Monday, April 30, 2007

Part LVIII

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Semiannual Regulatory Agenda

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (NRC)

NUCLEAR REGULATORY a.m. and 4:15 p.m., Federal workdays. semiannual publication is updated to COMMISSION Comments received on rules for which reflect any action that has occurred on the comment period has closed will be rules since publication of the last NRC 10 CFR Ch. I considered if it is practical to do so, but semiannual agenda on December 11, assurance of consideration cannot be 2006 (71 FR 74288). Within each group, Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory given except as to comments received the rules are ordered according to the and Deregulatory Actions on or before the closure dates specified Regulation Identifier Number (RIN). in the agenda. AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory The information in this agenda has Commission. The agenda and any comments been updated through March 2, 2007. received on any rule listed in the agenda ACTION: Semiannual regulatory agenda. The date for the next scheduled action are available for public inspection and under the heading ‘‘Timetable’’ is the copying for a fee at the Nuclear date the rule is scheduled to be SUMMARY: Regulatory Commission’s Public The Nuclear Regulatory published in the Federal Register. The Document Room, One White Flint Commission (NRC) is publishing its date is considered tentative and is not North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Room O- semiannual regulatory agenda in binding on the Commission or its staff. 1F21, Rockville, Maryland. accordance with Public Law 96-354 The agenda is intended to provide the ‘‘The Regulatory Flexibility Act’’ and FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For public early notice and opportunity to Executive Order 12866 ‘‘Regulatory further information concerning NRC participate in the NRC rulemaking Planning and Review.’’ The agenda is a rulemaking procedures or the status of process. However, the NRC may compilation of all rules on which the any rule listed in this agenda, contact consider or act on any rulemaking even NRC has recently completed action or Michael T. Lesar, Chief, Rulemaking, though it is not included in the agenda. has proposed or is considering action. Directives, and Editing Branch, Division This issuance updates any action of Administrative Services, Office of The NRC agenda lists all open occurring on rules since publication of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory rulemaking actions. Three rules affect the last semiannual agenda on Commission, Washington, DC 20555- small entities. December 11, 2006 (71 FR 74288). 0001, telephone 301-415-7163 (e-mail: Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 2nd ADDRESSES: [email protected]). Persons outside the Comments on any rule in day of March 2007. the agenda may be sent to the Secretary Washington, DC, metropolitan area may of the Commission, U.S. Nuclear call, toll-free: 1-800-368-5642. For For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Regulatory Commission, Washington, further information on the substantive DC 20555-0001, Attention: Rulemakings content of any rule listed in the agenda, Michael T. Lesar, and Adjudications Staff. Comments may contact the individual listed under the Chief, Rulemaking, Directives, also be hand delivered to the One White heading ‘‘Agency Contact’’ for that rule. and Editing Branch, Flint North Building, 11555 Rockville SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Division of Administrative Services, Pike, Rockville, Maryland, between 7:30 information contained in this Office of Administration. Nuclear Regulatory Commission—Proposed Rule Stage

Regulation Sequence Title Identifier Number Number

3686 Reduce the Likelihood of Funding Shortfalls for Decommissioning Under the License Termination Rule ...... 3150–AH45 3687 Industry Codes and Standards; Amended Requirements ...... 3150–AH76 3688 Regulatory Improvements to Nuclear Materials Management and Safeguards System Database ...... 3150–AH85 3689 Security Assessment Requirements for New Nuclear Power Reactor Designs ...... 3150–AH92 3690 Amend Fracture Toughness Requirements Against Pressurized Thermal Shock Event ...... 3150–AI01 3691 Security Requirements for Geological Repository Operations Area (GROA) ...... 3150–AI06 3692 License and Certificate of Compliance Terms ...... 3150–AI09 3693 Review of Emergency Preparedness and Guidance ...... 3150–AI10

Nuclear Regulatory Commission—Final Rule Stage

Regulation Sequence Title Identifier Number Number

3694 Fitness-for-Duty Programs...... 3150–AF12 3695 Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants ...... 3150–AG24 3696 Power Reactor Security Requirements ...... 3150–AG63 3697 Occupational Dose Records, Labeling Containers, and the Total Effective Dose Equivalent ...... 3150–AH40 3698 Exemptions From Licensing, General Licenses, and Distribution of Byproduct Material; Licensing and Reporting Requirements ...... 3150–AH41

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Nuclear Regulatory Commission—Final Rule Stage (Continued)

Regulation Sequence Title Identifier Number Number

3699 Protection of Safeguards Information ...... 3150–AH57 3700 Clarification of NRC Civil Penalty Authority Over Contractors and Subcontractors Who Discriminate Against Em- ployees for Engaging in Protected Activities ...... 3150–AH59 3701 Use of Electronic Submissions in Agency Hearings ...... 3150–AH74 3702 Incorporation by Reference of NRC Regulatory Guides Listing Approved ASME Code Cases ...... 3150–AH80 3703 Requirements for Expanded Definition of Byproduct Material ...... 3150–AH84 3704 List of Approved Sent Fuel Storage Casks: HI-STORM 100 Revision, Amendment 3 ...... 3150–AH98 3705 Revision of Fee Schedules; Fee Recovery for FY 2007 ...... 3150–AI00 3706 List of Approved Sent Fuel Storage Casks: Standardized NUHOMS System Revision; Amendment 9 ...... 3150–AI03 3707 Limited Work Authorizations for Nuclear Power Plants ...... 3150–AI05 3708 List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks—NAC-MPC, Revision; Amendment 5 ...... 3150–AI13 3709 Medical Use of Byproduct Material—Minor Corrections and Clarifications ...... 3150–AI14

Nuclear Regulatory Commission—Long-Term Actions

Regulation Sequence Title Identifier Number Number

3710 Update Fuel Performance Considerations and Other Fuel Cycle Issues ...... 3150–AA31 3711 Advance Notification to Native American Tribes of Transportation of Certain Types of Nuclear Waste ...... 3150–AG41 3712 Integrated Rulemaking for Decommissioning Nuclear Power Reactors ...... 3150–AG47 3713 Transfers of Certain Source Materials by Specific Licensees ...... 3150–AG64 3714 Entombment Options for Power Reactors ...... 3150–AG89 3715 Modifications to Pressure-Temperature Limits ...... 3150–AG98 3716 Distribution of Source Material to Exempt Persons and General Licensees and Revision of 10 CFR 40.22 General License ...... 3150–AH15 3717 Controlling the Disposition of Solid Materials ...... 3150–AH18 3718 Large Break Loss-of-Coolant Accident (LB-LOCA) Redefinition ...... 3150–AH29 3719 Implement US-IAEA Safeguards Agreement ...... 3150–AH38 3720 Performance-Based ECCS Acceptance Criteria ...... 3150–AH42 3721 Decoupling of Assumed Loss of Offsite Power From Loss-of-Coolant Accidents (LOCA) ...... 3150–AH43 3722 Administrative Changes...... 3150–AH49 3723 Conforming Administrative Changes ...... 3150–AH62 3724 Implementation of a Dose Standard Beyond 10,000 Years ...... 3150–AH68 3725 Approach to Risk-Inform, Performance-Base Requirement for Nuclear Power Plants ...... 3150–AH81 3726 Requirements for Distribution of Byproduct Material and Exemptions From Licensing ...... 3150–AH91 3727 Uranium in Drinking Water ...... 3150–AH97 3728 Amendment of Access Authorization Fees ...... 3150–AH99 3729 Statement of Reorganization and General Information; Minor Amendments ...... 3150–AI07 3730 Interlocutory Review of Rulings on Requests by Potential Parties for Access to Non-Public Sensitive Unclassified Information ...... 3150–AI08 3731 IAEA and DOT Compatibility ...... 3150–AI11 3732 Requirements for Fingerprinting and Criminal History Record Checks for Unescorted Access to Radioactive Mate- rial and Other Property ...... 3150–AI12 3733 Update NRC Size Standards ...... 3150–AI15

Nuclear Regulatory Commission—Completed Actions

Regulation Sequence Title Identifier Number Number

3734 Design Basis Treat (DBT) ...... 3150–AH60 3735 Secure Transport of Nuclear Materials ...... 3150–AH90 3736 List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks: NUHOMS HD Addition ...... 3150–AH93 3737 Criticality Control of Spent Fuel Within Dry Storage or Transportation Packages in a Spent Fuel Pool ...... 3150–AH95 3738 Facility Change Process Involving Items Relied On for Safety ...... 3150–AH96 3739 Export and Import of Nuclear Material; Exports to Libya Restricted ...... 3150–AI02

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Nuclear Regulatory Commission—Completed Actions (Continued)

Regulation Sequence Title Identifier Number Number

3740 Relief From Fingerprinting and Criminal History Records Checks ...... 3150–AI04

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Proposed Rule Stage

3686. REDUCE THE LIKELIHOOD OF Abstract: The proposed rule would Abstract: The proposed rulemaking FUNDING SHORTFALLS FOR amend the Commission’s regulations to would amend the Commission’s DECOMMISSIONING UNDER THE incorporate by reference the 2004 regulations in 10 CFR parts 40, 72, 74, LICENSE TERMINATION RULE Edition of Division 1 rules in section and 150 related to current reporting Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant III ‘‘Rules for Construction of Nuclear requirements for certain NRC-licensed Power Plant Components’’ of the and Agreement State facilities related Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC American Society of Mechanical to the Nuclear Materials Management 5841 Engineers Boiler and Pressure Vessel and Safeguards System (NMMSS) CFR Citation: 10 CFR 20; 10 CFR 30; Code (ASME BPV Code); the 2004 database. The proposed amendments 10 CFR 40; 10 CFR 70; 10 CFR 72 Edition of Division 1 rules in section would provide improvements to Legal Deadline: None XI ‘‘Rules for Inservice Inspection of NMMSS database in maintaining the Nuclear Power Plant Components’’ of accuracy of licensee inventory records Abstract: The proposed rule would the ASME BPV Code; and the 2004 in the NMMSS database. amend the Commission’s regulations by Edition of the ASME Code for Timetable: examining the addition and revision of Operation and Maintenance of Nuclear requirements for financial assurance, Power Plants (OM Code). Action Date FR Cite and licensee monitoring, reporting, and NPRM 02/06/07 72 FR 5348 remediation, to reduce the potential for Timetable: NPRM Comment 04/23/07 sites that could have funding shortfalls Action Date FR Cite Period End or contamination that would NPRM 04/05/07 72 FR 16731 Final Rule 12/00/07 complicate future decommissioning NPRM Comment 06/19/07 (i.e., create a future legacy site). Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Period End Required: No Timetable: Final Rule 12/00/07 Small Entities Affected: No Action Date FR Cite Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Government Levels Affected: None NPRM 04/00/07 Required: No Federalism: Undetermined Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Small Entities Affected: No Required: No Government Levels Affected: None Agency Contact: Neelam Bhalla, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office Small Entities Affected: No Federalism: Undetermined of Federal and State Materials and Government Levels Affected: None Agency Contact: Merrilee J. Banic, Environmental Management Programs, Federalism: Undetermined Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office Washington, DC 20555–0001 of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, Phone: 301 415–6843 Agency Contact: Kevin R. O’Sullivan, Washington, DC 20555 Email: [email protected] Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office Phone: 301 415–2771 of Federal and State Materials and RIN: 3150–AH85 Email: [email protected] Environmental Management Programs, Related RIN: Related to 3150–AH65 Washington, DC 20555–0001 3689. SECURITY ASSESSMENT Phone: 301 415–8112 RIN: 3150–AH76 REQUIREMENTS FOR NEW NUCLEAR Email: [email protected] POWER REACTOR DESIGNS RIN: 3150–AH45 3688. REGULATORY IMPROVEMENTS Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant TO NUCLEAR MATERIALS Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC 3687. INDUSTRY CODES AND MANAGEMENT AND SAFEGUARDS 5841 STANDARDS; AMENDED SYSTEM DATABASE REQUIREMENTS CFR Citation: 10 CFR 50; 10 CFR 52; Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant 10 CFR 73 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC Legal Deadline: None Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC 5841 5841 Abstract: The proposed rule would CFR Citation: 10 CFR 40; 10 CFR 72; amend the Commission’s regulations by CFR Citation: 10 CFR 50 10 CFR 74; 10 CFR 150 adding security design assessment Legal Deadline: None Legal Deadline: None requirements for future applicants for

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NRC Proposed Rule Stage

a construction permit, operating Government Levels Affected: None and terminology of 10 CFR part 72 license, standard design approval, Federalism: Undetermined Certificates of Compliance (CoC) and design certification, manufacturing general license regulations to better license, or combined license. The Agency Contact: George M. Tartal, align them with each other. In addition, proposed amendments would require Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office it also seeks to provide consistency applicants to assess specific security of Federal and State Materials and between the general license design features that would be Environmental Management Programs, requirements and the site-specific incorporated into the facility design Washington, DC 20555–0001 independent spent fuel storage (including site layout) to support Phone: 301 415–0016 installation license requirements within enhanced security effectiveness. Email: [email protected] 10 CFR part 72. Timetable: RIN: 3150–AI01 Timetable: Action Date FR Cite Action Date FR Cite 3691. ∑ SECURITY REQUIREMENTS NPRM 01/00/08 NPRM 09/00/07 FOR GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORY Regulatory Flexibility Analysis OPERATIONS AREA (GROA) Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Required: No No Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Small Entities Affected: No Small Entities Affected: No Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC Government Levels Affected: None 5841 Government Levels Affected: None Federalism: Undetermined CFR Citation: 10 CFR 60; 10 CFR 63; Federalism: Undetermined Agency Contact: Stewart Schneider, 10 CFR 72; 10 CFR 73; 10 CFR 74 Agency Contact: Keith McDaniel, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office Legal Deadline: None Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Federal and State Materials and of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, Abstract: The proposed rule would Washington, DC 20555–0001 Environmental Management Programs, amend the Commission’s regulations Washington, DC 20555–0001 Phone: 301 415–4123 that would establish post September 11, Email: [email protected] Phone: 301 415–5252 2001, security and material control and Email: [email protected] RIN: 3150–AH92 accounting requirements for a geologic repository operations area (GROA) to RIN: 3150–AI09 ∑ reflect the current threat environment. 3690. AMEND FRACTURE ∑ TOUGHNESS REQUIREMENTS Timetable: 3693. REVIEW OF EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND GUIDANCE AGAINST PRESSURIZED THERMAL Action Date FR Cite SHOCK EVENT Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant NPRM 09/00/07 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 5841 Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC Required: No CFR Citation: 10 CFR 50 5841 Small Entities Affected: No Legal Deadline: None CFR Citation: 10 CFR 50 Government Levels Affected: None Legal Deadline: None Abstract: The proposed rule would Federalism: Undetermined amend the Commission’s regulations to Abstract: The proposed rule would Agency Contact: Merri L. Horn, ensure that adequate protection is amend the Commission’s regulations Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office preserved as demographics and/or that protect against brittle fracture of of Federal and State Materials and infrastructure near a plant change. The reactor vessels during severe cooldown Environmental Management Programs, proposed rulemaking would also events. The existing regulations Washington, DC 20555–0001 enhance the Emergency Preparedness establish screening limits that were Phone: 301 415–8126 regulations to address concerns post developed based on what NRC believed Email: [email protected] September 11, 2001, events, as well as to be a conservative probabilistic improve the EP process. fracture mechanics analysis. Several RIN: 3150–AI06 Timetable: licensees will exceed the screening limits in the current rule during their 3692. ∑ LICENSE AND CERTIFICATE Action Date FR Cite license renewal periods. The staff OF COMPLIANCE TERMS NPRM 04/00/07 proposes to revise the screening limits Priority: to reflect the updated technical basis Substantive, Nonsignificant Regulatory Flexibility Analysis in the proposed rule. Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC Required: No Timetable: 5841 Small Entities Affected: No CFR Citation: 10 CFR 72 Government Levels Affected: None Action Date FR Cite Legal Deadline: None Federalism: Undetermined NPRM 06/00/07 Abstract: The proposed rule would Agency Contact: Kathryn M. Brock, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis amend the Commission’s regulations by Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office Required: No seeking to improve regulatory efficiency of Nuclear Security and Incident Small Entities Affected: No by clarifying the scope, applicability, Response, Washington, DC 20555–0001

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NRC Proposed Rule Stage

Phone: 301 415–2015 Email: [email protected] RIN: 3150–AI10

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Final Rule Stage

3694. FITNESS–FOR–DUTY of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, processes. No substantive changes are PROGRAMS Washington, DC 20555–0001 intended by the incorporation of Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Phone: 301 415–2834 current appendices M and O into the Email: [email protected] new subparts in 10 CFR part 52. Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC Related RIN: 5841 Related to 3150–AG62 The NRC is also proposing to retitle RIN: CFR Citation: 10 CFR 26 3150–AF12 10 CFR part 52 as ‘‘Licenses, Certifications and Approvals for Legal Deadline: None 3695. LICENSES, CERTIFICATIONS, Nuclear Power Plants,’’ to clarify that Abstract: The proposed rule would AND APPROVALS FOR NUCLEAR the licensing processes in 10 CFR part amend the Commission’s regulations to POWER PLANTS 52 are in addition to and supplement ensure compatibility with the the two-step licensing process in 10 Department of Health and Human Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant CFR part 50 and the license renewal Services guidelines, eliminate or Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC process in 10 CFR part 54, and are not modify unnecessary requirements in 5841 limited to the early site permit, some areas, clarify the Commission’s CFR Citation: 10 CFR 1; 10 CFR 2; 10 standard design certification, and original intent of the rule, and improve CFR 10; 10 CFR 19; 10 CFR 20; 10 CFR combined license processes as the overall program effectiveness and 21; 10 CFR 25; 10 CFR 26; 10 CFR 50; current title implies. efficiency and establish threshold for 10 CFR 51; 10 CFR 52; 10 CFR 54; 10 The proposed rule would amend the control of working hours at nuclear CFR 55; 10 CFR 72; 10 CFR 73; 10 CFR power plants to ensure that working section 52.1 to clarify that all licensing 75; 10 CFR 95; 10 CFR 140; 10 CFR processes are within the scope of 10 hours in excess of the thresholds are 170 controlled through a risk-informed CFR part 52. Sections within current deviation process. The proposed rule Legal Deadline: None appendices M and O would also was published in August 2005, and Abstract: The proposed rule would become new sections of the revised includes provisions to provide amend the Commission’s requirements part. In doing so, the NRC hopes to significantly greater assurance that for early site permits, standard design convey that 10 CFR part 52 is the worker fatigue does not adversely affect certifications, combined licenses for preferred location in 10 CFR for nuclear the operational safety of nuclear power nuclear power plants, and for other power plant licensing processes. The plants. This proposed rule subsumes licensing processes. The amendments proposed rule subsumed the the proposed rule ‘‘Nuclear Power Plant are based on the NRC staff’s experience rulemaking, ‘‘Standardized Plant Worker Fatigue’’ (RIN 3150-AG99). This with the previous design certification Designs, Early Review of Sites rulemaking would address the petitions reviews and on discussions with Suitability Issues; Clarifying for rulemaking submitted by the stakeholders about the early site permit Amendments’’ (RIN 3150-AE25), that Virginia Electric and Power Company (ESP), design certification, and would remove redundant appendices (VEPCO) (PRM-26-1) and Barry Quigley combined license (COL) processes. This M, N, O, and Q from part 50. The part (PRM-26-2) related to worker fatigue. action is expected to improve the 52 rulemaking plan (SECY-98-282) was approved by the Commission on Timetable: effectiveness of the licensing processes for future applicants. The rulemaking January 14, 1999. As a result of the Action Date FR Cite also would make conforming comments received and a number of other factors, the Commission decided NPRM 05/09/96 61 FR 21105 clarifications and corrections to the that a substantial rewrite and expansion NPRM Comment 08/07/96 NRC’s regulations. Period End of the original rulemaking would be The NRC is proposing to reorganize 10 necessary to ensure that the entire body Second NPRM 08/26/05 70 FR 50441 CFR part 52 to establish a separate Second NPRM 12/27/05 of NRC regulations is able to support section for each of the licensing the Agency’s licensing and regulation Comment Period processes currently described in 10 End of future nuclear power facilities under CFR part 52 (early site permits, early Final Rule 04/00/07 part 52. site reviews, standard design Regulatory Flexibility Analysis certification, standard design approvals, Timetable: Required: No combined licenses, and manufacturing Action Date FR Cite Small Entities Affected: No licenses). The purpose of this reorganization would be to clarify that NPRM 07/03/03 68 FR 40025 Government Levels Affected: None each licensing process has equal NPRM Comment 09/16/03 Agency Contact: David T. Diec, standing. In addition, several subparts Period End Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office would be reserved for future licensing Second NPRM 03/13/06 71 FR 12781

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NRC Final Rule Stage

Action Date FR Cite adversely affect the protection against (3) licensees would no longer need to radiological sabotage. attempt to obtain records of a worker’s Second NPRM 05/30/06 Timetable: cumulative radiation dose unless the Comment Period worker was to be involved in a planned End Action Date FR Cite special exposure. In addition, the staff Supplemental NPRM 10/17/06 71 FR 61330 NPRM 10/26/06 71 FR 62664 is considering using this opportunity to Supplemental NPRM 11/16/06 Comment Period NPRM Comment 01/09/07 propose a change to section 20.1003 End Period End ‘‘Definitions‘‘ to clarify the definition Final Action 04/00/07 NPRM Comment 01/05/07 72 FR 480 of total effective dose equivalent. Period Extended Regulatory Flexibility Analysis NPRM Extension of 02/23/07 Timetable: Required: No Comment Period Action Date FR Cite Small Entities Affected: No End NPRM Comment 02/28/07 72 FR 8951 NPRM 09/22/06 71 FR 55382 Government Levels Affected: None Period Reopened NPRM Comment 12/06/06 Period End Agency Contact: Nanette Giles, Second NPRM 03/26/07 Final Action 09/00/07 Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office Comment Period of New Reactors, Washington, DC End Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 20555–0001 Final Rule 12/00/07 Required: No Phone: 301 415–1180 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Small Entities Affected: No Email: [email protected] Required: No Related RIN: Merged with 3150–AE25 Small Entities Affected: No Government Levels Affected: None RIN: 3150–AG24 Government Levels Affected: None Agency Contact: Stewart Schneider, Agency Contact: Timothy A. Reed, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, 3696. POWER REACTOR SECURITY Washington, DC 20555–0001 REQUIREMENTS of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, Washington, DC 20555–0001 Phone: 301 415–4123 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Phone: 301 415–1462 Email: [email protected] Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC Email: [email protected] RIN: 3150–AH40 5841 RIN: 3150–AG63 CFR Citation: 10 CFR 50; 10 CFR 72; 3698. EXEMPTIONS FROM 10 CFR 73 3697. OCCUPATIONAL DOSE LICENSING, GENERAL LICENSES, Legal Deadline: None RECORDS, LABELING CONTAINERS, AND DISTRIBUTION OF BYPRODUCT MATERIAL; LICENSING AND Abstract: The proposed rulemaking AND THE TOTAL EFFECTIVE DOSE REPORTING REQUIREMENTS would amend the regulations in part EQUIVALENT 73 to reflect the requirements mandated Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant by the power reactor security orders Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC and to provide alignment through 5841 5841 conforming changes to other rules. Specifically, the proposed rule would CFR Citation: 10 CFR 19; 10 CFR 20; CFR Citation: 10 CFR 30; 10 CFR 31; amend requirements in sections 73.55, 10 CFR 50 10 CFR 32; 10 CFR 150 73.56, 73.57, and appendices B, C, and Legal Deadline: None Legal Deadline: None G to part 73. Following the events of Abstract: The proposed rule would September 11, 2001, and in accordance amend the Commission’s regulations to Abstract: The final rule amends the with an SRM dated October 30, 2001, clarify or revise the regulations such Commission’s regulations in parts 30, SECY-01-101 was withdrawn to allow that (1) Licensees would not be 31, 32, and 150. The results of the the staff to consider whether revision required, unless a specific request was reevaluation of exemptions are being of the proposed rule would be required, made by a worker, to provide an annual used to improve effectiveness and and to await Commission direction. report to a worker of their radiation efficiency and better ensure safety. The The SRM on COMSECY-04-0047, dated dose if a worker received less than 1 final rule eliminates obsolete provisions August 23, 2004, directed the staff to mSv (100 mrem); (2) licensees for and associated distributor requirements (1) draft a schedule for completing the production and utilization facilities currently in the regulations. rulemaking effort and (2) consult the governed by 10 CFR part 50 would not Improvements to distributor reporting Commissioners’ Assistants on the need to label containers in accordance requirements are also included. A development of communications and with section 20.1904 ‘‘Labeling minor change to a general license is other strategies related to the containers’’ if the containers met also included. This rulemaking has ι rulemaking. The proposed Safety and conditions such as being clearly subsumed RM 526, ‘‘Use of Exempt security requirements would address, identifiable as containing radioactive Sources in Devices.‘‘ in part, a petition for rulemaking (PRM- materials, being accessible only to Timetable: 50-80) that requested the establishment trained individuals, and being located of regulations governing proposed in an area posted pursuant to section Action Date FR Cite changes to facilities which could 20.1902 ‘‘Posting requirements;’’ and NPRM 01/04/06 71 FR 275

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Action Date FR Cite certain quantities of radioactive Federalism: Undetermined material. NPRM Comment 03/20/06 Agency Contact: Doug Starkey, Period End Timetable: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office Final Rule 05/00/07 Action Date FR Cite of Enforcement, Washington, DC Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 20555–0001 NPRM 02/11/05 70 FR 7196 Phone: 301 415–3456 Required: No NPRM Comment 03/28/05 Email: [email protected] Small Entities Affected: No Period End NPRM Republished 10/31/06 71 FR 64004 RIN: 3150–AH59 Government Levels Affected: None NPRM Comment 01/02/07 Agency Contact: Period End Andy Imboden, 3701. USE OF ELECTRONIC Final Action 12/00/07 Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office SUBMISSIONS IN AGENCY HEARINGS of Federal and State Materials and Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Environmental Management Programs, Required: No Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Washington, DC 20555–0001 Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC Phone: 301 415–6128 Small Entities Affected: No 5841 Email: [email protected] Government Levels Affected: None CFR Citation: 10 CFR 1; 10 CFR 2; 10 RIN: 3150–AH41 Federalism: Undetermined CFR 13; 10 CFR 110 Agency Contact: Marjorie Rothschild, Legal Deadline: 3699. PROTECTION OF SAFEGUARDS Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office None INFORMATION of the General Counsel, Washington, Abstract: The proposed rule would Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant DC 20555–0001 amend the Commission’s regulations on Phone: 301 415–1633 the use of electronic submissions in all Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC Email: [email protected] agency hearings except for those 5841 RIN: 3150–AH57 conducted on a high-level radioactive CFR Citation: 10 CFR 2, 10 CFR 30; waste repository application. The 10 CFR 40; 10 CFR 50; 10 CFR 52; 10 amendments would require the CFR 63; 10 CFR 70; 10 CFR 72; 10 CFR 3700. CLARIFICATION OF NRC CIVIL electronic transmission of electronic 73; 10 CFR 76; 10 CFR 150 PENALTY AUTHORITY OVER documents in filing and service. CONTRACTORS AND Legal Deadline: None Although exceptions to these SUBCONTRACTORS WHO requirements would be established to Abstract: The proposed rule would DISCRIMINATE AGAINST EMPLOYEES allow paper filings, the NRC would amend the Commission’s regulations FOR ENGAGING IN PROTECTED maintain a strong preference for fully for the protection of Safeguards ACTIVITIES electronic filing and service. The Information (SGI) to reflect recent Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant proposed rule builds upon prior NRC Commission practices reflected in rules and developments in the Federal Orders and Threat Advisories, and Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC courts regarding the use of electronic Confirmatory Action Letters issued 5841 submissions. The Commission is also since September 11, 2001. The CFR Citation: 10 CFR 30; 10 CFR 40; seeking comment on draft guidance on amendments also provide the flexibility 10 CFR 50; 10 CFR 60; 10 CFR 61; 10 how to submit hearing documents to afforded the Commission for the CFR 63; 10 CFR 70; 10 CFR 71; 10 CFR the NRC electronically. protection of such information by the 72; 10 CFR 76 Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as Timetable: Legal Deadline: amended (AEA). The proposed None Action Date FR Cite amendments would affect certain Abstract: The proposed rule would NPRM 12/16/05 70 FR 74949 licensees, information, and materials amend the Commission’s regulations to NPRM Comment 03/01/06 not currently specified in the enable NRC to impose civil penalties Period End regulations, but which are within the upon non-licensee contractors and Final Rule 06/00/07 scope of the AEA. The proposed subcontractors who discriminate amendments are intended to protect against employees engaged in protected Regulatory Flexibility Analysis SGI from inadvertent release and activities. Required: No unauthorized disclosure which might Timetable: Small Entities Affected: No compromise the security of nuclear facilities and materials. The Action Date FR Cite Government Levels Affected: None Commission directed that this rule be NPRM 01/31/06 71 FR 5015 Federalism: Undetermined republished as a proposed rule to allow NPRM Comment 04/17/06 comments on proposed changes to rule Period End Agency Contact: Darani M. Reddick, text in response to public and Final Rule 05/00/07 Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office Commission comment, as well as to of the General Counsel, Washington, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis reflect amendments to the AEA in the DC 20555–0001 Required: No Energy Policy Act of 2005, and orders Phone: 301 415–3841 issued to licensees authorized to Small Entities Affected: No Email: [email protected] possess and transfer items containing Government Levels Affected: None RIN: 3150–AH74

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3702. INCORPORATION BY Abstract: The proposed rule would Action Date FR Cite REFERENCE OF NRC REGULATORY amend the Commission’s regulations to GUIDES LISTING APPROVED ASME include certain radium sources, Direct Final Rule 12/27/06 71 FR 77586 CODE CASES accelerator-produced radioactive Withdrawn Final Action 04/00/07 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant materials, and certain naturally occurring radioactive material, as Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC required by section 651(e) of the Energy Required: No 5841 Policy Act of 2005. Small Entities Affected: No CFR Citation: 10 CFR 50 Timetable: Government Levels Affected: None Legal Deadline: None Action Date FR Cite Federalism: Undetermined Abstract: The proposed rule would NPRM 07/28/06 71 FR 42951 Agency Contact: Jayne M. amend the Commission’s regulations to NPRM Comment 09/11/06 McCausland, Nuclear Regulatory incorporate by reference recent Period End Commission, Office of Federal and revisions of Regulatory Guides listing Final Rule 07/00/07 State Materials and Environmental NRC-approved American Society of Management Programs, Washington, DC Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Boiler Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No 20555–0001 and Pressure Vessel (BPV) Code Cases Phone: 301 415–6219 pertaining to in-service inspection (DG- Small Entities Affected: No Email: [email protected] 1134) and design, fabrication, and Government Levels Affected: None materials (DG-1133) in nuclear power RIN: 3150–AH98 reactors. The proposed rule identifies Federalism: Undetermined the 2004 Editions of the ASME BPV Agency Contact: Lydia Chang, Nuclear 3705. ∑ REVISION OF FEE Code and the ASME Operations and Regulatory Commission, Office of SCHEDULES; FEE RECOVERY FOR Maintenance (OM) Code as the editions Federal and State Materials and FY 2007 that nuclear facilities will be required Environmental Management Programs, to use, subject to certain limitations Priority: Economically Significant. Washington, DC 20555–0001 Major under 5 USC 801. and modifications. Phone: 301 415–6319 Timetable: Email: [email protected] Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC 5841 Action Date FR Cite RIN: 3150–AH84 CFR Citation: 10 CFR 170; 10 CFR 171 NPRM 10/27/06 71 62942 Legal Deadline: Other, Statutory, NPRM Comment 01/10/07 3704. ∑ LIST OF APPROVED SENT September 30, 2007, OBRA–90, as Period End FUEL STORAGE CASKS: HI–STORM amended, requires that the fees for FY Final Action 09/00/07 100 REVISION, AMENDMENT 3 2007 be collected by September 30, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant 2007. Required: No Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC OBRA-90, as amended, requires that the Small Entities Affected: No 5841 fees for FY 2007 be collected by September 30, 2007. Government Levels Affected: None CFR Citation: 10 CFR 72 Abstract: The proposed rule would Federalism: Undetermined Legal Deadline: None amend the Commission’s licensing, Agency Contact: Merrilee J. Banic, Abstract: The direct final rule amends inspection, and annual fees charged to Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office the Commission’s regulations by its applicants and licensees. The of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, revising the Holtec International HI- amendments would implement the Washington, DC 20555 STORM 100 cask design listing to Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of Phone: 301 415–2771 include Amendment No. 3 to Certificate 1990 (OBRA-90), as amended, which Email: [email protected] of Compliance 1014. This amendment requires that the NRC recover RIN: 3150–AH80 will: (1) Revise technical specifications approximately 90 percent of its budget related to cooling of the Multi-Purpose authority in Fiscal Year (FY) 2007, less Canister cavity; (2) revise definitions of the amounts appropriated from the 3703. REQUIREMENTS FOR fuel debris, damaged fuel assembly, and Nuclear Waste Fund, and for Waste EXPANDED DEFINITION OF non-fuel hardware; (3) revise technical Incidental to Reprocessing and generic BYPRODUCT MATERIAL specifications related to storage of homeland security activities. Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant pressurized water reactor fuel assembly; Based on the FY 2007 Energy and Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC and (4) make changes to incorporate Water Development Appropriations Bill 5841 minor editorial corrections. (H.R. 5427), passed by the U.S. House Timetable: of Representatives, the NRC’s required CFR Citation: 10 CFR 20; 10 CFR 30; fee recovery amount for the FY 2007 10 CFR 31; 10 CFR 32; 10 CFR 33; 10 Action Date FR Cite budget is approximately $663.7 million. CFR 35; 10 CFR 50; 10 CFR 61; 10 CFR NPRM 10/16/06 71 FR 60672 After accounting for carryover and 62; 10 CFR 72; 10 CFR 110; 10 CFR Direct Final Rule 10/16/06 71 FR 60669 billing adjustments, the total amount to 150; 10 CFR 170; 10 CFR 171 NPRM Comment 11/15/06 be recovered through fees is Legal Deadline: None Period End approximately $664.9 million. OBRA-

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90, as amended, requires that the fees Action Date FR Cite Phone: 301 415–1639 for FY 2007 be collected by September Email: [email protected] 30, 2007. Confirmation of 04/00/07 Effective Date RIN: 3150–AI05 Timetable: Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Action Date FR Cite Required: No 3708. ∑ LIST OF APPROVED SPENT NPRM 02/02/07 72 FR 5108 Small Entities Affected: No FUEL STORAGE CASKS—NAC–MPC, NPRM Comment 03/05/07 REVISION; AMENDMENT 5 Period End Government Levels Affected: None Final Rule 05/00/07 Federalism: Undetermined Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Agency Contact: Jayne M. Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC Required: Yes McCausland, Nuclear Regulatory 5841 Small Entities Affected: Businesses, Commission, Office of Federal and Governmental Jurisdictions, State Materials and Environmental CFR Citation: 10 CFR 72 Organizations Management Programs, Washington, DC 20555–0001 Legal Deadline: None Government Levels Affected: Local, Phone: 301 415–6219 State Email: [email protected] Abstract: The direct final rule will Federalism: Undetermined amend the Commission’s regulations to RIN: 3150–AI03 revise the NAC-MPC listing within the Agency Contact: Renu Suri, Nuclear list of approved spent fuel storage casks Regulatory Commission, Office of the 3707. ∑ LIMITED WORK to include Amendment No. 5 to Chief Financial Officer, Washington, Certificate of Compliance (CoC) DC 20555–0001 AUTHORIZATIONS FOR NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS Number 1025. Amendment No. 5 will Phone: 301 415–0161 modify the CoC by revising technical Email: [email protected] Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant specifications to incorporate changes to RIN: 3150–AI00 Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC the reporting and monitoring 5841 requirements to allow for visual inspection of the air inlet and outlet 3706. ∑ LIST OF APPROVED SENT CFR Citation: 10 CFR 2; 10 CFR 50; vents in lieu of thermal monitoring. FUEL STORAGE CASKS: 10 CFR 51; 10 CFR 52 The amendment will also incorporate STANDARDIZED NUHOMS SYSTEM Legal Deadline: None guidance from NRC Interim Staff REVISION; AMENDMENT 9 Abstract: The final rule will amend the Guidance (ISG)-22 and replace all Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Commission’s regulations allowing references to backfilling with inert gas. Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC certain construction activities on In addition, the amendment will revise 5841 nuclear power plants to commence the CoC description to remove the requirement for tamper-indicating CFR Citation: 10 CFR 72 before a construction permit or combined license is issued. This final devices on the Vertical Concrete Casks Legal Deadline: None rule modifies the scope of activities and make several editorial changes to Abstract: The direct final rule amends that are considered construction for improve the clarity of the documents the Commission’s regulations by which a construction permit, combined associated with eh MPC system. revising the Transnuclear, Inc., license, or LWA is necessary; specifies Timetable: Standardized NUHOMS System listing the scope of construction activities that within the list of approved spent fuel may be performed under a LWA; and Action Date FR Cite storage casks to include Amendment changes the review and approval Direct Final Rule 04/00/07 No. 9 to Certificate of Compliance process for LWA requests. The NRC is (CoC) Number 1004. Amendment No. adopting these changes to enhance the Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 9 will modify the CoC by revising efficiency of its licensing and approval Required: No Technical Specifications 1.2.1 and process for new nuclear reactors. 1.2.14 to add the Framatome-ANP, Timetable: Small Entities Affected: No Version 9.9-2, fuel assemblies as approved contents for storage in the Action Date FR Cite Government Levels Affected: None NUHOMS-61BT dry shielded canister Final Rule 04/00/07 Federalism: Undetermined under the general license provisions of Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 10 CFR part 72. Required: No Agency Contact: Jayne M. Timetable: McCausland, Nuclear Regulatory Small Entities Affected: No Commission, Office of Federal and Action Date FR Cite Government Levels Affected: None State Materials and Environmental NPRM 02/01/07 72 FR 4660 Federalism: Undetermined Management Programs, Washington, DC Direct Final Rule 02/01/07 72 FR 4615 20555–0001 NPRM Comment 03/05/07 Agency Contact: Geary S. Mizuno, Phone: 301 415–6219 Period End Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office Email: [email protected] Direct Final Rule 04/17/07 of the General Counsel, Washington, Effective DC 20555–0001 RIN: 3150–AI13

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3709. ∑ MEDICAL USE OF make several minor corrections and Federalism: Undetermined BYPRODUCT MATERIAL—MINOR clarifications to parts 32 and 35 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS Agency Contact: Anthony N. Tse, Timetable: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office Priority: Info./Admin./Other Action Date FR Cite of Federal and State Materials and Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC Direct Final Rule 08/00/07 Environmental Management Programs, 5841 Washington, DC 20555–0001 CFR Citation: 10 CFR 32; 10 CFR 35 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Phone: 301 415–6233 Required: No Legal Deadline: None Email: [email protected] Small Entities Affected: No Abstract: The direct final rule will RIN: 3150–AI14 amend the Commission’s regulations to Government Levels Affected: None

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3710. UPDATE FUEL PERFORMANCE changes needed to update fuel cycle Abstract: The advance notice of CONSIDERATIONS AND OTHER FUEL process and technologies. proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) invited CYCLE ISSUES This rulemaking would result in early input from affected parties and the public on the issues associated with Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant current and more accurate estimates of the environmental impact of licensing the advance notification of Indian Legal Authority: 42 USC 2011; 42 USC a new plant and would eliminate the Tribes of spent fuel shipments. The 2201; 42 USC 4321; 42 USC 5841; 42 requirement to review the contribution Department of Energy (DOE) has USC 5842 to environmental impacts from Radon- indicated that it intends to comply with NRC’s physical protection requirements CFR Citation: 10 CFR 51 222 and Technetium-99 in individual plant reviews. This rule is being for shipments under the Nuclear Waste Legal Deadline: None reissued as a proposed rule and would Policy Act; however, its current update the initial rulemaking effort to practices conflict with NRC regulations. Abstract: The proposed rule would address newly emerging issues and For example, DOE has asked for and amend the Commission’s regulations by research. will continue to ask for exemptions addressing uranium fuel cycle from the shipment itinerary information environmental data (Table S-3) and the Timetable: requirements of foreign research reactor environmental effects of transportation Action Date FR Cite fuel. DOE, as a courtesy, provides of fuel and waste data (Table S-4). In Indian Tribes with notification of spent section 51.51, the environmental data NPRM 03/04/81 46 FR 15154 fuel shipments. NRC’s current would be re-estimated and reflect NPRM Comment 05/04/81 regulations do not address notification Period End changes in the structure and activities of Indian Tribes. Further, DOE has Second NPRM To Be Determined of the fuel cycle and the availability developed a satellite tracking system to of better data. Estimates of releases of Regulatory Flexibility Analysis monitor the status of spent fuel Radon-222 and Technetium-99 would Required: No shipments at all times. Distribution of be added to Table S-3. The addition Small Entities Affected: No this status information to parties other of a specific value for Radon-222 would than Governors’ designees is also not address the outstanding portion of Government Levels Affected: None compatible with NRC regulations. A petition for rulemaking PRM-51-1, Agency Contact: Stewart Schneider, rulemaking plan was approved by the submitted by the New England Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office Commission on February 20, 2001. This Coalition on Nuclear Pollution. To of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, rulemaking was put on hold by the provide immediate relief to the Washington, DC 20555–0001 Commission pending review of NRC petitioners’ request, the Commission Phone: 301 415–4123 rules in response to events of published a final rule on March 14, Email: [email protected] September 11, 2001. The schedule was 1977 (42 FR 13803), that removed the revised in 2006. original value for Radon-222 from Table RIN: 3150–AA31 S-3 so that it became subject to case- Timetable: specific litigation. It was anticipated 3711. ADVANCE NOTIFICATION TO Action Date FR Cite that the Commission would add a NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES OF ANPRM 12/21/99 64 FR 71331 specific value for Radon-222, but the TRANSPORTATION OF CERTAIN ANPRM Comment 07/05/00 65 FR 18010 Commission deferred action until a TYPES OF NUCLEAR WASTE Period End general updating of Table S-3 is NPRM To Be Determined undertaken. For section 51.52, the Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant environmental impact estimates would Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC Regulatory Flexibility Analysis be re-estimated to reflect the use of 5841 Required: No more highly enriched fuel and CFR Citation: Small Entities Affected: No discharge of more highly irradiated 10 CFR 71; 10 CFR 73 fuels from a reactor, as well as many Legal Deadline: None Government Levels Affected: None

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Agency Contact: James R. Firth, the decommissioning risk study Publication of the final rule is being Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office findings. The decommissioning risk delayed until certain recent related of Federal and State Materials and study, NUREG-1738, was issued in issues are resolved to minimize the Environmental Management Programs, January 2001. After assessing the possibility of future inconsistencies in Washington, DC 20555–0001 findings in the risk study, the staff the regulations. Phone: 301 415–6628 presented a policy options paper to the Timetable: Email: [email protected] Commission, SECY-01-0100, dated June Action Date FR Cite RIN: 3150–AG41 4, 2001, that provided options and made recommendations on issues to be NPRM 08/28/02 67 FR 55175 addressed in the integrated rulemaking. NPRM Comment 11/12/02 3712. INTEGRATED RULEMAKING Following the terrorist events of Period End FOR DECOMMISSIONING NUCLEAR September 11, 2001, the NRC staff Final Action To Be Determined POWER REACTORS recommended and the Commission Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant approved the withdrawal of SECY-01- 0101 because of the likely changes in Required: No Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC the staff’s position on decommissioning Small Entities Affected: No 5841 plant safeguards. The decommissioning Government Levels Affected: None CFR Citation: 10 CFR 50 policy position will be revisited when Agency Contact: Legal Deadline: None a broad-scope NRC safeguards policy is Gary C. Comfort, Jr., developed in response to potential Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office Abstract: A staff requirements terrorist acts at nuclear facilities. The of Federal and State Materials and memorandum dated June 23, 1999, schedule for the integrated rulemaking Environmental Management Programs, directed the NRC staff to consider an cannot be determined at this time. Washington, DC 20555–0001 integrated, risk-informed Timetable: Phone: 301 415–8106 decommissioning rule rather than Email: [email protected] individual rulemakings to address Action Date FR Cite RIN: 3150–AG64 emergency preparedness, insurance, NPRM To Be Determined safeguards, operator staffing, and backfit for nuclear power plants that Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 3714. ENTOMBMENT OPTIONS FOR are being decommissioned. SECY-99- Required: No POWER REACTORS 168, dated June 30, 1999, recommended Small Entities Affected: No Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant that the integrated approach be Government Levels Affected: None approved and outlined staff plans for Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC pursuing such a rulemaking. Agency Contact: Anthony N. Tse, 5841 Accordingly, the staff has subsumed Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office CFR Citation: 10 CFR 20; 10 CFR 50 previous rulemaking activities in the of Federal and State Materials and areas of emergency planning, insurance, Environmental Management Programs, Legal Deadline: None Washington, DC 20555–0001 safeguards, operator staffing, and Abstract: The advance notice of backfit into one integrated rulemaking Phone: 301 415–6233 Email: [email protected] proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) was effort. This rulemaking would apply to published seeking stakeholder input on licensees who certified under section RIN: 3150–AG47 three proposed regulatory options and 50.82(a) that they have permanently whether entombment was a viable ceased facility operation(s) and have 3713. TRANSFERS OF CERTAIN decommissioning alternative. In SECY permanently removed fuel from the 02-0191 (October 25, 2002), NRC staff reactor vessel. The Commission SOURCE MATERIALS BY SPECIFIC LICENSEES proposed deferring the rulemaking until approved this approach in an SRM the Office of Nuclear Regulatory dated December 21, 1999. This Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Research has conducted research to rulemaking also would address a Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC develop a sound technical basis for an petition for rulemaking submitted by 5841 entombment option, estimated in 2005. the North Carolina Public Utility CFR Citation: 10 CFR 40 The Commission, in a Staff Commission (PRM-50-57). Requirements Memorandum dated In SECY-00-0145, dated June 28, 2000, Legal Deadline: None November 26, 2002, did not object to the NRC staff recommended a Abstract: The proposed rule would staff’s proposal and requested decommissioning rulemaking plan in amend the Commission’s regulations to information regarding the scope and the areas of emergency planning, require NRC approval for transfers from type of research needed to support any insurance, safeguards, operator staffing, licensees of unimportant quantities of entombment option. This information and backfit (the integrated source material (less than 0.05 percent was provided to the Commission on decommissioning rulemaking plan). by weight) to persons exempt from May 14, 2003. The Office of Nuclear The rulemaking plan relied on a draft licensing requirements. The objective of Regulatory Research conducted decommissioning risk study as the this proposed action is to ensure that research in 2004 and 2005 and plans basis for its recommendations. The the regulations regarding transfers of to issue a research information letter Commission returned the rulemaking materials containing low concentrations summarizing the results of prior work; plan to the staff for rework in of source material are adequate to e.g., concrete used in engineered September 2000, based on changes to protect public health and safety. backfills and radionuclide isolation in

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concrete. The staff is continuing to 3716. DISTRIBUTION OF SOURCE Timetable: defer this rulemaking activity. MATERIAL TO EXEMPT PERSONS Action Date FR Cite Timetable: AND GENERAL LICENSEES AND REVISION OF 10 CFR 40.22 GENERAL NPRM To Be Determined Action Date FR Cite LICENSE Regulatory Flexibility Analysis ANPRM 10/16/01 66 FR 52551 Required: Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Yes ANPRM Comment 12/31/01 Small Entities Affected: Governmental Period End Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC Jurisdictions NPRM To Be Determined 5841 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Government Levels Affected: State CFR Citation: 10 CFR 40 Required: No Agency Contact: Philip Liotta, Nuclear Small Entities Affected: No Legal Deadline: None Regulatory Commission, Office of Federal and State Materials and Government Levels Affected: None Abstract: The proposed rule would Environmental Management Programs, Agency Contact: Kevin R. O’Sullivan, amend the Commission’s regulations to Washington, DC 20555–0001 Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office improve the control over the Phone: 301 415–5017 of Federal and State Materials and distribution of source material to Email: [email protected] exempt persons and to general Environmental Management Programs, RIN: 3150–AH15 Washington, DC 20555–0001 licensees in order to make part 40 more Phone: 301 415–8112 risk-informed. The proposed rule also Email: [email protected] would govern the licensing of source 3717. CONTROLLING THE material by adding specific DISPOSITION OF SOLID MATERIALS RIN: 3150–AG89 requirements for licensing of and reporting by distributors of products Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant 3715. MODIFICATIONS TO and materials used by exempt persons Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC PRESSURE–TEMPERATURE LIMITS and general licensees. Source material 5841 is used under general license and under CFR Citation: 10 CFR 20 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant various exemptions from licensing Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC requirements in part 40 for which there Legal Deadline: None 5841 is no regulatory mechanism for the Abstract: The staff provided a draft CFR Citation: 10 CFR 50 Commission to obtain information to proposed rule package on Controlling fully assess the resultant risks to public the Disposition of Solid Materials to the Legal Deadline: None health and safety. Although estimates Commission on March 31, 2005. The Abstract: The proposed rule would of resultant doses have been made, Commission has disapproved amend the Commission’s regulations to there is a need for ongoing information publication of the draft proposed rule eliminate those requirements for on the quantities and types of package. The Commission’s decision is pressure-temperature limits that are radioactive material distributed for based on the fact that the Agency is related to the metal temperature of the exempt use and use under general currently faced with several high reactor pressure vessel closure head license. Obtaining information on the priority and complex tasks, that the flange and vessel flange areas. The distribution of source material is current approach to review specific proposed rule would amend footnotes particularly difficult because many of cases on an individual basis is fully 2 and 6 to table 1 of appendix G, and the distributors of source material to protective of public health and safety, simplify restructuring of the table. Also, exempt persons and generally licensed and that the immediate need for this this rulemaking would address the persons are not currently required to rule has changed due to the shift in petition for rulemaking submitted by hold a license from the Commission. timing for reactor decommissioning. As Westinghouse Electric Company (PRM- Distributors are often unknown to the such, the Commission is deferring this 50-69). Commission. No controls are in place rulemaking for the time being. Timetable: to ensure that products and materials distributed are maintained within the Timetable: Action Date FR Cite applicable constraints of the Action Date FR Cite NPRM To Be Determined exemptions. In addition, the amounts NPRM To Be Determined of source material allowed under the Regulatory Flexibility Analysis general license in section 40.22 could Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No result in exposures above 1 mSv/year Required: Yes Small Entities Affected: No (100 mrem/year) to workers at facilities Small Entities Affected: Governmental Government Levels Affected: None that are not required to meet the Jurisdictions requirements of parts 19 and 20. Agency Contact: Nihar K. Ray, Nuclear Without knowledge of the identity and Government Levels Affected: Federal, Regulatory Commission, Office of location of the general licensees, it State Nuclear Reactor Regulation, would be difficult to enforce Agency Contact: Frank P. Cardile, Washington, DC 20555–0001 restrictions on the general licensees. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office Phone: 301 415–2643 This rule also would address PRM-40- of Federal and State Materials and Email: [email protected] 27 submitted by the State of Colorado Environmental Management Programs, RIN: 3150–AG98 and Organization of Agreement States. Washington, DC 20555–0001

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Phone: 301 415–6185 CFR 70; 10 CFR 72; 10 CFR 75; 10 CFR and is expected to be developed by Email: [email protected] 76; 10 CFR 150 early CY-2007. RIN: 3150–AH18 Legal Deadline: None Timetable: Abstract: The final rule will amend the Action Date FR Cite 3718. LARGE BREAK Commission’s regulations to implement NPRM To Be Determined LOSS–OF–COOLANT ACCIDENT the additional reporting and (LB–LOCA) REDEFINITION complementary access requirements Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant contained in the US/IAEA Additional Protocol for the application of Small Entities Affected: No Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC safeguards in the United States. Government Levels Affected: 5841 None Timetable: Agency Contact: CFR Citation: 10 CFR 50 Richard F. Dudley, Action Date FR Cite Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office Legal Deadline: None of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, Final Rule To Be Determined Abstract: The proposed rule would Washington, DC 20555–0001 amend the Commission’s regulations to Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Phone: 301 415–1116 allow for a risk-informed alternative to Required: No Email: [email protected] the present loss-of-coolant accident Small Entities Affected: No RIN: 3150–AH42 (LOCA) break size. This rulemaking Government Levels Affected: would address a petition for None rulemaking submitted by the Nuclear Agency Contact: Naiem S. Tanious, 3721. DECOUPLING OF ASSUMED Energy Institute (NEI) (PRM-50-75). A Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office LOSS OF OFFSITE POWER FROM draft final rule was provided to the of Federal and State Materials and LOSS–OF–COOLANT ACCIDENTS ACRS on October 16, 2006. The staff Environmental Management Programs, (LOCA) is now working to address the policy Washington, DC 20555–0001 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant and technical recommendations made Phone: 301 415–6103 Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC by the ACRS. The staff will prepare a Email: [email protected] 5841 Commission paper to inform the RIN: 3150–AH38 Commission of the impact of the ACRS CFR Citation: 10 CFR 50 recommendations before a new Legal Deadline: None 3720. PERFORMANCE–BASED ECCS schedule is determined. Abstract: The proposed rule would ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA Timetable: amend the Commission’s regulations to Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Action Date FR Cite eliminate, based upon appropriate risk Legal Authority: considerations, the assumption of a NPRM 11/07/05 70 FR 67597 42 USC 2201; 42 USC 5841 coincident loss of offsite power for NPRM Comment 02/06/06 postulated large-break (low frequency) Period End CFR Citation: 10 CFR 50 loss-of-coolant accidents (LB-LOCA) in NPRM Comment 01/25/06 71 FR 4061 Legal Deadline: None General Design Criterion (GDC) 35. The Period Extended NPRM Comment 03/08/06 Abstract: The proposed rule would proposed rule would provide a Period End amend section 50.46 to develop voluntary alternative to existing Final Rule To Be Determined performance-based acceptance criteria requirements in situations where for fuel cladding performance during specified acceptance criteria are Regulatory Flexibility Analysis satisfied, and also would address a Required: No loss-of-coolant accidents. Existing provisions of section 50.46 applicable petition for rulemaking submitted by Small Entities Affected: No to certain zirconium-based cladding Bob Christie (Performance Technology) Government Levels Affected: None materials would be supplemented by (PRM-50-77). On December 2, 2005, the performance-based standards for NRC requested additional information Agency Contact: Richard F. Dudley, from the BWR Owners Group (BWROG) Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office maximum peak cladding temperature and oxidation limit. The supplementary in order to continue its review. The of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, BWROG responded by submitting a Washington, DC 20555–0001 performance standard would allow licensees to use alternative cladding revised topical report on August 25, Phone: 301 415–1116 2006. The staff review is ongoing. Email: [email protected] materials, without seeking an exemption, provided that testing Timetable: RIN: 3150–AH29 demonstrated that adequate ductility Action Date FR Cite would be maintained, and ECCS 3719. IMPLEMENT US–IAEA analyses showed that the new NPRM To Be Determined SAFEGUARDS AGREEMENT performance criteria would be satisfied. Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant This rulemaking also would address a Required: No petition for rulemaking submitted by Small Entities Affected: No Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC the Nuclear Energy Institute (PRM-50- 5841 71). The NRC is performing research Government Levels Affected: None CFR Citation: 10 CFR 40; 10 CFR 50; activities to develop a technical basis Agency Contact: Richard F. Dudley, 10 CFR 60; 10 CFR 61; 10 CFR 63; 10 for initiating rulemaking on this item, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office

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of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, Federalism: Undetermined Abstract: The advanced notice of Washington, DC 20555–0001 Agency Contact: Michael K. proposed rulemaking would obtain Phone: 301 415–1116 Williamson, Nuclear Regulatory public comment on a proposed Email: [email protected] Commission, Office of Federal and approach to risk-inform the RIN: 3150–AH43 State Materials and Environmental requirements for power reactors Management Programs, Washington, DC including developing an alternative set 20555–0001 of new risk-informed requirements. 3722. ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES Phone: 301 415–6234 Timetable: Priority: Info./Admin./Other Email: [email protected] Action Date FR Cite Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC RIN: 3150–AH62 ANPRM 05/04/06 71 FR 26267 5841 ANPRM Comment 12/29/06 CFR Citation: 10 CFR 40; 10 CFR 73 3724. IMPLEMENTATION OF A DOSE Period End Legal Deadline: None STANDARD BEYOND 10,000 YEARS NPRM To Be Determined Abstract: The final rule amends the Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Commission’s regulations to update the Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC No list of Non-Agreement States. 5841 Small Entities Affected: No Timetable: CFR Citation: 10 CFR 63 Government Levels Affected: None Action Date FR Cite Legal Deadline: None Federalism: Undetermined Final Rule To Be Determined Abstract: The proposed rule would Agency Contact: Joseph L. Regulatory Flexibility Analysis amend the Commission’s regulations to Birmingham, Nuclear Regulatory Required: No revise existing regulations on technical Commission, Office of Nuclear Reactor criteria for disposal of high-level Regulation, Washington, DC Small Entities Affected: No radioactive waste in a geologic 20555–0001 Government Levels Affected: None repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, Phone: 301 415–2829 to be consistent with the environmental Federalism: Undetermined Email: [email protected] standards developed by the U.S. Agency Contact: Michael K. Environmental Protection Agency. RIN: 3150–AH81 Williamson, Nuclear Regulatory Timetable: Commission, Office of Federal and 3726. REQUIREMENTS FOR State Materials and Environmental Action Date FR Cite DISTRIBUTION OF BYPRODUCT Management Programs, Washington, DC NPRM 09/08/05 70 FR 53313 MATERIAL AND EXEMPTIONS FROM 20555–0001 NPRM Comment 11/07/05 LICENSING Phone: 301 415–6234 Period End Priority: Email: [email protected] Final Rule To Be Determined Substantive, Nonsignificant RIN: 3150–AH49 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC Required: No 5841 3723. CONFORMING ADMINISTRATIVE Small Entities Affected: No CFR Citation: 10 CFR 30; 10 CFR 31; 10 CFR 32 CHANGES Government Levels Affected: None Legal Deadline: None Priority: Info./Admin./Other Federalism: Undetermined Abstract: The proposed rule would Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC Agency Contact: Frank P. Cardile, amend the Commission’s regulations by 5841 Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office making the requirements for of Federal and State Materials and CFR Citation: 10 CFR 70 distributors of byproduct material more Environmental Management Programs, Legal Deadline: explicit, less prescriptive, and more None Washington, DC 20555–0001 risk-informed; improve safety criteria Abstract: The final rule amends the Phone: 301 415–6185 for approving products through Commission’s regulations in 10 CFR Email: [email protected] licensing actions; and redefine part 70 to make conforming changes to RIN: 3150–AH68 categories of devices to be used under citations in the regulatory text. These exemption. changes update and correct cross- references within part 70. 3725. APPROACH TO RISK–INFORM, Timetable: Timetable: PERFORMANCE–BASE Action Date FR Cite REQUIREMENT FOR NUCLEAR Action Date FR Cite POWER PLANTS NPRM 11/00/08 Final Rule To Be Determined Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC Required: No 5841 Small Entities Affected: No Small Entities Affected: No CFR Citation: 10 CFR 50; 10 CFR 53 Government Levels Affected: None Government Levels Affected: None Legal Deadline: None Federalism: Undetermined

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Agency Contact: Catherine R. Mattsen, Authority Program (IAAP). The 3730. ∑ INTERLOCUTORY REVIEW OF Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office amended cost is due to an increase of RULINGS ON REQUESTS BY of Federal and State Materials and the review time for each application for POTENTIAL PARTIES FOR ACCESS Environmental Management Programs, access authorization. TO NON–PUBLIC SENSITIVE Washington, DC 20555–0001 Timetable: UNCLASSIFIED INFORMATION Phone: 301 415–6264 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Email: [email protected] Action Date FR Cite Legal Authority: Final Rule To Be Determined 42 USC 2201; 42 USC RIN: 3150–AH91 5841 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis CFR Citation: 10 CFR 2 ∑ Required: No 3727. URANIUM IN DRINKING Legal Deadline: None WATER Small Entities Affected: No Abstract: Government Levels Affected: None The proposed rule would Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant amend the Commission’s regulations to Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC Federalism: Undetermined provide for interlocutory review by the 5841 Agency Contact: Emily R. Banks, Commission of orders of a presiding Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office officer or Atomic Safety and Licensing CFR Citation: 10 CFR 40 of Administration, Washington, DC Board on requests by potential parties Legal Deadline: None 20555–0001 for access to Sensitive Unclassified Abstract: The final rule amends the Phone: 301 415–0320 Non-Safeguards Information (SUNSI) or Commission’s regulations to include a Email: [email protected] Safeguards Information (SGI). new general license for a community RIN: 3150–AH99 Timetable: water system (CWS) that, during the Action Date FR Cite treatment of drinking water, may 3729. ∑ STATEMENT OF accumulate and concentrate naturally NPRM To Be Determined REORGANIZATION AND GENERAL occurring uranium in media, effluents, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis INFORMATION; MINOR AMENDMENTS and other residuals above 0.05 percent Required: No Priority: Info./Admin./Other by weight. Small Entities Affected: No Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC Timetable: Government Levels Affected: None 5841 Action Date FR Cite Federalism: Undetermined CFR Citation: 10 CFR 1; 10 CFR 20; Final Rule To Be Determined 10 CFR 30; 10 CFR 32 Agency Contact: Marjorie Rothschild, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Legal Deadline: None Required: No of the General Counsel, Washington, Abstract: The final rule amends the DC 20555–0001 Small Entities Affected: No Commission’s regulations to reflect the Phone: 301 415–1633 Government Levels Affected: None administrative changes to the Agency Email: [email protected] due to the reorganization of the Office RIN: 3150–AI08 Federalism: Undetermined of Nuclear Material Safety and Agency Contact: Gary C. Comfort, Jr., Safeguards and the creation of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office Office of Federal and State Materials 3731. ∑ IAEA AND DOT of Federal and State Materials and and Environmental Management COMPATIBILITY Environmental Management Programs, Programs, and the reorganization of the Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Washington, DC 20555–0001 Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Legal Authority: Phone: 301 415–8106 and the creation of the Office of New 42 USC 2201; 42 USC Email: [email protected] Reactors. 5841 CFR Citation: 10 CFR 71 RIN: 3150–AH97 Timetable: Legal Deadline: Action Date FR Cite None Abstract: The proposed would amend 3728. ∑ AMENDMENT OF ACCESS Final Rule To Be Determined AUTHORIZATION FEES the Commission’s regulations to make Regulatory Flexibility Analysis part 71 compatible with the 2005 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Required: No edition of the IAEA Transportation Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC Small Entities Affected: No Safety Standards TS-R-1 and the Department of Transportation 5841 Government Levels Affected: None regulations on transport safety, and to CFR Citation: 10 CFR 11; 10 CFR 25 Federalism: Undetermined incorporate NRC-initiated changes on Legal Deadline: None Agency Contact: Carina A. Clark, QA. Abstract: The final rule will amend the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office Timetable: of Administration, Washington, DC Commission’s regulations to the Agency Action Date FR Cite access authorization fees charged to 20555–0001 licensees for work performed under the Phone: 301 415–5306 NPRM To Be Determined Material Access Authorization Program Email: [email protected] Regulatory Flexibility Analysis (MAAP) and the Information Access RIN: 3150–AI07 Required: No

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Small Entities Affected: No radioactive material and other property Legal Deadline: None as required by section 652 of the Government Levels Affected: None Abstract: The direct final rule will Energy Policy Act (EPAct) of 2005, amend the Commission’s regulations to Federalism: Undetermined signed into law on August 8, 2005. implement updated NRC size standards Agency Contact: Naiem S. Tanious, Timetable: for qualifying an NRC licensee as a Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office Action Date FR Cite small entity under the Regulatory of Federal and State Materials and Flexibility Act. This action is necessary Environmental Management Programs, NPRM To Be Determined to conform NRC’s size standards with Washington, DC 20555–0001 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis recent changes to the Small Business Phone: 301 415–6103 Required: No Administration’s size standards. Email: [email protected] Small Entities Affected: No Timetable: RIN: 3150–AI11 Government Levels Affected: None Action Date FR Cite Federalism: 3732. ∑ REQUIREMENTS FOR Undetermined Direct Final Rule To Be Determined FINGERPRINTING AND CRIMINAL Agency Contact: Frank P. Cardile, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis HISTORY RECORD CHECKS FOR Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office Required: No UNESCORTED ACCESS TO of Federal and State Materials and RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL AND Environmental Management Programs, Small Entities Affected: Businesses, OTHER PROPERTY Washington, DC 20555–0001 Governmental Jurisdictions Phone: 301 415–6185 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Government Levels Affected: Federal, Email: [email protected] Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC State RIN: 3150–AI12 5841 Federalism: Undetermined CFR Citation: 10 CFR 73 3733. ∑ UPDATE NRC SIZE Agency Contact: Michael T. Lesar, Legal Deadline: None STANDARDS Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Administration, Washington, DC Abstract: The proposed rule would Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant 20555–0001 amend the Commission’s regulations to Phone: 301 415–7163 implement requirements for Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC Email: [email protected] fingerprinting and criminal history 5841 record checks for unescorted access to CFR Citation: 10 CFR 2; 10 CFR 21 RIN: 3150–AI15

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Completed Actions

3734. DESIGN BASIS TREAT (DBT) Completed: Completed: Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Reason Date FR Cite Reason Date FR Cite CFR Citation: 10 CFR 73 Final Rule 01/24/07 72 FR 3025 Final Rule 12/11/06 71 FR 74163 Completed: Final Rule Effective 02/23/07 Final Rule Effective 01/10/07 Reason Date FR Cite Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No Final Rule 03/19/07 72 FR 12705 Required: No Final Rule Effective 04/18/07 Small Entities Affected: No Small Entities Affected: No Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Government Levels Affected: None Required: No Government Levels Affected: None Federalism: Undetermined Small Entities Affected: No Federalism: Undetermined Government Levels Affected: None Agency Contact: Jayne M. McCausland Agency Contact: Frank P. Cardile Federalism: Undetermined Phone: 301 415–6219 Phone: 301 415–6185 Email: [email protected] Agency Contact: Manash K Bagchi Email: [email protected] Phone: 301 415–2905 RIN: 3150–AH93 Email: [email protected] RIN: 3150–AH90 RIN: 3150–AH60 3737. CRITICALITY CONTROL OF 3736. LIST OF APPROVED SPENT SPENT FUEL WITHIN DRY STORAGE FUEL STORAGE CASKS: NUHOMS HD OR TRANSPORTATION PACKAGES IN 3735. SECURE TRANSPORT OF ADDITION A SPENT FUEL POOL NUCLEAR MATERIALS Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant CFR Citation: 10 CFR 73 CFR Citation: 10 CFR 72 CFR Citation: 10 CFR 50

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Completed: 3739. ∑ EXPORT AND IMPORT OF 3740. ∑ RELIEF FROM Reason Date FR Cite NUCLEAR MATERIAL; EXPORTS TO FINGERPRINTING AND CRIMINAL LIBYA RESTRICTED HISTORY RECORDS CHECKS Direct Final Rule 11/16/06 71 FR 66648 Priority: Direct Final Rule 01/30/07 Substantive, Nonsignificant Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Effective Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC Legal Authority: 42 USC 2201; 42 USC NPRM 11/16/06 71 FR 66705 5841 5841 Confirmation of 01/26/07 72 FR 3705 CFR Citation: 10 CFR 110 Effective Date CFR Citation: 10 CFR 73 Legal Deadline: None Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Legal Deadline: None Required: No Abstract: The final rule amends the Abstract: The final rule amends the Commission’s regulations to conform Commission’s regulations to relieve Small Entities Affected: No NRC’s export/import regulations with certain categories of individuals from Government Levels Affected: None current U.S. Government law and the requirement to undergo policy on Libya. The executive branch fingerprinting, identification, and Federalism: Undetermined rescinded Libya’s designation as a State criminal history records checks under Sponsor of Terrorism (status held since Agency Contact: George M. Tartal section 149 of the Atomic Energy Act 1979). The executive branch of 1954 (AEA), as amended, before Phone: 301 415–0016 recommended that, in light of this Email: [email protected] being permitted unescorted access to change, the NRC revise its regulations radioactive materials or other property RIN: 3150–AH95 by moving Libya from the embargoed subject to regulation by the to the restricted destinations list. Commission that the Commission 3738. FACILITY CHANGE PROCESS Timetable: determines to be of such significance to the public health and safety or the INVOLVING ITEMS RELIED ON FOR Action Date FR Cite SAFETY common defense and security as to Final Rule 01/12/07 72 FR 1426 warrant such checks. Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Final Rule Effective 01/12/07 Timetable: CFR Citation: 10 CFR 70 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No Action Date FR Cite Completed: Small Entities Affected: No Final Rule 02/02/07 72 FR 4945 Reason Date FR Cite Final Rule Effective 02/02/07 Government Levels Affected: None Direct Final Rule 12/11/06 Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Effective Federalism: Undetermined Required: No Confirmation of 12/01/06 71 FR 69430 Agency Contact: Brooke G. Smith, Small Entities Affected: No Effective Date Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office Government Levels Affected: None Regulatory Flexibility Analysis of International Programs, Washington, DC 20555–0001 Required: No Federalism: Undetermined Phone: 301 415–2490 Small Entities Affected: No Email: [email protected] Agency Contact: Jered K. Heck, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office Government Levels Affected: None Jennifer Schwartzman, Nuclear of the General Counsel, Washingon, DC 20555–0001 Federalism: Undetermined Regulatory Commission, Office of Interntional Programs, Washington, DC Phone: 301 415–1623 Agency Contact: Anthony N. Tse 20555–0001 Email: [email protected] Phone: 301 415–6233 Phone: 301 415–2317 RIN: 3150–AI04 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] [FR Doc. 07–01257 Filed 04–27–07; 8:45 am] RIN: 3150–AH96 RIN: 3150–AI02 BILLING CODE 7590–01–S

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