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Federal Register
Vol. 74, No. 50
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Vol. 74, No. 50
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
There are 3 announcements in this issue
1. ALL - ICR. EPA. Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Volunteer Customer Satisfaction Surveys; ICR Number 1711.06, OMB Control No. 2090-0019
2. ALL - ND/Comment Extension. OMB. Federal Regulatory Review; How to improve the process and principles governing Federal regulatory review
3. HAZ/Nuclear, ENERGY - ND. NRC. Notice of Issuance of Regulatory Guide; An Approach for Determining the Technical Adequacy of Probabilistic Risk Assessment Results for Risk-Informed Activities
CODES USED: THE FOLLOWING CODES ARE USED TO IDENTIFY THE TYPE OF ANNOUNCEMENT & ISSUE AREA.
REPORTING FORMAT: ISSUE CODE - TYPE CODE. AGENCY. ANNOUNCEMENT.
ISSUE CODES: AIR - Air; ALL - Cross-Media, ecosystems, Env. Justice; CLIMATE - Climate Change, Global Warming; DRINK - Drinking Water, SDWA, Underground Injection; ENERGY - Energy; GLAKES - Great Lakes; HAZ - Hazardous Waste, RCRA, HSWA, DOT/RSPA, Some Nuclear (NRC); LAND - Land Use, Forests; P2 - Pollution Prevention, Sustainability, Recycling, Pjt. XL; REMED - Remediation, Brownfields, Superfund; TANKS - AST, UST; TOXICS = Toxics, TRI, TSCA, Pesticides, Risks, RTK; TRANSPORT - Transportation; SOLID - Solid Waste, RCRA Subtitle D; WATER - Surface Water, NPS, NPDES, Wetlands; WILDLIFE = Wildlife, Biodiversity, Endangered Species.
TYPE CODES: ANPR - Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking; FR - Final Rule; FRD - Direct final rule; FRI - Interim final rule; ICR - Information Collection Request; ND - Notice of data, information, reports, etc. availability; NF - Notice of Fuding Opportunity; NM - Notice of Meeting; NS - Notice of administrative/court settlement; PR - Proposed Rule; ROD - Record of decision.
ANNOUNCEMENT 1
Subject: ALL - ICR. EPA. Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Volunteer Customer Satisfaction Surveys; ICR Number
1711.06, OMB Control No. 2090-0019
[Federal Register: March 17, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 50)]
[Notices]
[Page 11372-11373]
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OA-2006-0074; FRL-8782-4]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Volunteer Customer Satisfaction Surveys; ICR Number
1711.06, OMB Control No. 2090-0019
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that EPA is planning to
submit a request to renew an existing approved Information Collection
Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This ICR is
scheduled to expire on August 30, 2009. Before submitting the ICR to
OMB for review and approval, EPA is soliciting comments on specific
aspects of the proposed information collection as described below.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before May 18, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OA-
2006-0074 by one of the following methods:
www.regulations.gov: Follow the online instructions for
submitting comments.
E-mail: docket.oei@epa.gov.
Fax: 202-566-1753.
Mail: OEI Docket, Environmental Protection Agency,
Mailcode: 2822T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.
Hand Delivery: OEI Docket in the EPA Docket Center [EPA/
DC], EPA West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,
DC. The EPA Reading Room is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday
through Friday, excluding legal holidays. Such deliveries are only
accepted during the Docket's normal hours of operation, and special
arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patricia Bonner, National Center for
Environmental Innovation [Mail Code 1807T], Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone
number: 202-566-2204; fax number: 202-566-2200; e-mail address:
bonner.patricia@epa.gov.
[Notices]
[Page 11372-11373]
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OA-2006-0074; FRL-8782-4]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Volunteer Customer Satisfaction Surveys; ICR Number
1711.06, OMB Control No. 2090-0019
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this document announces that EPA is planning to
submit a request to renew an existing approved Information Collection
Request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This ICR is
scheduled to expire on August 30, 2009. Before submitting the ICR to
OMB for review and approval, EPA is soliciting comments on specific
aspects of the proposed information collection as described below.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before May 18, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OA-
2006-0074 by one of the following methods:
submitting comments.
Mailcode: 2822T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.
DC], EPA West, Room B102, 1301 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,
DC. The EPA Reading Room is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday
through Friday, excluding legal holidays. Such deliveries are only
accepted during the Docket's normal hours of operation, and special
arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patricia Bonner, National Center for
Environmental Innovation [Mail Code 1807T], Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone
number: 202-566-2204; fax number: 202-566-2200; e-mail address:
bonner.patricia@epa.gov.
ACCESS THE COMPLETE PUBLISHED ANNOUNCEMENT IN HTML OR PDF FORMATS AT:
ANNOUNCEMENT 2
Subject: ALL - ND/Comment Extension. OMB. Federal Regulatory Review; How to improve the process and principles governing Federal regulatory review
[Federal Register: March 17, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 50)]
[Notices]
[Page 11383-11384]
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
Federal Regulatory Review
AGENCY: Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the
President.
ACTION: Extension of request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
extends the deadline for public comments on how to improve the process
and principles governing Federal regulatory review.
DATES: Comments must be in writing and received by March 31, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments by one of the following methods:
E-mail: oira_submission@omb.eop.gov.
Fax: (202) 395-7245.
Mail: Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Records
Management Center, Office of Management and Budget, Attn: Mabel Echols,
10th Floor NEOB, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503. We are
still experiencing delays in the regular mail, including first class
and express mail. To ensure that your comments are received on time, we
recommend that comments be electronically submitted.
All comments submitted in response to this notice will be made
available to the public on OMB's Web site, http://www.reginfo.gov. For
this reason, please do not include in your comments information of a
confidential nature, such as sensitive personal information or
proprietary information. If you send an e-mail comment directly to OMB,
your e-mail address will be automatically captured and included as part
of the comment that is placed in the public docket and made available
on the Internet.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mabel Echols, Office of Information
and Regulatory Affairs, Records Management Center, Office of Management
and Budget, 10th Floor NEOB, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC
20503. Telephone: (202) 395-6880.
[Notices]
[Page 11383-11384]
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
Federal Regulatory Review
AGENCY: Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the
President.
ACTION: Extension of request for comments.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: The Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
extends the deadline for public comments on how to improve the process
and principles governing Federal regulatory review.
DATES: Comments must be in writing and received by March 31, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments by one of the following methods:
Management Center, Office of Management and Budget, Attn: Mabel Echols,
10th Floor NEOB, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503. We are
still experiencing delays in the regular mail, including first class
and express mail. To ensure that your comments are received on time, we
recommend that comments be electronically submitted.
All comments submitted in response to this notice will be made
available to the public on OMB's Web site, http://www.reginfo.gov. For
this reason, please do not include in your comments information of a
confidential nature, such as sensitive personal information or
proprietary information. If you send an e-mail comment directly to OMB,
your e-mail address will be automatically captured and included as part
of the comment that is placed in the public docket and made available
on the Internet.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mabel Echols, Office of Information
and Regulatory Affairs, Records Management Center, Office of Management
and Budget, 10th Floor NEOB, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC
20503. Telephone: (202) 395-6880.
ANNOUNCEMENT 3
Subject: HAZ/Nuclear, ENERGY - ND. NRC. Notice of Issuance of Regulatory Guide; An Approach for Determining the Technical Adequacy of Probabilistic Risk Assessment Results for Risk-Informed Activities
[Federal Register: March 17, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 50)]
[Notices]
[Page 11381-11382]
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2009-0117]
Notice of Issuance of Regulatory Guide
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of Issuance and Availability of Regulatory Guide 1.200,
Revision 2.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Drouin, Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001, telephone (301) 251-7574 or e-mail to Mary.Drouin@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a revision
to an existing guide in the agency's ``Regulatory Guide'' series. This
series was developed to describe and make available to the public
information such as methods that are acceptable to the NRC staff for
implementing specific parts of the agency's regulations, techniques
that the staff uses in evaluating specific problems or postulated
accidents, and data that the staff needs in its review of applications
for permits and licenses.
Revision 2 of Regulatory Guide 1.200, ``An Approach for Determining
the Technical Adequacy of Probabilistic Risk Assessment Results for
Risk-Informed Activities,'' was issued with a temporary identification
as Draft Regulatory Guide, DG-1200. In 1995, the NRC issued a Policy
Statement on the use of probabilistic risk analysis (PRA), encouraging
its use in all regulatory matters. That Policy Statement states that ``
* * * the use of PRA technology should be increased to the extent
supported by the state-of-the-art in PRA methods and data and in a
manner that complements the NRC's deterministic approach.'' Since that
time, many uses have been implemented or undertaken, including
modification of the NRC's reactor safety inspection program and
initiation of work to modify reactor safety regulations. Consequently,
confidence in the information derived from a PRA is an important issue,
in that the accuracy of the technical content must be sufficient to
justify the specific results and insights that are used to support the
decision under consideration.
This regulatory guide describes one acceptable approach for
determining whether the technical adequacy of the PRA, in total or the
parts that are used to support an application, is sufficient to provide
confidence in the results, such that the PRA can be used in regulatory
decision-making for light-water reactors. This guidance is intended to
be consistent with the NRC's PRA Policy Statement. It is also intended
to reflect and endorse guidance provided by standards-setting and
nuclear industry organizations.
[Notices]
[Page 11381-11382]
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2009-0117]
Notice of Issuance of Regulatory Guide
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of Issuance and Availability of Regulatory Guide 1.200,
Revision 2.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Drouin, Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001, telephone (301) 251-7574 or e-mail to Mary.Drouin@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a revision
to an existing guide in the agency's ``Regulatory Guide'' series. This
series was developed to describe and make available to the public
information such as methods that are acceptable to the NRC staff for
implementing specific parts of the agency's regulations, techniques
that the staff uses in evaluating specific problems or postulated
accidents, and data that the staff needs in its review of applications
for permits and licenses.
Revision 2 of Regulatory Guide 1.200, ``An Approach for Determining
the Technical Adequacy of Probabilistic Risk Assessment Results for
Risk-Informed Activities,'' was issued with a temporary identification
as Draft Regulatory Guide, DG-1200. In 1995, the NRC issued a Policy
Statement on the use of probabilistic risk analysis (PRA), encouraging
its use in all regulatory matters. That Policy Statement states that ``
* * * the use of PRA technology should be increased to the extent
supported by the state-of-the-art in PRA methods and data and in a
manner that complements the NRC's deterministic approach.'' Since that
time, many uses have been implemented or undertaken, including
modification of the NRC's reactor safety inspection program and
initiation of work to modify reactor safety regulations. Consequently,
confidence in the information derived from a PRA is an important issue,
in that the accuracy of the technical content must be sufficient to
justify the specific results and insights that are used to support the
decision under consideration.
This regulatory guide describes one acceptable approach for
determining whether the technical adequacy of the PRA, in total or the
parts that are used to support an application, is sufficient to provide
confidence in the results, such that the PRA can be used in regulatory
decision-making for light-water reactors. This guidance is intended to
be consistent with the NRC's PRA Policy Statement. It is also intended
to reflect and endorse guidance provided by standards-setting and
nuclear industry organizations.
ANNOUNCEMENT 4
Subject: MI/TRANSPORT - ND. DOT/FAA. Receipt of Noise Compatibility Program and Request for Review; Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, Detroit, MI
[Federal Register: March 17, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 50)]
[Notices]
[Page 11400]
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
Receipt of Noise Compatibility Program and Request for Review;
Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, Detroit, MI
AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announces that it is
reviewing a proposed noise compatibility program that was submitted for
Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport under the provisions of 49
U.S.C. 47504 et. seq (the Aviation Safety and Noise Abatement Act,
hereinafter referred to as ``the Act'') and 14 CFR part 150 by Wayne
County Airport Authority. This program was submitted subsequent to a
determination by FAA that associated noise exposure maps submitted
under 14 CFR part 150 for Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport
were in compliance with applicable requirements, effective March 7,
2006 and was published in the Federal Register on March 21, 2006. The
proposed noise compatibility program will be approved or disapproved on
or before August 29, 2009.
DATES: Effective Date: The effective date of the start of FAA's review
of the noise compatibility program is March 2, 2009. The public comment
period ends May 1, 2009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Ernest Gubry, Detroit Airports
District Office, 11677 South Wayne Road, Suite 107, Romulus, Michigan
48174, 734-229-2905. Comments on the proposed noise compatibility
program should also be submitted to the above office.
[Notices]
[Page 11400]
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
Receipt of Noise Compatibility Program and Request for Review;
Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, Detroit, MI
AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announces that it is
reviewing a proposed noise compatibility program that was submitted for
Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport under the provisions of 49
U.S.C. 47504 et. seq (the Aviation Safety and Noise Abatement Act,
hereinafter referred to as ``the Act'') and 14 CFR part 150 by Wayne
County Airport Authority. This program was submitted subsequent to a
determination by FAA that associated noise exposure maps submitted
under 14 CFR part 150 for Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport
were in compliance with applicable requirements, effective March 7,
2006 and was published in the Federal Register on March 21, 2006. The
proposed noise compatibility program will be approved or disapproved on
or before August 29, 2009.
DATES: Effective Date: The effective date of the start of FAA's review
of the noise compatibility program is March 2, 2009. The public comment
period ends May 1, 2009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Ernest Gubry, Detroit Airports
District Office, 11677 South Wayne Road, Suite 107, Romulus, Michigan
48174, 734-229-2905. Comments on the proposed noise compatibility
program should also be submitted to the above office.
