[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 176 (Tuesday, September 11, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45980-45981]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-19677]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2018-0137]


Dispositioning of Technical Specifications That Are Insufficient 
To Ensure Plant Safety

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Draft regulatory guide; reopening of comment period.

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SUMMARY: On July 5, 2018, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) 
solicited comments on draft regulatory guide (DG), DG-1351, 
``Dispositioning of Technical Specifications that are Insufficient to 
Ensure Plant Safety.'' The public comment period was originally 
scheduled to close on September 4, 2018. The NRC has decided to extend 
the public comment period by 30 days to allow more time for members of 
the public to develop and submit their comments.

DATES: The due date of comments requested in the document published on 
July 5, 2018 (83 FR 31429), is being reopened. The NRC is reopening the 
public comment period that had closed on September 4, 2018, to allow 
more time for members of the public to develop and submit their 
comments. Comments should be filed no later than

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October 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 
(unless this document describes a different method for submitting 
comments on a specified subject):
    <bullet> Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2018-0137. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer Borges; telephone: 301-287-
9127; email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#743e111a1a1d1211065a361b06131107341a06175a131b02"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="8cc6e9e2e2e5eae9fea2cee3feebe9ffcce2feefa2ebe3fa">[email protected]</span></a>. For technical questions, contact 
the individuals listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section 
of this document.
    <bullet> Mail comments to: May Ma, Office of Administration, Mail 
Stop: TWFN-7A-86, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001.
    For additional direction on accessing information and submitting 
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Blake Purnell, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301-415-1380, email: 
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2c4e404d4749025c595e424940406c425e4f024b435a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="395b5558525c17494c4b575c555579574b5a175e564f">[email protected]</span></a> and Stephen Burton, Office of Nuclear Regulatory 
Research, telephone: 301-415-7000, email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b8ebccddc8d0ddd696facdcaccd7d6f8d6cadb96dfd7ce"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="beedcadbced6dbd090fccbcccad1d0fed0ccdd90d9d1c8">[email protected]</span></a>. 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-2018-0137 when contacting the NRC 
about the availability of information regarding this action. You may 
obtain publically-available information related to this action, by any 
of the following methods:
    <bullet> Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2018-0137.
    <bullet> NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available 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 <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#601004124e1205130f15120305200e12034e070f16"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="29594d5b075b4c5a465c5b4a4c69475b4a074e465f">[email protected]</span></a>. The draft regulatory guide is 
electronically available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML16124A200.
    <bullet> 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-2018-0137 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 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. Discussion

    On July 5, 2018, the NRC solicited comments on draft regulatory 
guide (DG) DG-1351, ``Dispositioning of Technical Specifications that 
are Insufficient to Ensure Plant Safety.'' The public comment period 
was originally scheduled to close on September 4, 2018. The NRC 
received a request from stakeholders to extend the public comment 
period by 30 days. The NRC has agreed to the request and decided to 
reopen the public comment period until October 11, 2018, to allow more 
time for members of the public to develop and submit their comments.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 6th day of September 2018.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Thomas H. Boyce,
Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Generic Issues Branch, Division of 
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
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