Agencies and Commissions May 24, 2016 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The SJI Board of Directors will be meeting on Monday, June 13, 2016 at 9:30 a.m. The meeting will be held at SJI Headquarters in Reston, Virginia. The purpose of this meeting is to consider grant applications for the 3rd quarter of FY 2016, and other business. All portions of this meeting are open to the public.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a Confirmatory Order to Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. (Entergy), confirming agreements reached in an Alternative Dispute Resolution Session held on March 25, 2016. As part of the agreement, Entergy will take a number of actions, including: (1) Developing a case study pertaining to the leakage of the Safety Injection Refueling Water Tank at the Palisades Nuclear Plant and training site personnel with an emphasis on lessons learned from the event; (2) sharing facts and lessons learned with the Entergy Fleet and other reactor licensees; (3) reviewing and revising the Entergy corrective action and operability determination procedures to ensure indeterminate and/or changing conditions are addressed, and (4) modifying the current outreach program at Palisades to include wide audience and discussions of the event, plant safety, and current operations.

We are extending the expiration dates of the following body systems in the Listing of Impairments (listings) in our regulations: Endocrine Disorders and Immune System Disorders. We are making no other revisions to these body systems in this final rule. This extension ensures that we will continue to have the criteria we need to evaluate impairments in the affected body systems at step three of the sequential evaluation processes for initial claims and continuing disability reviews.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (``SEC'' or ``Commission'') is making a technical correction to a burden estimate for Paperwork Reduction Act purposes and a corresponding estimate in the Economic Analysis of the business conduct standards for security- based swap dealers and major security-based swap participants.

The Commission is noticing a recent Postal Service filing concerning contingency prices for an existing Global Plus 2C negotiated service agreement. This notice informs the public of the filing, invites public comment, and takes other administrative steps.

The Commission is noticing a recently-filed Postal Service notice announcing rate adjustments affecting some market dominant domestic and international products and services, along with six temporary mailing promotions and proposed classification changes. This notice informs the public of the filing, invites public comment, and takes other administrative steps.

Pursuant to Section 189a. (2) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is publishing this regular biweekly notice. The Act requires the Commission to publish notice of any amendments issued, or proposed to be issued, and grants the Commission the authority to issue and make immediately effective any amendment to an operating license or combined license, as applicable, upon a determination by the Commission that such amendment involves no significant hazards consideration, notwithstanding the pendency before the Commission of a request for a hearing from any person. This biweekly notice includes all notices of amendments issued, or proposed to be issued from April 26, 2016, to May 9, 2016. The last biweekly notice was published on May 10, 2016 (81 FR 28891).

This regulation implements inflation adjustments to civil money penalties (CMPs) that the Farm Credit Administration (FCA) may impose or enforce pursuant to the Farm Credit Act of 1971, as amended (Farm Credit Act), and pursuant to the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, as amended by the National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994 (Reform Act), and further amended by the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 (Biggert-Waters Act). The Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, as amended by the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996 (1996 Act) and the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 2015 (2015 Act) (collectively, 1990 Act, as amended), requires all Federal agencies with the authority to enforce CMPs to evaluate those CMPs each year to ensure that they continue to maintain their deterrent value and promote compliance with the law.