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submissions available to the public or 

entering the comment into ADAMS. 

II. Discussion 

On December 18, 2014, the NRC 

published a request for public comment 

on draft NUREG–2126, ‘‘Standard 

Review Plan for Conventional Uranium 

Mills and Heap Leach Facilities.’’ 

Pursuant to the provisions of part 40 of 

Title 10 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations, (10 CFR), ‘‘Domestic 

Licensing of Source Material,’’ an NRC 

materials license is required to conduct 

uranium recovery activities by 

conventional mill or heap leach 

techniques. Applicants for a new license 

and operators seeking an amendment or 

renewal of an existing license are 

required to provide detailed information 

on the facilities, equipment, and 

procedures to be used in the proposed 

activities. This information is used by 

the NRC staff to determine whether the 

proposed activities will be protective of 

public health and safety and the 

environment. Each section in draft 

NUREG–2126 provides guidance on 

what information is to be reviewed, the 

basis for the review, how the NRC staff 

review is to be accomplished, what the 

staff will find acceptable in a 

demonstration of compliance with 

applicable regulations, and the 

evaluation criteria for determining 

compliance with the applicable 

regulations. Draft NUREG–2126 is 

intended to improve the understanding 

of the NRC staff’s review process by 

interested members of the public and 

the uranium recovery industry. Any 

interested party may submit comments 

on draft NUREG–2126 for consideration 

by the NRC staff. The public comment 

period closed on March 18, 2015. The 

National Mining Association (NMA) 

submitted a letter on February 26, 2015 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML15062A629), 

requesting a 90-day extension of the 

public comment period on this 

document. Additionally, the State of 

Utah submitted a letter on March 16, 

2015 requesting a 60-day extension of 

the public comment period on this 

document (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML15082A286). The Commission may 

grant, in its discretion, the additional 

reasonable opportunity for the 

submission of comments. In the present 

case, as the request for an extension 

from NMA points out, there are two 

notable current Federal Register notices 

on this general subject matter that have 

been noticed for public comment, 

including the present document, as well 

as the Environmental Protection 

Agency’s (EPA) proposed 40 CFR part 

192 rulemaking. The State of Utah cites 

its current workload and role in 

regulating the only operating 

conventional uranium mill in the 

United States as reasons for extending 

the comment period. As such, these 

factors justify the Commission granting 

additional reasonable opportunity for 

the submission of comments. The NRC 

has decided to reopen the public 

comment period on this document until 

June 18, 2015, to allow more time for 

members of the public to develop and 

submit their comments. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day 

of April 2015. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Andrew Persinko, 

Deputy Director, Division of 

Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery and 

Waste Programs, Office of Nuclear Material 

Safety and Safeguards. 

[FR Doc. 2015–08797 Filed 4–15–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2015–0091] 

Quality Group Classifications and 

Standards for Water-, Steam-, and 

Radioactive-Waste-Containing 

Components of Nuclear Power Plants 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Draft regulatory guide; request 

for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing for public 

comment draft regulatory guide (DG) 

DG–1314, ‘‘Quality Group 

Classifications and Standards for 

Water-, Steam-, and Radioactive-WasteContaining Components of Nuclear 

Power Plants.’’ This guidance has been 

revised to update references to related 

NRC guidance, to incorporate lessons 

learned from recent NRC reviews and 

regulatory activities, and to align the 

format and content of the guide with the 

current program guidance for regulatory 

guides (RGs) which was developed 

since Revision 4 of RG 1.26 was issued. 

DATES: Submit comments by June 15, 

2015. Comments received after this date 

will be considered if it is practical to do 

so, but the NRC is able to ensure 

consideration only for comments 

received on or before this date. 

Although a time limit is given, 

comments and suggestions in 

connection with items for inclusion in 

guides currently being developed or 

improvements in all published guides 

are encouraged at any time. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods (unless 

this document describes a different 

method for submitting comments on a 

specified subject): 

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2015–0091. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Carol 

Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; 

email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For 

technical questions, contact the 

individual(s) listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

document. 

• Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, 

Office of Administration, Mail Stop: 

O12H08M, 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: 

Sardar Ahmed, telephone: 301–415– 

2836, email: Sardar.Ahmed@nrc.gov or 

Stephen Burton, telephone: 301–415– 

7000, email: Stephen.Burton@nrc.gov. 

Both are staff of the U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2015– 

0091 when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information regarding 

this document. You may obtain 

pubically-available information related 

to this document, by any of the 

following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2015–0091. 

• 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 available in 

ADAMS) is provided the first time that 

a document is referenced. The DG is 

electronically available in ADAMS 

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• 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– 

0091 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. Additional Information 

The NRC is issuing for public 

comment a DG in the NRC’s ‘‘Regulatory 

Guide’’ series. This series was 

developed to describe and make 

available to the public such information 

as methods that are acceptable to the 

NRC staff for implementing specific 

parts of the NRC’s regulations, 

techniques that the staff uses in 

evaluating specific problems or 

postulated accidents, and data that the 

staff needs in its review of applications 

for permits and licenses. 

The DG, entitled, ‘‘Quality Group 

Classifications and Standards for 

Water-, Steam-, and Radioactive-WasteContaining Components of Nuclear 

Power Plants,’’ is temporarily identified 

by its task number, DG–1314. This DG– 

1314 is proposed revision 5 of RG 1.26. 

The guide describes a quality 

classification system related to specified 

national standards that may be used to 

determine quality standards acceptable 

to the staff of the NRC for satisfying 

General Design Criterion 1, ‘‘Quality 

Standards and Records,’’ as set forth in 

appendix A, ‘‘General Design Criteria 

for Nuclear Power Plants,’’ to part 50 of 

Title 10 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (10 CFR), ‘‘Licensing of 

Production and Utilization Facilities,’’ 

for components containing water, steam, 

or radioactive material in light-watercooled nuclear power plants. 

This guidance has been revised to 

update references to related guidance, to 

incorporate lessons learned from recent 

reviews and regulatory activities, and to 

align the format and content of the 

guide with the current program 

guidance for regulatory guides since 

Revision 4 of RG 1.26 was issued. 

III. Backfitting and Issue Finality 

This draft regulatory guide may be 

used by applicants for construction 

permits and operating licenses under 10 

CFR part 50, and early site permits, 

standard design certifications, standard 

design approvals, and combined 

licenses under 10 CFR part 52. Holders 

of construction permits, operating 

licenses, early site permits, standard 

design approvals, and combined 

licenses, and applicants for standard 

design certifications after the NRC 

issues a final design certification rule 

may also use the guidance in this draft 

regualtory guide, if finalized. 

This DG, if finalized, would not 

constitute backfitting as defined in 10 

CFR 50.109 (the Backfit Rule) and 

would not otherwise be inconsistent 

with the issue finality provisions in 10 

CFR part 52. As discussed in the 

‘‘Implementation’’ section of this DG, 

the NRC has no current intention to 

impose this DG on current holders of 

operating licenses or combined licenses. 

This DG, if finalized, may be applied 

to applications for operating licenses 

and combined licenses docketed by the 

NRC as of the date of issuance of the 

final RG, as well as future applications 

for operating licenses and combined 

licenses submitted after the issuance of 

the RG. Such action does not constitute 

backfitting as defined in 10 CFR 

50.109(a)(1) or is otherwise inconsistent 

with the applicable issue finality 

provision in 10 CFR part 52, inasmuch 

as such applicants or potential 

applicants, with exceptions not 

applicable here, are not within the 

scope of entities protected by the Backfit 

Rule or the relevant issue finality 

provisions in part 52. 

The exceptions to the general 

principle are applicable whenever an 

applicant references a part 52 license 

(e.g., an early site permit) and/or NRC’s 

regulatory approval (e.g., a design 

certification rule) with specified issue 

finality provisions. The staff does not, at 

this time, intend to impose the positions 

represented in this regulatory guide in 

a manner that is inconsistent with any 

of the issue finality provisions 

applicable to early site permits (10 CFR 

52.39), design certifications (10 CFR 

52.63), or combined license applications 

referencing an early site permit (10 CFR 

52.83). If, in the future, the staff seeks 

to impose a position in this regulatory 

guide in a manner which does not 

provide issue finality as described in the 

applicable issue finality provision, then 

the staff must make address the criteria 

for avoiding issue finality as described 

applicable issue finality provision. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 10th day 

of April 2015. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Thomas H. Boyce, 

Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Generic 

Issues Branch, Division of Engineering, Office 

of Nuclear Regulatory Research. 

[FR Doc. 2015–08739 Filed 4–15–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. 50–295 and 50–304; NRC– 

2015–0087] 

ZionSolutions, LLC, Zion Nuclear 

Power Station, Units 1 and 2 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Exemption; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing an 

exemption from certain emergency 

planning requirements in response to a 

June 20, 2012, request from 

ZionSolutions, LLC. The requirements 

were part of a final rule that the NRC 

issued on November 23, 2011. 

DATES: April 16, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2015–0087 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–2015–0087. 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 publicly 

available documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

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