This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER

contains notices to the public of the proposed

issuance of rules and regulations. The

purpose of these notices is to give interested

persons an opportunity to participate in the

rule making prior to the adoption of the final

rules.

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Monday, November 25, 2024 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Agricultural Marketing Service 

9 CFR Part 201 

[Doc. No. AMS–FTPP–24–0013] 

RIN 0581–AE30 

Price Discovery and Competition in 

Markets for Fed Cattle; Extension of 

Comment Period 

AGENCY: Agricultural Marketing Service, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Advance notice of proposed 

rulemaking; extension of comment 

period. 

SUMMARY: The Agricultural Marketing 

Service (AMS) is extending the public 

comment period on its advance notice 

of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) by an 

additional 30 days. The ANPR requests 

advance comments on proposals to 

amend the regulations under the 

Packers and Stockyards Act to address 

concerns regarding price discovery and 

fairness in fed cattle markets. 

DATES: The comment period for the 

document originally published on 

October 11, 2024 (89 FR 82519) is 

extended 30 days. Comments must be 

submitted on or before January 10, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Comments can be submitted 

through the Federal e-rulemaking portal 

at https://www.regulations.gov and 

should reference the document number 

and the date and page number of this 

issue of the Federal Register. AMS 

strongly prefers comments be submitted 

electronically. However, written 

comments may be submitted (i.e., 

delivered, not postmarked) via mail on 

or before January 10, 2025, to Docket 

No. AMS–FTPP–24–0013, S. Brett 

Offutt, Chief Legal Officer, Packers and 

Stockyards Division, USDA, AMS, 

FTPP; Room 2097–S, Mail Stop 3601, 

1400 Independence Ave. SW, 

Washington, DC 20250–3601. All 

comments submitted in response to this 

ANPR will be included in the record 

and will be made available to the 

public, as submitted, including any 

identifying information. Comments can 

be submitted anonymously by entering 

‘‘N/A’’ in the fields that would identify 

the commenter. Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 

553(b)(4), a plain language summary of 

the ANPR is available on https://

www.regulations.gov in the docket for 

this rulemaking. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: S. 

Brett Offutt, Chief Legal Officer/Policy 

Advisor, Packers and Stockyards 

Division, USDA AMS Fair Trade 

Practices Program, 1400 Independence 

Ave. SW, Washington, DC 20250; 

Phone: (202) 690–4355; or email: 

s.brett.offutt@usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: An ANPR 

published in the Federal Register on 

October 11, 2024 (89 FR 82519), seeks 

public feedback on an identified set of 

regulatory options that AMS could 

employ to address concerns regarding 

price discovery and fairness in fed cattle 

markets. Information from public 

comments would inform AMS’s 

approach to this topic, including any 

future regulatory changes. 

The ANPR established a 60-day 

comment period, ending December 10, 

2024. During the initial comment 

period, AMS received requests from 

several industry organizations asking for 

additional time to submit comments and 

citing the various proposals’ complexity 

and wide-ranging impacts that could 

cause significant legal and economic 

changes in relationships between 

packers and their suppliers. AMS is 

extending the comment period related 

to the ANPR by an additional 30 days. 

Comments must be submitted on or 

before January 10, 2025. 

Erin Morris, 

Associate Administrator, Agricultural 

Marketing Service. 

[FR Doc. 2024–27556 Filed 11–22–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

10 CFR Part 50 

[Docket No. PRM–50–126; NRC–2024–0173] 

Technical Specifications for Nuclear 

Power Reactors 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Petition for rulemaking; notice 

of docketing, and request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) has received a 

petition for rulemaking (PRM) from 

Brian D. Mann on behalf of the 

Technical Specifications Task Force, the 

Pressurized Water Reactor Owners 

Group, and the Boiling Water Reactor 

Owners’ Group, dated September 13, 

2024, requesting that the NRC revise its 

regulations to apply risk insights to the 

selection of technical specifications 

Limiting Conditions for Operation and 

to update the regulation to be consistent 

with the guidance in the NRC’s 

Standard Technical Specifications. The 

petition was docketed by the NRC on 

October 1, 2024, and has been assigned 

Docket No. PRM–50–126. The NRC is 

examining the issues raised in PRM–50– 

126 to determine whether they should 

be considered in rulemaking. The NRC 

is requesting public comment on this 

petition at this time. 

DATES: Submit comments by February 

10, 2025. Comments received after this 

date will be considered if it is practical 

to do so, but the NRC is able to assure 

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–2024–0173. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Helen 

Chang; telephone: 301–415–3228; email: 

Helen.Chang@nrc.gov. For technical 

questions contact the individual listed 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this document. 

• Email comments to: 

Rulemaking.Comments@nrc.gov. If you 

do not receive an automatic email reply 

confirming receipt, then contact us at 

301–415–1677. 

• Fax comments to: Secretary, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission at 301– 

415–1101. 

• Mail comments to: Secretary, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, ATTN: 

Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff. 

• Hand deliver comments to: 11555 

Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 

20852, between 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. 

Eastern Time (ET), Federal workdays; 

telephone: 301–415–1677. 


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You can read a plain language 

description of this petition for 

rulemaking at https://

www.regulations.gov/docket/NRC-2024- 

0173. 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: 

Denise Edwards, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 

20555–0001; telephone: 404–997–4432, 

email: Denise.Edwards@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2024– 

0173 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–2024–0173. 

• 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, 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 NRC 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. 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–2024–0173 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. The Petitioner and Petition 

The PRM was filed by Brian D. Mann 

on behalf of the Technical 

Specifications Task Force, the 

Pressurized Water Reactor Owners 

Group, and the Boiling Water Reactor 

Owner’s Group. The PRM requests that 

the NRC revise its regulations at title 10 

of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 

CFR), section 50.36, ‘‘Technical 

specifications,’’ to apply risk insights to 

the selection of technical specifications 

(TS) Limiting Conditions for Operation 

(LCO) and to update the regulation to be 

consistent with the guidance in the 

NRC’s Standard Technical 

Specifications (STS). The PRM may be 

found in ADAMS under Accession 

number ML24274A209. 

III. Discussion of the Petition 

The petitioner requests the NRC 

revise 10 CFR 50.36 to apply risk 

insights to the selection of technical 

specifications TS LCO and to update the 

regulation to be consistent with the 

guidance in the NRC’s STS. The 

petitioner proposes the following 

specific changes to risk-inform the 

criteria for selection of LCOs: 

• Revise the selection criteria for 

LCOs to state that items that satisfy 10 

CFR 50.36(c)(2)(ii)(B) and (C) (i.e., 

Criterion 2 and Criterion 3) must also be 

shown by probabilistic risk assessment 

to be significant to public health and 

safety. 

• Update the description of 10 CFR 

50.36(c)(2)(ii)(D) (i.e., Criterion 4) to 

eliminate the reference to operating 

experience and to distinguish Criterion 

4 from the revised Criteria 2 and 3. 

• Although not part of the proposed 

rule changes, the Petitioner also 

suggests that in conjunction with the 

rule change the Commission update the 

‘‘Final Policy Statement on Technical 

Specifications Improvements for 

Nuclear Power Reactors’’ (58 FR 39132, 

July 22, 1993), to reflect changes made 

to 10 CFR 50.36. 

The petitioner states that these 

changes will allow future improvements 

to plant safety and operation to be made 

based on the application of risk to the 

TS selection criteria. The rule as 

currently written does not allow for 

these types of improvements. 

The petitioner also proposes updates 

to 10 CFR 50.36 to make the rule more 

consistent with the NRC’s STS and to 

remove information that is no longer 

applicable. These changes are proposed 

on a ‘‘not-to-interfere’’ basis with the 

primary change to risk-inform the TS 

LCO selection criteria. To align the rule 

with the NRC’s STS, the petitioner 

proposed the following specific 

changes: 

• Revise the regulation to not require 

TS bases for the Design Features. The 

petitioner points out that neither the 

STS nor plant TS approved by the NRC 

include Bases for Design Features. The 

petitioner states that this change would 

align the regulation with over 50 years 

of Commission practice. 

• Eliminate the requirement that the 

TS include requirements designated as 

limiting safety system settings (LSSS). 

The petitioner states that in the STS, 

LSSS have been merged with the LCO 

requirements for instrumentation. 

Additionally, the petitioner states that 

the industry and the NRC have 

disagreed on what constitutes an LSSS 

causing confusion in the application of 

the regulation. Based on this, the 

petitioner recommends deletion of this 

requirement. 

• Revise the description of 

Surveillance Requirements (SRs) to no 

longer state that SRs assure that the 

necessary quality of systems and 

components is maintained. The 

petitioner states that the regulation is 

inaccurate in stating that SRs assure the 

quality of systems and components is 

maintained because there are many 

aspects of system or component quality 

that are not monitored by TS SRs and 

are instead verified by other means, 

such as the American Society of 

Mechanical Engineers Code, vendor 

quality assurance audits, licensee 

receipt inspections, and the licensee’s 

NRC-approved Quality Assurance 

Program. Based on this, the petitioner 

concludes that none of the actions to 

assure quality are confirmed by TS SRs, 

so the description of SRs should be 

revised. 

• Revise the Administrative Controls 

description to remove the requirement 

to include recordkeeping, and review 

and audit, and to include a requirement 

for licensee programs. The petitioner 


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states that in 1993, these requirements 

were removed from the STS. In 

addition, the Administrative Controls 

section of the STS includes programs 

not described in the regulation. Based 

on this, the petitioner proposed to 

update the description of 

Administrative Controls to be consistent 

with the STS. 

• Eliminate the unnecessary 

exceptions for plants licensed prior to 

1969. The petitioner states that these 

exceptions are no longer applicable as 

all operating plants have TS included in 

the license. The petitioner suggests that 

this provision be removed to simplify 

the regulations. 

IV. Conclusion 

The NRC has determined that the 

petition meets the sufficiency 

requirements for docketing a PRM under 

10 CFR 2.803, ‘‘Petition for rulemakingNRC action.’’ The NRC will examine the 

issues raised in PRM–50–126 and any 

comments received in response to this 

comment request to determine whether 

these issues should be considered in 

rulemaking. The public can monitor 

further action on the rulemaking that 

will address this petition by searching 

Docket ID NRC–2024–0173 on the 

Federal rulemaking website, https://

www.regulations.gov. The site allows 

members of the public to receive alerts 

when changes or additions occur in a 

docket folder. To subscribe: (1) navigate 

to the docket folder (NRC–2024–0173); 

(2) click the ‘‘Subscribe’’ link; and (3) 

enter an email address and click on the 

‘‘Subscribe’’ link. The NRC also tracks 

the status of all NRC rules and PRMs on 

its website at https://www.nrc.gov/ 

about-nrc/regulatory/rulemaking/rulespetitions.html. 

Dated: November 19, 2024. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Carrie Safford, 

Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2024–27422 Filed 11–22–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

10 CFR Parts 429 and 430 

[EERE–2024–BT–TP–0010] 

RIN 1904–AF67 

Energy Conservation Program: Test 

Procedure for General Service Lamps 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking 

and announcement of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (‘‘DOE’’) proposes several 

clarifications to the test procedures for 

general service lamps (‘‘GSLs’’) located 

in appendix W, appendix BB and 

appendix DD. Specifically, DOE 

proposes to clarify that GSLs must not 

be tested as colored lamps, GSLs that 

can operate at multiple correlated color 

temperatures (‘‘CCTs’’) be tested at one 

specific CCT, and that lamps with 

additional components that do not affect 

light output must be turned off during 

testing. The proposed clarifications 

specify that non-integrated lamps be 

tested with a fluorescent lamp ballast or 

external driver selected based on 

compatibility lists and availability; and 

provide specifications regarding the 

starting method, ballast factor, number 

of lamps and references to the relevant 

industry standards. This rulemaking is 

limited in scope and is considering 

clarifications to the current test 

procedures that are required for 

certification of compliance with existing 

applicable GSL energy conservation 

standards. Further, this rulemaking does 

not satisfy the Energy Policy and 

Conservation Act (EPCA) requirement 

that, at least once every 7 years, DOE 

review the test procedures for GSLs. 

DOE is seeking comment from 

interested parties on the proposal. 

DATES: DOE will accept comments, data, 

and information regarding this proposal 

no later than December 26, 2024. See 

section V of this document, ‘‘Public 

Participation,’’ for details. 

DOE will hold a public meeting if one 

is requested by December 2, 2024. If a 

public meeting is requested, DOE will 

announce its date and participation 

information on the DOE website and via 

email. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

encouraged to submit comments using 

the Federal eRulemaking Portal at 

www.regulations.gov under docket 

number EERE–2024–BT–TP–0010. 

Follow the instructions for submitting 

comments. Alternatively, interested 

persons may submit comments, 

identified by docket number EERE– 

2024–BT–TP–0010, by any of the 

following methods: 

(1) Email: GSL2024TP0010@

ee.doe.gov. Include the docket number 

EERE–2024–BT–TP–0010 in the subject 

line of the message. 

(2) Postal Mail: Appliance and 

Equipment Standards Program, U.S. 

Department of Energy, Building 

Technologies Office, Mailstop EE–5B, 

1000 Independence Avenue SW, 

Washington, DC 20585–0121. 

Telephone: (202) 287–1445. If possible, 

please submit all items on a compact 

disc (‘‘CD’’), in which case it is not 

necessary to include printed copies. 

(3) Hand Delivery/Courier: Appliance 

and Equipment Standards Program, U.S. 

Department of Energy, Building 

Technologies Office, Mailstop EE–5B, 

1000 Independence Avenue SW, 

Washington, DC 20585–0121. 

Telephone: (202) 287–1445. If possible, 

please submit all items on a CD, in 

which case it is not necessary to include 

printed copies. 

No telefacsimiles (‘‘faxes’’) will be 

accepted. For detailed instructions on 

submitting comments and additional 

information on this process, see section 

V of this document. 

Docket: The docket for this activity, 

which includes Federal Register 

notices, public meeting attendee lists 

and transcripts (if a public meeting is 

held), comments, and other supporting 

documents/materials, is available for 

review at www.regulations.gov. All 

documents in the docket are listed in 

the www.regulations.gov index. 

However, not all documents listed in 

the index may be publicly available, 

such as information that is exempt from 

public disclosure. 

The docket web page can be found at 

www.regulations.gov/docket/EERE– 

2024-BT-TP-0010. The docket web page 

contains instructions on how to access 

all documents, including public 

comments, in the docket. See section V 

of this document for information on 

how to submit comments through 

www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mr. Bryan Berringer, U.S. Department 

of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency 

and Renewable Energy, Building 

Technologies Office, EE–2J, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW, Washington, 

DC 20585–0121. Telephone: (202) 586– 

0371. Email ApplianceStandards

Questions@ee.doe.gov. 

Ms. Kiana Daw, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Office of the General Counsel, 

GC–33, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, 

Washington, DC 20585–0121. 

Telephone: (202) 586–4798. Email: 

kiana.daw@hq.doe.gov. 

For further information on how to 

submit a comment, review other public 

comments and the docket, or participate 

in a public meeting (if one is held), 

contact the Appliance and Equipment 

Standards Program staff at (202) 287– 

1445 or by email: ApplianceStandards

Questions@ee.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DOE 

proposes to maintain previously 

approved incorporations by reference 

and to incorporate by reference the 


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