[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 118 (Wednesday, June 21, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40338-40339]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-13114]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


707th Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards 
(ACRS)

    In accordance with the purposes of sections 29 and 182b of the 
Atomic Energy Act (42 U.S.C. 2039, 2232(b)), the Advisory Committee on 
Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) will hold meetings on July 12-14, 2023. The 
Committee will be conducting meetings that will include some Members 
being physically present at the NRC while other Members participate 
remotely. Interested members of the public are encouraged to 
participate remotely in any open sessions via MS Teams or via phone at 
301-576-2978, passcode 581992331#. A more detailed agenda including the 
MSTeams link may be found at the ACRS public website at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/acrs/agenda/index.html. If you 
would like the MSTeams link forwarded to you, please contact the 
Designated Federal Officer as follows: [email protected], or 
[email protected].

Wednesday, July 12, 2023

    8:30 a.m.-8:35 a.m.: Opening Remarks by the ACRS Chairman (Open)--
The ACRS Chairman will make opening remarks regarding the conduct of 
the meeting.
    8:35 a.m.-10:30 a.m.: EPRI Data Validation Topical Report (Open/
Closed)--The Committee will have presentations and discussions with 
representatives from EPRI and the NRC staff regarding the subject 
topic. [NOTE: Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4), a portion of this 
session may be closed in order to discuss and protect information 
designated as proprietary.]
    10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.: Committee Deliberation on EPRI Data 
Validation Topical Report (Open/Closed)--The Committee will have 
discussion and deliberation regarding the subject topic. [NOTE: 
Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4), a portion of this session may be 
closed in order to discuss and protect information designated as 
proprietary.]
    1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.: Vogtle License Amendment Request (LAR) on 
Loading Lead Test Assemblies (LTAs) with Increased Enrichment (RB/ZA) 
(Open)--The Committee will have presentations and discussions with 
representatives from Southern Nuclear and the NRC staff regarding the 
subject topic.
    2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.: Committee Deliberation on Vogtle LAR on 
Loading LTAs with Increased Enrichment (Open)--The Committee will have

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discussion and deliberation regarding the subject topic.
    3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.: ARITA-ARTEMIS/RELAP Integrated Transient 
Analysis Methodology Topical Report (JM-L/KH) (Open/Closed)--The 
Committee will have presentations and discussions with representatives 
from Framatome and the NRC staff regarding the subject topic. [NOTE: 
Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4), a portion of this session may be 
closed in order to discuss and protect information designated as 
proprietary.]
    5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.: Committee Deliberation on ARITA-ARTEMIS/RELAP 
Integrated Transient Analysis Methodology Topical Report (JM-L/KH) 
(Open/Closed)--The Committee will have discussion and deliberation 
regarding the subject topic. [NOTE: Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4), a 
portion of this session may be closed in order to discuss and protect 
information designated as proprietary.]

Thursday, July 13, 2023

    8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.: LANCR02 Lattice Physics Model Description 
Topical Report/Preparation of Reports (JM-L/MS) (Open/Closed)--The 
Committee will have presentations and discussions with representatives 
from GE and the NRC staff regarding the subject topic. [NOTE: Pursuant 
to 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4), a portion of this session may be closed in 
order to discuss and protect information designated as proprietary.]
    10:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m.: Preparation of Reports (Open/Closed)--The 
Committee will continue its discussion of proposed ACRS reports. [NOTE: 
Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4), a portion of this session may be 
closed to discuss and protect information designated as proprietary.]

Friday, July 14, 2023

    8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.: Planning and Procedures Session/Future ACRS 
Activities/Reconciliation of ACRS Comments and Recommendations (Open/
Closed)--The Committee will hear discussion of the recommendations of 
the Planning and Procedures Subcommittee regarding items proposed for 
consideration by the Full Committee during future ACRS meetings, and/or 
proceed to preparation of reports as determined by the Chairman. [NOTE: 
Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(2), a portion of this session may be 
closed to discuss organizational and personnel matters that relate 
solely to internal personnel rules and practices of the ACRS.] [NOTE: 
Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4), a portion of this session may be 
closed to discuss and protect information designated as proprietary.]
    Procedures for the conduct of and participation in ACRS meetings 
were published in the Federal Register on June 13, 2019 (84 FR 27662). 
In accordance with those procedures, oral or written views may be 
presented by members of the public, including representatives of the 
nuclear industry. Persons desiring to make oral statements should 
notify Quynh Nguyen, Cognizant ACRS Staff and the Designated Federal 
Officer (DFO) (Telephone: 301-415-5844, Email: [email protected]), 5 
days before the meeting, if possible, so that appropriate arrangements 
can be made to allow necessary time during the meeting for such 
statements. In view of the possibility that the schedule for ACRS 
meetings may be adjusted by the Chairman as necessary to facilitate the 
conduct of the meeting, persons planning to attend should check with 
the cognizant ACRS staff if such rescheduling would result in major 
inconvenience.
    An electronic copy of each presentation should be emailed to the 
cognizant ACRS staff at least one day before the meeting.
    In accordance with Subsection 10(d) of Public Law 92-463 and 5 
U.S.C. 552b(c), certain portions of this meeting may be closed, as 
specifically noted above. Use of still, motion picture, and television 
cameras during the meeting may be limited to selected portions of the 
meeting as determined by the Chairman. Electronic recordings will be 
permitted only during the open portions of the meeting.
    ACRS meeting agendas, meeting transcripts, and letter reports are 
available through the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) at 
[email protected], or by calling the PDR at 1-800-397-4209, or from 
the Publicly Available Records System component of NRC's Agencywide 
Documents Access and Management System, which is accessible from the 
NRC website at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html or http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/#ACRS/.

    Dated: June 14, 2023.
Russell E. Chazell,
Federal Advisory Committee Management Officer, Office of the Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2023-13114 Filed 6-20-23; 8:45 am]
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