3192 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 15 / Tuesday, January 23, 2018 / Notices 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Russell E. Chazell, 

Advisory Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2018–01139 Filed 1–22–18; 8:45 am] 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. 72–1014, 72–59, and 50–271; 

NRC–2017–0134] 

Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.; 

Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power 

Station, Independent Spent Fuel 

Storage Installation 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Environmental assessment and 

finding of no significant impact; 

issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is considering an 

exemption request from Entergy Nuclear 

Operations, Inc. (ENO) to allow the 

Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station 

(VYNPS) to use a new regionalized 

loading pattern, load fuel that has been 

cooled for at least 2 years, and establish 

a per-cell maximum average burnup 

limit at 65,000 megawatt days per 

metric ton of uranium (MWD/MTU) in 

HI–STORM 100 multi-purpose canister 

(MPC)-68M using Certificate of 

Compliance (CoC) No. 1014, 

Amendment No. 10. The NRC prepared 

an environmental assessment (EA) 

documenting its finding. The NRC 

concluded that the proposed action 

would have no significant 

environmental impact. Accordingly, the 

NRC staff is issuing a finding of no 

significant impact (FONSI) associated 

with the proposed exemption. 

DATES: The EA and FONSI referenced in 

this document are available on January 

23, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2017–0134 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–2017–0134. 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: YenJu Chen, Office of Nuclear Material 

Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555; telephone: 301–415–1018; 

email: Yen-ju.Chen@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The NRC is reviewing an exemption 

request from ENO, dated May 16, 2017 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML17142A358), 

and supplemented by letters dated 

September 7, 2017 (ADAMS Accession 

No. ML17255A236) and December 7, 

2017 (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML17346A685). ENO is requesting an 

exemption from the requirements of title 

10 of the Code of Federal Regulations 

(10 CFR) §§ 72.212(a)(2), 72.212(b)(3), 

72.212(b)(5)(i), 72.214, and the portion 

of 72.212(b)(11) that requires 

compliance with the terms, conditions, 

and specifications of the Certificate of 

Compliance (CoC) No. 1014, for spent 

fuel storage at the VYNPS independent 

spent fuel storage installation (ISFSI). 

Specifically, ENO is requesting an 

exemption from certain requirements in 

Amendment No. 10 of the Holtec 

International (Holtec) CoC No. 1014 for 

the HI–STORM 100 Cask System 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML16144A177) 

to allow VYNPS to use a new 

regionalized loading pattern as 

described in Figure 2.4–1 of the 

exemption request, to load fuel that has 

been cooled for at least 2 years, and to 

establish a per-cell maximum average 

burnup limit at 65,000 megawatt days 

per metric ton of uranium (MWD/MTU) 

in a HI–STORM 100 MPC–68M canister. 

This would allow VYNPS to load fuel 

assemblies which have not been cooled 

for at least 3 years, as approved in the 

current CoC, but have been cooled for 2 

years, into the MPC–68M. 

II. Environmental Assessment 

Summary 

Under the requirements of §§ 51.21 

and 51.30(a), the NRC staff developed 

an EA (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML17249A160) to evaluate the proposed 

action, which is for the NRC to grant an 

exemption to ENO to allow the use of 

a new regionalized loading pattern as 

described in Figure 2.4–1 of the 

exemption request, to load fuel that has 

been cooled for at least 2 years, and to 

establish a per-cell maximum average 

burnup limit at 65,000 MWD/MTU in a 

HI–STORM 100 MPC–68M at the 

VYNPS site. 

The EA defines the NRC’s proposed 

action (i.e., to grant ENO’s exemption 

request per 10 CFR 72.7) and the 

purpose of and need for the proposed 

action. Evaluations of the potential 

environmental impacts of the proposed 

action and alternatives to the proposed 

action are presented, followed by the 

NRC’s conclusion. 

This EA evaluates the potential 

environmental impacts of granting the 

exemption to allow the use of a new 

regionalized loading pattern as 

described in Figure 2.4–1 of the 

exemption request, loading fuel that has 

been cooled for at least 2 years, and 

establishing a per-cell maximum 

average burnup limit at 65,000 MWD/ 

MTU in a HI–STORM 100 MPC–68M at 

the VYNPS site. The potential 

environmental impact of using NRCapproved storage casks was initially 

analyzed in the EA for the rulemaking 

to provide for the storage of spent fuel 

under a general license on July 18, 1990 

(55 FR 29181). The EA for using the HI– 

STORM 100, Amendment No. 10, cask 

system (81 FR 13265) tiers off of the EA 

for the 1990 final rule. 

NRC staff finds that this exemption 

request is bounded by CoC No. 1014, 

Amendment No. 10, and that there will 

be no significant environmental impacts 

of the proposed action. The proposed 

action does not change the types or 

quantities of effluents that may be 

released offsite, and it does not increase 

occupational or public radiation 

exposure. Therefore, there are no 

significant radiological environmental 

impacts associated with the proposed 

action. There is no change to the nonradiological effluents. The proposed 

action will take place within the site 

boundary, and does not have other 

environmental impacts. Thus, the 

proposed action will not have a 

significant effect on the quality of the 

human environment. Therefore, the 

environmental impacts of the proposed 


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action are no greater than those 

described in the EA for the rulemaking 

to add the HI–STORM 100, Amendment 

No. 10, cask system to 10 CFR 72.214. 

III. Finding of No Significant Impact 

The NRC staff has prepared an EA and 

associated FONSI in support of the 

proposed action. The NRC staff has 

concluded that the proposed action, for 

the NRC to grant the exemption 

requested for VYNPS, allowing the use 

of a new regionalized loading pattern as 

described in Figure 2.4–1 of the 

exemption request, and to load fuel that 

has been cooled for at least 2 years, and 

establishing a per-cell maximum 

average burnup limit at 65,000 MWD/ 

MTU in a HI–STORM 100 MPC–68M, 

will not significantly impact the quality 

of the human environment, and that the 

proposed action is the preferred 

alternative. The environmental impacts 

are bounded by the previous NRC EA 

for the rulemaking to add the HI– 

STORM 100, Amendment No. 10, cask 

system to 10 CFR 72.214. 

The NRC provided the Vermont 

Department of Health with a draft copy 

of the EA for a 30-day review on 

October 16, 2017 (ADAMS Accession 

No. ML17289A422). 

The NRC staff has determined that 

this exemption would have no impact 

on historic and cultural resources or 

ecological resources and therefore no 

consultations are necessary under 

Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act 

and Section 106 of the National Historic 

Preservation Act, respectively. 

Therefore, the NRC finds that there 

are no significant environmental 

impacts from the proposed action, and 

that preparation of an environmental 

impact statement is not warranted. 

Accordingly, the NRC has determined 

that a FONSI is appropriate. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 16th day 

of January, 2018. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Meraj Rahimi, 

Acting Chief, Spent Fuel Licensing Branch, 

Division of Spent Fuel Management, Office 

of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. 

[FR Doc. 2018–01176 Filed 1–22–18; 8:45 am] 

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RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD 

Civil Monetary Penalty Inflation 

Adjustment 

AGENCY: Railroad Retirement Board. 

ACTION: Notice announcing updated 

penalty inflation adjustments for civil 

monetary penalties for 2018. 

SUMMARY: As required by Section 701 of 

the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, 

entitled the Federal Civil Penalties 

Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements 

Act of 2015, the Railroad Retirement 

Board (Board) hereby publishes its 2018 

annual adjustment of civil penalties for 

inflation. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Marguerite P. Dadabo, Assistant General 

Counsel, Railroad Retirement Board, 

844 North Rush Street, Chicago, IL 

60611–2092, (312) 751–4945, TTD (312) 

751–4701. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

701 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 

2015, Public Law 114–74 (Nov. 2, 2015), 

entitled the Federal Civil Penalties 

Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements 

Act of 2015 (the 2015 Act), amended the 

Federal Civil Penalties Inflation 

Adjustment Act of 1990 (28 U.S.C. 2461 

note) (Inflation Adjustment Act) to 

require agencies to publish regulations 

adjusting the amount of civil monetary 

penalties provided by law within the 

jurisdiction of the agency not later than 

July 1, 2016, and annual adjustments 

thereafter. 

For the 2018 annual adjustment for 

inflation of the maximum civil penalty 

under the Program Fraud Civil 

Remedies Act of 1986, the Board applies 

the formula provided by the 2015 Act 

and the Board’s regulations at title 20, 

Code of Federal Regulations, part 356. 

In accordance with the 2015 Act, the 

amount of the adjustment is based on 

the percent increase between the CPI–U 

for the month of October preceding the 

date of the adjustment and the CPI–U 

for the October one year prior to the 

October immediately preceding the date 

of the adjustment. If there is no increase, 

there is no adjustment of civil penalties. 

The percent increase between the CPI– 

U for October 2017 and October 2016, 

as provided by Office of Management 

and Budget Memorandum M–18–03 

(December 15, 2017) is 1.02041 percent. 

Therefore, the new maximum penalty 

under the Program Fraud Civil 

Remedies Act is $11,181 (the 2017 

maximum penalty of $10,957 multiplied 

by 1.02041, rounded to the nearest 

dollar). The new minimum penalty 

under the False Claims Act is $11,181 

(the 2017 minimum penalty of $10,957 

multiplied by 1.02041, rounded to the 

nearest dollar), and the new maximum 

penalty is $22,363 (the 2017 maximum 

penalty of $21,916 multiplied by 

1.02041, rounded to the nearest dollar). 

The adjustments in penalties will be 

effective January 23, 2018. 

For The Board. 

Dated: January 18, 2018. 

Martha P. Rico, 

Secretary to the Board. 

[FR Doc. 2018–01144 Filed 1–22–18; 8:45 am] 

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OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND 

TECHNOLOGY POLICY 

National Nanotechnology Initiative 

Meetings 

ACTION: Notice of public meetings. 

SUMMARY: The National Nanotechnology 

Coordination Office (NNCO), on behalf 

of the Nanoscale Science, Engineering, 

and Technology (NSET) Subcommittee 

of the Committee on Technology, 

National Science and Technology 

Council (NSTC), will facilitate 

stakeholder discussion of targeted 

nanotechnology topics through 

workshops, webinars, and Community 

of Interest meetings between the 

publication date of this Notice and 

December 31, 2018. 

DATES: The NNCO will hold one or more 

workshops, webinars, networks, and 

Community of Interest teleconferences 

between the publication date of this 

Notice and December 31, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Attendance information, 

including addresses, will be posted on 

nano.gov. For information about 

upcoming workshops and webinars, 

please visit http://www.nano.gov/ 

meetings-workshops and http://

www.nano.gov/PublicWebinars. For 

more information on the Communities 

of Interest, please visit http://

www.nano.gov/Communities. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information regarding this Notice, 

please contact Marlowe Newman at 

info@nnco.nano.gov or (202) 517–1050 

ext. 107. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: These 

public meetings address the charge in 

the 21st Century Nanotechnology 

Research and Development Act for 

NNCO to provide ‘‘for public input and 

outreach . . . by the convening of 

regular and ongoing public 

discussions’’. Workshop and webinar 

topics may include technical subjects; 

environmental, health, and safety issues 

related to nanomaterials (nanoEHS); 

business case studies; or other areas of 

potential interest to the nanotechnology 

community. Areas of focus for the 

Communities of Interest may include 

research on nanoEHS; nanotechnology 

education; nanomedicine; 

nanomanufacturing; or other areas of 

potential interest to the nanotechnology 

community. For example, the 


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