[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 153 (Friday, August 7, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47989-47990]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-17304]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2020-0026]


Standard Format and Content of License Applications for Receipt 
and Storage of Unirradiated Power Reactor Fuel and Associated 
Radioactive Material at a Nuclear Power Plant

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Regulatory guide; issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing 
Revision 2 to Regulatory Guide (RG) 3.15, ``Standard Format and Content 
of License Applications for Receipt and Storage of Unirradiated Power 
Reactor Fuel and Associated Radioactive Material at a Nuclear Power 
Plant.'' RG 3.15 describes the standard format and content that the NRC 
staff considers acceptable for license applications to authorize the 
receipt, possession, and storage of unirradiated fuel assemblies

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and associated radioactive materials at a nuclear power plant.

DATES: Revision 2 to RG 3.15 is available on August 7, 2020.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2020-0026 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-2020-0026. Address 
questions about NRC docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Jennifer Borges; 
telephone: 301-287-9127; email: [email protected]. For technical 
questions, contact the individual(s) 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 reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by 
email to [email protected]. Revision 2 to RG 3.15 and the Regulatory 
Analysis may be found in ADAMS under Accession Nos. ML20164A212 and 
ML14161A624, respectively.
    Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and NRC approval is not 
required to reproduce them.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kevin Ramsey, Office of Nuclear 
Materials Safety and Safeguards, telephone: 301-415-7506, email: 
[email protected], and Edward O'Donnell, Office of Nuclear 
Regulatory Research, telephone: 301-415-3317, email: 
[email protected]. Both are staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Discussion

    The NRC is issuing a revision to an existing guide in the NRC's 
``Regulatory Guide'' series. This series was developed to describe and 
make available to the public information regarding methods that are 
acceptable to the NRC staff for implementing specific parts of the 
agency's regulations, techniques that the NRC staff uses in evaluating 
specific issues or postulated events, and data that the NRC staff needs 
in its review of applications for permits and licenses.
    Revision 2 of RG 3.15 was issued with a temporary identification of 
Draft Regulatory Guide (DG)-3036. It describes the standard format and 
content that the NRC staff considers acceptable for license 
applications to authorize the receipt, possession, and storage of 
unirradiated fuel assemblies and associated radioactive materials at a 
nuclear power plant.

II. Additional Information

    The NRC published a notice of the availability of DG-3036 in the 
Federal Register on February 19, 2020 (85 FR 9487) for a 60-day public 
comment period. The public comment period closed on April 20, 2020. Two 
comments were received but they resulted in no changes in the technical 
content of the guide. Public comments on DG-3036 and the staff 
responses to the public comments are available under ADAMS Accession 
No. ML20164A213.

III. Congressional Review Act

    This RG is a rule as defined in the Congressional Review Act (5 
U.S.C. 801-808). However, the Office of Management and Budget has not 
found it to be a major rule as defined in the Congressional Review Act.

IV. Backfitting, Forward Fitting, and Issue Finality

    Issuance of Revision 2 of RG 3.15 does not constitute backfitting 
as defined in title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 
section 50.109, ``Backfitting,'' and as described in NRC Management 
Directive (MD) 8.4, ``Management of Backfitting, Forward Fitting, Issue 
Finality, and Information Requests''; constitute forward fitting as 
that term is defined and described in MD 8.4; or affect the issue 
finality of any approval issued under 10 CFR part 52, ``Licenses, 
Certificates, and Approvals for Nuclear Powerplants.'' As explained in 
the RG, licensees are not required to comply with the positions set 
forth in Revision 2 of RG 3.15.

    Dated: August 4, 2020.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Harriet Karagiannis,
Acting Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Generic Issues Branch, Division 
of Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2020-17304 Filed 8-6-20; 8:45 am]
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