[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 215 (Monday, November 7, 2016)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 78062-78063]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-26825]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
10 CFR Part 73
[NRC-2016-0145]
RIN 3150-AJ79
Role of Third Parties in Access Authorization and Fitness-for-
Duty Determinations
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Public meeting.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) plans to hold a
public meeting to discuss a rulemaking activity regarding the role of
third parties in access authorization and fitness-for-duty
determinations. The purpose of the meeting is to provide information on
the background and status of this rulemaking activity and to obtain
input from interested stakeholders.
DATES: The public meeting will be held on November 16, 2016. See
Section II, Public Meeting, of this document for more information on
the meeting.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2016-0145 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of information regarding this meeting. You
may obtain publicly-available information related to this meeting using
any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2016-0145. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individuals listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section
of this document.
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].
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: Daniel I. Doyle, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301-415-3748, email:
[email protected]; or Mark Resner, Office of Nuclear Security and
Incident Response, telephone: 301-287-3680, email: [email protected].
Both are staff members of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
On June 6, 2016, the Commission approved an NRC staff
recommendation to proceed with the rulemaking process to further
explore the issues raised in an NRC staff paper regarding the role of
third party arbitrators in licensee access authorization and fitness-
for-duty determinations (ADAMS Accession No. ML16158A286). The NRC is
in the early stages of developing a regulatory basis document that will
describe the regulatory issue, options to address the issue, and the
recommended option. The NRC will consider the information shared at the
meeting in the development of the regulatory basis document.
II. Public Meeting
The public meeting will be on November 16, 2016, from 1:00 p.m. to
4:00 p.m. (EST) in the Commission Hearing Room, 11555 Rockville Pike,
Rockville, Maryland 20852. Interested stakeholders may attend in person
or via teleconference and Webinar. The purpose of the meeting is to
provide background information on this rulemaking activity and obtain
stakeholder input in order to enhance the NRC's understanding of the
associated issues. Further, the staff will address the various
opportunities for the public to participate in the rulemaking process.
The NRC will not provide formal written responses to the oral comments
made at this meeting. In addition, the NRC is not providing an
opportunity to submit written public comments in connection with this
meeting.
Information for the teleconference and Webinar is available in the
meeting notice, which can be accessed through
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the NRC's public Web site at: http://meetings.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg.
Participants must register at the Internet link in the meeting notice
to participate in the Webinar.
Additional details regarding the meeting will be posted at least 10
days prior to the public meeting on the NRC's public meeting Web site
at: http://meetings.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 31st day of October 2016.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Louise Lund,
Director, Division of Policy and Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2016-26825 Filed 11-4-16; 8:45 am]
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