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This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER
contains notices to the public of the proposed
issuance of rules and regulations. The
purpose of these notices is to give interested
persons an opportunity to participate in the
rule making prior to the adoption of the final
rules.
NUCLEAR REGULATORY
COMMISSION
10 CFR Parts 72 and 73
[NRC–2009–0558]
Vulnerability and Threat Information
for Facilities Storing Spent Nuclear
Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Public meeting.
AGENCY:
The Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) will discuss with
affected stakeholders vulnerability and
threat information associated with the
forthcoming security rulemaking to
revise Title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR) Part 72,
‘‘Licensing Requirements for the
Independent Storage of Spent Nuclear
Fuel, High-Level Radioactive Waste, and
Reactor-Related Greater Than Class C
Waste,’’ and 73, ‘‘Physical Protection of
Plants and Materials.’’ This information
will be used to inform the regulatory
basis for the rulemaking which will
issue new risk-informed and
performance-based security regulations
SUMMARY:
for Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) and HighLevel Radioactive Waste (HLW) storage
facilities. The draft regulatory basis was
published for comment in the Federal
Register (FR) on December 16, 2009 (74
FR 66589).
This meeting will be closed under
exemptions 3.a and 3.b of the
Commission’s policy statement 1, due to
the expected discussion of classified
information.
DATES: Tuesday, July 26, 2011, 9 a.m. to
4 p.m. (Eastern Time) (Closed to
Public—Requires Access to Classified
Information)
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, One White Flint North,
Commissioners’ Conference Room, O–1
G16, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville,
Maryland 20852.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dennis Andrukat, Office of Nuclear
Security and Incident Response, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone
301–415–3561; e-mail:
Dennis.Andrukat@nrc.gov.
ADDRESSES:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The NRC requires high assurance of
adequate protection of public health and
safety, the common defense and
security, and the environment for the
secure storage of SNF and HLW. The
NRC meets this strategic goal by
requiring Independent Spent Fuel
Storage Installation licensees to comply
with security requirements specified in
10 CFR Part 73. Following the terrorist
attacks of September 11, 2001, the NRC
has continued to achieve this requisite
high assurance for all facilities licensed
to store SNF through a combination of
these existing security regulations and
the issuance of security orders to
individual licensees.
Based on the Commission’s direction
presented in SRM–SECY–10–0114
(Agencywide Documents Access and
Management System (ADAMS)
Accession No. ML103210025) and
stakeholder requests from the NRC
sponsored May 2, 2011, open and closed
public meetings (ADAMS Package
Accession No. ML111450161), the staff
is hosting this meeting to enhance
stakeholder understanding of the
security assessments used to inform the
draft regulatory basis and to enhance
staff understanding of the comments
received. The meeting will discuss
classified national security information.
The NRC notes that the public,
licensees, certificate holders, and other
stakeholders will have a future
opportunity to comment on the
proposed rulemaking when that
document is published in the FR.
Availability of Documents
The following table indicates the
related documents that are available to
the public and how they may be
obtained.
Public
Document
Room (PDR)
Web
Draft Technical Basis, Revision 1 (December 2009) [NRC–2009–0558] ................................
Commission: SECY–10–0114 (August 26, 2010) ....................................................................
Commission: SRM–SECY–10–0114 (November 16, 2010) .....................................................
Commission: SECY–07–0148 (redacted) (August 28, 2007) ..................................................
Commission: SRM–SECY–07–0148 (December 18, 2007) .....................................................
Public Meeting Notice for May 2, 2011 (March 30, 2011) .......................................................
Meeting Summary Package for May 2, 2011 meeting .............................................................
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You can access publicly available
documents related to this notice using
the following methods:
NRC’s PDR: The public may examine
and have copied, for a fee, publicly
available documents at the NRC’s PDR,
Public File Area O–1 G21, One White
Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike,
Rockville, Maryland 20852–2738.
NRC’s ADAMS: Publicly available
documents created or received at the
NRC are available online in the NRC
Library at https://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/adams.html. From this page, the
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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,
1 ‘‘Commission’s Policy Statement on Enhancing
Public Participation in NRC Meetings,’’ (67 FR
36920), May 28, 2002.
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301–415–4737, or by e-mail to
pdr.resource@nrc.gov.
Federal Rulemaking Site: Public
comments and supporting materials
related to this notice can be found at
https://www.regulations.gov by searching
on Docket ID: NRC–2009–0558.
Availability of Services:
The NRC provides reasonable
accommodations to individuals with
disabilities where appropriate. If you
need a reasonable accommodation to
participate in this meeting (e.g., sign
language), or need this meeting notice or
other information from the meeting in
another format, please notify the NRC
meeting contact, Dennis Andrukat at
301–415–3561 by July 5, 2011, so that
arrangements can be made.
All expected attendees must register
with the NRC meeting contact by close
of business on July 12, 2011. Attendees
must provide their full name, company/
organization, last four of social security
number, phone number,
acknowledgement of current access to
Classified Information (minimum ‘‘L’’
clearance), and basis for need-to-know
in order to verify that attendees are
cleared for access to the information.
No electronic devices will be allowed
in the Commissioners’ Conference Room
during the meeting, this includes cell
phones, laptops, pagers, PDAs, etc. No
food or drink is allowed in the
Commissioners’ Conference Room.
All attendees are to use the One White
Flint North temporary entrance located
on Marinelli Street. The NRC is
accessible to the White Flint Metro
Station. Visitor parking near the NRC
buildings is limited. Parking is available
at the White Flint Metro Station using
the Metro Smart Card.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 7th day
of June 2011.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Sandra L. Wastler,
Branch Chief, Division of Security Policy,
Office of Nuclear Security and Incident
Response.
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Corporation Funding and Fiscal
Affairs; Farmer Mac Risk-Based
Capital Stress Test, Version 5.0
Farm Credit Administration.
Advance notice of proposed
rulemaking.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
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In this advance notice of
proposed rulemaking (ANPRM), the
Farm Credit Administration (FCA, we,
us, our) is requesting comments on
alternatives to using credit ratings
issued by nationally recognized
statistical ratings organizations (NRSRO
or credit rating agency) in regulations
addressing the Risk-Based Capital Stress
Test (RBCST or stress test) for the
Federal Agricultural Mortgage
Corporation (Farmer Mac or FAMC).
Recent legislation requires every Federal
agency to remove any references to
credit ratings from its regulations and to
substitute them with other standards of
creditworthiness considered
appropriate. Additionally, in response
to this same legislative emphasis on
ensuring appropriate prudential
oversight of derivatives transactions, we
are considering whether the RBCST
should include a more explicit and
comprehensive capital charge for
counterparty risk stemming from
derivative transactions. Lastly, through
the ANPRM we are seeking public input
on how we might revise the operational
and strategic business planning
requirements for FAMC to place greater
emphasis on diversity and inclusion.
DATES: You may send comments on or
before August 15, 2011.
ADDRESSES: We offer a variety of
methods for you to submit comments.
For accuracy and efficiency reasons,
commenters are encouraged to submit
comments by e-mail or through the
FCA’s Web site. As facsimiles (fax) are
difficult for us to process and achieve
compliance with section 508 of the
Rehabilitation Act, we no longer accept
comments submitted by fax. Regardless
of the method you use, please do not
submit your comment multiple times
via different methods. You may submit
comments by any of the following
methods:
• E-mail: Send us an e-mail at regcomm@fca.gov.
• FCA Web site: https://www.fca.gov.
Select ‘‘Public Commenters’’, then
‘‘Public Comments’’, and follow the
directions for ‘‘Submitting a Comment’’.
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
• Mail: Laurie A. Rea, Director, Office
of Secondary Market Oversight, Farm
Credit Administration, 1501 Farm
Credit Drive, McLean, VA 22102–5090.
You may review copies of all
comments we receive at our office in
McLean, Virginia, or on our Web site at
https://www.fca.gov. Once you are in the
Web site, select ‘‘Public Commenters’’,
then ‘‘Public Comments’’, and follow
the directions for ‘‘Reading Submitted
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Public Comments’’. We will show your
comments as submitted, including any
supporting data provided, but for
technical reasons we may omit items
such as logos and special characters.
Identifying information that you
provide, such as phone numbers and
addresses, will be publicly available.
However, we will attempt to remove
e-mail addresses to help reduce Internet
spam.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Joseph T. Connor, Associate Director for
Policy and Analysis, Office of
Secondary Market Oversight, Farm
Credit Administration, McLean, VA
22102–5090, (703) 883–4280, TTY
(703) 883–4434,
Or
Laura McFarland, Senior Counsel,
Office of the General Counsel, Farm
Credit Administration, McLean, VA
22102–5090, (703) 883–4020, TTY
(703) 883–4020.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Objective
The purpose of this ANPRM is to
gather public input on how FCA might:
• Revise existing Farmer Mac RBCST
regulations to replace data from credit
rating agencies.
• Comprehensively address
derivative counterparty exposure in the
RBCST; and
• Revise operational and strategic
business planning requirements to place
greater emphasis on diversity and
inclusion.
II. Background
Farmer Mac is an institution of the
Farm Credit System, regulated by FCA
through the FCA Office of Secondary
Market Oversight (OSMO). Farmer Mac
was established and chartered by
Congress to create a secondary market
for agricultural real estate mortgage
loans, rural housing mortgage loans, and
rural utilities loans, and it is a
stockholder-owned instrumentality of
the United States. Title VIII of the Farm
Credit Act of 1971, as amended, (Act)
governs Farmer Mac.1
On July 21, 2010, the Dodd-Frank
Wall Street Reform and Consumer
Protection Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank Act)
was enacted.2 Section 939A of the
Dodd-Frank Act requires Federal
agencies to review all regulatory
references to NRSRO credit ratings and
replace those references with other
appropriate standards for determining
creditworthiness. The Dodd-Frank Act
1 Public Law 92 181, 85 Stat. 583, 12 U.S.C. 2001
et seq. (December 10, 1971).
2 Public Law 111–203, 124 Stat. 1376, (H.R. 4173),
July 21, 2010.
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[FR Doc No: 2011-14666]
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This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER contains notices to the public of
the proposed issuance of rules and regulations. The purpose of these
notices is to give interested persons an opportunity to participate in
the rule making prior to the adoption of the final rules.
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
10 CFR Parts 72 and 73
[NRC-2009-0558]
Vulnerability and Threat Information for Facilities Storing Spent
Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste
AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Public meeting.
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SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will discuss with
affected stakeholders vulnerability and threat information associated
with the forthcoming security rulemaking to revise Title 10 of the Code
of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 72, ``Licensing Requirements for
the Independent Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel, High-Level Radioactive
Waste, and Reactor-Related Greater Than Class C Waste,'' and 73,
``Physical Protection of Plants and Materials.'' This information will
be used to inform the regulatory basis for the rulemaking which will
issue new risk-informed and performance-based security regulations for
Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) and High-Level Radioactive Waste (HLW) storage
facilities. The draft regulatory basis was published for comment in the
Federal Register (FR) on December 16, 2009 (74 FR 66589).
This meeting will be closed under exemptions 3.a and 3.b of the
Commission's policy statement \1\, due to the expected discussion of
classified information.
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\1\ ``Commission's Policy Statement on Enhancing Public
Participation in NRC Meetings,'' (67 FR 36920), May 28, 2002.
DATES: Tuesday, July 26, 2011, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Eastern Time) (Closed
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to Public--Requires Access to Classified Information)
ADDRESSES: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, One White Flint North,
Commissioners' Conference Room, O-1 G16, 11555 Rockville Pike,
Rockville, Maryland 20852.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dennis Andrukat, Office of Nuclear
Security and Incident Response, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone 301-415-3561; e-mail:
Dennis.Andrukat@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The NRC requires high assurance of adequate protection of public
health and safety, the common defense and security, and the environment
for the secure storage of SNF and HLW. The NRC meets this strategic
goal by requiring Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation licensees
to comply with security requirements specified in 10 CFR Part 73.
Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the NRC has
continued to achieve this requisite high assurance for all facilities
licensed to store SNF through a combination of these existing security
regulations and the issuance of security orders to individual
licensees.
Based on the Commission's direction presented in SRM-SECY-10-0114
(Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession
No. ML103210025) and stakeholder requests from the NRC sponsored May 2,
2011, open and closed public meetings (ADAMS Package Accession No.
ML111450161), the staff is hosting this meeting to enhance stakeholder
understanding of the security assessments used to inform the draft
regulatory basis and to enhance staff understanding of the comments
received. The meeting will discuss classified national security
information.
The NRC notes that the public, licensees, certificate holders, and
other stakeholders will have a future opportunity to comment on the
proposed rulemaking when that document is published in the FR.
Availability of Documents
The following table indicates the related documents that are
available to the public and how they may be obtained.
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Public
Document Document Room Web Electronic Reading Room (ADAMS)
(PDR)
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Draft Technical Basis, Revision 1 X X ML093280743
(December 2009) [NRC-2009-0558].
Commission: SECY-10-0114 (August 26, 2010) X ............... ML101960614
Commission: SRM-SECY-10-0114 (November 16, X X ML103210025
2010).
Commission: SECY-07-0148 (redacted) X X ML080030050
(August 28, 2007).
Commission: SRM-SECY-07-0148 (December 18, X X ML073530119
2007).
Public Meeting Notice for May 2, 2011 X ............... ML110880263
(March 30, 2011).
Meeting Summary Package for May 2, 2011 X ............... ML111450161
meeting.
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You can access publicly available documents related to this notice
using the following methods:
NRC's PDR: The public may examine and have copied, for a fee,
publicly available documents at the NRC's PDR, Public File Area O-1
G21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland
20852-2738.
NRC's ADAMS: Publicly available documents created or received at
the NRC are available online in the NRC Library 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,
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301-415-4737, or by e-mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov.
Federal Rulemaking Site: Public comments and supporting materials
related to this notice can be found at https://www.regulations.gov by
searching on Docket ID: NRC-2009-0558.
Availability of Services:
The NRC provides reasonable accommodations to individuals with
disabilities where appropriate. If you need a reasonable accommodation
to participate in this meeting (e.g., sign language), or need this
meeting notice or other information from the meeting in another format,
please notify the NRC meeting contact, Dennis Andrukat at 301-415-3561
by July 5, 2011, so that arrangements can be made.
All expected attendees must register with the NRC meeting contact
by close of business on July 12, 2011. Attendees must provide their
full name, company/organization, last four of social security number,
phone number, acknowledgement of current access to Classified
Information (minimum ``L'' clearance), and basis for need-to-know in
order to verify that attendees are cleared for access to the
information.
No electronic devices will be allowed in the Commissioners'
Conference Room during the meeting, this includes cell phones, laptops,
pagers, PDAs, etc. No food or drink is allowed in the Commissioners'
Conference Room.
All attendees are to use the One White Flint North temporary
entrance located on Marinelli Street. The NRC is accessible to the
White Flint Metro Station. Visitor parking near the NRC buildings is
limited. Parking is available at the White Flint Metro Station using
the Metro Smart Card.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 7th day of June 2011.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Sandra L. Wastler,
Branch Chief, Division of Security Policy, Office of Nuclear Security
and Incident Response.
[FR Doc. 2011-14666 Filed 6-15-11; 8:45 am]
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