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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. 

II. Background 

The ADVANCE Act was signed into 

law by President Biden on July 9, 2024. 

The Act, which can be found at https:// 

www.congress.gov/118/bills/s870/BILLS118s870enr.pdf, contains a variety of 

requirements relevant to the NRC. They 

address a wide range of NRC activities, 

such as the NRC’s budgeting process, 

recruitment and retention of the NRC 

workforce, reduced fee rates for 

advanced nuclear reactor applicants and 

pre-applicants, the regulatory 

framework for advanced reactors and 

fusion technology, as well as strategies 

to enhance the NRC’s efficient, timely, 

and predictable reviews of license 

applications. The Act also requires the 

NRC to provide reports to Congress on 

various topics. The NRC has initiated 

implementation of the Act and will be 

taking additional actions to carry out the 

Act’s provisions, including 

requirements with deadlines over the 

course of the next few years. 

III. Discussion 

The ADVANCE Act requires the NRC 

to take a number of actions while 

maintaining the NRC’s core mission to 

protect public health and safety and 

promote the common defense and 

security. The NRC is undertaking 

multiple actions to implement the 

requirements of the ADVANCE Act and 

meet the Act’s various deadlines. The 

NRC will periodically hold public 

meetings on the NRC’s efforts to 

implement the ADVANCE Act. The NRC 

may make preliminary material, such as 

white papers, available to support 

stakeholder engagement during public 

meetings. If preliminary material is 

released to support a public meeting on 

ADVANCE Act implementation, 

information about the preliminary 

material will be included in the 

corresponding public meeting notice. 

The information discussed at the public 

meetings and any preliminary material 

made publicly available may be 

incomplete in one or more respects; 

however, the NRC welcomes diverse 

stakeholder feedback to inform its 

efforts to implement the ADVANCE Act. 

Public meetings to support the NRC’s 

implementation of the ADVANCE Act 

will be noticed in the NRC’s Public 

Meeting Notice System at least 10 days 

in advance of the scheduled meeting. 

The NRC will not issue a Federal 

Register notice each time a public 

meeting is scheduled. Please monitor 

the public web page. 

Feedback on the NRC’s 

implementation of the ADVANCE Act 

can also be provided via the publicly 

available feedback form on the NRC’s 

ADVANCE Act website at https://

www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/governing-laws/ 

advance-act/contactus.html, or via 

email through ADVANCEAct.Resource@nrc.gov. The NRC 

cautions you not to include identifying 

or contact information that you do not 

want to be publicly disclosed in your 

submission provided through this 

feedback form or email address. The 

NRC will enter the 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. 

Submissions received will be 

considered as part of the NRC’s 

implementation of the ADVANCE Act, 

and whether the NRC responds to the 

submission may depend on the nature 

of the question or comment. 

Submissions may be used or modified 

by the NRC in the NRC’s 

implementation of the ADVANCE Act 

without attribution to the author of the 

submission. 

Dated: September 23, 2024. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Michael King, 

Special Assistant to the Executive Director 

for Operations, Office of the Executive 

Director for Operations. 

[FR Doc. 2024–22052 Filed 9–25–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2024–0151] 

Draft Interim Staff Guidance: 

Contamination Control, Radiological 

Survey, and Dose Modeling 

Considerations To Support License 

Termination at Sites With 

Environmental Discrete Radioactive 

Particle Contamination 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Draft guidance; request for 

comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is soliciting public 

comment on its draft Interim Staff 

Guidance (ISG), DUWP–ISG–03, ‘‘Draft 

Interim Staff Guidance on 

Contamination Control, Radiological 

Survey, and Dose Modeling 

Considerations to Support License 

Termination at Sites with 

Environmental Discrete Radioactive 

Particle Contamination.’’ The draft ISG 

addresses contamination control, 

radiological surveys, and dose modeling 

regarding discrete radioactive particles 

(DRPs) that are found in the 

environment due to an unplanned 

release or that potentially could be 

released to the environment during 

decommissioning. If finalized, this ISG 

would allow staff to develop consistent 

guidance regarding contamination 

control, particularly focused on nondiffuse contamination, during the 

decommissioning process, as well as 

provide acceptable survey approaches 

and dose methods for discrete 

radioactive particles until the 

appropriate NRC regulatory guidance 

can be updated. 

DATES: Submit comments by October 28, 

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: 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–2024–0151. 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. 

• 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: 

Amy M. Snyder, Office of Nuclear 

Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 


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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2024– 

0151 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–2024–0151. 

• 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. The draft 

ISG is available in ADAMS under 

Accession No. ML24219A032. 

• 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–2024–0151 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. Discussion 

Current decommissioning guidance is 

focused on addressing diffuse residual 

radioactivity with respect to performing 

surveys and assessing potential public 

exposure after license termination and 

does not address discrete radioactive 

particle contamination nor discuss how 

to control this type of contamination 

during decommissioning. For these 

reasons, the NRC staff have approached 

each past instance of DRP 

contamination on a case-by-case basis 

which may have led to some perceived 

inconsistencies in the approach to 

decommissioning. This draft guidance 

presents an acceptable approach for 

addressing discrete radioactive particle 

contamination throughout the 

decommissioning process. Such nondiffuse contamination can be found at 

power reactors, as well as fuel cycle 

facilities during any phase of 

decommissioning. 

The staff is also issuing for public 

comment a draft regulatory analysis 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML24227A987). 

III. Backfitting, Forward Fitting, and 

Issue Finality 

Issuance of this ISG, if finalized, 

would not (i) constitute backfitting as 

defined in section 50.109 of title 10 of 

the Code of Federal Regulations (10 

CFR), ‘‘Backfitting,’’ 70.76, 

‘‘Backfitting,’’ and 72.62, ‘‘Backfitting,’’ 

and as described in Management 

Directive (MD) 8.4, ‘‘Management of 

Backfitting, Forward Fitting, Issue 

Finality, and Information Requests’’; or 

(ii) affect issue finality of any approval 

issued under 10 CFR part 52, ‘‘Licenses, 

Certifications, and Approvals for 

Nuclear Power Plants’’; or (iii) 

constitute forward fitting as that term is 

defined and described in MD 8.4, 

because licensees would not be required 

to comply with the positions set forth in 

this ISG, if finalized. 

Dated: September 20, 2024. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Jane Marshall, 

Director, Division of Decommissioning, 

Uranium Recovery, and Waste Programs, 

Office of Nuclear Material Safety and 

Safeguards. 

[FR Doc. 2024–22003 Filed 9–25–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY 

CORPORATION 

Submission of Information Collection 

for OMB Review; Comment Request; 

Historical Pension Plan Tracing 

Service Intake Information 

AGENCY: Pension Benefit Guaranty 

Corporation. 

ACTION: Notice of request for approval of 

information collection. 

SUMMARY: The Pension Benefit Guaranty 

Corporation (PBGC) is requesting that 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) approve, under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act, of a new collection of 

information. The purpose of the 

information collection is to obtain 

information that the Office of the PBGC 

Participant and Plan Sponsor Advocate 

requires from the public to conduct its 

pension plan tracing service. This notice 

informs the public of PBGC’s request 

and solicits public comment on the 

collection of information. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before October 28, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. 

All comments received will be posted 

without change to PBGC’s website, 

www.pbgc.gov, including any personal 

information provided. Do not submit 

comments that include any personally 

identifiable information or confidential 

business information. 

A copy of the request will be posted 

on PBGC’s website at https://

www.pbgc.gov/prac/laws-andregulation/federal-register-notices-openfor-comment. It may also be obtained 

without charge by writing to the 

Disclosure Division (disclosure@

pbgc.gov), Office of the General Counsel, 

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, 

445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 

20024–2101; or, calling 202–229–4040 

during normal business hours. If you are 

deaf or hard of hearing, or have a speech 

disability, please dial 7–1–1 to access 

telecommunications relay services. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Monica O’Donnell (odonnell.monica@

pbgc.gov), Attorney, Regulatory Affairs 

Division, Office of the General Counsel, 

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, 

445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 

20024–2101, 202–229–8706. If you are 

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