Nuclear Regulatory Commission January 2024 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a single notice to announce the issuance of three exemptions in response to requests from one licensee in response to a change to NRC's regulations published in the Federal Register on March 14, 2023.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing Revision 2 to Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.73, ``Qualification of Safety- Related Actuators in Production and Utilization Facilities.'' This RG describes an approach that is acceptable to the staff of the NRC to meet regulatory requirements for the qualification of safety-related actuators for production and utilization facilities.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will conduct a scoping process to gather information necessary to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) to evaluate the environmental impacts for an application for the renewal of Facility Operating License Nos. DPR-80 and DPR-82, which authorize Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E, the applicant) to operate Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant (DCPP), Units 1 and 2. The NRC is seeking public comment on this action and has scheduled both an in-person public scoping meeting and a virtual public scoping meeting.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has recently submitted a request for renewal of an existing collection of information to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. The information collection is entitled, ``Standard Specification for the Granting of Patent Licenses.''

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is publishing a revision to its Enforcement Policy. This revision addresses the requirements of the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015, which requires Federal agencies to adjust their maximum civil monetary penalty amounts annually for inflation.

The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will decrease the current fee of $35 assessed to applicants and licensees for criminal history records checks to $32. This fee is necessary to recover the full cost for the administration of the Criminal History Program (CHP). Information regarding this change can be found on the NRC's CHP public website at https://www.nrc.gov/security/chp.html.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for public comment a draft environmental impact statement (DEIS), published as NUREG-1437, Supplement 7a, Second Renewal, ``Site-Specific Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants Regarding Subsequent License Renewal for North Anna Power Station Units 1 and 2, Draft Report for Comment.'' This DEIS supersedes NUREG-1437, Supplement 7, Second Renewal, ``Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, Supplement 7, Second Renewal, Regarding Subsequent License Renewal for North Anna Power Station Units 1 and 2, Draft Report for Comment,'' published in August 2021. North Anna Power Station Units 1 and 2 (North Anna) are located in Louisa County, Virginia. Possible alternatives to the proposed action of subsequent license renewal for North Anna include the no-action alternative and reasonable replacement power alternatives. A new notice of opportunity to request a hearing and petition for leave to intervenelimited to contentions based on new information in the DEISis also being issued.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has recently submitted a request for renewal of an existing collection of information to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. The information collection is entitled, ``Solicitation of Non-Power Operator Licensing Examination Data.''

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC, the Commission) has granted the request of Entergy Operations, Inc. (the licensee) to withdraw its application dated November 1, 2022, for a proposed amendment to Renewed Facility Operating License No. NPF-38 for the Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3. The proposed amendment would have revised Technical Specification 3/4.3-2, Table 4.3-2, ``Engineered Safety Features Actuation System Instrumentation Surveillance Requirements,'' Table Notation (3), to remove the exemption from testing relays K114, K305, and K313 at power.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) received and is considering approval of two amendment requests. The amendment requests are for Millstone Power Station, Unit 3 and Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2. For each amendment request, the NRC proposes to determine that it involves no significant hazards consideration (NSHC). Because each amendment request contains sensitive unclassified non- safeguards information (SUNSI), an order imposes procedures to obtain access to SUNSI for contention preparation by persons who file a hearing request or petition for leave to intervene.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a finding of no significant impact (FONSI) and accompanying environmental assessment (EA) regarding the NRC's consideration of a license amendment request by Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) to approve the License Termination Plan (LTP) for the Fort Calhoun Station, Unit 1 (FCS), located in Washington County, Nebraska. If approved, the amendment would add a license condition to the FCS license reflecting the NRC's approval of its LTP and establishing criteria for determining when changes to the LTP require prior NRC approval. OPPD would use the LTP to meet the requirements for terminating the license and releasing the site for unrestricted use. Based on the EA, the NRC staff has concluded that there will be no significant impacts to environmental resources from the requested license amendment, and therefore, a FONSI is appropriate.