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not required to respond to, a collection 

of information unless it displays a 

currently valid OMB control number. 

The NRC published a Federal 

Register notice with a 60-day comment 

period on this information collection on 

October 8, 2020 (85 FR 63593). 

1. The title of the information 

collection: Domestic Licensing of 

Special Nuclear Material. 

2. OMB approval number: 3150–0009. 

3. Type of submission: Extension. 

4. The form number if applicable: Not 

applicable. 

5. How often the collection is required 

or requested: Required reports are 

collected and evaluated on a continuing 

basis as events occur. Applications for 

new licenses and amendments may be 

submitted at any time. Generally, 

renewal applications are submitted 

every 10 years, although the 

Commission has allowed longer periods 

for major fuel cycle facilities; updates of 

the Integrated Safety Analysis Summary 

are submitted annually. 

6. Who will be required or asked to 

respond: Applicants for and holders of 

specific and general licenses to receive 

title to, own, acquire, deliver, receive, 

possess, use, or initially transfer special 

nuclear material. 

7. The estimated number of annual 

responses: 1,214. 

8. The estimated number of annual 

respondents: 200. 

9. An estimate of the total number of 

hours needed annually to comply with 

the information collection requirement 

or request: 37,050 hours (31,557 hours 

reporting + 5,459 hours recordkeeping + 

34 hours third-party disclosure). 

10. Abstract: Part 70 of title 10 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations establishes 

requirements for licensees to own, 

acquire, receive, possess, use, and 

transfer special nuclear material. The 

information in the applications, reports, 

and records are used by the NRC to 

make licensing and or regulatory 

determinations concerning the use of 

special nuclear material. 

Dated: January 14, 2021. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

David C. Cullison, 

NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2021–01201 Filed 1–19–21; 8:45 am] 

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[NRC–2012–0110] 

An Approach for Plant-Specific, RiskInformed Decisionmaking: Technical 

Specifications 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Regulatory guide; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing Revision 2 

to Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.177, ‘‘An 

Approach for Plant-Specific, RiskInformed Decisionmaking: Technical 

Specifications.’’ Revision 2 of RG 1.177 

includes guidance to develop riskinformed applications for technical 

specification (TS) changes that 

considers engineering issues and 

applies risk insights. It provides 

guidance acceptable to the staff for 

using risk information to evaluate 

changes to nuclear power plant TS 

completion times (CTs), surveillance 

frequencies (SFs) and to assess the 

impact of such proposed changes on the 

risk associated with plant operation. In 

addition, it supplements RG 1.174, 

Revision 3, ‘‘An Approach for Using 

Probabilistic Risk Assessment in RiskInformed Decisions on Plant-Specific 

Changes to the Licensing Basis,’’. 

DATES: Revision 2 to RG 1.177 is 

available on January 21, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2012–0110 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–2012–0110. 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 individuals 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 or 301–415–4737, 

between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (EST), 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. 

Revision 2 to RG 1.177 and the 

regulatory analysis may be found in 

ADAMS under Accession Nos. 

ML20164A034 and ML19206A493, 

respectively. 

Regulatory guides are not 

copyrighted, and NRC approval is not 

required to reproduce them. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gary 

Wang, telephone: 301–415–1686, email: 

Zeechung.Wang@nrc.gov; or Harriet 

Karagiannis, telephone: 301–415–2493, 

email: Harriet.Karagiannis@nrc.gov. 

Both are staff of the Office of Nuclear 

Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Discussion 

The NRC is issuing a revision to an 

existing guide in the NRC’s ‘‘Regulatory 

Guide’’ series. This series was 

developed to describe and make 

available to the public information 

regarding methods that are acceptable to 

the NRC staff for implementing specific 

parts of the agency’s regulations, 

techniques that the NRC staff uses in 

evaluating specific issues or postulated 

events, and data that the NRC staff uses 

in its review of applications for permits 

and licenses. 

Revision 2 of RG 1.177 was issued 

with a temporary identification of Draft 

Regulatory Guide, DG–1287. It updates 

the application of the defense-in-depth 

philosophy to be consistent with the 

philosophy described in RG 1.174, 

which was revised in 2018 to expand 

the meaning of, and the process for, 

assessing defense-in-depth 

considerations. Specifically, this 

revision of RG 1.177 references the 

defense-in-depth guidance in the 

revised RG 1.174 with respect to several 

staff regulatory positions. Additionally, 

the staff revised this guide to (1) adopt 

the terms ‘‘PRA acceptability,’’ and 

related phrasing variants, instead of 

terms such as ‘‘PRA quality,’’ and ‘‘PRA 

technical adequacy,’’ and ‘‘technical 

adequacy’’ to describe the 

appropriateness of the probabilistic risk 

analysis (PRA) used to support risk 

informed licensing submittals, (2) 

update Section 2.3, ‘‘Evaluation of Risk 

Impact,’’ of RG 1.177 by removing 

information that was repeated from RG 

1.174 (e.g., discussion of the ASME/ 

ANS PRA standard) and, in its place, 


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incorporated a direct reference to RG 

1.174, Revision 3, and (3) delineate the 

difference between temporary CT 

extensions and permanent CT 

extensions of TSs or maximum backstop 

CTs. 

II. Additional Information 

The NRC published a notice of the 

availability of DG–1287 (ADAMS under 

Accession No. ML19206A489), in the 

Federal Register on February 19, 2020 

(85 FR 9484) for a 60-day public 

comment period. The public comment 

period closed on April 20, 2020, and the 

NRC received two comment documents. 

Public comments on DG–1287 and the 

staff responses to the public comments 

are available in ADAMS under 

Accession No. ML20191A231. 

II. Congressional Review Act 

This RG is a rule as defined in the 

Congressional Review Act (5 U.S.C. 

801–808). However, the Office of 

Management and Budget has not found 

it to be a major rule as defined in the 

Congressional Review Act. 

III. Backfitting, Forward Fitting, and 

Issue Finality 

RG 1.177, Revision 2 provides 

updated guidance for power reactor 

applicants and licensees regarding the 

use of the defense-in-depth philosophy 

with other recently updated guidance 

and would make other conforming 

changes to the use of PRA and 

associated terminology. Issuance of this 

RG does not constitute backfitting or 

forward fitting or affect issue finality as 

further discussed in this notice. 

Current or future applicants are not, 

with limited exceptions not applicable 

here, within the scope of the backfitting 

and issue finality regulations and 

forward fitting policy. Applicants are 

not, with certain exceptions, covered by 

either the backfit rule or any issue 

finality provisions under part 52 of title 

10 of the Code of Federal Regulations 

(10 CFR). This is because neither the 

backfit rule nor the issue finality 

provisions under 10 CFR part 52, with 

certain exclusions further discussed, 

were intended to apply to every NRC 

action which substantially changes the 

expectations of current and future 

applicants. 

The exceptions to the general 

principle are applicable whenever an 

applicant references a 10 CFR part 52 

license (e.g., an early site permit) and/ 

or NRC regulatory approval (e.g., a 

design certification rule) with specified 

issue finality provisions or a 

construction permit under 10 CFR part 

50. The staff does not, at this time, 

intend to impose the positions 

represented in the RG in a manner that 

would constitute backfitting or affect the 

issue finality of a part 52 approval. If, 

in the future, the staff seeks to impose 

a position in the RG in a manner that 

constitutes backfitting or does not 

provide issue finality as described in the 

applicable issue finality provision, then 

the staff would need to address the 

backfit rule or the criteria for avoiding 

issue finality as described in the 

applicable issue finality provision. 

The staff does not, at this time, intend 

to impose the positions represented in 

the RG in a manner that would 

constitute forward fitting. If, in the 

future, the staff seeks to impose a 

position in the RG in a manner that 

constitutes forward fitting, then the staff 

would need to address the forward 

fitting criteria in Management Directive 

8.4, ‘‘Management of Backfitting, 

Forward Fitting, Issue Finality, and 

Information Requests’’ (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML18093B087). 

Dated: January 13, 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. 2021–01154 Filed 1–19–21; 8:45 am] 

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[NRC–2020–0064] 

Information Collection: Collection of 

Operator Simulator Training Data 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of submission to the 

Office of Management and Budget; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) has recently 

submitted a renewal of an existing 

collection of information to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review. The information collection is 

entitled, ‘‘Collection of Operator 

Simulator Training Data.’’ 

DATES: Submit comments by February 

22, 2021. Comments received after this 

date will be considered if it is practical 

to do so, but the Commission is able to 

ensure consideration only for comments 

received on or before this date. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to https://www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain. Find this 

particular information collection by 

selecting ‘‘Currently under Review— 

Open for Public Comments’’ or by using 

the search function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Cullison, NRC Clearance Officer, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

301–415–2084; email: 

Infocollects.Resource@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2020– 

0064 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–2020–0064. 

• 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 or 301–415–4737, 

between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (EST), 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. 

• NRC’s Clearance Officer: A copy of 

the collection of information and related 

instructions may be obtained without 

charge by contacting the NRC’s 

Clearance Officer, David Cullison, 

Office of the Chief Information Officer, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

301–415–2084; email: 

Infocollects.Resource@nrc.gov. 

B. Submitting Comments 

The NRC encourages electronic 

comment submission through the 

Federal Rulemaking website (https://

www.regulations.gov). Please include 

Docket ID NRC–2020–0064 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. 


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