Sunshine Act Meetings; National Science Board, 9812-9813 [2020-02793]

Download as PDF lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with NOTICES 9812 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 34 / Thursday, February 20, 2020 / Notices use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1– 800–877–8339, which is accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year (including Federal holidays). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title of Collection: Grantee Reporting Requirements for the Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation Program. OMB Number: 3145–0233. Expiration Date of Approval: June 30, 2020. Type of Request: Revision to and extension of approval of an information collection. Proposed Project: The Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) program recommends, prioritizes, and funds interdisciplinary initiatives at the emerging frontier of engineering research and education. These investments represent transformative opportunities, potentially leading to: new research areas for NSF, ENG, and other agencies; new industries or capabilities that result in a leadership position for the country; and/or significant progress on a recognized national need or grand challenge. Established in 2007, EFRI supports cutting-edge research that is difficult to fund through other NSF programs, such as single-investigator grants or large research centers. EFRI seeks high-risk opportunities with the potential for a large payoff where researchers are encouraged to stretch beyond their ongoing activities. Based on input from workshops, advisory committees, technical meetings, professional societies, research proposals, and suggestions from the research community, the EFRI program identifies those emerging opportunities and manages a formal process for funding their research. The emerging ideas tackled by EFRI are ‘‘frontier’’ because they not only push the understood limits of engineering but actually overlap multiple fields. The EFRI funding process inspires investigators with different expertise to work together on one emerging concept. EFRI awards require multidisciplinary teams of at least one Principal Investigator and two CoPrincipal Investigators. The anticipated duration of all awards is 4-years. With respect to the anticipated funding level, each project team may receive support of up to a total of $2,000,000 spread over four years, pending the availability of funds. In this respect, EFRI awards are above the average single-investigator award amounts. EFRI-funded projects could include research opportunities and mentoring VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:48 Feb 19, 2020 Jkt 250001 for educators, scholars, and university students, as well as outreach programs that help stir the imagination of K–12 students, often with a focus on groups underrepresented in science and engineering. We are seeking to collect additional information from the grantees about the outcomes of their research that goes above and beyond the standard reporting requirements used by the NSF and spans over a period of 5 years after the award. This data collection effort will enable program officers to longitudinally monitor outputs and outcomes given the unique goals and purpose of the program. This is very important to enable appropriate and accurate evidence-based management of the program and to determine whether or not the specific goals of the program are being met. Grantees will be requested to submit this information on an annual basis to support performance review and the management of EFRI grants by EFRI officers. EFRI grantees will be requested to submit these indicators to NSF via a data collection website that will be embedded in NSF’s IT infrastructure. These indicators are both quantitative and descriptive and may include, for example, the characteristics of project personnel and students; sources of complementary funding and in-kind support to the EFRI project; characteristics of industrial and/or other sector participation; research activities; education activities; knowledge transfer activities; patents, licenses; publications; descriptions of significant advances and other outcomes of the EFRI effort. Each submission will address the following major categories of activities: (1) Knowledge transfer across disciplines, (2) innovation of ideas in areas of great opportunity, (3) potential for translational research, (4) project results that advance the frontier/ creation of new fields of study, (5) introduction to the classroom of innovative research methods or discoveries, (6) fostering participation of underrepresented groups in science, and (7) impacting student career trajectory. For each of the categories, the report will enumerate specific outputs and outcomes. Use of the Information: The data collected will be used for NSF internal reports, historical data, and performance review by peer site visit teams, program level studies and evaluations, and for securing future funding for continued EFRI program maintenance and growth. Estimate of Burden: Approximately 7 hours per grant for approximately 100 PO 00000 Frm 00092 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 grants per year for a total of 700 hours per year. Respondents: Principal Investigators who lead the EFRI grants, and coPrincipal Investigators and students involved in EFRI-funded research. Estimated Number of Responses per Report: One report collected for each of the approximately 100 grantees every year, including sub-reports from co-PIs and student researchers. Dated: February 14, 2020. Suzanne H. Plimpton, Reports Clearance Officer, National Science Foundation. [FR Doc. 2020–03356 Filed 2–19–20; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7555–01–P NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Sunshine Act Meetings; National Science Board The National Science Board (NSB), pursuant to NSF regulations (45 CFR part 614), the National Science Foundation Act, as amended, (42 U.S.C. 1862n–5), and the Government in the Sunshine Act (5 U.S.C. 552b), hereby gives a correction to the scheduling of a previously noticed meeting for the transaction of NSB business as described below. FEDERAL REGISTER CITATION OF PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENT: The meeting was originally noticed in the Federal Register on January 30, 2020 at 85 FR 5486. PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED TIME AND DATE OF THE MEETING: Original Committee on Oversight (CO) Agenda Wednesday, February 5, 2020 Open session: 2:30–3:00 p.m. • Committee Chair’s Remarks • Approval of Prior Open Minutes • Merit Review Digest and Update on Modernization • Discussion and vote on NSB Preface to Merit Review Digest • OIG Semiannual Report and Management Response • Inspector General’s Update • Chief Financial Officer’s Update CHANGES IN THE MEETING: Corrected Committee on Oversight (CO) Agenda Wednesday, February 5, 2020 Open session: 2:30–3:00 p.m. • Committee Chair’s Remarks • Approval of Prior Open Minutes • Merit Review Digest and Update on Modernization E:\FR\FM\20FEN1.SGM 20FEN1 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 34 / Thursday, February 20, 2020 / Notices • Discussion and vote on NSB Preface to Merit Review Digest • Inspector General’s Update • Chief Financial Officer’s Update CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: The NSB Office contact is Brad Gutierrez, bgutierr@nsf.gov, 703/292– 7000. Chris Blair, Executive Assistant to the National Science Board Office. [FR Doc. 2020–02793 Filed 2–18–20; 4:15 pm] BILLING CODE 7555–01–P NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [Docket Nos. 50–445 and 50–446; NRC– 2020–0038] Vistra Operations Company LLC; Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2 Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: License amendment application; opportunity to comment, request a hearing, and petition for leave to intervene. AGENCY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering issuance of amendments to Facility Operating License Nos. NPF–87 and NPF–89, issued to Vistra Operations Company LLC (the licensee), for operation of the Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2. The proposed amendments would revise Technical Specification (TS) 3.4.15, ‘‘RCS [Reactor Coolant System] Leakage Detection Instrumentation,’’ to align with the Standard Technical Specifications (STS) for Westinghouse Plants and incorporate the changes made by Technical Specifications Task Force (TSTF) Traveler TSTF–513, Revision 3, ‘‘Revise PWR [PressurizedWater Reactor] Operability Requirements and Actions for RCS Leakage Instrumentation.’’ DATES: Submit comments by March 23, 2020. 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 before this date. Requests for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene must be filed by April 20, 2020. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods: • Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC–2020–0038. Address questions about NRC docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Jennifer Borges; lotter on DSKBCFDHB2PROD with NOTICES SUMMARY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:48 Feb 19, 2020 Jkt 250001 telephone: 301–287–9127; email: Jennifer.Borges@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document. • Mail comments to: Office of Administration, Mail Stop: TWFN–7– A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 0001, ATTN: Program Management, Announcements and Editing Staff. For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting comments, see ‘‘Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments’’ in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dennis J. Galvin, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415– 6256, email: Dennis.Galvin@nrc.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments A. Obtaining Information Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2020– 0038 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain publiclyavailable information related to this action by any of the following methods: • Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC–2020–0038. • NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable documents online in the ADAMS Public Documents collection at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ adams.html. To begin the search, select ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.’’ For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301– 415–4737, or by email to pdr.resource@ nrc.gov. The ADAMS accession number for each document referenced (if it is available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that it is mentioned in this document. • NRC’s PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public documents at the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. B. Submitting Comments Please include Docket ID NRC–2020– 0038 in your comment submission. The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact information that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your comment submission. The NRC will post all comment PO 00000 Frm 00093 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 9813 submissions at https:// www.regulations.gov as well as enter the comment submissions into ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to remove identifying or contact information. If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons for submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to include identifying or contact information that they do not want to be publicly disclosed in their comment submission. Your request should state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to remove such information before making the comment submissions available to the public or entering the comment into ADAMS. II. Introduction The NRC is considering issuance of amendments, as described in Vistra Operations Company LLC’s (Vistra OpCo, the licensee) license amendment request dated November 7, 2019 (ADAMS Accession No. ML19325C593), to Facility Operating License Nos. NPF– 87 and NPF–89, issued to Vistra OpCo, for operation of the Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2, located in Somervell County, Texas. The proposed amendments would revise TS 3.4.15, ‘‘RCS Leakage Detection Instrumentation’’ to align with the STS for Westinghouse Plants and incorporate the changes made by TSTF–513, Revision 3. Before any issuance of the proposed license amendments, the NRC will need to make the findings required by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and NRC’s regulations. The NRC has made a proposed determination that the license amendment request involves no significant hazards consideration. Under the NRC’s regulations in section 50.92 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), this means that operation of the facility in accordance with the proposed amendment would not (1) involve a significant increase in the probability or consequences of an accident previously evaluated; or (2) create the possibility of a new or different kind of accident from any accident previously evaluated; or (3) involve a significant reduction in a margin of safety. As required by 10 CFR 50.91(a), the licensee has provided its analysis of the issue of no significant hazards consideration, which is presented below with NRC edits in [brackets]. 1. Does the proposed change involve a significant increase in the probability or consequences of an accident previously evaluated? E:\FR\FM\20FEN1.SGM 20FEN1

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[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 34 (Thursday, February 20, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9812-9813]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-02793]


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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION


Sunshine Act Meetings; National Science Board

    The National Science Board (NSB), pursuant to NSF regulations (45 
CFR part 614), the National Science Foundation Act, as amended, (42 
U.S.C. 1862n-5), and the Government in the Sunshine Act (5 U.S.C. 
552b), hereby gives a correction to the scheduling of a previously 
noticed meeting for the transaction of NSB business as described below.

FEDERAL REGISTER CITATION OF PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENT:  The meeting was 
originally noticed in the Federal Register on January 30, 2020 at 85 FR 
5486.

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED TIME AND DATE OF THE MEETING: 

Original Committee on Oversight (CO) Agenda

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Open session: 2:30-3:00 p.m.
 Committee Chair's Remarks
 Approval of Prior Open Minutes
 Merit Review Digest and Update on Modernization
     Discussion and vote on NSB Preface to Merit Review Digest
 OIG Semiannual Report and Management Response
 Inspector General's Update
 Chief Financial Officer's Update

CHANGES IN THE MEETING: 

Corrected Committee on Oversight (CO) Agenda

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Open session: 2:30-3:00 p.m.
 Committee Chair's Remarks
 Approval of Prior Open Minutes
 Merit Review Digest and Update on Modernization

[[Page 9813]]

     Discussion and vote on NSB Preface to Merit Review Digest
 Inspector General's Update
 Chief Financial Officer's Update

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:  The NSB Office contact is Brad 
Gutierrez, [email protected], 703/292-7000.

Chris Blair,
Executive Assistant to the National Science Board Office.
[FR Doc. 2020-02793 Filed 2-18-20; 4:15 pm]
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