Agencies and Commissions October 26, 2011 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has announced the following appointments to the NRC Performance Review Boards. The following individuals are appointed as members of the NRC Performance Review Board (PRB) responsible for making recommendations to the appointing and awarding authorities on performance appraisal ratings and performance awards for Senior Executives and Senior Level employees: Darren B. Ash, Deputy Executive Director for Corporate Management, Office of the Executive Director for Operations. R.W. Borchardt, Executive Director for Operations. Stephen G. Burns, General Counsel. James E. Dyer, Chief Financial Officer. Kathryn O. Greene, Director, Office of Administration. Catherine Haney, Director, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. Eric J. Leeds, Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. Victor M. McCree, Regional Administrator, Region II. Annette L. Vietti-Cook, Secretary of the Commission, Office of the Secretary. Martin J. Virgilio, Deputy Executive Director for Reactor and Preparedness Programs, Office of the Executive Director for Operations. Michael F. Weber, Deputy Executive Director for Materials, Waste, Research, State, Tribal, and Compliance Programs, Office of the Executive Director for Operations. James T. Wiggins, Director, Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response. The following individuals will serve as members of the NRC PRB Panel that was established to review appraisals and make recommendations to the appointing and awarding authorities for NRC PRB members: Marvin L. Itzkowitz, Associate General Counsel for Hearings, Enforcement, and Administration, Office of the General Counsel. Michael R. Johnson, Director, Office of New Reactors. Mark A. Satorius, Director, Office of Federal and State Materials and Environmental Management Programs. All appointments are made pursuant to Section 4314 of Chapter 43 of Title 5 of the United States Code.

This document informs the public that an appeal of the closing of the Ardenvoir, Washington, post office has been filed. It identifies preliminary steps and provides a procedural schedule. Publication of this document will allow the Postal Service, petitioners, and others to take appropriate action.

The Commission has before it a petition for rulemaking filed by Community Television of Ohio License, LLC (``Community Television''), the licensee of station WJW (TV), channel 8, Cleveland, Ohio, requesting the substitution of channel 31 for channel 8 at Cleveland. Community Television is seeking the channel substitution because a sizeable number of the station's viewers in areas southwest of the station's transmitter were not able to receive the station's over-the-air signal after it terminated analog service on June 12, 2009, and commenced post-transition digital service on its VHF channel. Many viewers reporting difficulty receiving WJW (TV)'s signal report they have no difficulty receiving the UHF stations in the area. Channel 31 was selected because this was Community Television's pre-transition digital channel and it has retained much of the channel 31 transmission equipment.