This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER

contains notices to the public of the proposed

issuance of rules and regulations. The

purpose of these notices is to give interested

persons an opportunity to participate in the

rule making prior to the adoption of the final

rules.

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Vol. 89, No. 240 

Friday, December 13, 2024 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

10 CFR Parts 50 and 52 

[NRC–2024–0203] 

Draft Regulatory Guide: Acceptability 

of ASME Code, Section III, Division 5, 

‘‘High Temperature Reactors’’ 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission 

ACTION: Draft guide; request for 

comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing for public 

comment a draft Regulatory Guide (DG), 

DG–1436, ‘‘Acceptability of ASME 

Code, Section III, Division 5, ‘‘High 

Temperature Reactors.’ ’’ This DG is 

proposed Revision 3 of Regulatory 

Guide (RG) 1.87, ‘‘Acceptability of 

ASME Code, Section III, Division 5, 

’High Temperature Reactors,’ ’’ and 

describes an approach that is acceptable 

to the staff of the NRC to assure the 

mechanical/structural integrity of 

components that operate in elevated 

temperature environments and that are 

subject to time-dependent material 

properties and failure modes. It 

endorses, with conditions, the 2023 

Edition of the American Society of 

Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Boiler 

and Pressure Vessel (BPV) Code (ASME 

Code) Section III, ‘‘Rules for 

Construction of Nuclear Facility 

Components,’’ Division 5, ‘‘High 

Temperature Reactors,’’ and several 

related code cases. 

DATES: Submit comments by January 27, 

2025. 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. 

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–2024–0203. 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 individuals listed 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this document. 

• Mail comments to: Office of 

Administration, Mail Stop: TWFN–7– 

A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001, ATTN: Program Management, 

Announcements and Editing Staff. 

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: 

Joseph Bass, Office of Nuclear 

Regulatory Research, telephone: 301– 

415–0770; email: Joseph.Bass@nrc.gov; 

Margaret Audrain, Office of Nuclear 

Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301– 

415–2133; email: Margaret.Audrain@

nrc.gov; and Ramo ́n L. Gascot, Office of 

Nuclear Regulatory Research, telephone: 

301–415–2004; email: Ramon.Gascot@

nrc.gov. All 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–2024– 

0203 when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information for this 

action. You may obtain publicly 

available information related to this 

action by any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2024–0203. 

• 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, at 

301–415–4737, or by email to 

PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. 

• NRC’s PDR: The PDR, where you 

may examine and order copies of 

publicly available documents, is open 

by appointment. 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 a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern 

time (ET), Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

B. Submitting Comments 

The NRC encourages electronic 

comment submission through the 

Federal rulemaking website (https://

www.regulations.gov). Please include 

Docket ID NRC–2024–0203 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 https://

www.regulations.gov as well as enter 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 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 methods that are 

acceptable to the NRC staff for 

implementing specific parts of the 

agency’s regulations, to explain 

techniques that the staff uses in 

evaluating specific issues or postulated 

events, and to describe information that 

the staff needs in its review of 

applications for permits and licenses. 

The DG, entitled ‘‘Acceptability of 

ASME Code, Section III, Division 5, 

‘‘High Temperature Reactors’’,’’ is 

temporarily identified by its task 

number, DG–1436, ADAMS Accession 

No. ML24275A266). 

The proposed revision (Revision 3) 

updates the guidance to endorse, with 

conditions, the 2023 Edition of ASME 


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1Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Launches 

New Way for the Public to Petition the Agency for 

Action (Feb. 16, 2022), https://

www.consumer’ finance.gov/about-us/newsroom/ 

cfpb-launches-new-way-for-the-public-to-petitionthe-agency-for-action/. 

2National Consumer Law Center, Petition for 

Rulemaking to Amend Identity Theft Definitions in 

the Fair Credit Reporting Act (Regulation V) (Aug. 

5, 2024), https://www.regulations.gov/document/ 

CFPB-2024-0037-0001. 

Code Section III, Division 5, as a method 

acceptable to the staff for the materials, 

mechanical/structural design, 

construction, testing, and quality 

assurance of mechanical systems and 

components and their supports of high 

temperature reactors. Proposed Revision 

3 also endorses, with conditions, the 

Code Cases N–861–2, N–862–2, N–872, 

N–898–1, N–812–1, and N–924 as well 

as the Code Case in Record 23–15. 

The staff is also issuing for public 

comment a draft regulatory analysis 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML24275A267). 

The staff developed a regulatory 

analysis to assess the value of issuing or 

revising a regulatory guide as well as 

alternative courses of action. 

As noted in the Federal Register on 

December 9, 2022 (87 FR 75671), this 

document is being published in the 

‘‘Proposed Rules’’ section of the Federal 

Register to comply with publication 

requirements under chapter I of title 1 

of the Code of Federal Regulations 

(CFR). 

III. Backfitting, Forward Fitting, and 

Issue Finality 

If finalized, the NRC staff may use this 

RG as a reference in its regulatory 

processes, such as licensing, inspection, 

or enforcement. However, the NRC staff 

does not intend to use the guidance in 

this RG to support NRC staff actions in 

a manner that would constitute 

backfitting as that term is defined in 

§ 50.109 of title 10 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations (10 CFR), 

‘‘Backfitting,’’ and as described in NRC 

Management Directive (MD) 8.4, 

‘‘Management of Backfitting, Forward 

Fitting, Issue Finality, and Information 

Requests’’; nor does the NRC staff 

intend to use the guidance to affect the 

issue finality of an approval under 10 

CFR part 52, ‘‘Licenses, Certifications, 

and Approvals for Nuclear Power 

Plants.’’ The staff also does not intend 

to use the guidance to support NRC staff 

actions in a manner that constitutes 

forward fitting as that term is defined 

and described in MD 8.4. If a licensee 

believes that the NRC is using this RG 

in a manner inconsistent with the 

discussion in this Implementation 

section, then the licensee may file a 

backfitting or forward fitting appeal 

with the NRC in accordance with the 

process in MD 8.4. 

IV. Submitting Suggestions for 

Improvement of Regulatory Guides 

A member of the public may, at any 

time, submit suggestions to the NRC for 

improvement of existing RGs or for the 

development of new RGs. Suggestions 

can be submitted on the NRC’s public 

website at https://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/doc-collections/reg-guides/ 

contactus.html. Suggestions will be 

considered in future updates and 

enhancements to the ‘‘Regulatory 

Guide’’ series. 

Dated: December 10, 2024. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Harriet Karagiannis, 

Acting Chief, Regulatory Guide and Programs 

Management Branch, Division of Engineering, 

Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. 

[FR Doc. 2024–29418 Filed 12–12–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION 

BUREAU 

12 CFR Part 1022 

[Docket No. CFPB–2024–0057] 

Fair Credit Reporting Act (Regulation 

V); Identity Theft and Coerced Debt 

AGENCY: Consumer Financial Protection 

Bureau. 

ACTION: Advance notice of proposed 

rulemaking. 

SUMMARY: The Consumer Financial 

Protection Bureau (CFPB) is seeking 

information in advance of preparing a 

proposed rule to address concerns 

related to information furnished to 

credit bureaus and other consumer 

reporting agencies concerning coerced 

debt. More specifically, this advance 

notice of proposed rulemaking solicits 

information on amending the 

definitions of ‘‘identity theft’’ and 

‘‘identity theft report’’ in Regulation V, 

which implements the Fair Credit 

Reporting Act, as well as other related 

amendments to Regulation V, to include 

information stemming from transactions 

that occurred without the consumer’s 

effective consent. 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

March 7, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit responsive 

information and other comments, 

identified by Docket No. CFPB–2024– 

0057 by any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Email: ANPR-Coerced-Debt@

cfpb.gov. Include Docket No. CFPB– 

2024–0057 in the subject line of the 

message. 

• Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier: 

Comment Intake—Identity Theft and 

Coerced Debt, c/o Legal Division Docket 

Manager, Consumer Financial 

Protection Bureau, 1700 G Street NW, 

Washington, DC 20552. 

Instructions: The CFPB encourages 

the early submission of comments. All 

submissions should include the agency 

name and docket number. Because 

paper mail is subject to delay, 

commenters are encouraged to submit 

comments electronically. In general, all 

comments received will be posted 

without change to https://

www.regulations.gov. 

All submissions, including 

attachments and other supporting 

materials, will become part of the public 

record and subject to public disclosure. 

Proprietary information or sensitive 

personal information, such as account 

numbers or Social Security numbers, or 

names of other individuals, should not 

be included. Submissions will not be 

edited to remove any identifying or 

contact information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

George Karithanom, Regulatory 

Implementation & Guidance Program 

Analyst, Office of Regulations, at 202– 

435–7700 or at: https://

reginquiries.’ consumer’ finance.gov/. If 

you require this document in an 

alternative electronic format, please 

contact CFPB_Accessibility@cfpb.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

On February 16, 2022, the Consumer 

Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) 

announced updated procedures on how 

the public can submit petitions for 

rulemaking.1 The procedures enable 

members of the public to request 

issuance, modification, or repeal of a 

regulation. In general, the CFPB posts 

these petitions publicly and solicits 

public comment on those petitions. On 

August 5, 2024, the CFPB posted to 

regulations.gov a petition for 

rulemaking from the National Consumer 

Law Center and the Center for Survivor 

Agency and Justice seeking the 

amendment of Regulation V, which 

implements the Fair Credit Reporting 

Act (Docket CFPB–2024–0037–0001).2

The petition requested amendments to 

Regulation V that would enable persons 

with coerced debt to avail themselves of 

identity theft protections under the Fair 

Credit Reporting Act. Specifically, the 

petition requested that the CFPB: 

• Modify the definition of ‘‘identity 

theft’’ to include ‘‘without effective 

consent’’ to provide relief for persons 


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