This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER

contains notices to the public of the proposed

issuance of rules and regulations. The

purpose of these notices is to give interested

persons an opportunity to participate in the

rule making prior to the adoption of the final

rules.

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Vol. 83, No. 247 

Thursday, December 27, 2018 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

10 CFR Part 72 

[NRC–2018–0265] 

RIN 3150–AK20 

List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage 

Casks: TN Americas LLC Standardized 

Advanced NUHOMS® System, 

Certificate of Compliance No. 1029, 

Amendment No. 4 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is proposing to 

amend its spent fuel storage regulations 

by revising the TN Americas LLC 

Standardized Advanced NUHOMS®

Horizontal Modular Storage System 

(NUHOMS® System) listing within the 

‘‘List of approved spent fuel storage 

casks’’ to include Amendment No. 4 to 

Certificate of Compliance No. 1029. 

Amendment No. 4 revises the certificate 

of compliance’s technical specifications 

to: Clarify the applicability of unloading 

procedures and training modules 

relative to spent fuel pool availability; 

credit the use of the installed 

temperature monitoring system 

specified in lieu of performing daily 

visual vent inspections; establish dose 

rates on the front inlet bird screen and 

the door of the concrete storage module 

for the Advanced Horizontal Storage 

Module; modify the criteria for 

performing Advanced Horizontal 

Storage Module air vent visual 

inspections; identify the blocked vent 

time limitations for each of the 24PT1 

and 24PT4 dry shielded canisters; and 

provide a new temperature rise value for 

the Advanced Horizontal Storage 

Module with a loaded 24PT4 dry 

shielded canister. 

DATES: Submit comments by January 28, 

2019. 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: 

• Federal Rulemaking website: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2018–0265. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Carol 

Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; 

email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For 

technical questions, contact the 

individuals listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

document. 

• Email comments to: 

Rulemaking.Comments@nrc.gov. If you 

do not receive an automatic email reply 

confirming receipt, then contact us at 

301–415–1677. 

• Fax comments to: Secretary, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission at 301– 

415–1101. 

• Mail comments to: Secretary, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, ATTN: 

Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff. 

• Hand deliver comments to: 11555 

Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 

20852, between 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. 

(Eastern Time) Federal workdays; 

telephone: 301–415–1677. 

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: 

William Allen, Office of Nuclear 

Material Safety and Safeguards; 

telephone: 301–415–6877; email: 

William.Allen@nrc.gov or Edward M. 

Lohr, Office of Nuclear Material Safety 

and Safeguards; telephone: 301–415– 

0253; email: Edward.Lohr@nrc.gov. Both 

are staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Table of Contents 

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting 

Comments 

II. Rulemaking Procedure 

III. Background 

IV. Plain Writing 

V. Availability of Documents 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2018– 

0265 when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information for this 

action. You may obtain publiclyavailable information related to this 

action by any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking website: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2018–0265. 

• 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. For the convenience of the 

reader, instructions about obtaining 

materials referenced in this document 

are provided in the ‘‘Availability of 

Documents’’ section. 

• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and 

purchase copies of public documents at 

the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

B. Submitting Comments 

Please include Docket ID NRC–2018– 

0265 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 http://

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. 


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II. Rulemaking Procedure 

This proposed rule is limited to the 

changes contained in Amendment No. 4 

to Certificate of Compliance No. 1029 

and does not include other aspects of 

the TN Americas LLC Standardized 

Advanced NUHOMS® System design. 

Because the NRC considers this action 

to be non-controversial, the NRC is 

publishing this proposed rule 

concurrently with a direct final rule in 

the Rules and Regulations section of this 

issue of the Federal Register. The direct 

final rule will become effective on 

March 12, 2019. However, if the NRC 

receives significant adverse comments 

on this proposed rule by January 28, 

2019, then the NRC will publish a 

document that withdraws the direct 

final rule. If the direct final rule is 

withdrawn, the NRC will address the 

comments received in response to these 

proposed revisions in a subsequent final 

rule. Absent significant modifications to 

the proposed revisions requiring 

republication, the NRC will not initiate 

a second comment period on this action 

in the event the direct final rule is 

withdrawn. 

A significant adverse comment is a 

comment where the commenter 

explains why the rule would be 

inappropriate, including challenges to 

the rule’s underlying premise or 

approach, or would be ineffective or 

unacceptable without a change. A 

comment is adverse and significant if: 

(1) The comment opposes the rule and 

provides a reason sufficient to require a 

substantive response in a notice-andcomment process. For example, a 

substantive response is required when: 

(a) The comment causes the NRC to 

reevaluate (or reconsider) its position or 

conduct additional analysis; 

(b) The comment raises an issue 

serious enough to warrant a substantive 

response to clarify or complete the 

record; or 

(c) The comment raises a relevant 

issue that was not previously addressed 

or considered by the NRC. 

(2) The comment proposes a change 

or an addition to the rule, and it is 

apparent that the rule would be 

ineffective or unacceptable without 

incorporation of the change or addition. 

(3) The comment causes the NRC to 

make a change (other than editorial) to 

the rule. 

For procedural information and the 

regulatory analysis, see the direct final 

rule published in the Rules and 

Regulations section of this issue of the 

Federal Register. 

III. Background 

Section 218(a) of the Nuclear Waste 

Policy Act of 1982, as amended, 

requires that ‘‘the Secretary [of the 

Department of Energy] shall establish a 

demonstration program, in cooperation 

with the private sector, for the dry 

storage of spent nuclear fuel at civilian 

nuclear power reactor sites, with the 

objective of establishing one or more 

technologies that the [Nuclear 

Regulatory] Commission may, by rule, 

approve for use at the sites of civilian 

nuclear power reactors without, to the 

maximum extent practicable, the need 

for additional site-specific approvals by 

the Commission.’’ Section 133 of the 

Nuclear Waste Policy Act states, in part, 

that ‘‘[the Commission] shall, by rule, 

establish procedures for the licensing of 

any technology approved by the 

Commission under Section 219(a) [sic: 

218(a)] for use at the site of any civilian 

nuclear power reactor.’’ 

To implement this mandate, the 

Commission approved dry storage of 

spent nuclear fuel in NRC-approved 

casks under a general license by 

publishing a final rule which added a 

new subpart K in part 72 of title 10 of 

the Code of Federal Regulations (10 

CFR) entitled ‘‘General License for 

Storage of Spent Fuel at Power Reactor 

Sites’’ (55 FR 29181; July 18, 1990). This 

rule also established a new subpart L in 

10 CFR part 72 entitled ‘‘Approval of 

Spent Fuel Storage Casks,’’ which 

contains procedures and criteria for 

obtaining NRC approval of spent fuel 

storage cask designs. The NRC 

subsequently issued a final rule on 

January 6, 2003 (68 FR 463), that 

approved the TN Americas LLC 

Standardized Advanced NUHOMS®

System design and added it to the list 

of NRC-approved cask designs provided 

in § 72.214 as Certificate of Compliance 

No. 1029. 

IV. Plain Writing 

The Plain Writing Act of 2010 (Pub. 

L. 111–274) requires Federal agencies to 

write documents in a clear, concise, 

well-organized manner. The NRC has 

written this document to be consistent 

with the Plain Writing Act as well as the 

Presidential Memorandum, ‘‘Plain 

Language in Government Writing,’’ 

published June 10, 1998 (63 FR 31883). 

The NRC requests comment on the 

proposed rule with respect to the clarity 

and effectiveness of the language used. 

V. Availability of Documents 

The documents identified in the 

following table are available to 

interested persons through one or more 

of the following methods, as indicated. 

Document 

ADAMS 

Accession No./ 

weblink/ 

Federal Register 

citation 

TN Americas LLC Request to Add Amendment No. 4 to Certificate of Compliance No. 1029, letter dated November 15, 2017.ML17326A125 (package). 

Revision to TN Americas LLC Request to Add Amendment No. 4 to Certificate of Compliance No. 1029, letter 

dated February 22, 2018.

ML18065A362. 

Revision to TN Americas LLC Request to Add Amendment No. 4 to Certificate of Compliance No. 1029, letter 

dated May 16, 2018.

ML18138A289. 

Revision to TN Americas LLC Request to Add Amendment No. 4 to Certificate of Compliance No. 1029, letter 

dated June 26, 2018.

ML18179A174. 

Revision to TN Americas LLC Request to Add Amendment No. 4 to Certificate of Compliance No. 1029, letter 

dated July 18, 2018.

ML18201A202. 

TN Americas LLC Amendment No. 4 Certificate of Compliance No. 1029 ................................................................... ML18263A046. 

Technical Specifications for TN Americas LLC Amendment No. 4 to Certificate of Compliance No. 1029 ................. ML18263A045.

Preliminary Safety Evaluation Report for TN Americas LLC Amendment No. 4 to Certificate of Compliance No. 

1029.

ML18263A047. 

The NRC may post materials related 

to this document, including public 

comments, on the Federal Rulemaking 

website at http://www.regulations.gov 

under Docket ID NRC–2018–0265. The 

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to receive alerts when changes or 

additions occur in a docket folder. To 

subscribe: (1) Navigate to the docket 

folder (NRC–2018–0265); (2) click the 

‘‘Sign up for Email Alerts’’ link; and (3) 

enter your email address and select how 

frequently you would like to receive 

emails (daily, weekly, or monthly). 

List of Subjects in 10 CFR Part 72 

Administrative practice and 

procedure, Hazardous waste, Indians, 

Intergovernmental relations, Nuclear 

energy, Penalties, Radiation protection, 

Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements, Security measures, Spent 

fuel, Whistleblowing. 

For the reasons set out in the 

preamble and under the authority of the 

Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended; 

the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, 

as amended; the Nuclear Waste Policy 

Act of 1982, as amended; and 5 U.S.C. 

552 and 553; the NRC is proposing to 

adopt the following amendments to 10 

CFR part 72: 

PART 72—LICENSING 

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE 

INDEPENDENT STORAGE OF SPENT 

NUCLEAR FUEL, HIGH-LEVEL 

RADIOACTIVE WASTE, AND 

REACTOR-RELATED GREATER THAN 

CLASS C WASTE 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 72 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: Atomic Energy Act of 1954, 

secs. 51, 53, 57, 62, 63, 65, 69, 81, 161, 182, 

183, 184, 186, 187, 189, 223, 234, 274 (42 

U.S.C. 2071, 2073, 2077, 2092, 2093, 2095, 

2099, 2111, 2201, 2210e, 2232, 2233, 2234, 

2236, 2237, 2238, 2273, 2282, 2021); Energy 

Reorganization Act of 1974, secs. 201, 202, 

206, 211 (42 U.S.C. 5841, 5842, 5846, 5851); 

National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 

(42 U.S.C. 4332); Nuclear Waste Policy Act 

of 1982, secs. 117(a), 132, 133, 134, 135, 137, 

141, 145(g), 148, 218(a) (42 U.S.C. 10137(a), 

10152, 10153, 10154, 10155, 10157, 10161, 

10165(g), 10168, 10198(a)); 44 U.S.C. 3504 

note. 

■ 2. In § 72.214, Certificate of 

Compliance 1029 is revised to read as 

follows: 

§ 72.214 List of approved spent fuel 

storage casks. 

* * * * * 

Certificate Number: 1029. 

Initial Certificate Effective Date: 

February 5, 2003. 

Amendment Number 1 Effective Date: 

May 16, 2005. 

Amendment Number 2 Effective Date: 

Amendment not issued by the NRC. 

Amendment Number 3 Effective Date: 

February 23, 2015. 

Amendment Number 4 Effective Date: 

March 12, 2019. 

SAR Submitted by: Transnuclear, Inc. 

SAR Title: Final Safety Analysis 

Report for the Standardized Advanced 

NUHOMS® Horizontal Modular Storage 

System for Irradiated Nuclear Fuel. 

Docket Number: 72–1029. 

Certificate Expiration Date: February 

5, 2023. 

Model Number: Standardized 

Advanced NUHOMS®-24PT1, -24PT4, 

and -32PTH2. 

* * * * * 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 19th day 

of December, 2018. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Margaret M. Doane, 

Executive Director for Operations. 

[FR Doc. 2018–27950 Filed 12–26–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

14 CFR Part 71 

Proposed Modification of the Miami, 

FL, Class B Airspace; and the Fort 

Lauderdale, FL, Class C Airspace 

Areas; Public Meeting 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a factfinding informal airspace meeting 

regarding a plan to modify the Miami, 

FL, Class B Airspace, and the Fort 

Lauderdale, FL, Class C Airspace areas. 

The purpose of the meeting is to provide 

interested parties an opportunity to 

present views, recommendations, and 

comments on any proposed change to 

the airspace. All comments received 

during the meeting will be considered 

prior to any revision or issuance of a 

notice of proposed rulemaking. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Wednesday, February 27, 2019, from 

3:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Comments must 

be received on or before March 29, 2019. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the following location: Broward College, 

South Campus Building 69, Room 133, 

7200 Pines Blvd., Pembroke Pines, FL 

33024. 

Comments: Send comments on the 

proposal, in triplicate, to: Ryan Almasy, 

Manager, Operations Support Group, 

Eastern Service Area, Air Traffic 

Organization, Federal Aviation 

Administration, P.O. Box 20636, 

Atlanta, GA, 30320; or via email to: 9- 

AJV-MIAClassBComments@faa.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bob 

Hildebidle, Manager, Miami ATCT/ 

TRACON, 6400 NW 22nd St., Miami, FL 

33122. Telephone: (305) 869–5402. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Meeting Procedures 

(a) The meeting will be informal in 

nature and will be conducted by one or 

more representatives of the FAA Eastern 

Service Area. A representative from the 

FAA will present a briefing on the 

planned airspace modifications. Each 

participant will be given and 

opportunity to deliver comments or 

make a presentation, although a time 

limit may be imposed to accommodate 

closing times. Only comments 

concerning the plan to modify the 

Miami, FL, Class B Airspace, and the 

Fort Lauderdale, FL, Class C Airspace 

areas will be accepted. 

(b) The meeting will be open to all 

persons on a space-available basis. 

There will be no admission fee or other 

charge to attend and participate. 

(c) Any person wishing to make a 

presentation will be asked to sign in so 

those time frames can be established. 

This will permit the panel to allocate an 

appropriate amount of time for each 

presenter. This meeting will not be 

adjourned until everyone on the list has 

had an opportunity to address the panel. 

This meeting may be adjourned at any 

time if all persons present have had an 

opportunity to speak. 

(d) Position papers or other handout 

material relating to the substance of the 

meeting will be accepted. Participants 

submitting handout materials should 

present an original and two copies to 

the presiding officer. There should be an 

adequate number of copies for 

distribution to all participants. 

(e) This meeting will not be formally 

recorded. However, a summary of the 

comments made at the meeting will be 

filed in the docket. 

Information gathered through this 

meeting will assist the FAA in drafting 

a Notice of proposed rulemaking 

(NPRM). The public will be afforded the 

opportunity to comment on any NPRM 

published on this matter. 

Agenda for the Meeting 

—Sign-in 

—Presentation of Meeting Procedures 

—Informal Presentation of the Planned 

Airspace Modifications 

—Public Presentations and Discussions 

—Closing Comments 

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 106(g); 40103, 

40113, 40120; E.O.10854, 24 FR 9565, 3 CFR, 

1959–1963 Comp., p. 389. 


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