Federal Register/Vol. 84, No. 21/Thursday, January 31, 2019

578 Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 21 / Thursday, January 31, 2019 / Proposed Rules ADAMS accession No./ Document Federal Register citation ‘‘40 CFR Part 192, Health and Environmental Protection Standards for Uranium and Thorium Mill Tailings; Proposed Rule,’’ 82 FR 7400 January 19, 2017. ‘‘40 CFR Part 192, Health and Environmental Protection Standards for Uranium and Thorium Mill Tailings; Proposed Rule; 83 FR 54543 Withdrawal,’’ October 30, 2018. NUREG–1569, ‘‘Standard Review Plan for In Situ Leach Uranium Extraction License Applications: Final Report,’’ June 2003 ML032310005 ‘‘NRC Staff’s Comments on EPA Proposed Rulemaking for 40 CFR Part 192 Rule, 82 FR 7400,’’ July 17, 2017 ..................... ML17173A638 ‘‘40 CFR Part 192, Environmental Standards for Uranium and Thorium Mill Tailings at Licensed Commercial Processing 48 FR 45926 Sites; Final Rule,’’ October 7, 1983. ‘‘40 CFR Part 192, Environmental Standards for Uranium and Thorium Mill Tailings at Licensed Commercial Processing 58 FR 60340 Sites; Final Rule,’’ November 15, 1993. ‘‘Uranium Mill Tailings Regulations; Conforming NRC Requirements to EPA Standards; Final Rule,’’ October 16, 1985 .......... 50 FR 41852 ‘‘40 CFR Part 192, Health and Environmental Protection Standards for Uranium and Thorium Mill Tailings; Proposed Rule,’’ 80 FR 4156 January 26, 2015. Throughout the development of this recover approximately 90 percent of its Washington, DC 20555–0001, ATTN: assessment, the NRC may post related annual budget through fees less certain Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff. documents, including public comments, amounts excluded from this fee- • Hand deliver comments to: 11555 on the Federal rulemaking website at recovery requirement. President Trump Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland http://www.regulations.gov under signed the Energy and Water, Legislative 20852, between 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. Docket ID NRC–2008–0421. The Federal Branch, and Military Construction and (Eastern Time) Federal workdays; rulemaking website allows you to Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, telephone: 301–415–1677. receive alerts when changes or additions 2019 on September 21, 2018. That Act occur in a docket folder. To subscribe: appropriated approximately $911.0 For additional direction on obtaining (1) Navigate to the docket folder (NRC– million to the NRC, which is a decrease information and submitting comments, 2008–0421); (2) click the ‘‘Sign up for of approximately $11.0 million from FY see ‘‘Obtaining Information and Email Alerts’’ link; and (3) enter your 2018. Based on that total budget Submitting Comments’’ in the email address and select how frequently authority, the NRC is proposing to SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of you would like to receive emails (daily, collect $781.9 million in fees in FY this document. weekly, or monthly). 2019. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 28th day DATES: Submit comments by March 4, Michele Kaplan, Office of the Chief of January 2019. 2019. Comments received after this date Financial Officer, U.S. Nuclear For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. will be considered if it is practical to do Regulatory Commission, Washington, Theresa V. Clark, so, but the NRC is able to ensure DC 20555–0001, telephone: 301–415– Deputy Director, Division of Rulemaking, consideration only for comments 5256; email: [email protected]. received before this date. Because Office of Nuclear Material Safety and SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Safeguards. OBRA–90 requires the NRC to collect [FR Doc. 2019–00435 Filed 1–30–19; 8:45 am] the FY 2019 fees by September 30, 2019, Table of Contents the NRC will not grant any requests for BILLING CODE 7590–01–P I. Obtaining Information and Submitting an extension of the comment period. Comments ADDRESSES: You may submit comments II. Background; Statutory Authority NUCLEAR REGULATORY by any of the following methods (unless III. Specific Request for Comment: Petition COMMISSION this document describes a different for Rulemaking method for submitting comments on a IV. Discussion 10 CFR Parts 170 and 171 specific subject): V. Regulatory Flexibility Certification • VI. Regulatory Analysis [NRC–2017–0032; Docket No. PRM–170–7; Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to NRC–2018–0172] http://www.regulations.gov and search VII. Backfitting and Issue Finality for Docket ID NRC–2017–0032. Address VIII. Plain Writing RIN 3150–AJ99 questions about NRC dockets to Carol IX. National Environmental Policy Act X. Paperwork Reduction Act Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; Revision of Fee Schedules; Fee Public Protection Notification Recovery for Fiscal Year 2019 email: [email protected]. For XI. Voluntary Consensus Standards technical questions, contact the XII. Availability of Guidance AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory individual listed in the FOR FURTHER XIII. Public Meeting Commission. INFORMATION CONTACT section of this XIV. 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You may obtain publicly- Reconciliation Act of 1990, as amended • Mail comments to: Secretary, U.S. available information related to this (OBRA–90), which requires the NRC to Nuclear Regulatory Commission, action by any of the following methods: VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:23 Jan 30, 2019 Jkt 247001 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 4702 Sfmt 4702 E:\FR\FM\31JAP1.SGM 31JAP1 khammond on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with PROPOSALS Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 21 / Thursday, January 31, 2019 / Proposed Rules 579 • Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to OBRA–90 (42 U.S.C. 2214). The IOAA methods listed in the ADDRESSES section http://www.regulations.gov and search generally authorizes and encourages of this document. for Docket ID NRC–2017–0032. Federal regulatory agencies to recover— The petitioner requests that the NRC • NRC’s Agencywide Documents to the fullest extent possible—costs amend its regulations to re-categorize Access and Management System attributable to services provided to WRT as a licensee that does not require (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly- identifiable recipients. The OBRA–90 full-cost recovery for fees billed to it available documents online in the requires the NRC to recover during the life of its license under 10 ADAMS Public Documents collection at approximately 90 percent of its budget CFR part 170. The petitioner also http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ authority for the fiscal year through fees; requests that the NRC address adams.html. To begin the search, select in FY 2019, amounts appropriated for consistency issues between 10 CFR ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.’’ For the development of regulatory parts 170 and 171 for small entities, and problems with ADAMS, please contact infrastructure for advanced reactor consider amending language under the NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR) technologies, international activities, § 170.11 to extend the time within reference staff at 1–800–397–4209 or Waste Incidental to Reprocessing, which a licensee may appeal the 301–415–4737, or by email to generic homeland security activities, assessment of fees and apply for a fee [email protected]. The ADAMS and Inspector General services for the exemption. The petitioner has asked the accession number for each document Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board NRC to consider these rule changes referenced in this document (if that are excluded from this fee-recovery within the context of its rulemaking to document is available in ADAMS) is requirement. The OBRA–90 first amend 10 CFR parts 170 and 171 to provided the first time that a document requires the NRC to use its IOAA collect FY 2019 fees. See the FY 2019 is referenced. For the convenience of the authority to collect service fees for NRC Policy Change section of this document reader, the ADAMS accession numbers work that provides specific benefits to for additional information. are also provided in a table in the identifiable applicants and licensees ‘‘Availability of Documents’’ section of (such as licensing work, inspections, IV. Discussion this document. and special projects). The regulations at FY 2019 Fee Collection—Overview • part 170 of title 10 of the Code of NRC’s PDR: You may examine and The NRC is issuing this FY 2019 Federal Regulations (10 CFR) authorize purchase copies of public documents at proposed fee rule based on the Energy these fees. But, because the NRC’s fee the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One and Water, Legislative Branch, and recovery under the IOAA (10 CFR part White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Military Construction and Veterans 170) does not equal 90 percent of the Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. Affairs Appropriations Act, 2019 (Pub. NRC’s budget authority for the fiscal L. 155–244) (enacted budget). The total B. Submitting Comments year, the NRC also assesses ‘‘annual enacted budget for the NRC in FY 2019 Please include Docket ID NRC–2017– fees’’ under 10 CFR part 171 to recover is approximately $911.0 million, a 0032 in the subject line of your the remaining amount necessary to meet decrease of approximately $11.0 million comment submission in order to ensure OBRA–90’s fee-recovery requirement. that the NRC is able to make your These annual fees recover costs that are from FY 2018. As explained previously, comment submission publicly available not otherwise collected through 10 CFR certain portions of the NRC’s total in this docket. part 170. budget are excluded from OBRA–90’s The NRC cautions you not to include fee-recovery requirement. Based on the identifying or contact information that III.

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