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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

10 CFR Parts 50 and 52 

[NRC–2024–0019] 

Draft Regulatory Guide: Installation 

Design and Installation of Vented 

Lead-Acid Storage Batteries for 

Production and Utilization Facilities 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Draft guide; request for 

comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing for public 

comment a draft Regulatory Guide (DG), 

DG–1421, ‘‘Installation Design and 

Installation of Vented Lead-Acid Storage 

Batteries for Production and Utilization 

Facilities.’’ This DG is proposed 

Revision 3 of Regulatory Guide 1.128, 

‘‘Installation Design and Installation of 

Vented Lead-Acid Storage Batteries for 

Nuclear Power Plants,’’ and provides 

methods acceptable to the NRC to meet 

regulatory requirements for the 

installation design and installation of 

vented lead-acid storage batteries in 

production and utilization facilities. It 

endorses, with clarifications, the 

Institute of Electrical and Electronics 

Engineers (IEEE) Standard (Std.) 484– 

2019, ‘‘IEEE Recommended Practice for 

Installation Design and Installation of 

Vented Lead-Acid Batteries for 

Stationary Applications.’’ 

DATES: Submit comments by February 7, 

2024. Comments received after this date 

will be considered if it is practical to do 

so, but the NRC 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; 

however, the NRC encourages electronic 

comment submission through the 

Federal rulemaking website: 

• Federal rulemaking website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2024–0019. Address 

questions about Docket IDs in 

Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; 

telephone: 301–415–0624; email: 

Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical 

questions, contact the individuals listed 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this document. 

• Mail comments to: Office of 

Administration, Mail Stop: TWFN–7– 

A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001, ATTN: Program Management, 

Announcements and Editing Staff. 

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 Eudy, Office of Nuclear 

Regulatory Research, telephone: 301– 

415–3104; email: Michael.Eudy@nrc.gov 

and Sheila Ray, Office of Nuclear 

Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301– 

415–3653; email: Sheila.Ray@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–2024– 

0019 when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information for this 

action. You may obtain publicly 

available information related to this 

action by any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2024–0019. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly 

available documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

https://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, at 

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: The PDR, where you 

may examine and order copies of 

publicly available documents, is open 

by appointment. To make an 

appointment to visit the PDR, please 

send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov 

or call 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415– 

4737, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern 

time (ET), Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

B. Submitting Comments 

The NRC encourages electronic 

comment submission through the 

Federal rulemaking website (https://

www.regulations.gov). Please include 

Docket ID NRC–2024–0019 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 https://

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. Additional Information 

The NRC is issuing for public 

comment a DG in the NRC’s ‘‘Regulatory 

Guide’’ series. This series was 

developed to describe methods that are 

acceptable to the NRC staff for 

implementing specific parts of the 

agency’s regulations, to explain 

techniques that the staff uses in 

evaluating specific issues or postulated 

events, and to describe information that 

the staff needs in its review of 

applications for permits and licenses. 

The DG, entitled ‘‘Installation Design 

and Installation of Vented Lead-Acid 

Storage Batteries for Production and 

Utilization Facilities,’’ is temporarily 

identified by its task number, DG–1421 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML23277A276). 

This revision of the guide (Revision 3) 

endorses, with clarifications, IEEE Std. 

484–2019 and applies to production and 

utilization facilities licensed under part 

50 and part 52 of title 10 of the Code 

of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) within 

the scope of this RG. The previous 

version of this RG (ADAMS Accession 

No. ML070080013) endorsed, with 

certain clarifications, IEEE Std. 484– 

2002. In 2019, the IEEE revised IEEE 

Std. 484 to add information on thermal 

factors of influence (exposure 

temperature, ambient temperature, 

temperature gradient, and rate of 

temperature change) and safety 

provisions (e.g., electrical hazards, 

shock hazards, ground fault hazards, arc 

flash hazards, chemical hazards), 

modifications to the personal protective 

equipment section, major changes to 

mounting and ventilation sections, new 

provisions on connection to direct 

current systems and spare cells, and 

new provisions for material handling 

and hazard assessment, as well as many 

other updates, corrections, and 

clarifications to various sections. The 

revised IEEE standard also provides two 

new normative annexes. 


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The staff is also issuing for public 

comment a draft regulatory analysis 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML23277A279). 

The staff developed a regulatory 

analysis to assess the value of issuing or 

revising a regulatory guide as well as 

alternative courses of action. 

As noted in the Federal Register on 

December 9, 2022 (87 FR 75671), this 

document is being published in the 

‘‘Proposed Rules’’ section of the Federal 

Register to comply with publication 

requirements under 1 CFR chapter I. 

III. Backfitting, Forward Fitting, and 

Issue Finality 

Issuance of DG–1421, if finalized, 

would not constitute backfitting as 

defined in 10 CFR 50.109, ‘‘Backfitting,’’ 

and as described in NRC Management 

Directive (MD) 8.4, ‘‘Management of 

Backfitting, Forward Fitting, Issue 

Finality, and Information Requests’’; 

affect the issue finality of an approval 

issued under 10 CFR part 52, ‘‘Licenses, 

Certifications, and Approvals for 

Nuclear Power Plants’’; or constitute 

forward fitting as that term is defined 

and described in MD 8.4, because, as 

explained in this DG, licensees would 

not be required to comply with the 

positions set forth in this DG. 

IV. Submitting Suggestions for 

Improvement of Regulatory Guides 

A member of the public may, at any 

time, submit suggestions to the NRC for 

improvement of existing RGs or for the 

development of new RGs. Suggestions 

can be submitted on the NRC’s public 

website at https://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/doc-collections/reg-guides/ 

contactus.html. Suggestions will be 

considered in future updates and 

enhancements to the ‘‘Regulatory 

Guide’’ series. 

Dated: January 3, 2024. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Meraj Rahimi, 

Chief, Regulatory Guide and Programs 

Management Branch, Division of Engineering, 

Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. 

[FR Doc. 2024–00145 Filed 1–5–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 131 

[EPA–HQ–OW–2023–0222; FRL 10760–01– 

OW] 

RIN 2040–AG30 

Water Quality Standards To Protect 

Aquatic Life in the Delaware River 

Correction 

In proposed rule document 2023– 

27758, appearing on pages 88315–88336 

in the issue of Thursday, December 21, 

2023, make the following correction: 

On page 88326, in the table titled 

‘‘Table 7: Alternative 1: Dissolved 

Oxygen Criteria Expressed as 

Concentration (mg/L)’’, the table is 

corrected to appear as set forth below: 

TABLE 7—ALTERNATIVE 1: DISSOLVED OXYGEN CRITERIA EXPRESSED AS CONCENTRATION

[mg/L] 

Season 

Water 

temperature 

(°C) 

Magnitude 

(mg/L) Duration Exceedance frequency 

Spawning and Larval Development (March 

1–June 30).

* 23.3 (14.7) * 5.6 (6.7) Daily Average ........................ 10% (12 Days Cumulative). 

Juvenile Development (July 1–October 31) ... + N/A 5.4 Daily Average ........................ 10% (12 Days Cumulative). + N/A 6.1 Daily Average ........................ 50% (61 Days Cumulative). 

Overwintering (November 1–February 28/29) * 12.4 (5.6) * 7.0 (8.3) Daily Average ........................ 10% (12 Days Cumulative). 

*The 90th percentile of seasonal water temperature and corresponding criterion is used for the main estimate, while the average water temperature and corresponding criterion is shown in parentheses. +Water temperature is not applicable during the Juvenile Development season because the criteria magnitudes are derived from the EPA’s Atlantic Sturgeon cohort model, described in section IV.C.1 of this preamble. 

[FR Doc. C1–2023–27758 Filed 1–5–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 0099–10–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Indian Health Service 

[Docket No.: IHS–FRDOC–0001] 

42 CFR Part 136 

RIN 0917–AA24 

Removal of Outdated Regulations 

AGENCY: Indian Health Service, 

Department of Health and Human 

Services. 

ACTION: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. 

SUMMARY: The Indian Health Service 

(IHS) of the Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS or ‘‘the 

Department’’) is issuing this Notice of 

Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) 

proposing the removal of regulations 

appearing in the Code of Federal 

Regulations (CFR). These outdated 

regulations do not align with the current 

statutory text. 

DATES: Comments due on or before 

March 8, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

to this proposed rule, identified by RIN 

0917–AA24 by any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal. You 

may submit electronic comments at 

https://www.regulations.gov by 

searching for the Docket ID number 

IHS–FRDOC–0001. Follow the 

instructions https://

www.regulations.gov online for 

submitting comments through this 

method. 

• Regular, Express, or Overnight Mail: 

You may mail comments to Indian 

Health Service, Joshuah Marshall, 

Senior Advisor to the Director, Indian 

Health Service, 5600 Fishers Lane, 

Rockville, MD 20857, email: 

joshuah.marshall@ihs.gov. 

All comments received by the 

methods and due date specified above 

will be posted without change to 

content to https://www.regulations.gov, 

including any personal information 

provided about the commenter, and 

such posting may occur before or after 

the closing of the comment period. 

Comments that make threats to 

individuals or institutions or suggest 

that the individual will take harmful 

actions will not be posted. 

Docket: For complete access to 

background documents, posted 

comments, and the plain-language 

summary of the proposed rule of not 


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