[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 148 (Thursday, August 1, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37688-37693]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-16367]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 050-00482; NRC-2019-0159]
In the Matter of Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation; Wolf
Creek Generating Station
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Confirmatory order; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued a
confirmatory order to Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation on July
18, 2019. The purpose of the confirmatory order was to document
commitments that were made as part of a settlement agreement between
Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation and the NRC to address an
apparent
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violation related to craft personnel deliberately falsifying records
regarding a work order associated with the cleaning and inspection of
control rod drive mechanisms.
DATES: The confirmatory order was issued and effective on July 18,
2019.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2019-0159 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 https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2019-0159. Address
questions about NRC dockets IDs in Regulations.gov 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 https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, 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 Confirmatory Order to Wolf Creek
Nuclear Operating Corporation is available in ADAMS under Accession No.
ML19198A313.
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: John Kramer, Region IV, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Arlington, TX 76011-4511; telephone: 817-200-
1121, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The text of the Order is attached.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day of July, 2019.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Scott A. Morris,
Regional Administrator, NRC Region IV.
Attached--Confirmatory Order.
I
Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation (Wolf Creek or Licensee)
is the holder of Facility Operating License No. NPF-42 issued by the
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or Commission) pursuant to Part
50 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), ``Domestic
Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities.'' The license
authorizes the operation of Wolf Creek Generating Station (facility) in
accordance with conditions specified therein. The facility is located
on the Licensee's site in Burlington, Kansas.
This Confirmatory Order is the result of a preliminary settlement
agreement reached during an alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
mediation session conducted on May 30, 2019.
II
On November 22, 2017, the NRC's Office of Investigations (OI),
Region IV Field Office, opened an investigation (OI Case 4-2018-008) at
the Wolf Creek facility to determine whether craft personnel
deliberately falsified records regarding a work order. On November 13,
2018, the investigation was completed. Based on the evidence developed
during its investigation, the NRC identified an apparent violation of
10 CFR 50.9, ``Completeness and accuracy of information,'' in that, on
October 31, 2016, a maintenance worker and a supervisor documented
inaccurate information regarding the cleaning and inspection of control
rod drive mechanisms. By letter dated April 2, 2019 (Agencywide
Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession ML19092A335),
the NRC notified Wolf Creek of the results of the investigation with
the opportunity to attend a predecisional enforcement conference or to
participate in an ADR mediation session in an effort to resolve the
concern.
In response to the NRC's offer, Wolf Creek requested the use of the
NRC's ADR process to resolve the concerns. On May 30, 2019, the NRC and
Wolf Creek met in an ADR session mediated by a professional mediator
arranged through the Cornell University's Institute on Conflict
Resolution. The ADR process is one in which a neutral mediator, with no
decision-making authority, assists the parties in reaching an agreement
on resolving any differences regarding the dispute. The terms of this
Confirmatory Order are based on the elements of the agreement reached
during the ADR session.
III
During the ADR session held on May 30, 2019, Wolf Creek and the NRC
reached a preliminary settlement agreement. Corrective actions already
taken by Wolf Creek that were discussed included:
A. The Chief Nuclear Officer issued a communication to the entire
plant regarding expectations for accurately performing and documenting
work activities, focusing on ``Your Signature Is Your Word'' and ``Look
for, Understand, and Mitigate Risk'' related to making assumptions.
B. Wolf Creek performed remediation with the individuals involved
to reinforce and institutionalize Wolf Creek standards and expectations
with a focus on complete and accurate documentation, which included
face-to-face discussion with the plant manager and the site vice
president.
C. Wolf Creek developed a procedure AP18-001, ``Emerging
Concerns,'' to improve the quality of investigations, including
investigations involving deliberate misconduct.
D. Wolf Creek conducted an internal investigation into employee
deliberate misconduct with external counsel.
Additional commitments made in the preliminary settlement
agreement, as signed by both parties, consist of the following:
Communications
A. Within 1 month of the issuance date of the Confirmatory Order,
Wolf Creek will issue a stand-alone communication from the Chief
Nuclear Officer to all employees and contractor personnel that willful
violations will not be tolerated. The communication will stress the
importance of procedural adherence, ensuring that documents are
complete and accurate, and of potential consequences for engaging in
willful violations. This message will be balanced with the recognition
that people do make mistakes and when that happens, it is Wolf Creek's
expectation that its employees and contractors will identify and
document issues in accordance with licensee procedures.
B. Within 4 months of the issuance date of the Confirmatory Order,
Wolf Creek will hold meetings with all employees and long-term
contractor personnel to address integrity and trustworthiness. The
meetings will: (1) Stress the importance of procedural adherence,
ensuring that documents are complete and accurate, and of potential
consequences for engaging in willful violations; (2) describe the
circumstances of this case, the results of the root cause evaluation,
and Wolf Creek's corrective actions; (3) include the expectation to
immediately raise safety concerns when observed; (4) address how to
proceed when work order documentation is incomplete.
C. Within 4 months of the issuance date of the Confirmatory Order,
Wolf Creek will reinforce expectations with regards to 10 CFR 50.9,
completeness and accuracy of information, and 10 CFR 50.5, deliberate
misconduct, by providing an overview of the last 5 years
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of pertinent NRC enforcement actions with Operations, Fire Watch,
Maintenance, and Radiation Protection staff.
D. Within 6 months of the issuance date of the Confirmatory Order,
Wolf Creek will complete its efforts to reinforce site expectations
through posters and the morning brief communications, which will
specifically address 10 CFR 50.9 and 10 CFR 50.5, and its applicable
``Professional to the Core'' behaviors meant to ensure high quality
work and high-quality work products.
E. Within 6 months of the issuance date of this Confirmatory Order,
Wolf Creek will develop a presentation to be delivered to an
appropriate industry forum (e.g., Regional Utility Group or Strategic
Teaming and Resource Sharing) subject to acceptance of the conference
organizing committees.
1. This presentation will include the significance of the incident
that formed the basis for this violation, the consequences of the
actions, the responsibilities of personnel involved, and the completed
and planned corrective actions.
2. Wolf Creek will provide its proposed presentation to the NRC for
its review. The NRC will communicate to the licensee any concerns
regarding the presentation within 30 days of submittal.
F. Within 18 months of the issuance date of this Confirmatory
Order, Wolf Creek will deliver the presentation developed in Element E
to an industry forum.
Evaluation
G. Within 3 months of the issuance date of the Confirmatory Order,
Wolf Creek will complete a root cause analysis of the circumstances
that led to the incomplete and inaccurate information violation and
develop corrective actions.
H. Within 6 months of the issuance date of the Confirmatory Order,
Wolf Creek will benchmark 2 other licensee sites to determine how other
licensees detect and address incomplete and inaccurate information,
including falsified records, and then develop actions from the
benchmarks as appropriate.
Training
I. Within 4 months of the issuance date of this Confirmatory Order,
Wolf Creek will provide in-person training to station staff (employees
and long-term contractors) that emphasizes expectations for
completeness and accuracy in documentation, the expectation to stop
when unsure, the expectation to write a condition report if
encountering unexpected conditions, and what it means when an
individual signs or initials a document. Wolf Creek will add training
on these subjects to initial or ``onboarding'' training. The scope of
the initial training may differ between Wolf Creek employees and
contractors.
J. Within 12 months of the issuance date of this Confirmatory
Order, Wolf Creek will provide training to all maintenance personnel
(craft, supervisors, and managers) that describes work order process
timeliness, signature or initial requirements, and the process to
follow if documents are incomplete (e.g., missing signatures).
Subsequently, a training request will be initiated to analyze training
frequency on this topic and Wolf Creek will follow its training process
to completion.
K. Within 12 months of the issuance date of this Confirmatory
Order, Wolf Creek will implement annual compliance and ethics training
to all employees to address 10 CFR 50.9 and 10 CFR 50.5, compliance
therewith, and consequences for non-compliance. In addition, the
training will describe what it means when an individual signs or
initials a document.
Corrective Actions
L. Within 6 months of the completion of refueling outage 23, Wolf
Creek will perform a self-assessment on work order documentation
quality by sampling 40 quality-related sub-work order packages
performed during the refueling outage. The work order packages selected
shall include substantial in-field work. The sample scope will be
approved by the regulatory affairs manager and provided to the Wolf
Creek NRC resident staff. The assessment team composition shall include
an external peer in addition to station personnel. The results of the
self-assessment will be reviewed by the Corrective Action Review Board
and documented in the corrective action program system.
M. Within 6 months of the completion of refueling outage 24, Wolf
Creek will perform a self-assessment on work order documentation
quality by sampling 40 quality-related sub-work order packages
performed during the refueling outage. The work order packages selected
shall include substantial in-field work. The sample scope will be
approved by the regulatory affairs manager and provided to the Wolf
Creek NRC resident staff. The assessment team composition shall include
an external peer in addition to station personnel. The results of the
self-assessment will be reviewed by the Corrective Action Review Board
and documented in the corrective action program system.
N. Within 4 months of the issuance date of the Confirmatory Order,
Wolf Creek will conduct a nuclear safety culture survey developed by a
third-party.
O. Within 30 months of the completion of the survey in Element N,
Wolf Creek will conduct a second nuclear safety culture survey.
P. By December 31 of 2020, 2021, and 2022, Wolf Creek will perform
an annual effectiveness review of its corrective actions associated
with the Confirmatory Order. The annual effectiveness review will
include the insights from benchmarks, site performance, self-
assessments, and safety culture surveys. Wolf Creek will modify its
corrective actions, as needed and consistent with this Confirmatory
Order, based on the results of the annual effectiveness review.
Administrative Items
Q. By December 31 of each year until 2023, Wolf Creek will provide
in writing to the Regional Administrator, Region IV, a summary of the
actions implemented under this Confirmatory Order, the results
achieved, and any additional corrective actions initiated as a result
of this Confirmatory Order.
R. Wolf Creek will retain a copy, for 5 years from document
creation, of all documents created as a result of this Confirmatory
Order.
S. In the event of the transfer of the license of Wolf Creek to
another entity, the terms and conditions set forth hereunder shall
continue to apply to the new entity and accordingly survive any
transfer of ownership or license.
T. In consideration of the elements delineated above, the NRC
agrees not to issue a Notice of Violation for the violation discussed
in NRC Inspection Report 05000482/2019010 and NRC Investigation Report
4-2018-008 dated April 2, 2019 (EA-18-165) and not to issue an
associated civil penalty.
U. The NRC will consider the Confirmatory Order an escalated
enforcement action with respect to any future enforcement actions.
V. The NRC and Wolf Creek agree that the above elements will be
incorporated into a Confirmatory Order.
Based on the completed actions described above, and the commitments
described in Section V below, the NRC agrees to not pursue any further
enforcement action based on the apparent violation identified in the
NRC's April 2, 2019, letter.
On July 11, 2019, Wolf Creek consented to issuing this Confirmatory
Order with the commitments, as
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described in Section V below. Wolf Creek further agreed that this
Confirmatory Order is to be effective upon issuance, the agreement
memorialized in this Confirmatory Order settles the matter between the
parties, and that it has waived its right to a hearing.
IV
I find that Wolf Creek's actions completed, as described in Section
III above, combined with the commitments as set forth in Section V are
acceptable and necessary, and conclude that with these commitments the
public health and safety are reasonably assured. In view of the
foregoing, I have determined that public health and safety require that
Wolf Creek's commitments be confirmed by this Confirmatory Order. Based
on the above and Wolf Creek's consent, this Confirmatory Order is
effective upon issuance.
V
Accordingly, pursuant to Sections 103, 161b., 161i., 161o., 182,
and 186 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and the
Commission's regulations in 10 CFR 2.202 and 10 CFR part 50, IT IS
HEREBY ORDERED, EFFECTIVE UPON ISSUANCE, THAT LICENSE NO. NPF-42 IS
MODIFIED AS FOLLOWS:
Communications
A. Within 1 month of the issuance date of this Confirmatory Order,
Wolf Creek will issue a stand-alone communication from the Chief
Nuclear Officer to all employees and contractor personnel that willful
violations will not be tolerated. The communication will stress the
importance of procedural adherence, ensuring that documents are
complete and accurate, and of potential consequences for engaging in
willful violations. This message will be balanced with the recognition
that people do make mistakes and when that happens, it is Wolf Creek's
expectation that its employees and contractors will identify and
document issues in accordance with licensee procedures.
B. Within 4 months of the issuance date of this Confirmatory Order,
Wolf Creek will hold meetings with all employees and long-term
contractor personnel to address integrity and trustworthiness. The
meetings will: (1) Stress the importance of procedural adherence,
ensuring that documents are complete and accurate, and of potential
consequences for engaging in willful violations; (2) describe the
circumstances of this case, the results of the root cause evaluation,
and Wolf Creek's corrective actions; (3) include the expectation to
immediately raise safety concerns when observed; (4) address how to
proceed when work order documentation is incomplete.
C. Within 4 months of the issuance date of this Confirmatory Order,
Wolf Creek will reinforce expectations with Operations, Fire Watch,
Maintenance, and Radiation Protection staff with regards to 10 CFR
50.9, completeness and accuracy of information, and 10 CFR 50.5,
deliberate misconduct, by providing an overview of the last 5 years of
pertinent NRC-wide enforcement actions.
D. Within 6 months of the issuance date of this Confirmatory Order,
Wolf Creek will complete its efforts to reinforce site expectations
through posters and the morning brief communications, which will
specifically address 10 CFR 50.9 and 10 CFR 50.5, and its applicable
``Professional to the Core'' behaviors meant to ensure high quality
work and high-quality work products.
E. Within 6 months of the issuance date of this Confirmatory Order,
Wolf Creek will develop a presentation to be delivered to an
appropriate industry forum (e.g., Regional Utility Group or Strategic
Teaming and Resource Sharing) subject to acceptance of the conference
organizing committees.
1. This presentation will include the significance of the incident
that formed the basis for this violation, the consequences of the
actions, the responsibilities of personnel involved, and the completed
and planned corrective actions.
2. Wolf Creek will provide its proposed presentation to the NRC for
its review. The NRC will communicate to the licensee any concerns
regarding the presentation within 30 days of submittal.
F. Within 18 months of the issuance date of this Confirmatory
Order, Wolf Creek will deliver the presentation developed in Element E
to an industry forum.
Evaluation
G. Within 3 months of the issuance date of this Confirmatory Order,
Wolf Creek will complete a root cause analysis of the circumstances
that led to the incomplete and inaccurate information violation and
develop corrective actions.
H. Within 6 months of the issuance date of this Confirmatory Order,
Wolf Creek will benchmark 2 other licensee sites to determine how other
licensees detect and address incomplete and inaccurate information,
including falsified records, and then develop actions from the
benchmarks as appropriate.
Training
I. Within 4 months of the issuance date of this Confirmatory Order,
Wolf Creek will provide in-person training to station staff (employees
and long-term contractors) that emphasizes expectations for
completeness and accuracy in documentation, the expectation to stop
when unsure, the expectation to write a condition report if
encountering unexpected conditions, and what it means when an
individual signs or initials a document. Wolf Creek will add training
on these subjects to initial or ``onboarding'' training. The scope of
the initial training may differ between Wolf Creek employees and
contractors.
J. Within 12 months of the issuance date of this Confirmatory
Order, Wolf Creek will provide training to all maintenance personnel
(craft, supervisors, and managers) that describes work order process
timeliness, signature or initial requirements, and the process to
follow if documents are incomplete (e.g., missing signatures).
Subsequently, a training request will be initiated to analyze training
frequency on this topic and Wolf Creek will follow its training process
to completion.
K. Within 12 months of the issuance date of this Confirmatory
Order, Wolf Creek will implement annual compliance and ethics training
to all employees to address 10 CFR 50.9 and 10 CFR 50.5, compliance
therewith, and consequences for non-compliance. In addition, the
training will describe what it means when an individual signs or
initials a document.
Corrective Actions
L. Within 6 months of the completion of Refueling Outage 23, Wolf
Creek will perform a self-assessment on work order documentation
quality by sampling 40 quality-related sub-work order packages
performed during the refueling outage. The work order packages selected
shall include substantial in-field work. The sample scope will be
approved by the regulatory affairs manager and provided to the Wolf
Creek NRC resident staff. The assessment team composition shall include
an external peer in addition to station personnel. The results of the
self-assessment will be reviewed by the Corrective Action Review Board
and documented in the corrective action program system.
M. Within 6 months of the completion of Refueling Outage 24, Wolf
Creek will perform a self-assessment on work order documentation
quality by sampling 40 quality-related sub-work order packages
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performed during the refueling outage. The work order packages selected
shall include substantial in-field work. The sample scope will be
approved by the regulatory affairs manager and provided to the Wolf
Creek NRC resident staff. The assessment team composition shall include
an external peer in addition to station personnel. The results of the
self-assessment will be reviewed by the Corrective Action Review Board
and documented in the corrective action program system.
N. Within 4 months of the issuance date of this Confirmatory Order,
Wolf Creek will conduct a nuclear safety culture survey developed by a
third-party.
O. Within 30 months of the completion of the survey in Element N,
Wolf Creek will conduct a second nuclear safety culture survey.
P. By December 31 of 2020, 2021, and 2022, Wolf Creek will perform
an annual effectiveness review of its corrective actions associated
with this Confirmatory Order. The annual effectiveness review will
include the insights from benchmarks, site performance, self-
assessments, and safety culture surveys. Wolf Creek will modify its
corrective actions as needed, and consistent with this Confirmatory
Order, based on the results of the annual effectiveness review.
Administrative Items
Q. By December 31 of each year until 2023, Wolf Creek will provide
in writing to the Regional Administrator, Region IV, a summary of the
actions implemented under this Confirmatory Order, the results
achieved, and any additional corrective actions initiated as a result
of this Confirmatory Order.
R. Wolf Creek will retain a copy, for 5 years from document
creation, of all documents created as a result of this Confirmatory
Order.
In the event of the transfer of the license of Wolf Creek to
another entity, the terms and conditions set forth hereunder shall
continue to apply to the new entity and accordingly survive any
transfer of ownership or license. The NRC will consider this
Confirmatory Order an escalated enforcement action with respect to any
future enforcement actions at Wolf Creek. The Regional Administrator,
Region IV, may, in writing, relax or rescind any of the above
conditions upon demonstration by Wolf Creek of good cause.
VI
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.202 and 10 CFR 2.309, any person
adversely affected by this Confirmatory Order, other than Wolf Creek,
may request a hearing within thirty (30) calendar days of the date of
issuance of this Confirmatory Order. Where good cause is shown,
consideration will be given to extending the time to request a hearing.
A request for extension of time must be made in writing to the
Director, Office of Enforcement, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555, and include a statement of good cause for the
extension.
All documents filed in NRC adjudicatory proceedings, including a
request for hearing, a petition for leave to intervene, any motion or
other document filed in the proceeding prior to the submission of a
request for hearing or petition to intervene (hereinafter
``petition''), and documents filed by interested governmental entities
participating under 10 CFR 2.315(c), must be filed in accordance with
the NRC's E-Filing rule (72 FR 49139; August 28, 2007, as amended at 77
FR 46562, August 3, 2012). The E-Filing process requires participants
to submit and serve all adjudicatory documents over the internet, or in
some cases to mail copies on electronic storage media. Participants may
not submit paper copies of their filings unless they seek an exemption
in accordance with the procedures described below.
To comply with the procedural requirements of E-Filing, at least 10
days prior to the filing deadline, the participant should contact the
Office of the Secretary by email at [email protected], or by
telephone at 301-415-1677, to (1) request a digital identification (ID)
certificate, which allows the participant (or its counsel or
representative) to digitally sign submissions and access the E-Filing
system for any proceeding in which it is participating; and (2) advise
the Secretary that the participant will be submitting a petition or
other adjudicatory document (even in instances in which the
participant, or its counsel or representative, already holds an NRC-
issued digital ID certificate). Based upon this information, the
Secretary will establish an electronic docket for the hearing in this
proceeding if the Secretary has not already established an electronic
docket.
Information about applying for a digital ID certificate is
available on the NRC's public website at http://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals/getting-started.html. Once a participant has obtained a
digital ID certificate and a docket has been created, the participant
can then submit adjudicatory documents. Submissions must be in Portable
Document Format (PDF). Additional guidance on PDF submissions is
available on the NRC's public website at http://www.nrc.gov/site-help/electronic-sub-ref-mat.html. A filing is considered complete at the
time the document is submitted through the NRC's E-Filing system. To be
timely, an electronic filing must be submitted to the E-Filing system
no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the due date. Upon receipt of
a transmission, the E-Filing system time-stamps the document and sends
the submitter an email notice confirming receipt of the document. The
E-Filing system also distributes an email notice that provides access
to the document to the NRC's Office of the General Counsel and any
others who have advised the Office of the Secretary that they wish to
participate in the proceeding, so that the filer need not serve the
document on those participants separately. Therefore, applicants and
other participants (or their counsel or representative) must apply for
and receive a digital ID certificate before adjudicatory documents are
filed so that they can obtain access to the documents via the E-Filing
system.
A person filing electronically using the NRC's adjudicatory E-
Filing system may seek assistance by contacting the NRC's Electronic
Filing Help Desk through the ``Contact Us'' link located on the NRC's
Public website at http://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html, by
email to [email protected], or by a toll-free call at 1-866-672-
7640. The NRC Electronic Filing Help Desk is available between 9 a.m.
and 6 p.m., Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, excluding government
holidays.
Participants who believe that they have good cause for not
submitting documents electronically must file an exemption request, in
accordance with 10 CFR 2.302(g), with their initial paper filing
stating why there is good cause for not filing electronically and
requesting authorization to continue to submit documents in paper
format. Such filings must be submitted by: (1) First class mail
addressed to the Office of the Secretary of the Commission, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, Attention:
Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff; or (2) courier, express mail, or
expedited delivery service to the Office of the Secretary, 11555
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland, 20852, Attention: Rulemaking and
Adjudications Staff. Participants filing adjudicatory documents in this
manner are responsible for serving the document on all other
participants. Filing is considered complete by first-class mail as of
the time of deposit in the mail, or by courier, express mail, or
expedited
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delivery service upon depositing the document with the provider of the
service. A presiding officer, having granted an exemption request from
using E-Filing, may require a participant or party to use E-Filing if
the presiding officer subsequently determines that the reason for
granting the exemption from use of E-Filing no longer exists.
Documents submitted in adjudicatory proceedings will appear in the
NRC's electronic hearing docket which is available to the public at
https://adams.nrc.gov/ehd, unless excluded pursuant to an Order of the
Commission or the presiding officer. If you do not have an NRC-issued
digital ID certificate as described above, click ``Cancel'' when the
link requests certificates and you will be automatically directed to
the NRC's electronic hearing dockets where you will be able to access
any publicly available documents in a particular hearing docket.
Participants are requested not to include personal privacy information,
such as social security numbers, home addresses, or personal phone
numbers in their filings, unless an NRC regulation or other law
requires submission of such information. For example, in some
instances, individuals provide home addresses in order to demonstrate
proximity to a facility or site. With respect to copyrighted works,
except for limited excerpts that serve the purpose of the adjudicatory
filings and would constitute a Fair Use application, participants are
requested not to include copyrighted materials in their submission.
The Commission will issue a notice or order granting or denying a
hearing request or intervention petition, designating the issues for
any hearing that will be held and designating the Presiding Officer. A
notice granting a hearing will be published in the Federal Register and
served on the parties to the hearing.
If a person (other than Wolf Creek) requests a hearing, that person
shall set forth with particularity the manner in which his interest is
adversely affected by this Confirmatory Order and shall address the
criteria set forth in 10 CFR 2.309(d) and (f).
If a hearing is requested by a person whose interest is adversely
affected, the Commission will issue an order designating the time and
place of any hearings. If a hearing is held, the issue to be considered
at such hearing shall be whether this Confirmatory Order should be
sustained.
In the absence of any request for hearing, or written approval of
an extension of time in which to request a hearing, the provisions
specified in Section V above shall be final 30 days from the date of
this Confirmatory Order without further order or proceedings. If an
extension of time for requesting a hearing has been approved, the
provisions specified in Section V shall be final when the extension
expires if a hearing request has not been received.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Dated this 18th day of July 2019.
Scott A. Morris,
Regional Administrator, NRC Region IV.
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