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.

Proposed Rules Federal Register

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Vol. 85, No. 238 

Thursday, December 10, 2020 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

10 CFR Part 50 

[NRC–2020–0253] 

Advanced Manufacturing Technologies 

Subtask 2A 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of withdrawal and 

reissuance; public meeting and request 

for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) published a draft 

document entitled ‘‘Implementation of 

Quality Assurance Criteria and 10 CFR 

50.59 for Nuclear Power Plant 

Components Produced Using Advanced 

Manufacturing Technologies’’ for public 

comments in the Federal Register on 

November 30, 2020. The document 

addresses the application of quality 

assurance (QA) criteria and NRC’s 

requirements in its regulations 

regarding, ‘‘Changes, tests and 

experiments,’’ to the implementation of 

Advanced Manufacturing Technologies 

(AMT)-fabricated components in U.S. 

nuclear power plants. This notice 

withdraws the November 30, 2020, 

notice in its entirety and reissues the 

notice to include additional explanatory 

information, extend the comment period 

to 60 days, and correct the Agencywide 

Documents Access and Management 

System (ADAMS) accession number for 

the draft document. 

DATES: The Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission is withdrawing the 

proposed rule published November 30, 

2020 (85 FR 76489); and reissuance of 

the draft document takes effect on 

December 10, 2020. Submit comments 

on the draft document by February 8, 

2021. 

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. The NRC 

will hold a public meeting as an online 

webinar. See Section IV. Public 

Meeting, of this document for additional 

information. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods (unless 

this document describes a different 

method for submitting comments on a 

specific subject); 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–2020–0253. Address 

questions about Docket IDs in 

Regulations.gov to Jennifer Borges; 

telephone: 301–287–9127; email: 

Jennifer.Borges@nrc.gov. For technical 

questions, contact the individual 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: 

Isaac Anchondo-Lopez, Office of 

Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

817–200–1152; email: Isaac.AnchondoLopez@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2020– 

0253 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–2020–0253. 

• 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 draft 

document entitled ‘‘Implementation of 

Quality Assurance Criteria and 10 CFR 

50.59 for Nuclear Power Plant 

Components Produced Using Advanced 

Manufacturing Techniques’’ can be 

found by searching for ADAMS 

Accession No. ML20317A007. 

• Attention: The PDR, where you may 

examine and order copies of public 

documents is currently closed. You may 

submit your request to the PDR via 

email at pdr.resource@nrc.gov or call 1– 

800–397–4209 between 8:00 a.m. and 

4:00 p.m. (EST), 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–2020–0253 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 withdrawing Federal 

Register Document 2020–26272 issued 

on November 30, 2020 (85 FR 76489), 

and is reissuing the notice in its entirety 

to include additional information, 

extend the comment period to 60 days, 

and correct the ADAMS Accession 

Number of the draft document entitled 


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‘‘Implementation of Quality Assurance 

Criteria and 10 CFR 50.59 for Nuclear 

Power Plant Components Produced 

Using Advanced Manufacturing 

Technologies’’ (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML20317A007). 

III. Background 

The NRC considers AMTs to consist 

of material processing and component 

fabrication methods that have not been 

traditionally used in the U.S. nuclear 

industry and have not yet received NRC 

approval through NRC-endorsed codes 

and standards or the approval of an 

industry submittal. There are several 

regulatory paths available to a licensee 

for utilizing an AMT in a nuclear 

application, including: (1) Development 

of a Code or Standard that can be 

incorporated by reference in section 

50.55a of chapter I of title 10 of the Code 

of Federal Regulations (10 CFR); (2) 

selection of an unregulated in-service 

application; (3) submission of generic 

technical reports or plant-specific 

submittals for NRC approval; or (4) 

implementation of the 10 CFR 50.59, 

‘‘Changes, tests and experiments,’’ 10 

CFR 70.72, ‘‘Facility changes and 

change process,’’ or 10 CFR 72.48, 

‘‘Changes, tests, and experiments’’ 

processes. Industry indicated that plans 

for the initial installation of AMTfabricated components would involve 

the 10 CFR 50.59 process. Therefore, the 

NRC staff documented in the draft 

document a description of the 

processes, consistent with the QA 

requirements in Appendix B to 10 CFR 

part 50 and in accordance with 10 CFR 

50.59 in order to support the staff’s 

performance of potential inspections of 

a licensee’s implementation of these 

requirements for AMT-fabricated 

components. 

IV. Specific Considerations 

This report documents completion of 

the staff’s initial review of QA criteria 

and 10 CFR 50.59 requirements for AMT 

applications at U.S. nuclear power 

plants. This report does not represent a 

complete and final analysis of all 

aspects of QA criteria and 10 CFR 50.59 

requirements and guidance that might 

be applicable to the use of AMT 

components at U.S. nuclear power 

plants. This report does not create new 

regulatory requirements or establish 

new regulatory positions with respect to 

the use or manufacture of AMT 

components for nuclear power plants. 

The scope of this report is limited to the 

review of existing requirements and 

guidance to address AMT components 

and the consideration of potential 

regulatory and technical challenges. 

This report may be subject to future 

revision, as additional insights and 

operating experience for use of AMT 

components are gained. 

In its effort to be open and transparent 

regarding potential processes for the 

installation of AMT-fabricated 

components, the NRC is requesting 

general comments on this document. 

V. Public Meeting 

The NRC plans to hold a public 

meeting during the public comment 

period for this action. A public meeting 

is planned for January 2021, via online 

webinar. The public webinar will 

provide a forum for the NRC staff to 

discuss the document and for members 

of the public to provide comments on 

the document. The NRC does not intend 

to provide any responses to comments 

submitted during the public webinar. 

The public webinar will be noticed on 

the NRC’s public meeting website at 

least 10 calendar days before the 

meeting. Members of the public should 

monitor the NRC’s public meeting 

website for additional information about 

the public webinar at https:// 

www.nrc.gov/public-involve/publicmeetings/index.cfm. The NRC will post 

the notice for the public webinar and 

may post additional material related to 

this action to the Federal Rulemaking 

website at https://www.regulations.gov/ 

under Docket ID NRC–2020–0253. The 

Federal Rulemaking website allows you 

to receive alerts when changes or 

additions occur in a docket folder. To 

subscribe: (1) Navigate to the docket 

folder (NRC–2020–0253); (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). 

Dated: December 2, 2020. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Anna H. Bradford, 

Director, Division of New and Renewed 

Licenses, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation. 

[FR Doc. 2020–26845 Filed 12–9–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

14 CFR Part 39 

[Docket No. FAA–2020–1114; Project 

Identifier 2019–SW–058–AD] 

RIN 2120–AA64 

Airworthiness Directives; Airbus 

Helicopters 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking 

(NPRM). 

SUMMARY: The FAA proposes to adopt a 

new airworthiness directive (AD) for 

certain Airbus Helicopters Model 

EC120B helicopters. This proposed AD 

was prompted by a report of broken and 

bent attachment bolts of the main rotor 

(MR) hub scissors assembly. This 

proposed AD would require an 

inspection of the attachment bolts of the 

MR hub scissors assembly for 

discrepancies and repair if necessary; 

part marking of the attachment bolts of 

the MR hub scissors assembly; and 

repetitive inspections of the part 

marking of the attachment bolts, and 

repair if necessary; as specified in a 

European Union Aviation Safety Agency 

(EASA) AD, which will be incorporated 

by reference. The FAA is proposing this 

AD to address the unsafe condition on 

these products. 

DATES: The FAA must receive comments 

on this proposed AD by January 25, 

2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may send comments, 

using the procedures found in 14 CFR 

11.43 and 11.45, by any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Fax: 202–493–2251. 

• Mail: U.S. Department of 

Transportation, Docket Operations, M– 

30, West Building Ground Floor, Room 

W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

Washington, DC 20590. 

• Hand Delivery: Deliver to Mail 

address above between 9 a.m. and 5 

p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. 

For material incorporated by reference 

(IBR) in this AD, contact the EASA, 

Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer 3, 50668 

Cologne, Germany; telephone +49 221 

89990 000; email ADs@easa.europa.eu; 

internet www.easa.europa.eu. You may 

find this IBR material on the EASA 

website at https://ad.easa.europa.eu. 

You may view this IBR material at the 

FAA, Office of the Regional Counsel, 

Southwest Region, 10101 Hillwood 

Pkwy., Room 6N–321, Fort Worth, TX 

76177. For information on the 

availability of this material at the FAA, 

call 817–222–5110. It is also available in 

the AD docket on the internet at https:// 

www.regulations.gov by searching for 

and locating Docket No. FAA–2020– 

1114. 

Examining the AD Docket 

You may examine the AD docket on 

the internet at https://

www.regulations.gov by searching for 


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