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III. Congressional Review Act 

This action 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. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 17th day 

of February 2015. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Scott A. Morris, 

Director, Division of Inspection and Regional 

Support, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation. 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2015–0044] 

Guidance for Evaluation of Acute 

Chemical Exposures and Proposed 

Quantitative Standards 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Draft interim staff guidance; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is soliciting public 

comment on its draft Interim Staff 

Guidance (ISG), ‘‘Guidance for 

Evaluation of Acute Chemical 

Exposures and Proposed Quantitative 

Standards.’’ The ISG supplements 

existing guidance in NUREG–1520, 

‘‘Standard Review Plan for the Review 

of a License Application for a Fuel 

Cycle Facility,’’ by providing additional 

guidance for the NRC to follow when 

evaluating descriptions of proposed 

quantitative standards. The ISG 

identifies sources of information on 

which proposed quantitative standards 

may be based. 

DATES: Submit comments by May 18, 

2015. 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 before this date. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any 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–2015–0044. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Carol 

Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; 

email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For 

technical questions, contact the 

individual listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

document. 

• Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, 

Office of Administration, Mail Stop: 

OWFN–12–H08, 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: 

Marilyn Diaz, Office of Nuclear Material 

Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 

20555–0001; telephone: 301–287–9068, 

email: Marilyn.Diaz@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–NRC– 

2015–0044 when contacting the NRC 

about the availability of information for 

this action. You may obtain publiclyavailable information related to this 

action by any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2015–0044. 

• 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 draft 

ISG is available in ADAMS under 

Accession No. ML15051A029. 

• 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–2015– 

0044 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. Background 

A fuel cycle facility licensee that is 

regulated under part 70 of Title 10 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), 

and that is subject to subpart H, 

‘‘Additional Requirements for Certain 

Licensees Authorized to Possess a 

Critical Mass of Special Nuclear 

Material,’’ is required to conduct an 

Integrated safety analysis (ISA) and 

submit an ISA summary that supports 

the license application. As relevant to 

the ISG, the 10 CFR 70.65(b)(7) 

provision requires that for all credible 

acute chemical exposure events set forth 

in 10 CFR 70.61(b)(4) and (c)(4), the ISA 

summary describe ‘‘the proposed 

quantitative standards used to assess the 

consequences to an individual from 

acute chemical exposure to licensed 

material or chemicals produced from 

licensed materials.’’ 

The ISG will assist the NRC in 

determining whether ISA summaries 

and the underlying ISAs conducted by 

applicants or licensees adequately 

consider all credible acute chemical 

exposure events and exposure 

pathways. The ISG identifies several 

sources of chemical hazards information 

on which proposed quantitative 

standards may be based. As stated in the 

ISG, these sources of information 

include the Emergency Response 

Planning Guidelines (ERPGs), the Acute 

Exposure Guidelines Levels (AEGLs), 

Temporary Emergency Exposure Levels 

(TEELs), and the Globally Harmonized 

System of Classification and Labeling of 

Chemicals (GHS). The ERPGs, AEGLs, 

TEELs and GHS hazard statements 

contain information relevant to 

inhalation exposure pathways. As 

detailed in the ISG, the National 

Institute for Occupational Safety and 

Health Skin Notations, and the GHS 

hazards statements, contain useful data 

on which an applicant may base its 

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proposed quantitative standards for 

dermal and ocular exposures. 

The information from the ISG will be 

incorporated into the next revision of 

NUREG–1520, ‘‘Standard Review Plan 

for the Review of a License Application 

for a Fuel Cycle Facility,’’ (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML101390110). 

Additional background information 

and documents related to this notice can 

be found in ADAMS under the 

following accession numbers: 

1 ............... Memorandum of Understanding Between NRC and OSHA Relating to NRC-Licensed Facilities ........................ ML11354A432 

2 ............... NRC Information Notice 2007–022, Recent Hydrogen Fluoride Exposures at Fuel Cycle Facilities (June 19, 

2007).

ML071410230 

3 ............... Letter from Felix M. Killar, Senior Director, Fuel and Materials Safety, NEI, to Daniel H. Dorman, Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, Office of Nuclear Materials Safety and Safeguards (NMSS) 

(September 8, 2008).

ML083360632 

4 ............... Letter from Daniel H. Dorman, Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, NMSS, to Felix M. 

Killar, Senior Director, Fuel Supply. Material Licenses, of the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) (November 10, 

2008).

ML082900889 

5 ............... Letter from Felix M. Killar, Senior Director, Fuel and Materials Safety, NEI, to Daniel H. Dorman, Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, NMSS (February 24, 2009).ML090690732 

6 ............... Letter from Daniel H. Dorman, Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, NMSS, to Felix M. 

Killar, Senior Director, Fuel Supply. Material Licenses, of the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) (June 12, 2009).

ML090920296 

7 ............... Letter from Janet R. Schlueter, Sr. Director, Fuel and Materials Safety, NEI, to Marissa G. Bailey, Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, NMSS (March 26, 2014).ML14086A267 

8 ............... Letter from Marissa G. Bailey, Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, NMSS, to Janet R. 

Schlueter, NEI (September 15, 2014).

ML14251A150 

9 ............... Letter from Ellen Ginsberg, the General Counsel of the NEI to Margaret Doane, the General Counsel of the 

NRC, (November 7, 2014).

ML14322B019 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day 

of February, 2015. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Marissa G. Bailey, 

Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety, 

Safeguards and Environmental Review, Office 

of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. 

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[NRC–2013–0046] 

Scope Expansion of the PostInvestigation Alternative Dispute 

Resolution Program 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Policy revision; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing a revision 

to its Enforcement Policy (Enforcement 

Policy or Policy) to incorporate 

Commission direction to add escalated 

non-willful (traditional) enforcement 

cases with the potential for civil 

penalties within the scope of the 

Commission’s Alternative Dispute 

Resolution Program and to make other 

conforming edits. 

DATES: This revision to the Enforcement 

Policy is effective March 4, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2013–0046 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 Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2013–0046. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Carol 

Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; 

email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For 

technical questions, contact the 

individuals 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 it is available in 

ADAMS) is provided the first time that 

it is mentioned in the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section. 

• 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: 

Daniel Lenehan, telephone: 301–415– 

3501, email: Daniel.Lenehan@nrc.gov, 

or Shahram Ghasemian, telephone: 301– 

415–3591, email: Shahram.Ghasemian@

nrc.gov; both of the Office of 

Enforcement, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Administrative Dispute 

Resolution Act of 1996 authorizes and 

encourages the use of Alternative 

Dispute Resolution (ADR) procedures by 

Federal agencies. The term ‘‘ADR’’ 

refers to a number of voluntary 

processes, such as mediation and 

facilitated dialogues that can be used to 

assist parties in resolving disputes and 

potential conflicts. These techniques 

involve the use of a neutral third party, 

either from within the agency or from 

outside the agency, and are voluntary 

processes in terms of the decision to 

participate and the content of the final 

agreement. The NRC’s experience with 

ADR has demonstrated that the use of 

these techniques can result in more 

efficient resolution of issues, more 

effective outcomes, and improved 

relationships between the agency and 

other parties. The NRC established the 

ADR Program in its Office of 

Enforcement in 2004. 

Since the implementation of the ADR 

Program, the NRC has reached 

settlement agreements with licensees (or 

contractors) and individuals, and has 

issued subsequent ADR confirmatory 

orders in more than 90 enforcement 

cases. The parties to ADR in the NRC’s 

enforcement program are the NRC staff 

and, in most cases, a licensee. The 

proceedings are conducted using the 

facilitation skills of a trained 

independent mediator. Mediation 

allows the NRC staff and the licensee to 

communicate openly and directly and 

enables the parties to reach effective and 

workable agreements that meet the 

NRC’s regulatory interests. Historically, 

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