80_FR_69938 80 FR 69721 - Proposed Emergency Preparedness Frequently Asked Questions

80 FR 69721 - Proposed Emergency Preparedness Frequently Asked Questions

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 217 (November 10, 2015)

Page Range69721-69722
FR Document2015-28595

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is making available for comment a set of emergency preparedness frequently asked questions (EPFAQs). These EPFAQs are intended to provide clarification of endorsed Nuclear Energy Institute's guidance related to emergency preparedness (EP) at licensed power reactor sites. The NRC is publishing these draft EPFAQs to inform the public and solicit comments.

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 217 (Tuesday, November 10, 2015) 
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Proposed Emergency Preparedness Frequently Asked Questions

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of availability; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is making 
available for comment a set of emergency preparedness frequently asked 
questions (EPFAQs). These EPFAQs are intended to provide clarification 
of endorsed Nuclear Energy Institute's guidance related to emergency 
preparedness (EP) at licensed power reactor sites. The NRC is 
publishing these draft EPFAQs to inform the public and solicit 
comments.

DATES: Submit comments by December 10, 2015. Comments received after 
this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but assurance 
of consideration cannot be given except for comments received on or 
before this date.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comment by any of the following methods 
(unless this document describes a different method for submitting 
comments on a specific subject):
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0254. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact 
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of 
this document.
     Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration, 
Mail Stop: O12-H08, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001.
    For additional direction on accessing information and submitting 
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Don A. Johnson, Office of Nuclear 
Security and Incident Response, U.S. Nuclear

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Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-287-
9230; email: Don.Johnson@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0254 when contacting the NRC 
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may 
obtain publicly-available information related to this action by the 
following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0254.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the 
ADAMS Public Documents collection at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and 
then 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 pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The 
ADAMS accession number for each document referenced (if it available in 
ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is referenced. The 
draft EPFAQs are available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML15271A299. 
These are also located on the NRC's Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/emerg-preparedness/faq/faq-contactus.html.
     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

    Please include Docket ID NRC-2015-0254 in the subject line of your 
comment submission, in order to ensure that the NRC is able to make 
your comment submission available to the public in this docket.
    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 posts all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as entering 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 submissions into ADAMS.

II. Background

    The NRC is requesting comments on these draft EPFAQs. The NRC has 
developed this program for the staff to provide clarification of 
endorsed guidance related to EP. This process is intended to describe 
the manner in which the NRC may provide interested parties an 
opportunity to share their individual views with the NRC staff 
regarding the appropriate response to questions raised on the 
interpretation or applicability of EP regulatory guidance issued by the 
NRC, before the NRC issues an official response to such questions.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 29 day of October, 2015.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Robert E. Kahler,
Acting Deputy Director, Division of Preparedness and Response, Office 
of Nuclear Security and Incident Response.
[FR Doc. 2015-28595 Filed 11-9-15; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 217 / Tuesday, November 10, 2015 / Notices 69721 please contact the NRC’s Public The NRC published a Federal Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day Document Room (PDR) reference staff at Register notice with a 60-day comment of November 2015. 1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by period on this information collection on For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. A copy June 23, 2015 (80 FR 35977). Tremaine Donnell, of the collection of information and 1. The title of the information NRC Clearance Officer, Office of Information related instructions may be obtained collection: Part 30 of title 10 of the Code Services. without charge by accessing ADAMS of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), ‘‘Rules [FR Doc. 2015–28535 Filed 11–9–15; 8:45 am] Accession No. ML15253A662. The of General Applicability to Domestic BILLING CODE 7590–01–P supporting statement and Rules of Licensing of Byproduct Material.’’ General Applicability to Domestic 2. OMB approval number: 3150–0017. Licensing of Byproduct Material is 3. Type of submission: Extension. NUCLEAR REGULATORY available in ADAMS under Accession 4. The form number if applicable: Not COMMISSION No. ML15253A665. applicable. • NRC’s PDR: You may examine and 5. How often the collection is required [NRC–2015–0254] purchase copies of public documents at or requested: Required reports are Proposed Emergency Preparedness the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One collected and evaluated on a continuing Frequently Asked Questions White Flint North, 11555 Rockville basis as events occur. There is a one- Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. time submittal of information to receive AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory • NRC’s Clearance Officer: A copy of a license. Renewal applications are Commission. the collection of information and related submitted every 10 years. Information ACTION: Notice of availability; request instructions may be obtained without submitted in previous applications may for comments. charge by contacting the NRC’s be referenced without being Clearance Officer, Tremaine Donnell, resubmitted. In addition, recordkeeping SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Office of Information Services, U.S. must be performed on an on-going basis. Commission (NRC) is making available Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 6. Who will be required or asked to for comment a set of emergency Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: respond: All persons applying for or preparedness frequently asked questions 301–415–6258; email: holding a license to manufacture, (EPFAQs). These EPFAQs are intended INFOCOLLECTS.Resource@NRC.GOV. produce, transfer, receive, acquire, own, to provide clarification of endorsed B. Submitting Comments possess, or use radioactive byproduct Nuclear Energy Institute’s guidance material. related to emergency preparedness (EP) The NRC cautions you not to include at licensed power reactor sites. The NRC identifying or contact information in 7. The estimated number of annual responses: 179,423 (22,044 NRC is publishing these draft EPFAQs to comment submissions that you do not inform the public and solicit comments. want to be publicly disclosed in your Licensee responses [1,212 reporting responses + 2,600 for recordkeeping + DATES: Submit comments by December comment submission. All comment 10, 2015. Comments received after this submissions are posted at http:// 18,232 third-party disclosures] and 157,379 Agreement State Licensee date will be considered if it is practical www.regulations.gov and entered into to do so, but assurance of consideration ADAMS. Comment submissions are not responses [13,790 reporting responses + 17,988 for recordkeeping + 125,601 cannot be given except for comments routinely edited to remove identifying received on or before this date. or contact information. third-party disclosures]). If you are requesting or aggregating 8. The estimated number of annual ADDRESSES: You may submit comment comments from other persons for respondents: 20,588 (2,600 NRC by any of the following methods (unless submission to the OMB, then you licensees and 17,988 Agreement State this document describes a different should inform those persons not to licensees). method for submitting comments on a include identifying or contact 9. An estimate of the total number of specific subject): information that they do not want to be hours needed annually to comply with • Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to publicly disclosed in their comment the information collection requirement http://www.regulations.gov and search submission. Your request should state or request: 273,991 (NRC licensees for Docket ID NRC–2015–0254. Address that comment submissions are not 32,803 hours [15,318 hours for reporting questions about NRC dockets to Carol routinely edited to remove such + 15,615 hours for recordkeeping + Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; information before making the comment 1,870 hours for third-party disclosures] email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For submissions available to the public or and Agreement State licensees 241,188 technical questions, contact the entering the comment into ADAMS. hours [111,209 hours for reporting + individual listed in the FOR FURTHER 117,091 hours for recordkeeping + INFORMATION CONTACT section of this II. Background 12,888 hours for third-party document. Under the provisions of the disclosures]). • Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 10. Abstract: 10 CFR part 30 Office of Administration, Mail Stop: U.S.C. Chapter 35), the NRC recently establishes requirements that are O12–H08, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory submitted a request for renewal of an applicable to all persons in the United Commission, Washington, DC 20555– existing collection of information to States governing domestic licensing of 0001. OMB for review entitled, ‘‘Rules of radioactive byproduct material. The For additional direction on accessing asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES General Applicability to Domestic application, reporting and information and submitting comments, Licensing of Byproduct Material.’’ The recordkeeping requirements are see ‘‘Obtaining Information and NRC hereby informs potential necessary to permit the NRC to make a Submitting Comments’’ in the respondents that an agency may not determination whether the possession, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of conduct or sponsor, and that a person is use, and transfer of byproduct material this document. not required to respond to, a collection is in conformance with the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Don of information unless it displays a Commission’s regulations for protection A. 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69722 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 217 / Tuesday, November 10, 2015 / Notices Regulatory Commission, Washington, identifying or contact information that proportionately, if necessary, to afford DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–287– they do not want to be publicly all participants who have submitted a 9230; email: Don.Johnson@nrc.gov. disclosed in their comment submission. timely request an opportunity to be SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Your request should state that the NRC heard. does not routinely edit comment Participants wishing to submit a I. Obtaining Information and submissions to remove such information written statement for the record must Submitting Comments before making the comment submit a copy of such statement to A. Obtaining Information submissions available to the public or OPIC’s Corporate Secretary no later than entering the comment submissions into 5 p.m. Wednesday, November 25, 2015. Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2015– ADAMS. Such statement must be typewritten, 0254 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information regarding II. Background double spaced, and may not exceed this document. You may obtain twenty-five (25) pages. The NRC is requesting comments on Upon receipt of the required notice, publicly-available information related to these draft EPFAQs. The NRC has this action by the following methods: OPIC will prepare an agenda, which developed this program for the staff to will be available at the hearing, that • Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to provide clarification of endorsed http://www.regulations.gov and search identifies speakers, the subject on which guidance related to EP. This process is each participant will speak, and the for Docket ID NRC–2015–0254. intended to describe the manner in • NRC’s Agencywide Documents time allotted for each presentation. which the NRC may provide interested Access and Management System A written summary of the hearing will parties an opportunity to share their (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly- be compiled, and such summary will be individual views with the NRC staff available documents online in the made available, upon written request to regarding the appropriate response to ADAMS Public Documents collection at OPIC’s Corporate Secretary, at the cost questions raised on the interpretation or http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ of reproduction. applicability of EP regulatory guidance adams.html. To begin the search, select issued by the NRC, before the NRC Written summaries of the projects to ‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then issues an official response to such be presented at the December 10, 2015 select ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS questions. Board meeting will be posted on OPIC’s Search.'' For problems with ADAMS, Web site. please contact the NRC’s Public Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 29 day of October, 2015. CONTACT PERSON FOR INFORMATION Document Room (PDR) reference staff at Information on the hearing may be 1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Robert E. Kahler, obtained from Catherine F. I. Andrade at email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The (202) 336–8768, via facsimile at (202) ADAMS accession number for each Acting Deputy Director, Division of Preparedness and Response, Office of Nuclear 408–0297, or via email at document referenced (if it available in Catherine.Andrade@opic.gov. Security and Incident Response. ADAMS) is provided the first time that [FR Doc. 2015–28595 Filed 11–9–15; 8:45 am] Dated: August 14, 2015. a document is referenced. The draft EPFAQs are available in ADAMS under BILLING CODE 7590–01–P Catherine F. I. Andrade, Accession No. ML15271A299. These are OPIC Corporate Secretary. also located on the NRC’s Web site at [FR Doc. 2015–28705 Filed 11–6–15; 4:15 pm] http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/emerg- OVERSEAS PRIVATE INVESTMENT BILLING CODE 3210–01–P preparedness/faq/faq-contactus.html. CORPORATION • NRC’s PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public documents at Sunshine Act Notice—Public Hearing the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One OFFICE OF PERSONNEL TIME AND DATE: 2 p.m., Wednesday, White Flint North, 11555 Rockville MANAGEMENT December 2, 2015. Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. PLACE: Offices of the Corporation, Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory B. 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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of availability; request for comments.
DatesSubmit comments by December 10, 2015. Comments received after this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but assurance of consideration cannot be given except for comments received on or before this date.
ContactDon A. Johnson, Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-287- 9230; email: [email protected]
FR Citation80 FR 69721 
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