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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 50–311; NRC–2021–0131] 

PSEG Nuclear, LLC; Exelon Generation 

Company, LLC; Salem Nuclear 

Generating Station, Unit No. 2 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: License amendment application; 

opportunity to comment, request a 

hearing, and petition for leave to 

intervene. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is considering 

issuance of amendments to Renewed 

Facility Operating License No. DPR–75, 

issued to PSEG Nuclear, LLC, for 

operation of the Salem Nuclear 

Generating Station, Unit No. 2. The 

proposed amendments would revise 

Technical Specification (TS) actions for 

rod position indicators. This is a onetime change during the current 

operating cycle to support maintenance 

on the transformer supplying power to 

all of the Unit No. 2 rod position 

indicators. 

DATES: Submit comments by July 30, 

2021. Request for a hearing or petitions 

for leave to intervene must be filed by 

August 30, 2021. 

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–2021–0131. 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: 

James S. Kim, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001, telephone: 301–415–6606, email: 

James.Kim@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2021– 

0131, facility name, unit number(s), 

docket number(s), application date, and 

subject, if applicable, 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–2021–0131. 

• 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 

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. 

Attention: The PDR, where you may 

examine and order copies of public 

documents, is currently closed. You 

may submit your request to the PDR via 

email at pdr.resource@nrc.gov or call 1– 

800–397–4209 or 301–415–4737, 

between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (EST), 

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–2021–0131 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. Introduction 

The NRC is considering issuance of 

amendments to Renewed Facility 

Operating License No. DPR–75, issued 

to PSEG Nuclear LLC, for operation of 

the Salem Nuclear Generating Station, 

Unit No. 2, located in Salem County, 

New Jersey. 

The proposed amendments would 

revise TS 3.1.3.2.1, ‘‘Position Indication 

Systems—Operating,’’ to modify TS 

Action b.4 for more than one inoperable 

analog rod position indicator per group 

from 24 hours to 30 hours. This is a onetime change during the current 

operating cycle to support maintenance 

on the transformer supplying power to 

all of the Unit No. 2 rod position 

indicators. 

Before any issuance of the proposed 

license amendment, the NRC will need 

to make the findings required by the 

Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended 

(the Act), and NRC’s regulations. 

The NRC has made a proposed 

determination that the license 

amendment request involves no 

significant hazards consideration. Under 

the NRC’s regulations in § 50.92 of title 

10 of the Code of Federal Regulations 

(10 CFR), this means that operation of 

the facility in accordance with the 

proposed amendment would not (1) 

involve a significant increase in the 

probability or consequences of an 

accident previously evaluated; or (2) 

create the possibility of a new or 

different kind of accident from any 

accident previously evaluated; or (3) 

involve a significant reduction in a 

margin of safety. As required by 10 CFR 

50.91(a), the licensee has provided its 

analysis of the issue of no significant 

hazards consideration, which is 

presented below: 

1. Does the proposed change involve a 

significant increase in the probability or 

consequences of an accident previously 

evaluated? 

Response: No. 

Rod position indication instrumentation is 

not an accident initiator, providing 

indication only of the control and shutdown 

rods positions. Normal operation, abnormal 

occurrences and accident analyses assume 

the rods are at certain positions within the 

reactor core. The proposed one-time change 

modifies the time that rod position indication 

may be inoperable. The existing TS Actions 

and other plant instrumentation provide 

appropriate compensation for that 

inoperability. Thus, this change does not 

involve a significant increase in the 

probability of an accident. 


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Extending the allowed outage time to 

restore inoperable rod position indicators 

does not affect the operability of the 

shutdown or control rods. With rod position 

indicators inoperable, the position of nonindicating rods is required to be verified by 

indirect means (i.e., moveable incore 

detectors). Thus, inoperable rod position 

indication instrumentation does not involve 

an increase in the consequences of an 

accident. The inoperable rod position 

indication does not have any impact on the 

ability to trip the reactor in response to 

analyzed accidents and transients. 

Therefore, the proposed change does not 

represent a significant increase in the 

probability or consequences of an accident 

previously evaluated. 

2. Does the proposed change create the 

possibility of a new or different kind of 

accident from any accident previously 

evaluated? 

Response: No. 

The proposed change does not alter the 

design, function, or operation of any plant 

component and does not install any new or 

different equipment. The proposed change 

will not impose any new or different 

requirement or introduce a new accident 

initiator, accident precursor, or malfunction 

mechanism. 

Therefore, the proposed one-time change 

does not create the possibility of a new or 

different kind of accident from any accident 

previously evaluated. 

3. Does the proposed change involve a 

significant reduction in a margin of safety? 

Response: No. 

Loss of rod position indication does not 

cause a rod to be misaligned. With rod 

position indicators inoperable, the control 

rods are required to be placed in manual 

control, and the position of non-indicating 

rods is required to be verified using indirect 

means. The proposed change will not affect 

the ability of the shutdown or control rods 

to perform their required function. 

The proposed amendment will not result 

in a design basis or safety limit being 

exceeded or altered. Therefore, since the 

proposed change does not impact the 

response of the plant to a design basis 

accident, the proposed change does not 

involve a significant reduction in a margin of 

safety. 

The NRC staff has reviewed the 

licensee’s analysis and, based on this 

review, it appears that the 3 standards 

of 10 CFR 50.92(c) are satisfied. 

Therefore, the NRC staff proposes to 

determine that the license amendment 

request involves no significant hazards 

consideration. 

The NRC is seeking public comments 

on this proposed determination that the 

license amendment request involves no 

significant hazards consideration. Any 

comments received within 30 days after 

the date of publication of this notice 

will be considered in making any final 

determination. 

Normally, the Commission will not 

issue the amendment until the 

expiration of the 60 day notice period. 

However, if circumstances change 

during the notice period, such that 

failure to act in a timely way would 

result, for example, in derating or 

shutdown of the facility, the 

Commission may issue the license 

amendment before the expiration of the 

notice period, provided that its final 

determination is that the amendment 

involves no significant hazards 

consideration. The final determination 

will consider all public and State 

comments received. If the Commission 

takes action prior to the expiration of 

either the comment period or the notice 

period, it will publish in the Federal 

Register a notice of issuance. The 

Commission expects that the need to 

take this action will occur very 

infrequently. 

III. Opportunity To Request a Hearing 

and Petition for Leave To Intervene 

Within 60 days after the date of 

publication of this notice, any person 

(petitioner) whose interest may be 

affected by this action may file a request 

for a hearing and petition for leave to 

intervene (petition) with respect to the 

action. Petitions shall be filed in 

accordance with the Commission’s 

‘‘Agency Rules of Practice and 

Procedure’’ in 10 CFR part 2. Interested 

persons should consult 10 CFR 2.309. If 

a petition is filed, the presiding officer 

will rule on the petition and, if 

appropriate, a notice of a hearing will be 

issued. 

Petitions must be filed no later than 

60 days from the date of publication of 

this notice in accordance with the filing 

instructions in the ‘‘Electronic 

Submissions (E-Filing’’) section of this 

document. Petitions and motions for 

leave to file new or amended 

contentions that are filed after the 

deadline will not be entertained absent 

a determination by the presiding officer 

that the filing demonstrates good cause 

by satisfying the three factors in 10 CFR 

2.309(c)(1)(i) through (iii). 

If a hearing is requested and the 

Commission has not made a final 

determination on the issue of no 

significant hazards consideration, the 

Commission will make a final 

determination on the issue of no 

significant hazards consideration, which 

will serve to establish when the hearing 

is held. If the final determination is that 

the amendment request involves no 

significant hazards consideration, the 

Commission may issue the amendment 

and make it immediately effective, 

notwithstanding the request for a 

hearing. Any hearing would take place 

after issuance of the amendment. If the 

final determination is that the 

amendment request involves a 

significant hazards consideration, then 

any hearing held would take place 

before the issuance of the amendment 

unless the Commission finds an 

imminent danger to the health or safety 

of the public, in which case it will issue 

an appropriate order or rule under 10 

CFR part 2. 

A State, local governmental body, 

Federally recognized Indian Tribe, or 

designated agency thereof, may submit 

a petition to the Commission to 

participate as a party under 10 CFR 

2.309(h) no later than 60 days from the 

date of publication of this notice. 

Alternatively, a State, local 

governmental body, Federally 

recognized Indian Tribe, or agency 

thereof may participate as a non-party 

under 10 CFR 2.315(c). 

For information about filing a petition 

and about participation by a person not 

a party under 10 CFR 2.315, see ADAMS 

Accession No. ML20340A053 and on 

the NRC website at https://www.nrc.gov/ 

about-nrc/regulatory/adjudicatory/ 

hearing.html#participate. 

IV. Electronic Submissions (E-Filing) 

All documents filed in NRC 

adjudicatory proceedings including 

documents filed by an interested State, 

local governmental body, Federally 

recognized Indian Tribe, or designated 

agency thereof that requests to 

participate under 10 CFR 2.315(c), must 

be filed in accordance with 10 CFR 

2.302. The E-Filing process requires 

participants to submit and serve all 

adjudicatory documents over the 

internet, or in some cases, to mail copies 

on electronic storage media, unless an 

exemption permitting an alternative 

filing method, as discussed below, is 

granted. Detailed guidance on electronic 

submissions is located in the Guidance 

for Electronic Submissions to the NRC 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML13031A056) 

and on the NRC website at https:// 

www.nrc.gov/site-help/esubmittals.html. 

To comply with the procedural 

requirements of E-Filing, at least 10 

days prior to the filing deadline, the 

participant should contact the Office of 

the Secretary by email at 

hearing.docket@nrc.gov, or by telephone 

at 301–415–1677, to (1) request a digital 

identification (ID) certificate, which 

allows the participant (or its counsel or 

representative) to digitally sign 

submissions and access the E-Filing 

system for any proceeding in which it 

is participating; and (2) advise the 

Secretary that the participant will be 

submitting a petition or other 

adjudicatory document (even in 

instances in which the participant, or its 

counsel or representative, already holds 


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an NRC-issued digital ID certificate). 

Based upon this information, the 

Secretary will establish an electronic 

docket for the proceeding if the 

Secretary has not already established an 

electronic docket. 

Information about applying for a 

digital ID certificate is available on the 

NRC’s public website at https://

www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals/ 

getting-started.html. After a digital ID 

certificate is obtained and a docket 

created, the participant must submit 

adjudicatory documents in Portable 

Document Format. Guidance on 

submissions is available on the NRC’s 

public website at https://www.nrc.gov/ 

site-help/electronic-sub-ref-mat.html. A 

filing is considered complete at the time 

the document is submitted through the 

NRC’s E-Filing system. To be timely, an 

electronic filing must be submitted to 

the E-Filing system no later than 11:59 

p.m. Eastern Time on the due date. 

Upon receipt of a transmission, the EFiling system timestamps the document 

and sends the submitter an email 

confirming receipt of the document. The 

E-Filing system also distributes an email 

that provides access to the document to 

the NRC’s Office of the General Counsel 

and any others who have advised the 

Office of the Secretary that they wish to 

participate in the proceeding, so that the 

filer need not serve the document on 

those participants separately. Therefore, 

applicants and other participants (or 

their counsel or representative) must 

apply for and receive a digital ID 

certificate before adjudicatory 

documents are filed to obtain access to 

the documents via the E-Filing system. 

A person filing electronically using 

the NRC’s adjudicatory E-Filing system 

may seek assistance by contacting the 

NRC’s Electronic Filing Help Desk 

through the ‘‘Contact Us’’ link located 

on the NRC’s public website at https:// 

www.nrc.gov/site-help/esubmittals.html, by email to 

MSHD.Resource@nrc.gov, or by a tollfree call at 1–866–672–7640. The NRC 

Electronic Filing Help Desk is available 

between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., Eastern 

Time, Monday through Friday, 

excluding government holidays. 

Participants who believe that they 

have good cause for not submitting 

documents electronically must file an 

exemption request, in accordance with 

10 CFR 2.302(g), with their initial paper 

filing stating why there is good cause for 

not filing electronically and requesting 

authorization to continue to submit 

documents in paper format. Such filings 

must be submitted in accordance with 

10 CFR 2.302(b)–(d). Participants filing 

adjudicatory documents in this manner 

are responsible for serving their 

documents on all other participants. 

Participants granted an exemption 

under 10 CFR 2.302(g)(2) must still meet 

the electronic formatting requirement in 

10 CFR 2.302(g)(1), unless the 

participant also seeks and is granted an 

exemption from 10 CFR 2.302(g)(1). 

Documents submitted in adjudicatory 

proceedings will appear in the NRC’s 

electronic hearing docket, which is 

publicly available at https://

adams.nrc.gov/ehd, unless excluded 

pursuant to an order of the presiding 

officer. If you do not have an NRCissued digital ID certificate as described 

above, click ‘‘cancel’’ when the link 

requests certificates and you will be 

automatically directed to the NRC’s 

electronic hearing dockets where you 

will be able to access any publicly 

available documents in a particular 

hearing docket. Participants are 

requested not to include personal 

privacy information such as social 

security numbers, home addresses, or 

personal phone numbers in their filings 

unless an NRC regulation or other law 

requires submission of such 

information. With respect to 

copyrighted works, except for limited 

excerpts that serve the purpose of the 

adjudicatory filings and would 

constitute a Fair Use application, 

participants should not include 

copyrighted materials in their 

submission. 

For further details with respect to this 

action, see the application for license 

amendment dated June 18, 2021 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML21169A004). 

Attorney for licensee: Steven 

Fleischer, PSEG Services Corporation, 

80 Park Plaza, T–5, Newark, NJ 07102. 

NRC Branch Chief: James G. Danna. 

Dated: June 24, 2021. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

James S. Kim, Project Manager, 

Plant Licensing Branch I, Division of 

Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of 

Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

[FR Doc. 2021–13896 Filed 6–29–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 72–01; NRC–2021–0122] 

GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas, 

LLC; Morris Operation 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: License renewal application; 

opportunity to request a hearing and to 

petition for leave to intervene; order 

imposing procedures. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) staff received and is 

considering an application for the 

renewal of special nuclear materials 

(SNM) License No. SNM–2500, which 

currently authorizes GE-Hitachi Nuclear 

Energy Americas, LLC (GEH), to 

possess, transfer, and store radioactive 

material at the Morris Operation. The 

renewed license would authorize GEH 

to continue to store radioactive material 

for an additional 20 years from May 31, 

2022, the expiration date of the current 

license. Because this license renewal 

application contains Sensitive 

Unclassified Non-Safeguards 

Information (SUNSI), an order imposes 

procedures to obtain access to SUNSI 

for contention preparation. 

DATES: A request for a hearing or 

petition for leave to intervene must be 

filed by August 30, 2021. Any potential 

party as defined in section 2.4 of title 10 

of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 

CFR) who believes access to SUNSI is 

necessary to respond to this notice must 

request document access by July 12, 

2021. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2021–0122 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 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2021–0122. 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 individual listed 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this document. 

• 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, 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. 

• Attention: The PDR, where you may 

examine and order copies of public 

documents, is currently closed. You 

may submit your request to the PDR via 

email at pdr.resource@nrc.gov or call 1– 

800–397–4209 or 301–415–4737, 


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