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Place: National Science Foundation, 

2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, 

Virginia 22314. 

Type of Meeting: Part—Open. 

Contact Person: Cassandra Dudka, 

PIRE Program Manager, National 

Science Foundation, 2415 Eisenhower 

Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22314; 

Telephone 703/292–7250. 

Purpose of Meeting: NSF reverse site 

visit to conduct a review during year 3 

of the five-year award period. To 

conduct an in-depth evaluation of 

performance, to assess progress towards 

goals, and to provide recommendations. 

Agenda: See attached. 

Reason for Closing: Topics to be 

discussed and evaluated during closed 

portions of the reverse site review will 

include information of a proprietary or 

confidential nature, including technical 

information; and information on 

personnel. These matters are exempt 

under 5 U.S.C. 552b(c), (4) and (6) of the 

Government in the Sunshine Act. 

Dated: September 7, 2018. 

Crystal Robinson, 

Committee Management Officer. 

Partnerships for International Research 

and Education (PIRE) Reverse Site Visit 

Agenda PIRE–1545684 (PI: Barbara 

Schneider) 

NSF Room C3080 

Friday, October 12, 2018 

8:00 a.m. Panelists arrive. Coffee/light 

refreshments available 

8:15 a.m.–8:45 a.m. Panel Orientation 

(CLOSED), PIRE Rationale and 

Goals, Charge to Panel 

8:45 a.m. PIs arrive. Introductions 

(OPEN) 

9:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. PIRE Project 

Presentation should cover the 

following: (OPEN) 

Research 

Integrating Research & Education 

Students (e.g. involvement in project, 

recruitment, diversity) 

Project Management and 

Communication 

Evaluation & Assessment 

Institutional Support 

International Partnerships 

11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Questions and 

Answers 

12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m. Working Lunch— 

Panel Discussion (CLOSED) 

2:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m. Initial Feedback to 

Project Team (CLOSED) 

2:30 p.m. PIRE PI and presenters are 

dismissed 

2:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m. Panel meets for 

Reverse Site Visit Report 

Preparation (CLOSED) 

4:30 p.m.–4:45 p.m. Report presented to 

and discussion held with NSF staff 

(CLOSED) 

5:00 p.m. End of Reverse Site Visit 

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BILLING CODE 7555–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. NRC–2018–0168] 

Weld Residual Stress Finite Element 

Analysis Validation 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Draft NUREG; request for 

comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is requesting public 

comment on a draft NUREG entitled, 

‘‘Weld Residual Stress Finite Element 

Analysis Validation: Part II— 

Acceptance and Guidelines.’’ This 

report proposes a methodology by 

which analysts can increase confidence 

in modeling capabilities for regulatory 

applications involving weld residual 

stress calculation. Specifically, the NRC 

staff posed four questions for 

consideration by the public (see 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION). 

DATES: Submit comments by November 

13, 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–2018–0168. Address 

questions about NRC dockets in 

Regulations.gov 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: 

Michael Benson, Office of Nuclear 

Regulatory Research, telephone: 301– 

415–2425, email: michael.benson@

nrc.gov; or Patrick Raynaud, Office of 

Nuclear Regulatory Research, telephone: 

301–415–1987, email: patrick.raynaud@

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– 

0168 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–2018–0168. 

• 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 draft NUREG on ‘‘Weld 

Residual Stress Validation’’ is available 

in ADAMS under Accession No. 

ML18242A007. 

• 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– 

0168 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 

Between 2008–2015, the Electric 

Power Research Institute and the NRC 


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conducted a joint research program on 

weld residual stress (WRS) modeling 

under a memorandum of understanding. 

This research program consisted of 

several modeling and measurement 

studies on prototypic mockups to 

represent the residual stress state in 

safety-related nuclear components 

susceptible to primary water stress 

corrosion cracking, see NUREG–2162 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML14087A118). 

Since then, the NRC has made use of the 

data gained in that research program to 

formulate a potential validation scheme 

for finite element modeling of WRS. The 

NRC’s proposal is documented in a draft 

NUREG entitled, ‘‘Weld Residual Stress 

Finite Element Analysis Validation: Part 

II–Proposed Validation Procedure’’ 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML18242A007). 

The NRC is requesting public comment 

on this document. Specifically, the NRC 

would like feedback on four specific 

technical issues related to the proposed 

validation procedure: 

1. The NRC recommended the use of 

the average hardening approach in the 

current version of the draft NUREG 

(‘‘average hardening’’ meaning the 

arithmetic mean of isotropic and 

nonlinear kinematic results). Given the 

discussion in Section 5.2, please 

comment on the advantages and 

disadvantages of using either the 

averaging approach or isotropic 

hardening. What initial and recurring 

costs are foreseen in implementing 

either approach in future analyses? 

2. The NRC introduced four options 

for benchmark in Section 5.4.2. The 

NRC chose to develop the validation 

scheme with a benchmark based upon 

the modeling results, rather than the 

measurements. Please comment on the 

NRC’s proposal and whether the 

justification is adequate. 

3. Please comment on the proposed 

quality metrics introduced in Section 

5.4.7. Are these metrics appropriate for 

their intended purpose? Has the NRC 

presented an appropriate technical 

justification (see Sections 5.4.8 and 

5.4.10) for the proposed metrics? 

4. Please comment on the feasibility 

of the proposed validation scheme. 

What initial (e.g., software and guidance 

development) and recurring (i.e., costs 

for each analysis) costs are foreseen for 

implementing the validation scheme? 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 10th day 

of September, 2018. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Raj Iyengar, 

Chief, Component Integrity Branch, Division 

of Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory 

Research. 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 72–1050; NRC–2016–0231] 

Interim Storage Partners LLC’s 

Consolidated Interim Spent Fuel 

Storage Facility; Correction 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Environmental impact 

statement; reopening of scoping 

comment period; correction. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is correcting a notice 

that was published in the Federal 

Register (FR) on September 4, 2018, 

reopening the scoping comment period 

for the NRC’s Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) for the Interim Storage 

Partners LLC (ISP) proposed 

consolidated interim storage facility for 

spent nuclear fuel, to be located on the 

Waste Control Specialists LLC (WCS) 

site in Andrews County, Texas. 

DATES: The correction is effective 

September 13, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2016–0231 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–2016–0231. Address 

questions about dockets in 

Regulations.gov to Jennifer Borges; 

telephone: 301–287–9127; email: 

Jennifer.Borges@nrc.gov. For technical 

questions, contact the individual(s) 

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. Documents related to WCS’ 

license application can be found under 

Docket Number 72–1050. 

• 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. 

• Project web page: Information 

related to the ISP CISF project can be 

accessed on the NRC’s project web page 

at: https://www.nrc.gov/waste/spentfuel-storage/cis/waste-controlspecialist.html. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

James Park, Office of Nuclear Material 

Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 

20555–0001; telephone: 301–415–6954; 

email: James.Park@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the FR 

on September 4, 2018, in FR Doc. 2018– 

18067, on page 44923, in column one, 

under the second paragraph, last line in 

Section II, ‘‘Discussion,’’ correct the 

date from ‘‘October 19, 2018’’ to 

‘‘September 4, 2018.’’ The scoping 

comment period due date was 

inadvertently added. 

The NRC has decided to reopen the 

EIS public scoping comment period on 

the application until October 19, 2018, 

to allow more time for members of the 

public to submit their comments. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, on 

September 7, 2018. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Brian W. Smith, 

Deputy Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety, 

Safeguards, and Environmental Review, 

Office of Nuclear Material Safety and 

Safeguards. 

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POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION 

[Docket No. CP2018–301] 

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: September 

17, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments 

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