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security issues, which are matters
separate from the technical
requirements to operate a facility
covered by backfitting and issue finality
provisions. The security guidance in
this regulatory guide would be the same
for all entities to whom this draft
regulatory guide applies; it does not
distinguish between nuclear power
plant licensees and certain fuel cycle
facilities under part 70 (who are
protected by backfitting and issue
resolution provisions), and the other
entities to whom this regulatory guide
applies. Thus, the security-related
guidance in the draft regulatory guide
should not be viewed as falling within
the scope of matters within the purview
of backfitting and issue finality.
The DG, if finalized, could be applied
to applications for 10 CFR part 50
operating licenses; 10 CFR part 52,
subpart B, C, E, or F approvals; or
licenses issued under part 70. Such
action would not constitute backfitting
as defined in 10 CFR 50.109 or 10 CFR
70.76 or be otherwise inconsistent with
the applicable issue finality provision in
10 CFR part 52, inasmuch as such
applicants are not within the scope of
entities protected by 10 CFR 50.109, 10
CFR 70.76, or the relevant issue finality
provisions in 10 CFR part 52.
Backfitting restrictions were not
intended to apply to every NRC action
that substantially changes settled
expectations, and applicants have no
reasonable expectation that future
requirements may change, see 54 FR
15372 (April 18, 1989), at 15385–86.
Although the issue finality provisions in
part 52 are intended to provide
regulatory stability and issue finality,
the matters addressed in this regulatory
guide (concerning certain security
requirements in part 73) are not within
the scope of issues that may be resolved
for design certification, design approval
or a manufacturing license, and
therefore are not subject to issue finality
protections in part 52.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 23rd day
of December, 2014.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Harriet Karagiannis,
Acting Chief, Regulatory Guidance and
Generic Issues Branch, Division of
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory
Research.
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Regulation, telephone: 301–415–3306,
email to Lois.James@nrc.gov; U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
License Renewal Application for Byron
Station Units 1 and 2
I. Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Draft supplemental generic
environmental impact statement,
issuance, public meetings, request for
comment.
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2013–
0178 when contacting the NRC about
the availability of information regarding
this document. You may obtain
publicly-available information related to
this document by any of the following
methods:
• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2013–0178.
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may access publicly
available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at
https://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 in this document
(if that document is available in
ADAMS) is provided the first time that
a document is referenced. The draft
plant-specific Supplement 54 to the
GEIS for License Renewal of Nuclear
Plants, NUREG–1437, is available in
ADAMS under Accession No.
ML14357A042.
• 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.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is issuing for public
comment a draft plant-specific
Supplement 54 to the Generic
Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS)
for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants,
NUREG–1437, regarding the renewal of
operating license NPF–37 and NPF–66
for an additional 20 years of operation
for Byron Station, Units 1 and 2 (Byron).
Byron is located in Byron, Illinois.
Possible alternatives to the proposed
action (license renewal) include no
action and reasonable alternative energy
sources. The NRC staff plans to hold
two public meetings during the public
comment period to present an overview
of the draft plant-specific supplement to
the GEIS and to accept public comments
on the document.
DATES: Submit comments by February
20, 2015. Comments received after this
date will be considered, if it is practical
to do so, but the NRC staff is able to
ensure consideration only for comments
received on or before this date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
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
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2013–0178. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol
Gallagher; telephone: 301–287–3422;
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:
3WFN–06–A44M, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001.
For additional direction on obtaining
information and submitting comments,
see ‘‘Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments’’ in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lois
James, Office of Nuclear Reactor
SUMMARY:
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B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC–2013–
0178 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 in
comment submissions that you do not
want to be publicly disclosed in your
comment submission. The NRC will
post all comment submissions at
https://www.regulations.gov as well as
enter the comment submissions into
ADAMS, and the NRC does not
routinely edit comment submissions to
remove identifying or contact
information.
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If you are requesting or aggregating
comments from other persons for
submission to the NRC, 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 into ADAMS.
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II. Discussion
The NRC is issuing for public
comment a draft plant-specific
Supplement 54 to the GEIS for License
Renewal of Nuclear Plants, NUREG–
1437, regarding the renewal of operating
license NPF–37 AND NPF–66 for an
additional 20 years of operation for
Byron. Supplement 54 to the GEIS
includes the preliminary analysis that
evaluates the environmental impacts of
the proposed action and alternatives to
the proposed action. The NRC’s
preliminary recommendation is that the
adverse environmental impacts of
license renewal for Byron are not great
enough to deny the option of license
renewal for energy-planning
decisionmakers.
III. Public Meetings
The NRC staff will hold public
meetings prior to the close of the public
comment period to present an overview
of the draft plant-specific supplement to
the GEIS and to accept public comment
on the document. Two meetings will be
held at the Byron Forrest Preserve, 7993
North River Road, Byron, Illinois 61010,
on Tuesday, February 3, 2015. The first
session will convene at 2 p.m. and will
continue until 4 p.m., as necessary. The
second session will convene at 7 p.m.
and will continue until 9 p.m., as
necessary. The meetings will be
transcribed and will include: (1) A
presentation of the contents of the draft
plant-specific supplement to the GEIS;
and (2) the opportunity for interested
government agencies, organizations, and
individuals to provide comments on the
draft report. Additionally, the NRC staff
will host informal discussions one hour
prior to the start of each session at the
same location. No comments on the
draft supplement to the GEIS will be
accepted during the informal
discussions. To be considered in the
final supplement to the GEIS, comments
must be provided either at the
transcribed public meeting or submitted
in writing by the comment deadline
identified above. Persons may preregister to attend or present oral
comments at the meeting by contacting
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Mr. Lois James, the NRC project
manager, at 1–800–368–5642, extension
3306, or by email at Lois.James@nrc.gov
no later than Tuesday, January 20, 2015.
Members of the public may also register
to provide oral comments within 15
minutes of the start of each session.
Individual oral comments may be
limited by the time available, depending
on the number of persons who register.
If special equipment or accommodations
are needed to attend or present
information at the public meeting, the
need should be brought to Ms. James’
attention no later than Tuesday, January
20, 2015, to provide the NRC staff
adequate notice to determine whether
the request can be accommodated.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 23 day
of December, 2014.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Elaine Keegan,
Acting Chief, Projects Branch 2, Division of
License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation.
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Operator Licensing Examination
Standards for Power Reactors
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: NUREG; issuance.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is issuing NUREG–
1021, Revision 10, ‘‘Operator Licensing
Examination Standards for Power
Reactors, Final Report.’’ This NUREG
provides policy and guidance for the
development, administration, and
grading of examinations used for
licensing operators at nuclear power
plants pursuant to the Commission’s
regulations.
DATES: Revision 10 of NUREG–1021 is
available January 2, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID
NRC–2013–0227 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of
information regarding this document.
You may obtain publicly-available
information related to this document
using any of the following methods:
• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2013–0227. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol
Gallagher; telephone: 301–287–3422;
email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For
technical questions, contact the
individuals listed in the FOR FURTHER
SUMMARY:
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section of this
document.
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at
https://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. Revision
10 of NUREG–1021 is available in
ADAMS under Accession No.
ML14352A297. Draft NUREG–1021,
Revision 10 is available in ADAMS
under Accession No. ML13325A090.
• 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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
James Kellum, Office of New Reactors,
telephone: 301–415–5305, email:
Jim.Kellum@nrc.gov; or Timothy Kolb,
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation,
telephone: 301–415–1428, email:
Timothy.Kolb@nrc.gov; U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Revision
10 of NUREG–1021 provides policy and
guidance for the development,
administration, and grading of
examinations used for licensing
operators at nuclear power plants
pursuant to the Commission’s
regulations in Part 55 of Title 10 of the
Code of Federal Regulations, ‘‘Operator
Licenses.’’ This NUREG also provides
guidance for maintaining operators’
licenses, and for the NRC to conduct
requalification examinations when
necessary.
Revision 10 of NUREG–1021 replaces
Revision 9, Supplement 1, of NUREG–
1021. Draft NUREG–1021, Revision 10,
was published in the Federal Register
for public comment on December 9,
2013 (78 FR 73898). The NRC received
90 public comments from private
citizens and industry organizations. The
comments were generally in agreement
with the draft revisions to the NUREG.
Revision 10 of NUREG–1021
incorporates the comments received on
draft NUREG–1021, Revision 10. The
NRC staff’s evaluation and resolution of
the public comments are documented in
ADAMS under Accession No.
ML14345A266.
INFORMATION CONTACT
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd
day of December, 2014.
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[Docket Nos. 50-454 and 50-455; NRC-2013-0178]
License Renewal Application for Byron Station Units 1 and 2
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft supplemental generic environmental impact statement,
issuance, public meetings, request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for
public comment a draft plant-specific Supplement 54 to the Generic
Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) for License Renewal of Nuclear
Plants, NUREG-1437, regarding the renewal of operating license NPF-37
and NPF-66 for an additional 20 years of operation for Byron Station,
Units 1 and 2 (Byron). Byron is located in Byron, Illinois. Possible
alternatives to the proposed action (license renewal) include no action
and reasonable alternative energy sources. The NRC staff plans to hold
two public meetings during the public comment period to present an
overview of the draft plant-specific supplement to the GEIS and to
accept public comments on the document.
DATES: Submit comments by February 20, 2015. Comments received after
this date will be considered, if it is practical to do so, but the NRC
staff is able to ensure consideration only for comments received on or
before this date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 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 https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0178. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-
3422; 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: 3WFN-06-A44M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001.
For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lois James, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation, telephone: 301-415-3306, email to Lois.James@nrc.gov; U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2013-0178 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may
obtain publicly-available information related to this document by any
of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0178.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may access publicly available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at https://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 in this document
(if that document is available in ADAMS) is provided the first time
that a document is referenced. The draft plant-specific Supplement 54
to the GEIS for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, NUREG-1437, is
available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML14357A042.
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-2013-0178 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 in comment submissions that you do not want to be publicly
disclosed in your comment submission. The NRC will post all comment
submissions at https://www.regulations.gov as well as enter the comment
submissions into ADAMS, and the NRC does not routinely edit comment
submissions to remove identifying or contact information.
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If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons
for submission to the NRC, 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 into ADAMS.
II. Discussion
The NRC is issuing for public comment a draft plant-specific
Supplement 54 to the GEIS for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, NUREG-
1437, regarding the renewal of operating license NPF-37 AND NPF-66 for
an additional 20 years of operation for Byron. Supplement 54 to the
GEIS includes the preliminary analysis that evaluates the environmental
impacts of the proposed action and alternatives to the proposed action.
The NRC's preliminary recommendation is that the adverse environmental
impacts of license renewal for Byron are not great enough to deny the
option of license renewal for energy-planning decisionmakers.
III. Public Meetings
The NRC staff will hold public meetings prior to the close of the
public comment period to present an overview of the draft plant-
specific supplement to the GEIS and to accept public comment on the
document. Two meetings will be held at the Byron Forrest Preserve, 7993
North River Road, Byron, Illinois 61010, on Tuesday, February 3, 2015.
The first session will convene at 2 p.m. and will continue until 4
p.m., as necessary. The second session will convene at 7 p.m. and will
continue until 9 p.m., as necessary. The meetings will be transcribed
and will include: (1) A presentation of the contents of the draft
plant-specific supplement to the GEIS; and (2) the opportunity for
interested government agencies, organizations, and individuals to
provide comments on the draft report. Additionally, the NRC staff will
host informal discussions one hour prior to the start of each session
at the same location. No comments on the draft supplement to the GEIS
will be accepted during the informal discussions. To be considered in
the final supplement to the GEIS, comments must be provided either at
the transcribed public meeting or submitted in writing by the comment
deadline identified above. Persons may pre-register to attend or
present oral comments at the meeting by contacting Mr. Lois James, the
NRC project manager, at 1-800-368-5642, extension 3306, or by email at
Lois.James@nrc.gov no later than Tuesday, January 20, 2015. Members of
the public may also register to provide oral comments within 15 minutes
of the start of each session. Individual oral comments may be limited
by the time available, depending on the number of persons who register.
If special equipment or accommodations are needed to attend or present
information at the public meeting, the need should be brought to Ms.
James' attention no later than Tuesday, January 20, 2015, to provide
the NRC staff adequate notice to determine whether the request can be
accommodated.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 23 day of December, 2014.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Elaine Keegan,
Acting Chief, Projects Branch 2, Division of License Renewal, Office of
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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