[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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