[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 232 (Tuesday, December 3, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Page 66239]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-25826]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2019-0235]


Revised Format for Biweekly Notices of Applications and 
Amendments to Licenses Involving No Significant Hazards Considerations

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of revised format for Biweekly Notices.

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SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is notifying the 
public of its revised format for Biweekly Notices of Applications and 
Amendments to Facility Operating Licenses and Combined Licenses 
Involving No Significant Hazards Considerations.

DATES: The revised format described in this document takes effect on 
December 17, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2019-0235 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-2019-0235. Address 
questions about NRC docket IDs 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 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: Eva Brown, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-2315, email: 
[email protected]; or Andy Imboden, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-287-9055, email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 189a.(2)(A) grants the Commission 
the authority to issue and make immediately effective any amendment to 
an operating license or combined license, as applicable, upon a 
determination by the Commission that such amendment involves no 
significant hazards consideration, notwithstanding the pendency before 
the Commission of a request for a hearing from any person. Section 
189a.(2)(B) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, requires that 
the Commission periodically publish notice of any amendments issued, or 
proposed to be issued. To fulfill this requirement, the NRC issues a 
document entitled, ``Biweekly Notice; Applications and Amendments to 
Facility Operating Licenses and Combined Licenses Involving No 
Significant Hazards Considerations,'' in the Federal Register.
    Instead of quoting each licensee's amendment application, the 
revised format will provide tables that state the proposed no 
significant hazards considerations determination and provide the 
location of the NRC's rationale for each determination in each of the 
listed applications. The revised format will also use tables to provide 
notice of license amendments issued. This streamlined format will 
provide efficiency to the public and stakeholders locating pertinent 
information and will be a government cost savings in time and print 
expenses. The public and stakeholders can still access all the 
information provided in each licensee's amendment application by going 
to the ADAMS accession numbers that will be provided in the tables.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd day of November, 2019.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Craig G. Erlanger,
Director, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2019-25826 Filed 12-2-19; 8:45 am]
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