[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 225 (Thursday, November 21, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64353-64355]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-25194]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 11006121; NRC-2019-0230]
Curtiss-Wright Electro-Mechanical Corporation
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Export license amendment application; opportunity to comment,
request a hearing, and petition for leave to intervene.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering an
export license amendment (XR177/01), requested by Curtiss-Wright
Electro-Mechanical Corporation (CW-EMD). On October 23, 2019, CW-EMD
filed a license amendment application to export nuclear reactor
equipment. The request seeks the NRC's approval for the export of six
reactor coolant pumps (RCPs)--two of the six, will serve as replacement
RCPs--to the People's Republic of China (PRC). The NRC is providing
notice of the opportunity to request a hearing on CW-EMD's revised
application. The request seeks the NRC's approval of the application
authorizing the export of the RCPs to PRC.
DATES: Submit comments by December 23, 2019. Requests for a hearing or
a petition for leave to intervene must be filed by December 23, 2019.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2019-0213. Address
questions about Docket 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.
Email comments to: [email protected]. If you do not
receive an automatic email reply confirming receipt, then contact us at
301-415-1677.
Fax comments to: Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission at 301-415-1101.
Mail comments to: Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, ATTN: Rulemakings and
Adjudications Staff.
Hand deliver comments to: 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville,
Maryland 20852, between 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. (Eastern Time) Federal
workdays; telephone: 301-415-1677.
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: Andrea R. Jones, Office of
International Programs, telephone: 404-997-4443, email:
[email protected], U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to NRC-2019-0230 or Docket No. 11006121 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 https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket NRC-2019-0230.
NRC's public website: Go to https://www.nrc.gov and search
for XR177/01, Docket No. 11006121, or Docket ID NRC-2019-0230.
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 export license application
amendment from CW-EMD is available in ADAMS under Accession No.
ML19304A061 and additional information is available in ADAMS under XR-
177/01 and under Docket No. 11006121.
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 NRC-2019-0230 or Docket No. 11006121 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
https://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.
II. Discussion
On October 23, 2019, NRC received an application from CW-EMD
requesting a license amendment for specific export license (XR177/01)
for the export of four RCPs and two replacement RCPs--for a total of
six RCPs--from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for installation,
operation, and maintenance at the Haiyang Nuclear Power Plant (NPP),
Unit 4 only, in the PRC. The current export license XR177 authorizes
the export of 12 RCPs and six replacement RCPs, for installation into
Xudapu NPP, Unit 1 only; Sanmen NPP, Unit 3 only; and Haiyang NPP, Unit
3 only, in the PRC (ADAMS Accession No. ML19024A208).
In accordance with paragraph 110.70(b) of title 10 of the Code of
Federal Regulation (10 CFR) the NRC is noticing the receipt of an
export license application submitted by CW-EMD on October 23, 2019, for
the export of RCPs from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to the PRC.
III. Opportunity To Request a Hearing and Petition for Leave To
Intervene
The NRC is noticing the request to amend the export license XR177,
to export six RCPs to Haiyang NPP, Unit 4 only; opening the opportunity
for public comment; and opening the opportunity to file a request for a
hearing or petition for leave to intervene for 30 days after
publication of this notice in the Federal Register. Any request for
hearing or petition for leave to intervene shall be served by the
requestor or petitioner upon the applicant, the Office of the General
Counsel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555; the
Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555;
and the Executive Secretary, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC
20520. Hearing requests and intervention petitions must include the
information specified in 10 CFR 110.82.
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IV. Electronic Submission (E-Filing)
A request for a hearing or petition for leave to intervene 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. Detailed guidance on making electronic
submissions may be found in the Guidance for Electronic Submissions to
the NRC and on the NRC website at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html. 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 https://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 https://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 https://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 a 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 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 information concerning this application for an export license
follows.
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NRC Export License Application
[Description of material]
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Name of applicant Date of
application Date received Country of
Application No. Docket No. ADAMS Material type Total quantity End use destination
Accession No.
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Curtiss-Wright Electro- Nuclear reactor Four RCPs and two Installation, People's Republic
Mechanical Corporation. equipment replacement RCPs. operation, and of China.
October 23, 2019................ consisting of maintenance for
October 29, 2019................ reactor coolant Haiyang NPP, Unit
XR177/01........................ pumps (RCPs), as 4 only.
11006121........................ described in
ML19304A061..................... paragraph 4; and
related minor
reactor
components, as
described in
paragraph 11 of
Appendix A to
Title 10 of the
Code of Federal
Regulations.
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Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 15th day of November 2019.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Mohamed K. Shams,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of International Programs.
[FR Doc. 2019-25194 Filed 11-20-19; 8:45 am]
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