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Vol. 83, No. 244 

Thursday, December 20, 2018 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2018–0038] 

10 CFR Chapter I 

Clarification of the Requirements for 

Reactor Pressure Vessel Upper Head 

Bare Metal Visual Examinations 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Regulatory issue summary; 

issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing Regulatory 

Issue Summary (RIS) 2018–06, 

‘‘Clarification of the Requirements for 

Reactor Pressure Vessel Upper Head 

Bare Metal Visual Examinations.’’ This 

RIS is intended to clarify the 

requirements for bare-metal visual 

examination, which can be either a 

visual examination of the bare metal of 

the upper head or a visual testing (VT)– 

2 examination under the insulation to 

meet the requirements of notes 1 and 4 

in Table 1 of American Society of 

Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Code 

Case N–729–4, ‘‘Alternative 

Examination Requirements for PWR 

Reactor Vessel Upper Heads with 

Nozzles Having Pressure-Retaining 

Partial-Penetration Welds Section XI, 

Division 1.’’ This RIS requires no action 

or written response on the part of an 

addressee. 

DATES: The RIS is available as of 

December 20, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2018–0038 when contacting the 

NRC about the availability of 

information regarding this document. 

You may obtain publicly-available 

information related to this document 

using any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2018–0038. Address 

questions about Docket IDs in 

Regulations.gov to Krupskaya Castellon; 

telephone: 301–287–9221; email: 

Krupskaya.Castellon@nrc.gov. For 

technical questions, contact the 

individual(s) listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

document. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

adams.html. To begin the search, select 

‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.’’ For 

problems with ADAMS, please contact 

the NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR) 

reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301– 

415–4737, or by email to pdr.resource@

nrc.gov. The Clarification of the 

Requirements for Reactor Pressure 

Vessel Upper Head Bare Metal Visual 

Examinations and Response to Public 

Comments on Draft Regulatory Issue 

Summary 2018–XX, ‘‘Clarification of the 

Requirements for Reactor Pressure 

Vessel Upper Head Bare Metal Visual 

Examinations’’ are available in ADAMS 

under Accession Nos. ML18178A137 

and ML18178A140. 

• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and 

purchase copies of public documents at 

the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

• This RIS is also available on the 

NRC’s public website at http://

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/gen-comm/reg-issues/ (select 

‘‘2018’’ and then select ‘‘RIS–18–06’’). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stephen Cumblidge, Office of Nuclear 

Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415– 

2823, email: Stephen.Cumblidge@

nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NRC 

published notification of opportunity 

for public comment on this RIS in the 

Federal Register (83 FR 10407) on 

March 9, 2018. The agency received 

comments from four commenters. The 

staff considered all comments, which 

resulted in minor clarifications to the 

RIS. The evaluation of these comments 

and the resulting changes to the RIS are 

discussed in a publicly available 

memorandum which is in ADAMS 

under Accession No. ML18178A140. 

As noted in 83 FR 20858 (May 8, 

2018), this document is being published 

in the Rules section of the Federal 

Register to comply with publication 

requirements under 1 CFR chapter I. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 17th day 

of December 2018. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Brian J. Benney, 

Senior Project Manager, ROP Support and 

Generic Communications Branch, Division of 

Inspection and Regional Support, Office of 

Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

[FR Doc. 2018–27517 Filed 12–19–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE 

AGENCY 

12 CFR Part 1231 

RIN 2590–AA72 

Golden Parachute and Indemnification 

Payments 

AGENCY: Federal Housing Finance 

Agency. 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Housing Finance 

Agency (FHFA) is amending its golden 

parachute payments regulation to better 

align it with areas of FHFA’s 

supervisory concern and reduce 

administrative and compliance burdens. 

This final rule amends a requirement 

that FHFA review and consent before a 

regulated entity or the Office of Finance 

(OF) enters certain agreements to make, 

or makes, certain payments that are 

contingent on the termination of an 

affiliated party, if the regulated entity or 

the OF is in a troubled condition, in 

conservatorship or receivership, or 

insolvent. FHFA’s experience 

implementing the regulation indicated 

that it required review of some 

agreements and payments where there 

was little risk of excess or abuse, and 

thus that it was too broad. 

As amended, the rule will reduce the 

number of agreements and payments 

that are subject to FHFA prior review by 

focusing on those agreements and 

payments where there is greater risk of 

an excessive or abusive payment (in 

general, payments to and agreements 

with executive officers, broad-based 

plans covering large numbers of 

employees (such as severance plans), 

and payments made to non-executiveofficer employees who may have 

engaged in certain types of wrongdoing). 

In addition, the rule as amended 


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