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operator license, and notices of 

disability that occur during licensed 

tenure. 

6. Who will be required or asked to 

respond: Facility licensees who are 

tasked with certifying the medical 

fitness or operator licensee. 

7. The estimated number of annual 

responses: 1,650. 

8. The estimated number of annual 

respondents: 128. 

9. The estimated number of hours 

needed annually to comply with the 

information collection requirement or 

request: 2,063 hours (1,650 Reporting 

hours plus 413 Recordkeeping hours). 

10. Abstract: NRC Form 396 is used to 

transmit information to the NRC 

regarding the medical condition of 

applicants for initial operator licenses or 

renewal of operator licenses and for the 

maintenance of medical records for all 

licensed operators. The information is 

used to determine whether the physical 

condition and general health of 

applicants for operator licensees is such 

that the applicant would not be 

expected to cause operational errors and 

endanger public health and safety. 

III. Specific Requests for Comments 

The NRC is seeking comments that 

address the following questions: 

1. Is the proposed collection of 

information necessary for the NRC to 

properly perform its functions? Does the 

information have practical utility? 

2. Is the estimate of the burden of the 

information collection accurate? 

3. Is there a way to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected? 

4. How can the burden of the 

information collection on respondents 

be minimized, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology? 

Dated: January 27, 2022. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

David C. Cullison, 

NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2022–02043 Filed 1–31–22; 8:45 am] 

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[Docket Nos. STN 50–528, STN 50–529, 

STN–530, and 72–44; NRC–2021–0100] 

In the Matter of Arizona Public Service 

Company; El Paso Electric Company; 

Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, 

Units 1, 2, and 3 and Independent 

Spent Fuel Storage Installation 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Indirect transfer of control of 

licenses; order. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing an order 

approving the application dated March 

18, 2021, filed by El Paso Electric 

Company (EPE). The application sought 

NRC consent to the indirect transfer of 

control of EPE’s interests in Renewed 

Facility Operating License Nos. NPF–41, 

NPF–51, and NPF–74 for Palo Verde 

Nuclear Generating Station (Palo Verde), 

Units 1, 2, and 3, respectively, and the 

general license for the Palo Verde 

Independent Spent Fuel Storage 

Installation (together, the facility). No 

physical changes or operational changes 

to the facility were proposed in the 

application. 

DATES: The order was issued on January 

25, 2022, and is effective immediately. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2021–0100 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 Website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2021–0100. Address 

questions about Docket IDs in 

Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; 

telephone: 301–415–0624; email: 

Stacy.Schumann@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 

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

adams.html. To begin the search, 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 license 

transfer order and the NRC staff safety 

evaluation supporting the order are 

available in ADAMS under Package 

Accession No. ML22003A102. 

• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and 

purchase copies of public documents, 

by appointment, at the NRC’s PDR, 

Room P1 B35, One White Flint North, 

11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland 20852. To make an 

appointment to visit the PDR, please 

send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov 

or call 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415– 

4737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. 

(ET), Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Siva 

P. Lingam, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001; telephone: 301–415–1564, email: 

Siva.Lingam@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The text of 

the order is attached. 

Dated: January 26, 2022. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Siva P. Lingam, 

Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch IV, 

Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, 

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

Attachment—Order Approving Indirect 

Transfer of Control of Licenses 

United States of America 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

In the Matter of: Arizona Public 

Service Company, El Paso Electric 

Company; Palo Verde Nuclear 

Generating Station, Units 1, 2, and 3 and 

Independent Spent Fuel Storage 

Installation. 

Docket Nos. STN 50–528, STN 50–529, 

STN 50–530, and 72–44 

License Nos. NPF–41, NPF–51, and 

NPF–74 

Order Approving Indirect Transfer of 

Control of Licenses 

I 

Arizona Public Service Company 

(APS) is the licensed operator and a 

licensed co-owner of Renewed Facility 

Operating License Nos. NPF–41, NPF– 

51, and NPF–74 for Palo Verde Nuclear 

Generating Station (Palo Verde), Units 1, 

2, and 3, respectively, and the general 

license for the Palo Verde Independent 

Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI). 

Palo Verde is located in Maricopa 

County, Arizona. The other licensed coowners (tenants-in-common), Salt River 

Project Agricultural Improvement and 

Power District; Southern California 

Edison Company; El Paso Electric 

Company (EPE); Public Service 

Company of New Mexico; Southern 

California Public Power Authority; and 

Los Angeles Department of Water and 

Power, hold possession-only rights for 

these licenses (i.e., they are not licensed 

to operate the facility). 

II 

By application dated March 18, 2021 

(Agencywide Documents Access and 

Management System (ADAMS) 

Accession Nos. ML21077A256), EPE 

requested pursuant to Title 10 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 

Sections 50.80, ‘‘Transfer of licenses,’’ 

and 72.50, ‘‘Transfer of license,’’ that 

the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC, the Commission) 


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consent to the indirect transfer of 

control of the Palo Verde NRC licenses. 

According to the application, EPE 

currently owns a 15.8 percent tenant-incommon interest and holds possessiononly rights in the Palo Verde NRC 

licenses. The indirect transfer of control 

of EPE’s possession only non-operating 

interests in the Palo Verde NRC licenses 

resulted from the acquisition of an 

approximately 33.3 percent membership 

interest in IIF US Holding 2 GP, LLC (IIF 

US 2 GP), the general partner of IIF US 

Holding 2 LP (IIF US 2), by a private 

individual, Anne Cleary, a U.S. citizen, 

subsequent to the retirement and 

relinquishment of an approximately 

33.3 percent IIF US 2 GP membership 

interest held by Dennis Clarke, a U.S. 

citizen. APS owns a 29.1 percent tenantin-common interest and holds both 

operating and possession rights in the 

Palo Verde NRC licenses. Further, APS 

operates, and will continue to operate, 

each of the Palo Verde units and the 

ISFSI pursuant to the operating rights 

granted to it under the license of each 

Palo Verde unit. The remaining tenantin-common co-owners that hold 

possession-only rights in the Palo Verde 

NRC licenses are: Salt River Project 

Agricultural Improvement and Power 

District (17.49 percent); Southern 

California Edison Company (15.8 

percent); Public Service Company of 

New Mexico (10.2 percent); Southern 

California Public Power Authority (5.91 

percent); and Los Angeles Department 

of Water and Power (5.7 percent). 

According to the application, the 

transaction involved the issuance of the 

approximately 33.3 percent interest in 

IIF US 2 GP that was relinquished by 

Dennis Clarke on September 30, 2020, to 

Anne Cleary pursuant to that certain 

resolution dated September 30, 2020, of 

the IIF US 2 GP Owners, Rita J. Sallis 

and Christopher Ward. As a result of the 

transaction, as of December 17, 2020, 

Anne Cleary became an approximately 

33.3 percent owner of IIF US 2 GP and 

indirect owner of EPE. The 

approximately 33.3 percent interests of 

each of Rita J. Sallis and Christopher 

Ward were unaffected by the 

transaction. 

After the transaction, Anne Cleary 

owns an approximately 33.3 percent 

membership interest in IIF US 2 GP. 

APS continues to own a 29.1 percent 

tenant-in-common interest and 

continues to hold both operating and 

possession rights in the Palo Verde NRC 

licenses. Further, APS continues to 

operate each of the Palo Verde units and 

the ISFSI pursuant to the operating 

rights granted to it under the license of 

each Palo Verde unit. Also, as before the 

transaction, no entity owns 50 percent 

or more of the voting interests. 

Accordingly, after the transaction, there 

is no change in the control of the 

operation of Palo Verde; APS continues 

to make all technical decisions that do 

not require approval from all owners of 

Palo Verde. 

No physical changes or operational 

changes were proposed in the 

application. 

A notice of the application and 

opportunity to comment, request a 

hearing, and petition for leave to 

intervene on the application was 

published in the Federal Register (FR) 

on May 4, 2021 (86 FR 23757). The NRC 

did not receive any comments or 

hearing requests on the application. 

Under 10 CFR 50.80 and 10 CFR 

72.50, no license for a production or 

utilization facility or ISFSI, or any right 

thereunder, shall be transferred, either 

voluntarily or involuntarily, directly or 

indirectly, through transfer of control of 

the license to any person, unless the 

Commission gives its consent in writing. 

Upon review of the information in the 

application, and other information 

before the Commission, the NRC staff 

has determined that the acquisition of 

an approximately 33.3 percent 

membership interest in IIF US 2 GP by 

Anne Cleary is acceptable. The 

transferee is qualified to be the indirect 

holder of the licenses and indirect 

transfer of the licenses is otherwise 

consistent with applicable provisions of 

law, regulations, and orders issued by 

the Commission pursuant thereto. 

The findings set forth above are 

supported by an NRC staff safety 

evaluation dated the same date as this 

Order, which is available at ADAMS 

Accession No. ML22003A105. 

III 

Accordingly, pursuant to Sections 

161b, 161i, and 184 of the Atomic 

Energy Act of 1954, as amended, 42 

U.S.C. 2201(b), 2201(i), and 2234; and 

10 CFR 50.80 and 10 CFR 72.50, it is 

hereby ordered that the application 

regarding the indirect transfer of control 

of licenses is approved for Palo Verde 

Units 1, 2, and 3 and the Palo Verde 

ISFSI. 

This Order is effective upon issuance. 

For further details with respect to this 

Order, see the application dated March 

18, 2021, and the NRC staff’s safety 

evaluation dated the same date as this 

Order, which are available for public 

inspection electronically through 

ADAMS in the NRC Library at https:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. 

Persons who do not have access to 

ADAMS or who encounter problems 

accessing the documents located in 

ADAMS should contact the NRC Public 

Document Room reference staff by 

telephone at 1–800–397–4209 or 301– 

415–4737 or by email to PDR.Resource@

nrc.gov. 

Dated: January 25, 2022. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

/RA/ 

Brian D. Wittick, 

Acting Deputy Director, Division of 

Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of 

Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

[FR Doc. 2022–01942 Filed 1–31–22; 8:45 am] 

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[NRC–2021–0151] 

Information Collection: NRC Form 398, 

‘‘Personal Qualification Statement— 

Licensee’’ 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Renewal of existing information 

collection; request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) invites public 

comment on the renewal of Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval for an existing collection of 

information. The information collection 

is entitled, NRC Form 398, ‘‘Personal 

Qualification Statement—Licensee.’’ 

DATES: Submit comments by April 4, 

2022. 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 on or before this date. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods; 

however, the NRC encourages electronic 

comment submission through the 

Federal rulemaking website: 

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2021–0151. Address 

questions about Docket IDs in 

Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; 

telephone: 301–415–0624; email: 

Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical 

questions, contact the individual listed 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this document. 

• Mail comments to: David Cullison, 

Office of the Chief Information Officer, 

Mail Stop: T–6 A10M, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001. 

For additional direction on obtaining 

information and submitting comments, 

see ‘‘Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments’’ in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this document. 


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