[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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