14722 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 40 / Wednesday, February 28, 2024 / Notices 

Use of the Information: The data 

collected will be used for NSF internal 

reports, historical data, performance 

review by peer site visit teams, program 

level studies and evaluations, and for 

securing future funding for continued 

ERC program maintenance and growth. 

Estimate of Burden: 150 hours per 

center for 17 centers for a total of 2,550 

hours. 

Respondents: Academic institutions. 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Report: One from each of the 17 ERCs. 

Dated: February 22, 2024. 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation. 

[FR Doc. 2024–04057 Filed 2–27–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7555–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2023–0104] 

Information Collection: NRC Form 64, 

Travel Voucher 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of submission to the 

Office of Management and Budget; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) has recently 

submitted a request for renewal of an 

existing collection of information to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review. The information 

collection is entitled, ‘‘NRC Form 64, 

Travel Voucher.’’ 

DATES: Submit comments by March 29, 

2024. 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: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to https://www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain. Find this 

particular information collection by 

selecting ‘‘Currently under Review— 

Open for Public Comments’’ or by using 

the search function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Cullison, NRC Clearance Officer, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

301–415–2084; email: 

Infocollects.Resource@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2023– 

0104 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–2023–0104. 

• 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 supporting 

statement and NRC Form 64 are 

available under Accession Nos. 

ML23348A208 and ML23236A454. 

• 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. 

• NRC’s Clearance Officer: A copy of 

the collection of information and related 

instructions may be obtained without 

charge by contacting the NRC’s 

Clearance Officer, David C. Cullison, 

Office of the Chief Information Officer, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

301–415–2084; email: 

Infocollects.Resource@nrc.gov. 

B. Submitting Comments 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to https://www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain. Find this 

particular information collection by 

selecting ‘‘Currently under Review— 

Open for Public Comments’’ or by using 

the search function. 

The NRC cautions you not to include 

identifying or contact information in 

comment submissions that you do not 

want to be publicly disclosed in your 

comment submission. All comment 

submissions are posted at https://

www.regulations.gov and entered into 

ADAMS. Comment submissions are not 

routinely edited to remove identifying 

or contact information. 

If you are requesting or aggregating 

comments from other persons for 

submission to the OMB, 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 comment submissions are not 

routinely edited to remove such 

information before making the comment 

submissions available to the public or 

entering the comment into ADAMS. 

II. Background 

Under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. chapter 35), the NRC recently 

submitted a request for renewal of an 

existing collection of information to 

OMB for review entitled, ‘‘NRC Form 

64, Travel Voucher.’’ The NRC hereby 

informs potential respondents that an 

agency may not conduct or sponsor, and 

that a person is not required to respond 

to, a collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

The NRC published a Federal 

Register notice with a 60-day comment 

period on this information collection on 

October 2, 2023, 88 FR 67825. 

1. The title of the information 

collection: NRC Form 64, Travel 

Voucher. 

2. OMB approval number: 3150–0192. 

3. Type of submission: Extension. 

4. The form number, if applicable: 

NRC Form 64. 

5. How often the collection is required 

or requested: On occasion, to apply for 

reimbursement for travel. 

6. Who will be required or asked to 

respond: Agreement State personnel, 

State Liaison officers and other 

representatives traveling in the course of 

conducting business with and for the 

NRC. Travelers conduct reviews, 

inspections, attend conferences, and 

NRC-sponsored training. 

7. The estimated number of annual 

responses: 700. 

8. The estimated number of annual 

respondents: 700. 

9. The estimated number of hours 

needed annually to comply with the 

information collection requirement or 

request: 700. 

10. Abstract: Agreement State 

personnel traveling to participate in 

NRC-sponsored training, participate 

with the NRC Integrated Materials 

Performance Evaluation Program, and 

other business with the NRC, must file 

travel vouchers on NRC Form 64 in 

order to be reimbursed for their travel 

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1As discussed in the referenced EA, the Maine 

Yankee ISFSI sits on the former site of the Maine 

Yankee Atomic Power Station, which MYAPC 

finished decommissioning in 2005. Although only 

the Maine Yankee ISFSI remains on the site, Maine 

Yankee’s 10 CFR part 50 license, Facility Operating 

License No. DPR–36 remains in effect. Because the 

MYAPC requested an exemption from the 

requirements of 10 CFR part 50, this would be an 

exemption for MYAPC’s 10 CFR part 50 license 

rather than for MYAPC’s 10 CFR part 72 general 

license. Therefore, although MYAPC’s submission 

requested an exemption for the Maine Yankee 

ISFSI, the NRC staff will consider it a request for 

an exemption for the Maine Yankee Atomic Power 

Station. 

includes the name, address, the amount 

to be reimbursed, and the traveler’s 

signature. Travel expenses that are 

reimbursed are confined to those 

expenses essential to the transaction of 

official business for an approved trip. 

Dated: February 23, 2024. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

David C. Cullison, 

NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2024–04078 Filed 2–27–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. 50–309 and 72–30; NRC–2024– 

0020] 

Maine Yankee Atomic Power 

Company; Maine Yankee Atomic 

Power Station; Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is considering 

issuance of an exemption in response to 

the March 31, 2023, request from Maine 

Yankee Atomic Power Company 

(MYAPC or Maine Yankee), for the 

Maine Yankee Atomic Power Station 

(MYAPS), located in Wiscasset, Maine. 

The proposed exemption from NRC 

regulations, if granted, would permit 

MYAPC to make withdrawals from a 

segregated account within Maine 

Yankee’s overall nuclear 

decommissioning trust (NDT), on an 

annual basis, for spent fuel and Greater 

than Class C (GTCC) waste management 

and non-radiological site restoration 

without prior notification to the NRC. 

The NRC staff is issuing an 

environmental assessment (EA) and 

finding of no significant impact (FONSI) 

associated with the proposed 

exemption. 

DATES: The EA and FONSI referenced in 

this document are available on February 

28, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2024–0020 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 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2024–0020. 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 individual listed 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this document. 

• 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. For the 

convenience of the reader, instructions 

about obtaining materials referenced in 

this document are provided in the 

‘‘Availability of Documents’’ section. 

• 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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Tilda Liu, Office of Nuclear Material 

Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001; telephone: 404–997– 

4730, email: Tilda.Liu@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

By letter dated March 31, 2023, Maine 

Yankee submitted a request to the NRC 

for an exemption from paragraphs 

50.82(a)(8)(i)(A) and 50.75(h)(2) of title 

10 of the Code of Federal Regulations 

(10 CFR) for the Maine Yankee 

Independent Spent Fuel Storage 

Installation (ISFSI).1

Maine Yankee has established a 

separate (segregated) account within its 

over-arching nuclear decommissioning 

trust (NDT), entitled ‘‘ISFSI Radiological 

Decom,’’ that identifies the funds for 

radiological decommissioning of the 

ISFSI apart from the larger balance of 

funds in the NDT allocated for ongoing 

management of spent nuclear fuel and 

Greater than Class C (GTCC) waste and 

for non-radiological site restoration 

activities. Although 10 CFR 50.82 

applies to the segregated account, it 

does not apply to the overall NDT. 

If granted, the exemption from 10 CFR 

50.82(a)(8)(i)(A) and 50.75(h)(2) would 

permit MYAPC to make withdrawals 

from the segregated account, on an 

annual basis, for spent fuel and GTCC 

waste management and non-radiological 

site restoration without prior 

notification to the NRC. More 

specifically, with this exemption, 

MYAPC would be able to annually 

transfer funds exceeding 110 percent of 

the inflation-adjusted decommissioning 

cost estimate, described in 10 CFR 

50.75, from the segregated account to its 

overarching NDT and use those funds 

for spent fuel and GTCC waste 

management and non-radiological site 

restoration. 

Maine Yankee Atomic Power Station 

began commercial operation in 

December 1972, and shut down in 

December 1996. Maine Yankee began 

decommissioning the Maine Yankee 

Atomic Power Station in 1998. After 

ceasing reactor operations, MYAPC 

began transferring spent nuclear fuel 

(SNF) from the spent fuel pool to the 

Maine Yankee ISFSI for long-term dry 

storage. MYAPC completed these 

activities in 2004 and completed its 

final decommissioning of the reactor 

site, except for the ISFSI, which 

included dismantling and removing all 

reactor-related facilities, in 2005. As a 

result, only the ISFSI remains at the old 

plant site of Maine Yankee Atomic 

Power Station in Wiscasset, Maine. By 

letter dated September 30, 2005 

(ADAMS Package Accession No. 

ML052380223), the NRC issued 

Amendment No. 172 to Facility 

Operating License No. DPR–36 to allow 

MYAPC to possess and store SNF at the 

permanently shut down and 

decommissioned facility under the 

provisions of 10 CFR part 72, subpart K, 

‘‘General License for Storage of Spent 

Fuel at Power Reactor Sites.’’ 

The NRC staff is performing both a 

safety evaluation and an environmental 

review to determine whether to grant 

this exemption request. The NRC staff 

will prepare a separate safety evaluation 

report (SER) to document its safety 

review and analysis. The NRC’s SER 

will evaluate the proposed exemption to 

ensure reasonable assurance of adequate 

protection of public health and safety, 

and the common defense and security. 

This EA documents the environmental 


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