[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 139 (Monday, July 21, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42379-42380]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-16986]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. NRC-2014-0083]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for the
Office of Management and Budget Review; Comment Request
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of the Office of Management and Budget review of
information collection and solicitation of public comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has recently
submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review the
following proposal for the collection of information under the
provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter
35). The NRC hereby informs potential respondents that an agency may
not conduct or sponsor, and that a person is not required to respond to
a collection of information, unless it displays a currently valid OMB
control number. The NRC published a Federal Register notice with a 60-
day comment period on this information collection on April 14, 2014.
1. Type of submission, new, revision, or extension: Extension.
2. The title of the information collection: Notice of Enforcement
Discretion (NOED) for Operating Power Reactors and Gaseous Diffusion
Plants (NRC Enforcement Policy).
3. Current OMB approval number: 3150-0136.
4. The form number if applicable: N/A.
5. How often the collection is required: On occasion.
6. Who will be required or asked to report: Those licensees that
voluntarily request enforcement discretion through the NOED process,
and are granted enforcement discretion.
7. An estimate of the number of annual responses: 20.
8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 12.
9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to
complete the requirement or request: 1,492.
10. Abstract: The NRC's Enforcement Policy includes the
circumstances in which the NRC may grant a NOED. On occasion,
circumstances arise when a power plant licensee's compliance with a
Technical Specification (TS) Limiting Condition for Operation or any
other license condition would involve an unnecessary plant shutdown.
Similarly, for a gaseous diffusion plant, circumstances may arise where
compliance with a Technical Safety Requirement (TSR) or other condition
would unnecessarily call for a total plant shutdown, or, compliance
would unnecessarily place the plant in a condition where safety,
safeguards, or security features were degraded or inoperable.
In these circumstances, a licensee or certificate holder may
request that the NRC exercise enforcement discretion, and the NRC staff
may choose to not enforce the applicable TS, TSR, or other
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license or certificate condition. This enforcement discretion is
designated as a NOED.
A licensee or certificate holder seeking the issuance of a NOED
must document the safety basis for the request, including an evaluation
of the safety significance and potential consequences of the proposed
request, a description of proposed compensatory measures, a
justification for the duration of the request, the basis for the
licensee's or certificate holder's conclusion that the request does not
have a potential adverse impact on the public health and safety, and
does not involve adverse consequences to the environment, and any other
information the NRC staff deems necessary before making a decision to
exercise discretion.
In addition, the NRC's Enforcement Policy includes a provision
allowing licensees to voluntarily adopt fire protection requirements
contained in the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Standard
805, ``Performance Based Standard for Fire Protection for Light-Water
Reactor Electric Generating Plants, 2001 Edition'' (NFPA 805).
Licensees who wish to implement the risk-informed process in NFPA 805
must submit a letter of intent to the NRC. Licensees who wish to
withdraw from the NFPA 805 risk informed process must submit a letter
of retraction.
The public may examine and have copied for a fee publicly-available
documents, including the final supporting statement, at the NRC's
Public Document Room, Room O-1F21, One White Flint North, 11555
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. The OMB clearance requests
are available at the NRC's Web site: http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/doc-comment/omb/. The document will be available on the NRC's home page
site for 60 days after the signature date of this notice.
Comments and questions should be directed to the OMB reviewer
listed below by August 20, 2014. Comments received after this date will
be considered if it is practical to do so, but assurance of
consideration cannot be given to comments received after this date.
Danielle Y. Jones, Desk Officer, Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs (3150-0136), NEOB-10202, Office of Management and Budget,
Washington, DC 20503.
Comments can also be emailed to [email protected] or
submitted by telephone at 202-395-1741.
The Acting NRC Clearance Officer is Brenda Miles, telephone: 301-
415-7884.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 15th day of July, 2014.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Brenda Miles,
Acting NRC Clearance Officer, Office of Information Services.
[FR Doc. 2014-16986 Filed 7-18-14; 8:45 am]
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