[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 94 (Wednesday, May 17, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22677-22678]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-09921]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2017-0115]


Fiscal Year 2016 Report to Congress on Abnormal Occurrences

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: NUREG; issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing NUREG-
0090, Volume 39, ``Report to Congress on Abnormal Occurrences: Fiscal 
Year 2016.'' The report describes those events that the NRC or an 
Agreement State identified as abnormal occurrences (AOs) during fiscal 
year (FY) 2016,

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based on the criteria defined in the report. The report describes eight 
events at Agreement State-licensed facilities and three events at an 
NRC-licensed facilities.

DATES: NUREG-0090, Volume 39, is available May 17, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2017-0115 when contacting the 
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You 
may obtain publicly-available information related to this document 
using any of the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2017-0115. 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.
     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 
ADAMS accession number for each document referenced (if it is available 
in ADAMS) is provided the first time that it is mentioned in this 
document.
     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: Vered Shaffer, Office of Nuclear 
Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001, telephone: 1-630-829-9862, email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Discussion

    Section 208 of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, as amended 
(Public Law 93-438), defines an ``abnormal occurrence'' as an 
unscheduled incident or event that the NRC determines to be significant 
from the standpoint of public health or safety. The AO report (ADAMS 
Accession No. ML17125A084) describes those events that the NRC 
identified as AOs during FY 2016, based on the criteria defined in 
Appendix A of the report.
    The report describes eight events at Agreement State-licensed 
facilities and three events at an NRC-licensed facilities. One 
Agreement State licensee event involved radiation exposure to an 
embryo/fetus, and one involved radiography operations. One event 
reported by an NRC licensee occurred at a fuel cycle facility. The 
remaining two reported NRC-licensee events and the six reported 
Agreement State licensee events occurred at medical facilities and are 
``medical events'' as defined in part 35 of title 10 of the Code of 
Federal Regulations.
    Agreement States are the 37 States that currently have entered into 
formal agreements with the NRC pursuant to Section 274 of the Atomic 
Energy Act of 1954, as amended (AEA) (Pub. L. 83-703), to regulate 
certain quantities of AEA-licensed material at facilities located 
within their borders.
    The Federal Reports Elimination and Sunset Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 
104-68) requires that the NRC report AOs to Congress annually. The full 
report, NUREG-0090, Volume 39, ``Report to Congress on Abnormal 
Occurrences: Fiscal Year 2016,'' is also available electronically on 
the NRC's Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day of May, 2017.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Annette L. Vietti-Cook,
Secretary of the Commission.
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