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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 
COMMISSION 
10 CFR Parts 50 and 52 
[NRC–2024–0019] 
Draft Regulatory Guide: Installation 
Design and Installation of Vented Lead-Acid Storage Batteries for Production and Utilization Facilities 
AGENCY : Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission. 
ACTION : Draft guide; request for 
comment. 
SUMMARY : The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission (NRC) is issuing for public comment a draft Regulatory Guide (DG), DG–1421, ‘‘Installation Design and Installation of Vented Lead-Acid Storage Batteries for Production and Utilization Facilities.’’ This DG is proposed Revision 3 of Regulatory Guide 1.128, ‘‘Installation Design and Installation of Vented Lead-Acid Storage Batteries for Nuclear Power Plants,’’ and provides methods acceptable to the NRC to meet regulatory requirements for the installation design and installation of vented lead-acid storage batteries in production and utilization facilities. It endorses, with clarifications, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Standard (Std.) 484– 2019, ‘‘IEEE Recommended Practice for Installation Design and Installation of Vented Lead-Acid Batteries for Stationary Applications.’’ 
DATES : Submit comments by February 7, 
2024. Comments received after this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC is able to ensure consideration only for comments received on or before this date. 
ADDRESSES : You may submit comments 
by any of the following methods; however, the NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the Federal rulemaking website: 
•Federal rulemaking website: Go to 
https://www.regulations.gov and search 
for Docket ID NRC–2024–0019. Address questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; 
telephone: 301–415–0624; email: Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical 
questions, contact the individuals 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 obtaining 
information and submitting comments, see ‘‘Obtaining Information and 
Submitting Comments’’ in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 
this document. 
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT : 
Michael Eudy, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, telephone: 301– 415–3104; email: Michael.Eudy@nrc.gov 
and Sheila Ray, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301– 415–3653; email: Sheila.Ray@nrc.gov. 
Both are staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555–0001. 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION : 
I. Obtaining Information and 
Submitting Comments 
A. Obtaining Information 
Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2024– 
0019 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–2024–0019. 
•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, at 301–415–4737, or by email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. The ADAMS 
accession number for each document referenced (if it is available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that it is mentioned in this document. 
•NRC’s PDR: The PDR, where you 
may examine and order copies of publicly available documents, is open by appointment. To make an appointment to visit the PDR, please send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov 
or call 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415– 4737, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern time (ET), Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. 
B. Submitting Comments 
The NRC encourages electronic 
comment submission through the Federal rulemaking website ( https://
www.regulations.gov ). Please include 
Docket ID NRC–2024–0019 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. Additional Information 
The NRC is issuing for public 
comment a DG in the NRC’s ‘‘Regulatory Guide’’ series. This series was developed to describe methods that are acceptable to the NRC staff for implementing specific parts of the agency’s regulations, to explain techniques that the staff uses in evaluating specific issues or postulated events, and to describe information that the staff needs in its review of applications for permits and licenses. 
The DG, entitled ‘‘Installation Design 
and Installation of Vented Lead-Acid Storage Batteries for Production and Utilization Facilities,’’ is temporarily identified by its task number, DG–1421 (ADAMS Accession No. ML23277A276). 
This revision of the guide (Revision 3) 
endorses, with clarifications, IEEE Std. 484–2019 and applies to production and utilization facilities licensed under part 
50 and part 52 of title 10 of the Code 
of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) within 
the scope of this RG. The previous version of this RG (ADAMS Accession No. ML070080013) endorsed, with certain clarifications, IEEE Std. 484– 2002. In 2019, the IEEE revised IEEE Std. 484 to add information on thermal factors of influence (exposure temperature, ambient temperature, temperature gradient, and rate of temperature change) and safety provisions ( e.g., electrical hazards, 
shock hazards, ground fault hazards, arc flash hazards, chemical hazards), modifications to the personal protective equipment section, major changes to mounting and ventilation sections, new provisions on connection to direct current systems and spare cells, and new provisions for material handling and hazard assessment, as well as many other updates, corrections, and clarifications to various sections. The revised IEEE standard also provides two new normative annexes. 
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The staff is also issuing for public 
comment a draft regulatory analysis (ADAMS Accession No. ML23277A279). The staff developed a regulatory analysis to assess the value of issuing or revising a regulatory guide as well as alternative courses of action. 
As noted in the Federal Register on 
December 9, 2022 (87 FR 75671), this document is being published in the ‘‘Proposed Rules’’ section of the Federal 
Register to comply with publication 
requirements under 1 CFR chapter I. 
III. Backfitting, Forward Fitting, and 
Issue Finality 
Issuance of DG–1421, if finalized, 
would not constitute backfitting as defined in 10 CFR 50.109, ‘‘Backfitting,’’ and as described in NRC Management Directive (MD) 8.4, ‘‘Management of Backfitting, Forward Fitting, Issue Finality, and Information Requests’’; affect the issue finality of an approval issued under 10 CFR part 52, ‘‘Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants’’; or constitute forward fitting as that term is defined 
and described in MD 8.4, because, as explained in this DG, licensees would not be required to comply with the positions set forth in this DG. 
IV. Submitting Suggestions for 
Improvement of Regulatory Guides 
A member of the public may, at any 
time, submit suggestions to the NRC for improvement of existing RGs or for the development of new RGs. Suggestions can be submitted on the NRC’s public website at https://www.nrc.gov/reading- 
rm/doc-collections/reg-guides/ contactus.html. Suggestions will be 
considered in future updates and enhancements to the ‘‘Regulatory Guide’’ series. 
Dated: January 3, 2024. 
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 
Meraj Rahimi, Chief, Regulatory Guide and Programs 
Management Branch, Division of Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. 
[FR Doc. 2024–00145 Filed 1–5–24; 8:45 am] 
BILLING CODE 7590–01–P ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 
AGENCY 
40 CFR Part 131 
[EPA–HQ–OW–2023–0222; FRL 10760–01– 
OW] 
RIN 2040–AG30 
Water Quality Standards To Protect 
Aquatic Life in the Delaware River 
Correction 
In proposed rule document 2023– 
27758, appearing on pages 88315–88336 in the issue of Thursday, December 21, 2023, make the following correction: 
On page 88326, in the table titled 
‘‘Table 7: Alternative 1: Dissolved Oxygen Criteria Expressed as Concentration (mg/L)’’, the table is corrected to appear as set forth below: 
TABLE 7—A LTERNATIVE 1: D ISSOLVED OXYGEN CRITERIA EXPRESSED AS CONCENTRATION  
[mg/L] 
Season Water 
temperature 
(°C) Magnitude 
(mg/L) Duration Exceedance frequency 
Spawning and Larval Development (March 
1–June 30) .* 23.3 (14.7) * 5.6 (6.7) Daily Average ........................ 10% (12 Days Cumulative) . 
Juvenile Development (July 1–October 31) ...+N/A 5.4 Daily Average ........................ 10% (12 Days Cumulative) . 
+N/A 6.1 Daily Average ........................ 50% (61 Days Cumulative) . 
Overwintering (November 1–February 28/29) * 12.4 (5.6) * 7.0 (8.3) Daily Average ........................ 10% (12 Days Cumulative) . 
*The 90th percentile of seasonal water temperature and corresponding criterion is used for the main estimate, while the average water tem-
perature and corresponding criterion is shown in parentheses. 
+Water temperature is not applicable during the Juvenile Development season because the criteria magnitudes are derived from the EPA’s At-
lantic Sturgeon cohort model, described in section IV.C.1 of this preamble. 
[FR Doc. C1–2023–27758 Filed 1–5–24; 8:45 am] 
BILLING CODE 0099–10–P 
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 
HUMAN SERVICES 
Indian Health Service 
[Docket No.: IHS–FRDOC–0001] 
42 CFR Part 136 
RIN 0917–AA24 
Removal of Outdated Regulations 
AGENCY : Indian Health Service, 
Department of Health and Human Services. 
ACTION : Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. 
SUMMARY : The Indian Health Service 
(IHS) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS or ‘‘the Department’’) is issuing this Notice of 
Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing the removal of regulations appearing in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). These outdated regulations do not align with the current statutory text. 
DATES : Comments due on or before 
March 8, 2024. 
ADDRESSES : You may submit comments 
to this proposed rule, identified by RIN 0917–AA24 by any of the following methods: 
•Federal eRulemaking Portal. You 
may submit electronic comments at https://www.regulations.gov by 
searching for the Docket ID number IHS–FRDOC–0001. Follow the instructions https://
www.regulations.gov online for 
submitting comments through this method. •Regular, Express, or Overnight Mail: 
You may mail comments to Indian Health Service, Joshuah Marshall, Senior Advisor to the Director, Indian Health Service, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, email: joshuah.marshall@ihs.gov. 
All comments received by the 
methods and due date specified above will be posted without change to content to https://www.regulations.gov, 
including any personal information provided about the commenter, and such posting may occur before or after the closing of the comment period. Comments that make threats to individuals or institutions or suggest that the individual will take harmful actions will not be posted. 
Docket: For complete access to 
background documents, posted comments, and the plain-language summary of the proposed rule of not 
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