Notice of Availability of Final Interim Staff Guidance on Streamlined Review Process for License Renewal for Research Reactors and Response to Comments, 57206-57207 [E9-26535]

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E9–26612 Filed 11–2–09; 11:15 am] BILLING CODE 7533–01–P PO 00000 Frm 00066 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [NRC–2009–0214] Notice of Availability of Final Interim Staff Guidance on Streamlined Review Process for License Renewal for Research Reactors and Response to Comments AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Notice of Availability of Final Interim Staff Guidance on Streamlined Review Process for License Renewal for Research Reactors and Response to Comments FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alexander Adams Jr., Division of Policy and Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555–0001, telephone 301–415– 1127, e-mail alexander.adams@nrc.gov; or Marcus Voth, Division of Policy and Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 0001, telephone 301–415–1210, e-mail marcus.voth@nrc.gov. 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However, in license renewal matters most communication is a matter of official record. Under NRC regulations regarding internal rules and procedures an official record must be maintained. Because there are no other comments on the draft guidance that was published, no major changes were initiated. Minor editorial corrections and enhancements were made to the document and it has been re-published and made available to the public by the means described above. Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 28th day of October 2009. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Kathryn M. Brock, Chief, Research and Test Reactor Branch A, Division of Policy and Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. [FR Doc. 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Preparing and sending the notice and the annual explanation of the right to revoke are collections of information. The rule allows issuers, underwriters, or dealers to household prospectuses if 1 The Securities Act requires the delivery of prospectuses to investors who buy securities from an issuer or from underwriters or dealers who participate in a registered distribution of securities. See Securities Act sections 2(a)(10), 4(1), 4(3), 5(b) (15 U.S.C. 77b(a)(10), 77d(1), 77d(3), 77e(b)); see also rule 174 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.174) (regarding the prospectus delivery obligation of dealers); rule 15c2–8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (17 CFR 240.15c2– 8) (prospectus delivery obligations of brokers and dealers). 2 Rule 154 permits the householding of prospectuses that are delivered electronically to investors only if delivery is made to a shared electronic address and the investors give written consent to householding. Implied consent is not permitted in such a situation. See rule 154(b)(4). PO 00000 Frm 00067 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 57207 certain conditions are met. Among the conditions with which a person relying on the rule must comply are providing notice to each investor that only one prospectus will be sent to the household and, in the case of issuers that are mutual funds, providing to each investor who consents to householding an annual explanation of the right to revoke consent to the delivery of a single prospectus to multiple investors sharing an address. The purpose of the notice and annual explanation requirements of the rule is to ensure that investors who wish to receive individual copies of prospectuses are able to do so. Although rule 154 is not limited to mutual funds, the Commission believes that it is used mainly by mutual funds and by broker-dealers that deliver mutual fund prospectuses. The Commission is unable to estimate the number of issuers other than mutual funds that rely on the rule. The Commission estimates that, as of December 2008, there are approximately 1,960 mutual funds, approximately 150 of which engage in direct marketing and therefore deliver their own prospectuses. The Commission estimates that each direct-marketed mutual fund will spend an average of 20 hours per year complying with the notice requirement of the rule, for a total of 3,000 hours. The Commission estimates that each direct-marketed fund will also spend 1 hour complying with the explanation of the right to revoke requirement of the rule, for a total of 150 hours. The Commission estimates that there are approximately 320 broker-dealers that carry customer accounts and, therefore, may be required to deliver mutual fund prospectuses. The Commission estimates that each affected brokerdealer will spend, on average, approximately 20 hours complying with the notice requirement of the rule, for a total of 6,400 hours. Each broker-dealer will also spend 1 hour complying with the annual explanation of the right to revoke requirement, for a total of 320 hours. Therefore, the total number of respondents for rule 154 is 470 (150 mutual funds plus 320 broker-dealers), and the estimated total hour burden is 9,870 hours (3,150 hours for mutual funds plus 6,720 hours for brokerdealers). The estimate of average burden hours is made solely for the purposes of the Paperwork Reduction Act, and is not derived from a comprehensive or even a representative survey or study of the costs of Commission rules and forms. Compliance with the collection of information requirements of the rule is E:\FR\FM\04NON1.SGM 04NON1

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[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 212 (Wednesday, November 4, 2009)]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2009-0214]


Notice of Availability of Final Interim Staff Guidance on 
Streamlined Review Process for License Renewal for Research Reactors 
and Response to Comments

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of Availability of Final Interim Staff Guidance on 
Streamlined Review Process for License Renewal for Research Reactors 
and Response to Comments

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alexander Adams Jr., Division of 
Policy and Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone 
301-415-1127, e-mail alexander.adams@nrc.gov; or Marcus Voth, Division 
of Policy and Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone 
301-415-1210, e-mail marcus.voth@nrc.gov.

ADDRESSES:
    Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: Documents related to this notice, 
including public comments, are accessible at https://www.regulations.gov, by searching on Docket ID: NRC-2009-0214.
    NRC's Public Document Room (PDR): The public may examine and have 
copied for a fee, publicly available documents at the NRC's PDR, Public 
File Area O-1 F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, 
Rockville, Maryland.
    NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS): 
Publicly available documents created or received at the NRC are 
available electronically at the NRC's Electronic Reading Room at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. From this page, the public can gain 
entry into ADAMS, which provides text and image files of NRC's public 
documents. If you do not have access to ADAMS or if there are problems 
in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, contact the NRC's PDR 
reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to 
pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The document, ``Interim Staff Guidance on 
Streamlined Review Process for License Renewal for Research Reactors'' 
is available electronically under ADAMS Accession Number ML092240244.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 16, 2009 (74 FR 28,583), the NRC

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published a notice of availability and opportunity for comment on the 
draft Interim Staff Guidance Regarding the Review of Research and Test 
Reactor License Renewal Applications. When the comment period ended on 
July 16, 2009, one comment was received. The commenter cited practices 
of another federal agency that allowed for informal transmittal of 
information which, if applied to the license renewal process for 
research reactors, could result in improvements in efficiency. The 
staff considered the comment and notes that whenever possible less 
formal means are used. However, in license renewal matters most 
communication is a matter of official record. Under NRC regulations 
regarding internal rules and procedures an official record must be 
maintained.
    Because there are no other comments on the draft guidance that was 
published, no major changes were initiated. Minor editorial corrections 
and enhancements were made to the document and it has been re-published 
and made available to the public by the means described above.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 28th day of October 2009.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Kathryn M. Brock,
Chief, Research and Test Reactor Branch A, Division of Policy and 
Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. E9-26535 Filed 11-3-09; 8:45 am]
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