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NUCLEAR REGULATORY
COMMISSION
[EA–2014–114; NRC–2015–0062]
Honeywell International, Inc.
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Confirmatory order; issuance.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is issuing a
confirmatory order to Honeywell
International, Inc. (Honeywell),
confirming an agreement reached in an
Alternative Dispute Resolution session
held on December 9, 2014. As part of
the agreement, Honeywell will conduct
presentations and training to its
employees regarding the policy for
raising employee concerns, addressing
safety issues, and management response
to employee concerns; modify existing
processes and develop new processes
that provide for ongoing support for
employee protection requirements; and
review and update its Safety Conscious
Work Environment policy and
incorporate aspects of the NRC’s Safety
Culture Policy, as appropriate. The NRC
will refrain from issuing a Notice of
Violation or proposing a civil penalty.
DATES: The confirmatory order was
effective on March 11, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID
NRC–2015–0062 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
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2015–0062. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol
Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463;
email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For
questions about this Order, contact the
individuals listed in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this
document.
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Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
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‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then
select ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS
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please contact the NRC’s Public
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a document is referenced.
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Enforcement, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
The text of the Order is attached.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day
of March, 2015.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Patricia K. Holahan,
Director, Office of Enforcement.
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In the Matter of Honeywell
International, Inc., Metropolis, Illinois
[Docket No. 04003392, License No.
SUB–526, EA–14–114]
CONFIRMATORY ORDER MODIFYING
LICENSE (EFFECTIVE
IMMEDIATELY)
I.
Honeywell International Inc.
(Honeywell or Licensee) is the holder of
Materials License No. SUB–526, issued
by the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC or Commission)
pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of
Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 40 on
May 11, 2007, and Materials License
Nos. 12–15023–02E and 15–19986–01E,
issued by the NRC pursuant to 10 CFR
part 30 on September 7, 2012 and
October 2, 2014, respectively. The
licenses authorize the operation of
Honeywell’s Metropolis, Illinois,
facility; and specific licenses for exempt
distribution of byproduct material at
Honeywell’s St. Charles, Illinois; and
Olathe, Kansas facilities in accordance
with conditions specified therein.
This confirmatory order (Order) is the
result of an agreement reached during
an alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
mediation session conducted on
December 9, 2014.
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II.
On May 29, 2013, the NRC Office of
Investigations (OI) initiated an
investigation to determine whether a
contractor at Honeywell’s Metropolis,
Illinois facility, Bluestone, LLC
(Bluestone), terminated one of its
employees for, in part, notifying both
Honeywell and Bluestone of a safety
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concern. The investigation was
completed on May 15, 2014, and was
documented in OI Report No. 2–2013–
030. Based upon evidence developed
during its investigation, the NRC
identified an apparent violation of 10
CFR 40.7, ‘‘Employee protection,’’
involving a former Bluestone employee
who was terminated for, in part,
notifying both Honeywell and Bluestone
that the employee smelled alcohol on
the employee’s immediate supervisor’s
breath onsite and during duty hours. By
letter dated September 26, 2014, the
NRC identified to Honeywell the
apparent violation of 10 CFR 40.7,
‘‘Employee protection,’’ and offered
Honeywell the opportunity to provide a
response in writing, attend a predecisional enforcement conference, or to
request alternative dispute resolution
(ADR) in which a neutral mediator with
no decision-making authority would
facilitate discussions between the NRC
and Honeywell and, if possible, assist
the NRC and Honeywell in reaching an
agreement on resolving the matter.
In response to the NRC’s letter,
Honeywell chose to participate in ADR.
On December 9, 2014, the NRC and
Honeywell met in an ADR session
mediated by a professional mediator,
arranged through Cornell University’s
Institute on Conflict Resolution. During
that ADR session, a preliminary
settlement agreement was reached, and
this Order is issued pursuant to that
agreement.
III.
The NRC acknowledges that
Bluestone no longer provides services as
a contractor at Honeywell’s Metropolis,
Illinois facility.
During the ADR mediation session, a
preliminary settlement agreement was
reached. The elements of the agreement,
as signed by both parties, consisted of
the following:
1. Communication:
Conducting presentations by senior
Honeywell managers to inform
Honeywell’s employees and the
employees of Honeywell’s contractors of
Honeywell’s policy regarding raising
employee concerns and management
treatment of such concerns.
2. Training:
Presenting training regarding raising
safety concerns, addressing safety
issues, and management response to
employee concerns.
3. Work Process:
Modifying existing processes and
developing new processes that provide
for ongoing management support for
employee protection requirements.
4. Policy Guidance:
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Reviewing and updating Honeywell’s
Safety Conscious Work Environment
(SCWE) policy and incorporating
applicable aspects of NRC’s Safety
Culture Policy, as appropriate.
5. Enforcement Consideration:
During the ADR process, Honeywell
neither admitted nor denied that a
violation occurred. This confirmatory
order, therefore, should not be used as
evidence that a violation in fact
occurred or that Honeywell agrees that
a violation occurred. The NRC will
refrain from issuing a Notice of
Violation or proposing a civil penalty
for all matters discussed in the NRC’s
letter of September 26, 2014 (EA–14–
114).
On February 26, 2015, Honeywell
consented to issuing this Order with the
commitments described in Section V
below. Honeywell further agreed that
this Order is to be effective upon
issuance and that it has waived its right
to a hearing.
IV.
Since Honeywell has agreed to take
additional actions to address NRC
concerns, as set forth below in Section
V, the NRC has concluded that its
concerns can be resolved through the
effective implementation of Honeywell’s
commitments.
I find that Honeywell’s commitments
as set forth in Section V are acceptable
and necessary and conclude that with
these commitments the public health
and safety are reasonably assured. In
view of the foregoing, I have determined
that public health and safety require
that Honeywell’s commitments be
confirmed by this Order. Based on the
above and Honeywell’s consent, this
Confirmatory Order is immediately
effective upon issuance.
V.
Accordingly, pursuant to Sections 81,
161b, 161i, 161o, 182 and 186 of the
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended,
and the Commission’s regulations in 10
CFR 2.202 and 10 CFR parts 30 and 40,
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, EFFECTIVE
IMMEDIATELY, THAT LICENSE NOS.
SUB–526, 12–15023–02E, and 15–
19986–01E ARE MODIFIED AS
FOLLOWS:
Note: Except as otherwise indicated,
the terms in Section V apply only to
Honeywell’s facility in Metropolis,
Illinois. Any reference to Honeywell
employees and supervisors includes all
Honeywell and contractor employees
and supervisors working at Honeywell’s
facility in Metropolis, Illinois. Any
reference to ‘‘Supervisor’’ shall mean: a)
Honeywell salaried exempt employees,
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and b) first line contractor supervisors
and above.
A. Communication.
1. By no later than sixty (60) calendar
days after the issuance of this
confirmatory order (Order), one or more
members of Honeywell’s management,
at a level at least equal to the Plant
Manager at Honeywell’s Metropolis,
Illinois facility, will issue site-wide
written communication to all employees
at the Honeywell’s Metropolis facility
and to all personnel engaged in NRCregulated activities at the Olathe Service
Center (Olathe, Kansas) and System
Sensor (St. Charles, Illinois) facilities,
reinforcing Honeywell’s commitment to
maintaining a safety conscious work
environment (SCWE) and reaffirming
Honeywell’s insistence upon the
protection of employees’ right and
obligation to raise safety issues.
2. By no later than ninety (90)
calendar days after the issuance of this
Order, Honeywell shall communicate its
SCWE policy to Honeywell employees
at Honeywell’s Metropolis, Illinois
facility in one or more all-hands
meetings, providing employees with the
opportunity to ask questions in a live
forum.
3. By no later than ninety (90)
calendar days after the issuance of this
Order, Honeywell shall place posters in
strategic areas throughout Honeywell
Metropolis, Illinois facility to promote
SCWE and inform employees of avenues
available to employees to raise concerns
including the NRC.
4. By no later than ninety (90)
calendar days after the issuance of this
Order, Honeywell shall develop and
distribute pocket-sized cards that
discuss avenues available to employees
to raise concerns including the NRC.
Honeywell shall distribute these cards
to all employees at Honeywell’s
Metropolis, Illinois facility, and to all
personnel engaged in NRC regulated
activities at the Olathe Service Center
(Olathe, Kansas) and System Sensor (St.
Charles, Illinois) facilities.
5. By no later than one (1) year after
the issuance of this Order, a Honeywell
representative shall provide a
presentation at a public forum about
Honeywell’s SCWE policy and its
compliance program relating to the
NRC’s Employee Protection Rule.
B. Training.
1. Honeywell shall review its existing
general employee training to ensure
coverage of NRC’s Employee Protection
Rule (10 CFR 40.7). The training will
include insights from the underlying
matter and SCWE, case studies, and
behavioral observation. This review will
be completed and documented within
one hundred twenty (120) calendar days
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of the issuance of this Order. If this
review reveals a need to revise the
general employee training, Honeywell
shall make the appropriate revisions
within one hundred eighty (180)
calendar days of the issuance of this
Order.
2. By no later than one hundred
eighty (180) calendar days after the
issuance of this Order, Honeywell shall
develop initial SCWE training for all
employees and behavioral observation
supervisor training to include
discussion of the NRC’s Employee
Protection Rule, case studies and table
top role playing. This will be included
in any return-to-work training for all
employees and in all new supervisor
training. Honeywell shall provide
annual refresher training for Honeywell
supervisors after the initial training.
Honeywell shall use a training
instructor (internal or external) with
expertise in SCWE and NRC regulations
to conduct such training.
3. By no later than one hundred
eighty (180) calendar days after the
issuance of this Order, Honeywell shall
modify its existing B-council training to
include behavioral observation and
SCWE topics twice every twelve (12)
months.
4. By no later than two hundred
seventy (270) calendar days after the
issuance of this Order, Honeywell shall
develop and provide biennial SCWE
and behavioral observation training for
employees to include case studies and
the NRC’s Employee Protection Rule (10
CFR 40.7). Honeywell shall use a
training instructor (internal or external)
with expertise in SCWE and NRC
regulations for such training. This
training shall be included in the new
employee training.
5. By no later than two hundred
seventy (270) calendar days after the
issuance of this Order, Honeywell shall
develop and provide initial SCWE
training for all personnel engaged in
NRC-regulated activities at the
Metropolis, IL, Olathe Service Center
(Olathe, Kansas) and System Sensor (St.
Charles, Illinois) facilities to include the
NRC’s Employee Protection Rule (10
CFR 30.7). Honeywell shall provide
annual refresher training after the initial
training. Honeywell shall use a training
instructor (internal or external) with
expertise in SCWE and NRC regulations
to conduct such training.
C. Work Process.
1. By no later than ninety (90)
calendar days after the issuance of this
Order, Honeywell shall modify the
Incident Tracking and Corrective Action
(ITCA) process to accept anonymous
submissions from employees.
Honeywell shall update the ITCA
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procedure on checking, processing and
addressing any concerns. In case of nonanonymous submissions, employees
may request a copy of the submission as
entered into the ITCA.
2. By no later than ninety (90)
calendar days after the issuance of this
Order, Honeywell shall establish a
procedure to include guidance on
monitoring and processing concerns and
informing management of concerns
received through the Honeywell SCWE
hotline.
3. By no later than one hundred
twenty (120) calendar days after the
issuance of this Order, Honeywell shall
develop and include a provision in any
new or renewed agreements with its
contractors that expressly highlights the
contractor’s obligation to comply with
the applicable NRC Employee
Protection Rule (10 CFR 40.7).
4. By no later than one hundred
twenty (120) calendar days after the
issuance of this Order, Honeywell shall
ensure that new and renewed contracts
entered into by Honeywell require
contractors, when any formal adverse
action is taken against a contractor
employee at the Metropolis, Illinois
facility (i.e., terminations, suspensions
and written reprimands) to certify that
the formal adverse action was not taken
for reasons prohibited by the NRC’s
Employee Protection Rule (10 CFR
40.7).
5. By no later than one hundred
twenty (120) calendar days after the
issuance of this Order, Honeywell shall
modify the Honeywell Designated
Representative (HDR) procedure to
require the HDR to periodically inquire
about any concerns raised through a
contractor’s concerns resolutions
program that have not been submitted to
any of Honeywell’s concerns resolution
avenues. The HDR shall enter such
concerns in Honeywell’s ITCA system
as appropriate.
6. By no later than one hundred
twenty (120) calendar days after the
issuance of this Order, Honeywell shall
develop and implement a procedure for
behavioral observation activities.
D. Policy Guidance.
1. By no later than ninety (90)
calendar days after the issuance of this
Order, Honeywell shall review and
update Honeywell’s SCWE policy and
incorporate into the SCWE policy the
applicable aspects of the NRC’s Safety
Culture Policy statement as appropriate.
In the event of the transfer of the
operating license of an applicable
Honeywell facility to another entity, the
commitments for such facility shall
survive any transfer of ownership.
The Director, Office of Enforcement,
may, in writing, relax or rescind any of
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the above conditions upon
demonstration by Honeywell of good
cause.
In consideration for the actions and/
or initiatives that Honeywell agrees to
undertake, as outlined above, the NRC
agrees not to pursue any further
enforcement action based on the notice
of apparent violation of employee
protection requirements (Case no. EA–
14–114, Office of Investigations report
No. 2–2013–030), dated May 15, 2014.
VI.
Any person adversely affected by this
Confirmatory Order, other than
Honeywell International Inc., may
request a hearing within 30 days of its
publication in the Federal Register.
Where good cause is shown,
consideration will be given to extending
the time to request a hearing. A request
for extension of time must be made in
writing to the Director, Office of
Enforcement, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555,
and include a statement of good cause
for the extension.
All documents filed in NRC
adjudicatory proceedings, including a
request for hearing, a petition for leave
to intervene, any motion or other
document filed in the proceeding prior
to the submission of a request for
hearing or petition to intervene, and
documents filed by interested
governmental entities participating
under 10 CFR 2.315(c), must be filed in
accordance with the NRC E-Filing rule,
10 CFR 2.301. The E-Filing process
requires participants to submit and
serve all adjudicatory documents over
the internet, or in some cases to mail
copies on electronic storage media.
Participants may not submit paper
copies of their filings unless they seek
an exemption in accordance with the
procedures described below.
To comply with the procedural
requirements of E-Filing, at least ten
(10) days prior to the filing deadline, the
participant should contact the Office of
the Secretary by email at
hearing.docket@nrc.gov, or by telephone
at (301) 415–1677, to request (1) a
digital ID certificate, which allows the
participant (or its counsel or
representative) to digitally sign
documents and access the E-Submittal
server for any proceeding in which it is
participating; and (2) advise the
Secretary that the participant will be
submitting a request or petition for
hearing (even in instances in which the
participant, or its counsel or
representative, already holds an NRCissued digital ID certificate). Based upon
this information, the Secretary will
establish an electronic docket for the
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hearing in this proceeding if the
Secretary has not already established an
electronic docket.
Information about applying for a
digital ID certificate is available on
NRC’s public Web site at https://
www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals/
apply-certificates.html. System
requirements for accessing the ESubmittal server are detailed in NRC’s
‘‘Guidance for Electronic Submission,’’
which is available on the agency’s
public Web site at https://www.nrc.gov/
site-help/e-submittals.html. Participants
may attempt to use other software not
listed on the Web site, but should note
that the NRC’s E-Filing system does not
support unlisted software, and the NRC
Meta System Help Desk will not be able
to offer assistance in using unlisted
software.
If a participant is electronically
submitting a document to the NRC in
accordance with the E-Filing rule, the
participant must file the document
using the NRC’s online, Web-based
submission form. In order to serve
documents through the Electronic
Information Exchange (EIE), users will
be required to install a Web browser
plug-in from the NRC Web site. Further
information on the Web-based
submission form, including the
installation of the Web browser plug-in,
is available on the NRC’s public Web
site at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/esubmittals.html.
Once a participant has obtained a
digital ID certificate and a docket has
been created, the participant can then
submit a request for hearing or petition
for leave to intervene. Submissions
should be in Portable Document Format
(PDF) in accordance with NRC guidance
available on the NRC public Web site at
https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/esubmittals.html. A filing is considered
complete at the time the documents are
submitted through the NRC’s E-Filing
system. To be timely, an electronic
filing must be submitted to the E-Filing
system no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern
Time on the due date. Upon receipt of
a transmission, the E-Filing system
time-stamps the document and sends
the submitter an email notice
confirming receipt of the document. The
E-Filing system also distributes an email
notice that provides access to the
document to the NRC Office of the
General Counsel and any others who
have advised the Office of the Secretary
that they wish to participate in the
proceeding, so that the filer need not
serve the documents on those
participants separately. Therefore,
applicants and other participants (or
their counsel or representative) must
apply for and receive a digital ID
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certificate before a hearing request/
petition to intervene is filed so that they
can obtain access to the document via
the E-Filing system.
A person filing electronically using
the agency’s adjudicatory E-Filing
system may seek assistance by
contacting the NRC Meta System Help
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Time, Monday through Friday,
excluding government holidays.
Participants who believe that they
have a good cause for not submitting
documents electronically must file an
exemption request, in accordance with
10 CFR 2.302(g), with their initial paper
filing requesting authorization to
continue to submit documents in paper
format. Such filings must be submitted
by: (1) First class mail addressed to the
Office of the Secretary of the
Commission, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001, Attention: Rulemaking and
Adjudications Staff; or (2) courier,
express mail, or expedited delivery
service to the Office of the Secretary,
Sixteenth Floor, One White Flint North,
11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville,
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Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff.
Participants filing a document in this
manner are responsible for serving the
document on all other participants.
Filing is considered complete by firstclass mail as of the time of deposit in
the mail, or by courier, express mail, or
expedited delivery service upon
depositing the document with the
provider of the service. A presiding
officer, having granted an exemption
request from using E-Filing, may require
a participant or party to use E-Filing if
the presiding officer subsequently
determines that the reason for granting
the exemption from use of E-Filing no
longer exists.
Documents submitted in adjudicatory
proceedings will appear in NRC’s
electronic hearing docket, which is
available to the public at https://
ehd1.nrc.gov/ehd, unless excluded
pursuant to an order of the Commission,
or the presiding officer. Participants are
requested not to include personal
privacy information, such as social
security numbers, home addresses, or
home phone numbers in their filings,
unless an NRC regulation or other law
requires submission of such
information. With respect to
copyrighted works, except for limited
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excerpts that serve the purpose of the
adjudicatory filings and would
constitute a Fair Use application,
participants are requested not to include
copyrighted materials in their
submission.
If a person other than Honeywell
requests a hearing, that person shall set
forth with particularity the manner in
which his interest is adversely affected
by this Confirmatory Order and shall
address the criteria set forth in 10 CFR
2.309(d) and (f).
If a hearing is requested by a person
whose interest is adversely affected, the
Commission will issue an order
designating the time and place of any
hearing. If a hearing is held, the issue to
be considered at such hearing shall be
whether this Confirmatory Order should
be sustained.
In the absence of any request for
hearing, or written approval of an
extension of time in which to request a
hearing, the provisions specified in
Section V above shall be final 20 days
from the date this Confirmatory Order is
published in the Federal Register
without further order or proceedings. If
an extension of time for requesting a
hearing has been approved, the
provisions specified in Section V shall
be final when the extension expires if a
hearing request has not been received.
A REQUEST FOR HEARING SHALL
NOT STAY THE IMMEDIATE
EFFECTIVENESS OF THIS ORDER.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day
of March, 2015.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Patricia K. Holahan,
Director, Office of Enforcement.
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BILLING CODE 7590–01–P
NUCLEAR REGULATORY
COMMISSION
[NRC–2015–0046]
Information Collection: Billing
Instructions for NRC Cost Type
Contracts
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Renewal of existing information
collection; request for comment.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) invites public
comment on the renewal of Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
approval for an existing collection of
information. The information collection
is entitled, Billing Instructions for NRC
Cost Type Contracts.
DATES: Submit comments by May 18,
2015. Comments received after this date
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will be considered if it is practical to do
so, but the Commission 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:
• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2015–0046. 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: Tremaine
Donnell, Office of Information Services,
Mail Stop: T–5 F53, 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:
Tremaine Donnell, Office of Information
Services, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001; telephone: 301–415–6258; email:
INFOCOLLECTS.Resource@NRC.GOV.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2015–
0046 when contacting the NRC about
the availability of information for this
action. You may obtain publiclyavailable information related to this
action by any of the following methods:
• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2015–0046. A copy
of the collection of information and
related instructions may be obtained
without charge by accessing Docket ID
NRC–2015–0046 on this Web site.
• 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. A copy
of the collection of information and
related instructions may be obtained
without charge and available in ADAMS
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under Accession No. ML14329A236.
The supporting statement is available in
ADAMS under Accession No.
ML15027A404.
• 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 NRC’s Clearance
Officer, Tremaine Donnell, Office of
Information Services, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415–
6258; email: INFOCOLLECTS.Resource@
NRC.GOV.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC–2015–
0046 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.
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 into ADAMS.
II. Background
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35), the NRC is requesting
public comment on its intention to
request the OMB’s approval for the
information collection summarized
below.
1. The title of the information
collection: ‘‘Billing Instructions for NRC
Cost Type Contracts.’’
2. OMB approval number: 3150–0109.
3. Type of submission: Extension.
4. The form number, if applicable:
None.
5. How often the collection is required
or requested: Monthly and on occasion.
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[EA-2014-114; NRC-2015-0062]
Honeywell International, Inc.
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Confirmatory order; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a
confirmatory order to Honeywell International, Inc. (Honeywell),
confirming an agreement reached in an Alternative Dispute Resolution
session held on December 9, 2014. As part of the agreement, Honeywell
will conduct presentations and training to its employees regarding the
policy for raising employee concerns, addressing safety issues, and
management response to employee concerns; modify existing processes and
develop new processes that provide for ongoing support for employee
protection requirements; and review and update its Safety Conscious
Work Environment policy and incorporate aspects of the NRC's Safety
Culture Policy, as appropriate. The NRC will refrain from issuing a
Notice of Violation or proposing a civil penalty.
DATES: The confirmatory order was effective on March 11, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0062 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 https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0062. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For questions about this Order,
contact the individuals listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
section of this document.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain 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 (if it available in
ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is referenced.
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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: Daniel Lenehan, telephone: 301-415-
3501, email: Daniel.Lenehan@nrc.gov; or Shahram Ghasemian, telephone:
301-415-3591, email: Shahram Ghasemian@nrc.gov. Both are staff of the
Office of Enforcement, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
The text of the Order is attached.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day of March, 2015.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Patricia K. Holahan,
Director, Office of Enforcement.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
In the Matter of Honeywell International, Inc., Metropolis, Illinois
[Docket No. 04003392, License No. SUB-526, EA-14-114]
CONFIRMATORY ORDER MODIFYING LICENSE (EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY)
I.
Honeywell International Inc. (Honeywell or Licensee) is the holder
of Materials License No. SUB-526, issued by the U. S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (NRC or Commission) pursuant to Title 10 of the
Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 40 on May 11, 2007, and
Materials License Nos. 12-15023-02E and 15-19986-01E, issued by the NRC
pursuant to 10 CFR part 30 on September 7, 2012 and October 2, 2014,
respectively. The licenses authorize the operation of Honeywell's
Metropolis, Illinois, facility; and specific licenses for exempt
distribution of byproduct material at Honeywell's St. Charles,
Illinois; and Olathe, Kansas facilities in accordance with conditions
specified therein.
This confirmatory order (Order) is the result of an agreement
reached during an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mediation
session conducted on December 9, 2014.
II.
On May 29, 2013, the NRC Office of Investigations (OI) initiated an
investigation to determine whether a contractor at Honeywell's
Metropolis, Illinois facility, Bluestone, LLC (Bluestone), terminated
one of its employees for, in part, notifying both Honeywell and
Bluestone of a safety concern. The investigation was completed on May
15, 2014, and was documented in OI Report No. 2-2013-030. Based upon
evidence developed during its investigation, the NRC identified an
apparent violation of 10 CFR 40.7, ``Employee protection,'' involving a
former Bluestone employee who was terminated for, in part, notifying
both Honeywell and Bluestone that the employee smelled alcohol on the
employee's immediate supervisor's breath onsite and during duty hours.
By letter dated September 26, 2014, the NRC identified to Honeywell the
apparent violation of 10 CFR 40.7, ``Employee protection,'' and offered
Honeywell the opportunity to provide a response in writing, attend a
pre-decisional enforcement conference, or to request alternative
dispute resolution (ADR) in which a neutral mediator with no decision-
making authority would facilitate discussions between the NRC and
Honeywell and, if possible, assist the NRC and Honeywell in reaching an
agreement on resolving the matter.
In response to the NRC's letter, Honeywell chose to participate in
ADR. On December 9, 2014, the NRC and Honeywell met in an ADR session
mediated by a professional mediator, arranged through Cornell
University's Institute on Conflict Resolution. During that ADR session,
a preliminary settlement agreement was reached, and this Order is
issued pursuant to that agreement.
III.
The NRC acknowledges that Bluestone no longer provides services as
a contractor at Honeywell's Metropolis, Illinois facility.
During the ADR mediation session, a preliminary settlement
agreement was reached. The elements of the agreement, as signed by both
parties, consisted of the following:
1. Communication:
Conducting presentations by senior Honeywell managers to inform
Honeywell's employees and the employees of Honeywell's contractors of
Honeywell's policy regarding raising employee concerns and management
treatment of such concerns.
2. Training:
Presenting training regarding raising safety concerns, addressing
safety issues, and management response to employee concerns.
3. Work Process:
Modifying existing processes and developing new processes that
provide for ongoing management support for employee protection
requirements.
4. Policy Guidance:
Reviewing and updating Honeywell's Safety Conscious Work
Environment (SCWE) policy and incorporating applicable aspects of NRC's
Safety Culture Policy, as appropriate.
5. Enforcement Consideration:
During the ADR process, Honeywell neither admitted nor denied that
a violation occurred. This confirmatory order, therefore, should not be
used as evidence that a violation in fact occurred or that Honeywell
agrees that a violation occurred. The NRC will refrain from issuing a
Notice of Violation or proposing a civil penalty for all matters
discussed in the NRC's letter of September 26, 2014 (EA-14-114).
On February 26, 2015, Honeywell consented to issuing this Order
with the commitments described in Section V below. Honeywell further
agreed that this Order is to be effective upon issuance and that it has
waived its right to a hearing.
IV.
Since Honeywell has agreed to take additional actions to address
NRC concerns, as set forth below in Section V, the NRC has concluded
that its concerns can be resolved through the effective implementation
of Honeywell's commitments.
I find that Honeywell's commitments as set forth in Section V are
acceptable and necessary and conclude that with these commitments the
public health and safety are reasonably assured. In view of the
foregoing, I have determined that public health and safety require that
Honeywell's commitments be confirmed by this Order. Based on the above
and Honeywell's consent, this Confirmatory Order is immediately
effective upon issuance.
V.
Accordingly, pursuant to Sections 81, 161b, 161i, 161o, 182 and 186
of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and the Commission's
regulations in 10 CFR 2.202 and 10 CFR parts 30 and 40, IT IS HEREBY
ORDERED, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, THAT LICENSE NOS. SUB-526, 12-15023-
02E, and 15-19986-01E ARE MODIFIED AS FOLLOWS:
Note: Except as otherwise indicated, the terms in Section V apply
only to Honeywell's facility in Metropolis, Illinois. Any reference to
Honeywell employees and supervisors includes all Honeywell and
contractor employees and supervisors working at Honeywell's facility in
Metropolis, Illinois. Any reference to ``Supervisor'' shall mean: a)
Honeywell salaried exempt employees,
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and b) first line contractor supervisors and above.
A. Communication.
1. By no later than sixty (60) calendar days after the issuance of
this confirmatory order (Order), one or more members of Honeywell's
management, at a level at least equal to the Plant Manager at
Honeywell's Metropolis, Illinois facility, will issue site-wide written
communication to all employees at the Honeywell's Metropolis facility
and to all personnel engaged in NRC-regulated activities at the Olathe
Service Center (Olathe, Kansas) and System Sensor (St. Charles,
Illinois) facilities, reinforcing Honeywell's commitment to maintaining
a safety conscious work environment (SCWE) and reaffirming Honeywell's
insistence upon the protection of employees' right and obligation to
raise safety issues.
2. By no later than ninety (90) calendar days after the issuance of
this Order, Honeywell shall communicate its SCWE policy to Honeywell
employees at Honeywell's Metropolis, Illinois facility in one or more
all-hands meetings, providing employees with the opportunity to ask
questions in a live forum.
3. By no later than ninety (90) calendar days after the issuance of
this Order, Honeywell shall place posters in strategic areas throughout
Honeywell Metropolis, Illinois facility to promote SCWE and inform
employees of avenues available to employees to raise concerns including
the NRC.
4. By no later than ninety (90) calendar days after the issuance of
this Order, Honeywell shall develop and distribute pocket-sized cards
that discuss avenues available to employees to raise concerns including
the NRC. Honeywell shall distribute these cards to all employees at
Honeywell's Metropolis, Illinois facility, and to all personnel engaged
in NRC regulated activities at the Olathe Service Center (Olathe,
Kansas) and System Sensor (St. Charles, Illinois) facilities.
5. By no later than one (1) year after the issuance of this Order,
a Honeywell representative shall provide a presentation at a public
forum about Honeywell's SCWE policy and its compliance program relating
to the NRC's Employee Protection Rule.
B. Training.
1. Honeywell shall review its existing general employee training to
ensure coverage of NRC's Employee Protection Rule (10 CFR 40.7). The
training will include insights from the underlying matter and SCWE,
case studies, and behavioral observation. This review will be completed
and documented within one hundred twenty (120) calendar days of the
issuance of this Order. If this review reveals a need to revise the
general employee training, Honeywell shall make the appropriate
revisions within one hundred eighty (180) calendar days of the issuance
of this Order.
2. By no later than one hundred eighty (180) calendar days after
the issuance of this Order, Honeywell shall develop initial SCWE
training for all employees and behavioral observation supervisor
training to include discussion of the NRC's Employee Protection Rule,
case studies and table top role playing. This will be included in any
return-to-work training for all employees and in all new supervisor
training. Honeywell shall provide annual refresher training for
Honeywell supervisors after the initial training. Honeywell shall use a
training instructor (internal or external) with expertise in SCWE and
NRC regulations to conduct such training.
3. By no later than one hundred eighty (180) calendar days after
the issuance of this Order, Honeywell shall modify its existing B-
council training to include behavioral observation and SCWE topics
twice every twelve (12) months.
4. By no later than two hundred seventy (270) calendar days after
the issuance of this Order, Honeywell shall develop and provide
biennial SCWE and behavioral observation training for employees to
include case studies and the NRC's Employee Protection Rule (10 CFR
40.7). Honeywell shall use a training instructor (internal or external)
with expertise in SCWE and NRC regulations for such training. This
training shall be included in the new employee training.
5. By no later than two hundred seventy (270) calendar days after
the issuance of this Order, Honeywell shall develop and provide initial
SCWE training for all personnel engaged in NRC-regulated activities at
the Metropolis, IL, Olathe Service Center (Olathe, Kansas) and System
Sensor (St. Charles, Illinois) facilities to include the NRC's Employee
Protection Rule (10 CFR 30.7). Honeywell shall provide annual refresher
training after the initial training. Honeywell shall use a training
instructor (internal or external) with expertise in SCWE and NRC
regulations to conduct such training.
C. Work Process.
1. By no later than ninety (90) calendar days after the issuance of
this Order, Honeywell shall modify the Incident Tracking and Corrective
Action (ITCA) process to accept anonymous submissions from employees.
Honeywell shall update the ITCA procedure on checking, processing and
addressing any concerns. In case of non-anonymous submissions,
employees may request a copy of the submission as entered into the
ITCA.
2. By no later than ninety (90) calendar days after the issuance of
this Order, Honeywell shall establish a procedure to include guidance
on monitoring and processing concerns and informing management of
concerns received through the Honeywell SCWE hotline.
3. By no later than one hundred twenty (120) calendar days after
the issuance of this Order, Honeywell shall develop and include a
provision in any new or renewed agreements with its contractors that
expressly highlights the contractor's obligation to comply with the
applicable NRC Employee Protection Rule (10 CFR 40.7).
4. By no later than one hundred twenty (120) calendar days after
the issuance of this Order, Honeywell shall ensure that new and renewed
contracts entered into by Honeywell require contractors, when any
formal adverse action is taken against a contractor employee at the
Metropolis, Illinois facility (i.e., terminations, suspensions and
written reprimands) to certify that the formal adverse action was not
taken for reasons prohibited by the NRC's Employee Protection Rule (10
CFR 40.7).
5. By no later than one hundred twenty (120) calendar days after
the issuance of this Order, Honeywell shall modify the Honeywell
Designated Representative (HDR) procedure to require the HDR to
periodically inquire about any concerns raised through a contractor's
concerns resolutions program that have not been submitted to any of
Honeywell's concerns resolution avenues. The HDR shall enter such
concerns in Honeywell's ITCA system as appropriate.
6. By no later than one hundred twenty (120) calendar days after
the issuance of this Order, Honeywell shall develop and implement a
procedure for behavioral observation activities.
D. Policy Guidance.
1. By no later than ninety (90) calendar days after the issuance of
this Order, Honeywell shall review and update Honeywell's SCWE policy
and incorporate into the SCWE policy the applicable aspects of the
NRC's Safety Culture Policy statement as appropriate.
In the event of the transfer of the operating license of an
applicable Honeywell facility to another entity, the commitments for
such facility shall survive any transfer of ownership.
The Director, Office of Enforcement, may, in writing, relax or
rescind any of
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the above conditions upon demonstration by Honeywell of good cause.
In consideration for the actions and/or initiatives that Honeywell
agrees to undertake, as outlined above, the NRC agrees not to pursue
any further enforcement action based on the notice of apparent
violation of employee protection requirements (Case no. EA-14-114,
Office of Investigations report No. 2-2013-030), dated May 15, 2014.
VI.
Any person adversely affected by this Confirmatory Order, other
than Honeywell International Inc., may request a hearing within 30 days
of its publication in the Federal Register. Where good cause is shown,
consideration will be given to extending the time to request a hearing.
A request for extension of time must be made in writing to the
Director, Office of Enforcement, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555, and include a statement of good cause for the
extension.
All documents filed in NRC adjudicatory proceedings, including a
request for hearing, a petition for leave to intervene, any motion or
other document filed in the proceeding prior to the submission of a
request for hearing or petition to intervene, and documents filed by
interested governmental entities participating under 10 CFR 2.315(c),
must be filed in accordance with the NRC E-Filing rule, 10 CFR 2.301.
The E-Filing process requires participants to submit and serve all
adjudicatory documents over the internet, or in some cases to mail
copies on electronic storage media. Participants may not submit paper
copies of their filings unless they seek an exemption in accordance
with the procedures described below.
To comply with the procedural requirements of E-Filing, at least
ten (10) days prior to the filing deadline, the participant should
contact the Office of the Secretary by email at hearing.docket@nrc.gov,
or by telephone at (301) 415-1677, to request (1) a digital ID
certificate, which allows the participant (or its counsel or
representative) to digitally sign documents and access the E-Submittal
server for any proceeding in which it is participating; and (2) advise
the Secretary that the participant will be submitting a request or
petition for hearing (even in instances in which the participant, or
its counsel or representative, already holds an NRC-issued digital ID
certificate). Based upon this information, the Secretary will establish
an electronic docket for the hearing in this proceeding if the
Secretary has not already established an electronic docket.
Information about applying for a digital ID certificate is
available on NRC's public Web site at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals/apply-certificates.html. System requirements for accessing
the E-Submittal server are detailed in NRC's ``Guidance for Electronic
Submission,'' which is available on the agency's public Web site at
https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html. Participants may
attempt to use other software not listed on the Web site, but should
note that the NRC's E-Filing system does not support unlisted software,
and the NRC Meta System Help Desk will not be able to offer assistance
in using unlisted software.
If a participant is electronically submitting a document to the NRC
in accordance with the E-Filing rule, the participant must file the
document using the NRC's online, Web-based submission form. In order to
serve documents through the Electronic Information Exchange (EIE),
users will be required to install a Web browser plug-in from the NRC
Web site. Further information on the Web-based submission form,
including the installation of the Web browser plug-in, is available on
the NRC's public Web site at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html.
Once a participant has obtained a digital ID certificate and a
docket has been created, the participant can then submit a request for
hearing or petition for leave to intervene. Submissions should be in
Portable Document Format (PDF) in accordance with NRC guidance
available on the NRC public Web site at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html. A filing is considered complete at the time the
documents are submitted through the NRC's E-Filing system. To be
timely, an electronic filing must be submitted to the E-Filing system
no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the due date. Upon receipt of
a transmission, the E-Filing system time-stamps the document and sends
the submitter an email notice confirming receipt of the document. The
E-Filing system also distributes an email notice that provides access
to the document to the NRC Office of the General Counsel and any others
who have advised the Office of the Secretary that they wish to
participate in the proceeding, so that the filer need not serve the
documents on those participants separately. Therefore, applicants and
other participants (or their counsel or representative) must apply for
and receive a digital ID certificate before a hearing request/petition
to intervene is filed so that they can obtain access to the document
via the E-Filing system.
A person filing electronically using the agency's adjudicatory E-
Filing system may seek assistance by contacting the NRC Meta System
Help Desk through the ``Contact Us'' link located on the NRC Web site
at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html, by email at
MSHD.Resource@nrc.gov, or by a toll-free call at (866) 672-7640. The
NRC Meta System Help Desk is available between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.,
Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, excluding government holidays.
Participants who believe that they have a good cause for not
submitting documents electronically must file an exemption request, in
accordance with 10 CFR 2.302(g), with their initial paper filing
requesting authorization to continue to submit documents in paper
format. Such filings must be submitted by: (1) First class mail
addressed to the Office of the Secretary of the Commission, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, Attention:
Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff; or (2) courier, express mail, or
expedited delivery service to the Office of the Secretary, Sixteenth
Floor, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville,
Maryland, 20852, Attention: Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff.
Participants filing a document in this manner are responsible for
serving the document on all other participants. Filing is considered
complete by first-class mail as of the time of deposit in the mail, or
by courier, express mail, or expedited delivery service upon depositing
the document with the provider of the service. A presiding officer,
having granted an exemption request from using E-Filing, may require a
participant or party to use E-Filing if the presiding officer
subsequently determines that the reason for granting the exemption from
use of E-Filing no longer exists.
Documents submitted in adjudicatory proceedings will appear in
NRC's electronic hearing docket, which is available to the public at
https://ehd1.nrc.gov/ehd, unless excluded pursuant to an order of the
Commission, or the presiding officer. Participants are requested not to
include personal privacy information, such as social security numbers,
home addresses, or home phone numbers in their filings, unless an NRC
regulation or other law requires submission of such information. With
respect to copyrighted works, except for limited
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excerpts that serve the purpose of the adjudicatory filings and would
constitute a Fair Use application, participants are requested not to
include copyrighted materials in their submission.
If a person other than Honeywell requests a hearing, that person
shall set forth with particularity the manner in which his interest is
adversely affected by this Confirmatory Order and shall address the
criteria set forth in 10 CFR 2.309(d) and (f).
If a hearing is requested by a person whose interest is adversely
affected, the Commission will issue an order designating the time and
place of any hearing. If a hearing is held, the issue to be considered
at such hearing shall be whether this Confirmatory Order should be
sustained.
In the absence of any request for hearing, or written approval of
an extension of time in which to request a hearing, the provisions
specified in Section V above shall be final 20 days from the date this
Confirmatory Order is published in the Federal Register without further
order or proceedings. If an extension of time for requesting a hearing
has been approved, the provisions specified in Section V shall be final
when the extension expires if a hearing request has not been received.
A REQUEST FOR HEARING SHALL NOT STAY THE IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVENESS OF
THIS ORDER.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day of March, 2015.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Patricia K. Holahan,
Director, Office of Enforcement.
[FR Doc. 2015-06243 Filed 3-17-15; 8:45 am]
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