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finance; perceived risks and 

opportunities in MCC partner countries; 

and evolving approaches to working in 

developing country contexts. The 

Advisory Council provides a platform 

for systematic engagement with the 

private sector and contributes to MCC’s 

mission—to reduce poverty through 

sustainable, economic growth. MCC 

uses this advice, information and 

recommendations to inform compact 

development and implementation, and 

broaden public and private sector 

partnerships for more impact and 

leverage. The MCC Vice President of the 

Department of Compact Operations 

affirms that the Advisory Council is 

necessary and in the public interest. 

The Advisory Council is seeking 

members representing a diverse group of 

private sector organizations with 

expertise in infrastructure, business and 

finance and technology, particularly in 

the countries and regions where MCC 

operates. Additional information about 

MCC and its portfolio can be found at 

www.mcc.gov. 

DATES: Nominations for Advisory 

Council members must be received on 

or before 5 p.m. EDT on August 10, 

2018. Further information about the 

nomination process is included below. 

MCC plans to host the first meeting of 

the 2018–2020 term of the MCC 

Advisory Council in Fall 2018. The 

Council will meet at least two times a 

year in Washington, DC or via video/ 

teleconferencing. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: All 

nomination materials or requests for 

additional information should be 

emailed to MCCAdvisoryCouncil@

mcc.gov or mailed to Millennium 

Challenge Corporation, Attn: Beth 

Roberts, Designated Federal Officer, 

MCC Advisory Council, 1099 14th St. 

NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20005. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Advisory Council shall consist of not 

more than twenty-five (25) individuals 

who are recognized thought leaders, 

business leaders and experts 

representing US companies, the 

business community, advocacy 

organizations, non-profit organizations, 

foundations, and sectors including 

infrastructure, information and 

communications technology (ICT), and 

finance, as well as the environment and 

sustainable development. Qualified 

individuals may self-nominate or be 

nominated by any individual or 

organization. To be considered for the 

Advisory Council, nominators should 

submit the following information: 

• Name, title, organization and 

relevant contact information (including 

phone and email address) of the 

individual under consideration; 

• A letter, on organization letterhead, 

containing a brief description of why 

the nominee should be considered for 

membership; 

• Short biography of nominee 

including professional and academic 

credentials. 

Please do not send company, trade 

association, or organization brochures or 

any other information. Materials 

submitted should total two pages or 

less. Should more information be 

needed, MCC staff will contact the 

nominee, obtain information from the 

nominee’s past affiliations, or obtain 

information from publicly available 

sources. 

All members of the Advisory Council 

will be independent of the agency, 

representing the views and interests of 

their respective industry or area of 

expertise, and not as Special 

Government employees. All Members 

shall serve without compensation. 

Nominees selected for appointment to 

the Advisory Council will be notified by 

return email and receive a letter of 

appointment. A selection team 

comprised of representatives from 

several MCC departments will review 

the nomination packages. The selection 

team will make recommendations 

regarding membership to the Vice 

President for Compact Operations based 

on criteria including: (1) Professional or 

academic expertise, experience, and 

knowledge; (2) stakeholder 

representation; (3) availability and 

willingness to serve; and (4) skills 

working collaboratively on committees 

and advisory panels. Based upon the 

selection team’s recommendations, the 

Vice President for Compact Operations 

will select representatives. In the 

selection of members for the Advisory 

Council, MCC will seek to ensure a 

balanced representation and consider a 

cross-section of those directly affected, 

interested, and qualified, as appropriate 

to the nature and functions of the 

Advisory Council. 

Nominations are open to all 

individuals without regard to race, 

color, religion, sex, national origin, age, 

mental or physical disability, marital 

status, or sexual orientation. 

Thomas G. Hohenthaner, 

VP/General Counsel and Corporate Secretary 

(Acting), Millennium Challenge Corporation. 

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[NRC–2018–0145] 

Proposed Revisions to Branch 

Technical Position 5–3; Fracture 

Toughness Requirements 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Standard review plan-draft 

section revision; request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is soliciting public 

comment on draft NUREG–0800, 

‘‘Standard Review Plan for the Review 

of Safety Analysis Reports for Nuclear 

Power Plants: LWR Edition,’’ Section 

BTP 5–3, ‘‘Fracture Toughness 

Requirements.’’ The NRC seeks 

comments on the proposed draft section 

revision of the Standard Review Plan 

(SRP) concerning guidance for the 

review of early site permits, combined 

construction and operating license and 

operating license applications and 

amendments for fracture toughness 

requirements. 

DATES: Comments must be filed no later 

than September 11, 2018. 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: 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–2018–0145. Address 

questions about NRC dockets 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: May Ma, Office 

of Administration, Mail Stop: TWFN–7– 

A60M, 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: 

Mark D. Notich, Office of New Reactors, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

301–415–3053; email: Mark.Notich@

nrc.gov. 

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I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2018– 

0145 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–2018–0145. 

• 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 draft 

revision and current revision to 

NUREG–0800, Section BTP 5–3, 

‘‘Fracture Toughness Requirements’’ is 

available in ADAMS under Accession 

No. ML18071A066 and ML070850035. 

The redline-strikeout version comparing 

the draft revision 3 and the current 

version of revision 2 is available in 

ADAMS under Accession No. 

ML18130A401. 

• 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– 

0145 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. 

II. Further Information 

The NRC seeks public comment on 

the proposed draft section revision of 

SRP Section BTP 5–3. The changes 

include incorporation of text describing 

NRC review of potential nonconservatisms in BTP 5–3, Revision 2, 

Subsection B1.1; a reference to a 

memorandum describing the results of 

the NRC review of the potential nonconservatisms; and numerous textual 

updates to incorporate pressuretemperature limit reports, 10 CFR 

50.61a, 10 CFR part 52, ‘‘Licenses, 

Certifications, and Approvals for 

Nuclear Power Plants,’’ clearer citations, 

and nozzle language. 

Following NRC staff evaluation of 

public comments, the NRC intends to 

finalize SRP Section BTP 5–3 in 

ADAMS and post it on the NRC’s public 

website at http://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr0800/. 

The SRP is guidance for the NRC staff. 

The SRP is not a substitute for the NRC 

regulations, and compliance with the 

SRP is not required. 

III. Backfitting and Issue Finality 

Issuance of this draft SRP section, if 

finalized, would not constitute 

backfitting as defined in 10 CFR 50.109, 

(the Backfit Rule) or otherwise be 

inconsistent with the issue finality 

provisions in 10 CFR part 52. The NRC’s 

position is based upon the following 

considerations. 

1. The draft SRP positions, if 

finalized, would not constitute 

backfitting, inasmuch as the SRP is 

internal guidance to NRC staff directed 

at the NRC staff with respect to their 

regulatory responsibilities. 

The SRP provides internal guidance 

to the NRC staff on how to review an 

application for NRC regulatory approval 

in the form of licensing. Changes in 

internal staff guidance are not matters 

for which either nuclear power plant 

applicants or licensees are protected 

under either the Backfit Rule or the 

issue finality provisions of 10 CFR part 

52. 

2. The NRC staff has no intention to 

impose the SRP positions on current 

licensees or already-issued regulatory 

approvals either now or in the future. 

The NRC staff does not intend to 

impose or apply the positions described 

in the draft SRP to existing (already 

issued) licenses and regulatory 

approvals. Hence, the issuance of a final 

SRP, even if considered guidance within 

the purview of the issue finality 

provisions in 10 CFR part 52, would not 

need to be evaluated as if it were a 

backfit or as being inconsistent with 

issue finality provisions. If, in the 

future, the NRC staff seeks to impose a 

position in the SRP on holders of 

already issued licenses in a manner that 

does not provide issue finality as 

described in the applicable issue finality 

provision, then the staff must make the 

showing as set forth in the Backfit Rule 

or address the criteria for avoiding issue 

finality as described in the applicable 

issue finality provision. 

3. Backfitting and issue finality do 

not—with limited exceptions not 

applicable here—protect current or 

future applicants. 

Applicants and potential applicants 

are not, with certain exceptions, 

protected by either the Backfit Rule or 

any issue finality provisions under 10 

CFR part 52. This is because neither the 

Backfit Rule nor the issue finality 

provisions under 10 CFR part 52—with 

certain exclusions discussed below— 

were intended to apply to every NRC 

action that 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. The NRC staff 

does not, at this time, intend to impose 

the positions represented in the draft 

SRP in a manner that is inconsistent 

with any issue finality provisions. If, in 

the future, the staff seeks to impose a 

position in the draft SRP in a manner 

which does not provide issue finality as 

described in the applicable issue finality 

provisions, then the staff must address 

the criteria for avoiding issue finality as 

described in the applicable issue finality 

provision. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 10th day 

of July, 2018. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Jennivine K. Rankin, 

Acting Chief, Licensing Branch 3, Division 

of Licensing, Siting, and Environmental 

Analysis, Office of New Reactors. 

[FR Doc. 2018–15035 Filed 7–12–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

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[Docket No. 50–333; NRC–2018–0143] 

Exelon Generation Company, LLC; 

James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power 

Plant 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 


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