[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 222 (Friday, November 16, 2018)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 58164-58166]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-23931]



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Vol. 83

Friday,

No. 222

November 16, 2018

Part XXVII





 Nuclear Regulatory Commission





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Semiannual Regulatory Agenda

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

10 CFR Chapter I

[NRC-2018-0132]


Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Semiannual regulatory agenda.

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SUMMARY: We are publishing our semiannual regulatory agenda (the 
Agenda) in accordance with Public Law 96-354, ``The Regulatory 
Flexibility Act,'' and Executive Order 12866, ``Regulatory Planning and 
Review.'' The Agenda is a compilation of all rulemaking activities on 
which we have recently completed action or have proposed or are 
considering action. We have completed 5 rulemaking activities since 
publication of our last Agenda on June 11, 2018. This issuance of our 
Agenda contains 29 active and 17 long-term rulemaking activities: 4 are 
Economically Significant; 10 represent Other Significant agency 
priorities; 29 are Substantive, Nonsignificant rulemaking activities; 
and 3 are Administrative rulemaking activities. In addition, 2 
rulemaking activities impact small entities. This issuance also 
contains our annual regulatory plan, which contains information on some 
of our most important regulatory actions that we are considering 
issuing in proposed or final form during Fiscal Year 2018. Our 
regulatory plan was submitted to OMB in June 2018; updates have been 
reflected in the Agenda abstract for each rulemaking. We are requesting 
comment on the rulemaking activities as identified in this Agenda.

DATES: Submit comments on rulemaking activities as identified in this 
Agenda by December 17, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments on any rulemaking activity in the Agenda by 
the date and methods specified in any Federal Register notice on the 
rulemaking activity. Comments received on rulemaking activities for 
which the comment period has closed will be considered if it is 
practical to do so, but assurance of consideration cannot be given 
except as to comments received on or before the closure dates specified 
in the Federal Register notice. You may submit comments on this Agenda 
through the Federal Rulemaking website by going to http://www.regulations.gov and searching for Docket ID NRC-2018-0132. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: [email protected]. For technical questions on any 
rulemaking activity listed in the Agenda, contact the individual listed 
under the heading ``Agency Contact'' for that rulemaking activity.
    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: Cindy Bladey, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-3280; email: 
[email protected]. Persons outside the Washington, DC, metropolitan 
area may call, toll-free: 1-800-368-5642. For further information on 
the substantive content of any rulemaking activity listed in the 
Agenda, contact the individual listed under the heading ``Agency 
Contact'' for that rulemaking activity.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2018-0132 when contacting the NRC 
about the availability of information for this document. You may obtain 
publically-available information related to this document by any of the 
following methods:
     Reginfo.gov:
    [cir] For completed rulemaking activities go to http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaHistory?show Stage=completed, select 
``fall 2018 The Regulatory Plan and the Unified Agenda of Federal 
Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions'' from drop down menu, and select 
``Nuclear Regulatory Commission'' from drop down menu.
    [cir] For active rulemaking activities go to http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaMain and select ``Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission'' from drop down menu.
    [cir] For long-term rulemaking activities go to http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaMain, select ``Current Long Term 
Actions'' link, and select ``Nuclear Regulatory Commission'' from drop 
down menu.
     Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2018-0132.
     NRC's Public Website: Go to http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/rulemaking-ruleforum/unified-agenda.html and select 
fall 2018.
     NRC's Public Document Room: 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-2018-0132 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 the 
Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (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.

Introduction

    The Agenda is a compilation of all rulemaking activities on which 
an agency has recently completed action or has proposed or is 
considering action. The Agenda reports rulemaking activities in three 
major categories: Completed, active, and long-term. Completed 
rulemaking activities are those that were completed since publication 
of an agency's last Agenda; active rulemaking activities are those that 
an agency currently plans to have an Advance Notice of Proposed 
Rulemaking, a Proposed Rule, or a Final Rule issued within the next 12 
months; and long-term rulemaking activities are rulemaking activities 
under development but for which an agency does not expect to have a 
regulatory action within the 12 months after publication of the current 
edition of the Unified Agenda.
    We assign a ``Regulation Identifier Number'' (RIN) to a rulemaking 
activity when our Commission initiates a rulemaking and approves a 
rulemaking plan, or when the NRC staff begins work on a Commission 
delegated rulemaking \1\ that does not require a rulemaking plan. The 
Office of

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Management and Budget uses this number to track all relevant documents 
throughout the entire ``lifecycle'' of a particular rulemaking 
activity. We report all rulemaking activities in the Agenda that have 
been assigned a RIN and meet the definition for a completed, an active, 
or a long-term rulemaking activity.
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    \1\ For information on delegated rulemakings see ADAMS Accession 
No. ML16040A011.
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    The information contained in this Agenda is updated to reflect any 
action that has occurred on a rulemaking activity since publication of 
our last Agenda on June 11, 2018 (83 FR 27276). Specifically, the 
information in this Agenda has been updated through July 27, 2018. The 
NRC provides additional information on planned rulemaking and petition 
for rulemaking activities, including priority and schedule, on our 
website at https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/regulatory/rulemaking/rules-petitions.html#cprlist.
    The date for the next scheduled action under the heading 
``Timetable'' is the date the next regulatory action for the rulemaking 
activity is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register. The date 
is considered tentative and is not binding on the Commission or its 
staff. The Agenda is intended to provide the public early notice and 
opportunity to participate in our rulemaking process. However, we may 
consider or act on any rulemaking activity even though it is not 
included in the Agenda.

Section 610 Periodic Reviews Under the Regulatory Flexibility Act

    Section 610 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) requires 
agencies to conduct a review within 10 years of promulgation of those 
regulations that have or will have a significant economic impact on a 
substantial number of small entities. We undertake these reviews to 
decide whether the rules should be unchanged, amended, or withdrawn. At 
this time, we do not have any rules that have a significant economic 
impact on a substantial number of small entities; therefore, we have 
not included any RFA Section 610 periodic reviews in this edition of 
the Agenda. A complete listing of our regulations that impact small 
entities and related Small Entity Compliance Guides are available from 
the NRC's website at http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/regulatory/rulemaking/flexibility-act/small-entities.html.

Public Comments Received on NRC Unified Agenda

    The comment period on the NRC's last Agenda (published on June 11, 
2018 (83 FR 27276) closed on July 11, 2018. We did not receive any 
written comments on our spring 2018 Agenda.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 27th day of July 2018.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Cindy Bladey,
Chief, Regulatory Analysis and Rulemaking Support Branch, Division of 
Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.

           Nuclear Regulatory Commission--Proposed Rule Stage
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                                                           Regulation
       Sequence No.                    Title             Identifier No.
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509.......................  Revision of Fee Schedules:         3150-AJ99
                             Fee Recovery for FY 2019
                             [NRC-2017-0032] (Reg Plan
                             Seq No. 180).
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References in boldface appear in The Regulatory Plan in part II of this
  issue of the Federal Register.


            Nuclear Regulatory Commission--Long-Term Actions
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                                                           Regulation
       Sequence No.                    Title             Identifier No.
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510.......................  Revision of Fee Schedules:         3150-AK10
                             Fee Recovery for FY 2020
                             [NRC-2017-0228].
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            Nuclear Regulatory Commission--Completed Actions
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                                                           Regulation
       Sequence No.                    Title             Identifier No.
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511.......................  Revision of Fee Schedules:         3150-AJ95
                             Fee Recovery for FY 2018
                             [NRC-2017-0026].
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (NRC)

Proposed Rule Stage

509. Revision of Fee Schedules: Fee Recovery for FY 2019 [NRC-2017-
0032]

    Regulatory Plan: This entry is Seq. No. 180 in part II of this 
issue of the Federal Register.
    RIN: 3150-AJ99

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (NRC)

Long-Term Actions

510. Revision of Fee Schedules: Fee Recovery for FY 2020 [NRC-2017-
0228]

    E.O. 13771 Designation: Independent agency.
    Legal Authority: 31 U.S.C. 483; 42 U.S.C. 2201; 42 U.S.C. 2214; 42 
U.S.C. 5841
    Abstract: This rulemaking would amend the NRC's regulations for fee 
schedules. The NRC conducts this rulemaking annually to recover 
approximately 90 percent of its budget authority in a given fiscal year 
to implement the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, as amended. 
This rulemaking would affect the fee schedules for licensing, 
inspection, and annual fees charged to the NRC's applicants and 
licensees.
    Timetable:

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               Action                    Date            FR Cite
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NPRM................................   01/00/20
Final Rule..........................   05/00/20
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    Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Yes.
    Agency Contact: Michele D. Kaplan, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Office of the Chief Financial Officer, Washington, DC 20555-0001, 
Phone: 301 415-5256, Email: [email protected].
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (NRC)

Completed Actions

511. Revision of Fee Schedules: Fee Recovery for FY 2018 [NRC-2017-
0026]

    E.O. 13771 Designation: Independent agency.
    Legal Authority: 31 U.S.C. 483; 42 U.S.C. 2201; 42 U.S.C. 2214; 42 
U.S.C. 5841
    Abstract: This proposed rule would implement the Omnibus Budget 
Reconciliation Act of 1990 (OBRA-90), as amended, which requires the 
NRC to recover approximately 90 percent of its budget authority in a 
given fiscal year, less the amounts appropriated from the Waste 
Incidental to Reprocessing, generic homeland security activities, and 
Inspector General services for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety 
Board, through fees assessed to licensees. This rulemaking would amend 
the Commission's fee schedules for licensing, inspection, and annual 
fees charged to its applicants and licensees. The licensing and 
inspection fees are established under 10 CFR part 170 and recover the 
NRC's cost of providing services to identifiable applicants and 
licensees. Examples of services provided by the NRC for which 10 CFR 
part 170 fees are assessed include license application reviews, license 
renewals, license amendment reviews, and inspections. The annual fees 
established under 10 CFR part 171 recover budgeted costs for generic 
(e.g., research and rulemaking) and other regulatory activities not 
recovered under 10 CFR part 170 fees.
    Completed:

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               Action                    Date            FR Cite
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Final Rule..........................   06/25/18  83 FR 29622
Final Rule Effective................   08/24/18
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    Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Yes.
    Agency Contact: Michele D. Kaplan, Phone: 301 415-5256, Email: 
[email protected].
    RIN: 3150-AJ95

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