[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 122 (Monday, June 25, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29579-29580]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-13509]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2018-0110]


Report to Congress on Abnormal Occurrences; Fiscal Year 2017 
Dissemination of Information

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: NUREG; issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing NUREG-
0090, Volume 40, ``Report to Congress on Abnormal Occurrences: Fiscal 
Year 2017.'' The report describes those events that the NRC or an 
Agreement State identified as abnormal occurrences (AOs) during fiscal 
year (FY) 2017, based on the criteria defined in the report. The report 
describes six events at Agreement State-licensed facilities and five 
events at an NRC-licensed facilities.

DATES: NUREG-0090, Volume 40, is available June 25, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2018-0110 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 
Website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-
2018-0110. Address questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer Borges; 
telephone: 301-287-9127; 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: 630-829-9862, email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Discussion

    Section 208 of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, as amended 
(Pub. L. 93-438), defines an ``abnormal occurrence'' (AO) as an 
unscheduled incident or event that the NRC determines to be significant 
from the standpoint of public health or safety.

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The AO report (ADAMS Accession No. ML18157A051), describes those events 
that the NRC identified as AOs during FY 2017, based on the criteria 
defined in Appendix A of the report.
    The report describes six events at Agreement State-licensed 
facilities and five events at an NRC-licensed facilities. All 11 events 
occurred at medical facilities and are ``medical events'' as defined in 
part 35 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR).
    Agreement States are the 37 U.S. 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), 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. 
104-66) requires that AOs be reported to Congress annually. The full 
report, NUREG-0090, Volume 40, ``Report to Congress on Abnormal 
Occurrences: Fiscal Year 2017,'' is also available electronically at 
the NRC's website at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 19th day of June 2018.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Annette L. Vietti-Cook,
Secretary of the Commission.
[FR Doc. 2018-13509 Filed 6-22-18; 8:45 am]
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