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Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1005, 

Arlington, Virginia 22230, 703–292– 

5353 and Tiffany Sweat, National 

Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson 

Boulevard, Suite 1005, Arlington, 

Virginia 22230, 703–292–4934. 

MINUTES: Meeting minutes and other 

information may be obtained from the 

Staff Associate and MPSAC Designated 

Federal Officer at the above address or 

the Web site at http://www.nsf.gov/mps/ 

advisory.jsp. 

PURPOSE OF MEETING: To study data, 

programs, policies, and other 

information pertinent to the National 

Science Foundation and to provide 

advice and recommendations 

concerning research in mathematics and 

physical sciences. 

Agenda 

State of the Directorate for Mathematical 

and Physical Sciences (MPS): FY15– 

FY16 Budgets 

Report from the Committee of Visitors 

for the Division of Physics 

Report from the Committee of Visitors 

for the Division of Astronomical 

Sciences 

Dated: March 4, 2015. 

Suzanne Plimpton, 

Acting Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2015–05614 Filed 3–11–15; 8:45 am] 

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Meeting of the Advisory Committee on 

Reactor Safeguards Subcommittee on 

Power Uprates 

The Advisory Committee on Reactor 

Safeguards (ACRS) Subcommittee on 

Power Uprates will hold a meeting on 

March 17, 2015, Room T–2B1, 11545 

Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland. 

The meeting will be open to public 

attendance with the exception of a 

portion that may be closed to protect 

information that is propriety pursuant to 

5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4). The agenda for the 

subject meeting shall be as follows: 

Tuesday, March 17, 2015—8:30 a.m. 

until 5:00 p.m. 

The Subcommittee will review the 

Grand Gulf Maximum Extended Load 

Line Limit Analysis plus (MELLLA+) 

license amendment request and 

associated safety evaluation report. The 

Subcommittee will hear presentations 

by and hold discussions with the 

licensee, (Entergy Operations, Inc.), the 

NRC staff, and other interested persons 

regarding this matter. The 

Subcommittee will gather information, 

analyze relevant issues and facts, and 

formulate proposed positions and 

actions, as appropriate, for deliberation 

by the Full Committee. 

Members of the public desiring to 

provide oral statements and/or written 

comments should notify the Designated 

Federal Official (DFO), Weidong Wang 

(Telephone 301–415–6279 or Email: 

Weidong.Wang@nrc.gov) five days prior 

to the meeting, if possible, so that 

appropriate arrangements can be made. 

Thirty-five hard copies of each 

presentation or handout should be 

provided to the DFO thirty minutes 

before the meeting. In addition, one 

electronic copy of each presentation 

should be emailed to the DFO one day 

before the meeting. If an electronic copy 

cannot be provided within this 

timeframe, presenters should provide 

the DFO with a CD containing each 

presentation at least thirty minutes 

before the meeting. Electronic 

recordings will be permitted only 

during those portions of the meeting 

that are open to the public. Detailed 

procedures for the conduct of and 

participation in ACRS meetings were 

published in the Federal Register on 

November 8, 2013 (78 CFR 67205– 

67206). 

Detailed meeting agendas and meeting 

transcripts are available on the NRC 

Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/doc-collections/acrs. Information 

regarding topics to be discussed, 

changes to the agenda, whether the 

meeting has been canceled or 

rescheduled, and the time allotted to 

present oral statements can be obtained 

from the Web site cited above or by 

contacting the identified DFO. 

Moreover, in view of the possibility that 

the schedule for ACRS meetings may be 

adjusted by the Chairman as necessary 

to facilitate the conduct of the meeting, 

persons planning to attend should check 

with these references if such 

rescheduling would result in a major 

inconvenience. 

If attending this meeting, please enter 

through the One White Flint North 

building, 11555 Rockville Pike, 

Rockville, MD. After registering with 

security, please contact Mr. Theron 

Brown (Telephone 240–888–9835) to be 

escorted to the meeting room. 

Dated: March 4, 2015. 

Mark L. Banks, 

Chief, Technical Support Branch, Advisory 

Committee on Reactor Safeguards. 

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[Docket No. NRC–2015–0051] 

Department of Energy; Yucca 

Mountain, Nye County, Nevada 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Intent to prepare a supplement 

to a final supplemental environmental 

impact statement. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is informing the 

public of its intent to prepare a 

supplement to the U.S. Department of 

Energy’s (DOE’s) ‘‘Final Environmental 

Impact Statement for a Geologic 

Repository for the Disposal of Spent 

Nuclear Fuel and High-Level 

Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain, 

Nye County, Nevada’’ (February 2002), 

and its ‘‘Final Supplemental 

Environmental Impact Statement for a 

Geologic Repository for the Disposal of 

Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level 

Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain, 

Nye County, Nevada’’ (July 2008). The 

NRC staff determined in September 

2008 that it is practicable to adopt, with 

further supplementation, the DOE’s 

environmental impact statements (EISs). 

The NRC staff concluded that the EISs 

did not address adequately all of the 

repository-related impacts on 

groundwater or from surface discharges 

of groundwater. 

DATES: March 12, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2015–0051 when contacting the 

NRC for further information about the 

supplement. You may obtain publiclyavailable information using any of the 

following methods: 

• 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 in this document 

(if that document is available in 

ADAMS) is provided the first time that 

a document is referenced. 

• 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 

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christine Pineda, Office of Nuclear 

Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001. 

Telephone: 301–287–0758; Email: 

YMEIS_Supplement@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The Nuclear Waste Policy Act 

(NWPA) of 1982, as amended, specifies 

that in the United States, spent nuclear 

fuel and high-level radioactive waste 

will be disposed of in a deep geologic 

repository. Amendments to the NWPA 

in 1987 identified Yucca Mountain, 

Nevada, as the single candidate site for 

characterization as a potential geologic 

repository. As described in the NWPA, 

Section 114(f), the DOE prepared a final 

EIS related to the construction, 

operation, and closure of a potential 

geologic repository for high-level 

radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain, 

Nevada in February 2002 pursuant to 

requirements of the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 

(NEPA). The EIS accompanied the 

Secretary of Energy’s site 

recommendation to the President on 

February 14, 2002. In July 2002, 

Congress passed and the President 

signed a joint resolution designating 

Yucca Mountain as the site for 

development of a geologic repository. In 

October 2006, the DOE announced its 

intent to prepare a supplemental EIS to 

update the 2002 EIS. The DOE 

published a final supplemental EIS on 

June 16, 2008. In accordance with 

NWPA, Section 114(f)(5), the NRC is to 

adopt the DOE’s EIS to ‘‘the extent 

practicable.’’ The NRC staff reviewed 

the DOE’s EISs and found that it is 

practicable for the NRC to adopt them, 

with further supplementation (see the 

NRC staff’s Adoption Determination 

Report, dated September 5, 2008, and 

available in ADAMS at Accession No. 

ML082420342). The NRC staff 

concluded that the EISs did not 

adequately address all of the repositoryrelated impacts on groundwater, or from 

surface discharges of groundwater. The 

NRC staff therefore requested that the 

DOE prepare an EIS supplement. The 

DOE initially stated that it would 

prepare a supplement, but later declined 

to prepare the supplement. Instead, the 

DOE prepared a technical analysis, 

‘‘Analysis of Postclosure Groundwater 

Impacts for a Geologic Repository for 

the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and 

High-Level Radioactive Waste at Yucca 

Mountain, Nye County, Nevada’’ 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML092150328). 

In 2014, the DOE updated this report 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML14303A399). 

The NRC staff will consider these 

reports in preparing the supplement. 

The supplement will provide 

additional information about the 

proposed repository’s impacts on 

groundwater and from surface 

discharges of groundwater. More 

specifically, the supplement will 

describe the extent of the volcanicalluvial aquifer, particularly those parts 

that could become contaminated, and 

how water (and potential contaminants) 

can leave the flow system. In addition, 

the supplement will provide an analysis 

of the cumulative amount of 

radiological and non-radiological 

contaminants that can be reasonably 

expected to enter the aquifer from the 

repository, and the amount that can be 

reasonably expected to remain over 

time. The supplement will provide 

estimates of contamination in the 

groundwater, given potential 

accumulation of radiological and nonradiological contaminants. The 

supplement also will provide a 

discussion of the impacts on soils and 

surface materials from the processes 

involved in surface discharges of 

contaminated groundwater. A 

description of locations of potential 

natural discharge of contaminated 

groundwater for present and expected 

future wetter periods will be included, 

as will a description of the physical 

processes at surface discharge locations 

that can affect accumulation, 

concentration, and potential 

remobilization of groundwater-borne 

contaminants. Finally, the supplement 

will provide estimates of the amounts of 

contaminants that could be deposited at 

or near the surface and describe their 

potential environmental impacts. 

II. Schedule 

The NRC staff intends to issue the 

draft supplement in the late summer of 

2015 and announce the availability of 

the supplement in the Federal Register, 

via email distribution, in a press release, 

on the NRC’s Web site, and in media in 

Nevada. A public comment period will 

start upon publication of the NRC’s 

Notice of Availability in the Federal 

Register. During the public comment 

period, the NRC plans to a public 

meeting at NRC headquarters in 

Rockville, Maryland, two public 

meetings in Nevada, and a public 

conference call. 

All meetings will be transcribed. The 

meeting at NRC headquarters will be 

webcast and accessible via a conference 

line. The NRC staff plans to publish the 

final supplement 12 to 15 months after 

issuing this notice. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 2nd day 

of March 2015. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Josephine Piccone, 

Director, Yucca Mountain Directorate, Office 

of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. 

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[Docket No. 50–293; NRC–2015–0053] 

Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., 

Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: License amendment application; 

opportunity to comment, request a 

hearing, and petition for leave to 

intervene; order. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is considering 

issuance of an amendment to Renewed 

Facility Operating License No. DPR–35, 

issued to Entergy Nuclear Operations, 

Inc., for operation of the Pilgrim Nuclear 

Power Station. The proposed 

amendment would modify the Safety 

Limit Minimum Critical Power Ratio 

from ≥ 1.08 to ≥ 1.10 for two 

recirculation loop operation and from ≥ 

1.11 to ≥ 1.12 for single loop operation. 

DATES: Submit comments by April 13, 

2015. A request for a hearing must be 

filed by May 11, 2015. Any potential 

party as defined in § 2.1 of Title 10 of 

the Code of Federal Regulations (10 

CFR) who believes access to Sensitive 

Unclassified Non-Safeguards 

Information is necessary to respond to 

this notice must request document 

access by March 23, 2015. 

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–2015–0053. 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 obtaining 

information and submitting comments, 


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