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counsel or representative, already holds 

an NRC-issued digital ID certificate). 

Based upon this information, the 

Secretary will establish an electronic 

docket for the hearing in this proceeding 

if the Secretary has not already 

established an electronic docket. 

Information about applying for a 

digital ID certificate is available on the 

NRC’s public website at http://

www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals/ 

getting-started.html. Once a participant 

has obtained a digital ID certificate and 

a docket has been created, the 

participant can then submit 

adjudicatory documents. Submissions 

must be in Portable Document Format 

(PDF). Additional guidance on PDF 

submissions is available on the NRC’s 

public website at http://www.nrc.gov/ 

site-help/electronic-sub-ref-mat.html. A 

filing is considered complete at the time 

the document is submitted through the 

NRC’s E-Filing system. To be timely, an 

electronic filing must be submitted to 

the E-Filing system no later than 11:59 

p.m. Eastern Time on the due date. 

Upon receipt of a transmission, the EFiling system time-stamps the document 

and sends the submitter an email notice 

confirming receipt of the document. The 

E-Filing system also distributes an email 

notice that provides access to the 

document to the NRC’s Office of the 

General Counsel and any others who 

have advised the Office of the Secretary 

that they wish to participate in the 

proceeding, so that the filer need not 

serve the document on those 

participants separately. Therefore, 

applicants and other participants (or 

their counsel or representative) must 

apply for and receive a digital ID 

certificate before adjudicatory 

documents are filed so that they can 

obtain access to the documents via the 

E-Filing system. 

A person filing electronically using 

the NRC’s adjudicatory E-Filing system 

may seek assistance by contacting the 

NRC’s Electronic Filing Help Desk 

through the ‘‘Contact Us’’ link located 

on the NRC’s public website at http://

www.nrc.gov/site-help/esubmittals.html, by email to 

MSHD.Resource@nrc.gov, or by a tollfree call at 1–866–672–7640. The NRC 

Electronic Filing Help Desk is available 

between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., Eastern 

Time, Monday through Friday, 

excluding government holidays. 

Participants who believe that they 

have a good cause for not submitting 

documents electronically must file an 

exemption request, in accordance with 

10 CFR 2.302(g), with their initial paper 

filing stating why there is good cause for 

not filing electronically and requesting 

authorization to continue to submit 

documents in paper format. Such filings 

must be submitted by: (1) First class 

mail addressed to the Office of the 

Secretary of the Commission, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, Attention: 

Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff; or 

(2) courier, express mail, or expedited 

delivery service to the Office of the 

Secretary, 11555 Rockville Pike, 

Rockville, Maryland 20852, Attention: 

Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff. 

Participants filing adjudicatory 

documents in this manner are 

responsible for serving the document on 

all other participants. Filing is 

considered complete by first-class mail 

as of the time of deposit in the mail, or 

by courier, express mail, or expedited 

delivery service upon depositing the 

document with the provider of the 

service. A presiding officer, having 

granted an exemption request from 

using E-Filing, may require a participant 

or party to use E-Filing if the presiding 

officer subsequently determines that the 

reason for granting the exemption from 

use of E-Filing no longer exists. 

Documents submitted in adjudicatory 

proceedings will appear in the NRC’s 

electronic hearing docket which is 

available to the public at https://

adams.nrc.gov/ehd, unless excluded 

pursuant to an order of the Commission 

or the presiding officer. If you do not 

have an NRC-issued digital ID certificate 

as described above, click cancel when 

the link requests certificates and you 

will be automatically directed to the 

NRC’s electronic hearing dockets where 

you will be able to access any publicly 

available documents in a particular 

hearing docket. Participants are 

requested not to include personal 

privacy information, such as social 

security numbers, home addresses, or 

personal phone numbers in their filings, 

unless an NRC regulation or other law 

requires submission of such 

information. For example, in some 

instances, individuals provide home 

addresses in order to demonstrate 

proximity to a facility or site. With 

respect to copyrighted works, except for 

limited excerpts that serve the purpose 

of the adjudicatory filings and would 

constitute a Fair Use application, 

participants are requested not to include 

copyrighted materials in their 

submission. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 3rd day 

of August 2018. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Stephen S. Koenick, 

Chief, Materials Decommissioning Branch, 

Division of Decommissioning, Uranium 

Recovery, and Waste Programs, Office of 

Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. 

[FR Doc. 2018–17037 Filed 8–8–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. 52–025 and 52–026; NRC– 

2008–0252] 

Southern Nuclear Operating Company, 

Inc.; Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, 

Units 3 and 4 Ventilation System 

Changes 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Exemption and combined 

license amendment; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is granting 

exemptions to allow a departure from 

elements of the certification information 

of Tier 1 of the generic AP1000 design 

control document (DCD) and issuing 

License Amendment Nos. 129 and 128 

to Combined Licenses (COL), NPF–91 

and NPF–92, respectively. The COLs 

were issued to Southern Nuclear 

Operating Company, Inc., and Georgia 

Power Company, Oglethorpe Power 

Corporation, MEAG Power SPVM, LLC, 

MEAG Power SPVJ, LLC, MEAG Power 

SPVP, LLC, and the City of Dalton, 

Georgia (the licensee); for construction 

and operation of the Vogtle Electric 

Generating Plant (VEGP) Units 3 and 4, 

located in Burke County, Georgia. 

The granting of the exemption allows 

the changes to Tier 1 information asked 

for in the amendment. Because the 

acceptability of the exemption was 

determined in part by the acceptability 

of the amendment, the exemption and 

amendment are being issued 

concurrently. 

DATES: The exemptions and 

amendments were issued on June 28, 

2018. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2008–0252 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 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2008–0252. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer 

Borges; 301–287–9127; email: 

Jennifer.Borges@nrc.gov. For technical 


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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 publiclyavailable documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

http://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 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. The request for the 

amendment and exemption was 

designated License Amendment Request 

(LAR) 16–030R1 and submitted by letter 

dated August 31, 2017, and 

supplemented by letters dated March 

23, and May 18, 2018 (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML17243A444, 

ML18082B369 and ML18138A398, 

respectively). 

• 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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

William (Billy) Gleaves, Office of New 

Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001; telephone: 301–415–5848; email: 

Bill.Gleaves@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The NRC is granting an exemption 

from paragraph B of section III, ‘‘Scope 

and Contents,’’ of appendix D, ‘‘Design 

Certification Rule for the AP1000,’’ to 

part 52 of title 10 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (10 CFR), and issuing 

License Amendment Nos. 129 and 128 

to COLs Nos. NPF–91 and NPF–92, 

respectively, to the licensee. The 

exemption is required by paragraph A.4 

of section VIII, ‘‘Processes for Changes 

and Departures,’’ appendix D, to 10 CFR 

part 52 to allow the licensee to depart 

from Tier 1 information. With the 

requested amendment, the licensee 

proposed changes to plant-specific Tier 

1 and associated COL Appendix C 

information, as well as plant-specific 

Tier 2 materials located in the plantspecific Updated Final Safety Analysis 

Report, all of which are related to design 

details of the containment recirculation 

cooling system and the radiologically 

controlled area ventilation system. 

Part of the justification for granting 

the exemption was provided by the 

review of the amendment. Because the 

exemption is necessary in order to issue 

the requested license amendment, the 

NRC granted the exemption and issued 

the amendment concurrently, rather 

than in sequence. This included issuing 

a combined safety evaluation containing 

the NRC staff’s review of both the 

exemption request and the license 

amendment. The exemption met all 

applicable regulatory criteria set forth in 

10 CFR 50.12 and 52.7, and section 

VIII.A.4 of appendix D to 10 CFR part 

52. The license amendment was found 

to be acceptable as well. The combined 

safety evaluation is available in ADAMS 

under Accession No. ML18152B277. 

Identical exemption documents 

(except for referenced unit numbers and 

license numbers) were issued to the 

licensee for VEGP Units 3 and 4 (COL 

Nos. NPF–91 and NPF–92). The 

exemption documents for VEGP Units 3 

and 4 can be found in ADAMS under 

Accession Nos. ML18152B269 and 

ML18152B270, respectively. The 

exemption is reproduced (with the 

exception of abbreviated titles and 

additional citations) in Section II of this 

document. The amendment documents 

for COLs NPF–91 and NPF–92 are 

available in ADAMS under Accession 

Nos. ML18152B271 and ML18152B273, 

respectively. A summary of the 

amendment documents is provided in 

Section III of this document. 

II. Exemption 

Reproduced below is the exemption 

document issued to VEGP Units 3 and 

Unit 4. It makes reference to the 

combined safety evaluation that 

provides the reasoning for the findings 

made by the NRC (and listed under Item 

1) in order to grant the exemption: 

1. In a letter dated August 31, 2017, 

as supplemented by letters dated March 

23, and May 18, 2018, Southern Nuclear 

Operating Company (SNC) requested 

from the Commission an exemption to 

allow departures from Tier 1 

information in the certified DCD 

incorporated by reference in 10 CFR 

part 52, appendix D, as part of license 

amendment request LAR 16–030R1, 

‘‘Ventilation System Changes.’’ 

For the reasons set forth in Section 3.2 

of the NRC staff’s Safety Evaluation, 

which can be found at ADAMS 

Accession No. ML18152B277 the 

Commission finds that: 

A. The exemption is authorized by 

law; 

B. the exemption presents no undue 

risk to public health and safety; 

C. the exemption is consistent with 

the common defense and security; 

D. special circumstances are present 

in that the application of the rule in this 

circumstance is not necessary to serve 

the underlying purpose of the rule; 

E. the special circumstances outweigh 

any decrease in safety that may result 

from the reduction in standardization 

caused by the exemption; and 

F. the exemption will not result in a 

significant decrease in the level of safety 

otherwise provided by the design. 

2. Accordingly, SNC is granted an 

exemption from the certified DCD Tier 

1 information, with corresponding 

changes to Appendix C of the Facility 

Combined License, as described in the 

licensee’s request dated August 31, 

2017, as supplemented by letters dated 

March 23, and May 18, 2018. This 

exemption is related to, and necessary 

for the granting of License Amendment 

No. 129 (Units 3) and No. 128 (Unit 4), 

which is being issued concurrently with 

this exemption. 

3. As explained in Section 5.0 of the 

NRC staff’s Safety Evaluation (ADAMS 

Accession Number ML18152B277), this 

exemption meets the eligibility criteria 

for categorical exclusion set forth in 10 

CFR 51.22(c)(9). Therefore, pursuant to 

10 CFR 51.22(b), no environmental 

impact statement or environmental 

assessment needs to be prepared in 

connection with the issuance of the 

exemption. 

4. This exemption is effective as of the 

date of its issuance. 

III. License Amendment Request 

By letter dated August 31, 2017, as 

supplemented by letters dated March 

23, and May 18, 2018 (ADAMS 

Accession Nos. ML17243A444, 

ML18082B369 and ML18138A398, 

respectively), the licensee requested that 

the NRC amend the COLs for VEGP, 

Units 3 and 4, COL Nos. NPF–91 and 

NPF–92. The proposed amendment is 

described in Section I of this Federal 

Register notice. 

The Commission has determined for 

these amendments that the application 

complies with the standards and 

requirements of the Atomic Energy Act 

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

Commission’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. 

A notice of consideration of issuance 

of amendment to facility operating 

license or COL, as applicable, proposed 

no significant hazards consideration 

determination, and opportunity for a 

hearing in connection with these 

actions, was published in the Federal 

Register on October 24, 2017 (82 FR 

49234). No comments were received 

during the 30-day comment period. 


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The Commission has determined that 

these amendments satisfy the criteria for 

categorical exclusion in accordance 

with 10 CFR 51.22. Therefore, pursuant 

to 10 CFR 51.22(b), no environmental 

impact statement or environmental 

assessment need be prepared for these 

amendments. 

IV. Conclusion 

Using the reasons set forth in the 

combined safety evaluation, the staff 

granted the exemptions and issued the 

amendments that the licensee requested 

on August 31, 2017, and supplemented 

by letters dated March 23, and May 18, 

2018 (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML17243A444, ML18082B369 and 

ML18138A398, respectively). 

The exemption and amendment were 

issued to the licensee on June 28, 2018, 

as part of a combined package (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML18152B267). 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 3rd day 

of August 2018. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Jennifer L. Dixon-Herrity, 

Chief, Licensing Branch 4, Division of 

Licensing, Siting, and Environmental 

Analysis, Office of New Reactors. 

[FR Doc. 2018–16996 Filed 8–8–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. 52–025 and 52–026; NRC– 

2008–0252] 

Southern Nuclear Operating Company, 

Inc.; Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, 

Units 3 and 4; Tier 1 and Tier 2* 

Editorial and Consistency Changes 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Exemption and combined 

license amendment; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is granting an 

exemption to allow a departure from the 

certification information of Tier 1 of the 

generic AP1000 design control 

document (DCD) and is issuing License 

Amendment Nos. 125 and 124 to 

Combined Licenses (COL), NPF–91 and 

NPF–92, respectively. The COLs were 

issued to Southern Nuclear Operating 

Company, Inc., and Georgia Power 

Company, Oglethorpe Power 

Corporation, MEAG Power SPVM, LLC, 

MEAG Power SPVJ, LLC, MEAG Power 

SPVP, LLC, and the City of Dalton, 

Georgia (the licensee); for construction 

and operation of the Vogtle Electric 

Generating Plant (VEGP) Units 3 and 4, 

located in Burke County, Georgia. 

The granting of the exemption allows 

the changes to Tier 1 information asked 

for in the amendment. Because the 

acceptability of the exemption was 

determined in part by the acceptability 

of the amendment, the exemption and 

amendment are being issued 

concurrently. 

DATES: The exemption and amendment 

were issued on May 31, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2008–0252 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 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2008–0252. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer 

Borges; 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 publiclyavailable documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

http://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. 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. The request for the 

amendment and exemption was 

submitted by letters dated November 30, 

2017, and March 16, 2018, and are 

available in ADAMS under Accession 

Nos. ML17334B211 and ML18075A438. 

• 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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Peter Hearn, Office of New Reactors, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

301–415–1189; email: Peter.Hearn@

nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The NRC is granting an exemption 

from paragraph B of section III, ‘‘Scope 

and Contents,’’ of appendix D, ‘‘Design 

Certification Rule for the AP1000,’’ to 

part 52 of title 10 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (10 CFR), and issuing 

License Amendment Nos. 125 and 124 

to COL Nos. NPF–91 and NPF–92, 

respectively, to the licensee. The 

exemption is required by paragraph A.4 

of section VIII, ‘‘Processes for Changes 

and Departures,’’ appendix D, to 10 CFR 

part 52 to allow the licensee to depart 

from Tier 1 information. With the 

requested amendment, the licensee 

sought proposed changes to plantspecific DCD Tier 2 and Tier 2* 

information and related changes to 

plant-specific Tier 1 information, with 

corresponding changes to Inspections, 

Tests, Analyses, and Acceptance 

Criteria (ITAAC) in COL Appendix C. 

Specifically the changes corrected 

various editorial and consistency issues 

between Tier 1 and Tier 2 in Tier 1 text, 

tables and figures. 

Part of the justification for granting 

the exemption was provided by the 

review of the amendment. Because the 

exemption is necessary in order to issue 

the requested license amendment, the 

NRC granted the exemption and issued 

the amendment concurrently, rather 

than in sequence. This included issuing 

a combined safety evaluation containing 

the NRC staff’s review of both the 

exemption request and the license 

amendment. The exemption met all 

applicable regulatory criteria set forth in 

10 CFR 50.12, 10 CFR 52.7, and section 

VIII.A.4 of appendix D to 10 CFR part 

52. The license amendment was found 

to be acceptable as well. The combined 

safety evaluation is available in ADAMS 

under Accession No. ML18106A638. 

Identical exemption documents 

(except for referenced unit numbers and 

license numbers) were issued to the 

licensee for VEGP Units 3 and 4 (COLs 

NPF–91 and NPF–92). The exemption 

documents for VEGP Units 3 and 4 can 

be found in ADAMS under Accession 

Nos. ML18106A629 and ML18106A631, 

respectively. The exemption is 

reproduced (with the exception of 

abbreviated titles and additional 

citations) in Section II of this document. 

The amendment documents for COLs 

NPF–91 and NPF–92 are available in 

ADAMS under Accession Nos. 

ML18106A632 and ML18106A635, 

respectively. A summary of the 

amendment documents is provided in 

Section III of this document. 

II. Exemption 

Reproduced below is the exemption 

document issued to VEGP Units 3 and 

4. It makes reference to the combined 

safety evaluation that provides the 

reasoning for the findings made by the 

NRC (and listed under Item 1) in order 

to grant the exemption: 

1. In a letter dated November 30, 

2017, as supplemented by the letter 


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