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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. Background 

On May 29, 2018 (83 FR 24510), the 

NRC solicited comments on DG–5048, 

‘‘Standard Format and Content of 

Physical Security Plans, Training and 

Qualifications Plans and Safeguards 

Contingency Plans for Nuclear Power 

Plants’’ (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML17124A490). The NRC granted an 

initial extension of the public comment 

period to August 13, 2018, and the NRC 

held a public meeting on July 25, 2018. 

On July 26, 2018, the Nuclear Energy 

Institute (NEI) requested an additional 

30 days extension to the public 

comment period to allow NEI and its 

members’ sufficient time to perform a 

thorough review of the document, 

consistent with other work priorities 

(ADAMS Accesion No. ML18208A473). 

The NRC has decided to extend the 

public comment period on this 

document until September 13, 2018, to 

allow more time for industry and 

members of the public to submit their 

comments. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 1st day 

of August 2018. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Thomas H. Boyce, 

Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Generic 

Issues Branch, Division of Engineering, Office 

of Nuclear Regulatory Research. 

[FR Doc. 2018–16829 Filed 8–6–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2018–0056] 

Digital Instrumentation and Controls– 

Interim Staff Guidance–06, ‘‘Licensing 

Process’’ 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Draft interim staff guidance; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is soliciting public 

comment on its draft Interim Staff 

Guidance (ISG) Digital Instrumentation 

and Controls (DI&C)–ISG–06, ‘‘Licensing 

Process.’’ This ISG defines the licensing 

process used to support the review of 

license amendment requests (LARs) 

associated with safety-related DI&C 

equipment modifications in operating 

plants and in new plants once they 

become operational. This ISG provides 

guidance for activities performed before 

an LAR is submitted and for activities 

performed during the LAR review. The 

NRC staff uses the process described in 

this ISG to evaluate compliance with 

NRC regulations. 

DATES: Submit comments by September 

6, 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 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–2018–0056. 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: 

Joseph Golla, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001; telephone: 301–415–1002, email: 

Joe.Golla@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2018– 

0056 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–2018–0056. 

• 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 

ISG DI&C–ISG–06 ‘‘Licensing Process,’’ 

is available in ADAMS under Accession 

No. ML18123A118. 

• 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– 

0056 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. Background 

This ISG provides guidance for the 

NRC staff’s review of LARs supporting 

installation of digital I&C equipment in 

accordance with licensing processes 

defined in NRC office instruction LIC– 

101, ‘‘License Amendment Review 

Procedures.’’ This ISG identifies 

information the NRC staff should review 

for digital I&C equipment. This ISG 

provides guidance on when that 

information should be reviewed. 

This ISG is designed to be used with 

the NRC’s topical report review and 

approval process defined in NRC Office 

of Nuclear Reactor Regulation office 

instruction LIC–500, ‘‘Topical Report 

Process.’’ Where a licensee references an 

NRC-approved topical report, the NRC 

staff should be able to, where 


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appropriate, limit its review to assessing 

whether the application of the digital 

I&C modification falls within the 

envelope of the topical report approval. 

This ISG was developed based upon, 

and is designed to work in concert with, 

established guidance. As a result, this 

ISG references other guidance 

documents for review criteria. 

The NRC staff performs evaluations of 

proposed digital I&C equipment to 

ensure equipment will perform required 

functions. These evaluations use the 

guidance in the Standard Review Plan, 

Chapter 7, and other associated 

guidance. When a license amendment is 

required, licensees are obligated to 

provide a description of the licensing 

basis functions of digital I&C equipment 

and include a description of the 

equipment that implements the 

functions. Additionally, licensees 

identify those parts of the licensing 

basis being updated as a result of the 

proposed change. 

The NRC staff review processes 

include activities for evaluating 

documentation of plans and processes 

which are used to support system 

development activities and their 

outcomes. 

The Standard Review Plan, Appendix 

7.0–A, and Branch Technical Position 

7–14, guide the NRC staff in performing 

reviews of digital systems in support of 

safety evaluations. For reviews using the 

Alternate Process as defined in the ISG, 

the ISG provides additional guidance for 

performing early stage reviews of digital 

safety-related systems in support of 

safety evaluations. The NRC staff may 

review the system design and 

development process to support a 

determination that the design meets 

regulatory requirements and that in 

safety-related applications in nuclear 

power plants, the process is of sufficient 

high quality to produce systems and 

software suitable for use. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 1st day 

of August 2018. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Eric J. Benner, 

Director, Division of Engineering, Office of 

Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

[FR Doc. 2018–16810 Filed 8–6–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2018–0139] 

Applications and Amendments to 

Facility Operating Licenses and 

Combined Licenses Involving 

Proposed No Significant Hazards 

Considerations and Containing 

Sensitive Unclassified Non-Safeguards 

Information and Order Imposing 

Procedures for Access to Sensitive 

Unclassified Non-Safeguards 

Information 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: License amendment request; 

notice of opportunity to comment, 

request a hearing, and petition for leave 

to intervene; order imposing 

procedures. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) received and is 

considering approval of one amendment 

request. The amendment request is for 

Millstone Power Station, Unit No. 3. For 

each amendment request, the NRC 

proposes to determine that they involve 

no significant hazards consideration. 

Because each amendment request 

contains sensitive unclassified nonsafeguards information (SUNSI), an 

order imposes procedures to obtain 

access to SUNSI for contention 

preparation. 

DATES: Comments must be filed by 

September 6, 2018. A request for a 

hearing must be filed by October 9, 

2018. Any potential party as defined in 

§ 2.4 of title 10 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (10 CFR), who believes 

access to SUNSI is necessary to respond 

to this notice must request document 

access by August 17, 2018. 

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–2018–0139. 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: 

Paula Blechman, Office of Nuclear 

Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 

20555–0001; telephone: 301–415–2242; 

email: Paula.Blechman@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2018– 

0139, facility name, unit number(s), 

plant docket number, application date, 

and subject 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–2018–0139. 

• 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 

ADAMS accession number for each 

document referenced (if it is available in 

ADAMS) is provided the first time that 

it is mentioned in this document. 

• 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– 

0139, facility name, unit number(s), 

plant docket number, application date, 

and subject 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 


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