[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 219 (Wednesday, November 13, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68101-68102]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-27135]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2013-0212: NRC-2013-0211]


Environmental Issues Associated With New Reactors and Specific 
Environmental Guidance for Integral Pressurized Water Reactors Reviews

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Draft interim staff guidance; re-opening of comment period.

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SUMMARY: On September 13, 2013, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(NRC) published a request for public comment on draft Interim Staff 
Guidance (ISG) ESP/COL-ISG 026, ``Interim Staff Guidance on 
Environmental Issues Associated with New Reactors'' and draft ISG ESP/
COL-ISG-027, ``Interim Staff Guidance on Specific Environmental 
Guidance for iPWR Reviews.'' The purpose of this ISG is to clarify the 
NRC guidance and application of NUREG-1555, Environmental Standard 
Review Plan: ``Standard Review Plans for Environmental Reviews for 
Nuclear Power Plants.'' The public comment period was originally 
scheduled to close on October 15, 2013. The Nuclear Energy Institute 
(NEI) submitted a letter on September 17, 2013 (Agencywide Documents 
Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML13268A343), 
requesting an extension of the public comment period until November 15, 
2013, on these two guidance documents. The NRC has decided to re-open 
the public comment period on these two ISG documents to allow more time 
for members of the public to assemble and submit their comments.

DATES: The comment period has been re-opened and now closes on November 
15, 2013. The NRC agreed to extend the comment period, but was unable 
to inform the public because of the furlough. 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 
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-2013-0212 for ESP/COL-
ISG-026 or NRC-2013-0211 for ESP/COL-ISG-027. Address questions about 
NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-3422; email: 
[email protected]. For technical questions, contact the 
individual(s) listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of 
this document.
     Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Chief, Rules, 
Announcements, and Directives Branch (RADB), Office of Administration, 
Mail Stop: 3WFN-06-44M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, 
DC 20555-0001.
    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: Tanya Hood, Office of New Reactors, 
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; 
telephone: 301-415-1387 or email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Accessing Information and Submitting Comments

A. Accessing Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2013-0212 when contacting the NRC 
about the availability of information regarding ESP/COL-ISG-026 or 
Docket ID NRC-2013-0211 when contacting the NRC about ESP/COL-ISG-027. 
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

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for Docket ID NRC-2013-0212 for ESP/COL-ISG-026 or NRC-2013-0211 for 
ESP/COL-ISG-027.
     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 notice (if that document is 
available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is 
referenced in this notice.
     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 the respective Docket ID 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 the appropriate 
docket.
    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 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.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day of November 2013.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Joseph Colaccino,
Chief Policy Branch, Division of Advanced Reactors and Rulemaking, 
Office of New Reactors.
[FR Doc. 2013-27135 Filed 11-12-13; 8:45 am]
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