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(e) Each importer of paper and paperbased packaging shall pay to the Board
an assessment on the paper and paperbased packaging imported into the
United States identified in the
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the
United States (HTSUS) number listed in
the following table. In the event that any
HTSUS number subject to assessment is
changed and such change is merely a
replacement of a previous number and
has no impact on the description of the
paper and paper-based packaging
involved, assessments will continue to
be collected based on the new number.
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(f) Each importer is responsible for
paying the assessment directly to the
Board within 30 calendar days after the
end of the quarter in which the paper
and paper-based packaging was
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■ 15. § 1222.53, revise paragraphs (a)(1),
(2)(iii) and (5) to read as follows:
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Exemption from assessment.
(a) Minimum quantity exemption. (1)
Manufacturers that manufacture less
than 100,000 short tons of paper and
paper-based packaging in a marketing
year are exempt from paying
assessments. Such manufacturers must
apply to the Board, on a form provided
by the Board, for a certificate of
exemption. This is an annual exemption
and manufacturers must reapply each
year. Such manufacturers shall certify
that they will manufacture less than
100,000 short tons of paper and paperbased packaging during the marketing
year for which the exemption is
claimed. Upon receipt of an application
for exemption, the Board shall
determine whether an exemption may
be granted. The Board may request past
manufacturing data to support the
exemption request. The Board will
issue, if deemed appropriate, a
certificate of exemption to the eligible
manufacturer. It is the responsibility of
the manufacturer to retain a copy of the
certificate of exemption.
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(iii) The Board shall refund to such
importers considered exempt
assessments that the importer paid to
the Board no later than 60 calendar days
after the Board receives such
assessments. The Board will stop refund
of assessments to such importers who
during the marketing year import more
than 100,000 short tons of paper and
paper-based packaging. These importers
will be notified accordingly. No interest
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(5) In calculating whether a
manufacturer or importer qualifies for
an exemption, the combined quantity of
all paper and paper-based packaging
manufactured or imported by the
manufacturer or importer during a
marketing year shall count towards the
100,000 short-ton exemption.
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(b)(2) to read as follows:
§ 1222.81
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(2) Not later than seven years after
this Order becomes effective and every
seven years thereafter, to determine
whether manufacturers and importers
favor the continuation of the Order. The
Order shall continue if it is favored by
a majority of manufacturers and
importers voting in the referendum
who, during a representative period
determined by the Secretary, are each an
eligible domestic manufacturer or an
eligible importer and who also represent
a majority of the volume of paper and
paper-based packaging represented in
the referendum;
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to read as follows:
§ 1222.82
Suspension or termination.
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(b) The Secretary shall suspend or
terminate this subpart at the end of the
fiscal year whenever the Secretary
determines that its suspension or
termination is favored by a majority of
manufacturers and importers voting in
the referendum who, during a
representative period determined by the
Secretary, are each an eligible domestic
manufacturer or an eligible importer
and who also represent a majority of the
volume of paper and paper-based
packaging represented in the
referendum;
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and (i) to read as follows:
Subpart B—Referendum Procedures
§ 1222.101
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means any person who is currently a
domestic manufacturer and who
manufactured 100,000 short tons or
more of paper and paper-based
packaging during the representative
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■ 19. In § 1222.102, revise paragraph (a)
to read as follows:
§ 1222.102
Voting.
(a) Each eligible domestic
manufacturer and importer of paper and
paper-based packaging shall be entitled
to cast only one ballot in the
referendum. However, each domestic
manufacturer in a landlord/tenant
relationship or a divided ownership
arrangement involving totally
independent entities cooperating only to
manufacture paper and paper-based
packaging, in which more than one of
the parties is a domestic manufacturer
or importer, shall be entitled to cast one
ballot in the referendum covering only
such domestic manufacturer or
importer’s share of ownership.
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Erin Morris,
Associate Administrator, Agricultural
Marketing Service.
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10 CFR Parts 50, 52, and 100
[NRC–2024–0110]
Draft Regulatory Guides: Design-Basis
Floods for Nuclear Power Plants and
Guidance for Assessment of Flooding
Hazards Due to Water Control
Structure Failures and Incidents
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Draft guides; request for
comment.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is issuing for public
comment two related draft Regulatory
Guides (DG) namely DG–1290, Revision
1, ‘‘Design-Basis Floods for Nuclear
Power Plants,’’ proposed Revision 3 of
Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.59 of the same
name and DG–1417, ‘‘Guidance for
Assessment of Flooding Hazards due to
Water Control Structure Failures and
Incidents,’’ proposed new RG 1.256.
DG–1290 provides guidance for
applicants for new nuclear power plants
(NPPs) on acceptable methods for
evaluating design-basis floods and DG–
1417 provides guidance for applicants
on flooding hazards due to failure or
other incidents at man-made water
SUMMARY:
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control structures including, but not
limited to, dams and levees.
DATES: Submit comments by August 14,
2024. Comments received after this date
will be considered if it is practical to do
so, but the NRC 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;
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–2024–0110. 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 individuals 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:
Edward O’Donnell, Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research, telephone: 301–
415–3317; email: Edward.O’Donnell@
nrc.gov; Joseph Kanney, Office of
Nuclear Regulatory Research, telephone:
301–415–1920; email: Joseph.Kanney@
nrc.gov; and Kenneth See, Office of
Nuclear Reactor Regulation, telephone:
301–415–1508; email: Kenneth.See@
nrc.gov. All are staff of the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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–2024–0110 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–2024–
0110 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–2024–0110.
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly
available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at
II. Additional Information
The NRC is issuing for public
comment two related DGs in the NRC’s
‘‘Regulatory Guide’’ series, namely DG–
1290 and DG–1417. This series was
developed to describe methods that are
acceptable to the NRC staff for
implementing specific parts of the
agency’s regulations, to explain
techniques that the staff uses in
evaluating specific issues or postulated
events, and to describe information that
the staff needs in its review of
applications for permits and licenses.
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
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DG–1290 was previously released for
public comment on February 23, 2022,
as announced in the Federal Register
(87 FR 10260). The public comment
period ended on April 11, 2022. That
version of DG–1290 can be found in
ADAMS under Accession No.
ML19289E561 and the response to
public comments can be found at
ADAMS Accession No. ML23320A026.
DG–1290, Revision 1 (ADAMS
Accession No. ML23320A025) is being
issued for a second round of comments
due to changes reflecting public
comments and proposed referencing of
a complementary new guide, DG–1417
(RG 1.256, Revision 0) ‘‘Guidance for
Assessment of Flooding Hazards Due to
Water Control Structure Failures and
Incidents.’’ DG–1417 will be released for
comment in conjunction with DG–1290,
Revision 1.
DG–1417 is a proposed new RG, RG
1.256, of the same name, and is
temporarily identified by its task
number, DG–1417 (ADAMS Accession
No. ML22278A110). It was developed to
provide guidance to applicants for new
NPPs on acceptable methods for
evaluating design-basis flooding hazards
due to failure or other incidents at manmade water control structures
including, but not limited to, dams and
levees. If finalized, RG 1.256 would
formally incorporate interim staff
guidance (ISG) ‘‘Guidance for
Assessment of Flooding Hazards Due to
Dam Failure’’ (JLD–ISG–2013–01)
(ADAMS Accession No. ML13151A153)
into NRC’s regulatory guidance
framework. ISGs are meant to be
withdrawn after their immediate
purpose has been fulfilled or integrated
formally into the NRC’s regulatory
guidance framework. If DG–1417 is
finalized as RG 1.256, JLD–ISG–2013–01
will be withdrawn. The staff is also
issuing for public comment a draft
regulatory analysis for DG–1417
(ADAMS Accession No. ML22278A111).
The staff developed the regulatory
analysis to assess the value of issuing or
revising a RG, as well as alternative
courses of action. A regulatory analysis
for DG–1290 was released for comment
on February 23, 2022, and although no
comments were received it is available
for comment and can be found in
ADAMS under Accession No.
ML12121A020.
As noted in the Federal Register on
December 9, 2022 (87 FR 75671), this
document is being published in the
‘‘Proposed Rules’’ section of the Federal
Register to comply with publication
requirements under chapter I of title 1
of the Code of Federal Regulations
(CFR).
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III. Backfitting, Forward Fitting, and
Issue Finality
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
If finalized, the NRC staff may use RG
1.256 as a reference in its regulatory
processes, such as licensing, inspection,
or enforcement. However, the NRC staff
does not intend to use the proposed
guidance in RG 1.256 to support NRC
staff actions in a manner that would
constitute backfitting as that term is
defined in 10 CFR 50.109, ‘‘Backfitting,’’
and as described in NRC Management
Directive (MD) 8.4, ‘‘Management of
Backfitting, Forward Fitting, Issue
Finality, and Information Requests,’’
(ADAMS Accession No. ML18093B087);
nor does the NRC staff intend to use the
proposed guidance to affect the issue
finality of an approval under 10 CFR
part 52, ‘‘Licenses, Certifications, and
Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants.’’
The staff also does not intend to use the
proposed guidance to support NRC staff
actions in a manner that constitutes
forward fitting as that term is defined
and described in MD 8.4. If a licensee
believes that the NRC is using this
proposed RG in a manner inconsistent
with the discussion in this
Implementation section, then the
licensee may file a backfitting or
forward fitting appeal with the NRC in
accordance with the process in MD 8.4.
IV. Submitting Suggestions for
Improvement of Regulatory Guides
A member of the public may, at any
time, submit suggestions to the NRC for
improvement of existing RGs or for the
development of new RGs. Suggestions
can be submitted on the NRC’s public
website at https://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/doc-collections/reg-guides/
contactus.html. Suggestions will be
considered in future updates and
enhancements to the ‘‘Regulatory
Guide’’ series.
Dated: July 10, 2024.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Meraj Rahimi,
Chief, Regulatory Guide and Programs
Management Branch, Division of Engineering,
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
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14 CFR Part 39
[Docket No. FAA–2024–1884; Project
Identifier AD–2023–00948–T]
RIN 2120–AA64
Airworthiness Directives; The Boeing
Company Airplanes
Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking
(NPRM).
AGENCY:
The FAA proposes to
supersede Airworthiness Directive (AD)
2023–08–04, which applies to certain
The Boeing Company Model 787–8,
787–9, and 787–10 airplanes. AD 2023–
08–04 requires a detailed visual
inspection of all door 1 and door 3
lavatory and galley potable water
systems for any missing or incorrectly
installed clamshell couplings, and
applicable on-condition actions. Since
the FAA issued AD 2023–08–04, Boeing
has discovered that some couplings did
not have the required safety strap and
has developed a design solution that
replaces the couplings with couplings
that have safety straps to address the
unsafe condition. This proposed AD
would retain the requirements of AD
2023–08–04 and require a detailed
inspection of all clamshell couplings for
the presence and correct installation of
safety straps at door 1 and door 3
lavatories and galleys with a potable
water system, and applicable oncondition actions. The AD would also
prohibit the installation of affected parts
at inspection locations and remove
Model 787–10 airplanes from the
applicability. The FAA is proposing this
AD to address the unsafe condition on
these products.
DATES: The FAA must receive comments
on this proposed AD by August 29,
2024.
SUMMARY:
You may send comments,
using the procedures found in 14 CFR
11.43 and 11.45, by any of the following
methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
regulations.gov. Follow the instructions
for submitting comments.
• Fax: 202–493–2251.
• Mail: U.S. Department of
Transportation, Docket Operations, M–
30, West Building Ground Floor, Room
W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE,
Washington, DC 20590.
• Hand Delivery: Deliver to Mail
address above between 9 a.m. and 5
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p.m., Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays.
AD Docket: You may examine the AD
docket at regulations.gov under Docket
No. FAA–2024–1884; or in person at
Docket Operations between 9 a.m. and
5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays. The AD docket
contains this NPRM, any comments
received, and other information. The
street address for Docket Operations is
listed above.
Material Incorporated by Reference:
• For Boeing material identified in
this NPRM, contact Boeing Commercial
Airplanes, Attention: Contractual & Data
Services (C&DS), 2600 Westminster
Blvd., MC 110–SK57, Seal Beach, CA
90740–5600; telephone 562–797–1717;
website myboeingfleet.com.
• You may view this material at the
FAA, Airworthiness Products Section,
Operational Safety Branch, 2200 South
216th St., Des Moines, WA. For
information on the availability of this
material at the FAA, call 206–231–3195.
It is also available at regulations.gov by
searching for and locating Docket No.
FAA–2024–1884.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Brandon Lucero, Aviation Safety
Engineer, FAA, 2200 South 216th St.,
Des Moines, WA 98198; phone: 206–
231–3569; email: Brandon.Lucero@
faa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Comments Invited
The FAA invites you to send any
written relevant data, views, or
arguments about this proposal. Send
your comments to an address listed
under ADDRESSES. Include ‘‘Docket No.
FAA–2024–1884; Project Identifier AD–
2023–00948–T’’ at the beginning of your
comments. The most helpful comments
reference a specific portion of the
proposal, explain the reason for any
recommended change, and include
supporting data. The FAA will consider
all comments received by the closing
date and may amend this proposal
because of those comments.
Except for Confidential Business
Information (CBI) as described in the
following paragraph, and other
information as described in 14 CFR
11.35, the FAA will post all comments
received, without change, to
regulations.gov, including any personal
information you provide. The agency
will also post a report summarizing each
substantive verbal contact received
about this NPRM.
Confidential Business Information
CBI is commercial or financial
information that is both customarily and
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
10 CFR Parts 50, 52, and 100
[NRC-2024-0110]
Draft Regulatory Guides: Design-Basis Floods for Nuclear Power
Plants and Guidance for Assessment of Flooding Hazards Due to Water
Control Structure Failures and Incidents
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft guides; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for
public comment two related draft Regulatory Guides (DG) namely DG-1290,
Revision 1, ``Design-Basis Floods for Nuclear Power Plants,'' proposed
Revision 3 of Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.59 of the same name and DG-1417,
``Guidance for Assessment of Flooding Hazards due to Water Control
Structure Failures and Incidents,'' proposed new RG 1.256. DG-1290
provides guidance for applicants for new nuclear power plants (NPPs) on
acceptable methods for evaluating design-basis floods and DG-1417
provides guidance for applicants on flooding hazards due to failure or
other incidents at man-made water
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control structures including, but not limited to, dams and levees.
DATES: Submit comments by August 14, 2024. Comments received after this
date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC 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;
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-2024-0110. Address
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann;
telephone: 301-415-0624; email: [email protected]. For technical
questions, contact the individuals 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: Edward O'Donnell, Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research, telephone: 301-415-3317; email:
Edward.O'[email protected]; Joseph Kanney, Office of Nuclear Regulatory
Research, telephone: 301-415-1920; email: [email protected]; and
Kenneth See, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301-415-
1508; email: [email protected]. All are staff of the 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-2024-0110 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-2024-0110.
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-2024-0110 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. Additional Information
The NRC is issuing for public comment two related DGs in the NRC's
``Regulatory Guide'' series, namely DG-1290 and DG-1417. This series
was developed to describe methods that are acceptable to the NRC staff
for implementing specific parts of the agency's regulations, to explain
techniques that the staff uses in evaluating specific issues or
postulated events, and to describe information that the staff needs in
its review of applications for permits and licenses.
DG-1290 was previously released for public comment on February 23,
2022, as announced in the Federal Register (87 FR 10260). The public
comment period ended on April 11, 2022. That version of DG-1290 can be
found in ADAMS under Accession No. ML19289E561 and the response to
public comments can be found at ADAMS Accession No. ML23320A026. DG-
1290, Revision 1 (ADAMS Accession No. ML23320A025) is being issued for
a second round of comments due to changes reflecting public comments
and proposed referencing of a complementary new guide, DG-1417 (RG
1.256, Revision 0) ``Guidance for Assessment of Flooding Hazards Due to
Water Control Structure Failures and Incidents.'' DG-1417 will be
released for comment in conjunction with DG-1290, Revision 1.
DG-1417 is a proposed new RG, RG 1.256, of the same name, and is
temporarily identified by its task number, DG-1417 (ADAMS Accession No.
ML22278A110). It was developed to provide guidance to applicants for
new NPPs on acceptable methods for evaluating design-basis flooding
hazards due to failure or other incidents at man-made water control
structures including, but not limited to, dams and levees. If
finalized, RG 1.256 would formally incorporate interim staff guidance
(ISG) ``Guidance for Assessment of Flooding Hazards Due to Dam
Failure'' (JLD-ISG-2013-01) (ADAMS Accession No. ML13151A153) into
NRC's regulatory guidance framework. ISGs are meant to be withdrawn
after their immediate purpose has been fulfilled or integrated formally
into the NRC's regulatory guidance framework. If DG-1417 is finalized
as RG 1.256, JLD-ISG-2013-01 will be withdrawn. The staff is also
issuing for public comment a draft regulatory analysis for DG-1417
(ADAMS Accession No. ML22278A111). The staff developed the regulatory
analysis to assess the value of issuing or revising a RG, as well as
alternative courses of action. A regulatory analysis for DG-1290 was
released for comment on February 23, 2022, and although no comments
were received it is available for comment and can be found in ADAMS
under Accession No. ML12121A020.
As noted in the Federal Register on December 9, 2022 (87 FR 75671),
this document is being published in the ``Proposed Rules'' section of
the Federal Register to comply with publication requirements under
chapter I of title 1 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR).
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III. Backfitting, Forward Fitting, and Issue Finality
If finalized, the NRC staff may use RG 1.256 as a reference in its
regulatory processes, such as licensing, inspection, or enforcement.
However, the NRC staff does not intend to use the proposed guidance in
RG 1.256 to support NRC staff actions in a manner that would constitute
backfitting as that term is defined in 10 CFR 50.109, ``Backfitting,''
and as described in NRC Management Directive (MD) 8.4, ``Management of
Backfitting, Forward Fitting, Issue Finality, and Information
Requests,'' (ADAMS Accession No. ML18093B087); nor does the NRC staff
intend to use the proposed guidance to affect the issue finality of an
approval under 10 CFR part 52, ``Licenses, Certifications, and
Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants.'' The staff also does not intend to
use the proposed guidance to support NRC staff actions in a manner that
constitutes forward fitting as that term is defined and described in MD
8.4. If a licensee believes that the NRC is using this proposed RG in a
manner inconsistent with the discussion in this Implementation section,
then the licensee may file a backfitting or forward fitting appeal with
the NRC in accordance with the process in MD 8.4.
IV. Submitting Suggestions for Improvement of Regulatory Guides
A member of the public may, at any time, submit suggestions to the
NRC for improvement of existing RGs or for the development of new RGs.
Suggestions can be submitted on the NRC's public website at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/reg-guides/contactus.html.
Suggestions will be considered in future updates and enhancements to
the ``Regulatory Guide'' series.
Dated: July 10, 2024.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Meraj Rahimi,
Chief, Regulatory Guide and Programs Management Branch, Division of
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2024-15479 Filed 7-12-24; 8:45 am]
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