12/30/2014 FR Notice for Management Fees

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83,367, Pixel Playground, Inc.,
Woodland Hills, California.
85,595, Quad/Graphics, Woodstock,
Illinois.
85,613, Midair, USA Inc., Rome, New
York.
85,619, Oracle America, Inc.,
Morrisville, North Carolina.
85,633, Microsoft, Calabasas, California.

Adjustment Assistance toll free at 888–
365–6822.
Signed at Washington DC, this 22nd day of
December 2014.
Michael W. Jaffe,
Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment
Assistance.
[FR Doc. 2014–30512 Filed 12–29–14; 8:45 am]

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Determinations Terminating
Investigations of Petitions for Worker
Adjustment Assistance
After notice of the petitions was
published in the Federal Register and
on the Department’s Web site, as
required by section 221 of the Act (19
U.S.C. 2271), the Department initiated
investigations of these petitions.
The following determinations
terminating investigations were issued
because the petitioner has requested
that the petition be withdrawn.
85,675, Hewlett Packard Company,
Corvallis, Oregon.
85,690, Apex Tool Group, LLC.,
Garland, Texas.
The following determinations
terminating investigations were issued
in cases where these petitions were not
filed in accordance with the
requirements of 29 CFR 90.11. Every
petition filed by workers must be signed
by at least three individuals of the
petitioning worker group. Petitioners
separated more than one year prior to
the date of the petition cannot be
covered under a certification of a
petition under section 223(b), and
therefore, may not be part of a
petitioning worker group. For one or
more of these reasons, these petitions
were deemed invalid.
85,673, Quantum Foods, Bolingbrook,
Illinois.
85,681, Atmel Corporation, Colorado
Springs, Colorado.
85,692, Honeywell, Canton,
Massachusetts.
The following determinations
terminating investigations were issued
because the petitioning groups of
workers are covered by active
certifications. Consequently, further
investigation in these cases would serve
no purpose since the petitioning group
of workers cannot be covered by more
than one certification at a time.
85,658, SMC Electrical Products, Inc.,
Delta, Colorado.
I hereby certify that the
aforementioned determinations were
issued during the period of December 8,
2014 through December 12, 2014. These
determinations are available on the
Department’s Web site www.tradeact/
taa/taa_search_form.cfm under the
searchable listing of determinations or
by calling the Office of Trade

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Notice and Request for Comments on
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Implementation of Proposed NSF
Management Fee Policy
National Science Foundation.
Notice and Request for
Comments on the National Science
Foundation (NSF) Implementation of
Proposed NSF Management Fee Policy.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

The payment of a small but
appropriate management fee has been a
long standing practice at the National
Science Foundation (NSF) in limited
circumstances related to the
construction and operation of major
facility projects. NSF is strengthening
both the criteria used to establish such
management fees and the controls that
may be necessary to ensure that uses of
fees are consistent with those
established criteria. These efforts have
resulted in a revised policy that we are
providing here for public comment.
DATES: Comments on the proposed NSF
Management Fee are welcome before
February 13, 2015. Comments will be
useful in shaping the agency’s
implementation. All comments received
before the close of the comment period
will be available for public inspection,
including any personally identifiable or
confidential business information that is
included. Because they will be made
public, comments should not include
any sensitive information. Please send
written comments regarding the
management fee policy to Suzanne
Plimpton, Reports Clearance Officer,
National Science Foundation, 4201
Wilson Blvd., Rm. 1265, Arlington, VA
22230, or by email to splimpto@nsf.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Suzanne Plimpton on (703) 292–7556 or
send email to splimpto@nsf.gov.
Individuals who 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: The
following proposed NSF Management
SUMMARY:

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Fee Policy can be found in the NSF
Large Facilities Manual:
Section 4.2.2.2 Management Fee
Management fee is an amount of
money paid to a recipient in excess of
a cooperative agreement’s or cooperative
support agreement’s allowable costs.
Generally, NSF does not pay profit or
fee to organizations under financial
assistance, except for the specific
exception of profits to commercial
organizations performing Small
Business Innovation Research (SBIR) or
Small Business Technology Transfer
(SBTR) work. However, a management
fee may be authorized for awards to
non-profit organizations in the limited
circumstance of construction or
operation of a large facility under an
NSF assistance award when the
organization has limited or no other
financial resources to cover certain
ordinary and necessary business
expenses that may not be reimbursable
under the governing cost principles.
When requested and justified by an
awardee and subsequently authorized
by NSF, management fee will be paid
once negotiated by the NSF Grants and
Agreements Officer. Any amount
negotiated shall be expressly set forth in
the terms and conditions of the award.
NSF recognizes the following criteria
for the negotiation and award of
management fee:
• Working capital necessary to fund
operations under an award
• Facilities capital necessary to
acquire assets for performance
• Amounts for other expenses that are
ordinary and necessary for business
operations but that are not otherwise
reimbursable under the governing cost
principles
Amounts for working capital may be
necessary to ensure a level of retained
earnings available to the organization in
order to secure credit and borrowing to
assure the financial health of the
organization. An amount for facilities
capital may be necessary to allow the
organization to acquire major assets and
to address expenses that require
immediate substantive financial outlays
but that are only reimbursed through
depreciation or amortization over a
period of years. Amounts for other
expenses that are ordinary and
necessary but not otherwise
reimbursable can provide a reasonable
allowance for management initiative
and investments that will directly or
indirectly benefit NSF. Examples of
potential appropriate needs include
contract terminations and losses, certain
appropriate educational and public
outreach activities, and providing
financial incentives to obtain and retain
high caliber staff. Amounts for this

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criterion warrant careful consideration
of the benefits that may be obtained by
NSF when providing management fee.
Although not an exhaustive list, the
following are examples of expenses that
do not benefit NSF:
• Alcoholic beverages
• Tickets to concerts, sporting and
other events
• Vacation or other travel for nonbusiness purposes
• Charitable contributions
• Social or sporting club
memberships
• Meals for non-business purposes or
so extravagant as to constitute
entertainment
• Luxury or personal items
• Lobbying as set forth in the Uniform
Guidance at 2 CFR 200.450
Costs that are otherwise reimbursable
as described in the Uniform Guidance at
Subpart E should not be included as
part of the management fee negotiation.
The fee proposal must provide
sufficient visibility into each criterion to
identify its intended purpose. The
proposal must also include a schedule
of all federal, non-federal, and other
sources of income to justify that
alternate sources of income are not
available to address potential needs
covered in the proposal. Agreement on
management fee amounts shall be
completed and a sum certain
established prior to the initiation of
work under an award or any subsequent
period not authorized as part of the
initial award. Recipients may draw
down management fee in proportion to
costs incurred during the performance
period. Fee established for a period
longer than one year shall be subject to
adjustment in the event of a significant
change to the budget or work scope.
Even though management fee
represents an amount in excess of cost
and therefore not subject to application
of the cost principles set forth at 2 CFR
part 200, subpart E, NSF maintains a
strong interest in how those monies are
used. Information on actual uses of
management fee previously awarded by
NSF in the preceding five-year period
under any award shall be included in
the proposing organization’s fee
proposal. For incumbent awardees, fee
proposals submitted in response to a
NSF program solicitation shall include
information regarding their management
fee usage under the preceding award(s).
NSF will examine the extent to which
awardee fee proposals have proven
reliable when compared with actual
uses of management fee. NSF will also
perform periodic reviews of
management fee usage under an award.
Repeated, unexplained failure to
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will result in reduction of future
management fee amounts under the
award.
Dated: December 19, 2014.
Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science
Foundation.
[FR Doc. 2014–30244 Filed 12–29–14; 8:45 am]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY
COMMISSION
[Docket No. 52–024; NRC–2008–0233]

Entergy Operations, Inc.; Combined
License Application for Grand Gulf
Station Unit 3 Exemption
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Exemption; issuance.
AGENCY:

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The
following sections include the text of
the exemption in its entirety as issued
to EOI.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is issuing an
exemption in response to an October 16,
2014, letter from Entergy Operations,
Inc. (EOI) which requested an
exemption to suspend maintaining the
Departures Report and the design
control document (DCD) Update Report
until December 31, 2015, or coincident
with resuming the review of the for
Grand Gulf Nuclear Station (GGNS)
Combined License (COL) application,
whichever comes first. The NRC staff
reviewed this request and determined
that it is appropriate to grant the
exemption.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID
NRC–2008-0233 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of
information regarding this document.
You may access publicly-available
information related to this action by the
following methods:
• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to
http://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2008-0233. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol
Gallagher; telephone: 301–287–3422;
email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For
technical questions, contact the
individual listed in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this
document.
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may access publicly
available documents online in the NRC
Library at http://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/adams.html. To begin the search,
select ‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and
then 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
SUMMARY:

email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The
ADAMS accession number for each
document referenced in this document
(if that document is available in
ADAMS) is provided the first time that
the document is referenced.
• 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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Lynnea Wilkins, Office of New Reactors,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone:
301–415–1377; email: Lynnea.Wilkins@
nrc.gov.

The NRC accepted for docketing the
Grand Gulf Nuclear Station Unit 3
(GGNS3) COL application on April 17,
2008 (ADAMS Accession No.
ML081050460, Docket No. 52–024). On
January 9, 2009, EOI requested that the
NRC temporarily suspend review of the
application and the NRC granted EOI’s
request (ADAMS Accession No.
ML090080523) while the application
remained docketed. On October 16,
2014, (ADAMS Accession No.
ML14289A520), EOI requested an
exemption from the requirements of 10
CFR part 52, Appendix E, Paragraphs
X.A.1, X.A.2, and X.B.3.b until
December 31, 2015 or coincident with
resuming the review of the for RBS3
COL application, whichever comes first.
II. Request/Action
10 CFR part 52, Appendix E,
Paragraph X.A.1 requires that the
applicant for this appendix shall
maintain a copy of the generic DCD
[design control document] that includes
all generic changes it makes to Tier 1
and Tier 2, and the generic TS and other
operational requirements. The applicant
shall maintain sensitive unclassified
non-safeguards information (including
proprietary information and securityrelated information) and safeguards
information referenced in the generic
DCD for the period that this appendix
may be referenced, as specified in
Section VII of this appendix.
10 CFR part 52, Appendix E,
Paragraph X.A.2 requires that an
applicant or licensee who references
this appendix shall maintain the plantspecific DCD to accurately reflect both
generic changes to the generic DCD and
plant-specific departures made under
Section VIII of this appendix throughout

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