[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 49 (Friday, March 14, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12183-12184]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-04095]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


724th 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 April 2-4, 2025. The 
Committee will be conducting meetings that will include some Members 
being physically present headquarters of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission (NRC) while other Members participate remotely. Interested 
members of the public are encouraged to participate remotely in any 
open sessions via Microsoft (MS) Teams or via phone at 301-576-2978, 
passcode 227690711#. 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 (DFO) as follows: [email protected], or 
[email protected].

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

    8:30 a.m.-8:35 a.m.: Opening Remarks by the ACRS Chair (Open)--The 
ACRS Chair will make opening remarks regarding the conduct of the 
meeting.
    8:35 a.m.-10:30 a.m.: NuScale Standard Design Approval Application 
Topics Including NuScale Topical Reports on Extended Passive Cooling 
and Reactivity Control Methodology and Non-LOCA Methodology (Open/
Closed)--The Committee will have presentations and discussions with 
applicant representatives and 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.-1:00 p.m.: Committee Deliberation on NuScale Standard 
Design Approval Application Including the NuScale Topical Reports on 
Extended Passive Cooling and Reactivity Control Methodology and Non-
LOCA Methodology (Open/Closed)--The Committee will deliberate regarding 
the subject topic and proceed to preparation of reports. [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.-3:00 p.m.: Terrestrial Energy Topical Report on Principal 
Design Criteria (Open/Closed)--The Committee will have presentations 
and discussions with applicant representatives and 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.]
    3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.: Committee Deliberation on Terrestrial Energy 
Topical Report on Principal Design Criteria (Open/Closed)--The 
Committee will deliberate regarding the subject topic and proceed to 
preparation of reports. [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, April 3, 2025

    8:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.: Planning and Procedures Session/Future ACRS 
Activities/Reconciliation of ACRS Comments and Recommendations/
Preparation of Reports (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.
    [NOTE: Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(2), a portion of this meeting 
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 in order to discuss and protect information designated as 
proprietary.]
    1:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.: ADVANCE Act Information Briefing/Preparation 
of Reports (Open)--The Committee will have discussion and deliberate 
regarding the subject topic and proceed to preparation of reports.

Friday, April 4, 2025

    8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.: Preparation of Reports/Committee Deliberation 
(Open/Closed)--The Committee will proceed to preparation of reports and 
have committee deliberation.
    [NOTE: Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(2), a portion of this meeting 
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 in order 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). 
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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 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 
Chair 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 three days 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 Chair. 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 301-
415-4737, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern daylight time (EDT), Monday 
through Friday, except Federal holidays, 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 https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html or https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/#ACRS/.

    Dated: March 11, 2025.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Russell E. Chazell,
Federal Advisory Committee Management Officer, Office of the Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2025-04095 Filed 3-13-25; 8:45 am]
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