[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 50 (Tuesday, March 15, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13849-13850]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-05813]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2016-0054]
License Amendment Requests for Changes to Emergency Response
Organization Staffing and Augmentation
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft regulatory issue summary; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is seeking public
comment on a draft regulatory issue summary (RIS) to inform certain
nuclear power reactor licensees of the use of guidance documents to
support license amendment requests (LAR) to change augmenting emergency
response organization (ERO) staffing and arrival times. The RIS will
clarify the scope and level of detail that should be provided to
facilitate NRC review of the LARs.
DATES: Submit comments by April 14, 2016. 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 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-2016-0054. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: [email protected].
Mail comments to: Cindy K. Bladey, Office of
Administration, Mail Stop: OWFN-12-H08, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
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: Todd Keene, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 20555-
0001; telephone: 301-415-1994, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2016-0054 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may
obtain publicly-available information related to this action by the
following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2016-0054.
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
draft RIS, ``License Amendment Requests for Changes to Emergency
Response Organization Staffing and Augmentation,'' is available in
ADAMS under Accession No. ML15338A291.
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-2016-0054 in the subject line of your
comment submission.
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
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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.
II. Background
The NRC staff has developed draft RIS 2016-xx, ``License Amendment
Requests for Changes to Emergency Response Organization Staffing and
Augmentation,'' based on a number of recent LAR submittals that did not
supply proper justification for proposed ERO changes. The NRC will
clarify how licensees should use the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI)
document, NEI 10-05, ``Assessment of On-Shift Emergency Response
Organization Staffing and Capabilities,'' dated June 23, 2011, in these
LARs. In addition to the clarification this RIS provides, the RIS will
assist licensees by providing examples of the scope and detail of
information that should be provided in the LARs to facilitate the NRC
review.
Proposed Action
The NRC is requesting public comments on the draft RIS. The NRC
staff will make a final determination regarding issuance of the RIS
after it considers any public comments received in response to this
request.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 10th day of March 2016.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Tanya M. Mensah,
Acting Chief, Generic Communications Branch, Division of Policy and
Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2016-05813 Filed 3-14-16; 8:45 am]
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