasis on ‘‘the open
exchange of information and perspectives
among state, local, and tribal officials,
experts in relevant disciplines, affected
stakeholders in the private sector, and the
public as a whole,’’ agencies should promote
public participation and transparency
through the use of regulations.gov and other
technological means.
6. In order to promote trade and exports,
agencies should promote regulatory
cooperation initiatives alongside key trading
partners.
Consistent with Executive Order
13563, OMB is especially interested in
how to improve retrospective analysis of
existing rules. OMB requests
information about published and
unpublished studies, conceptual and
empirical, involving such retrospective
analysis. OMB also requests suggestions
about how to improve understanding of
the accuracy of prospective analyses of
rules and how to undertake
retrospective analysis. Methodological
suggestions are particularly welcome.
Suggestions about particular rules that
should be reevaluated, as well as studies
of particular rules, should be directed to
the agencies themselves.
Cass R. Sunstein,
Administrator, Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs.
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC, the Commission) has
issued renewed Facility License No. R–
74, held by the University of Wisconsin
(the licensee), which authorizes
continued operation of the University of
Wisconsin Nuclear Reactor (UWNR),
located in Madison, Dane County,
Wisconsin. The UWNR is a pool-type,
light-water-moderated and cooled
TRIGA (Training, Research, Isotope
Production, General Atomics) reactor
licensed to operate at a steady-state
power levels up to and including
1 megawatt thermal and short duration
power pulses with reactivity insertions
up to 1.4% Dk/k. The renewed Facility
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midnight 20 years from its date of
issuance.
The renewed facility license complies
with the standards and requirements of
the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as
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amended (the Act), and the
Commission’s rules and regulations.
The Commission has made appropriate
findings as required by the Act and the
Commission’s regulations in Title 10,
Chapter 1, ‘‘Nuclear Regulatory
Commission,’’ of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR), and sets forth
those findings in the renewed facility
license. The agency afforded an
opportunity for hearing in the Notice of
Opportunity for Hearing published in
the Federal Register on June 18, 2010
(75 FR 34769–34774). The NRC received
no request for a hearing or petition for
leave to intervene following the notice.
The NRC staff prepared a safety
evaluation report for the renewal of
Facility License No. R–74 and
concluded, based on that evaluation, the
licensee can continue to operate the
facility without endangering the health
and safety of the public. The NRC staff
also prepared an Environmental
Assessment and Finding of No
Significant Impact for the renewal of the
facility license, noticed in the Federal
Register on September 16, 2010 (75 FR
56597–56601), and concluded that
renewal of the facility license will not
have a significant impact on the quality
of the human environment.
For details with respect to the
application for renewal, see the
licensee’s letter dated May 9, 2000
(ML093570404), as supplemented on
September 7, 2004 (ML093570441);
October 17, 2008 (ML100740573); June
16, 2010 (two letters, ML101690137 and
ML101690083), July 8, 2010
(ML102110051), August 11, 2010
(ML102320209), November 22, 2010
(ML103300040), December 8, 2010
(ML103480028); January 28, 2011
(ML110340310), and February 8, 2011
(ML110410534). Documents may be
examined, and/or copied for a fee, at the
NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR),
located at One White Flint North, 11555
Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville,
Maryland. Publicly available records
will be accessible electronically from
the Agencywide Documents Access and
Management System (ADAMS) Public
Electronic Reading Room on the NRC
Web site, https://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/adams.html. Persons who do not
have access to ADAMS or who
encounter problems in accessing the
documents located in ADAMS should
contact the NRC PDR Referencestaff at
1–800–397–4209 or 301–415–4737, or
send an e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 25th day
of March 2011.
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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
Draft 2011 Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs 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 Draft 2011 Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs of Federal
Regulations. The Draft Report is divided into four chapters. Chapter I
examines the benefits and costs of major Federal regulations issued in
fiscal year 2010 and summarizes the benefits and costs of major
regulations issued between October 2000 and September 2010. It also
discusses regulatory impacts on State, local, and Tribal governments,
small business, wages, and economic growth. Chapter II offers
recommendations for regulatory reform. Chapter III provides an update
on implementation of the Information Quality Act. Chapter IV summarizes
agency compliance with the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act.
DATES: To ensure consideration of comments as OMB prepares the final
version of this draft Report for submission to Congress, comments must
be in writing and received by May 16, 2011. Comments on retrospective
analysis studies are particularly appreciated by May 2, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments by one of the following methods:
E-mail:
[cir] For comments on the Draft 2011 Report to Congress on the
Benefits and Costs of Federal Regulations: cb-report@omb.eop.gov.
[cir] For comments on retrospective analysis studies: retro-analysis@omb.eop.gov. Suggestions about particular rules that should be
reevaluated, as well as studies of particular rules, should be directed
to the agencies themselves.
Fax: (202) 395-7285.
Mail: Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office
of Management and Budget, NEOB, Room 10102, 725 17th Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20038. 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 submitted.
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All comments and recommendations 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 do not include in your
comments information of a confidential nature, such as sensitive
personal information or proprietary information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, NEOB, Room 10102, 725 17th
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503. Telephone: (202) 395-3741.
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 be subject to notice and comment
and peer review.
In this draft Report, available at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/inforeg_regpol_reports_congress/, OMB offers the following
recommendations:
1. Consistent with Executive Order 13563, regulatory decisions
and priority-setting should be made in a way that is attentive to
the importance of promoting economic growth, innovation, job
creation, and competitiveness.
2. Agencies should accompany all economically significant
regulations with (1) a tabular presentation, placed prominently and
offering a clear statement of qualitative and quantitative benefits
and costs of the proposed or planned action, together with (2) a
presentation of uncertainties and (3) similar information for
reasonable alternatives to the proposed or planned action.
3. Agencies should continue to use ``breakeven analysis'' when
quantification is not possible, with such analysis defined as the
specification of how high the unquantified or unmonetized benefits
would have to be in order for the benefits to justify the costs.
4. Consistent with OMB Circular A-4, for regulations intended to
reduce mortality risks, agencies should consider the use of cost-
effectiveness analysis and, specifically, the development of
estimates for the ``net cost per life saved.''
5. Consistent with Executive Order 13563, and in particular the
emphasis on ``the open exchange of information and perspectives
among state, local, and tribal officials, experts in relevant
disciplines, affected stakeholders in the private sector, and the
public as a whole,'' agencies should promote public participation
and transparency through the use of regulations.gov and other
technological means.
6. In order to promote trade and exports, agencies should
promote regulatory cooperation initiatives alongside key trading
partners.
Consistent with Executive Order 13563, OMB is especially interested
in how to improve retrospective analysis of existing rules. OMB
requests information about published and unpublished studies,
conceptual and empirical, involving such retrospective analysis. OMB
also requests suggestions about how to improve understanding of the
accuracy of prospective analyses of rules and how to undertake
retrospective analysis. Methodological suggestions are particularly
welcome. Suggestions about particular rules that should be reevaluated,
as well as studies of particular rules, should be directed to the
agencies themselves.
Cass R. Sunstein,
Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2011-7504 Filed 3-29-11; 4:15 pm]
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