[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 194 (Tuesday, October 6, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 63153]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-21919]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2020-0165]


Applications and Amendments to Facility Operating Licenses and 
Combined Licenses Involving Proposed No Significant Hazards 
Considerations and Containing Sensitive Unclassified Non-Safeguards 
Information and Order Imposing Procedures for Access to Sensitive 
Unclassified Non-Safeguards Information

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of revised format.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is notifying the 
public of its revised format for applications and amendments to 
facility operating licenses and combined licenses involving proposed no 
significant hazards considerations and containing sensitive 
unclassified non-safeguards information (SUNSI) and order imposing 
procedures for access to SUNSI information.

DATES: The revised format described in this document takes effect on 
November 3, 2020.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2020-0165 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-2020-0165. 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 reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by 
email to [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eva Brown, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001, telephone: 301-415-2315, email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 189a.(2)(A) of the Atomic Energy Act 
of 1954, as amended (the Act), grants the Commission the authority to 
issue and make immediately effective any amendment to an operating 
license or any amendment to a combined construction and operating 
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 Act, as amended, 
requires that the Commission periodically (but not less frequently than 
once every 30 days) publish notice of any amendments issued, or 
proposed to be issued pursuant to section 189a.(2)(A). To fulfill this 
requirement, the NRC periodically issues a document entitled, 
``Applications and Amendments to Facility Operating Licenses and 
Combined Licenses Involving Proposed No Significant Hazards 
Considerations and Containing Sensitive Unclassified Non-Safeguards 
Information and Order Imposing Procedures for Access to Sensitive 
Unclassified Non-Safeguards Information,'' in the Federal Register.
    Instead of quoting each licensee's amendment application, as is 
done under the current format, 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 for 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 
interested stakeholders in locating pertinent information and will 
provide a government cost savings in time and print expenses. The 
public and interested 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. The revised 
format will be utilized in Federal Register notices commencing November 
3, 2020.

    Dated: September 29, 2020.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Craig G. Erlanger,
Director, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2020-21919 Filed 10-5-20; 8:45 am]
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