[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 114 (Thursday, June 13, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27663-27664]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-12494]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2019-0124]


Report to Congress on Abnormal Occurrences; Fiscal Year 2018 
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 41, ``Report to Congress on Abnormal Occurrences: Fiscal 
Year 2018.'' The report describes those events that the NRC or an 
Agreement State identified as abnormal occurrences (AOs) during fiscal 
year (FY) 2018, based on the criteria defined in the report. The report 
describes eight events at Agreement State-licensed facilities and three 
events at an NRC-licensed facilities.

DATES: NUREG-0090, Volume 41, is available June 13, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2019-0124 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-2019-0124. 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. The AO report, NUREG-
0090, Volume 41, ``Report to Congress on Abnormal Occurrences: Fiscal 
Year 2018''

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(ADAMS Accession No. ML19157A308), describes those events that the NRC 
identified as AOs during FY 2018, based on the criteria defined in 
Appendix A of the report.
    The report describes three events involving NRC licensees that the 
agency identified as AOs in fiscal year (FY) 2018 based on the criteria 
defined in Appendix A, ``Abnormal Occurrence Criteria and Guidelines 
for Other Events of Interest,'' to the report. Two AOs were medical 
events as defined in title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 
CFR) part 35, ``Medical Use of Byproduct Material.'' The third AO event 
involved a category 2 source, as defined in 10 CFR part 37, ``Physical 
Protection of Category 1 and Category 2 Quantities of Radioactive 
Material.'' During this reporting period, the NRC did not identify any 
events at commercial nuclear power plants in the United States as AOs. 
The report also describes eight AOs that occurred in Agreement States 
(AS) and that were identified as AOs during FY 2018 based on the 
criteria defined in Appendix A. Seven were medical events, as defined 
in 10 CFR part 35, and one event involved radiography operations. Of 
the 11 AOs discussed in the report, one occurred in FY 2017 but is 
included in this report because the NRC completed its evaluation of the 
event during FY 2018 once relevant information became available.
    Agreement States are the 38 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. 
104-68) requires that AOs be reported to Congress annually. The full 
report, NUREG-0090, Volume 41, ``Report to Congress on Abnormal 
Occurrences: Fiscal Year 2018,'' is also available electronically at 
the NRC's website at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, on June 10, 2019.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Annette L. Vietti-Cook,
Secretary of the Commission.
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