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Comments are invited on: (1) Whether
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included in the request for OMB
approval of this information collection.
They will also become a matter of
public record.
William Edwards-Bodmer,
NASA PRA Clearance Officer.
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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND
SPACE ADMINISTRATION
[Notice: 23–092]
Name of Information Collection: NASA
Complaint of Discrimination Form 1355
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA).
ACTION: Notice of information collection.
AGENCY:
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, as part of its
continuing effort to reduce paperwork
and respondent burden, invites the
general public and other Federal
agencies to take this opportunity to
comment on proposed and/or
continuing information collections.
DATES: Comments are due by October
31, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for this information
collection should be sent within 60 days
of publication of this notice to
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
Find this particular information
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be directed to Bill Edwards-Bodmer,
NASA Clearance Officer, NASA
Headquarters, 300 E Street SW, JF0000,
Washington, DC 20546, 757–864–7998,
or b.edwards-bodmer@nasa.gov.
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Title: Formal Discrimination
Complaint Form.
OMB Number: 2700–0163.
Type of Review: Reinstatement of
existing information collection.
Affected Public: Individuals who wish
to file a formal discrimination
complaint against NASA.
Estimated Annual Number of
Activities: 60.
Estimated Number of Respondents
per Activity: 1.
Annual Responses: 60.
Estimated Time per Response: 30
minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 30 hours.
IV. Request for Comments
Comments are invited on: (1) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of NASA, including
whether the information collected has
practical utility; (2) the accuracy of
NASA’s estimate of the burden
(including hours and cost) of the
proposed collection of information; (3)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (4) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including automated
collection techniques or the use of other
forms of information technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and
included in the request for OMB
approval of this information collection.
They will also become a matter of
public record.
William Edwards-Bodmer,
NASA PRA Clearance Officer.
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY
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[Docket No. 50–341; NRC–2023–0146]
DTE Electric Company; Fermi, Unit 2
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: License amendment application;
opportunity to comment, request a
hearing, and petition for leave to
intervene.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC, the Commission) is
considering issuance of an amendment
to Renewed Facility Operating License
No. NPF–43, issued to DTE Electric
Company, for operation of Fermi, Unit
SUMMARY:
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2 (Fermi 2). The proposed amendment
requests an amendment to the Fermi 2
Technical Specifications (TS) 3.7.2, to
allow for a one-time extension of the
Condition A Completion Time to allow
repair of Division 1 Mechanical Draft
Cooling Tower A and C fan pedestals
while online. The proposed amendment
is being requested due to an exigent
circumstance pursuant to NRC
regulations.
Submit comments by September
15, 2023. Request for a hearing or
petitions for leave to intervene must be
filed by October 31, 2023.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by any of the following methods;
however, the NRC encourages electronic
comment submission through the
Federal Rulemaking website.
• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2023–0146. Address
questions about Docket IDs in
Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann;
telephone: 301–415–0624; email:
Stacy.Schumann@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:
Surinder S. Arora, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001, telephone: 301–415–
1421, email: Surinder.Arora@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DATES:
A. Obtaining Information
B. Submitting Comments
The NRC encourages electronic
comment submission through the
Federal Rulemaking website (https://
www.regulations.gov). Please include
Docket ID NRC–2023–0146 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.
Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2023–
0146 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–2023–0146.
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly
available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at
II. Introduction
The NRC is considering issuance of an
amendment to Renewed Facility
Operating License No. NPF–43, issued
to DTE Electric Company, for operation
of Fermi, Unit 2, located in Monroe
County, Michigan.
The proposed amendment requests an
amendment to the Fermi, Unit 2,
Technical Specifications (TS) 3.7.2, to
allow for a one-time extension of the
Condition A Completion Time to allow
repair of Division 1 Mechanical Draft
Cooling Tower A and C fan pedestals
I. Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments
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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, at
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.
• NRC’s PDR: The PDR, where you
may examine and order copies of
publicly available documents, is open
by appointment. To make an
appointment to visit the PDR, please
send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov
or call 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415–
4737, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern
time (ET), Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
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while online. The proposed amendment
is being requested due to an exigent
circumstance pursuant to paragraph
50.91(a)(6) of title 10 of the Code of
Federal Regulations (10 CFR).
On July 18, 2023, the Division II
Residual Heat Removal Service Water
Mechanical Draft Cooling Tower
(MDCT) fan D tripped due to high
vibrations caused by a degraded, nonconforming gearbox pedestal. Corrective
actions were required to correct the
conditions and restore the equipment to
an operable status, using extra time
allowed by the Notice of Enforcement
Discretion approved by the NRC on July
20, 2023. During that time the ultimate
heat sink was declared inoperable.
During the ‘extent of condition’ review
by DTE, it was discovered that the
MDCT A and C fan pedestals were also
degraded and non-conforming but
remained operable and also in need of
similar repair. DTE submitted this
amendment to repair the Division I
MDCT A and C fan pedestals.
Additionally, the request provides
justification that obtaining an extension
of the Completion Time to repair the
Division | MDCT fan pedestals online
instead of waiting until the next
refueling outage.
Before any issuance of the proposed
license amendment, the NRC will need
to make the findings required by the
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended
(the Act), and NRC’s regulations.
Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.91(a)(6) for
amendments to be granted under
exigent circumstances, the NRC has
made a proposed determination that the
license amendment request involves no
significant hazards consideration. Under
the NRC’s regulations in 10 CFR 50.92,
this means that operation of the facility
in accordance with the proposed
amendment would not (1) involve a
significant increase in the probability or
consequences of an accident previously
evaluated; or (2) create the possibility of
a new or different kind of accident from
any accident previously evaluated; or
(3) involve a significant reduction in a
margin of safety. As required by 10 CFR
50.91(a), the licensee has provided its
analysis of the issue of no significant
hazards consideration, which is
presented below:
1. Does the proposed change involve
a significant increase in the probability
or consequences of an accident
previously evaluated?
Response: No.
DTE will use the compensatory
measures and Fermi 2 Configuration
Risk Management program requirements
outlined [in] Section 3.2 and in
enclosure 4 [of ML23222A037] during
the duration of the proposed extension
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of the Completion Time for the MDCT
fan pedestal repair. The risk impact of
the proposed Completion Time is
deemed acceptable and meets the
requirements of RG 1.177 [Risk
Evaluation is in Enclosure 4 of
ML23222A037].
Therefore, the proposed changes do
not involve a significant increase in the
probability or consequences of an
accident previously evaluated.
2. Does the proposed change create
the possibility of a new or different kind
of accident from any accident
previously evaluated?
Response: No.
The proposed changes do not involve
a change in design, configuration, or
method of operation of the plant. The
proposed changes will not alter the
manner in which equipment is initiated,
nor will the functional demands on
credited equipment be changed. The
proposed changes do not impact the
interaction of any systems whose failure
or malfunction can initiate an accident.
There are no identified redundant
components affected by these changes
and, thus, there are no new common
cause failures or any existing common
cause failures that are affected by
extending the Completion Time. The
proposed changes do not create any new
failure modes.
Therefore, the proposed changes do
not create the possibility of a new or
different kind of accident from any
previously evaluated.
3. Does the proposed change involve
a significant reduction in a margin of
safety?
Response: No.
The proposed changes do not alter the
plant design, nor do they affect the
assumptions contained in the safety
analyses. Specifically, there are no
changes being made to the MDCT fan
design. The proposed changes have
been evaluated and margins of safety
ascribed to Emergency Equipment
Cooling Water (EECW) [Correction by
the Licensee in ML23237B402]
availability and to plant risk have been
determined to be not significantly
reduced. The risk impact of the
proposed changes is acceptable to the
compensatory measures and other
requirements, as outlined in Section 3.2
and in Enclosure 4 [of ML23222A037].
As analyzed in the UFSAR, the loss of
the Division | MDCT fans would not
cause a significant reduction in safety
because the MDCT system is redundant
and can perform its function with one
division unavailable.
The evaluation provided above shows
that the proposed changes will not
significantly increase the probability or
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previously evaluated, create the
possibility of a new or different kind of
accident from any accident previously
evaluated, or involve a significant
reduction in the margin of safety.
The NRC staff has reviewed the
licensee’s analysis and based on this
review, the three standards of 10 CFR
50.92(c) are satisfied. Therefore, the
NRC staff proposes to determine that the
license amendment request involves a
no significant hazards consideration.
The NRC is seeking public comments
on this proposed determination that the
license amendment request involves no
significant hazards consideration. Any
comments received within 14 days after
the date of publication of this notice
will be considered in making any final
determination.
Normally, the Commission will not
issue the amendment until the
expiration of the 14-day notice period.
However, if circumstances change
during the notice period, such that
failure to act in a timely way would
result, for example, in derating or
shutdown of the facility, the
Commission may issue the license
amendment before the expiration of the
14-day notice period, provided that its
final determination is that the
amendment involves no significant
hazards consideration. The final
determination will consider all public
and State comments received. If the
Commission takes this action, it will
publish in the Federal Register a notice
of issuance. The Commission expects
that the need to take this action will
occur very infrequently.
III. Opportunity To Request a Hearing
and Petition for Leave To Intervene
Within 60 days after the date of
publication of this notice, any person
(petitioner) whose interest may be
affected by this action may file a request
for a hearing and petition for leave to
intervene (petition) with respect to the
action. Petitions shall be filed in
accordance with the Commission’s
‘‘Agency Rules of Practice and
Procedure’’ in 10 CFR part 2. Interested
persons should consult 10 CFR 2.309. If
a petition is filed, the presiding officer
will rule on the petition and, if
appropriate, a notice of a hearing will be
issued.
Petitions must be filed no later than
60 days from the date of publication of
this notice in accordance with the filing
instructions in the ‘‘Electronic
Submissions (E-Filing)’’ section of this
document. Petitions and motions for
leave to file new or amended
contentions that are filed after the
deadline will not be entertained absent
a determination by the presiding officer
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that the filing demonstrates good cause
by satisfying the three factors in 10 CFR
2.309(c)(1)(i) through (iii).
If a hearing is requested and the
Commission has not made a final
determination on the issue of no
significant hazards consideration, the
Commission will make a final
determination on the issue of no
significant hazards consideration, which
will serve to establish when the hearing
is held. If the final determination is that
the amendment request involves no
significant hazards consideration, the
Commission may issue the amendment
and make it immediately effective,
notwithstanding the request for a
hearing. Any hearing would take place
after issuance of the amendment. If the
final determination is that the
amendment request involves a
significant hazards consideration, then
any hearing held would take place
before the issuance of the amendment
unless the Commission finds an
imminent danger to the health or safety
of the public, in which case it will issue
an appropriate order or rule under 10
CFR part 2.
A State, local governmental body,
Federally recognized Indian Tribe, or
designated agency thereof, may submit
a petition to the Commission to
participate as a party under 10 CFR
2.309(h) no later than 60 days from the
date of publication of this notice.
Alternatively, a State, local
governmental body, Federally
recognized Indian Tribe, or agency
thereof may participate as a non-party
under 10 CFR 2.315(c).
For information about filing a petition
and about participation by a person not
a party under 10 CFR 2.315, see ADAMS
Accession No. ML20340A053 and on
the NRC’s public website at https://
www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/regulatory/
adjudicatory/hearing.html#participate.
IV. Electronic Submissions (E-Filing)
All documents filed in NRC
adjudicatory proceedings, including
documents filed by an interested State,
local governmental body, Federally
recognized Indian Tribe, or designated
agency thereof that requests to
participate under 10 CFR 2.315(c), must
be filed in accordance with 10 CFR
2.302. 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, unless an
exemption permitting an alternative
filing method, as further discussed, is
granted. Detailed guidance on electronic
submissions is located in the ‘‘Guidance
for Electronic Submissions to the NRC’’
(ADAMS Accession No. ML13031A056)
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and on the NRC’s public website at
https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/esubmittals.html.
To comply with the procedural
requirements of E-Filing, at least 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 (1)
request a digital identification (ID)
certificate, which allows the participant
(or its counsel or representative) to
digitally sign submissions and access
the E-Filing system for any proceeding
in which it is participating; and (2)
advise the Secretary that the participant
will be submitting a petition or other
adjudicatory document (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 proceeding if the
Secretary has not already established an
electronic docket.
Information about applying for a
digital ID certificate is available on the
NRC’s public website at https://
www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals/
getting-started.html. After a digital ID
certificate is obtained and a docket
created, the participant must submit
adjudicatory documents in Portable
Document Format. Guidance on
submissions is available on the NRC’s
public website at https://www.nrc.gov/
site-help/electronic-sub-ref-mat.html. A
filing is considered complete at the time
the document is 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. ET on the due date. Upon receipt
of a transmission, the E-Filing system
time-stamps the document and sends
the submitter an email confirming
receipt of the document. The E-Filing
system also distributes an email that
provides access to the document to the
NRC’s 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 document on
those participants separately. Therefore,
applicants and other participants (or
their counsel or representative) must
apply for and receive a digital ID
certificate before adjudicatory
documents are filed to obtain access to
the documents via the E-Filing system.
A person filing electronically using
the NRC’s adjudicatory E-Filing system
may seek assistance by contacting the
NRC’s Electronic Filing Help Desk
through the ‘‘Contact Us’’ link located
on the NRC’s public website at https://
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www.nrc.gov/site-help/esubmittals.html, by email to
MSHD.Resource@nrc.gov, or by a tollfree call at 1–866–672–7640. The NRC
Electronic Filing Help Desk is available
between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., ET, Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Participants who believe that they
have 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 stating why there is good cause for
not filing electronically and requesting
authorization to continue to submit
documents in paper format. Such filings
must be submitted in accordance with
10 CFR 2.302(b) through (d).
Participants filing adjudicatory
documents in this manner are
responsible for serving their documents
on all other participants. Participants
granted an exemption under 10 CFR
2.302(g)(2) must still meet the electronic
formatting requirement in 10 CFR
2.302(g)(1), unless the participant also
seeks and is granted an exemption from
10 CFR 2.302(g)(1).
Documents submitted in adjudicatory
proceedings will appear in the NRC’s
electronic hearing docket, which is
publicly available at https://
adams.nrc.gov/ehd, unless excluded
pursuant to an order of the presiding
officer. If you do not have an NRCissued digital ID certificate as
previously described, click ‘‘cancel’’
when the link requests certificates and
you will be automatically directed to the
NRC’s electronic hearing dockets where
you will be able to access any publicly
available documents in a particular
hearing docket. Participants are
requested not to include personal
privacy information such as social
security numbers, home addresses, or
personal 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
excerpts that serve the purpose of the
adjudicatory filings and would
constitute a Fair Use application,
participants should not include
copyrighted materials in their
submission.
For further details with respect to this
action, see the application for license
amendment dated August 10, 2023
(ADAMS Accession No. ML23222A037).
Attorney for licensee: Jon P.
Christinidis, DTE Electric Company,
Expert Attorney—Regulatory, 1635
WCB, One Energy Plaza, Detroit, MI
48226.
NRC Branch Chief: Jeff Whited.
Dated: August 29, 2023.
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For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Surinder S. Arora,
Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch III,
Division of Operating Reactor Licensing,
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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Draft NUREG: Environmental
Evaluation of Accident Tolerant Fuels
With Increased Enrichment and Higher
Burnup Levels
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Draft report; request for
comment.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is issuing for public
comment draft NUREG–2266,
‘‘Environmental Evaluation of Accident
Tolerant Fuels with Increased
Enrichment and Higher Burnup Levels.’’
This study evaluates the reasonably
foreseeable impacts of near-term
accident tolerant fuel (ATF)
technologies with increased enrichment
and higher burnup levels to 8 wt%
uranium-235 (U–235) and up to 80
GWd/MTU, respectively, on the
uranium fuel cycle, transportation of
fuel and waste, and decommissioning
for light-water reactors (LWRs) (i.e., a
bounding analysis).
DATES: Submit comments by October 31,
2023. 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;
however, the NRC encourages electronic
comment submission through the
Federal rulemaking website:
• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2023–0113. Address
questions about Docket IDs in
Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann;
telephone: 301–415–0624; email:
Stacy.Schumann@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,
SUMMARY:
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 169 (Friday, September 1, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60504-60507]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-18920]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 50-341; NRC-2023-0146]
DTE Electric Company; Fermi, Unit 2
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: License amendment application; opportunity to comment, request
a hearing, and petition for leave to intervene.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC, the Commission)
is considering issuance of an amendment to Renewed Facility Operating
License No. NPF-43, issued to DTE Electric Company, for operation of
Fermi, Unit
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2 (Fermi 2). The proposed amendment requests an amendment to the Fermi
2 Technical Specifications (TS) 3.7.2, to allow for a one-time
extension of the Condition A Completion Time to allow repair of
Division 1 Mechanical Draft Cooling Tower A and C fan pedestals while
online. The proposed amendment is being requested due to an exigent
circumstance pursuant to NRC regulations.
DATES: Submit comments by September 15, 2023. Request for a hearing or
petitions for leave to intervene must be filed by October 31, 2023.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods;
however, the NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the
Federal Rulemaking website.
Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2023-0146. Address
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann;
telephone: 301-415-0624; email: [email protected]. 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: Surinder S. Arora, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-1421, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2023-0146 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-2023-0146.
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, at 301-415-4737,
or by email to [email protected]. 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.
NRC's PDR: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies
of publicly available documents, is open by appointment. To make an
appointment to visit the PDR, please send an email to
[email protected] or call 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, between 8
a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern time (ET), Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays.
B. Submitting Comments
The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the
Federal Rulemaking website (https://www.regulations.gov). Please
include Docket ID NRC-2023-0146 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. Introduction
The NRC is considering issuance of an amendment to Renewed Facility
Operating License No. NPF-43, issued to DTE Electric Company, for
operation of Fermi, Unit 2, located in Monroe County, Michigan.
The proposed amendment requests an amendment to the Fermi, Unit 2,
Technical Specifications (TS) 3.7.2, to allow for a one-time extension
of the Condition A Completion Time to allow repair of Division 1
Mechanical Draft Cooling Tower A and C fan pedestals while online. The
proposed amendment is being requested due to an exigent circumstance
pursuant to paragraph 50.91(a)(6) of title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR).
On July 18, 2023, the Division II Residual Heat Removal Service
Water Mechanical Draft Cooling Tower (MDCT) fan D tripped due to high
vibrations caused by a degraded, non-conforming gearbox pedestal.
Corrective actions were required to correct the conditions and restore
the equipment to an operable status, using extra time allowed by the
Notice of Enforcement Discretion approved by the NRC on July 20, 2023.
During that time the ultimate heat sink was declared inoperable. During
the `extent of condition' review by DTE, it was discovered that the
MDCT A and C fan pedestals were also degraded and non-conforming but
remained operable and also in need of similar repair. DTE submitted
this amendment to repair the Division I MDCT A and C fan pedestals.
Additionally, the request provides justification that obtaining an
extension of the Completion Time to repair the Division [verbar] MDCT
fan pedestals online instead of waiting until the next refueling
outage.
Before any issuance of the proposed license amendment, the NRC will
need to make the findings required by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as
amended (the Act), and NRC's regulations.
Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.91(a)(6) for amendments to be granted under
exigent circumstances, the NRC has made a proposed determination that
the license amendment request involves no significant hazards
consideration. Under the NRC's regulations in 10 CFR 50.92, this means
that operation of the facility in accordance with the proposed
amendment would not (1) involve a significant increase in the
probability or consequences of an accident previously evaluated; or (2)
create the possibility of a new or different kind of accident from any
accident previously evaluated; or (3) involve a significant reduction
in a margin of safety. As required by 10 CFR 50.91(a), the licensee has
provided its analysis of the issue of no significant hazards
consideration, which is presented below:
1. Does the proposed change involve a significant increase in the
probability or consequences of an accident previously evaluated?
Response: No.
DTE will use the compensatory measures and Fermi 2 Configuration
Risk Management program requirements outlined [in] Section 3.2 and in
enclosure 4 [of ML23222A037] during the duration of the proposed
extension
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of the Completion Time for the MDCT fan pedestal repair. The risk
impact of the proposed Completion Time is deemed acceptable and meets
the requirements of RG 1.177 [Risk Evaluation is in Enclosure 4 of
ML23222A037].
Therefore, the proposed changes do not involve a significant
increase in the probability or consequences of an accident previously
evaluated.
2. Does the proposed change create the possibility of a new or
different kind of accident from any accident previously evaluated?
Response: No.
The proposed changes do not involve a change in design,
configuration, or method of operation of the plant. The proposed
changes will not alter the manner in which equipment is initiated, nor
will the functional demands on credited equipment be changed. The
proposed changes do not impact the interaction of any systems whose
failure or malfunction can initiate an accident. There are no
identified redundant components affected by these changes and, thus,
there are no new common cause failures or any existing common cause
failures that are affected by extending the Completion Time. The
proposed changes do not create any new failure modes.
Therefore, the proposed changes do not create the possibility of a
new or different kind of accident from any previously evaluated.
3. Does the proposed change involve a significant reduction in a
margin of safety?
Response: No.
The proposed changes do not alter the plant design, nor do they
affect the assumptions contained in the safety analyses. Specifically,
there are no changes being made to the MDCT fan design. The proposed
changes have been evaluated and margins of safety ascribed to Emergency
Equipment Cooling Water (EECW) [Correction by the Licensee in
ML23237B402] availability and to plant risk have been determined to be
not significantly reduced. The risk impact of the proposed changes is
acceptable to the compensatory measures and other requirements, as
outlined in Section 3.2 and in Enclosure 4 [of ML23222A037]. As
analyzed in the UFSAR, the loss of the Division [verbar] MDCT fans
would not cause a significant reduction in safety because the MDCT
system is redundant and can perform its function with one division
unavailable.
The evaluation provided above shows that the proposed changes will
not significantly increase the probability or the consequences of any
accident previously evaluated, create the possibility of a new or
different kind of accident from any accident previously evaluated, or
involve a significant reduction in the margin of safety.
The NRC staff has reviewed the licensee's analysis and based on
this review, the three standards of 10 CFR 50.92(c) are satisfied.
Therefore, the NRC staff proposes to determine that the license
amendment request involves a no significant hazards consideration.
The NRC is seeking public comments on this proposed determination
that the license amendment request involves no significant hazards
consideration. Any comments received within 14 days after the date of
publication of this notice will be considered in making any final
determination.
Normally, the Commission will not issue the amendment until the
expiration of the 14-day notice period. However, if circumstances
change during the notice period, such that failure to act in a timely
way would result, for example, in derating or shutdown of the facility,
the Commission may issue the license amendment before the expiration of
the 14-day notice period, provided that its final determination is that
the amendment involves no significant hazards consideration. The final
determination will consider all public and State comments received. If
the Commission takes this action, it will publish in the Federal
Register a notice of issuance. The Commission expects that the need to
take this action will occur very infrequently.
III. Opportunity To Request a Hearing and Petition for Leave To
Intervene
Within 60 days after the date of publication of this notice, any
person (petitioner) whose interest may be affected by this action may
file a request for a hearing and petition for leave to intervene
(petition) with respect to the action. Petitions shall be filed in
accordance with the Commission's ``Agency Rules of Practice and
Procedure'' in 10 CFR part 2. Interested persons should consult 10 CFR
2.309. If a petition is filed, the presiding officer will rule on the
petition and, if appropriate, a notice of a hearing will be issued.
Petitions must be filed no later than 60 days from the date of
publication of this notice in accordance with the filing instructions
in the ``Electronic Submissions (E-Filing)'' section of this document.
Petitions and motions for leave to file new or amended contentions that
are filed after the deadline will not be entertained absent a
determination by the presiding officer that the filing demonstrates
good cause by satisfying the three factors in 10 CFR 2.309(c)(1)(i)
through (iii).
If a hearing is requested and the Commission has not made a final
determination on the issue of no significant hazards consideration, the
Commission will make a final determination on the issue of no
significant hazards consideration, which will serve to establish when
the hearing is held. If the final determination is that the amendment
request involves no significant hazards consideration, the Commission
may issue the amendment and make it immediately effective,
notwithstanding the request for a hearing. Any hearing would take place
after issuance of the amendment. If the final determination is that the
amendment request involves a significant hazards consideration, then
any hearing held would take place before the issuance of the amendment
unless the Commission finds an imminent danger to the health or safety
of the public, in which case it will issue an appropriate order or rule
under 10 CFR part 2.
A State, local governmental body, Federally recognized Indian
Tribe, or designated agency thereof, may submit a petition to the
Commission to participate as a party under 10 CFR 2.309(h) no later
than 60 days from the date of publication of this notice.
Alternatively, a State, local governmental body, Federally recognized
Indian Tribe, or agency thereof may participate as a non-party under 10
CFR 2.315(c).
For information about filing a petition and about participation by
a person not a party under 10 CFR 2.315, see ADAMS Accession No.
ML20340A053 and on the NRC's public website at https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/regulatory/adjudicatory/hearing.html#participate.
IV. Electronic Submissions (E-Filing)
All documents filed in NRC adjudicatory proceedings, including
documents filed by an interested State, local governmental body,
Federally recognized Indian Tribe, or designated agency thereof that
requests to participate under 10 CFR 2.315(c), must be filed in
accordance with 10 CFR 2.302. 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,
unless an exemption permitting an alternative filing method, as further
discussed, is granted. Detailed guidance on electronic submissions is
located in the ``Guidance for Electronic Submissions to the NRC''
(ADAMS Accession No. ML13031A056)
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and on the NRC's public website at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html.
To comply with the procedural requirements of E-Filing, at least 10
days prior to the filing deadline, the participant should contact the
Office of the Secretary by email at [email protected], or by
telephone at 301-415-1677, to (1) request a digital identification (ID)
certificate, which allows the participant (or its counsel or
representative) to digitally sign submissions and access the E-Filing
system for any proceeding in which it is participating; and (2) advise
the Secretary that the participant will be submitting a petition or
other adjudicatory document (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 proceeding if the
Secretary has not already established an electronic docket.
Information about applying for a digital ID certificate is
available on the NRC's public website at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals/getting-started.html. After a digital ID certificate is
obtained and a docket created, the participant must submit adjudicatory
documents in Portable Document Format. Guidance on submissions is
available on the NRC's public website at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/electronic-sub-ref-mat.html. A filing is considered complete at the
time the document is 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. ET on the due date. Upon receipt of a
transmission, the E-Filing system time-stamps the document and sends
the submitter an email confirming receipt of the document. The E-Filing
system also distributes an email that provides access to the document
to the NRC's 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 document on those
participants separately. Therefore, applicants and other participants
(or their counsel or representative) must apply for and receive a
digital ID certificate before adjudicatory documents are filed to
obtain access to the documents via the E-Filing system.
A person filing electronically using the NRC's adjudicatory E-
Filing system may seek assistance by contacting the NRC's Electronic
Filing Help Desk through the ``Contact Us'' link located on the NRC's
public website at https://www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals.html, by
email to [email protected], or by a toll-free call at 1-866-672-
7640. The NRC Electronic Filing Help Desk is available between 9 a.m.
and 6 p.m., ET, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Participants who believe that they have 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
stating why there is good cause for not filing electronically and
requesting authorization to continue to submit documents in paper
format. Such filings must be submitted in accordance with 10 CFR
2.302(b) through (d). Participants filing adjudicatory documents in
this manner are responsible for serving their documents on all other
participants. Participants granted an exemption under 10 CFR
2.302(g)(2) must still meet the electronic formatting requirement in 10
CFR 2.302(g)(1), unless the participant also seeks and is granted an
exemption from 10 CFR 2.302(g)(1).
Documents submitted in adjudicatory proceedings will appear in the
NRC's electronic hearing docket, which is publicly available at https://adams.nrc.gov/ehd, unless excluded pursuant to an order of the
presiding officer. If you do not have an NRC-issued digital ID
certificate as previously described, click ``cancel'' when the link
requests certificates and you will be automatically directed to the
NRC's electronic hearing dockets where you will be able to access any
publicly available documents in a particular hearing docket.
Participants are requested not to include personal privacy information
such as social security numbers, home addresses, or personal 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 excerpts that serve the purpose of the adjudicatory
filings and would constitute a Fair Use application, participants
should not include copyrighted materials in their submission.
For further details with respect to this action, see the
application for license amendment dated August 10, 2023 (ADAMS
Accession No. ML23222A037).
Attorney for licensee: Jon P. Christinidis, DTE Electric Company,
Expert Attorney--Regulatory, 1635 WCB, One Energy Plaza, Detroit, MI
48226.
NRC Branch Chief: Jeff Whited.
Dated: August 29, 2023.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Surinder S. Arora,
Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch III, Division of Operating
Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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