[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 191 (Wednesday, October 4, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46310-46311]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-21349]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2017-0199]


Availability of Revised NRC Form 3, ``Notice to Employees''

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Generic communications; issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is announcing the 
availability of the latest version of NRC Form 3, ``Notice to 
Employees.'' The NRC Form 3 describes certain responsibilities and 
rights of employers and employees who engage in NRC-regulated 
activities. Licensees are required by law to post the form at prominent 
locations at the workplace to permit workers to view it easily. 
Additionally, the NRC is announcing that future revisions of Form 3 
will be publicized through an alternative electronic means in addition 
to the Federal Register.

DATES: The revised form is available as of October 4, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2017-0199 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-2017-0199. 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: Lisamarie L. Jarriel, Office of 
Enforcement, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001; telephone: 301-287-9006, email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The purpose of this notice is to inform all licensees that NRC Form 
3, ``Notice to Employees,'' has been revised. The NRC Form 3 describes 
certain responsibilities and rights of employers and employees who 
engage in NRC-regulated activities, including how employees can report 
violations or other safety concerns directly to the NRC. Section 
19.11(e)(1) of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), 
states that licensees shall prominently post the most recent version of 
NRC Form 3, ``Notice to Employees'' within 30 days of receiving the 
revised NRC Form 3 from the Commission.
    In a 1997 rulemaking, 10 CFR 19.11 was amended to incorporate a 
reference to the latest version of NRC Form 3. This eliminated the need 
to revise the CFR whenever NRC Form 3 is changed, which had been the 
previous practice. The final rule published on September 15, 1997 (62 
FR 48165) indicated that the NRC would inform licensee of future 
changes to NRC Form 3 by an administrative letter and, in addition, the 
availability of any new versions would be noticed in the Federal 
Register. Administrative letters were a type of generic communication 
issued to inform addressees of specific regulatory or administrative 
information but were discontinued in September 1999. As such, in lieu 
of an administrative letter, this revision and future revisions will be 
publicized through an alternative electronic means (i.e. Web site 
notice, social networking service, etc.) to alert all licensees of the 
new revisions, as well as in the Federal Register.
    A new version of NRC Form 3 was issued in August 2017, to make a 
correction to the map of the NRC Regions and clarify operation of the 
Headquarters Operations Center. To view the current version of NRC Form 
3 (8/2017), please go to https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-

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collections/forms/nrc3.pdf. A Spanish language version of the form (NRC 
Form 3A) can also be found at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/forms/nrc3a.pdf . Additional copies of NRC Form 3 may be 
obtained by writing to the Regional Administrator of the appropriate 
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Regional Office, or via email to 
[email protected]. A list of current NRC Headquarters and Regional 
offices is available on NRC's public Web site, http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/locations.html.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 28th day of September 2017.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Patricia K. Holahan,
Director, Office of Enforcement.
[FR Doc. 2017-21349 Filed 10-3-17; 8:45 am]
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