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Levy County Nuclear Power Plant, Units 

1 and 2 combined operating license 

proceeding is hereby reconstituted by 

appointing Administrative Judge E. Roy 

Hawkens to serve as Chairman in place 

of Administrative Judge Alex S. Karlin. 

All correspondence, documents, and 

other materials shall continue to be filed 

in accordance with the NRC E-Filing 

rule. See 10 CFR 2.302 et seq. 

Issued at Rockville, Maryland, this 16th 

day of January 2015. 

E. Roy Hawkens, 

Chief Administrative Judge, Atomic Safety 

and Licensing Board Panel. 

[FR Doc. 2015–01186 Filed 1–22–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2011–0011] 

Design and Inspection Criteria for 

Water-Control Structures Associated 

With Nuclear Power Plants 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Draft Regulatory Guide, request 

for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is re-issuing for a 

second round of public comment, draft 

regulatory guide (DG)–1245, ‘‘Design 

and Inspection Criteria for WaterControl Structures Associated With 

Nuclear Power Plants.’’ This DG is 

proposed revision 2 of regulatory guide 

(RG) 1.127, ‘‘Inspection of WaterControl Structures Associated With 

Nuclear Power Plants’’ dated March 

1978. This DG describes methods the 

NRC staff considers acceptable for 

designing and developing appropriate 

inservice inspection and surveillance 

programs for dams, slopes, canals, and 

other water-control structures associated 

with nuclear power plants. 

DATES: Submit comments by March 24, 

2015. 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. 

Although a time limit is given, 

comments and suggestions in 

connection with items for inclusion in 

guides currently being developed or 

improvements in all published guides 

are encouraged at any time. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods (unless 

this document describes a different 

method for submitting comments on a 

specified subject): 

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2011–0011. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Carol 

Gallagher; telephone: 301–287–3422; 

email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For 

technical questions, contact the 

individual(s) listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

document. 

• Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, 

Office of Administration, Mail Stop: 

3WFN 06A–A44M, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001. 

For additional direction on accessing 

information and submitting comments, 

see ‘‘Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments’’ in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Robert Pettis, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation, telephone: 301–415–3214, 

email: Robert.Pettis@nrc.gov or Mark 

Orr, Office of Nuclear Regulatory 

Research, telephone: 301–251–7495, 

email: Mark.Orr@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–2011– 

0011 when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information regarding 

this document. You may obtain 

publically-available information related 

to this document, by any of the 

following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2011–0011. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Carol 

Gallagher; telephone: 301–287–3422; 

email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For 

technical questions, contact the 

individual(s) listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

document. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/

adams.html. To begin the search, select 

‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then 

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 available in 

ADAMS) is provided the first time that 

a document is referenced. The DG is 

electronically available in ADAMS 

under Accession No. ML13255A435. 

• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and 

purchase copies of public documents at 

the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

B. Submitting Comments 

Please include Docket ID NRC–2011– 

0011 in the subject line of your 

comment submission, in order to ensure 

that the NRC is able to make your 

comment submission available to the 

public in this docket. 

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 posts all comment 

submissions at http://

www.regulations.gov as well as entering 

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 submissions 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 and make 

available to the public information such 

as methods that are acceptable to the 

NRC staff for implementing specific 

parts of the NRC’s regulations, 

techniques that the staff uses in 

evaluating specific problems or 

postulated accidents, and data that the 

staff needs in its review of applications 

for permits and licenses. 

The DG, entitled, ‘‘Design and 

Inspection Criteria for Water Control 

Structures Associated With Nuclear 

Power Plants’’ is temporarily identified 

by its task number, DG–1245. This DG– 

1245 is proposed revision 2 of RG 1.127, 

dated March 1978. This guide is a reissue of DG–1245, ‘‘Inspection of Water 

Control Structures Associated With 

Nuclear Power Plants’’ which was 

originally issued for public comment in 


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January 2011. The NRC staff has rewritten DG–1245 to more clearly 

identify the dams and other water 

control structures subject to this 

guidance document and is issuing it for 

a second round of public review and 

comment. 

Since the release of Revision 1 of RG 

1.127 in March 1978, the Federal 

guidelines for safety and inspection of 

dams and other water control structures 

have undergone significant revision. 

This DG is being updated to provide 

licensees and applicants with the most 

current guidance and to help ensure that 

applicants and licensees are able to 

demonstrate compliance with the 

applicable regulations. 

This DG describes a method the staff 

of the NRC considers acceptable for 

designing and developing appropriate 

inservice inspection (ISI) and 

surveillance programs for dams, slopes, 

canals, and other water-control 

structures associated with emergency 

cooling water systems or flood 

protection of nuclear power plants. 

This DG applies only to water control 

structures (e.g., dams, slopes, canals, 

reservoirs, and associated conveyance 

facilities) which are part of the nuclear 

power plant and whose failure could 

either cause site flooding, the failure of 

the plant’s emergency cooling systems, 

or otherwise endanger the plant. 

III. Backfitting and Issue Finality 

This DG, if finalized, does not 

constitute backfitting as defined in 

§ 50.109 of Title 10 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations (10 CFR) (the 

Backfit Rule), and is not otherwise 

inconsistent with the issue finality 

provisions in 10 CFR part 52, ‘‘Licenses, 

Certifications and Approvals for Nuclear 

Power Plants.’’ This DG provides 

guidance on one possible means for 

meeting NRC’s regulatory requirements 

for developing appropriate ISI and 

surveillance programs for dams, slopes, 

canals, and other water-control 

structures associated with emergency 

cooling and flood protection water 

systems as required by General Design 

Criterion (GDC) 45, ‘‘Inspection of 

Cooling Water System,’’ of Appendix A, 

‘‘General Design Criteria for Nuclear 

Power Plants,’’ to 10 CFR part 50, 

‘‘Domestic Licensing of Production and 

Utilization Facilities’’ (10 CFR part 50). 

Existing licensees and applicants of 

final design certification rules will not 

be required to comply with the new 

positions set forth in this DG, unless the 

licensee or design certification rule 

applicant seeks a voluntary change to its 

licensing basis with respect to ISI or 

surveillance programs for water control 

structures, and where the NRC 

determines that the safety review must 

include consideration of the ISI or 

surveillance program. Further 

information on the staff’s use of the DG, 

if finalized, is contained in the DG 

under Section D. Implementation. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 16th day 

of January, 2015. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Harriet Karagiannis, 

Acting Branch Chief, Regulatory Guidance 

and Generic Issues Branch, Division of 

Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory 

Research. 

[FR Doc. 2015–01155 Filed 1–22–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 50–302; NRC–2015–0010] 

Duke Energy Florida, Inc.; Crystal 

River Unit 3 Nuclear Generating Plant 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Environmental assessment and 

finding of no significant impact; final 

issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is considering 

issuance of exemptions in response to a 

March 28, 2014, request from Duke 

Energy Florida, Inc. (DEF or the 

licensee), representing itself and the 

other owners of the Crystal River Unit 

3 Nuclear Generating Plant (CR–3). One 

exemption would permit the licensee to 

use funds from the CR–3 

decommissioning trust (the Trust) for 

irradiated fuel management and site 

restoration activities. Another 

exemption would allow the licensee to 

use withdrawals from the Trust for these 

activities without prior notification to 

the NRC. The NRC staff is issuing a final 

Environmental Assessment (EA) and 

final Finding of No Significant Impact 

(FONSI) associated with the proposed 

exemptions. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2015–0010 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 Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2015–0010. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Carol 

Gallagher; telephone: 301–287–3422; 

email: Carol.Gallagher@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 publiclyavailable documents online in the 

ADAMS public documents collection at 

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/

adams.html. To begin the search, select 

‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then 

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 that document 

is available in ADAMS) is provided the 

first time that a document is referenced. 

The request for exemption, dated March 

28, 2014, is available in ADAMS under 

Accession No. ML14098A037. 

• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and 

purchase copies of public documents at 

the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael Orenak, Office of Nuclear 

Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415– 

3229; email: Michael.Orenak@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The NRC is considering issuance of 

exemptions from Sections 

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

10 of the Code of Federal Regulations 

(10 CFR) for Facility Operating License 

No. DPR–72, issued to DEF, for CR–3, 

located in Citrus County, Florida. The 

licensee requested the exemptions by 

letter dated March 28, 2014. The 

exemptions would allow the licensee to 

use funds from the Trust for irradiated 

fuel management and site restoration 

activities without prior notice to the 

NRC, in the same manner that funds 

from the Trust are used under 10 CFR 

50.82(a)(8) for decommissioning 

activities. Consistent with 10 CFR 51.21, 

the NRC has reviewed the requirements 

in 10 CFR 51.20(b) and 10 CFR 51.22(c) 

and has determined that an EA is the 

appropriate form of environmental 

review. Based on the results of the EA, 

which is provided in Section II below, 

the NRC is issuing this final FONSI. 

II. Environmental Assessment 

Description of the Proposed Action 

The proposed action would exempt 

DEF from meeting the requirements set 

forth in 10 CFR 50.82(a)(8)(i)(A) and 10 

CFR 50.75(h)(2). Specifically, the 


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