Proposed Revisions To Draft Branch Technical Position 8-8 Onsite (Emergency Diesel Generators) and Offsite Power Sources Completion Time Extensions
| Published date | 12 November 2019 |
| Citation | 84 FR 61082 |
| Record Number | 2019-24551 |
| Section | Notices |
| Court | Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
: The
National Science Foundation, as
directed by the Antarctic Conservation
Act of 1978 (Pub. L. 95–541, 45 CFR
670), as amended by the Antarctic
Science, Tourism and Conservation Act
of 1996, has developed regulations for
the establishment of a permit system for
various activities in Antarctica and
designation of certain animals and
certain geographic areas requiring
special protection. The regulations
establish such a permit system to
designate Antarctic Specially Protected
Areas.
Application Details
Permit Application: 2020–010
1. Applicant: Heather J. Lynch, Stony
Brook University, 610 Life Sciences
Building, Stony Brook, NY 11794.
Activity for Which Permit is
Requested: Harmful Interference; Enter
Antarctic Specially Protected Area
(ASPA). The applicant would survey
chinstrap penguin (Pygoscelis
antarctica) colonies in the South
Shetland Islands including multiple
sites on Low Island. The outcomes of
the surveys would be useful in
determining population abundance and
distribution of chinstrap penguins,
important consumers of Antarctic krill.
Surveys would be completed using
direct manual counts (on foot) and by
operating small, remotely piloted
aircraft systems (RPAS) over colonies.
RPAS would be operated by
experienced pilots at altitudes of at least
30 meters above wildlife. Although no
significant disturbance is expected, both
manual counts and RPAS overflights
have the potential to disturb chinstrap
penguins as well as Adelie penguin
(Pygoscelis adeliae), gentoo penguin (P.
papua), southern giant petrel
(Macronectes giganteus), southern
fulmar (Fulmarus glacialoides), cape
petrel (Daption capense), Antarctic
blue-eyed shag (Phalacrocorax atriceps),
Antarctic brown skua (Catharacta
antarctica), south polar skua (C.
maccormicki), kelp gull (Larus
dominicanus), and Antarctic tern
(Sterna vittata) based on the locations of
the surveys. The applicant expects that
several million chinstrap penguins
would be surveyed by RPAS. The
applicant would enter ASPA 152 to
complete surveys at Low Island. The
applicant would also collect samples of
ticks, guano, and tissue samples
salvaged from already dead gentoo
penguins in support of the research.
Location: ASPA 152 Western
Bransfield Strait; South Shetland
Islands: Low Island, Smith Island, Snow
Island, Elephant Island; Antarctic
Peninsula region.
Dates of Permitted Activities: January
1–March 1, 2020.
Permit Application: 2020–017
2. Applicant: Joseph A. Covi, University
of North Carolina at Wilmington,
Department of Biology and Marine
Biology, Wilmington, NC 28403.
Activity for Which Permit is
Requested: Enter Antarctic Specially
Protected Areas. The application
proposes to enter four Antarctic
Specially Protected Areas (ASPAs) on
King George Island, South Shetland
Islands, Antarctica for the purposes of
collecting small sediment samples from
freshwater lakes and ephemeral ponds.
The applicant would enter ASPA 125,
Fildes Peninsula; ASPA 132, Potter
Peninsula; ASPA 150, Ardley Island,
Maxwell Bay; and ASPA 171 Narebski
Point, Barton Peninsula. The applicant
plans to access the ASPAs by boat and
on foot. Up to six sediment samples will
be collected near the shoreline or from
an inflatable boat from each of up to
eight lakes and eight ephemeral ponds
in total. Sediment core samples may be
taken through holes drilled in the ice
cover, as applicable. The applicant and
agents will adhere to the management
plans for each of the ASPAs that they
propose to enter.
Location: King George Island, South
Shetland Islands, Antarctica; ASPA 125,
Fildes Peninsula; ASPA 132, Potter
Peninsula; ASPA 150, Ardley Island,
Maxwell Bay; and ASPA 171 Narebski
Point, Barton Peninsula.
Dates of Permitted Activities:
December 1, 2019–March 31, 2022.
Permit Application: 2020–018
3. Applicant: Zicheng Yu, Department
of Earth and Environmental
Science, Lehigh University, 1 West
Packer Avenue, Bethlehem, PA
18015.
Activity for Which Permit is
Requested: Enter Antarctic Specially
Protected Area (ASPA). The applicant
requests access to ASPA 113, 126, and
134 to collect small samples of moss
and peat and carry out field
measurements. Moss samples would
primarily consist of two species,
Polytrichum strictum and
Chorisodontium aciphyllum, and would
be collected by hand. Cores of peat moss
up to 100 cm deep would be collected
by box corer (3 inches by 4 inches) or
permafrost corer (2-inch diameter). A
limited number of samples would be
collected from within the ASPAs and
from other nearby locations within the
Palmer Basin ASMA. No equipment or
instrumentation would be installed in
any ASPA. To minimize the potential
for unintentional transfer of soils or
organisms, the application and agents
would clean sample collection tools, as
well as clothing and shoes, between
visits to different field sites. The
samples would be processed at the
home institution. Data gathered from
this research will advance the
understanding of peat moss banks to
climate change during the last 3,000
years. The applicant would also operate
a small, remotely piloted aircraft system
equipped with a camera in order to map
vegetation and peat moss beds.
Location: Antarctic Peninsula region;
ASMA 7, Southwest Anvers Island and
Palmer Basin; ASPA 113, Litchfield
Island, Arthur Harbor, Anvers Island,
Palmer Archipelago; ASPA 126, Byers
Peninsula, Livingston Island, South
Shetland Islands; ASPA 134 Cierva
Point and offshore islands, Danco Coast,
Antarctic Peninsula.
Dates of Permitted Activities:
February 16, 2020–March 31, 2020.
Erika N. Davis,
Program Specialist, Office of Polar Programs.
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[NRC–2019–0177]
Proposed Revisions To Draft Branch
Technical Position 8–8 Onsite
(Emergency Diesel Generators) and
Offsite Power Sources Completion
Time Extensions
AGENCY
: Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION
: Standard review plan-draft
section revision; request for comment.
SUMMARY
: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is soliciting public
comment on draft NUREG–0800,
‘‘Standard Review Plan for the Review
of Safety Analysis Reports for Nuclear
Power Plants: LWR Edition,’’ Branch
Technical Position (BTP) 8–8, ‘‘Onsite
(Emergency Diesel Generators) and
Offsite Power Sources Completion Time
Extensions.’’ The NRC seeks comments
on the proposed draft section revision of
the BTP concerning guidance for the
completion time extension requests for
onsite or offsite power sources.
DATES
: Comments must be filed no later
than January 13, 2020. Comments
received after this date will be
considered, if it is practical to do so, but
the Commission is able to ensure
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consideration only for comments
received on or before this date.
ADDRESSES
: You may submit comments
by any of the following methods:
•Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2019–0177. Address
questions about NRC docket IDs in
Regulations.gov to Jennifer Borges;
telephone: 301–287–9127; email:
Jennifer.Borges@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 accessing
information and submitting comments,
see ‘‘Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments’’ in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
section of
this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
:
Mark Notich, Office of New Reactors,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone:
301–415–3053; email: Mark.Notich@
nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
:
I. Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2019–
0177 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–2019–0177.
•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, 301–
415–4737, or by email to pdr.resource@
nrc.gov. The draft revision and current
revision to BTP 8–8, ‘‘Onsite
(Emergency Diesel Generators) and
Offsite Power Sources Completion Time
Extensions’’ are available in ADAMS
under Accession Nos. ML19219A184
and ML113640138, respectively.
•NRC’s PDR: You may examine and
purchase copies of public documents at
the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC–2019–
0177 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. Further Information
The NRC seeks public comment on
the proposed draft section revision of
BTP 8–8. The changes to Standard
Review Plan (SRP) Chapter 8 reflect the
current staff reviews, methods, and
practices based on lessons learned from
the NRC’s reviews of design certification
and combined license applications
completed since the last revision of this
chapter. The draft SRP section would
also provide guidance for reviewing an
application for a combined license
under part 52 of title 10 of the Code of
Federal Regulations (10 CFR).
Following NRC staff evaluation of
public comments, the NRC intends to
finalize BTP 8–8 in ADAMS and post it
on the NRC’s public website at https://
www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-
collections/nuregs/staff/sr0800/. The
SRP is guidance for the NRC staff. The
SRP is not a substitute for the NRC
regulations, and compliance with the
SRP is not required.
III. Backfitting and Issue Finality
Chapter 8 of the SRP provides
guidance to the staff for electrical
engineering issues. BTP 8–8 of the SRP
provides guidance for the review of
information addressing onsite and
offsite power sources completion time
extensions.
Issuance of this SRP section revision
does not constitute backfitting as
defined in 10 CFR 50.109 (the Backfit
Rule) nor is it inconsistent with the
issue finality provisions in 10 CFR part
52. The NRC’s position is based upon
the following considerations.
1. The SRP positions do not constitute
backfitting, inasmuch as the SRP is
guidance directed to the NRC staff with
respect to its regulatory responsibilities.
The SRP provides guidance to the
NRC staff on how to review an
application for NRC regulatory approval
in the form of licensing. Changes in
guidance intended for use by only the
staff are not matters that constitute
backfitting as that term is defined in 10
CFR 50.109(a)(1) or involve the issue
finality provisions of 10 CFR part 52.
2. Backfitting and issue finality—with
certain exceptions discussed below—do
not apply to current or future
applicants.
Applicants and potential applicants
are not, with certain exceptions, the
subject of either the Backfit Rule or any
issue finality provisions under 10 CFR
part 52. This is because neither the
Backfit Rule nor the issue finality
provisions of 10 CFR part 52 were
intended to apply to every NRC action
that substantially changes the
expectations of current and future
applicants.
The exceptions to the general
principle are applicable whenever a 10
CFR part 50 operating license applicant
references a construction permit or a 10
CFR part 52 combined license applicant
references a license (e.g., an early site
permit) and/or an NRC regulatory
approval (e.g., a design certification
rule) for which specified issue finality
provisions apply.
The NRC staff does not currently
intend to impose the positions
represented in this final SRP section in
a manner that constitutes backfitting or
is inconsistent with any issue finality
provision of 10 CFR part 52. If in the
future the NRC staff seeks to impose
positions stated in this SRP section in
a manner that would constitute
backfitting or be inconsistent with these
issue finality provisions, the NRC staff
must make the showing as set forth in
the Backfit Rule or address the
regulatory criteria set forth in the
applicable issue finality provision, as
applicable, that would allow the staff to
impose the position.
3. The NRC staff has no intention to
impose the SRP positions on existing
nuclear power plant licensees either
now or in the future (absent a voluntary
request for a change from the licensee,
holder of a regulatory approval or a
design certification applicant).
The staff does not intend to impose or
apply the positions described in this
final SRP section to existing (already
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1
See Docket No. RM2018–3, Order Adopting
Final Rules Relating to Non-Public Information,
June 27, 2018, Attachment A at 19–22 (Order No.
4679).
1
15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
2
17 CFR 240.19b–4.
issued) licenses (e.g., operating licenses
and combined licenses) and regulatory
approvals. Hence, the issuance of this
SRP guidance—even if considered
guidance subject to the Backfit Rule or
the issue finality provisions in 10 CFR
part 52—would not need to be evaluated
as if it were a backfit or as being
inconsistent with issue finality
provisions. If, in the future, the NRC
staff seeks to impose a position in the
SRP on holders of already issued
licenses in a manner that would
constitute backfitting or does not
provide issue finality as described in the
applicable issue finality provision, then
the staff must make a showing as set
forth in the Backfit Rule or address the
criteria set forth in the applicable issue
finality provision, as applicable, that
would allow the staff to impose the
position.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 6th day
of November, 2019.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Dennis C. Morey,
Chief, Licensing Projects Branch, Division of
Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of
Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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: The Commission is noticing a
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Commission’s consideration concerning
negotiated service agreements. This
notice informs the public of the filing,
invites public comment, and takes other
administrative steps.
DATES
: Comments are due: November
14, 2019.
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comments electronically should contact
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II. Docketed Proceeding(s)
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Commission to consider matters related
to negotiated service agreement(s). The
request(s) may propose the addition or
removal of a negotiated service
agreement from the market dominant or
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modification of an existing product
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The public portions of the Postal
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Public Representative: Curtis E. Kidd;
Comments Due: November 14, 2019.
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Federal Register.
Darcie S. Tokioka,
Acting Secretary.
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