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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2021–0112] 

Fuel Qualification for Advanced 

Reactors 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Draft NUREG; request for 

comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing for public 

comment a draft NUREG, NUREG–2246, 

‘‘Fuel Qualification for Advanced 

Reactors.’’ The purpose of this NUREG 

report is to provide a fuel qualification 

assessment framework for use by 

applicants. Specifically, the framework 

provides objective criteria, derived from 

regulatory requirements, that when 

satisfied, would support regulatory 

findings for licensing. 

DATES: Submit comments by August 30, 

2021. Comments received after this date 

will be considered if it is practical to do 

so, but the Commission is able to ensure 

consideration only for comments 

received 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–2021–0112. 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: 

Timothy Drzewiecki, telephone: 301– 

415–5184, email: Timothy.Drzewiecki@

nrc.gov and Jordan Hoellman, 

telephone: 301–415–5481, email: 

Jordan.Hoellman2@nrc.gov. Both are 

staff of the Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation, 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–2021– 

0112 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–2021–0112. 

• 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 draft NUREG, NUREG– 

2246, ‘‘Fuel Qualification for Advanced 

Reactors’’ is available in ADAMS under 

Accession No. ML21168A063. 

• 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–2021–1112 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. Discussion 

Proposed advanced reactor designs 

use fuel designs and operating 

environments (e.g., neutron energy 

spectra, fuel temperatures, neighboring 

materials) that differ from the large 

experience base available for traditional 

light-water reactor fuel. The purpose of 

this report is to identify criteria that will 

be useful for advanced reactor designs 

through an assessment framework that 

would support regulatory findings 

associated with nuclear fuel 

qualification. The report begins by 

examining the regulatory basis and 

related guidance applicable to fuel 

qualification, noting that the role of 

nuclear fuel in the protection against the 

release of radioactivity for a nuclear 

facility depends heavily on the reactor 

design. The report considers the use of 

accelerated fuel qualification techniques 

and lead test specimen programs that 

may shorten the timeline for qualifying 

fuel for use in a nuclear reactor at the 

desired parameters (e.g., burnup). The 

assessment framework particularly 

emphasizes the identification of key fuel 

manufacturing parameters, the 

specification of a fuel performance 

envelope to inform testing requirements, 

the use of evaluation models in the fuel 

qualification process, and the 

assessment of the experimental data 

used to develop and validate evaluation 

models and empirical safety criteria. 

Dated: June 25, 2021. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

John P. Segala, 

Chief, Advanced Reactor Policy Branch, 

Division of Advanced Reactors and NonPower Production and Utilization Facilities, 

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

[FR Doc. 2021–13955 Filed 6–29–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. 50–445 and 50–446; NRC– 

2020–0110] 

Issuance of Multiple Exemptions in 

Response to COVID–19 Public Health 

Emergency 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Exemptions; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) issued two 


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exemptions in response to requests from 

one licensee. The exemptions afford the 

licensee temporary relief from certain 

requirements under NRC regulations. 

The exemptions are in response to the 

licensee’s requests for relief due to the 

coronavirus 2019 disease (COVID–19) 

public health emergency (PHE). The 

NRC is issuing a single notice to 

announce the issuance of the 

exemptions. 

DATES: During the period from May 17, 

2021, to May 19, 2021, the NRC granted 

two exemptions in response to requests 

submitted by one licensee from April 

16, 2021, to April 21, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2020–0110 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–2020–0110. 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. For the convenience of the 

reader, instructions about obtaining 

materials referenced in this document 

are provided in the ‘‘Availability of 

Documents’’ section. 

• 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. (ET), 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

James Danna, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001; telephone: 301–415–7422, email: 

James.Danna@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

During the period from May 17, 2021, 

to May 19, 2021, the NRC granted two 

exemptions in response to requests 

submitted by one licensee from April 

16, 2021, to April 21, 2021. These 

exemptions temporarily allow the 

licensee to deviate from certain 

requirements (as cited in this notice) of 

various parts of chapter I of title 10 of 

the Code of Federal Regulations (10 

CFR). 

The exemption from certain 

requirements of 10 CFR part 50, 

appendix E, ‘‘Emergency Planning and 

Preparedness for Production and 

Utilization Facilities,’’ section IV.F., 

‘‘Training,’’ for Vistra Operations 

Company LLC (for Comanche Peak 

Nuclear Power Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2), 

grants a temporary exemption from the 

offsite biennial emergency preparedness 

exercise requirement. The exemption 

affords this licensee temporary relief 

from the requirements of 10 CFR part 

50, appendix E, regarding offsite 

response organization (ORO) 

participation in the biennial emergency 

preparedness exercise for calendar year 

2021. This exemption will not adversely 

affect the emergency response capability 

of the facility because the licensee has 

conducted numerous drills, exercises, 

and other training activities that have 

exercised the licensee’s emergency 

response strategies since the last 

evaluated biennial emergency 

preparedness exercise and that State, 

county and local OROs have 

participated therein. 

The exemption from certain 

requirements of 10 CFR part 73, 

appendix B, ‘‘General Criteria for 

Security Personnel,’’ section VI, 

‘‘Nuclear Power Reactor Training and 

Qualification Plan for Personnel 

Performing Security Program Duties,’’ 

for Vistra Operations Company LLC (for 

Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, 

Unit Nos. 1 and 2) ensures that these 

regulatory requirements do not unduly 

limit licensee flexibility in using 

personnel resources to most effectively 

manage the impacts of the COVID–19 

PHE on maintaining the safe and secure 

operation of this facility and the 

implementation of the licensee’s NRCapproved security plans, protective 

strategy, and implementing procedures. 

The licensee has committed to certain 

security measures to ensure response 

readiness and for its security personnel 

to maintain performance capability. 

The NRC is providing compiled tables 

of exemptions using a single Federal 

Register notice for COVID–19 related 

exemptions instead of issuing 

individual Federal Register notices for 

each exemption. The compiled tables in 

this notice provide transparency 

regarding the number and type of 

exemptions the NRC has issued. 

Additionally, the NRC publishes tables 

of approved regulatory actions related to 

the COVID–19 PHE on its public 

website at https://www.nrc.gov/aboutnrc/covid-19/reactors/licensingactions.html. 

II. Availability of Documents 

The tables in this notice provide the 

facility name, docket number, document 

description, and ADAMS accession 

number for each exemption issued. 

Additional details on each exemption 

issued, including the exemption request 

submitted by the respective licensee and 

the NRC’s decision, are provided in 

each exemption approval listed in the 

tables in this notice. For additional 

directions on accessing information in 

ADAMS, see the ADDRESSES section of 

this document. 

COMANCHE PEAK NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, UNIT NOS. 1 AND 2 

DOCKET NOS. 50–445 AND 50–446 

Document description ADAMS accession 

No. 

Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2—One-Time Request for Exemption from the Biennial Emergency 

Preparedness Exercise Requirements in 10 CFR part 50, appendix E, sections IV.F.2.b and IV.F.2.c, dated April 21, 2021 ML21111A364 

Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2—Temporary Exemption from Requirements of 10 CFR part 50, 

appendix E, sections IV.F.2.b and IV.F.2.c (EPID L–2021–LLE–0028 [COVID–19]), dated May 17, 2021 ............................ ML21119A349 

Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2—Request for a Temporary Exemption from 10 CFR part 73, appendix B, section VI, subsection A.7 Regarding Annual Force-on-Force (FOF) Exercises, due to COVID–19 PHE, dated 

April 16, 2021 ............................................................................................................................................................................. ML21106A293 


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COMANCHE PEAK NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, UNIT NOS. 1 AND 2—Continued 

DOCKET NOS. 50–445 AND 50–446 

Document description ADAMS accession 

No. 

Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2—Supplemental Information Regarding Request for a Temporary 

Exemption from 10 CFR part 73, appendix B, section VI, subsection A.7 Regarding Annual Force-on-Force (FOF) Exercises [COVID–19], dated May 12, 2021 .................................................................................................................................... ML21132A126 

Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2—Temporary Exemption from Annual Force-on-Force Exercise Requirement of 10 CFR part 73, appendix B, ‘‘General Criteria for Security Personnel,’’ subsection A.7 (EPID L–2021–LLE– 

0024 [COVID–19]), dated May 19, 2021 ................................................................................................................................... ML21133A003 

Dated: June 24, 2021. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

James G. Danna, 

Chief, Plant Licensing Branch I, Division of 

Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of 

Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

[FR Doc. 2021–13887 Filed 6–29–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

OFFICE OF PERSONNEL 

MANAGEMENT 

Submission for Review: 3206–0173, 

CSRS/FERS Designation of 

Beneficiary, Standard Form 3102 

AGENCY: Office of Personnel 

Management. 

ACTION: 30-Day notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: Retirement Services, Office of 

Personnel Management (OPM) offers the 

general public and other federal 

agencies the opportunity to comment on 

a revised information collection request 

(ICR), CSRS/FERS Designation of 

Beneficiary, Standard Form 3102. 

DATES: Comments are encouraged and 

will be accepted until July 30, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments on 

the proposed information collection to 

the Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget, 725 17th Street NW, 

Washington, DC 20503, Attention: Desk 

Officer for the Office of Personnel 

Management or sent via electronic mail 

to: oira_submission@omb.eop.gov or 

faxed to (202) 395–6974. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A 

copy of this ICR with applicable 

supporting documentation, may be 

obtained by contacting the Retirement 

Services Publications Team, Office of 

Personnel Management, 1900 E Street 

NW, Room 3316–L, Washington, DC 

20415, Attention: Cyrus S. Benson, or 

sent via electronic mail to 

Cyrus.Benson@opm.gov or faxed to 

(202) 606–0910 or via telephone at (202) 

606–4808. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995 OPM is soliciting comments 

for this collection. The information 

collection (OMB No. 3206–0173) was 

previously published in the Federal 

Register on August 13, 2020 at 85 FR 

49402, allowing for a 60-day public 

comment period. One comment was 

received: ‘‘The SSA agrees that 

combining the SF 2808 and SF 3102 

simplifies the process and eliminates 

the possibility of invalid designations 

due to the completion of the incorrect 

form. Since OPM maintains all SF 2808 

forms, agencies do not have access to 

previously filed forms to respond to 

employee requests for information. This 

may be problematic when employees are 

assessing the need to update their 

records. The new SF 3102 should 

indicate that agencies do not maintain 

the CSRS designation forms and provide 

instructions for employees to complete a 

new form if they are unsure if they have 

previously completed a designation or 

are unsure about whom they have 

previously designated. Otherwise, the 

form should indicate that employees 

must contact OPM for information about 

previously filed SF 2808 forms. The SSA 

suggests that, in addition to accepting 

wet signatures on the retirement 

designation beneficiary forms, OPM 

accept digital signatures using PIV 

credentials by employees and HR 

offices. Forms with validated digital 

employee signatures using PIV 

credentials should not require witness 

signatures. Since it is crucial for 

employees keeping their designation 

forms up to date, having a mechanism 

for electronic submission provides for 

more timely submission by employee 

and certification by HR offices’’. Our 

response is: (1) ‘‘Filing a designation is 

not needed if the person is satisfied with 

the federal order of precedence for 

payment of lump-sum payment under 

CSRS or FERS. Furthermore, individuals 

receive a copy of the form that is filed 

with the employing agency or OPM and 

can access their personal records to 

determine whether there is a need to 

update a previously filed form. 

Additionally, the form cautions the 

applicant that the person designated 

will be paid even if that person’s name 

or relationship to the designator 

changes after the form is filed. We 

revised the instructions to indicate that 

the employee subject to CSRS should 

send both copies of the revised SF 3102 

to OPM who will validate the form and 

provide a copy to the employee for their 

records. We indicated that the 

employing agency does not maintain the 

form of the CSRS employee.’’ and (2) 

‘‘By regulation, employees are not 

allowed to use electronic signatures or 

PIV/CAC cards to sign the SF 3102, 

Designation of Beneficiary form. Title 5, 

Code of Federal Regulations on CSRS 

designations states that a designation of 

beneficiary must be in writing, signed 

and witnessed and received in the 

employing office (or in OPM, in the case 

of a retiree, or compensationer, or a 

separated employee) before the death of 

the designator. Therefore, no changes 

will be made to the signature and 

witness requirement because there are 

no changes to the appropriate 

regulation.’’ The Office of Management 

and Budget is particularly interested in 

comments that: 

1. Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of functions 

of the agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

2. Evaluate the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

3. Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

4. Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including through the 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submissions 

of responses. 

Standard Form 3102, CSRS/FERS 

Designation of Beneficiary, is used by an 


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