[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 127 (Monday, July 2, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30989-30990]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-14121]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2018-0109]
Draft Letter to the Nuclear Energy Institute Regarding the
Clarification of Regulatory Paths for Lead Test Assemblies
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of availability; opportunity for comment; reopening of
comment period.
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SUMMARY: On June 7, 2018, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
solicited comments on a draft letter to the Nuclear Energy Institute
(NEI) clarifying the regulatory paths for the use of lead test
assemblies (LTAs). The public comment period closed on June 27, 2018.
The NRC has decided to reopen the public comment period to allow more
time for members of the public to develop and submit their comments.
DATES: The comment period for the document published on June 7, 2018
(83 FR 26503), has been reopened. Comments should be filed no later
than July 23, 2018. 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 website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2018-0109. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer Borges; telephone: 301-287-
9127; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individuals listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section
of this document.
Mail comments to: May Ma, Office of Administration, Mail
Stop: TWFN-7-A60M, 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: Jennifer Whitman, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301-415-3253, email:
[email protected], or Kimberly Green, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation, telephone: 301-415-1627, email: [email protected].
Both are staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2018-0109 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 Website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2018-0109.
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.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC-2018-0109 in your comment submission.
The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact
information that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your
comment submission. The NRC will post all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as enter the comment submissions into
ADAMS. 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.
I. Discussion
On June 7, 2018, the NRC solicited comments on a draft letter to
NEI clarifying the regulatory paths for the use of LTAs. The purpose of
the draft letter would finalize the NRC staff's views on the
preliminary positions regarding LTAs provided in a letter to NEI dated
June 29, 2017 (ADAMS Accession No. ML17150A443). The NRC does not
currently have consolidated
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regulatory guidance regarding the use of LTAs. Therefore, the NRC has
drafted this letter to clarify its positions regarding the use of LTAs.
These positions would affect light-water reactor licensees who wish to
irradiate LTAs. The public comment period closed on June 27, 2018. The
NRC has decided to reopen the public comment period on this document
until July 23, 2018, to allow more time for members of the public to
submit their comments.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day of June 2018.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Joseph G. Giitter,
Director, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2018-14121 Filed 6-29-18; 8:45 am]
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