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copyrighted materials in their 

submission. 

Petitions for leave to intervene must 

be filed no later than 60 days from the 

date of publication of this notice. Nontimely filings will not be entertained 

absent a determination by the presiding 

officer that the petition or request 

should be granted or the contentions 

should be admitted, based on a 

balancing of the factors specified in 10 

CFR 2.309(c)(1)(i)–(viii). 

For further details with respect to this 

license amendment application, see the 

application for amendment dated March 

8, 2012, which is available for public 

inspection at the Commission’s PDR, 

located at One White Flint North, File 

Public Area O1 F21, 11555 Rockville 

Pike (first floor), Rockville, Maryland 

20852. Publicly available documents 

created or received at the NRC are 

accessible electronically through 

ADAMS in the NRC Library at http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. 

Persons who do not have access to 

ADAMS or who encounter problems in 

accessing the documents located in 

ADAMS, should contact the NRC’s PDR 

Reference staff by telephone at 1–800– 

397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by email to 

pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 

Attorney for licensee: Bryan A. 

Snapp, Esquire, Assoc. General Counsel, 

PPL Services Corporation, 2 North 

Ninth St., GENTW3, Allentown, PA 

18101–1179. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day 

of March 2012. 

Bhalchandra Vaidya, 

Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch I– 

1, Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, 

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

[FR Doc. 2012–6407 Filed 3–15–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2011–0191] 

License Renewal Interim Staff 

Guidance LR–ISG–2011–05: Ongoing 

Review of Operating Experience 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Interim staff guidance; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing the final 

License Renewal Interim Staff Guidance 

(LR–ISG), LR–ISG–2011–05, ‘‘Ongoing 

Review of Operating Experience.’’ This 

LR–ISG provides guidance and 

clarification concerning ongoing 

reviews of plant-specific and industrywide operating experience as an 

attribute of aging management programs 

used at nuclear power plants as 

described in NUREG–1801, Revision 2, 

‘‘Generic Aging Lessons Learned (GALL) 

Report,’’ (Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS) Accession No. 

ML103490041), and NUREG–1800, 

Revision 2, ‘‘Standard Review Plan for 

Review of License Renewal 

Applications for Nuclear Power Plants’’ 

(SRP–LR) (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML103490036). 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2011–0191 when contacting the 

NRC about the availability of 

information regarding this document. 

You may access information related to 

this document, which the NRC 

possesses and is publicly-available, 

using the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2011–0191. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Carol 

Gallagher; telephone: 301–492–3668; 

email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may access publiclyavailable documents online in the NRC 

Library at http://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/adams.html. To begin the search, 

select ‘‘ADAMS Public Documentsz,’’ 

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 final LR–ISG–2011–05 is available 

under ADAMS Accession No. 

ML12044A215. 

• 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. 

• NRC’s Interim Staff Guidance Web 

Site: LR–ISG documents are also 

available online under the ‘‘License 

Renewal’’ heading at http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/#int. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Matthew Homiack, Division of License 

Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001; telephone: 301–415–1683; email: 

Matthew.Homiack@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background Information 

The NRC issues LR–ISG to 

communicate insights and lessons 

learned and to address emergent issues 

not covered in license renewal guidance 

documents. In this way, the NRC staff 

and stakeholders may use the guidance 

in an LR–ISG document until it is 

incorporated into a formal license 

renewal guidance document revision. 

The NRC staff issues LR–ISG in 

accordance with the LR–ISG Process, 

Revision 2 (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML100920158), for which a notice of 

availability was published in the 

Federal Register on June 22, 2010 (75 

FR 35510). 

The NRC staff developed LR–ISG– 

2011–05 to clarify guidance on how the 

ongoing review of operating experience 

should be used to ensure the 

effectiveness of the license renewal 

aging management programs used at 

nuclear power plants to meet the 

requirements of Title 10 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 54, 

‘‘Requirements for Renewal of Operating 

Licenses for Nuclear Power Plants.’’ The 

final LR–ISG–2011–05 revises the NRC 

staff’s recommended aging management 

programs in the GALL Report and the 

NRC staff’s aging management review 

procedures and acceptance criteria in 

the SRP–LR. 

On August 24, 2011 (76 FR 52995), 

the NRC requested public comments on 

draft LR–ISG–2011–05. By letter dated 

August 29, 2011 (ADAMS Accession 

No. ML11242A114), the Nuclear Energy 

Institute (NEI) requested a 30-day 

extension to the comment period and a 

public meeting to discuss draft 

comments and questions concerning 

implementation of the LR–ISG. The 

NRC staff granted the NEI’s requests, as 

noticed on September 20, 2011 (76 FR 

58311). The public meeting was held on 

October 12, 2011 (ADAMS Accession 

No. ML11304A259), and the comment 

period was extended until October 23, 

2011. 

During this time, the NRC staff 

identified the need to include additional 

guidance on areas where license 

renewal applicants should ensure their 

programmatic activities for operating 

experience reviews are appropriate for 

considering operating experience 

related to aging management. The NRC 

staff identified this need through its 

ongoing reviews of license renewal 

applications and through insights 

gained on how nuclear power plant 

licensees carry out their operating 

experience review activities. The 

additional guidance covers areas where 

enhancements may need to be made for 

license renewal, such as the specific 

kind of information that should be 

considered as operating experience, the 

training of plant personnel, information 

to consider in operating experience 

evaluations, criteria for identifying and 

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1 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1). 

2 15 U.S.C. 78a. 

3 17 CFR 240.19b–4. 

4An MPL order is a version of the Passive 

Liquidity order, except it is executable only at the 

midpoint of the Protected Best Bid and Offer. A 

Passive Liquidity order is an order to buy or sell 

a stated amount of a security at a specified, 

undisplayed price. See NYSE Arca Equities Rule 

7.31(h)(4)–(5). 

5A Tracking Order is an undisplayed, priced 

round lot order that is eligible for execution in the 

Tracking Order Process against orders equal to or 

less than the aggregate size of Tracking Order 

interest available at that price. See NYSE Arca 

Equities Rule 7.31(f). 

categorizing operating experience as 

related to aging, and guidelines for 

reporting operating experience on agerelated degradation to the industry. The 

NRC staff outlined these changes at the 

October 12, 2011, public meeting and a 

revised draft LR–ISG was issued for 

public comment on November 25, 2011 

(76 FR 72725). 

The NRC received comments from 

Exelon Generation Company, LLC, by 

letter dated October 18, 2011 (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML11298A171), and from 

the NEI by letters dated October 18, 

2011 (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML11293A041), and December 15, 2011 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML11354A228). 

No other comments were submitted. 

The NRC considered these comments in 

developing the final LR–ISG. Detailed 

responses to the comments can be found 

in Appendix C of the final LR–ISG. 

The final LR–ISG–2011–05 is 

approved for NRC staff and stakeholder 

use and will be incorporated into NRC’s 

next formal license renewal guidance 

document revision. 

Backfitting and Issue Finality 

Issuance of this final LR–ISG does not 

constitute backfitting as defined in 10 

CFR 50.109 (the Backfit Rule) and is not 

otherwise inconsistent with the issue 

finality provisions in Part 52, ‘‘Licenses, 

Certifications, and Approvals for 

Nuclear Power Plants,’’ of 10 CFR. As 

discussed in the ‘‘Backfitting 

Discussion’’ section of final LR–ISG– 

2011–05, the LR–ISG is directed to 

holders of operating licenses or 

combined licenses who are currently in 

the license renewal process. The LR– 

ISG is not directed to holders of 

operating licenses or combined licenses 

until they apply for license renewal. 

The LR–ISG is also not directed to 

licensees who already hold renewed 

operating or combined licenses. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day 

of March 2012. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Melanie A. Galloway, 

Acting Director, Division of License Renewal, 

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

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COMMISSION 

[Release No. 34–66568; File No. SR– 

NYSEARCA–2012–17] 

Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE 

Arca, Inc.; Notice of Filing and 

Immediate Effectiveness of Proposed 

Rule Change To Amend the NYSE Arca 

Equities Fee Schedule 

March 9, 2012. 

Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) 1 of the 

Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the 

‘‘Act’’),2 and Rule 19b–4 thereunder,3

notice is hereby given that, on March 1, 

2012, NYSE Arca, Inc. (the ‘‘Exchange’’ 

or ‘‘NYSE Arca’’) filed with the 

Securities and Exchange Commission 

(the ‘‘Commission’’) the proposed rule 

change as described in Items I and II 

below, which Items have been prepared 

by the self-regulatory organization. The 

Commission is publishing this notice to 

solicit comments on the proposed rule 

change from interested persons. 

I. Self-Regulatory Organization’s 

Statement of the Terms of Substance of 

the Proposed Rule Change 

The Exchange proposes to amend the 

NYSE Arca Equities Fee Schedule (‘‘Fee 

Schedule’’) to (i) Increase the fee for 

Mid-Point Passive Liquidity (‘‘MPL’’) 

orders removing liquidity from the 

Book, the Tape B Securities fee for 

orders routed outside the Book to any 

away market centers, and the fees for 

Tape A, Tape B, and Tape C Securities 

that take liquidity from the Book where 

the per share price is below $1.00, (ii) 

add three new Step Up Tiers and a new 

Investor Tier, (iii) revise the 

requirements and credits for the 

Tracking Order Tiers, (iv) raise the fee 

cap for Market and Auction-Only Orders 

executed in an Opening, Market Order 

or Trading Halt Auction, and (v) make 

other technical changes. The amended 

section of the Fee Schedule is attached 

as Exhibit 5. [sic] A copy of this filing 

is available on the Exchange’s Web site 

at www.nyse.com, at the Exchange’s 

principal office and at the Public 

Reference Room of the Commission. 

II. Self-Regulatory Organization’s 

Statement of the Purpose of, and 

Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule 

Change 

In its filing with the Commission, the 

self-regulatory organization included 

statements concerning the purpose of, 

and basis for, the proposed rule change 

and discussed any comments it received 

on the proposed rule change. The text 

of these statements may be examined at 

the places specified in Item IV below. 

The Exchange has prepared summaries, 

set forth in sections A, B, and C below, 

of the most significant aspects of such 

statements. 

A. Self-Regulatory Organization’s 

Statement of the Purpose of, and the 

Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule 

Change 

1. Purpose 

The Exchange proposes to amend the 

Fee Schedule to (i) Increase the fee for 

MPL 4 orders removing liquidity from 

the Book, the Tape B Securities fee for 

orders routed outside the Book to any 

away market centers, and the fees for 

Tape A, Tape B, and Tape C Securities 

that take liquidity from the Book where 

the per share price is below $1.00, (ii) 

add three new Step Up Tiers and a new 

Investor Tier, (iii) revise the 

requirements and credits for the 

Tracking Order 5 Tiers, (iv) raise the fee 

cap for Market and Auction-Only Orders 

executed in an Opening, Market Order 

or Trading Halt Auction, and (v) make 

other technical changes. 

MPL Orders 

Currently, MPL orders receive a rebate 

of $0.0015 for orders that provide 

liquidity and are charged a fee of 

$0.0025 for orders that take liquidity in 

Tape A, Tape B and Tape C Securities. 

The Exchange proposes to raise the fee 

to $0.0030 for orders that take liquidity 

in Tape A, Tape B, and Tape C 

Securities. The Exchange does not 

propose to change the rebate for MPL 

orders. This change will apply to the 

Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3, and Basic Rate 

pricing levels for securities with a per 

share price above $1.00. 

Tape B Orders 

Currently, Tape B orders are charged 

a fee of $0.0029 for orders that are 

routed outside the Book to any away 

market centers for clients at Tier 1, Tier 

2, Tier 3, Step Up Tier 1, and Step Up 

Tier 2. The Exchange proposes to raise 

the fee to $0.0030 for orders that are 

routed outside the Book to any away 

market centers. This change will apply 

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