[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 131 (Wednesday, July 9, 2014)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 38768-38769]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-15985]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
10 CFR Part 140
[NRC-2013-0072]
RIN 3150-AJ25
Inflation Adjustments to the Price-Anderson Act Financial
Protection Regulations; Corrections
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Correcting amendments.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Regulatory Commission (NRC) published a final rule in
the Federal Register on July 12, 2013, to amend its regulations to
satisfy a statutory requirement to adjust the maximum total and annual
standard deferred premiums specified in the Price-Anderson Act for
inflation at least once during each 5-year period following August 20,
2003. This correcting amendment makes a necessary conforming change to
a concomitant NRC regulation.
DATES: This rule is effective on July 9, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2013-0072 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of information for this final rule. You may
obtain publicly-available information related to this final rule by any
of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0072. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-
3422; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of
this final rule.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection 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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Purdie, Office of the Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC
20555-0001, telephone 301-415-0244, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NRC published a final rule in the
Federal Register on July 12, 2013 (78 FR 41835), that amended its
regulations at part 140 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations
(10 CFR) to satisfy the requirement in section 170t., ``Inflation
Adjustment,'' of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, to adjust
the maximum total and annual standard deferred premiums specified in
the Price-Anderson Act for inflation at least once during each 5-year
period following August 20, 2003. The final rule amended the numerical
dollar amounts of the deferred premiums listed in 10 CFR 140.11(a)(4).
A concomitant NRC regulation at 10 CFR 140.21 also states the numerical
dollar amount of the deferred premium, but was not amended in the final
rule. The regulations at 10 CFR 140.21 should cross-reference the
deferred premium as stated at 10 CFR 140.11(a)(4). This
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amendment corrects the final rule by making the conforming change.
Rulemaking Procedure
Under the Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. 553(b)), an agency
may waive the normal notice and comment requirements if it finds, for
good cause, that they are impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary to
the public interest. As authorized by 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(3)(B), the NRC
finds good cause to waive notice and opportunity for comment on the
amendments because they will have no substantive impact and are of a
minor and administrative nature dealing with corrections to certain CFR
sections related only to management, organization, procedure, and
practice. Specifically, these amendments are to make a conforming
change to the regulations to comply with a mandatory statutory
requirement. These amendments do not require action by any person or
entity regulated by the NRC. Also, this document does not change the
substantive responsibilities of any person or entity regulated by the
NRC. Furthermore, for the reasons stated, the NRC finds, in accordance
with 5 U.S.C. 553(d)(3), that good cause exists to make this rule
effective upon publication of this notice.
List of Subjects in 10 CFR Part 140
Criminal penalties, Extraordinary nuclear occurrence, Insurance,
Intergovernmental relations, Nuclear materials, Nuclear power plants
and reactors, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.
For the reasons set out in the preamble and under the authority of
the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended; the Energy Reorganization
Act of 1974, as amended; and 5 U.S.C. 552 and 553, the NRC is adopting
the following correcting amendments to 10 CFR part 140.
PART 140--FINANCIAL PROTECTION REQUIREMENTS AND INDEMNITY
AGREEMENTS
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1. The authority citation for part 140 continues to read as follows:
Authority: Atomic Energy Act secs. 161, 170, 223, 234 (42 U.S.C.
2201, 2210, 2273, 2282); Energy Reorganization Act secs. 201, as
amended, 202 (42 U.S.C. 5841, 5842); Government Paperwork
Elimination Act sec. 1704 (44 U.S.C. 3504 note); Energy Policy Act
of 2005, Pub. L. 109-58, 119 Stat. 594 (2005).
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2. Revise the introductory text of Sec. 140.21 to read as follows:
Sec. 140.21 Licensee guarantees of payment of deferred premiums.
Each licensee required to have and maintain financial protection
for each nuclear reactor as determined in Sec. 140.11(a)(4) shall at
the issuance of the license and annually, on the anniversary of the
date on which the indemnity agreement is effective, provide evidence to
the Commission that it maintains one of the following types of
guarantee of payment of deferred premium in the amount specified in
Sec. 140.11(a)(4) for each reactor it is licensed to operate:
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Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 2nd day of July, 2014.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Cindy Bladey,
Chief, Rules, Announcements, and Directives Branch. Office of
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2014-15985 Filed 7-8-14; 8:45 am]
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