2018 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 9 / Friday, January 12, 2018 / Unified Agenda 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2017–0185] 

10 CFR Chapter I 

Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory 

and Deregulatory Actions 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Semiannual regulatory agenda. 

SUMMARY: We are publishing our 

semiannual regulatory agenda (the 

Agenda) in accordance with Public Law 

96–354, ‘‘The Regulatory Flexibility 

Act,’’ and Executive Order 12866, 

‘‘Regulatory Planning and Review.’’ The 

Agenda is a compilation of all 

rulemaking activities on which we have 

recently completed action or have 

proposed or are considering action. We 

have completed 7 rulemaking activities 

since publication of our last Agenda on 

August 24, 2017. This issuance of our 

Agenda contains 30 active and 23 longterm rulemaking activities: 2 are 

Economically Significant; 8 represent 

Other Significant agency priorities; 39 

are Substantive, Nonsignificant 

rulemaking activities; and 4 are 

Administrative rulemaking activities. In 

addition, 3 rulemaking activities impact 

small entities. This issuance also 

contains our annual regulatory plan, 

which contains information on some of 

our most important regulatory actions 

that we are considering issuing in 

proposed or final form during Fiscal 

Year 2018. Our regulatory plan was 

submitted to OMB in June 2017; updates 

have been reflected in the Agenda 

abstract for each rulemaking. We are 

requesting comment on the rulemaking 

activities as identified in this Agenda. 

DATES: Submit comments on rulemaking 

activities as identified in this Agenda by 

February 12, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments on any 

rulemaking activity in the Agenda by 

the date and methods specified in any 

Federal Register notice on the 

rulemaking activity. Comments received 

on rulemaking activities for which the 

comment period has closed will be 

considered if it is practical to do so, but 

assurance of consideration cannot be 

given except as to comments received 

on or before the closure dates specified 

in the Federal Register notice. You may 

submit comments on this Agenda 

through the Federal Rulemaking website 

by going to http://www.regulations.gov 

and searching for Docket ID NRC–2017– 

0185. Address questions about NRC 

dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 

301–415–3463; email: Carol.Gallagher@

nrc.gov. For technical questions on any 

rulemaking activity listed in the 

Agenda, contact the individual listed 

under the heading ‘‘Agency Contact’’ for 

that rulemaking activity. 

For additional direction on obtaining 

information and submitting comments, 

see ‘‘Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments’’ in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Cindy Bladey, Office of Nuclear 

Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, telephone: 

301–415–3280; email: Cindy.Bladey@

nrc.gov. Persons outside the 

Washington, DC, metropolitan area may 

call, toll-free: 1–800–368–5642. For 

further information on the substantive 

content of any rulemaking activity listed 

in the Agenda, contact the individual 

listed under the heading ‘‘Agency 

Contact’’ for that rulemaking activity. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Obtaining Information and Submitting 

Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2017– 

0185 when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information for this 

document. You may obtain publicallyavailable information related to this 

document by any of the following 

methods: 

• Reginfo.gov: 

Æ For completed rulemaking 

activities go to http://www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/eAgendaHistory

?showStage=completed, select ‘‘fall 

2017 The Regulatory Plan and the 

Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory 

and Deregulatory Actions’’ from drop 

down menu, and select ‘‘Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission’’ from drop 

down menu. 

Æ For active rulemaking activities go 

to http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

eAgendaMain and select ‘‘Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission’’ from drop 

down menu. 

Æ For long-term rulemaking activities 

go to http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

eAgendaMain, select ‘‘Current Long 

Term Actions’’ link, and select ‘‘Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission’’ from drop 

down menu. 

• Federal Rulemaking website: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2017–0185. 

• NRC’s Public website: Go to http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/rulemaking-ruleforum/ 

unified-agenda.html and select fall 

2017. 

• NRC’s Public Document Room: 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–2017– 

0185 in your comment submission. 

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 will post all comment 

submissions at http://

www.regulations.gov as well as enter the 

comment submissions into the 

Agencywide Documents Access and 

Management System (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 into ADAMS. 

Introduction 

The Agenda is a compilation of all 

rulemaking activities on which an 

agency has recently completed action or 

has proposed or is considering action. 

The Agenda reports rulemaking 

activities in three major categories: 

Completed, active, and long-term. 

Completed rulemaking activities are 

those that were completed since 

publication of an agency’s last Agenda; 

active rulemaking activities are those 

that an agency currently plans to have 

an Advance Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking, a Proposed Rule, or a Final 

Rule issued within the next 12 months; 

and long-term rulemaking activities are 

rulemaking activities under 

development but for which an agency 

does not expect to have a regulatory 

action within the 12 months after 

publication of the current edition of the 

Unified Agenda. 

We assign a ‘‘Regulation Identifier 

Number’’ (RIN) to a rulemaking activity 

when our Commission initiates a 

rulemaking and approves a rulemaking 

plan, or when the NRC staff begins work 

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1For information on delegated rulemakings see 

ADAMS Accession No. ML16040A011. 

rulemaking 1 that does not require a 

rulemaking plan. The Office of 

Management and Budget uses this 

number to track all relevant documents 

throughout the entire ‘‘lifecycle’’ of a 

particular rulemaking activity. We 

report all rulemaking activities in the 

Agenda that have been assigned a RIN 

and meet the definition for a completed, 

an active, or a long-term rulemaking 

activity. 

The information contained in this 

Agenda is updated to reflect any action 

that has occurred on a rulemaking 

activity since publication of our last 

Agenda on August 24, 2017 (82 FR 

40448). Specifically, the information in 

this Agenda has been updated through 

September 18, 2017. 

The date for the next scheduled action 

under the heading ‘‘Timetable’’ is the 

date the next regulatory action for the 

rulemaking activity is scheduled to be 

published in the Federal Register. The 

date is considered tentative and is not 

binding on the Commission or its staff. 

The Agenda is intended to provide the 

public early notice and opportunity to 

participate in our rulemaking process. 

However, we may consider or act on any 

rulemaking activity even though it is not 

included in the Agenda. 

Common Prioritization of Rulemaking 

A key part of our regulatory program 

is an annual review of all ongoing and 

potential rulemaking activities. In 

conjunction with our budget and longterm planning process, we develop 

program budget estimates and 

determine the relative priority of 

rulemaking activities using our 

Common Prioritization of Rulemaking 

(CPR) methodology (ADAMS Accession 

No. ML15086A074). For the most up-todate information on the NRC’s 

rulemaking activities, including the CPR 

score for each planned rulemaking 

activity see the NRC’s Rules and 

Petitions web page at https://

www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/regulatory/ 

rulemaking/rules-petitions.html. The 

CPR methodology considers four factors 

and assigns a score to each factor. Factor 

A includes activities that support the 

NRC’s Strategic Plan goals of ensuring 

the safe and secure use of radioactive 

materials. Factor B includes activities 

that support the Strategic Plan crosscutting strategies of Regulatory 

Effectiveness and Openness. 

Specifically, this factor considers 

whether the rulemaking activity 

enhances regulatory effectiveness and/ 

or openness in the way that the NRC 

conducts regulatory activities. Factor C 

is a governmental factor representing 

interest to the NRC, Congress, or other 

governmental bodies. Factor D is an 

external factor representing interest to 

members of the public, nongovernmental organizations, the nuclear 

industry, vendors, and suppliers. The 

overall priority is determined by adding 

the factor scores together for each 

rulemaking activity. 

Section 610 Periodic Reviews Under 

the Regulatory Flexibility Act 

Section 610 of the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act (RFA) requires agencies 

to conduct a review within 10 years of 

promulgation of those regulations that 

have or will have a significant economic 

impact on a substantial number of small 

entities. We undertake these reviews to 

decide whether the rules should be 

unchanged, amended, or withdrawn. At 

this time, we do not have any rules that 

have a significant economic impact on 

a substantial number of small entities; 

therefore, we have not included any 

RFA Section 610 periodic reviews in 

this edition of the Agenda. A complete 

listing of our regulations that impact 

small entities and related Small Entity 

Compliance Guides are available from 

the NRC’s website at http://

www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/regulatory/ 

rulemaking/flexibility-act/smallentities.html. 

Public Comments Received on the 

NRC’s Unified Agenda 

The comment period on the NRC’s 

last Agenda (published on August 24, 

2017 (82 FR 40448)) will close on 

September 25, 2017. The NRC will 

address any written comments on our 

2017 Agenda issuances in our next 

Agenda update. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day 

of September 2017. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Cindy Bladey, 

Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission. 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION—PROPOSED RULE STAGE

Sequence No. Title Regulation 

Identifier No. 

480 .................... Revision of Fee Schedules: Fee Recovery for FY 2018 [NRC–2017–0026] .................................................. 3150–AJ95 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION—LONG-TERM ACTIONS

Sequence No. Title Regulation 

Identifier No. 

481 .................... Revision of Fee Schedules: Fee Recovery for FY 2019 [NRC–2017–0032] .................................................. 3150–AJ99 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION—COMPLETED ACTIONS

Sequence No. Title Regulation 

Identifier No. 

482 .................... Revision of Fee Schedules; Fee Recovery for FY 2017 [NRC–2016–0081] .................................................. 3150–AJ73 


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION (NRC) 

Proposed Rule Stage 

480. Revision of Fee Schedules: Fee 

Recovery for FY 2018 [NRC–2017–0026] 

E.O. 13771 Designation: Independent 

agency. 

Legal Authority: 31 U.S.C. 483; 42 

U.S.C. 2201; 42 U.S.C. 2214; 42 U.S.C. 

5841 

Abstract: This proposed rule would 

implement the Omnibus Budget 

Reconciliation Act of 1990 (OBRA–90), 

as amended, which requires the Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission (NRC) to 

recover approximately 90 percent of its 

budget authority in a given fiscal year, 

less the amounts appropriated from the 

Waste Incidental to Reprocessing, 

generic homeland security activities, 

and Inspector General services for the 

Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, 

through fees assessed to licensees. This 

rulemaking would amend the 

Commission’s fee schedules for 

licensing, inspection, and annual fees 

charged to its applicants and licensees. 

The licensing and inspection fees are 

established under 10 CFR part 170 and 

recover the NRC’s cost of providing 

services to identifiable applicants and 

licensees. Examples of services 

provided by the NRC for which 10 CFR 

part 170 fees are assessed include 

license application reviews, license 

renewals, license amendment reviews, 

and inspections. The annual fees 

established under 10 CFR part 171 

recover budgeted costs for generic (e.g., 

research and rulemaking) and other 

regulatory activities not recovered under 

10 CFR part 170 fees. 

Timetable: 

Action Date FR Cite 

NPRM .................. 01/00/18 

Final Rule ............ 05/00/18 

Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 

Required: Yes. 

Agency Contact: Michele D. Kaplan, 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office 

of the Chief Financial Officer, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, Phone: 

301 415–5256, Email: michele.kaplan@

nrc.gov. 

RIN: 3150–AJ95 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION (NRC) 

Long-Term Actions 

481. Revision of Fee Schedules: Fee 

Recovery for FY 2019 [NRC–2017–0032] 

E.O. 13771 Designation: Independent 

agency. 

Legal Authority: 31 U.S.C. 483; 42 

U.S.C. 2201; 42 U.S.C. 2214; 42 U.S.C. 

5841 

Abstract: This rule would implement 

the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act 

of 1990 (OBRA–90), as amended, which 

requires the Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) to recover 

approximately 90 percent of its budget 

authority in a given fiscal year, less the 

amounts appropriated from the Waste 

Incidental to Reprocessing, generic 

homeland security activities, and 

Inspector General services for the 

Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, 

through fees assessed to licensees. This 

rulemaking would amend the 

Commission’s fee schedules for 

licensing, inspection, and annual fees 

charged to its applicants and licensees. 

The licensing and inspection fees are 

established under 10 CFR part 170 and 

recover the NRC’s cost of providing 

services to identifiable applicants and 

licensees. Examples of services 

provided by the NRC for which 10 CFR 

part 170 fees are assessed include 

license application reviews, license 

renewals, license amendment reviews, 

and inspections. The annual fees 

established under 10 CFR part 171 

recover budgeted costs for generic (e.g., 

research and rulemaking) and other 

regulatory activities not recovered under 

10 CFR part 170 fees. 

Timetable: 

Action Date FR Cite 

NPRM .................. 01/00/19 

Final Rule ............ 05/00/19 

Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 

Required: Yes. 

Agency Contact: Michele D. Kaplan, 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office 

of the Chief Financial Officer, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, Phone: 

301 415–5256, Email: michele.kaplan@

nrc.gov. 

RIN: 3150–AJ99 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION (NRC) 

Completed Actions 

482. Revision of Fee Schedules; Fee 

Recovery for FY 2017 [NRC–2016–0081] 

E.O. 13771 Designation: Independent 

agency. 

Legal Authority: 31 U.S.C. 483; 42 

U.S.C. 2201; 42 U.S.C. 2214; 42 U.S.C. 

5841 

Abstract: This rule would implement 

the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act 

of 1990 (OBRA–90), as amended, which 

requires the Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission to recover approximately 

90 percent of its budget authority in a 

given fiscal year, less the amounts 

appropriated from the Waste Incidental 

to Reprocessing and generic homeland 

security activities, through fees assessed 

to licensees. This rulemaking would 

amend the Commission’s fee schedules 

for licensing, inspection, and annual 

fees charged to its applicants and 

licensees. The licensing and inspection 

fees are established under 10 CFR part 

170 and recover the Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission’s cost of providing services 

to identifiable applicants and licensees. 

Examples of services provided by the 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission for 

which 10 CFR part 170 fees are assessed 

include license application reviews, 

license renewals, license amendment 

reviews, and inspections. The annual 

fees established under 10 CFR part 171 

recover budgeted costs for generic (e.g., 

research and rulemaking) and other 

regulatory activities not recovered under 

10 CFR part 170 fees. 

Completed: 

Reason Date FR Cite 

Final Rule ............ 06/30/17 82 FR 30682 

Final Rule Effective.08/29/17 

Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 

Required: Yes. 

Agency Contact: Michele D. Kaplan, 

Phone: 301 415–5256, Email: 

michele.kaplan@nrc.gov. 

RIN: 3150–AJ73 

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