[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 245 (Monday, December 22, 2014)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 76856-76859]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-28992]



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Vol. 79

Monday,

No. 245

December 22, 2014

Part XXIV





Nuclear Regulatory Commission





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Semiannual Regulatory Agenda

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2014-0039]

10 CFR Chapter I


Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Semiannual regulatory agenda.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is publishing its 
semiannual regulatory agenda (the Agenda) in accordance with Public Law 
96-354, ``The Regulatory Flexibility Act,'' and Executive Order 12866, 
``Regulatory Planning and Review.'' The Agenda is a compilation of all 
rules on which the NRC has recently completed action or has proposed or 
is considering action. This issuance of the NRC's Agenda contains 60 
rulemaking activities: 3 are Economically Significant; 11 represent 
Other Significant agency priorities; 45 are Substantive, Nonsignificant 
rulemaking activities; and one is an Administrative rulemaking 
activity. This issuance updates any action occurring on rules since 
publication of the last semiannual regulatory agenda on June 13, 2014 
(79 FR 34204). The NRC is requesting comment on its rulemaking 
activities as identified in this Agenda. The complete Agenda will be 
available online at www.reginfo.gov, in a format that offers users 
enhanced ability to obtain information from the Agenda database.

DATES: Submit comments on this agenda by January 21, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments on any rule in the Agenda by the date and 
methods specified in the proposed rule notice. Comments received on 
rules for which the comment period has closed will be considered if it 
is practical to do so, but assurance of consideration cannot be given 
except as to comments received on or before the closure dates specified 
in the proposed rule. You may submit comments on this Agenda through 
the Federal Rulemaking Web site by going to http://www.regulations.gov 
and searching for Docket ID NRC-2014-0039. Address questions about NRC 
dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-3422; email: 
[email protected]. For technical questions on any rule listed in 
the Agenda, contact the individual listed under the heading ``Agency 
Contact'' for that rule.
    For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting 
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cindy Bladey, Office of 
Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001, telephone: 301-287-0949; email: [email protected]. 
Persons outside the Washington, DC, metropolitan area may call, toll-
free: 1-800-368-5642. For further information on the substantive 
content of any rule listed in the Agenda, contact the individual listed 
under the heading ``Agency Contact'' for that rule.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2014-0039 when contacting the NRC 
about the availability of information for this document. You may obtain 
publically-available information related to this document by any of the 
following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2014-0039.
     NRC's Public Web site: Go to http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/rulemaking-ruleforum/unified-agenda.html and select 
fall 2014.
     NRC's Public Document Room: 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-2014-0039 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 in comment submissions 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, and 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 into ADAMS.

Introduction

    The information contained in this semiannual publication is updated 
to reflect any action that has occurred on rules since publication of 
the last NRC Agenda on June 13, 2014 (79 FR 34204). Within each group, 
the rules are ordered according to the Regulation Identifier Number 
(RIN).
    The information in this Agenda has been updated through September 
18, 2014. The date for the next scheduled action under the heading 
``Timetable'' is the date the rule is scheduled to be published in the 
Federal Register. The date is considered tentative and is not binding 
on the Commission or its staff. The Agenda is intended to provide the 
public early notice and opportunity to participate in the NRC 
rulemaking process. However, the NRC may consider or act on any 
rulemaking even though it is not included in the Agenda.
    The NRC Agenda lists all open rulemaking actions. Three rules 
impact small entities.

Common Prioritization of Rulemaking

    The NRC has a process for developing rulemaking budget estimates 
and determining the relative priorities of rulemaking projects during 
budget formulation. This process produces a ``Common Prioritization of 
Rulemaking'' (CPR). The NRC adds new rules and evaluates rule 
priorities annually. The CPR process considers four factors and assigns 
a score to each factor. Those factors include (1) support for the NRC's 
Strategic Plan goals; (2) support for the Strategic Plan organizational 
excellence objectives; (3) a governmental factor representing interest 
to the NRC, Congress, or other governmental bodies; and (4) an external 
factor representing interest to members of the public, non-governmental 
organizations, the nuclear industry, vendors, and suppliers.
    The NRC's fall Agenda contains its annual regulatory plan, which 
includes a statement of the major rules that the Commission expects to 
publish in the coming fiscal year (FY) and a description of the other 
significant regulatory priorities from the CPR that the Commission 
expects to work on during the coming FY and beyond.
    The NRC has received comments from the Nuclear Energy Institute 
(NEI) with several recommendations for improving the NRC's rulemaking 
prioritization process and assessing the cumulative impact of 
rulemaking activities on each

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regulated community. The NRC is considering these comments and will 
respond in a future Agenda.

Section 610 Periodic Reviews Under the Regulatory Flexibility Act

    Section 610 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) requires 
agencies to conduct a review within 10 years of promulgation of those 
regulations that have or will have a significant economic impact on a 
substantial number of small entities. The NRC undertakes these reviews 
to decide whether the rules should be unchanged, amended, or withdrawn. 
At this time, the NRC does not have any rules that have a significant 
economic impact on a substantial number of small entities; therefore, 
the NRC has not included any RFA Section 610 periodic reviews in this 
edition of the Agenda. A complete listing of NRC regulations that 
impact small entities and related Small Entity Compliance Guides will 
be available from the NRC's Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/regulatory/rulemaking/flexibility-act/small-entities.html.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day of September 2014.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Cindy Bladey,
Chief, Rules, Announcements, and Directives Branch, Division of 
Administrative Services, Office of Administration.

           Nuclear Regulatory Commission--Proposed Rule Stage
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                                                           Regulation
       Sequence No.                    Title             Identifier  No.
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553.......................  Revision of Fee Schedules:         3150-AJ44
                             Fee Recovery for FY 2015
                             [NRC-2014-0200] (Reg Plan
                             Seq No. 159).
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References in boldface appear in The Regulatory Plan in part II of this
  issue of the Federal Register.


            Nuclear Regulatory Commission--Long-Term Actions
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                                                           Regulation
       Sequence No.                    Title             Identifier  No.
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554.......................  Controlling the                    3150-AH18
                             Disposition of Solid
                             Materials [NRC-1999-0002].
555.......................  Variable Annual Fee                3150-AI54
                             Structure for Small
                             Modular Power Reactors
                             [NRC-2008-0664].
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            Nuclear Regulatory Commission--Completed Actions
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                                                           Regulation
       Sequence No.                    Title             Identifier  No.
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556.......................  Revision of Fee Schedules:         3150-AJ32
                             Fee Recovery for FY 2014
                             [NRC-2013-0276].
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (NRC)

Proposed Rule Stage

553.  Revision of Fee Schedules: Fee Recovery for FY 2015 [NRC-
2014-0200]

    Regulatory Plan: This entry is Seq. No. 159 in part II of this 
issue of the Federal Register.
    RIN: 3150-AJ44

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (NRC)

Long-Term Actions

554. Controlling the Disposition of Solid Materials [NRC-1999-0002]

    Legal Authority: 42 U.S.C. 2201; 42 U.S.C. 5841
    Abstract: The NRC staff provided a draft proposed rule package on 
Controlling the Disposition of Solid Materials to the Commission on 
March 31, 2005, which the Commission disapproved (ADAMS Accession 
Number: ML051520285). The rulemaking package included a summary of 
stakeholder comments (NUREG/CR-6682), Supplement 1 (ADAMS Accession 
Number: ML003754410). The Commission's decision was based on the fact 
that the Agency is currently faced with several high priority and 
complex tasks, that the current approach to review specific cases on an 
individual basis is fully protective of public health and safety, and 
that the immediate need for this rule has changed due to the shift in 
timing for reactor decommissioning. The Commission has deferred action 
on this rulemaking.
    Timetable:

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               Action                    Date            FR Cite
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ANPRM...............................           To Be Determined
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    Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Yes.
    Agency Contact: Solomon Sahle, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Office of Federal and State Materials and Environmental Management 
Programs, Washington, DC 20555-0001, Phone: 301 415-3781, Email: 
[email protected].
    RIN: 3150-AH18

555. Variable Annual Fee Structure for Small Modular Power Reactors 
[NRC-2008-0664]

    Legal Authority: 42 U.S.C. 2201; 42 U.S.C. 5841
    Abstract: The advanced notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) was 
published in the Federal Register on March 25, 2009 (74 FR 12735), 
seeking comments from the public on a possible variable fee structure 
for part 171 annual fees for power reactors based on licensed power 
limits. The comment period ended on June 8, 2009, and the NRC received 
16 public comments. The Commission approved the staff's recommendation 
to establish an NRC workgroup to analyze suggested methodologies for a 
variable annual fee structure for power reactors in SECY-09-0137 dated 
October 13, 2009. On February 7, 2011, the Office of the Chief 
Financial Officer (OCFO) sent a memorandum to the Commission

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(ADAMS Accession No. ML110380251) responding to SECY-09-0137.
    Timetable:

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               Action                    Date            FR Cite
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ANPRM...............................   03/25/09  74 FR 12735
ANPRM Comment Period End............   06/08/09  .......................
NPRM................................   11/00/15  .......................
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    Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Yes.
    Agency Contact: Arlette P. Howard, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Office of the Chief Financial Officer, Washington, DC 20555-0001, 
Phone: 301 415-1481, Email: [email protected].
    RIN: 3150-AI54

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (NRC)

Completed Actions

556. Revision of Fee Schedules: Fee Recovery for FY 2014 [NRC-2013-
0276]

    Legal Authority: 42 U.S.C. 2201; 42 U.S.C. 5841
    Abstract: The final rule amends the Commission's licensing, 
inspection, and annual fees charged to its applicants and licensees. 
These amendments implement the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 
1990 (OBRA-90) as amended, which requires that the NRC recover 
approximately 90 percent of its budget authority in Fiscal Year (FY) 
2014, less the amounts appropriated from the Waste Incidental to 
Reprocessing, and generic homeland security activities.
    Completed:

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               Reason                    Date            FR Cite
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NPRM................................   04/14/14  79 FR 21036
Final Rule..........................   06/30/14  79 FR 37124
Final Rule Effective................   08/29/14  .......................
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    Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Yes.
    Agency Contact: Arlette P. Howard, Phone: 301 415-1481, Email: 
[email protected].
    RIN: 3150-AJ32

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