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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Friday, March 27, 2015 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

10 CFR Part 50 

[Docket No. PRM–50–110; NRC–2015–0028] 

Applicability of Risk-Informed 

Categorization Regulation to 

Combined Licenses 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Petition for rulemaking; notice 

of docketing. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) has received a 

petition for rulemaking from Michael D. 

Tschiltz, on behalf of the Nuclear 

Energy Institute (NEI or the petitioner), 

dated January 15, 2015, requesting that 

the NRC clarify the applicability of an 

NRC regulation to combined licenses 

(COLs). The NRC regulation allows 

structures, systems, and components 

(SSCs) of nuclear power reactors to be 

re-categorized based upon risk-informed 

considerations. Such re-categorization 

would result in changes in which NRC 

requirements would apply to those 

SSCs. The petition was docketed by the 

NRC on February 6, 2015, and has been 

assigned Docket No. PRM–50–110. The 

NRC is not requesting public comment 

on PRM–50–110 at this time. 

DATES: The PRM is available on March 

27, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2015–0028 when contacting the 

NRC about the availability of 

information for this petition. You may 

obtain publicly-available information 

related to this petition by any of the 

following methods: 

• Federal rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2015–0028. 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. 

• 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 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 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Yanely Malave-Velez, Office of New 

Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington DC, 20555– 

0001; telephone: 301–415–1519; email: 

Yanely.Malave@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. The Petitioner 

The petition states that ‘‘NEI is the 

organization responsible for establishing 

unified nuclear industry policy on 

matters affecting the nuclear energy 

industry, including the regulatory 

aspects of generic operational and 

technical issues’’ (ADAMS Accession 

No. ML15037A481). The petition further 

states that ‘‘NEI’s members include all 

entities licensed to operate commercial 

nuclear power plants in the United 

States, nuclear plant designers, major 

architect/engineering firms, fuel 

fabrication facilities, nuclear material 

licensees, and other organizations and 

individuals involved in the nuclear 

energy industry. NEI asserts that it is 

responsible for coordinating the 

combined efforts of licensed facilities on 

matters involving generic NRC 

regulatory policy issues and generic 

operational and technical regulatory 

issues.’’ 

II. The Petition 

Michael D. Tschiltz, Director, Risk 

Assessment, NEI, submitted the petition 

for rulemaking dated January 15, 2015, 

requesting that the NRC amend its 

regulations in § 50.69 of Title 10 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), 

‘‘Risk-Informed Categorization and 

Treatment of Structures, Systems, and 

Components for Nuclear Power 

Reactors,’’ to clarify the scope of 

applicability to include holders of 

COLs. The NRC has determined that the 

petition meets the threshold sufficiency 

requirements for a petition for 

rulemaking under § 2.802, ‘‘Petition for 

rulemaking,’’ and the petition has been 

docketed as PRM–50–110. 

III. Discussion of the Petition 

The entities that may use § 50.69, as 

set forth in paragraph (b)(1), are holders 

of a license to operate a light-water 

reactor (LWR) under 10 CFR part 50; 

holders of a renewed LWR license under 

10 CFR part 54; applicants for a 

construction permit or operating license 

under 10 CFR part 50; and applicants 

for a design approval, a combined 

license, or manufacturing license under 

10 CFR part 52. The regulation does not 

apply to holders of COLs. 

The petitioner is requesting that 

§ 50.69 be amended to clarify the scope 

of its applicability to include holders of 

COLs. 

IV. Background Information 

Section 50.69 provides an alternative 

set of requirements for the treatment of 

SSCs. Under this framework, licensees 

(or applicants), using a risk-informed 

process to categorize SSCs according to 

their safety significance, can remove 

SSCs of low safety significance from the 

scope of certain identified special 

treatment requirements. For SSCs of 

safety significance, existing 

requirements are retained, and § 50.69 

would add requirements that ensure 

SSC performance remains consistent 

with that relied upon in the 

categorization process for beyond design 

basis conditions. These requirements 

can be voluntarily adopted by LWR 

licensees and applicants. Section 50.69 

was most recently amended by the NRC 

in a rulemaking titled, ‘‘Risk-Informed 

Categorization and Treatment of 

Structures, Systems and Components for 

Nuclear power Reactors,’’ published in 

the Federal Register as a proposed rule 

on May 16, 2003 (68 FR 26511), and 

later as a final rule on November 22, 

2004 (69 FR 68008). The final rule 

became effective on December 22, 2004. 

The applicability and scope of the 

NRC’s regulations in § 50.69 currently 


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applies to a holder of a license to 

operate a LWR under 10 CFR part 50; a 

holder of a renewed LWR license under 

10 CFR part 54; an applicant for a 

construction permit or operating license 

under 10 CFR part 50; or an applicant 

for a design approval, a COL, or 

manufacturing license under 10 CFR 

part 52. A holder of a COL issued under 

10 CFR part 52 is not included in the 

group of entities that may take 

advantage of the provisions of § 50.69. 

The specific reasons for excluding 

COL holders from the group of entities 

that may take advantage of the 

provisions of § 50.69 were not discussed 

in the Federal Register notice for either 

the proposed or final ‘‘Risk-Informed 

Categorization and Treatment of 

Structures, Systems and Components for 

Nuclear Power Reactors’’ rule. However, 

as discussed at a public meeting on 

October 17, 2012 (ADAMS Accession 

No. ML12341A153), the NRC staff 

provided the following reasons: 

1. After issuance of the COL, the staff 

was concerned primarily that 

implementation of the provisions of 

§ 50.69 in the midst of construction and 

Inspections, Tests, Analysis, and 

Acceptance Criteria (ITAAC) closure 

would lead to proposed changes in the 

NRC’s approved requirements on some 

SSCs prior to the Commission making a 

finding regarding the COL ITAAC 

acceptance criteria in accordance with 

§ 52.103(g). Such a situation could 

create an unexpected budget shortfall 

related to a higher resource burden for 

the NRC due to an increased number of 

license amendments submitted for 

review concurrent with supporting 

construction and ITAAC completion 

and complicate the NRC’s ability to 

reach a finding under § 52.103(g). 

2. Since the proposed rule allowed for 

the provisions of § 50.69 to be adopted 

as part of the COL application, COL 

applicants could take advantage of these 

provisions as part of the COL review. 

This approach would be consistent with 

the NRC’s Principles of Good Regulation 

regarding efficiency, since the staff 

believed that implementation of the 

provisions of § 50.69 following the 

Commission’s making a finding per 

§ 52.103(g) would require substantial 

additional resources to conduct the 

review of license amendments necessary 

to implement the provisions of § 50.69. 

The NRC did not receive any 

comments from the nuclear industry nor 

the general public on the absence of 

COL holders from the applicability 

provisions of the proposed rule. The 

final rule, as issued, retained this 

feature of the proposed rule. 

The NRC is examining the issues 

raised in PRM–50–110 to determine 

whether they should be considered in 

rulemaking. The NRC is not requesting 

public comment at this time. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20th day 

of March, 2015. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Kenneth R. Hart, 

Acting, Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2015–07092 Filed 3–26–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

10 CFR Part 431 

[Docket Number EERE–2014–BT–STD– 

0058] 

Energy Conservation Program: Energy 

Conservation Standards for 

Residential Clothes Dryers 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Request for information (RFI). 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) is initiating an effort to 

determine whether to amend the current 

energy conservation standards for 

residential clothes dryers. According to 

the Energy Policy and Conservation 

Act’s 6-year review requirement, DOE 

must publish a notice of proposed 

rulemaking to propose amended 

standards for residential clothes dryers 

or a notice of determination that the 

existing standards do not need to be 

amended by August 24, 2017. This 

notice seeks to solicit information from 

the public to help DOE determine 

whether amended standards for 

residential clothes dryers would result 

in a significant amount of additional 

energy savings and whether those 

standards would be technologically 

feasible and economically justified. 

DATES: Written comments and 

information are requested on or before 

May 11, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties are 

encouraged to submit comments 

electronically. Comments may be 

submitted by any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Email: 

ResClothesDryers2014STD0058@

ee.doe.gov. Include docket number 

EERE–2014–BT–STD–0058 in the 

subject line of the message. All 

comments should clearly identify the 

name, address, and, if appropriate, 

organization of the commenter. 

• Postal Mail: Ms. Brenda Edwards, 

U.S. Department of Energy, Building 

Technologies Office, Mailstop EE–5B, 

Request for Information for Energy 

Conservation Standards for Residential 

Clothes Dryers, Docket No. EERE–2014– 

BT–STD–0058, 1000 Independence 

Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585– 

0121. If possible, please submit all items 

on a compact disc (CD), in which case 

it is not necessary to include printed 

copies. 

• Hand Delivery/Courier: Ms. Brenda 

Edwards, U.S. Department of Energy, 

Building Technologies Office, 950 

L’Enfant Plaza SW., Suite 600, 

Washington, DC 20024. Telephone: 

(202) 586–2945. If possible, please 

submit all items on a CD, in which case 

it is not necessary to include printed 

copies. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name and 

docket number for this rulemaking. No 

telefacsimiles (faxes) will be accepted. 

Docket: The docket, which includes 

Federal Register notices, public meeting 

attendee lists and transcripts, 

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, some documents listed in the 

index may not be publicly available, 

such as those containing information 

that is exempt from public disclosure. 

A link to the docket Web page can be 

found at: http://www.regulations.gov/

#!docketDetail;D=EERE-2014-BT-STD0058. This Web page contains a link to 

the docket for this notice on the 

www.regulations.gov Web site. The 

www.regulations.gov Web page contains 

simple instructions on how to access all 

documents, including public comments, 

in the docket. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mr. Bryan Berringer, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency 

and Renewable Energy, Building 

Technologies Office, EE–5B, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0121. 

Telephone: (202) 586–0371. Email: 

ResClothesDryers2014STD0058@

ee.doe.gov. 

Mr. Pete Cochran, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Office of the General Counsel, 

GC–33, 1000 Independence Avenue 

SW., Washington, DC 20585–0121. 

Telephone: (202) 586–9496. Email: 

peter.cochran@hq.doe.gov. 

For information on how to submit or 

review public comments, contact Ms. 

Brenda Edwards at (202) 586–2945 or by 

email: Brenda.Edwards@ee.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Table of Contents 

I. Introduction 


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