82_FR_37273 82 FR 37122 - Information Collection: Enforcement Discretion for Operating Reactors and Gaseous Diffusion Plants

82 FR 37122 - Information Collection: Enforcement Discretion for Operating Reactors and Gaseous Diffusion Plants

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 151 (August 8, 2017)

Page Range37122-37123
FR Document2017-16696

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has recently submitted a request for renewal of an existing collection of information to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. The information collection is entitled, ``Enforcement Discretion for Operating Reactors and Gaseous Diffusion Plants.''

Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 151 (Tuesday, August 8, 2017) 
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2016-0222]


Information Collection: Enforcement Discretion for Operating 
Reactors and Gaseous Diffusion Plants

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of submission to the Office of Management and Budget; 
request for comment.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has recently 
submitted a request for renewal of an existing collection of 
information to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. 
The information collection is entitled, ``Enforcement Discretion for 
Operating Reactors and Gaseous Diffusion Plants.''

DATES: Submit comments by September 7, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly to the OMB reviewer at: Aaron 
Szabo, Desk Officer, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs 
(3150-0136), NEOB-10202, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, 
DC 20503; telephone: 202-395-7315, email: [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Cullison, NRC Clearance Officer, 
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; 
telephone: 301-415-2084; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2016-0222 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 Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2016-0222.
     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 [email protected]. The 
supporting statement is available in ADAMS under Accession No. 
ML17180A053.
     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.
     NRC's Clearance Officer: A copy of the collection of 
information and related instructions may be obtained without charge by 
contacting the NRC's Clearance Officer, David Cullison, Office of the 
Chief Information Officer, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-2084; email: 
[email protected].

B. Submitting Comments

    Please include Docket ID NRC-2016-0222 in the subject line of your 
comment submission, in order to ensure that the NRC is able to make 
your

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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

    Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 
U.S.C. Chapter 35), the NRC recently submitted a request for renewal of 
an existing collection of information to OMB for review entitled, 
``Enforcement Discretion for Operating Reactors and Gaseous Diffusion 
Plants.'' The NRC hereby informs potential respondents that an agency 
may not conduct or sponsor, and that a person is not required to 
respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently 
valid OMB control number.
    The NRC published a Federal Register notice with a 60-day comment 
period on this information collection on April 25, 2017 (82 FR 19094).
    1. The title of the information collection: Enforcement Discretion 
for Operating Reactors and Gaseous Diffusion Plants.
    2. OMB approval number: 3150-0136.
    3. Type of submission: Extension.
    4. The form number if applicable: N/A.
    5. How often the collection is required or requested: On Occasion.
    6. Who will be required or asked to respond: Those licensees that 
voluntarily request enforcement discretion through the NOED process.
    7. The estimated number of annual responses: 8.
    8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 4.
    9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to 
comply with the information collection requirement or request: 680 (600 
reporting + 80 recordkeeping).
    10. Abstract: The NRC's Enforcement Policy includes the 
circumstances in which the NRC may grant a NOED. On occasion, 
circumstances arise when a power plant licensee's compliance with a 
Technical Specification (TS) Limiting Condition for Operation or any 
other license condition would involve an unnecessary plant shutdown or 
transient. Similarly, for a gaseous diffusion plant, circumstances may 
arise where compliance with a Technical Safety Requirement (TSR) or 
other condition would unnecessarily call for a total plant shutdown, 
or, compliance would unnecessarily place the plant in a condition where 
safety, safeguards, or security features were degraded or inoperable.
    In these circumstances, a licensee or certificate holder may 
request that the NRC exercise enforcement discretion, and the NRC staff 
may choose to not enforce the applicable TS, TSR, or other license or 
certificate condition. This enforcement discretion is designated as a 
NOED.
    A licensee or certificate holder seeking the issuance of a NOED 
must document and submit to the NRC by letter, in accordance with 
Inspection Manual Chapter 0410 (ADAMS Accession No. ML13071A487), the 
safety basis for the request, including an evaluation of the safety 
significance and potential consequences of the proposed request, a 
description of proposed compensatory measures, a justification for the 
duration of the request, the basis for the licensee's or certificate 
holder's conclusion that the request does not have a potential adverse 
impact on the public health and safety, and does not involve adverse 
consequences to the environment, and any other information the NRC 
staff deems necessary before making a decision to exercise discretion.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 3rd day of August, 2017.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017-16696 Filed 8-7-17; 8:45 am]
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37122 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 151 / Tuesday, August 8, 2017 / Notices * enhance the quality, utility and SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant DATES: Submit comments by September clarity of the information to be to section 10(a)(2) of the Federal 7, 2017. collected; and Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C., ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly * minimize the burden of the Appendix 2), the U.S. Small Business to the OMB reviewer at: Aaron Szabo, collection of information on those who Administration (SBA) announces the Desk Officer, Office of Information and are to respond, including through the meeting of the National Women’s Regulatory Affairs (3150–0136), NEOB– use of appropriate automated, Business Council. The National 10202, Office of Management and electronic, mechanical, or other Women’s Business Council conducts Budget, Washington, DC 20503; technological collection techniques or research on issues of importance and telephone: 202–395–7315, email: oira_ other forms of information technology, impact to women entrepreneurs and submission@omb.eop.gov. e.g., permitting electronic submissions makes policy recommendations to the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: of responses. SBA, Congress, and the White House on David Cullison, NRC Clearance Officer, III. Current Actions how to improve the business climate for U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, women. Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: The Department of Labor seeks This meeting is the 4th Quarter 301–415–2084; email: approval for the extension of this meeting for Fiscal Year 2017. The online INFOCOLLECTS.Resource@nrc.gov. currently approved information meeting will open with remarks from SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: collection in order to determine if a Council Chairwoman, Carla Harris, rehabilitation plan should be approved providing updates on research projects. I. Obtaining Information and and payment of any related expenses Time will be reserved at the end for Submitting Comments authorized. audience participants to address Type of Review: Extension. A. Obtaining Information Council Members directly with Agency: Office of Workers’ questions, comments, or feedback. Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2016– Compensation Programs. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 0222 when contacting the NRC about Title: Rehabilitation Plan and Award. meeting is open to the public; however the availability of information for this OMB Number: 1240–0045. action. You may obtain publicly- Agency Number: OWCP–16. advance notice of attendance is requested. To RSVP and confirm available information related to this Affected Public: Individual or action by any of the following methods: attendance, the general public should households; Businesses or other for- email info@nwbc.gov with subject line— • Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to profit. http://www.regulations.gov and search Total Respondents: 3,913. ‘‘RSVP for 8/9/17 Public Meeting’’. Anyone wishing to make a presentation for Docket ID NRC–2016–0222. Total Responses: 3,913. • NRC’s Agencywide Documents Time per Response: 30 minutes. to the NWBC at this meeting must Access and Management System Estimated Total Burden Hours: 1,957. contact Cristina Flores, Associate (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly- Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): Director of Public Affairs at info@ available documents online in the $0. nwbc.gov, 202–205–6827. For more information, please visit the ADAMS Public Documents collection at Total Burden Cost (operating/ http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ maintenance): $0. National Women’s Business Council Web site at www.nwbc.gov. adams.html. To begin the search, select Comments submitted in response to ‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then this notice will be summarized and/or Dated: July 25, 2017. select ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS included in the request for Office of Richard Kingan, Search.’’ For problems with ADAMS, Management and Budget approval of the SBA Committee Management Officer. please contact the NRC’s Public information collection request; they will [FR Doc. 2017–16629 Filed 8–7–17; 8:45 am] Document Room (PDR) reference staff at also become a matter of public record. 1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by BILLING CODE P Dated: July 3, 2017. email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The Yoon Ferguson, supporting statement is available in Agency Clearance Officer, Office of Workers’ NUCLEAR REGULATORY ADAMS under Accession No. Compensation Programs, US Department of COMMISSION ML17180A053. Labor. • NRC’s PDR: You may examine and [FR Doc. 2017–16300 Filed 8–7–17; 8:45 am] [NRC–2016–0222] purchase copies of public documents at BILLING CODE 4510–CR–P the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One Information Collection: Enforcement White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Discretion for Operating Reactors and Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. Gaseous Diffusion Plants • NRC’s Clearance Officer: A copy of NATIONAL WOMEN’S BUSINESS COUNCIL AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory the collection of information and related Commission. instructions may be obtained without Federal Register Meeting Notice; ACTION: Notice of submission to the charge by contacting the NRC’s Quarterly Public Meeting Office of Management and Budget; Clearance Officer, David Cullison, request for comment. Office of the Chief Information Officer, AGENCY: National Women’s Business U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Council. asabaliauskas on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with NOTICES SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: ACTION: Notice of open public meeting. Commission (NRC) has recently 301–415–2084; email: submitted a request for renewal of an INFOCOLLECTS.Resource@NRC.GOV. DATES: The Public Meeting existing collection of information to the teleconference will be held on Office of Management and Budget B. Submitting Comments Wednesday, August 9, 2017 from 2:30 (OMB) for review. The information Please include Docket ID NRC–2016– p.m. to 3:00 p.m. EST. collection is entitled, ‘‘Enforcement 0222 in the subject line of your ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held Discretion for Operating Reactors and comment submission, in order to ensure via teleconference. 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Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 151 / Tuesday, August 8, 2017 / Notices 37123 comment submission available to the or request: 680 (600 reporting + 80 NUCLEAR REGULATORY public in this docket. recordkeeping). COMMISSION The NRC cautions you not to include 10. Abstract: The NRC’s Enforcement [NRC–2017–0162] identifying or contact information that Policy includes the circumstances in you do not want to be publicly which the NRC may grant a NOED. On Applications and Amendments to disclosed in your comment submission. occasion, circumstances arise when a Facility Operating Licenses and The NRC posts all comment Combined Licenses Involving power plant licensee’s compliance with submissions at http:// Proposed No Significant Hazards a Technical Specification (TS) Limiting www.regulations.gov as well as entering Considerations and Containing the comment submissions into ADAMS. Condition for Operation or any other license condition would involve an Sensitive Unclassified Non-Safeguards The NRC does not routinely edit Information and Safeguards comment submissions to remove unnecessary plant shutdown or transient. Similarly, for a gaseous Information and Order Imposing identifying or contact information. Procedures for Access to Sensitive If you are requesting or aggregating diffusion plant, circumstances may arise where compliance with a Technical Unclassified Non-Safeguards comments from other persons for Information and Safeguards submission to the NRC, then you should Safety Requirement (TSR) or other Information inform those persons not to include condition would unnecessarily call for a identifying or contact information that total plant shutdown, or, compliance AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory they do not want to be publicly would unnecessarily place the plant in Commission. disclosed in their comment submission. a condition where safety, safeguards, or ACTION: License amendment request; Your request should state that the NRC security features were degraded or opportunity to comment, request a does not routinely edit comment inoperable. hearing, and petition for leave to submissions to remove such information In these circumstances, a licensee or intervene; order imposing procedures. before making the comment certificate holder may request that the submissions available to the public or SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory NRC exercise enforcement discretion, Commission (NRC) received and is entering the comment submissions into and the NRC staff may choose to not ADAMS. considering the approval of three enforce the applicable TS, TSR, or other amendment requests. The amendment II. Background license or certificate condition. This requests are for Vermont Yankee Power Under the provisions of the enforcement discretion is designated as Station, Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 a NOED. Station, Units 2 and 3; and Vogtle U.S.C. Chapter 35), the NRC recently A licensee or certificate holder Electric Generating Plant, Units 3 and 4. submitted a request for renewal of an seeking the issuance of a NOED must For each amendment request, the NRC existing collection of information to document and submit to the NRC by proposes to determine that they involve OMB for review entitled, ‘‘Enforcement letter, in accordance with Inspection no significant hazards consideration. Discretion for Operating Reactors and Manual Chapter 0410 (ADAMS Because the amendment requests Gaseous Diffusion Plants.’’ The NRC Accession No. ML13071A487), the contain sensitive unclassified non- hereby informs potential respondents safeguards information (SUNSI) and/or safety basis for the request, including an that an agency may not conduct or safeguards information (SGI), an order evaluation of the safety significance and sponsor, and that a person is not imposes procedures to obtain access to potential consequences of the proposed SUNSI and SGI for contention required to respond to, a collection of request, a description of proposed information unless it displays a preparation. compensatory measures, a justification currently valid OMB control number. for the duration of the request, the basis DATES: Comments must be filed by The NRC published a Federal September 7, 2017. A request for a for the licensee’s or certificate holder’s Register notice with a 60-day comment hearing must be filed by October 10, conclusion that the request does not period on this information collection on 2017. Any potential party as defined in have a potential adverse impact on the April 25, 2017 (82 FR 19094). § 2.4 of title 10 of the Code of Federal 1. The title of the information public health and safety, and does not Regulations (10 CFR), who believes collection: Enforcement Discretion for involve adverse consequences to the access to SUNSI and/or SGI is necessary Operating Reactors and Gaseous environment, and any other information to respond to this notice must request Diffusion Plants. the NRC staff deems necessary before document access by August 18, 2017. 2. OMB approval number: 3150–0136. making a decision to exercise discretion. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 3. Type of submission: Extension. Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 3rd day by any of the following methods (unless 4. The form number if applicable: N/ of August, 2017. this document describes a different A. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. method for submitting comments on a 5. How often the collection is required David Cullison, specific subject): or requested: On Occasion. NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief • Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 6. Who will be required or asked to http://www.regulations.gov and search Information Officer. respond: Those licensees that for Docket ID NRC–2017–0162. Address [FR Doc. 2017–16696 Filed 8–7–17; 8:45 am] voluntarily request enforcement asabaliauskas on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with NOTICES questions about NRC dockets to Carol discretion through the NOED process. BILLING CODE 7590–01–P Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; 7. The estimated number of annual email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For responses: 8. technical questions, contact the 8. The estimated number of annual individual listed in the FOR FURTHER respondents: 4. INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 9. An estimate of the total number of document. hours needed annually to comply with • Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, the information collection requirement Office of Administration, Mail Stop: VerDate Sep<11>2014 21:16 Aug 07, 2017 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00084 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\08AUN1.SGM 08AUN1


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CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of submission to the Office of Management and Budget; request for comment.
DatesSubmit comments by September 7, 2017.
ContactDavid Cullison, NRC Clearance Officer, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-2084; email: [email protected]
FR Citation82 FR 37122 
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