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participants are requested not to include 

copyrighted materials in their 

submission. 

For further details with respect to this 

action, see the application for license 

amendment dated June 15, 2018 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML18169A222). 

Attorney for licensee: General 

Counsel, Tennessee Valley Authority, 

400 West Summit Hill Drive, 6A West 

Tower, Knoxville, TN 37902. 

NRC Acting Branch Chief: Booma 

Venkataraman. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd 

day of June 2018. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Andrew Hon, 

Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch 

II–2, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, 

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

[FR Doc. 2018–13874 Filed 6–27–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2018–0131] 

Monitoring the Effectiveness of 

Maintenance at Nuclear Power Plants 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Draft regulatory guide; request 

for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing for public 

comment draft regulatory guide (DG), 

DG–1336, ‘‘Monitoring the Effectiveness 

of Maintenance at Nuclear Power 

Plants.’’ This proposed guide, Revision 

4, has been revised to addresses new 

issues identified since Revision 3 of RG 

1.160 was issued and endorses with 

clarification NUMARC 93–01, ‘‘Industry 

Guidelines for Monitoring the 

Effectiveness of Maintenance at Nuclear 

Power Plants,’’ Revision 4F. The 

proposed revision describes methods 

that are acceptable to the NRC staff for 

compliance with the requirements for 

monitoring the effectiveness of 

maintenance at nuclear power plants. 

DATES: Submit comments by July 30, 

2018. 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: 

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2018–0131. Address 

questions about NRC dockets 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. 

• Mail comments to: May Ma, Office 

of Administration, Mail Stop: TWFN– 

7A60, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001. 

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: Ami 

Agrawal, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation, telephone: 301–415–8310, 

email: Ami.Agrawal@nrc.gov; and 

Stephen Burton, Office of Nuclear 

Regulatory Research, telephone: 301– 

415–7000, email: Stephen.Burton@

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–2018– 

0131 when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information regarding 

this action. You may obtain publicallyavailable 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–2018–0131. 

• 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 

‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then 

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 DG– 

1336 is available in ADAMS under 

Accession No. ML18129A080. 

• 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– 

0131 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 http://

www.regulations.gov as well as enters 

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 submissions into 

ADAMS. 

II. Additional Information 

The NRC is issuing for public 

comment a DG 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 NRC’s regulations, 

techniques that the staff uses in 

evaluating specific issues or postulated 

events, and data that the staff needs in 

its review of applications for permits 

and licenses. 

The Maintenance Rule (Part 50.65 of 

title 10 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (10 CFR)) requires each 

holder of an operating license for a 

nuclear power plant under 10 CFR part 

50 and each holder of a combined 

license under 10 CFR part 52 (after the 

Commission makes certain findings) to 

monitor the performance or condition of 

structures, systems, or components, 

against licensee-established goals, in a 

manner sufficient to provide reasonable 

assurance that in-scope structures, 

systems, and components intended 

functions. The Maintenance Rule also 

applies to nuclear power plant for 

which the licensee has submitted the 

certifications that it has ceased 

operating permanently, but limited to 

structures, systems, or components 

associated with the storage, control, and 

maintenance of spent fuel in a safe 

condition, in a manner sufficient to 

provide reasonable assurance that these 

structures, systems, and components are 


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capable of fulfilling their intended 

functions. Last, an application for a 

combined license shall contain a final 

safety analysis report that provides a 

description of the program, and its 

implementation, for monitoring the 

effectiveness of maintenance necessary 

to meet the requirements of 10 CFR 

50.65. 

The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) is 

submit revision 4F of NUMARC 93–01, 

‘‘Industry Guideline for Monitoring the 

Effectiveness of Maintenance at Nuclear 

Power Plants’’ for endorsement. NEI 

explained that NUMARC 93–01 was 

developed to establish an acceptable 

approach for licensees to meet the 

Maintenance Rule. Revision 4F of 

NUMARC 93–01 addresses the 

application of the Maintenance Rule to 

the use of diverse and flexible coping 

strategies (FLEX) support guidelines 

(FSGs) in plant emergency operating 

procedures (EOPs), as well as some 

other minor wording changes. 

The DG, entitled, ‘‘Monitoring the 

Effectiveness of Maintenance at Nuclear 

Power Plants,’’ is a proposed revision 

temporarily identified by its task 

number, DG–1336. DG–1336 is 

proposed revision 4 of RG 1.160, 

‘‘Monitoring the Effectiveness of 

Maintenance at Nuclear Power Plants.’’ 

The NRC’s proposed revision to RG 

1.160 would endorse with clarification 

NUMARC 93–01 Revision 4F. The NRC 

finds that endorsement would be 

beneficial in that the agency positions 

with respect to FLEX equipment, the 

Maintenance Rule, and Revision 4F of 

NUMARC 93–01 would be readily 

understood. 

III. Backfitting and Issue Finality 

This DG describes methods acceptable 

to the staff of the NRC for demonstrating 

compliance with the provisions of 10 

CFR 50.65, ‘‘Requirements for 

Monitoring the Effectiveness of 

Maintenance at Nuclear Power Plants,’’ 

of 10 CFR part 50, ‘‘Domestic Licensing 

of Production and Utilization 

Facilities.’’ As discussed in Section D. 

‘‘Implementation’’ of this DG, the NRC 

does not intend to impose this guide, if 

finalized, on applicants for, or holders 

of, licenses. 

This DG may be applied to 

applications for combined licenses 

under 10 CFR part 52 docketed by the 

NRC as of the date of issuance of the 

final regulatory guide, as well as future 

applications submitted after the 

issuance of the regulatory guide. Such 

action would not constitute backfitting 

as defined in the 10 CFR 50.109 or be 

otherwise inconsistent with the 

applicable issue finality provision in 10 

CFR part 52, inasmuch as such 

applicants or potential applicants, with 

certain exceptions, are not within the 

scope of entities that are the subject of 

the Backfit Rule or an issue finality 

provision in 10 CFR part 52. However, 

the scope of backfitting and issue 

finality extends only to the matters 

resolved in the license or regulatory 

approval. The matters addressed in this 

DG (concerning monitoring the 

effectiveness of maintenance at nuclear 

power plants) has not previously been 

proposed to be for a construction 

permit, design certification rule, or 

standard design approval. Therefore, the 

extent to which an applicant can rely on 

a backfitting or issue finality provision 

is limited to the extent that the 

applicant has addressed the matters in 

this regulatory guide during the review 

and approval of the construction permit, 

design certification rule, or standard 

design approval. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd 

day of June, 2018. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Edward O’Donnell, 

Acting Chief, Regulatory Guidance and 

Generic Issues Branch, Division of 

Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory 

Research. 

[FR Doc. 2018–13876 Filed 6–27–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. MC2018–186 and CP2018–260] 

New Postal Products 

AGENCY: Postal Regulatory Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Commission is noticing a 

recent Postal Service filing for the 

Commission’s consideration concerning 

negotiated service agreements. This 

notice informs the public of the filing, 

invites public comment, and takes other 

administrative steps. 

DATES: Comments are due: July 2, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments 

electronically via the Commission’s 

Filing Online system at http://

www.prc.gov. Those who cannot submit 

comments electronically should contact 

the person identified in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section by 

telephone for advice on filing 

alternatives. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David A. Trissell, General Counsel, at 

202–789–6820. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Table of Contents 

I. Introduction 

II. Docketed Proceeding(s) 

I. Introduction 

The Commission gives notice that the 

Postal Service filed request(s) for the 

Commission to consider matters related 

to negotiated service agreement(s). The 

request(s) may propose the addition or 

removal of a negotiated service 

agreement from the market dominant or 

the competitive product list, or the 

modification of an existing product 

currently appearing on the market 

dominant or the competitive product 

list. 

Section II identifies the docket 

number(s) associated with each Postal 

Service request, the title of each Postal 

Service request, the request’s acceptance 

date, and the authority cited by the 

Postal Service for each request. For each 

request, the Commission appoints an 

officer of the Commission to represent 

the interests of the general public in the 

proceeding, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 505 

(Public Representative). Section II also 

establishes comment deadline(s) 

pertaining to each request. 

The public portions of the Postal 

Service’s request(s) can be accessed via 

the Commission’s website (http://

www.prc.gov). Non-public portions of 

the Postal Service’s request(s), if any, 

can be accessed through compliance 

with the requirements of 39 CFR 

3007.40. 

The Commission invites comments on 

whether the Postal Service’s request(s) 

in the captioned docket(s) are consistent 

with the policies of title 39. For 

request(s) that the Postal Service states 

concern market dominant product(s), 

applicable statutory and regulatory 

requirements include 39 U.S.C. 3622, 39 

U.S.C. 3642, 39 CFR part 3010, and 39 

CFR part 3020, subpart B. For request(s) 

that the Postal Service states concern 

competitive product(s), applicable 

statutory and regulatory requirements 

include 39 U.S.C. 3632, 39 U.S.C. 3633, 

39 U.S.C. 3642, 39 CFR part 3015, and 

39 CFR part 3020, subpart B. Comment 

deadline(s) for each request appear in 

section II. 

II. Docketed Proceeding(s) 

1. Docket No(s).: MC2018–186 and 

CP2018–260; Filing Title: Request of the 

United States Postal Service to Add 

Global Expedited Package Services— 

Non-Published Rates 14 (GEPS—NPR 

14) to the Competitive Products List and 

Notice of Filing GEPS—NPR 14 Model 

Contract and Application for NonPublic Treatment of Materials Filed 

Under Seal; Filing Acceptance Date: 

June 22, 2018; Filing Authority: 39 

U.S.C. 3642 and 39 CFR 3020.30 et seq.; 


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