[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 137 (Tuesday, July 19, 2022)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 42969-42970]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-15320]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

10 CFR Parts 30 and 70

[Docket No. NRC-2017-0031]
RIN 3150-AK52


Decommissioning Financial Assurance for Sealed and Unsealed 
Radioactive Materials

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Regulatory basis; reopening of comment period and correction.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is correcting the 
notification published in the Federal Register on April 28, 2022, 
regarding a regulatory basis to support a rulemaking that would amend 
its regulations for decommissioning financial assurance for sealed and 
unsealed radioactive materials. This action is necessary to correct a 
publication issue with the regulatory basis. In the notification, the 
NRC solicited comments from the public, and the public comment period 
closed on June 27, 2022. The NRC has decided to reopen the public 
comment period to allow more time for members of the public to develop 
and submit their comments.

DATES: The correction takes effect on July 19, 2022. The comment period 
for the document published on April 28, 2022, (87 FR 25157) has been 
reopened. Comments should be filed no later than August 18, 2022. 
Comments received after this date will be considered, if it is 
practical to do so, but the NRC is able to ensure consideration only 
for comments received on or before this date.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods; 
however, the NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the 
Federal rulemaking website:
     Federal rulemaking website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2017-0031. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Dawn Forder; telephone: 301-415-3407; 
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.
     Mail comments to: Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, ATTN: Rulemakings and 
Adjudications Staff. 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: Gregory Trussell, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-6244; email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Obtaining and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2017-0031 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 ID NRC-2017-0031.
     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]. For the convenience of the reader, 
instructions about obtaining materials referenced in this document are 
provided in the ``Availability of Documents'' section.
     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

    The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the 
Federal Rulemaking website (https://www.regulations.gov). Please 
include Docket ID NRC-2017-0031 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. Correction

    In the Federal Register on April 28, 2022, in Doc. 2022-09099, on 
page 25159, in the second column of the last entry in the table, 
correct ``ML21235A480'' to read ``ML22188A206.'' This will correct a 
publication error with the regulatory basis, restoring previously 
omitted pages 45-67 including Appendices A through C.

III. Discussion

    On April 28, 2022, the NRC solicited comments on a regulatory basis 
to support a rulemaking that would amend its regulations for 
decommissioning financial assurance for sealed and unsealed radioactive 
materials. The purpose of the regulatory basis document is to serve as 
a precursor to a proposed rule and to describe the NRC's recommendation 
and considerations in amending appendix B, ``Quantities of licensed 
material requiring labeling,'' to part 30 of title 10 of the Code of 
Federal Regulations (10 CFR), ``Rules of General Applicability to

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Domestic Licensing of Byproduct Material,'' and 10 CFR 70.25, 
``Financial assurance and recordkeeping for decommissioning.'' The 
proposed rule would address the petition for rulemaking (PRM)-30-66, 
``Request of the Organization of Agreement States for the NRC to Amend 
Appendix B, `Quantities of Licensed Material Requiring Labeling,''' 
submitted by the Organization of Agreement States (OAS) on April 14, 
2017. The public comment period closed on June 27, 2022. The NRC has 
decided to reopen the public comment period on this document until 
August 18, 2022, to correct a publication error and allow more time for 
members of the public to submit their comments.
    The NRC may post materials related to this document, including 
public comments, on the Federal rulemaking website at https://www.regulations.gov under Docket ID NRC-2017-0031. In addition, the 
Federal rulemaking website allows members of the public to receive 
alerts when changes or additions occur in a docket folder. To 
subscribe: (1) navigate to the docket folder (NRC-2017-0031); (2) click 
the ``Subscribe'' link; and (3) enter an email address and click on the 
``Subscribe'' link.

     Dated: July 13, 2022.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Tara Inverso,
Acting Director, Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial 
Support, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2022-15320 Filed 7-18-22; 8:45 am]
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