NUREG: Event Report Guidelines for Immediate Notification Requirements for Operating Nuclear Power Reactors and Licensee Event Report System, 80268-80269 [2024-22556]

Download as PDF lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1 80268 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 191 / Wednesday, October 2, 2024 / Notices NSF, including whether the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the NSF’s estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, use, and clarity of the information on respondents; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms of information technology should be addressed to the points of contact in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title of Collection: Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Program Evaluation. OMB Control No.: 3145–New. Expiration Date of Approval: Not applicable. Abstract: This proposed data collection is a core component of a larger comprehensive evaluation strategy to assess the effectiveness and impact of the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program, funded through grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The LSAMP program invests in the Nation’s colleges and universities to aid student success to create a new generation of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) discovers for the national STEM enterprise. The program is an alliancebased program, whereby a group of institutions of higher education (IHEs) and other non-academic organizations join to increase the number of STEM baccalaureate and graduate degrees awarded to persons from racial/ethnic populations underrepresented in STEM disciplines. The current evaluation examines the experiences of alliance personnel and student participants at lead and partner institutions since the last full evaluation (which concluded in 2005) at ten alliances. The ten alliances were selected by the NSF in collaboration with NORC at the University of Chicago, the evaluation partner who will conduct all data collection. A key component of the site selection process has been to assure variability in representation, to include diverse two and four-year institutions, taking into consideration institution type, student populations, geography. This work will enable the program to better understand where successes can be modeled and opportunities can be identified to better support the underrepresented students in these VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:16 Oct 01, 2024 Jkt 262001 fields, by encouraging greater inclusion in academic and professional development opportunities. For this data collection, NSF is seeking approval to conduct interviews and focus groups with individuals who are affiliated with the LSAMP alliances at the preidentified sites using the procedures discussed below. Respondents: LSAMP Administrators, Faculty and Staff (200); LSAMP Students (120). Estimated Number of Annual Respondents: 320. Burden on the Public: Estimated 1–3 hours to participate in an interview or focus group (1 hour for staff and students, 3 hours for coordinators/ provosts or other leaders). The estimated burden time is 750 hours. Dated: September 26, 2024. Suzanne H. Plimpton, Reports Clearance Officer, National Science Foundation. [FR Doc. 2024–22588 Filed 10–1–24; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7555–01–P NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [NRC–2024–0037] NUREG: Event Report Guidelines for Immediate Notification Requirements for Operating Nuclear Power Reactors and Licensee Event Report System Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Final report; issuance. AGENCY: I. Discussion The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing NUREG– 1022, Revision 3, Supplement 2, concerning event report guidelines for immediate notification requirements for operating nuclear power reactors and the licensee event report system. NUREG–1022, Revision 3, Supplement 2, provides updated guidance for nuclear power reactor licensees and can be used for evaluating and reporting degraded or unanalyzed conditions as described in NRC regulations. DATES: This document was published in the Federal Register on October 2, 2024. ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2024–0037 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You may obtain publicly available information related to this document using any of the following methods: • Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC–2024–0037. Address questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00077 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 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. • 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 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. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul LaFlamme, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 0001, telephone: 301–415–1184; email: Paul.LaFlamme@nrc.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NUREG–1022, Revision 3, ‘‘Event Reporting Guidelines: 10 CFR 50.72 and 50.73,’’ issued January 2013 (ADAMS Accession No. ML13032A220), contains guidelines that the staff of the NRC considers acceptable for use in meeting the reporting requirements in section 50.72 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), ‘‘Immediate notification requirements for operating nuclear power reactors,’’ and 10 CFR 50.73, ‘‘Licensee event report system.’’ In August 2018, the Nuclear Energy Institute submitted a petition for rulemaking to amend 10 CFR 50.72 (ADAMS Accession No. ML18247A204). In 2021, the Commission directed the NRC staff to pursue the rulemaking (ADAMS Accession No. ML21209A953). As part of this rulemaking effort, the NRC determined that clarifications to the guidance in section 3.2.4, ‘‘Degraded or Unanalyzed Condition,’’ of NUREG 1022, Revision 3, could address part of the concerns identified in the petition. In developing draft Supplement 2 to NUREG 1022, Revision 3, the NRC E:\FR\FM\02OCN1.SGM 02OCN1 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 191 / Wednesday, October 2, 2024 / Notices evaluated data on submitted and retracted events and held a public meeting on August 9, 2023 (ADAMS Accession No. ML23270B927), to discuss section 3.2.4 of NUREG 1022 with stakeholders. The NRC published a notice in the Federal Register on April 17, 2024 (89 FR 27463) requesting public comment on draft Supplement 2 to NUREG 1022, Revision 3 (ADAMS Package Accession No. ML24036A109). The public comment period closed on June 17, 2024. The NRC received two public comments. The public comments and the NRC staff’s responses are presented in a comment resolution memo available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML24197A131. NUREG–1022, Revision 3, Supplement 2 (ADAMS Accession No. ML24191A376), provides updated guidance for nuclear power reactor licensees and can be used for evaluating and reporting degraded or unanalyzed conditions as described in 10 CFR 50.72(b)(3)(ii) and 10 CFR 50.73(a)(2)(ii). The specific guidance included in Supplement 2 supersedes the guidance found in section 3.2.4 of NUREG–1022, Revision 3. II. Backfitting, Forward Fitting, and Issue Finality Issuance of NUREG–1022, Revision 3, Supplement 2, does not constitute backfitting as 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’’; affect issue finality of any approval issued under 10 CFR part 52, ‘‘Licenses, Certificates, and Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants’’; or constitute forward fitting as defined in MD 8.4, because licensees are not required to comply with the guidance in Supplement 2. III. Congressional Review Act lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1 NUREG–1022, Revision 3, Supplement 2, is a rule as defined in the Congressional Review Act (5 U.S.C. 801–808). However, the Office of Management and Budget has not found it to be a major rule as defined in the Congressional Review Act. Dated: September 26, 2024. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Lisa Regner, Chief, Generic Communications and Operating Experience Branch, Division of Reactor Oversight, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. [FR Doc. 2024–22556 Filed 10–1–24; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590–01–P VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:16 Oct 01, 2024 Jkt 262001 NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [Docket Nos. 50–237 and 50–249; NRC– 2020–0277] NextEra Energy Point Beach, LLC; Point Beach Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2; Notice of Intent To Prepare Supplement to the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff will prepare a supplement to the 2021 draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) to evaluate the environmental impacts for the subsequent license renewal (SLR) of Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. DPR–24 and DPR–27 for Point Beach Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2 (Point Beach). The NRC staff will address new information following the issuance of the 2021 draft SEIS. The draft SEIS supplement will be issued for public comment. DATES: October 2, 2024. ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2020–0277 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–2020–0277. • 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 PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. The ADAMS accession number for each document referenced in this document (if it is available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that it is referenced. • 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. ET, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00078 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 80269 • Public Library: A copy of the SLR application for Point Beach, including the applicant’s environmental report, will be available for public review at the following public library location: Lester Public Library, 1001 Adams Street, Two Rivers, WI 54241. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kevin Folk, telephone: 301–415–6944; email: Kevin.Folk@nrc.gov; or Karen Loomis, telephone: 301–415–5142; email: Karen.Loomis@nrc.gov. Both are staff in the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555–0001. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Background By letter dated November 16, 2020 (ADAMS Package Accession No. ML20329A292), NextEra submitted to the NRC an application for the SLR of Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. DPR–24 and DPR–27 for Point Beach Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2, respectively, for an additional 20 years of operation. This submission initiated the NRC’s proposed action of determining whether to issue the subsequent renewed facility operating licenses. Point Beach is located in northeastern Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, approximately 29 miles southeast of Green Bay, Wisconsin. The current facility operating license for Point Beach, Unit 1, expires at midnight on October 5, 2030, and the current facility operating license for Point Beach, Unit 2 expires at midnight on March 8, 2033. The SLR application was submitted pursuant to part 54 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), ‘‘Requirements for Renewal of Operating Licenses for Nuclear Power Plants,’’ and included an environmental report. The applicant seeks to extend the facility operating license for Unit 1 to midnight on October 5, 2050, and for Unit 2 to midnight on March 8, 2053. A notice of acceptance for docketing of the application and of an opportunity to request a hearing was published in the Federal Register on January 22, 2021 (86 FR 6684). Thereafter, a notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement and conduct a scoping process was published in the Federal Register on February 1, 2021 (86 FR 7747) and is available on the Federal rulemaking website (https:// www.regulations.gov) by searching for Docket ID NRC–2020–0277. On November 9, 2021, a notice was published in the Federal Register (86 FR 62220), stating that the NRC staff had issued its draft SEIS, documenting its E:\FR\FM\02OCN1.SGM 02OCN1

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NUREG: Event Report Guidelines for Immediate Notification 
Requirements for Operating Nuclear Power Reactors and Licensee Event 
Report System

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Final report; issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing NUREG-
1022, Revision 3, Supplement 2, concerning event report guidelines for 
immediate notification requirements for operating nuclear power 
reactors and the licensee event report system. NUREG-1022, Revision 3, 
Supplement 2, provides updated guidance for nuclear power reactor 
licensees and can be used for evaluating and reporting degraded or 
unanalyzed conditions as described in NRC regulations.

DATES: This document was published in the Federal Register on October 
2, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2024-0037 when contacting the 
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You 
may obtain publicly available information related to this document 
using any of the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2024-0037. 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.
     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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul LaFlamme, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-1184; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Discussion

    NUREG-1022, Revision 3, ``Event Reporting Guidelines: 10 CFR 50.72 
and 50.73,'' issued January 2013 (ADAMS Accession No. ML13032A220), 
contains guidelines that the staff of the NRC considers acceptable for 
use in meeting the reporting requirements in section 50.72 of title 10 
of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), ``Immediate notification 
requirements for operating nuclear power reactors,'' and 10 CFR 50.73, 
``Licensee event report system.'' In August 2018, the Nuclear Energy 
Institute submitted a petition for rulemaking to amend 10 CFR 50.72 
(ADAMS Accession No. ML18247A204). In 2021, the Commission directed the 
NRC staff to pursue the rulemaking (ADAMS Accession No. ML21209A953). 
As part of this rulemaking effort, the NRC determined that 
clarifications to the guidance in section 3.2.4, ``Degraded or 
Unanalyzed Condition,'' of NUREG 1022, Revision 3, could address part 
of the concerns identified in the petition. In developing draft 
Supplement 2 to NUREG 1022, Revision 3, the NRC

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evaluated data on submitted and retracted events and held a public 
meeting on August 9, 2023 (ADAMS Accession No. ML23270B927), to discuss 
section 3.2.4 of NUREG 1022 with stakeholders.
    The NRC published a notice in the Federal Register on April 17, 
2024 (89 FR 27463) requesting public comment on draft Supplement 2 to 
NUREG 1022, Revision 3 (ADAMS Package Accession No. ML24036A109). The 
public comment period closed on June 17, 2024. The NRC received two 
public comments. The public comments and the NRC staff's responses are 
presented in a comment resolution memo available in ADAMS under 
Accession No. ML24197A131.
    NUREG-1022, Revision 3, Supplement 2 (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML24191A376), provides updated guidance for nuclear power reactor 
licensees and can be used for evaluating and reporting degraded or 
unanalyzed conditions as described in 10 CFR 50.72(b)(3)(ii) and 10 CFR 
50.73(a)(2)(ii). The specific guidance included in Supplement 2 
supersedes the guidance found in section 3.2.4 of NUREG-1022, Revision 
3.

II. Backfitting, Forward Fitting, and Issue Finality

    Issuance of NUREG-1022, Revision 3, Supplement 2, does not 
constitute backfitting as 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''; affect issue finality of any approval issued under 10 CFR 
part 52, ``Licenses, Certificates, and Approvals for Nuclear Power 
Plants''; or constitute forward fitting as defined in MD 8.4, because 
licensees are not required to comply with the guidance in Supplement 2.

III. Congressional Review Act

    NUREG-1022, Revision 3, Supplement 2, is a rule as defined in the 
Congressional Review Act (5 U.S.C. 801-808). However, the Office of 
Management and Budget has not found it to be a major rule as defined in 
the Congressional Review Act.

    Dated: September 26, 2024.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Lisa Regner,
Chief, Generic Communications and Operating Experience Branch, Division 
of Reactor Oversight, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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