Information Collection: Notice of Enforcement Discretion (NOED) for Operating Power Reactors and Gaseous Diffusion Plants (NRC Enforcement Policy), 33748-33749 [2020-11896]
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Administrative Judge or other designated officer, as appropriate). If NRC staff finds ‘‘need’’ for SUNSI, the deadline for any
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[NRC–2019–0218]
Information Collection: Notice of
Enforcement Discretion (NOED) for
Operating Power Reactors and
Gaseous Diffusion Plants (NRC
Enforcement Policy)
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of submission to the
Office of Management and Budget;
request for comment.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) has recently
submitted a request for renewal of an
existing collection of information to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review. The information
collection is entitled, ‘‘Notice of
Enforcement Discretion (NOED) for
Operating Power Reactors and Gaseous
Diffusion Plants (NRC Enforcement
Policy).’’
SUMMARY:
Submit comments by July 2,
2020. 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: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to https://www.reginfo.gov/
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public/do/PRAMain. Find this
particular information collection by
selecting ‘‘Currently under Review—
Open for Public Comments’’ or by using
the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
David Cullison, NRC Clearance Officer,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone:
301–415–2084; email:
Infocollects.Resource@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
available in ADAMS under Accession
No. ML20030A287.
• NRC’s Clearance Officer: A copy of
the collection of information and related
instructions may be obtained without
charge by contacting the NRC’s
Clearance Officer, David Cullison,
Office of the Chief Information Officer,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone:
301–415–2084; email:
Infocollects.Resource@nrc.gov.
I. Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments
B. Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID: NRC–2019–
0218 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 website: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2019–0218. A copy
of the collection of information and
related instructions may be obtained
without charge by accessing Docket ID
NRC–2019–0218 on this website.
• 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
‘‘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 supporting statement is
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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. All comment
submissions are posted at https://
www.regulations.gov and entered into
ADAMS. Comment submissions are not
routinely edited to remove identifying
or contact information.
If you are requesting or aggregating
comments from other persons for
submission to the OMB, 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 comment submissions are not
routinely edited to remove such
information before making the comment
submissions available to the public or
entering the comment into ADAMS.
II. Background
Under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35), the NRC recently
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submitted a request for renewal of an
existing collection of information to
OMB for review entitled, ‘‘Notice of
Enforcement Discretion (NOED) for
Operating Power Reactors and Gaseous
Diffusion Plants (NRC Enforcement
Policy).’’ The NRC hereby informs
potential respondents that an agency
may not conduct or sponsor, and that a
person is not required to respond to, a
collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
The NRC published a Federal
Register notice with a 60-day comment
period on this information collection on
December 26, 2019, 84 FR 71006.
1. The title of the information
collection: Notice of Enforcement
Discretion (NOED) for Operating Power
Reactors and Gaseous Diffusion Plants
(NRC Enforcement Policy).
2. OMB approval number: 3150–0136.
3. Type of submission: Extension.
4. The form number if applicable: N/
A.
5. How often the collection is required
or requested: On Occasion.
6. Who will be required or asked to
respond: Those licensees that
voluntarily request enforcement
discretion through the NOED process.
7. The estimated number of annual
responses: 8 (4 reporting responses + 4
recordkeepers).
8. The estimated number of annual
respondents: 4.
9. An estimate of the total number of
hours needed annually to comply with
the information collection requirement
or request: 680 (600 reporting + 80
recordkeeping).
10. Abstract: The NRC’s Enforcement
Policy includes the circumstances in
which the NRC may grant a NOED. On
occasion, circumstances arise when a
power plant licensee’s compliance with
a Technical Specification (TS) Limiting
Condition for Operation or any other
license condition would involve an
unnecessary plant shutdown or
transient. Similarly, for a gaseous
diffusion plant, circumstances may arise
where compliance with a Technical
Safety Requirement (TSR) or other
condition would unnecessarily call for a
total plant shutdown, or, compliance
would unnecessarily place the plant in
a condition where safety, safeguards, or
security features were degraded or
inoperable.
In these circumstances, a licensee or
certificate holder may request that the
NRC exercise enforcement discretion,
and the NRC staff may choose to not
enforce the applicable TS, TSR, or other
license or certificate condition. This
enforcement discretion is designated as
a NOED.
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A licensee or certificate holder
seeking the issuance of a NOED must
justify, in accordance with NRC
Enforcement Manual (ADAMS
Accession No. ML19193A023), the
safety basis for the request, including an
evaluation of the safety significance and
potential consequences of the proposed
request, a description of proposed
compensatory measures, a justification
for the duration of the request, the basis
for the licensee’s or certificate holder’s
conclusion that the request does not
have a potential adverse impact on the
public health and safety, and does not
involve adverse consequences to the
environment, and any other information
the NRC staff deems necessary before
making a decision to exercise discretion.
Dated: May 28, 2020.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Kristen E. Benney,
Acting NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the
Chief Information Officer.
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[NRC–2020–0123]
Biweekly Notice; Applications and
Amendments to Facility Operating
Licenses and Combined Licenses
Involving No Significant Hazards
Considerations
Pursuant to section 189.a.(2)
of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as
amended (the Act), the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (NRC) is
publishing this regular biweekly notice.
The Act requires the Commission to
publish notice of any amendments
issued, or proposed to be issued, and
grants the Commission the authority to
issue and make immediately effective
any amendment to an operating license
or combined license, as applicable,
upon a determination by the
Commission that such amendment
involves no significant hazards
consideration (NSHC), notwithstanding
the pendency before the Commission of
a request for a hearing from any person.
This biweekly notice includes all
amendments issued, or proposed to be
issued, from May 5, 2020, to May 15,
2020. The last biweekly notice was
published on May 19, 2020.
DATES: Comments must be filed by July
2, 2020. A request for a hearing or
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petitions for leave to intervene must be
filed by August 3, 2020.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by any of the following:
• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2020–0123. Address
questions about NRC Docket IDs in
Regulations.gov to Jennifer Borges;
telephone: 301–287–9127; email:
Jennifer.Borges@nrc.gov. For technical
questions, contact the individual listed
in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section of this document.
• Mail comments to: Office of
Administration, Mail Stop: TWFN–7–
A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001, ATTN: Program Management,
Announcements and Editing Staff.
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:
Janet Burkhardt, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301–
415–1384, email: Janet.Burkhardt@
nrc.gov, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Biweekly notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY:
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Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2020–
0123, facility name, unit number(s),
docket number(s), application date, and
subject 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 Website: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2020–0123.
• 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
‘‘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 it is mentioned in this
document.
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2019-0218]
Information Collection: Notice of Enforcement Discretion (NOED)
for Operating Power Reactors and Gaseous Diffusion Plants (NRC
Enforcement Policy)
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of submission to the Office of Management and Budget;
request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has recently
submitted a request for renewal of an existing collection of
information to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review.
The information collection is entitled, ``Notice of Enforcement
Discretion (NOED) for Operating Power Reactors and Gaseous Diffusion
Plants (NRC Enforcement Policy).''
DATES: Submit comments by July 2, 2020. 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: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this
particular information collection by selecting ``Currently under
Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Cullison, NRC Clearance Officer,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001;
telephone: 301-415-2084; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID: NRC-2019-0218 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 website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2019-0218. A copy of
the collection of information and related instructions may be obtained
without charge by accessing Docket ID NRC-2019-0218 on this website.
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 ``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 [email protected]. The supporting statement is available
in ADAMS under Accession No. ML20030A287.
NRC's Clearance Officer: A copy of the collection of
information and related instructions may be obtained without charge by
contacting the NRC's Clearance Officer, David Cullison, Office of the
Chief Information Officer, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-2084; email:
[email protected].
B. Submitting Comments
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. All comment submissions are
posted at https://www.regulations.gov and entered into ADAMS. Comment
submissions are not routinely edited to remove identifying or contact
information.
If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons
for submission to the OMB, 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 comment submissions are not routinely edited to remove such
information before making the comment submissions available to the
public or entering the comment into ADAMS.
II. Background
Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35), the NRC recently
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submitted a request for renewal of an existing collection of
information to OMB for review entitled, ``Notice of Enforcement
Discretion (NOED) for Operating Power Reactors and Gaseous Diffusion
Plants (NRC Enforcement Policy).'' The NRC hereby informs potential
respondents that an agency may not conduct or sponsor, and that a
person is not required to respond to, a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.
The NRC published a Federal Register notice with a 60-day comment
period on this information collection on December 26, 2019, 84 FR
71006.
1. The title of the information collection: Notice of Enforcement
Discretion (NOED) for Operating Power Reactors and Gaseous Diffusion
Plants (NRC Enforcement Policy).
2. OMB approval number: 3150-0136.
3. Type of submission: Extension.
4. The form number if applicable: N/A.
5. How often the collection is required or requested: On Occasion.
6. Who will be required or asked to respond: Those licensees that
voluntarily request enforcement discretion through the NOED process.
7. The estimated number of annual responses: 8 (4 reporting
responses + 4 recordkeepers).
8. The estimated number of annual respondents: 4.
9. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to
comply with the information collection requirement or request: 680 (600
reporting + 80 recordkeeping).
10. Abstract: The NRC's Enforcement Policy includes the
circumstances in which the NRC may grant a NOED. On occasion,
circumstances arise when a power plant licensee's compliance with a
Technical Specification (TS) Limiting Condition for Operation or any
other license condition would involve an unnecessary plant shutdown or
transient. Similarly, for a gaseous diffusion plant, circumstances may
arise where compliance with a Technical Safety Requirement (TSR) or
other condition would unnecessarily call for a total plant shutdown,
or, compliance would unnecessarily place the plant in a condition where
safety, safeguards, or security features were degraded or inoperable.
In these circumstances, a licensee or certificate holder may
request that the NRC exercise enforcement discretion, and the NRC staff
may choose to not enforce the applicable TS, TSR, or other license or
certificate condition. This enforcement discretion is designated as a
NOED.
A licensee or certificate holder seeking the issuance of a NOED
must justify, in accordance with NRC Enforcement Manual (ADAMS
Accession No. ML19193A023), the safety basis for the request, including
an evaluation of the safety significance and potential consequences of
the proposed request, a description of proposed compensatory measures,
a justification for the duration of the request, the basis for the
licensee's or certificate holder's conclusion that the request does not
have a potential adverse impact on the public health and safety, and
does not involve adverse consequences to the environment, and any other
information the NRC staff deems necessary before making a decision to
exercise discretion.
Dated: May 28, 2020.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Kristen E. Benney,
Acting NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
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