[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 78 (Tuesday, April 25, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19094-19095]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-08330]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2016-0222]
Information Collection: Enforcement Discretion for Operating
Reactors and Gaseous Diffusion Plants
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Renewal of existing information collection; request for
comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) invites public
comment on the renewal of Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
approval for an existing collection of information. The information
collection is entitled, ``Notice of Enforcement Discretion (NOED) for
Operating Power Reactors and Gaseous Diffusion Plants (NRC Enforcement
Policy).''
DATES: Submit comments by June 26, 2017. 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 on or before
this date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2016-0222. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of
this document.
Mail comments to: David Cullison, Office of the Chief
Information Officer, Mail Stop: T-2 F43, 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: David Cullison, Office of the Chief
Information Officer, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-2084; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2016-0222 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain
publicly-available information related to this action by any of the
following methods:
Federal rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2016-0222.
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
supporting statement is available in ADAMS under Accession No.
ML16365A071.
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.
NRC's Clearance Officer: A copy of the collection of
information and related instructions may be obtained without charge by
contacting NRC's Clearance Officer, David Cullison, Office of the Chief
Information Officer, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-2084; email:
[email protected].
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC-2016-0222 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
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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.
II. Background
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.
chapter 35), the NRC is requesting public comment on its intention to
request the OMB's approval for the information collection summarized
below.
1. The title of the information collection: Notices of Enforcement
Discretion (NOEDs) for Operating Power Reactors and Gaseous Diffusion
Plants (GDP), (NRC Enforcement Policy).
2. OMB approval number: 3150-0136.
3. Type of submission: Extension.
4. The form number, if applicable: N/A.
5. How often the collection is required or requested: On Occasion.
6. Who will be required or asked to respond: Those licensees that
voluntarily request enforcement discretion through the NOED process.
7. The estimated number of annual responses: 8.
8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 4.
9. The estimated number of hours needed annually to comply with the
information collection requirement or request: 680 (600 reporting + 80
recordkeeping).
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 or
transient. 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 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 and submit to the NRC by letter, in accordance with
Inspection Manual Chapter 0410 (ADAMS Accession No. ML13071A487), 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.
III. Specific Requests for Comments
The NRC is seeking comments that address the following questions:
1. Is the proposed collection of information necessary for the NRC
to properly perform its functions? Does the information have practical
utility?
2. Is the estimate of the burden of the information collection
accurate?
3. Is there a way to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of
the information to be collected?
4. How can the burden of the information collection on respondents
be minimized, including the use of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology?
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20th day of April 2017.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017-08330 Filed 4-24-17; 8:45 am]
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