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Commission decisional employees, who 

make or receive a prohibited or exempt 

off-the-record communication relevant 

to the merits of a contested proceeding, 

to deliver to the Secretary of the 

Commission, a copy of the 

communication, if written, or a 

summary of the substance of any oral 

communication. 

Prohibited communications are 

included in a public, non-decisional file 

associated with, but not a part of, the 

decisional record of the proceeding. 

Unless the Commission determines that 

the prohibited communication and any 

responses thereto should become a part 

of the decisional record, the prohibited 

off-the-record communication will not 

be considered by the Commission in 

reaching its decision. Parties to a 

proceeding may seek the opportunity to 

respond to any facts or contentions 

made in a prohibited off-the-record 

communication and may request that 

the Commission place the prohibited 

communication and responses thereto 

in the decisional record. The 

Commission will grant such a request 

only when it determines that fairness so 

requires. Any person identified below as 

having made a prohibited off-the-record 

communication shall serve the 

document on all parties listed on the 

official service list for the applicable 

proceeding in accordance with Rule 

2010, 18 CFR 385.2010. 

Exempt off-the-record 

communications are included in the 

decisional record of the proceeding, 

unless the communication was with a 

cooperating agency as described by 40 

CFR 1501.6, made under 18 CFR 

385.2201(e)(1)(v). 

The following is a list of off-therecord communications recently 

received by the Secretary of the 

Commission. The communications 

listed are grouped by docket numbers in 

ascending order. These filings are 

available for electronic review at the 

Commission in the Public Reference 

Room or may be viewed on the 

Commission’s website at http://

www.ferc.gov using the eLibrary link. 

Enter the docket number, excluding the 

last three digits, in the docket number 

field to access the document. For 

assistance, please contact FERC Online 

Support at FERCOnlineSupport@

ferc.gov or toll free at (866) 208–3676, or 

for TTY, contact (202) 502–8659. 

Docket Nos. File date Presenter or 

requester 

Prohibited: 

1. P–1494–438 .............................................................................................................................................. 6–1–2021 FERC Staff 1. 

2. P–1494–438 .............................................................................................................................................. 6–1–2021 FERC Staff 2. 

3. P–1494–438 .............................................................................................................................................. 6–1–2021 FERC Staff 3. 

4. P–1494–438 .............................................................................................................................................. 6–2–2021 FERC Staff 4. 

Exempt: 

None. 

1Emailed comments dated 5/28/2021 from Susan Thabit. 

2Emailed comments dated 5/29/2021 from Alan Harper and 3 other individuals. 

3Emailed comments dated 5/30/2021 from Joyce Grajczyk. 

4Emailed comments dated 6/1/2021 from Caryn Graves. 

Dated: June 10, 2021. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Deputy Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[EPA–HQ–OAR–2021–0276; FRL–10023–12– 

OAR] 

Multi-Agency Radiation Survey and 

Site Investigation Manual, Revision 2 

AGENCY: Department of Defense, 

Department of Energy, Environmental 

Protection Agency, and the Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of availability with 

request for public comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Defense 

(DoD), Department of Energy (DOE), 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

(NRC) are announcing for public 

comment the availability of a draft 

revision document, entitled the ‘‘MultiAgency Radiation Survey and Site 

Investigation Manual’’ (MARSSIM). 

MARSSIM provides information on 

planning, conducting, evaluating, and 

documenting environmental 

radiological surveys of surface soil and 

building surfaces for demonstrating 

compliance with regulations. 

MARSSIM, when finalized as Revision 

2, will be a multi-agency consensus 

document. The agencies are seeking 

public comment in order to receive 

feedback from the widest range of 

interested parties and to ensure that all 

information relevant to developing the 

document is received. The agencies will 

review public comments received on the 

draft MARSSIM Revision 2 as well as 

comments from a concurrent, 

independent, scientific peer review. The 

Agencies will review comments 

received during the public comment 

period and make revisions to the 

document as appropriate. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before September 14, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OAR–2021–0276, to the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal: http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Once submitted, comments cannot be 

edited or withdrawn. The EPA may 

publish any comment received to its 

public docket. Do not electronically 

submit any information you consider to 

be Confidential Business Information 

(CBI) or other information whose 

disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Multimedia submissions (audio, video, 

etc.) must be accompanied by a written 

comment. The written comment is 

considered the official comment and 

should include discussion of all points 

you wish to make. The EPA will 

generally not consider comments or 

comment contents located outside of the 

primary submission (i.e., on the web, 

cloud or other file sharing system). For 

additional submission methods, the full 

EPA public comment policy, 

information about CBI or multimedia 

submissions, and general guidance on 

making effective comments, please visit: 

http://www2.epa.gov/dockets/ 

commenting-epa-dockets. 

You may obtain publicly-available 

information related to this action, 

including copies of the MARSSIM 


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Revision 2, by any of the following 

methods: 

NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access 

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 Webbased ADAMS Search.’’ Please refer to 

ML21008A572 when contacting the 

NRC about the availability of the 

MARSSIM Rev. 2 draft. 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. 

Attention: The PDR, where you may 

have previously examined and ordered 

copies of public documents is currently 

closed for in-person document review. 

You may submit your request to the 

PDR via email at pdr.resource@nrc.gov 

or call 1–800–397–4209 between 8:00 

a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (EST), Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

The DOE, EPA, and NRC each have a 

publication number for MARSSIM. 

They are: For the DOE, DOE/AU–0002; 

for the EPA, EPA 402–P–20–001; for the 

NRC, NUREG–1575, Rev. 2. A free 

single copy of the draft MARSSIM 

Revision 2 may be requested by email to 

DISTRIBUTION.Resource@nrc.gov. 

The MARSSIM Revision 2 document 

is also available for download at: 

https://www.epa.gov/radiation/multiagency-radiation-survey-and-siteinvestigation-manual-marssim. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the Docket ID No. EPA– 

HQ–OAR–2021–0276 for this 

rulemaking. Comments received may be 

posted without change to https://

www.regulations.gov/, including any 

personal information provided. For 

detailed instructions and additional 

information on submitting comments, 

see the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

section of this document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

of the following points of contact for 

each agency for technical information 

(See ADDRESSES section above for 

directions on obtaining a copy of the 

draft MARSSIM Revision 2.): DoD: Erik 

Abkemeier, Phone: (757) 887–7635, 

erik.j.abkemeier@navy.mil, U.S. Navy, 

NAVSEADET RASO, 160 Main Road, 

Yorktown, VA 23691–5105; DOE: Derek 

Favret (AU–22), Phone: (202) 586–0250, 

derek.favret@hq.doe.gov, or Amanda 

Anderson (EM–3.11), Phone: (240) 702– 

5556, amanda.anderson@em.doe.gov, 

U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW, Washington, 

DC 20585; EPA: Kathryn Snead; Phone: 

(202) 343–9228, snead.kathryn@

epa.gov, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, Mail Stop 6608T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20460–1000; NRC: Mark Fuhrmann, 

Phone: (301) 415–0879, 

mark.fuhrmann@nrc.gov, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Mail Stop TWF 

10 A–12 11555 Rockville Pike, 

Rockville, MD 20852–2738. Questions 

concerning the multi-agency document 

development project should be 

addressed to Kathryn Snead, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW, MC 6608T, 

Washington, DC 20460, (202) 343–9228, 

snead.kathryn@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. What should I consider as I prepare 

my comments for EPA? 

1. Submitting Confidential Business 

Information (CBI). The EPA may publish 

any comment received to its public 

docket. Do not submit CBI information 

to the EPA through www.regulations.gov 

or email. Clearly mark the part or all of 

the information that you claim to be 

CBI. For CBI information in a disk or CD 

ROM that you mail to the EPA, mark the 

outside of the disk or CD ROM as CBI 

and then identify electronically within 

the files on the disk or CD ROM the 

specific information that is claimed as 

CBI. In addition to one complete version 

of the comment that includes 

information claimed as CBI, a copy of 

the comment that does not contain the 

information claimed as CBI must be 

submitted for inclusion in the public 

docket. Information so marked will not 

be disclosed except in accordance with 

procedures set forth in 40 CFR part 2. 

2. Tips for Preparing Your Comments. 

When submitting comments, remember 

to: 

• Identify the rulemaking by docket 

number EPA–HQ–OAR–2021–0276 and 

other identifying information (subject 

heading, Federal Register date and page 

number). 

• Follow directions: The Agency may 

ask you to respond to specific questions 

or organize comments by referencing a 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 

or section number. 

• Explain why you agree or disagree; 

suggest alternatives and substitute 

language for your requested changes. 

• Describe any assumptions and 

provide any technical information and/ 

or data that you used. 

• If you estimate potential costs or 

burdens, explain how you arrived at 

your estimate in sufficient detail to 

allow for it to be reproduced. 

• Provide specific examples to 

illustrate your concerns and suggest 

alternatives. 

• Explain your views as clearly as 

possible, avoiding the use of profanity 

or personal threats. 

• Make sure to submit your 

comments by the comment period 

deadline identified. 

II. Background 

MARSSIM provides information on 

planning, conducting, evaluating, and 

documenting environmental 

radiological surveys of surface soil and 

building surfaces for demonstrating 

compliance with regulations. 

MARSSIM, when finalized as Revision 

2, will update this multi-agency 

consensus document. 

MARSSIM was originally developed 

by the technical staffs of the four 

Federal agencies having authority for 

control of radioactive materials: DoD, 

DOE, EPA and NRC (60 FR 12555; 

March 7, 1995). The four agencies 

issued Revision 1 to MARSSIM in 

August 2000, and additional edits to 

Revision 1 in June 2001. MARSSIM has 

not been updated since 2001; updates 

prior to 2001 primarily consisted of 

minor non-technical edits. Revision 2 

updates the science, clarifies methods, 

and implements lessons learned from 

over 20 years of the document’s use in 

industry. 

A summary of changes in MARSSIM 

Revision 2 includes the following: (1) 

Added measurement quality objectives 

(MQOs) and measurement uncertainty, 

(2) expanded measurement methods to 

include scan-only surveys, (3) updated 

survey instrumentation information, (4) 

added Scenario B (‘‘assumed to meet the 

criteria until proven otherwise’’), (5) 

increased emphasis on regulator 

interface during survey design, (6) 

improved description of the lower 

bound of the gray region (LBGR), (7) 

updated references, (8) changed English 

units to International System of Units 

(SI), (9) avoided using the term ‘‘Area 

Factor,’’ (10) included additional 

examples in Chapter 5 and (11) 

reorganized Chapter 4. 

The public review is a necessary step 

in the development of a final multiagency consensus document. The 

document will also undergo concurrent, 

independent, scientific peer review. The 

draft has not been approved by the 

participating agencies for use, in part or 

in whole, and should not be used, cited, 

or quoted, except for the purposes of 

providing comments as requested. 

Commenters are requested to focus on 

technical accuracy and 

understandability. Commenters are also 


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requested to address five questions 

while reviewing MARSSIM Revision 2: 

(1) Do the revisions to MARSSIM 

provide greater clarity while 

maintaining a practical and 

implementable approach to performing 

environmental radiological surveys of 

surface soil and building surfaces? 

(2) Are the revisions to MARSSIM 

technically accurate? 

(3) Does MARSSIM Revision 2 

provide useful examples and 

descriptions of approaches to 

implementing surveys and the statistics 

by which they are interpreted? 

(4) Is the information in MARSSIM 

Revision 2 understandable and 

presented in a logical sequence? How 

can the presentation of material be 

modified to improve the 

understandability of the manual? 

Comments may be submitted as 

proposed modified text, or as a 

discussion. Comments should be 

accompanied by supporting bases, 

rationale, or data. To ensure efficient 

and complete comment resolution, 

commenters are requested to reference 

the page number and the line number of 

MARSSIM Revision 2 to which the 

comment applies. Enter only the 

beginning page and line number, even if 

your comment applies to several pages 

or lines to follow. 

Comments corresponding to an entire 

chapter, an entire section, or an entire 

table should be referenced to the line 

number for the title of the chapter 

section, or table. Comments on footnotes 

should be referenced to the line in the 

main text where the footnote is 

indicated. Comments on figures should 

be referenced to the page on which the 

figure appears. Figures do not have line 

numbers. The figure number should be 

included in the text of the comment. 

Comments on the entire manual should 

be referenced to the title page. 

Title: Draft Multi-Agency Radiation 

Survey and Site Investigation Manual, 

Revision 2. 

Laura Macaluso, 

Director, Force Safety and Occupational 

Health, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense 

Safety and Occupational Health, Office of 

the Under Secretary for Personnel and 

Readiness, Department of Defense. 

Michael J. Silverman, 

Director, Office of Environmental Protection 

and ES&H Reporting, Office of Environment, 

Health, Safety and Security, Department of 

Energy. 

Jonathan Edwards, 

Director, Office of Radiation and Indoor Air, 

Environmental Protection Agency. 

Raymond V. Furstenau, 

Director, Office of Nuclear Regulatory 

Research, Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2021–12654 Filed 6–15–21; 8:45 am] 

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[FR ID 32686] 

Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of a new matching 

program. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Privacy Act of 1974, as amended 

(‘‘Privacy Act’’), this document 

announces the establishment of a 

computer matching program the Federal 

Communications Commission (‘‘FCC’’ 

or ‘‘Commission’’ or ‘‘Agency’’) and the 

Universal Service Administrative 

Company (USAC) will conduct with the 

Minnesota Department of Human 

Services (Department). The purpose of 

this matching program is to verify the 

eligibility of applicants to and 

subscribers of the Emergency Broadband 

Benefit Program, which is administered 

by USAC under the direction of the 

FCC, or other Federal programs that use 

qualification for the FCC’s Lifeline 

Program as an eligibility criterion. More 

information about this program is 

provided in the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section below. 

DATES: Written comments are due on or 

before July 16, 2021. This computer 

matching program will commence on 

July 16, 2021 and will conclude 18 

months after becoming effective. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Margaret 

Drake, FCC, 45 L Street NE, Washington, 

DC 20554, or to Privacy@fcc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Margaret Drake at 202–417–1707 or 

Privacy@fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Emergency Broadband Benefit Program 

(EBBP) was established by Congress in 

the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 

2021, Public Law 116–260, 134 Stat. 

1182. EBBP is a program that will help 

low-income Americans obtain 

discounted broadband service and onetime co-pay for a connected device 

(laptop, desktop computer or tablet). 

This program was created specifically to 

assist American families’ access to 

broadband, which has proven to be 

essential for work, school, and 

healthcare during the public health 

emergency that exists as a result of 

COVID–19. A household may qualify for 

the EBBP benefit under various criteria, 

including an individual qualifying for 

the FCC’s Lifeline program. 

In a Report and Order adopted on 

March 31, 2016, the Commission 

ordered USAC to create a National 

Lifeline Eligibility Verifier (‘‘National 

Verifier’’), including the National 

Lifeline Eligibility Database (LED), that 

would match data about Lifeline 

applicants and subscribers with other 

data sources to verify the eligibility of 

an applicant or subscriber. The 

Commission found that the National 

Verifier would reduce compliance costs 

for Lifeline service providers, improve 

service for Lifeline subscribers, and 

reduce waste, fraud, and abuse in the 

program. The Consolidated 

Appropriations Act of 2021 directs the 

FCC to leverage the National Verifier to 

verify applicants’ eligibility for EBBP. 

The purpose of this matching program 

is to verify the eligibility of EBBP 

applicants and subscribers by 

determining whether they receive 

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance 

Program (SNAP) and Medicaid benefits 

administered by the Minnesota 

Department. Under FCC rules, 

consumers receiving these benefits 

qualify for Lifeline discounts and also 

for EBBP benefits. 

Participating Agencies 

Minnesota Department of Human 

Services (Department). 

Authority for Conducting the Matching 

Program 

Consolidated Appropriations Act of 

2021, Public Law 116–260, 134 Stat. 

1182; 47 CFR part 54. 

Purpose(s) 

In the 2016 Lifeline Modernization 

Order (81 FR 33026, May 24, 2016), the 

FCC required USAC to develop and 

operate the National Verifier to improve 

efficiency and reduce waste, fraud, and 

abuse in the Lifeline program. The 

stated purpose of the National Verifier 


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