[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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