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• FSIS separated ‘‘Animal Welfare’’ 

and ‘‘Environmental Stewardship’’ 

sections and renamed ‘‘Environmental 

Stewardship’’ to ‘‘Environment-Related’’ 

to better clarify the claims and the 

documentation to be submitted for each 

type of claim. 

• FSIS made several changes to the 

formatting, language, and organizational 

structure of the guideline to improve 

readability. 

As explained above, FSIS also made 

some significant changes to the 

guideline in response to petitions and 

public comments on the last version of 

the guideline. 

• FSIS updated documentation that 

establishments are strongly encouraged 

to submit to LPDS to substantiate claims 

like ‘‘Pasture Raised,’’ ‘‘Pasture Fed,’’ 

‘‘Pasture Grown,’’ and ‘‘Meadow 

Raised.’’ 

• FSIS recommended criteria for 

third-party organizations that certify 

animal-raising or environment-related 

claims. 

• FSIS further emphasized that, to 

substantiate a third-party certification 

claim, establishments should provide 

FSIS with a copy of their current 

certificate. 

• FSIS further emphasized that if a 

claim was certified by a third-party 

organization, the Agency will approve 

the label bearing the claim only if it 

includes the certifying entity’s name, 

website address (where the relevant 

standards can be found), and logo, when 

the organization has a logo. 

• FSIS added language strongly 

encouraging establishments to 

substantiate negative antibiotic use 

claims by instituting a routine sampling 

program to test for the use of antibiotics 

in animals prior to slaughter or by using 

a third-party certifier who performs 

routine antibiotic sampling and testing 

as part of their certification standards. 

• FSIS added language stating that 

establishments are strongly encouraged 

to provide FSIS with relevant data or 

studies (e.g., soil/land variation or air 

quality studies and results) to 

substantiate environment-related 

claims. 

• FSIS added language strongly 

encouraging establishments to use thirdparty certification to substantiate 

animal-raising or environment-related 

claims, given the limits of FSIS 

jurisdiction. 

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10 CFR Part 73 

[NRC–2023–0171] 

Regulatory Guide: Physical Security 

Event Notifications, Reports, and 

Records 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Final guide; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing Revision 3 

to Regulatory Guide (RG), 5.62, 

‘‘Physical Security Event Notifications, 

Reports, and Records.’’ This RG clarifies 

reporting and recording of security 

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security under NRC’s regulations 

concerning the physical protection of 

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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. 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. 

Revision 3 to RG 5.62 may be found 

in ADAMS under Accession No. 

ML23299A176. The NRC staff’s 

responses to public comments on Draft 

Regulatory Guide (DG)-5080 are 

available in ADAMS under Accession 

No. ML23299A187. 

Regulatory guides are not 

copyrighted, and NRC approval is not 

required to reproduce them. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Phil 

Brochman, Office of Nuclear Security 

and Incident Response, telephone: 301– 

287–3691; email: Phil.Brochman@

nrc.gov or Stanley Gardocki, Office of 

Nuclear Regulatory Research, telephone: 

301–415–1067; email: 

Stanley.Gardocki@nrc.gov. Both are staff 

of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Discussion 

The NRC is issuing a revision 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 proposed Revision 3 to RG 5.62 

was issued with a temporary 

identification of DG–5080 (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML23198A191). 

This revision provides additional 

guidance on physical security event 

notifications, written follow-up reports, 

and recordkeeping of security events 

and other security-related conditions 

adverse to quality. These new and 

updated requirements are part of the 

NRC’s final rule, entitled ‘‘Enhanced 

Weapons, Firearms Background Checks, 

and Security Event Notifications’’ 

(hereafter the Enhanced Weapons rule), 

that was published in the Federal 

Register on March 14, 2023 (88 FR 

15864). These provisions are found in 

the NRC’s regulations under title 10 of 

the Code of Federal Regulations (10 

CFR), §§ 73.1200, 73.1205, and 10 CFR 

73.1210. 

Revision 3 to RG 5.62 provides 

examples, considerations, and guidance 

to assist licensees and their security 

personnel in understanding their 

responsibilities in implementing the 

provisions of §§ 73.1200, 73.1205, and 

73.1210. 

II. Additional Information 

The NRC published a notice of 

availability of DG–5080 in the Federal 

Register on October 27, 2023 (88 FR 

73767) for a 45-day public comment 

period. The public comment period 

closed on December 11, 2023. The NRC 

staff made changes to RG 5.62 in 

response to public comments. The NRC 

staff’s responses to these public 

comments on DG–5080 are available in 

ADAMS under Accession No. 

ML23299A187. 

As noted in the Federal Register on 

December 9, 2022 (87 FR 75671), this 

document is being published in the 

‘‘Rules’’ section of the Federal Register 

to comply with publication 

requirements under 1 CFR chapter I. 

III. Congressional Review Act 

This RG is a rule as defined in the 

Congressional Review Act (5 U.S.C. 

801–808). However, the Office of 

Management and Budget has not found 

it to be a major rule as defined in the 

Congressional Review Act. 

IV. Backfitting, Forward Fitting, and 

Issue Finality 

Issuance of Revision 3 to RG 5.62 does 

not constitute backfitting as defined in 

10 CFR 72.62, ‘‘Backfitting,’’ 10 CFR 

70.76, ‘‘Backfitting,’’ and 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’’ (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML18093B087); does not constitute 

forward fitting as that term is defined 

and described in MD 8.4; and does not 

affect the issue finality of any approval 

issued under 10 CFR part 52, ‘‘Licenses, 

Certificates, and Approvals for Nuclear 

Powerplants,’’ because, as explained in 

Revision 3 to RG 5.62, licensees are not 

required to comply with the positions 

set forth in the RG. 

V. 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: September 4, 2024. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Meraj Rahimi, 

Chief, Regulatory Guide and Programs 

Management Branch, Division of Engineering, 

Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. 

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10 CFR Part 1703 

[Docket No. DNFSB–2024–01] 

RIN 3155–AA03 

Freedom of Information Act: Revised 

Fee Schedule 

AGENCY: Defense Nuclear Facilities 

Safety Board. 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: This final rule revises the 

Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety 

Board’s (DNFSB or Board) Freedom of 

Information Act (FOIA or Act) fee 

schedule and makes conforming 

amendments to two related provisions 

of its FOIA regulations. 

DATES: This rule is effective October 10, 

2024. 

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