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United States citizens, permanent
residents, and nationals, particularly
those individuals traditionally
underemployed in the STEM research
workforce, including but not limited to
women, persons with disabilities, and
racial and ethnic minorities.
The scope of this information
collection request will primarily cover
descriptive information gathered from
education and training (E&T) projects
that are funded by NSF. NSF will
primarily use the data from this
collection for program planning,
management, and audit purposes to
respond to queries from the Congress,
the public, NSF’s external merit
reviewers who serve as advisors,
including Committees of Visitors
(COVs), the NSF’s Office of the
Inspector General, and as a basis for
either internal or third-party evaluations
of individual programs.
The collections will generally include
three categories of descriptive data: (1)
Staff and project participants (data that
are also necessary to determine
individual-level treatment and control
groups for future third-party study or for
internal evaluation); (2) project
implementation characteristics (also
necessary for future use to identify wellmatched comparison groups); and (3)
project outputs (necessary to measure
baseline for pre- and post-NSF-fundinglevel impacts).
Use of the Information: This
information is required for effective
administration, communication,
program and project monitoring and
evaluation, and for measuring
attainment of NSF’s program, project,
and strategic goals, and as identified by
the President’s Accountability in
Government Initiative; GPRA, and the
NSF’s Strategic Plan. The Foundation’s
FY 2014–2018 Strategic Plan may be
found at: https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/
2014/nsf14043/nsf14043.pdf.
Since this collection will primarily be
used for accountability and evaluation
purposes, including responding to
queries from COVs and other scientific
experts, a census rather than sampling
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design typically is necessary. At the
individual project level funding can be
adjusted based on individual project’s
responses to some of the surveys. Some
data collected under this collection will
serve as baseline data for separate
research and evaluation studies.
NSF-funded contract or grantee
researchers and internal or external
evaluators in part may identify control,
comparison, or treatment groups for
NSF’s E&T portfolio using some of the
descriptive data gathered through this
collection to conduct well-designed,
rigorous research and portfolio
evaluation studies.
Respondents: Individuals or
households, not-for-profit institutions,
business or other for profit, and Federal,
State, local, or tribal government.
Number of Respondents: 7,284.
Burden on the Public: NSF estimates
that a total reporting and recordkeeping
burden of 58,449 hours will result from
activities to monitor EHR STEM
education programs. The calculation is
shown in table 1.
TABLE 1—ANTICIPATED PROGRAMS THAT WILL COLLECT DATA ON PROJECT PROGRESS AND OUTCOMES ALONG WITH
THE NUMBER OF RESPONDENTS AND BURDEN HOURS PER COLLECTION PER YEAR
Number of
respondents
Collection title
Advancing Information STEM Learning (AISL) Monitoring System .............................
Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) and Historically Black Colleges and Universities Research Infrastructure for Science and Engineering (HBCU–RISE) Monitoring System.
Graduate STEM Fellows in K–12 Education (GK–12) Monitoring System ..................
Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program (IGERT) Monitoring System.
Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Monitoring System ..........
Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation Bridge to the Doctorate (LSAMP–
BD) Monitoring System.
Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (Noyce) Monitoring System .................
Research in Disabilities Education (RDE) Monitoring System .....................................
Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S–STEM)
Monitoring System.
Number of responses
Annual hour
burden
155
40
155 ................................
40 ..................................
1,921
1,810
1,267
3,307
1,267 .............................
3,307 .............................
3,529
12,282
563
55
563 ................................
55 ..................................
12,949
2,090
422
12
500
5,908
1,368
6,000
6,648
277
686
686 ................................
2,744
900
900 ................................
1,200
Total .......................................................................................................................
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Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program
(STEP) Monitoring System.
Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and
Mathematics (TUES) Monitoring System.
Additional Collections not Specified .............................................................................
422 ................................
12 ..................................
1,000 .............................
(500 respondents × 2
responses/yr.).
277 ................................
8,184
8,684 .............................
58,449
The total estimate for this collection
is 58,449 annual burden hours. The
average annual reporting burden is
between 1.7 and 114 hours per
‘‘respondent,’’ depending on whether a
respondent is a direct participant who is
self-reporting or representing a project
and reporting on behalf of many project
participants.
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is issuing a final
revision to several sections in Chapter
11, ‘‘Radioactive Waste Management,’’
of NUREG–0800, ‘‘Standard Review
Plan (SRP) for the Review of Safety
Analysis Reports for Nuclear Power
Plants: LWR Edition.’’ On September 17,
2014, the NRC published for public
comment the proposed revisions to
Chapter 11 of the SRP. The NRC made
changes to the proposed revisions after
the consideration of comments received.
Among other changes, the revisions
include (1) revision of the title of SRP
Section 11.1 to ‘‘Coolant Source Terms,’’
(2) implementation of Interim Staff
Guidance (ISG), COL/DC–ISG–013, and
(3) the revision also harmonizes SRP
Section 11.2 with Branch Technical
Position (BTP) 11.6 regarding the
guidance of COL/DC–ISG–013 for
calculating doses to members of the
public and identifying acceptable
criteria in assessing the radiological
consequences of accidental releases due
to tank failures.
DATES: The effective date of this
Standard Review Plan update is March
10, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID
NRC–2014–0198 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–2014–0198. 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.
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ADAMS Public Documents collection at
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please contact the NRC’s Public
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mark Notich, telephone: 301–415–3053;
email: Mark.Notich@nrc.gov; or Nishka
Devaser, telephone: 301–415–5196;
email: Nishka.Devaser@nrc.gov; both are
staff of the Office of New Reactors, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
A summary of the comments and the
NRC staff’s disposition of the comments
are available in a separate document,
‘‘Response to Public Comments on Draft
SRP Sections in Chapter 11’’ (ADAMS
Accession No. ML15033A417).
The Office of New Reactors and the
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation are
revising these sections from their
current revisions. Details of specific
changes in the proposed revisions are
included at the end of each of the
proposed sections.
The changes to this SRP chapter
reflect current NRC staff’s review
methods and practices based on lessons
learned from the NRC’s reviews of
design certification and combined
license applications completed since the
last revision of this chapter.
II. Backfitting and Finality Provisions
Issuance of these revised SRP sections
does not constitute backfitting as
defined in § 50.109 of title 10 of the
Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR),
‘‘Backfitting,’’ (the Backfit Rule) or
otherwise be inconsistent with the issue
finality provisions in 10 CFR part 52.
The NRC’s position is based upon the
following considerations.
1. The SRP positions do not constitute
backfitting, inasmuch as the SRP is
internal guidance directed at the NRC
staff with respect to their regulatory
responsibilities.
The SRP provides guidance to the
staff on how to review an application for
the NRC’s regulatory approval in the
form of licensing. Changes in internal
staff guidance are not matters for which
either nuclear power plant applicants or
licensees are protected under either the
Backfit Rule or the issue finality
provisions of 10 CFR part 52.
2. The NRC staff has no intention to
impose the SRP positions on current
licensees and regulatory approvals
either now or in the future.
The staff does not intend to impose or
apply the positions described in the SRP
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to existing (already issued) licenses and
regulatory approvals. Therefore, the
issuance of a final SRP—even if
considered guidance that is within the
purview of the issue finality provisions
in 10 CFR part 52—need not be
evaluated as if it were a backfit or as
being inconsistent with issue finality
provisions. If, in the future, the staff
seeks to impose a position in the SRP on
holders of already issued licenses in a
manner which does not provide issue
finality as described in the applicable
issue finality provision, then the staff
must make the showing as set forth in
the Backfit Rule or address the criteria
for avoiding issue finality as described
in the applicable issue finality
provision.
3. Backfitting and issue finality do
not—with limited exceptions not
applicable here—protect current or
future applicants.
Applicants and potential applicants
are not, with certain exceptions,
protected by either the Backfit Rule or
any issue finality provisions under 10
CFR part 52. This is because neither the
Backfit Rule nor the issue finality
provisions under 10 CFR part 52—with
certain exclusions discussed in the next
paragraph—were intended to apply to
every NRC action which substantially
changes the expectations of current and
future applicants.
The exceptions to the general
principle are applicable whenever an
applicant references a 10 CFR part 52
license (e.g., an early site permit) and/
or NRC regulatory approval (e.g., a
design certification rule) with specified
issue finality provisions. The staff does
not, at this time, intend to impose the
positions represented in the SRP in a
manner that is inconsistent with any
issue finality provisions. If, in the
future, the staff seeks to impose a
position in the SRP in a manner which
does not provide issue finality as
described in the applicable issue finality
provision, then the staff must address
the criteria for avoiding issue finality as
described in the applicable issue finality
provision.
III. Congressional Review Act
In accordance with the Congressional
Review Act, the NRC has determined
that this action is not a major rule and
has verified this determination with the
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs of the Office of Management and
Budget.
IV. Availability of Documents
The documents identified in the
following table are available to
interested persons through one or more
of the following methods, as indicated.
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Section 11.1, ‘‘Coolant Source Terms,’’ Revision 4 ...................................................................................................................
Section 11.2, ‘‘Liquid Waste Management System,’’ Revision 5 ...............................................................................................
Section 11.3, ‘‘Gaseous Waste Management System,’’ Revision 4 ...........................................................................................
Section 11.4, ‘‘Solid Waste Management System,’’ Revision 4 .................................................................................................
Section 11.5, ‘‘Process and Effluent Radiological Monitoring Instrumentation and Sampling Systems,’’ Revision 6 ...............
BTP 11–3, ‘‘Design Guidance for Solid Radioactive Waste Management Systems Installed in Light-Water-Cooled Nuclear
Power Reactor Plants,’’ Revision 4*.
BTP 11–5, ‘‘Postulated Radioactive Releases Due to a Waste Gas System Leak or Failure,’’ Revision 4 * ...........................
BTP 11–6, ‘‘Postulated Radioactive Releases due to Liquid Containing Tank Failures,’’ Revision 4 * .....................................
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ML15029A174
ML15029A182
ML15027A198
ML15027A302
ML15027A401
* No changes resulting from public comments. See documents in the package at ADAMS Accession Number ML14113A532 to see changes
made since last revision.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day
of January, 2016.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Kimyata Morgan Butler,
Chief, New Reactor Rulemaking and
Guidance Branch, Division of Advanced
Reactors and Rulemaking, Office of New
Reactors.
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DATES: The effective date of this
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please contact the NRC’s Public
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revision for the SRP, Section 19.0,
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Assessment and Severe Accident
Evaluation for New Reactors,’’ is
available in ADAMS under Accession
No. ML15089A068. A redline strikeout
comparing the proposed revision to the
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The responses to public comments can
be found in ADAMS under Accession
No. ML15086A472.
• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and
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I. Background
On December 8, 2014 (79 FR 72709),
the NRC published for public comment
a proposed revision to this section of the
SRP. The staff made changes to the
proposed revision after consideration of
comments received. A summary of the
comments and the staff’s disposition of
the comments are available in a separate
document, ‘‘Response to Public
Comments on Draft SRP Section 19.0’’
(ADAMS Accession No. ML15086A472).
The changes to this SRP section
reflect current staff review methods and
practices based on lessons learned from
NRC reviews of design certification (DC)
and combined license (COL)
applications completed since the last
revision of this chapter. Changes
include: (1) Incorporation of guidance
previously published in Interim Staff
Guidance (ISG) DC/COL–ISG–003
(ADAMS Accession No. ML081430087)
concerning the review of probabilistic
risk assessment (PRA) information and
severe accident assessments submitted
to support DC and COL applications, (2)
incorporation of guidance for DC and
COL applicants previously published in
ISG DC/COL–ISG–020 (ADAMS
Accession No. ML100491233)
concerning review of information from
PRA-based seismic margin analyses
submitted in support of DC and COL
applications, (3) incorporation of
guidance previously published in ISG
Digital Instrumentation and Controls
(DI&C)/COL–ISG–003 (ADAMS
Accession No. ML080570048)
concerning review of DI&C system
PRAs, including treatment of common
cause failure (CCFs) in PRAs and
uncertainty analysis associated with
new reactor digital systems, (4)
incorporation of additional procedures
for review of PRA information and
severe accident assessments developed
during NRC reviews of DC and COL
applications completed after Revision 2
of SRP Section 19.0 was issued, (5)
additional proposed acceptance criteria
and review procedures for the staff’s
review of an applicant’s assessment of
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a
final revision to several sections in Chapter 11, ``Radioactive Waste
Management,'' of NUREG-0800, ``Standard Review Plan (SRP) for the
Review of Safety Analysis Reports for Nuclear Power Plants: LWR
Edition.'' On September 17, 2014, the NRC published for public comment
the proposed revisions to Chapter 11 of the SRP. The NRC made changes
to the proposed revisions after the consideration of comments received.
Among other changes, the revisions include (1) revision of the title of
SRP Section 11.1 to ``Coolant Source Terms,'' (2) implementation of
Interim Staff Guidance (ISG), COL/DC-ISG-013, and (3) the revision also
harmonizes SRP Section 11.2 with Branch Technical Position (BTP) 11.6
regarding the guidance of COL/DC-ISG-013 for calculating doses to
members of the public and identifying acceptable criteria in assessing
the radiological consequences of accidental releases due to tank
failures.
DATES: The effective date of this Standard Review Plan update is March
10, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2014-0198 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-2014-0198. 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.
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 is available
in ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is referenced. In
addition, for the convenience of the reader, the ADAMS accession
numbers are provided in a table in the ``Availability of Documents''
section of this document.
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: Mark Notich, telephone: 301-415-3053;
email: Mark.Notich@nrc.gov; or Nishka Devaser, telephone: 301-415-5196;
email: Nishka.Devaser@nrc.gov; both are staff of the Office of New
Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
A summary of the comments and the NRC staff's disposition of the
comments are available in a separate document, ``Response to Public
Comments on Draft SRP Sections in Chapter 11'' (ADAMS Accession No.
ML15033A417).
The Office of New Reactors and the Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation are revising these sections from their current revisions.
Details of specific changes in the proposed revisions are included at
the end of each of the proposed sections.
The changes to this SRP chapter reflect current NRC staff's review
methods and practices based on lessons learned from the NRC's reviews
of design certification and combined license applications completed
since the last revision of this chapter.
II. Backfitting and Finality Provisions
Issuance of these revised SRP sections does not constitute
backfitting as defined in Sec. 50.109 of title 10 of the Code of
Federal Regulations (10 CFR), ``Backfitting,'' (the Backfit Rule) or
otherwise be inconsistent with the issue finality provisions in 10 CFR
part 52. The NRC's position is based upon the following considerations.
1. The SRP positions do not constitute backfitting, inasmuch as the
SRP is internal guidance directed at the NRC staff with respect to
their regulatory responsibilities.
The SRP provides guidance to the staff on how to review an
application for the NRC's regulatory approval in the form of licensing.
Changes in internal staff guidance are not matters for which either
nuclear power plant applicants or licensees are protected under either
the Backfit Rule or the issue finality provisions of 10 CFR part 52.
2. The NRC staff has no intention to impose the SRP positions on
current licensees and regulatory approvals either now or in the future.
The staff does not intend to impose or apply the positions
described in the SRP to existing (already issued) licenses and
regulatory approvals. Therefore, the issuance of a final SRP--even if
considered guidance that is within the purview of the issue finality
provisions in 10 CFR part 52--need not be evaluated as if it were a
backfit or as being inconsistent with issue finality provisions. If, in
the future, the staff seeks to impose a position in the SRP on holders
of already issued licenses in a manner which does not provide issue
finality as described in the applicable issue finality provision, then
the staff must make the showing as set forth in the Backfit Rule or
address the criteria for avoiding issue finality as described in the
applicable issue finality provision.
3. Backfitting and issue finality do not--with limited exceptions
not applicable here--protect current or future applicants.
Applicants and potential applicants are not, with certain
exceptions, protected by either the Backfit Rule or any issue finality
provisions under 10 CFR part 52. This is because neither the Backfit
Rule nor the issue finality provisions under 10 CFR part 52--with
certain exclusions discussed in the next paragraph--were intended to
apply to every NRC action which substantially changes the expectations
of current and future applicants.
The exceptions to the general principle are applicable whenever an
applicant references a 10 CFR part 52 license (e.g., an early site
permit) and/or NRC regulatory approval (e.g., a design certification
rule) with specified issue finality provisions. The staff does not, at
this time, intend to impose the positions represented in the SRP in a
manner that is inconsistent with any issue finality provisions. If, in
the future, the staff seeks to impose a position in the SRP in a manner
which does not provide issue finality as described in the applicable
issue finality provision, then the staff must address the criteria for
avoiding issue finality as described in the applicable issue finality
provision.
III. Congressional Review Act
In accordance with the Congressional Review Act, the NRC has
determined that this action is not a major rule and has verified this
determination with the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs of
the Office of Management and Budget.
IV. Availability of Documents
The documents identified in the following table are available to
interested persons through one or more of the following methods, as
indicated.
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Section 11.1, ``Coolant Source ML15029A022
Terms,'' Revision 4.
Section 11.2, ``Liquid Waste ML15029A032
Management System,'' Revision 5.
Section 11.3, ``Gaseous Waste ML15029A039
Management System,'' Revision 4.
Section 11.4, ``Solid Waste ML15029A174
Management System,'' Revision 4.
Section 11.5, ``Process and Effluent ML15029A182
Radiological Monitoring
Instrumentation and Sampling
Systems,'' Revision 6.
BTP 11-3, ``Design Guidance for Solid ML15027A198
Radioactive Waste Management Systems
Installed in Light-Water-Cooled
Nuclear Power Reactor Plants,''
Revision 4*.
BTP 11-5, ``Postulated Radioactive ML15027A302
Releases Due to a Waste Gas System
Leak or Failure,'' Revision 4 *.
BTP 11-6, ``Postulated Radioactive ML15027A401
Releases due to Liquid Containing
Tank Failures,'' Revision 4 *.
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* No changes resulting from public comments. See documents in the
package at ADAMS Accession Number ML14113A532 to see changes made
since last revision.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day of January, 2016.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Kimyata Morgan Butler,
Chief, New Reactor Rulemaking and Guidance Branch, Division of Advanced
Reactors and Rulemaking, Office of New Reactors.
[FR Doc. 2016-02588 Filed 2-8-16; 8:45 am]
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