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It is imperative that the meeting be held on this date to accommodate the scheduling priorities of the key participants. Patricia D. Rausch, Advisory Committee Management Officer, National Aeronautics and Space Administration. [FR Doc. 2016–09802 Filed 4–26–16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7510–13–P NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [NRC–2016–0088] Draft Standard Review Plan on Foreign Ownership, Control, or Domination, Revision 1 Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Standard review plan-draft section revision; request for comment. AGENCY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is soliciting public comment on the Draft Standard Review Plan on Foreign Ownership, Control, or Domination, Revision 1. The Standard Review Plan (SRP) provides guidance and establishes procedures for NRC staff to review the issue of whether an applicant for a nuclear facility license is owned, controlled, or dominated by an alien, a foreign corporation, or a foreign government. This SRP will be used as the basis for such reviews in connection with license applications for new facilities, or applications for approval of direct or indirect transfers of facility licenses. SUMMARY: Comments must be filed no later than May 27, 2016. 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 on or before this date. DATES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods (unless ADDRESSES: PO 00000 Frm 00111 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 24893 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–2016–0088. 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: 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: Shawn W. Harwell, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301– 415–1309; email: Shawn.Harwell@ nrc.gov, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 0001. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments A. Obtaining Information Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2016– 0088 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–2016–0088. • 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. The Draft Standard Review Plan on Foreign Ownership, Control, or Domination, Revision 1, is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML16048A025. • 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. E:\FR\FM\27APN1.SGM 27APN1 24894 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 81 / Wednesday, April 27, 2016 / Notices B. Submitting Comments Please include Docket ID NRC–2016– 0088 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. asabaliauskas on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES II. Discussion The NRC is issuing this revision to the SRP on Foreign Ownership, Control, or Domination (FOCD), to provide guidance and establish procedures for NRC staff’s review of whether an applicant for a nuclear facility license issued under sections 103.d., ‘‘Commercial Licenses,’’ or 104.d., ‘‘Medical Therapy and Research and Development,’’ of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (AEA or Act), is owned, controlled, or dominated by an alien, a foreign corporation, or a foreign government (individually or collectively, a foreign entity). Specifically, this revision of the SRP establishes guidance on graded negation action plan (NAP) criteria; provides for the consideration of site-specific criteria, as necessary; allows for the use of license conditions to incorporate NAPs and the staff’s ‘‘totality of facts’’ review approach; and incorporates provisions for analyzing foreign financing. This SRP will be used as the basis for the conduct of FOCD reviews associated with license applications for new facilities to be licensed under title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), parts 50 and 52; applications for the renewal of facility licenses; or applications for approval of direct or indirect transfers of facility licenses. Where there are co-applicants, each intending to own an interest in a new facility as co-licensees, the reviewer should consider each applicant to determine whether it is owned, controlled, or dominated by a foreign VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:29 Apr 26, 2016 Jkt 238001 entity. If a co-licensee of an existing facility owns a partial interest in the facility and is transferring that interest, the acquirer should also be considered to determine whether it is owned, controlled, or dominated by a foreign entity. The FOCD determination is to be made with an orientation toward the common defense and security. The provisions in the AEA for FOCD and inimicality, and the staff’s reviews of these areas under NRC regulations, are derived from the same national security concerns, but appear in separate and distinct language in the AEA. The FOCD provisions in the AEA and NRC regulations are country-neutral, whereas the staff’s inimicality review and its findings directly account for a license applicant’s country of origin and any ties or interests that could result in a determination of inimicality. As such, while FOCD and inimicality are closely related, this SRP does not address the determination of whether issuance of a license would be inimical to the common defense and security or to the health and safety of the public. The previous revision of this SRP was approved by the Commission in its staff requirements memorandum on SECY– 99–165, ‘‘Final Standard Review Plan Regarding Foreign Ownership, Control, or Domination of Applicants for Reactor Licenses,’’ dated August 31, 1999, and published in the Federal Register on September 28, 1999. Revision 1 to this SRP has been updated to reflect current NRC regulations and policy. Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 19th day of April 2016. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. William M. Dean, Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 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[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 81 (Wednesday, April 27, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24893-24894]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-09916]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2016-0088]


Draft Standard Review Plan on Foreign Ownership, Control, or 
Domination, Revision 1

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Standard review plan-draft section revision; request for 
comment.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is soliciting 
public comment on the Draft Standard Review Plan on Foreign Ownership, 
Control, or Domination, Revision 1. The Standard Review Plan (SRP) 
provides guidance and establishes procedures for NRC staff to review 
the issue of whether an applicant for a nuclear facility license is 
owned, controlled, or dominated by an alien, a foreign corporation, or 
a foreign government. This SRP will be used as the basis for such 
reviews in connection with license applications for new facilities, or 
applications for approval of direct or indirect transfers of facility 
licenses.

DATES: Comments must be filed no later than May 27, 2016. 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 on or before this date.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods 
(unless this document describes a different method for submitting 
comments on a specific subject):
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2016-0088. 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: 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: Shawn W. Harwell, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301-415-1309; email: 
Shawn.Harwell@nrc.gov, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, 
DC 20555-0001.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2016-0088 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-2016-0088.
     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 
Draft Standard Review Plan on Foreign Ownership, Control, or 
Domination, Revision 1, is available in ADAMS under Accession No. 
ML16048A025.
     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.

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B. Submitting Comments

    Please include Docket ID NRC-2016-0088 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

    The NRC is issuing this revision to the SRP on Foreign Ownership, 
Control, or Domination (FOCD), to provide guidance and establish 
procedures for NRC staff's review of whether an applicant for a nuclear 
facility license issued under sections 103.d., ``Commercial Licenses,'' 
or 104.d., ``Medical Therapy and Research and Development,'' of the 
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (AEA or Act), is owned, 
controlled, or dominated by an alien, a foreign corporation, or a 
foreign government (individually or collectively, a foreign entity). 
Specifically, this revision of the SRP establishes guidance on graded 
negation action plan (NAP) criteria; provides for the consideration of 
site-specific criteria, as necessary; allows for the use of license 
conditions to incorporate NAPs and the staff's ``totality of facts'' 
review approach; and incorporates provisions for analyzing foreign 
financing. This SRP will be used as the basis for the conduct of FOCD 
reviews associated with license applications for new facilities to be 
licensed under title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), 
parts 50 and 52; applications for the renewal of facility licenses; or 
applications for approval of direct or indirect transfers of facility 
licenses.
    Where there are co-applicants, each intending to own an interest in 
a new facility as co-licensees, the reviewer should consider each 
applicant to determine whether it is owned, controlled, or dominated by 
a foreign entity. If a co-licensee of an existing facility owns a 
partial interest in the facility and is transferring that interest, the 
acquirer should also be considered to determine whether it is owned, 
controlled, or dominated by a foreign entity.
    The FOCD determination is to be made with an orientation toward the 
common defense and security. The provisions in the AEA for FOCD and 
inimicality, and the staff's reviews of these areas under NRC 
regulations, are derived from the same national security concerns, but 
appear in separate and distinct language in the AEA. The FOCD 
provisions in the AEA and NRC regulations are country-neutral, whereas 
the staff's inimicality review and its findings directly account for a 
license applicant's country of origin and any ties or interests that 
could result in a determination of inimicality. As such, while FOCD and 
inimicality are closely related, this SRP does not address the 
determination of whether issuance of a license would be inimical to the 
common defense and security or to the health and safety of the public.
    The previous revision of this SRP was approved by the Commission in 
its staff requirements memorandum on SECY-99-165, ``Final Standard 
Review Plan Regarding Foreign Ownership, Control, or Domination of 
Applicants for Reactor Licenses,'' dated August 31, 1999, and published 
in the Federal Register on September 28, 1999. Revision 1 to this SRP 
has been updated to reflect current NRC regulations and policy.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 19th day of April 2016.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
William M. Dean,
 Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2016-09916 Filed 4-26-16; 8:45 am]
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