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AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is announcing the
availability of Interim Staff Guidance
(ISG) for Natural Phenomena Hazards
(NPH) in Fuel Cycle Facilities. Fuel
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A notice
of opportunity for public comment on
Draft Interim Staff Guidance (ISG) for
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Fuel Cycle Facilities was published in
the Federal Register on February 24,
2015 (80 FR 9755). Comments were
received from Stephen McDuffie
(Agencywide Document and
Management System (ADAMS)
Accession No. ML15096A476) and the
Nuclear Energy Institute (ADAMS
Accession No. ML15104A341). The
evaluation of these comments and the
resulting changes to the interim staff
guidance are discussed in a publiclyavailable document which is available
in ADAMS under Accession No.
ML15121A039.
The final interim staff guidance is
available in ADAMS under Accession
No. ML15121A044.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day
of June, 2015.
For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
Marissa Bailey,
Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety,
Safeguards, and Environmental Review,
Office of Nuclear Material Safety and
Safeguards.
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Standard Review Plan for Renewal of
Specific Licenses and Certificates of
Compliance for Dry Storage of Spent
Nuclear Fuel
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Draft NUREG; request for
comment.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is issuing for public
SUMMARY:
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comment draft NUREG–1927, Revision
1, ‘‘Standard Review Plan for Renewal
of Specific Licenses and Certificates of
Compliance for Dry Storage of Spent
Nuclear Fuel.’’ The draft NUREG
provides guidance to the NRC staff for
the safety review of renewal
applications for specific licenses of
independent spent fuel storage
installations (ISFSIs) and certificates of
compliance (CoCs) of spent fuel storage
casks. The NRC is soliciting public
comments on this draft NUREG and will
consider received comments as it
finalizes the guidance.
DATES: Submit comments by August 21,
2015. Comments received after this date
will be considered if it is practical to do
so, but the Commission is able to ensure
consideration only for comments
received 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–2015–0106. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol
Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463;
email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For
technical questions, contact the
individuals listed in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this
document.
• Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey,
Office of Administration, Mail Stop:
OWFN–12–H08, 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:
Kristina Banovac, telephone: 301–415–
7116; email: Kristina.Banovac@nrc.gov;
or Ricardo Torres, telephone: 301–415–
7508; email: Ricardo.Torres@nrc.gov.
Both are staff of the Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington DC 20555–0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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I. Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2015–
0106 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:
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• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2015–0106.
• 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. Draft
NUREG–1927, Revision 1, ‘‘Standard
Review Plan for Renewal of Specific
Licenses and Certificates of Compliance
for Dry Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel’’
is available in ADAMS under Accession
No. ML15180A011.
• 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–2015–
0106 in your comment submission.
The NRC cautions you not to include
identifying or contact information that
you do not want to be publicly
disclosed in your comment submission.
The NRC will post all comment
submissions at https://
www.regulations.gov as well as enter the
comment submissions into ADAMS.
The NRC does not routinely edit
comment submissions to remove
identifying or contact information.
If you are requesting or aggregating
comments from other persons for
submission to the NRC, then you should
inform those persons not to include
identifying or contact information that
they do not want to be publicly
disclosed in their comment submission.
Your request should state that the NRC
does not routinely edit comment
submissions to remove such information
before making the comment
submissions available to the public or
entering the comment into ADAMS.
II. Discussion
NUREG–1927, Revision 0, ‘‘Standard
Review Plan for Renewal of Spent Fuel
Dry Cask Storage System Licenses and
Certificates of Compliance’’ (ADAMS
Accession No. ML111020115) was
published in March 2011 to provide
guidance to the staff for the safety
review of renewal applications for
specific licenses of ISFSIs and CoCs of
spent fuel storage casks. Since that time,
staff’s experience with spent fuel storage
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renewal reviews has indicated a need
for augmented and clarified guidance. In
2014, the staff engaged with
stakeholders in public meetings to
obtain input on potential changes to the
guidance. The staff developed the
revised guidance in draft NUREG–1927,
Revision 1, which addresses staff’s
recent review experience and valuable
input received from stakeholders.
Proposed changes and clarifications
have been made throughout draft
NUREG–1927, Revision 1.
The staff expanded guidance in the
following areas:
• Application content;
• Scoping evaluation;
• Aging management review;
• Time-limited aging analyses; and
• Elements of an aging management
program (AMP).
The staff developed new guidance in
the following areas:
• Timely renewal;
• Amendment applications submitted
during renewal reviews and after the
renewal is issued;
• Use of conditions for ensuring
AMPs remain adequate during the
period of extended operation;
• Commencement of AMPs for CoC
renewals;
• Implementation of AMPs; and
• Learning AMPs that consider and
respond to operating experience.
The staff expanded guidance on
scoping and aging management of fuel
internals, which consolidated the
discussion on retrievability in Revision
0. The staff deleted appendices that
added minimal value to the review
process and developed new appendices
on the following topics:
• Example AMPs;
• Lead system inspections;
• Use of a demonstration program as
a surveillance tool for high burnup fuel
performance;
• Considerations for CoC renewals;
and
• Storage terms (and calculation of
length of time that a dry cask storage
system can remain loaded).
The staff will review and consider
public comments received on draft
NUREG–1927, Revision 1, as it finalizes
the guidance. Although comments are
invited on any areas of the draft
guidance, the staff is specifically
seeking input on the following areas:
AMP discussion in Section 3.6; example
AMPs in Appendix B; lead system
inspections in Appendix C; and the
aging management review consideration
of the duration of time between the
fabrication of a component and its
deployment in the ISFSI, in Chapter 3.
In addition, the staff invites comments
on options for an operating experience
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sharing program to be used to obtain,
aggregate, and enter site-specific and
industry-wide operating experience, as
discussed in Section 3.6.1.10.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 25th day
of June 2015.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Anthony H. Hsia,
Deputy Director, Division of Spent Fuel
Management, Office of Nuclear Material
Safety and Safeguards.
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Self-Regulatory Organizations; Miami
International Securities Exchange LLC;
Notice of Filing and Immediate
Effectiveness of a Proposed Rule
Change To Amend Its Fee Schedule
June 30, 2015.
Pursuant to the provisions of Section
19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934 (‘‘Act’’),1 and Rule 19b–4
thereunder,2 notice is hereby given that
on June 24, 2015, Miami International
Securities Exchange LLC (‘‘MIAX’’ or
‘‘Exchange’’) filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission
(‘‘Commission’’) a proposed rule change
as described in Items I, II, and III below,
which Items have been prepared by the
Exchange. The Commission is
publishing this notice to solicit
comments on the proposed rule change
from interested persons.
I. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement of the Terms of the Substance
of the Proposed Rule Change
The Exchange is filing a proposal to
amend the MIAX Options Fee Schedule
(the ‘‘Fee Schedule’’).
The text of the proposed rule change
is available on the Exchange’s Web site
at https://www.miaxoptions.com/filter/
wotitle/rule_filing, at MIAX’s principal
office, and at the Commission’s Public
Reference Room.
II. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement of the Purpose of, and
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule
Change
In its filing with the Commission, the
Exchange included statements
concerning the purpose of and basis for
the proposed rule change and discussed
any comments it received on the
proposed rule change. The text of these
statements may be examined at the
places specified in Item IV below. The
Exchange has prepared summaries, set
forth in sections A, B, and C below, of
the most significant aspects of such
statements.
A. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Statement of the Purpose of, and
Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule
Change
1. Purpose
The Exchange proposes to amend the
MIAX Options Fee Schedule (the ‘‘Fee
Schedule’’) to modify the fees for FIX
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Ports. Specifically, the Exchange
proposes to adopt the following fees for
FIX Ports: (i) $500 per month for the
first FIX Port; (ii) $300 per month for
each FIX Port 2 through 5; and (iii) $100
per month for each additional FIX Port
over 5.
Currently, MIAX assesses monthly
FIX Port fees on Members based upon
the number of FIX Ports used by the
Member submitting orders to the
Exchange. The Exchange currently
assesses a fee of $250 per month for the
first FIX Port, $150 per month for each
FIX Port 2 through 5; and $50 per month
for each additional FIX Port over 5. The
FIX Ports include access to MIAX’s
primary and secondary data centers and
its disaster recovery center.
The Exchange notes that another
competing exchange charges
substantially more for the use of similar
ports.3 The Exchange established the
current lower rates in order to
encourage additional market
participants to become Members of the
Exchange and use the service. Now that
the Exchange has grown its market share
and membership base, the Exchange
proposes to modify its fees charged to
Members for use of FIX Ports in an effort
to increase the Exchange’s revenues
from non-transaction fee sources and
also more closely align the fees with the
rates charged by another competing
options exchange. Accordingly, the
Exchange proposes to increase the fees
charged to Members for use of FIX Ports.
Specifically, the Exchange proposes to:
(i) increase the fee for the first FIX Port,
from $250 to $500 per month; (ii)
increase the fee for each FIX Port 2
through 5, from $150 to $300 per month;
and (iii) increase the fee for each FIX
Port over 5, from $50 to $100 per month.
The Exchange proposes to implement
the fee changes beginning July 1, 2015.
2. Statutory Basis
The Exchange believes that its
proposal to amend its fee schedule is
consistent with Section 6(b) of the Act 4
in general, and furthers the objectives of
Section 6(b)(4) of the Act 5 in particular,
in that it is an equitable allocation of
reasonable fees and other charges.
The Exchange believes that the
proposed fees are reasonable, equitable
and not unfairly discriminatory because
Members are free to add and remove FIX
Ports and will only be charged for the
amount of FIX Ports that they desire to
use. The proposed fee is fair and
3 See NASDAQ OMX PHLX LLC (‘‘PHLX’’)
Pricing Schedule, Section VII. PHLX assesses
members an Order Entry Port Fee of $650 per
month per mnemonic.
4 15 U.S.C. 78f(b).
5 15 U.S.C. 78f(b)(4).
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Standard Review Plan for Renewal of Specific Licenses and
Certificates of Compliance for Dry Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft NUREG; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for
public
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comment draft NUREG-1927, Revision 1, ``Standard Review Plan for
Renewal of Specific Licenses and Certificates of Compliance for Dry
Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel.'' The draft NUREG provides guidance to
the NRC staff for the safety review of renewal applications for
specific licenses of independent spent fuel storage installations
(ISFSIs) and certificates of compliance (CoCs) of spent fuel storage
casks. The NRC is soliciting public comments on this draft NUREG and
will consider received comments as it finalizes the guidance.
DATES: Submit comments by August 21, 2015. Comments received after this
date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the Commission
is able to ensure consideration only for comments received 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-2015-0106. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact
the individuals listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section
of this document.
Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration,
Mail Stop: OWFN-12-H08, 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: Kristina Banovac, telephone: 301-415-
7116; email: Kristina.Banovac@nrc.gov; or Ricardo Torres, telephone:
301-415-7508; email: Ricardo.Torres@nrc.gov. Both are staff of the
Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, 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-2015-0106 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain
publicly-available information related to this action by any of the
following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0106.
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.
Draft NUREG-1927, Revision 1, ``Standard Review Plan for Renewal of
Specific Licenses and Certificates of Compliance for Dry Storage of
Spent Nuclear Fuel'' is available in ADAMS under Accession No.
ML15180A011.
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-2015-0106 in your comment submission.
The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact
information that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your
comment submission. The NRC will post all comment submissions at https://www.regulations.gov as well as enter the comment submissions into
ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to remove
identifying or contact information.
If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons
for submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to
include identifying or contact information that they do not want to be
publicly disclosed in their comment submission. Your request should
state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to
remove such information before making the comment submissions available
to the public or entering the comment into ADAMS.
II. Discussion
NUREG-1927, Revision 0, ``Standard Review Plan for Renewal of Spent
Fuel Dry Cask Storage System Licenses and Certificates of Compliance''
(ADAMS Accession No. ML111020115) was published in March 2011 to
provide guidance to the staff for the safety review of renewal
applications for specific licenses of ISFSIs and CoCs of spent fuel
storage casks. Since that time, staff's experience with spent fuel
storage renewal reviews has indicated a need for augmented and
clarified guidance. In 2014, the staff engaged with stakeholders in
public meetings to obtain input on potential changes to the guidance.
The staff developed the revised guidance in draft NUREG-1927, Revision
1, which addresses staff's recent review experience and valuable input
received from stakeholders.
Proposed changes and clarifications have been made throughout draft
NUREG-1927, Revision 1.
The staff expanded guidance in the following areas:
Application content;
Scoping evaluation;
Aging management review;
Time-limited aging analyses; and
Elements of an aging management program (AMP).
The staff developed new guidance in the following areas:
Timely renewal;
Amendment applications submitted during renewal reviews
and after the renewal is issued;
Use of conditions for ensuring AMPs remain adequate during
the period of extended operation;
Commencement of AMPs for CoC renewals;
Implementation of AMPs; and
Learning AMPs that consider and respond to operating
experience.
The staff expanded guidance on scoping and aging management of fuel
internals, which consolidated the discussion on retrievability in
Revision 0. The staff deleted appendices that added minimal value to
the review process and developed new appendices on the following
topics:
Example AMPs;
Lead system inspections;
Use of a demonstration program as a surveillance tool for
high burnup fuel performance;
Considerations for CoC renewals; and
Storage terms (and calculation of length of time that a
dry cask storage system can remain loaded).
The staff will review and consider public comments received on
draft NUREG-1927, Revision 1, as it finalizes the guidance. Although
comments are invited on any areas of the draft guidance, the staff is
specifically seeking input on the following areas: AMP discussion in
Section 3.6; example AMPs in Appendix B; lead system inspections in
Appendix C; and the aging management review consideration of the
duration of time between the fabrication of a component and its
deployment in the ISFSI, in Chapter 3. In addition, the staff invites
comments on options for an operating experience
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sharing program to be used to obtain, aggregate, and enter site-
specific and industry-wide operating experience, as discussed in
Section 3.6.1.10.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 25th day of June 2015.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Anthony H. Hsia,
Deputy Director, Division of Spent Fuel Management, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards.
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