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f. Failure to Comply with Time Limits—An 

agency may not charge search fees (or in the 

case of educational or non-commercial 

scientific institution requesters, or 

representatives of the news media, 

duplication fees) if it has failed to comply 

with any time limit under 5 U.S.C. 552(a)(6), 

except as provided in 5 U.S.C. 

552(a)(4)(A)(viii). 

Paul J. Ray, 

Administrator, Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2020–27707 Filed 12–16–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3110–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2020–0245] 

Environmental Qualification of Certain 

Electrical Equipment Important to 

Safety for Nuclear Power Plants 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Draft regulatory guide; request 

for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing for public 

comment a draft regulatory guide (DG), 

DG–1361, ‘‘Environmental Qualification 

of Certain Electrical Equipment 

Important to Safety for Nuclear Power 

Plants.’’ This draft guide is proposed 

revision 2 of regulatory guide (RG) 1.89 

of the same name. The proposed 

revision describes an approach that is 

acceptable to the staff of the NRC to 

meet regulatory requirements for 

environmental qualification (EQ) of 

certain electric equipment important to 

safety for nuclear power plants. The 

previous revision of RG 1.89 was issued 

in June 1984 and endorsed the use of 

Institute of Electrical and Electronic 

Engineers (IEEE) Standard (Std.) 323– 

1974. This proposed revision 

incorporates additional information 

regarding the dual logo International 

Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)/IEEE 

Std. 60780–323, ‘‘Nuclear Facilities— 

Electrical Equipment Important to 

Safety—Qualification,’’ Edition 1, 2016– 

02. 

DATES: Submit comments by February 

16, 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. 

Although a time limit is given, 

comments and suggestions in 

connection with items for inclusion in 

guides currently being developed or 

improvements in all published guides 

are encouraged at any time. 

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–2020–0245. Address 

questions about Docket IDs in 

Regulations.gov to Jennifer Borges; 

telephone: 301–287–9221; email: 

Jennifer.Borges@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– 

7A06, 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: 

Matthew McConnell, Office of Nuclear 

Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301– 

415–1597, email: Matthew.McConnell@

nrc.gov, and Michael Eudy, Office of 

Nuclear Regulatory Research, telephone: 

301–415–3104, email: Michael.Eudy@

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–2020– 

0245 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–2020–0245. 

• 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, 301– 

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

nrc.gov. 

• 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–2020–0245 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 posts 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 draft guide 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, titled, ‘‘Environmental 

Qualification of Certain Electrical 

Equipment Important to Safety for 

Nuclear Power Plants,’’ is temporarily 

identified by its task number, DG–1361 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML20183A423). 

DG–1361 is proposed revision 2 of RG 

1.89. This revision of the guide (revision 

2) endorses, with clarifications, the 

‘‘English’’ portion of the dual logo IEC/ 

IEEE Std. 60780–323, Edition 1, 2016– 

02 as a method acceptable to the NRC 

for meeting the regulatory requirements 

for EQ of certain electric equipment 

important to safety for nuclear power 

plants. This DG applies to licensees and 

applicants subject to title 10 of the Code 

of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) part 50, 

‘‘Domestic Licensing of Production and 

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Utilization Facilities,’’ and 10 CFR part 

52, ‘‘Licenses, Certifications, and 

Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants.’’ 

The staff is also issuing for public 

comment a draft regulatory analysis 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML20192A230). 

The staff develops a regulatory analysis 

to assess the value of issuing or revising 

a regulatory guide as well as alternative 

courses of action. 

III. Backfitting, Forward Fitting, and 

Issue Finality 

DG–1361, if finalized, would provide 

the most recent guidance acceptable to 

the NRC staff for compliance with 10 

CFR 50.49, ‘‘Environmental 

qualification of electrical equipment 

important to safety for nuclear power 

plants’’ for certain electrical equipment 

important to safety. Issuance of DG– 

1361, if finalized, would not constitute 

backfitting, as that term is defined in 10 

CFR 50.109, ‘‘Backfitting,’’ and as 

described in NRC Management Directive 

8.4, ‘‘Management of Backfitting, 

Forward Fitting, Issue Finality, and 

Information Requests’’; constitute 

forward fitting, as that term is defined 

and described in Management Directive 

8.4; or affect the issue finality of any 

approval issued under 10 CFR part 52. 

As explained in DG–1361, applicants 

and licensees would not be required to 

comply with the positions set forth in 

DG–1361. 

IV. Specific Requests for Comments 

In addition to the general request for 

comments on DG–1361, the NRC is also 

seeking specific comments that address 

the following question: 

In this proposed RG revision, the staff 

has updated the current version of the 

RG (Revision 1) to endorse, with 

clarifications, IEC/IEEE Std. 60780–323, 

Edition 1, 2016–2. The current version 

of the RG (Revision 1) endorsed IEEE 

Std. 323–1974, ‘‘IEEE Standard for 

Qualifying Class IE Equipment for 

Nuclear Power Generating Stations.’’ As 

stated in the Implementation section of 

the DG, the staff does not intend to use 

this RG revision to support NRC staff 

actions in a manner that would 

constitute backfitting or forward fitting 

or affect the issue finality of an approval 

under 10 CFR part 52. Further, licensees 

or applicants are not required to comply 

with the RG. However, does the staff’s 

proposed endorsement of IEEE Std. 

60780–323, Edition 1, 2016–02 raise any 

concerns related to backfitting, forward 

fitting, or issue finality that the staff has 

not considered? 

Dated: December 11, 2020. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Meraj Rahimi, 

Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Generic 

Issues Branch, Division of Engineering, Office 

of Nuclear Regulatory Research. 

[FR Doc. 2020–27717 Filed 12–16–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 72–17; NRC–2020–0243] 

Portland General Electric Company; 

Trojan Independent Spent Fuel Storage 

Installation 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: License amendment application; 

issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) reviewed an 

application by Portland General Electric 

Company (PGE) for amendment of 

Materials License No. SNM–2509 which 

authorizes PGE to receive, possess, 

store, and transfer spent nuclear fuel 

and associated radioactive materials. 

The amendment sought to revise the 

description in the safety analysis report 

of the licensee’s evaluation of explosion 

accident events. 

DATES: December 17, 2020. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2020–0243 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 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2020–0243. 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. 

• 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, 301– 

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

nrc.gov. 

• 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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Chris Allen, Office of Nuclear Material 

Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415– 

6877; email: William.Allen@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: By letter 

dated March 10, 2020 (ADAMS Package 

Accession No. ML20083G798), PGE 

submitted to the NRC, in accordance 

with part 72 of title 10 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations (10 CFR), a request 

to amend Special Nuclear Materials 

License No. SNM–2509 for the Trojan 

Independent Spent Fuel Storage 

Installation (ISFSI) site located in 

Columbia County, Oregon. License No. 

SNM–2509 authorizes PGE to receive, 

possess, store, and transfer spent 

nuclear fuel and associated radioactive 

materials resulting from the operation of 

the Trojan Power Plant in an ISFSI. 

Specifically, the amendment proposed 

to address a new anchorage point on the 

Columbia River near the ISFSI and 

incorporate a new method of evaluating 

explosion accident events. 

The NRC issued a letter dated June 12, 

2020 (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML20149K631), notifying PGE that the 

application was acceptable for review. 

In accordance with 10 CFR 72.16, a 

notice of docketing was published in the 

Federal Register on June 26, 2020 (85 

FR 38398). The notice of docketing 

included an opportunity to request a 

hearing and to petition for leave to 

intervene. No requests for a hearing or 

petitions for leave to intervene were 

submitted. 

The NRC prepared a safety evaluation 

report (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML20280A520) to document its review 

and evaluation of the amendment 

request. Also, in connection with this 

action, the NRC prepared an 

environmental assessment (EA) and a 

finding of no significant impact 

(FONSI). The notice of availability of 

the EA and FONSI was published in the 

Federal Register on November 17, 2020 

(85 FR 73298). 

Upon completing its review, the NRC 

staff determined that the request 

complies with the standards and 

requirements of the Atomic Energy Act 

of 1954, as amended (the Act), as well 

as the NRC’s rules and regulations. The 

Commission has made appropriate 

findings as required by the Act and the 

Commission’s rules and regulations in 

10 CFR chapter I, which are set forth in 

the license amendment. The NRC