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person is not required to respond to, a 

collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

The NRC published a Federal 

Register notice with a 60-day comment 

period on this information collection on 

November 19, 2014, 79 FR 68917. 

1. The title of the information 

collection: 10 CFR part 31, ‘‘General 

Domestic Licenses for Byproduct 

Material.’’ 

2. OMB approval number: 3150–0016 

3. Type of submission: Extension with 

burden revision 

4. The form number if applicable: Not 

applicable 

5. How often the collection is required 

or requested: Reports are submitted as 

events occur. General license 

registration requests may be submitted 

at any time. Changes to the information 

on the registration may be submitted as 

they occur. 

6. Who will be required or asked to 

respond: Persons receiving, possessing, 

using, or transferring devices containing 

byproduct material. 

7. The estimated number of annual 

responses: 138,429 (10,929 responses + 

127,500 recordkeepers). 

8. The estimated number of annual 

respondents: 10,929 (971 NRC licensee 

respondents + 9,958 Agreement State 

licensee responses). 

9. An estimate of the total number of 

hours needed annually to comply with 

the information collection requirement 

or request: 36,186 hours (4,843 hours for 

NRC licensees + 31,343 hours for 

Agreement State licensees). 

10. Abstract: Part 31 of Title 10 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), 

establishes general licenses for the 

possession and use of byproduct 

material in certain devices. General 

licensees are required to keep testing 

records and submit event reports 

identified in Part 31, which assist the 

NRC in determining with reasonable 

assurance that devices are operated 

safely and without radiological hazard 

to users or the public. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 7th day 

of April, 2015. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Tremaine Donnell, 

NRC Clearance Officer, Office of Information 

Services. 

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[Docket No. 50–255; NRC–2014–0216] 

Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.; 

Palisades Nuclear Plant 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Director’s decision under 10 

CFR 2.206; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) has issued a final 

director’s decision with regard to a 

petition dated March 5, 2014, as 

supplemented on April 8, May 21, and 

September 3, 2014, filed by Mr. Michael 

Mulligan (the petitioner), requesting 

that the NRC take action with regard to 

Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc. (ENO 

or the licensee) at Palisades Nuclear 

Plant (PNP). The petitioner’s requests 

and the final director’s decision are 

included in the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section of this document. 

DATES: April 13, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2014–0216 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–2014–0216. 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: 

Jennivine Rankin, Office of Nuclear 

Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415– 

1530, email: Jennivine.Rankin@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given that the Deputy Director, 

Nuclear Reactor Regulation, has issued 

a final director’s decision (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML15054A365), on a 

petition filed by the petitioner on March 

5, 2014 (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML14071A006), as supplemented on 

April 8, May 21, and September 3, 2014 

(ADAMS Accession Nos. 

ML14143A212, ML14142A101, and 

ML14259A135, respectively). The 

petitioner requested a number of actions 

be taken by the NRC and the licensee for 

equipment failures at PNP. As the basis 

for the request, the petitioner stated that 

there have been recent plant events and 

equipment failures at PNP, such as parts 

of the primary coolant pump (PCP) 

impeller breaking off and lodging in the 

reactor vessel (RV) and flaws in the 

control rod drive mechanisms (CRDMs). 

The petitioner requested immediate 

action to prevent the PNP from 

restarting due to a piece of PCP impeller 

that was lodged between the RV and the 

flow skirt and due to flawed CRDMs. 

By email dated March 19, 2014 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML14083A680), 

the NRC staff denied the petitioner’s 

request for immediate action to prevent 

PNP from restarting, based on the 

following factors: 

1. The NRC performed an in-depth 

independent review of the licensee’s 

analysis and concluded that the 

impeller piece did not pose a threat to 

safe operation of the reactor and RV. 

2. The licensee replaced all of the 

CRDM housings prior to plant startup. 

By teleconference on April 8, 2014, 

and again on September 3, 2014, the 

petitioner addressed the Petition Review 

Board (PRB). The meetings provided the 

petitioner with an opportunity to 

provide additional information and to 

clarify issues cited in the petition. The 

transcripts of these meeting were treated 

as supplements to the petition and are 

available in ADAMS, as previously 

noted. 

In the agency’s letter dated September 

25, 2014 (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML14237A726), the NRC accepted the 

following specific issues of the petition 

for review under Section 2.206 of Title 

10 of the Code of Federal Regulations 

(10 CFR): 

1. Request for PNP to open every PCP for 

inspection and clear up all flaws. 

2. Request for PNP to replace the PCPs 

with others designed for their intended duty. 

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3. Request an Office of the Inspector 

General (OIG) inspection on why different 

NRC regions have different analysis criteria 

for similar PCP events. 

4. Request a $10 million fine over these 

events. 

5. Request for PNP to return to yellow or 

red status and for the NRC to intensify its 

monitoring of PNP. 

The NRC sent a copy of the proposed 

director’s decision to the petitioner and 

the licensee for comment on January 23, 

2015 (ADAMS Accession Nos. 

ML14338A435 and ML14338A431). The 

petitioner and the licensee were asked 

to provide comments within 15 days on 

any part of the proposed director’s 

decision that was considered to be 

erroneous or any issues in the petition 

that were not addressed. Comments 

were received from the petitioner and 

are addressed in an attachment to the 

final director’s decision. 

The Deputy Director of the Office of 

Nuclear Reactor Regulation denied the 

petitioner’s requests for the following 

actions: 

1. Request for PNP to open every PCP for 

inspection and clear up all flaws. 

2. Request for PNP to replace the PCPs 

with others designed for their intended duty. 

3. Request a $10 million fine over these 

events. 

4. Request for PNP to return to yellow or 

red status and for the NRC to intensify its 

monitoring of PNP. 

The reasons for this decision are 

explained in the final director’s decision 

DD–15–03, under 10 CFR 2.206 of the 

Commission’s regulations. The 

petitioner’s request for an OIG 

inspection on why different NRC 

regions have different analysis criteria 

for similar PCP events has been 

forwarded to the OIG. The NRC found 

no basis for taking the requested 

enforcement-related actions against 

PNP; thus, the NRC denies the petition. 

NRC staff did not find that the 

continued operation of PNP would 

adversely affect public health and 

safety. The NRC determined that the 

licensee’s actions to date are adequate 

and there is reasonable assurance that 

the operation of the PNP will not 

endanger the health and safety of the 

public. For the performance deficiencies 

and inspection findings that the NRC 

has identified at PNP, the agency will 

continue to monitor the progress of the 

licensee’s completion of corrective 

actions through planned inspections 

consistent with the NRC’s ongoing 

reactor oversight process. 

Consistent with 10 CFR 2.206(c), the 

NRC staff will file a copy of this final 

director’s decision with the Secretary of 

the Commission for the Commission to 

review. As provided for in 10 CFR 

2.206(c)(1), the final director’s decision 

will constitute the Commission’s final 

action within 25 days of the date of the 

decision unless the Commission, on its 

own motion, chooses to review the 

decision within that time. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 6th day 

of April 2015. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Jennifer Uhle, 

Deputy Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation. 

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[NRC–2014–0245] 

Information Collection: Standards for 

Protection Against Radiation 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of submission to the 

Office of Management and Budget; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) has recently 

submitted a request for renewal of an 

existing collection of information to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review. The information 

collection is entitled, ‘‘Standards for 

Protection Against Radiation.’’ 

DATES: Submit comments by May 13, 

2015. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments directly 

to the OMB reviewer at: Vlad Dorjets, 

Desk Officer, Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs (3150–0014), NEOB– 

10202, Office of Management and 

Budget, Washington, DC 20503; 

telephone: 202–395–1741, email: 

Vladik_Dorjets@omb.eop.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Tremaine Donnell, NRC Clearance 

Officer, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001; telephone: (301) 415–6258; email: 

INFOCOLLECTS.Resource@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2014– 

0245 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–2014–0245. 

• 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 

supporting statement is available in 

ADAMS under Accession No. 

ML15036A316. 

• 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. 

• NRC’s Clearance Officer: A copy of 

the collection of information and related 

instructions may be obtained without 

charge by contacting the NRC’s 

Clearance Officer, Tremaine Donnell, 

Office of Information Services, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

(301) 415–6258; email: 

INFOCOLLECTS.Resource@NRC.GOV. 

B. Submitting Comments 

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. All comment 

submissions are posted at http://

www.regulations.gov and entered into 

ADAMS. Comment submissions are not 

routinely edited to remove identifying 

or contact information. 

If you are requesting or aggregating 

comments from other persons for 

submission to the OMB, 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 comment submissions are not 

routinely edited to remove such 

information before making the comment 

submissions available to the public or 

entering the comment into ADAMS. 

II. Background 

Under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. Chapter 35), the NRC recently 

submitted a request for renewal of an 

existing collection of information to 

OMB for review entitled, ‘‘Standards for 

Protection Against Radiation.’’ The NRC 

hereby informs potential respondents 

that an agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and that a person is not 

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