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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4808 

Vol. 80, No. 19 

Thursday, January 29, 2015 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

10 CFR Part 72 

[NRC–2014–0058] 

RIN 3150–AJ39 

List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage 

Casks: NAC International 

MAGNASTOR® System, Certificate of 

Compliance No. 1031, Amendment 

No. 4 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is proposing to 

amend its spent fuel storage regulations 

to add Amendment No. 4 to the 

Certificate of Compliance (CoC) No. 

1031 for the NAC International 

MAGNASTOR® System. Amendment 

No. 4 changes a limiting condition for 

operation in the technical specifications 

for transportable storage canister 

vacuum drying and helium backfill 

times, and corrects a typographical 

error. The NRC approval of this 

Amendment would not authorize 

transportation. 

DATES: Submit comments by March 2, 

2015. Comments received after this date 

will be considered if it is practical to do 

so, but the NRC staff is able to ensure 

consideration only for comments 

received on or before this date. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any one of the following methods 

(unless this document describes a 

different method for submitting 

comments on a specific subject): 

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go 

to: http://www.regulations.gov and 

search for Docket ID NRC–2014–0058. 

Address questions about NRC dockets to 

Carol Gallagher, telephone: 301–287– 

3422, email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. 

For technical questions, please 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, 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) Federal workdays; 

telephone: 301–415–1677. 

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: 

Robert MacDougall, Office of Nuclear 

Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, telephone: 

301–415–5175, email: 

Robert.MacDougall@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2014– 

0058 when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information for this 

proposed rule. You may access publiclyavailable information related to this 

proposed rule by any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go 

to: http://www.regulations.gov and 

search for Docket ID NRC–2014–0058. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly 

available 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 it is available in 

ADAMS) is provided the first time that 

it is mentioned in the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section. The proposed CoC, 

proposed Appendix A and Appendix B 

of the technical specifications, and 

preliminary Safety Evaluation Report 

(SER) are available in ADAMS under 

Accession Nos. ML14272A472, 

ML14272A479, ML14272A484, and 

ML14272A487, respectively. 

• 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–2014– 

0058 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 in 

comment submissions that you do not 

want to be publicly disclosed in your 

comment submission. The NRC will 

post all comment submissions at: 

http://www.regulations.gov as well as 

enter the comment submissions into 

ADAMS, and 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. Procedural Background 

This proposed rule is limited to the 

changes contained in Amendment No. 4 

to CoC No. 1031 and does not include 

other aspects of the NAC International 

MAGNASTOR® System design. Because 

the NRC considers this action 

noncontroversial and routine, the NRC 

is publishing this proposed rule 

concurrently with a direct final rule in 

the Rules and Regulations section of this 

issue of the Federal Register. Adequate 

protection of public health and safety 

continues to be ensured. The direct final 

rule will become effective on April 14, 


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2015. If the NRC receives significant 

adverse comments on this proposed rule 

by March 2, 2015, however, it will 

publish a document that withdraws the 

direct final rule. If the direct final rule 

is withdrawn, the NRC will address the 

comments received in response to these 

proposed revisions in a subsequent final 

rule. Absent significant modifications to 

the proposed revisions that would 

require republication, the NRC will not 

initiate a second comment period on 

this action. 

A significant adverse comment is one 

in which the commenter explains why 

the rule would be inappropriate. This 

could include challenging the rule’s 

underlying premise or approach, or 

explaining why the rule would be 

ineffective or unacceptable without a 

change. A comment is adverse and 

significant if: 

(1) The comment opposes the rule and 

provides a reason sufficient to require a 

substantive response in a notice-andcomment process. For example, a 

substantive response is required when: 

(a) The comment causes the NRC staff 

to reevaluate its position or conduct 

additional analysis; 

(b) The comment raises an issue 

serious enough to warrant a substantive 

response to clarify or complete the 

record; or (c) The comment raises a 

relevant issue that was not previously 

addressed or considered by the NRC 

staff. 

(2) The comment proposes a change 

or an addition to the rule, and it is 

apparent that the rule would be 

ineffective or unacceptable without 

incorporation of the change or addition. 

(3) The comment causes the NRC staff 

to make a change (other than editorial) 

to the rule, CoC, or technical 

specifications. 

For additional procedural 

information, including the regulatory 

analysis and the availability of the 

environmental assessment and finding 

of no significant impact, see the direct 

final rule published in the Rules and 

Regulations section of this issue of the 

Federal Register. 

III. Background 

Section 218(a) of the Nuclear Waste 

Policy Act (NWPA) of 1982, as 

amended, requires that ‘‘the Secretary 

[of the U.S. Department of Energy] shall 

establish a demonstration program, in 

cooperation with the private sector, for 

the dry storage of spent nuclear fuel at 

civilian nuclear power reactor sites, 

with the objective of establishing one or 

more technologies that the [U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory] Commission may, by rule, 

approve for use at the sites of civilian 

nuclear power reactors without, to the 

maximum extent practicable, the need 

for additional site-specific approvals by 

the Commission.’’ Section 133 of the 

NWPA states, in part, that ‘‘[the 

Commission] shall, by rule, establish 

procedures for the licensing of any 

technology approved by the 

Commission under Section 219(a) [sic: 

218(a)] for use at the site of any civilian 

nuclear power reactor.’’ 

To implement this mandate, the 

Commission approved dry storage of 

spent nuclear fuel in NRC-approved 

casks under a general license by 

publishing a final rule in part 72 of Title 

10 of the Code of Federal Regulations 

(10 CFR), ’’Licensing Requirements for 

the Independent Storage of Spent 

Nuclear Fuel, High-Level Radioactive 

Waste, and Reactor-Related Greater 

Than Class C Waste,’’ which added a 

new subpart K within 10 CFR part 72 

entitled, ‘‘General License for Storage of 

Spent Fuel at Power Reactor Sites’’ (55 

FR 29181; July 18, 1990). This rule also 

established a new subpart L within 10 

CFR part 72 entitled, ‘‘Approval of 

Spent Fuel Storage Casks,’’ which 

contains procedures and criteria for 

obtaining NRC approval of spent fuel 

storage cask designs. The NRC 

subsequently issued a final rule (73 FR 

70587; November 1, 2008) that approved 

the NAC International MAGNASTOR®

System design and added it to the list 

of NRC-approved cask designs in 10 

CFR 72.214, ‘‘List of approved spent 

fuel storage casks,’’ as CoC No. 1031. 

IV. Plain Writing 

The Plain Writing Act of 2010 (Pub. 

L. 111–274) requires Federal agencies to 

write documents in a clear, concise, and 

well-organized manner. The NRC has 

written this document to be consistent 

with the Plain Writing Act as well as the 

Presidential Memorandum, ‘‘Plain 

Language in Government Writing,’’ 

published June 10, 1998 (63 FR 31883). 

List of Subjects in 10 CFR Part 72 

Administrative practice and 

procedure, Criminal penalties, 

Manpower training programs, Nuclear 

materials, Occupational safety and 

health, Penalties, Radiation protection, 

Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements, Security measures, Spent 

fuel, Whistleblowing. 

For the reasons set out in the 

preamble and under the authority of the 

Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended; 

the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, 

as amended; the Nuclear Waste Policy 

Act of 1982, as amended; and 5 U.S.C. 

552 and 553; the NRC is proposing to 

adopt the following amendments to 10 

CFR part 72. 

PART 72—LICENSING 

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE 

INDEPENDENT STORAGE OF SPENT 

NUCLEAR FUEL, HIGH-LEVEL 

RADIOACTIVE WASTE, AND 

REACTOR–RELATED GREATER THAN 

CLASS C WASTE 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 72 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: Atomic Energy Act secs. 51, 53, 

57, 62, 63, 65, 69, 81, 161, 182, 183, 184, 186, 

187, 189, 223, 234, 274 (42 U.S.C. 2071, 2073, 

2077, 2092, 2093, 2095, 2099, 2111, 2201, 

2232, 2233, 2234, 2236, 2237, 2239, 2273, 

2282, 2021); Energy Reorganization Act secs. 

201, 202, 206, 211 (42 U.S.C. 5841, 5842, 

5846, 5851); National Environmental Policy 

Act sec. 102 (42 U.S.C. 4332); Nuclear Waste 

Policy Act secs. 131, 132, 133, 135, 137, 141, 

148 (42 U.S.C. 10151, 10152, 10153, 10155, 

10157, 10161, 10168); Government 

Paperwork Elimination Act sec. 1704 (44 

U.S.C. 3504 note); Energy Policy Act of 2005, 

Public Law 109–58, 119 Stat. 549 (2005). 

Section 72.44(g) also issued under 

Nuclear Waste Policy Act secs. 142(b) 

and 148(c), (d) (42 U.S.C. 10162(b), 

10168(c), (d)). Section 72.46 also issued 

under Atomic Energy Act sec. 189 (42 

U.S.C. 2239); Nuclear Waste Policy Act 

sec. 134 (42 U.S.C. 10154). Section 

72.96(d) also issued under Nuclear 

Waste Policy Act sec. 145(g) (42 U.S.C. 

10165(g)). Subpart J also issued under 

Nuclear Waste Policy Act secs. 117(a), 

141(h) (42 U.S.C. 10137(a), 10161(h)). 

Subpart K also issued under Nuclear 

Waste Policy Act sec. 218(a) (42 U.S.C. 

10198). 

■ 2. In § 72.214, Certificate of 

Compliance No. 1031 is revised to read 

as follows: 

§ 72.214 List of approved spent fuel 

storage casks. 

* * * * * 

Certificate Number: 1031. 

Initial Certificate Effective Date: 

February 4, 2009. 

Amendment Number 1 Effective Date: 

August 30, 2010. 

Amendment Number 2 Effective Date: 

January 30, 2012. 

Amendment Number 3 Effective Date: 

July 25, 2013. 

Amendment Number 4 Effective Date: 

April 14, 2015. 

SAR Submitted by: NAC 

International, Inc. 

SAR Title: Final Safety Analysis 

Report for the MAGNASTOR® System. 

Docket Number: 72–1031. 

Certificate Expiration Date: February 

4, 2029. 

Model Number: MAGNASTOR®. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 15th day 

of January 2015. 


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For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Mark A. Satorius, 

Executive Director for Operations. 

[FR Doc. 2015–01691 Filed 1–28–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

14 CFR Part 39 

[Docket No. FAA–2015–0132; Directorate 

Identifier 2014–CE–038–AD] 

RIN 2120–AA64 

Airworthiness Directives; PILATUS 

Aircraft Ltd. Airplanes 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), Department of 

Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking 

(NPRM). 

SUMMARY: We propose to adopt a new 

airworthiness directive (AD) for 

PILATUS Aircraft Ltd. Model PC–7 

airplanes. This proposed AD results 

from mandatory continuing 

airworthiness information (MCAI) 

originated by an aviation authority of 

another country to identify and correct 

an unsafe condition on an aviation 

product. The MCAI describes the unsafe 

condition as the potential for a spring 

on the compressor clutch plate to shear 

the oil cooler inlet-hose due to the close 

routing of these parts without a 

protective cover. We are issuing this 

proposed AD to require actions to 

address the unsafe condition on these 

products. 

DATES: We must receive comments on 

this proposed AD by March 16, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: You may send comments by 

any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Fax: (202) 493–2251. 

• Mail: U.S. Department of 

Transportation, Docket Operations, M– 

30, West Building Ground Floor, Room 

W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

Washington, DC 20590. 

• Hand Delivery: U.S. Department of 

Transportation, Docket Operations, M– 

30, West Building Ground Floor, Room 

W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. 

and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

For service information identified in 

this NPRM, contact PILATUS 

AIRCRAFT LTD., Customer Technical 

Support (MCC), P.O. Box 992, CH–6371 

Stans, Switzerland; phone: +41 (0)41 

619 67 74; fax: +41 (0)41 619 67 73; 

email: Techsupport@pilatusaircraft.com; internet: http://

www.pilatus-aircraft.com. You may 

view this service information at the 

FAA, Small Airplane Directorate, 901 

Locust, Kansas City, Missouri 64106. 

For information on the availability of 

this material at the FAA, call (816) 329– 

4148. 

Examining the AD Docket 

You may examine the AD docket on 

the Internet at http://

www.regulations.gov by searching for 

and locating Docket No. FAA–2015– 

0132; or in person at the Docket 

Management Facility between 9 a.m. 

and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. The AD docket 

contains this proposed AD, the 

regulatory evaluation, any comments 

received, and other information. The 

street address for the Docket Office 

(telephone (800) 647–5527) is in the 

ADDRESSES section. Comments will be 

available in the AD docket shortly after 

receipt. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Doug Rudolph, Aerospace Engineer, 

FAA, Small Airplane Directorate, 901 

Locust, Room 301, Kansas City, 

Missouri 64106; telephone: (816) 329– 

4059; fax: (816) 329–4090; email: 

doug.rudolph@faa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Comments Invited 

We invite you to send any written 

relevant data, views, or arguments about 

this proposed AD. Send your comments 

to an address listed under the 

ADDRESSES section. Include ‘‘Docket No. 

FAA–2015–0132; Directorate Identifier 

2014–CE–038–AD’’ at the beginning of 

your comments. We specifically invite 

comments on the overall regulatory, 

economic, environmental, and energy 

aspects of this proposed AD. We will 

consider all comments received by the 

closing date and may amend this 

proposed AD because of those 

comments. 

We will post all comments we 

receive, without change, to http://

regulations.gov, including any personal 

information you provide. We will also 

post a report summarizing each 

substantive verbal contact we receive 

about this proposed AD. 

Discussion 

The Federal Office of Civil Aviation 

(FOCA), which is the aviation authority 

for Switzerland, has issued AD HB– 

2014–008, dated December 9, 2014 

(referred to after this as ‘‘the MCAI’’), to 

correct an unsafe condition for 

PILATUS Aircraft Ltd. Model PC–7 

airplanes and was based on mandatory 

continuing airworthiness information 

originated by an aviation authority of 

another country. The MCAI states: 

This Airworthiness Directive (AD) is 

prompted due to an unprotected routing of 

the oil cooler inlet-hose close to the air 

conditioning compressor clutch plate. 

If a spring on the compressor clutch plate 

shears it could lead to a damage of the oil 

hose and the engine oil can spill into the 

engine bay. 

In order to correct and control the situation, 

this AD requires the installation of a cover 

assembly which will be mounted on the 

attachment points of the compressor. 

You may examine the MCAI on the 

Internet at http://www.regulations.gov 

by searching for and locating Docket No. 

FAA–2015–0132. 

Relevant Service Information 

PILATUS Aircraft Ltd. has issued 

PILATUS PC–7 Service Bulletin No: 21– 

012, dated November 4, 2014. The 

actions described in this service 

information are intended to correct the 

unsafe condition identified in the 

MCAI. The PILATUS PC–7 Service 

Bulletin No: 21–012, dated November 4, 

2014, describes procedures for installing 

a cover assembly to the compressor to 

protect the engine oil hose. 

FAA’s Determination and Requirements 

of the Proposed AD 

This product has been approved by 

the aviation authority of another 

country, and is approved for operation 

in the United States. Pursuant to our 

bilateral agreement with this State of 

Design Authority, they have notified us 

of the unsafe condition described in the 

MCAI and service information 

referenced above. We are proposing this 

AD because we evaluated all 

information and determined the unsafe 

condition exists and is likely to exist or 

develop on other products of the same 

type design. 

Costs of Compliance 

We estimate that this proposed AD 

will affect 10 products of U.S. registry. 

We also estimate that it would take 

about 6 work-hours per product to 

comply with the basic requirements of 

this proposed AD. The average labor 

rate is $85 per work-hour. Required 

parts would cost about $1,250 per 

product. 

Based on these figures, we estimate 

the cost of the proposed AD on U.S. 

operators to be $17,600, or $1,760 per 

product. 

Authority for This Rulemaking 

Title 49 of the United States Code 

specifies the FAA’s authority to issue 


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