[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 111 (Monday, June 10, 2013)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 34604-34605]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-13684]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
10 CFR Part 50
[Docket No. PRM-50-107; NRC-2013-0077]
Submitting Complete and Accurate Information
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Petition for rulemaking; acceptance, docketing, and request for
comments.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is publishing for
comment a petition for rulemaking (PRM) filed with the Commission by
Mr. James Lieberman (the petitioner) on April 15, 2013. The petitioner
requests that the NRC expand its ``regulatory framework to make it a
legal obligation for those non-licensees who seek NRC regulatory
approvals be held to the same legal standards for the submittal of
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complete and accurate information as would a licensee or an applicant
for a license.''
DATES: Submit comments by August 26, 2013. Comments received after this
date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC is
able to assure consideration only for comments received on or before
this date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods
(unless this document describes a different method for submitting
comments on a specific subject):
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0077. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-492-
3668; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of
this document.
Email comments to: [email protected]. If you do
not receive an automatic email reply confirming receipt, then contact
us at 301-415-1677.
Fax comments to: Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission at 301-415-1101.
Mail comments to: Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, ATTN: Rulemakings and
Adjudications Staff.
Hand deliver comments to: 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville,
Maryland 20852, between 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. (Eastern Time) Federal
workdays; telephone: 301-415-1677.
For additional direction on accessing information and submitting
comments, see ``Accessing Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Manash Bagchi, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-2905, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Accessing Information and Submitting Comments
A. Accessing Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2013-0077 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information for this petition for rulemaking.
You may access information related to this petition for rulemaking,
which the NRC possesses and is publicly available, by any of the
following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0077.
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/reading-rm/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 email to [email protected]. The ADAMS accession number
for each document referenced in this document (if that document is
available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that a 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.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC-2013-0077 in the subject line of your
comment submission, in order to ensure that the NRC is able to make
your comment submission available to the public in this docket.
The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact
information that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in you
comment submission. The NRC will post all comment submissions at http://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 submissions into ADAMS.
The Petition
The NRC has received a PRM (ADAMS Accession No. ML13113A443)
requesting the NRC to revise its regulations at Sec. Sec. 50.1, 50.9,
52.0, and 52.6 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations to expand
its ``regulatory framework to make it a legal obligation for those non-
licensees who seek NRC regulatory approvals be held to the same legal
standards for the submittal of complete and accurate information as
would a licensee or an applicant for a license.''
The Petitioner
James Lieberman is a regulatory and nuclear safety consultant. The
petition states that Mr. Lieberman is submitting the petition ``based
on [his] own experiences as a former NRC employee and a consultant in
the nuclear industry.'' The petition further states that James
Lieberman was involved in the development of both the NRC rule on
completeness and accuracy of information and the NRC rule on deliberate
misconduct. The petition notes that Mr. Lieberman's interest is that
``the NRC should have a regulatory framework that requires persons who
seek NRC approval on regulatory matters to have a legal obligation to
provide materially complete and accurate information and be subject to
sanction for failure to meet those requirements.''
Request for Comment
The NRC has determined that the petition meets the threshold
sufficiency requirements for a petition for rulemaking under Sec.
2.802, ``Petition for rulemaking,'' and the petition has been docketed
as PRM-50-107. The full text of the incoming petition is available at
www.regualtions.gov by searching on Docket ID NRC-2013-0077 and in
ADAMS under Accession No. ML13113A443. The NRC is requesting public
comments on the petition for rulemaking.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day of June 2013.
Richard J. Laufer,
Acting Secretary of the Commission.
[FR Doc. 2013-13684 Filed 6-7-13; 8:45 am]
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