838 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 5 / Monday, January 8, 2018 / Notices 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. 52–025 and 52–026; NRC– 

2008–0252] 

Southern Nuclear Operating Company, 

Inc., Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, 

Units 3 and 4; Slab Thickness Changes 

between Column Lines I to J–1 and 2 

to 4 at Elevation 153′–0′′ 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Exemption and combined 

license amendment; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is granting an 

exemption to allow a departure from the 

Design Certification Rule for AP1000 

Design Control Document (DCD). The 

Tier 1 information for which a plantspecific departure and exemption is 

being requested includes a change to the 

thickness of one floor in the auxiliary 

building located between Column Lines 

I to J–1 and Column Lines 2 to 4 at 

elevation 153′–0′′. The NRC is issuing 

License Amendment Nos. 89 and 88 to 

Combined Licenses (COL), NPF–91 and 

NPF–92. The COLs were issued to 

Southern Nuclear Operating Company, 

Inc., and Georgia Power Company, 

Oglethorpe Power Corporation, MEAG 

Power SPVM, LLC, MEAG Power SPVJ, 

LLC, MEAG Power SPVP, LLC, 

Authority of Georgia, and the City of 

Dalton, Georgia (the licensee); for 

construction and operation of the Vogtle 

Electric Generating Plant (VEGP) Units 

3 and 4, located in Burke County, 

Georgia. 

The granting of the exemption allows 

the changes to Tier 1 information asked 

for in the amendment. Because the 

acceptability of the exemption was 

determined in part by the acceptability 

of the amendment, the exemption and 

amendment are being issued 

concurrently. 

DATES: The exemption and amendment 

were issued on October 6, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2008–0252 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 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2008–0252. 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 (if it is available in 

ADAMS) is provided the first time that 

it is mentioned in this document. The 

request for the amendment and 

exemption was submitted by letter 

dated August 30, 2016, as supplemented 

by letter dated February 16, 2017 

(ADAMS under Accession Nos. 

ML16243A373 and ML17051A004, 

respectively). 

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: 

Chandu Patel, Office of New Reactors, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

301–415–3025; email: Chandu.Patel@

nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The NRC is granting an exemption 

from paragraph B of section III, ‘‘Scope 

and Contents,’’ of appendix D, ‘‘Design 

Certification Rule for the AP1000,’’ to 

part 52 of title 10 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (10 CFR), and issuing 

License Amendment Nos. 89 and 88 to 

COLs, NPF–91 and NPF–92, to the 

licensee. The exemption is required by 

paragraph A.4 of section VIII, 

‘‘Processes for Changes and 

Departures,’’ appendix D, to 10 CFR part 

52 to allow the licensee to depart from 

Tier 1 information. With the requested 

amendment, the licensee sought 

proposed changes to the Updated Final 

Safety Analysis Report in the form of 

departures from the incorporated plantspecific DCD Tier 2* information and 

involves related changes to the VEGP 

Units 3 and 4 COL Appendix C (and 

corresponding plant-specific DCD Tier 

1) information. Pursuant to the 

provisions of 10 CFR 52.63(b)(1), an 

exemption from elements of the design 

as certified in the 10 CFR part 52, 

appendix D, design certification rule is 

also requested for the plant-specific Tier 

1 departures. 

Part of the justification for granting 

the exemption was provided by the 

review of the amendment. Because the 

exemption is necessary in order to issue 

the requested license amendment, the 

NRC granted the exemption and issued 

the amendment concurrently, rather 

than in sequence. This included issuing 

a combined safety evaluation containing 

the NRC staff’s review of both the 

exemption request and the license 

amendment. The exemption met all 

applicable regulatory criteria set forth in 

§§ 50.12, 52.7, and section VIII.A.4 of 

appendix D to 10 CFR part 52. The 

license amendment was found to be 

acceptable as well. The combined safety 

evaluation is available in ADAMS under 

Accession No. ML17254A129. 

Identical exemption documents 

(except for referenced unit numbers and 

license numbers) were issued to the 

licensee for VEGP Units 3 and 4 (COLs 

NPF–91 and NPF–92). The exemption 

documents for VEGP Units 3 and 4 can 

be found in ADAMS under Accession 

Nos. ML17254A131 and ML17254A132, 

respectively. The exemption is 

reproduced (with the exception of 

abbreviated titles and additional 

citations) in Section II of this document. 

The amendment documents for COLs 

NPF–91 and NPF–92 are available in 

ADAMS under Accession Nos. 

ML17254A127 and ML17254A128, 

respectively. A summary of the 

amendment documents is provided in 

Section III of this document. 

II. Exemption 

Reproduced below is the exemption 

document issued to VEGP Units 3 and 

Unit 4. It makes reference to the 

combined safety evaluation that 

provides the reasoning for the findings 

made by the NRC (and listed under Item 

1) in order to grant the exemption: 

1. In a letter dated August 30, 2016, 

as supplemented by letter dated March 

14, 2017, Southern Nuclear Operating 

Company, Inc., (licensee) requested 

from the Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC or Commission) an 

exemption to allow departures from Tier 

1 information in the certified Design 

Control Document (DCD) incorporated 

by reference in 10 CFR part 52, 

appendix D, ‘‘Design Certification Rule 

for AP1000 Design,’’ as part of license 

amendment request (LAR) 16–019, 

‘‘Slab Thickness Changes between 

Column Lines I to J–1 and 2 to 4 at 

Elevation 153′–0′′.’’ 

For the reasons set forth in Section 3.1 

of the NRC staff’s Safety Evaluation that 

supports this license amendment, which 

can be found at ADAMS Accession 

Number ML17254A129, the 

Commission finds that: 


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1United States Postal Service FY 2017 Annual 

Compliance Report, December 29, 2017 (FY 2017 

ACR). Public portions of the Postal Service’s filing 

are available on the Commission’s website at http:// 

www.prc.gov. 

2 In years prior to 2013, the Commission reviewed 

the Postal Service’s reports prepared pursuant to 39 

U.S.C. 2803 and 39 U.S.C. 2804 (filed as the 

Comprehensive Statement by the Postal Service) in 

its ACD. However, as it has for the past several 

years, the Commission intends to issue a separate 

notice soliciting comments on the comprehensive 

Continued 

A. The exemption is authorized by 

law; 

B. the exemption presents no undue 

risk to public health and safety; 

C. the exemption is consistent with 

the common defense and security; 

D. special circumstances are present 

in that the application of the rule in this 

circumstance is not necessary to serve 

the underlying purpose of the rule; 

E. the special circumstances outweigh 

any decrease in safety that may result 

from the reduction in standardization 

caused by the exemption; and 

F. the exemption will not result in a 

significant decrease in the level of safety 

otherwise provided by the design. 

2. Accordingly, the licensee is granted 

an exemption from the certified DCD 

Tier 1 information, as described in the 

licensee’s request dated August 30, 

2016, as supplemented by letter dated 

March 14, 2017. This exemption is 

related to, and necessary for, the 

granting of License Amendments No. 89 

and 88, which is being issued 

concurrently with this exemption. 

3. As explained in Section 5 of the 

NRC staff’s Safety Evaluation that 

supports this license amendment 

(ADAMS Accession Number 

ML17254A129), this exemption meets 

the eligibility criteria for categorical 

exclusion set forth in 10 CFR 

51.22(c)(9). Therefore, pursuant to 10 

CFR 51.22(b), no environmental impact 

statement or environmental assessment 

needs to be prepared in connection with 

the issuance of the exemption. 

4. This exemption is effective as of the 

date of its issuance. 

III. License Amendment Request 

By letter dated August 30, 2016, as 

supplemented by letter dated March 14, 

2017 (ADAMS Accession Nos. 

ML16243A373 and ML17007A159, 

respectively), the licensee requested that 

the NRC amend the COLs for VEGP, 

Units 3 and 4, COLs NPF–91 and NPF– 

92. The proposed amendment is 

described in Section I of this Federal 

Register notice. 

The Commission has determined for 

these amendments that the application 

complies with the standards and 

requirements of the Atomic Energy Act 

of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the 

Commission’s rules and regulations. 

The Commission has made appropriate 

findings as required by the Act and the 

Commission’s rules and regulations in 

10 CFR Chapter I, which are set forth in 

the license amendment. 

A notice of consideration of issuance 

of amendment to facility operating 

license or COL, as applicable, proposed 

no significant hazards consideration 

determination, and opportunity for a 

hearing in connection with these 

actions, was published in the Federal 

Register on March 28, 2017 (82 FR 

15377). No comments were received 

during the 30-day comment period. 

The Commission has determined that 

these amendments satisfy the criteria for 

categorical exclusion in accordance 

with 10 CFR 51.22. Therefore, pursuant 

to 10 CFR 51.22(b), no environmental 

impact statement or environmental 

assessment need be prepared for these 

amendments. 

IV. Conclusion 

Using the reasons set forth in the 

combined safety evaluation, the staff 

granted the exemption and issued the 

amendment that the licensee requested 

on August 30, 2016, and supplemented 

by letter dated March 14, 2017. The 

exemption and amendment were issued 

on October 6, 2017, as part of a 

combined package to the licensee 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML17254A125). 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 2nd day 

of January 2, 2018. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Jennifer L. Dixon-Herrity, 

Chief, Licensing Branch 4, Division of New 

Reactor Licensing, Office of New Reactors. 

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BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION 

[Docket No. ACR2017; Order No. 4323] 

FY 2017 Annual Compliance Report 

AGENCY: Postal Regulatory Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Postal Service has filed 

an Annual Compliance Report on the 

costs, revenues, rates, and quality of 

service associated with its products in 

fiscal year 2017. Within 90 days, the 

Commission must evaluate that 

information and issue its determination 

as to whether rates were in compliance, 

and whether service standards in effect 

were met. To assist in this, the 

Commission seeks public comments on 

the Postal Service’s Annual Compliance 

Report. 

DATES: Comments are due: February 1, 

2018. Reply Comments are due: 

February 12, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments 

electronically via the Commission’s 

Filing Online system at http://

www.prc.gov. Those who cannot submit 

comments electronically should contact 

the person identified in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section by 

telephone for advice on filing 

alternatives. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David A. Trissell, General Counsel, at 

202–789–6820. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Table of Contents 

I. Introduction 

II. Overview of the Postal Service’s FY 2017 

ACR 

III. Procedural Steps 

IV. Ordering Paragraphs 

I. Introduction 

On December 29, 2017, the United 

States Postal Service (Postal Service) 

filed with the Commission its Annual 

Compliance Report (ACR) for fiscal year 

(FY) 2017, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 3652.1

Section 3652 requires submission of 

data and information on the costs, 

revenues, rates, and quality of service 

associated with postal products within 

90 days of the closing of each fiscal 

year. In conformance with other 

statutory provisions and Commission 

rules, the ACR includes the Postal 

Service’s FY 2017 Comprehensive 

Statement, its FY 2017 annual report to 

the Secretary of the Treasury on the 

Competitive Products Fund, and certain 

related Competitive Products Fund 

material. See respectively, 39 U.S.C. 

3652(g), 39 U.S.C. 2011(i), and 39 CFR 

3060.20–23. In line with past practice, 

some of the material in the FY 2017 

ACR appears in non-public annexes. 

The filing begins a review process that 

results in an Annual Compliance 

Determination (ACD) issued by the 

Commission to determine whether 

Postal Service products offered during 

FY 2017 were in compliance with 

applicable title 39 requirements. 

II. Overview of the Postal Service’s FY 

2017 ACR 

Contents of the filing. The Postal 

Service’s FY 2017 ACR consists of a 77- 

page narrative; extensive additional 

material appended as separate folders 

and identified in Attachment One; and 

an application for non-public treatment 

of certain materials, along with 

supporting rationale, filed as 

Attachment Two. The filing also 

includes the Comprehensive 

Statement,2 Report to the Secretary of 


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