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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–2021–0125. 

• 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 IPEC PSDAR is available in 

ADAMS under Accession No. 

ML19354A698. 

• 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–2021–0125 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 entering 

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 submissions into 

ADAMS. 

II. Discussion 

HDI has the authority to conduct 

licensed activities under Provisional 

License No. DPR–5, Renewed Facility 

License No. DPR–26, and Renewed 

Facility License No. DPR–64 for the 

IPEC and the general license for the 

IPEC independent spent fuel storage 

installation. These licenses provide, 

among other things, that the respective 

facilities are subject to all rules, 

regulations, and orders of the NRC now 

or hereafter in effect. The facilities 

consist of three pressurized-water 

reactors located in Buchanan, New 

York, in Westchester County, all of 

which are permanently shutdown. 

On December 19, 2019, HDI submitted 

to the NRC the PSDAR for the IPEC, 

contingent upon the transfer of the IPEC 

licenses to HDI (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML19354A698). Paragraph 50.82(a)(4)(i) 

of title 10 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (10 CFR) states that a 

PSDAR must contain a description of 

the planned decommissioning activities 

along with a schedule for their 

accomplishment, a discussion that 

provides the reasons for concluding that 

the environmental impacts associated 

with site-specific decommissioning 

activities will be bounded by 

appropriate previously issued 

environmental impact statements, and a 

site-specific DCE, including the 

projected cost of managing irradiated 

fuel. The IPEC license transfer 

transaction closed on May 28, 2021. 

Accordingly, pursuant to 10 CFR 

50.82(a)(4)(ii), the NRC is noticing 

receipt of the PSDAR and making it 

available for public comment. 

III. Request for Comment and Public 

Meeting 

The NRC is requesting public 

comments on the PSDAR, including the 

DCE, for the IPEC. The NRC will hold 

a public meeting in the vicinity of the 

IPEC to discuss the PSDAR’s content 

and receive comments. The date, time, 

and location of the meeting will be 

provided in a future Federal Register 

notice. The NRC requests that comments 

that are not provided during the meeting 

be submitted as noted in section I, 

‘‘Obtaining Information and Submitting 

Comments,’’ of this document in writing 

by October 22, 2021. 

Dated: June 15, 2021. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

James G. Danna, 

Chief, Plant Licensing Branch I, Division of 

Operating Reactor Licensing, Office of 

Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

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Use of Plant Parameter Envelope in 

Early Site Permit Applications 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Draft regulatory guide; request 

for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing for public 

comment a draft regulatory guide (DG), 

DG–4029, ‘‘Use of Plant Parameter 

Envelope in Early Site Permit 

Applications.’’ DG–4029 is a new 

regulatory guide that proposes guidance 

for nuclear power plant applicants that 

elect to use the plant parameter 

envelope (PPE) concept to assume 

certain design parameters for an early 

site permit (ESP) application when a 

specific reactor technology has not been 

selected for a proposed site. It 

incorporates the PPE portions of NRC 

Review Standard (RS)–002, ‘‘Processing 

Applications for Early Site Permits.’’ 

The issuance of this DG allows the NRC 

staff to withdraw the outdated guidance 

in RS–002 while retaining the PPE 

information in it for future use by 

prospective ESP applicants. 

DATES: Submit comments by August 9, 

2021. 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. 

Although a time limit is given, 

comments and suggestions in 

connection with items for inclusion in 

guides currently being developed or 

improvements in all published guides 

are encouraged at any time. 

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–2021–0091. Address 

questions about Docket IDs in 

Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; 

telephone: 301–415–0624; email: 

Stacy.Shumann@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 

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see ‘‘Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments’’ in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Edward O’Donnell, Office of Nuclear 

Regulatory Research, telephone: 301– 

415–3317, email: Edward.ODonnell@

nrc.gov and Luissette Candelario, Office 

of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, 

telephone: 301–415–8189, email: 

Luissette.Candelario@nrc.gov. Both 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–2021– 

0091 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–2021–0091. 

• 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. DG–4029, ‘‘Use of the Plant 

Parameter Envelope in Early Site Permit 

Applications’’ is available in ADAMS 

under Accession No. ML21049A181. 

• 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. 

B. Submitting Comments 

The NRC encourages electronic 

comment submission through the 

Federal Rulemaking website (https://

www.regulations.gov). Please include 

Docket ID NRC–2021–0091 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 draft guide 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 issuance of this DG allows the 

NRC staff to withdraw the outdated 

guidance in RS–002 while retaining the 

PPE information in DG–4029 for future 

use by prospective ESP applicants. 

Therefore, NRC staff is withdrawing RS– 

002 in conjunction with the issuance of 

DG–4029. 

The DG, entitled, ‘‘Use of Plant 

Parameter Envelope in Early Site Permit 

Applications’’ is a proposed new guide 

temporarily identified by its task 

number, DG–4029. It proposes guidance 

for ESP applicants that elect to use the 

PPE concept to postulate certain design 

parameters when a specific reactor 

technology has not been selected for a 

proposed site. The guide incorporates 

the guidance on PPE found in NRC’s 

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation 

RS–002, ‘‘Processing Applications for 

Early Site Permits,’’ (ADAMS Accession 

No. ML040700236). Subsequent to 

issuance of RS–002 in 2004, many 

sections of it have been superseded and 

do not fully reflect the NRC’s 

implementation of a risk-informed, 

performance-based approach to 

licensing. The issuance of this DG 

allows the NRC staff to withdraw the 

outdated guidance in RS–002 while 

retaining the PPE information for future 

use by prospective ESP applicants. 

The staff is also issuing for public 

comment a regulatory analysis (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML21049A182). The staff 

develops a regulatory analysis to assess 

the value of issuing or revising a 

regulatory guide as well as alternative 

courses of action. The analysis provides 

the public with an insight in how the 

NRC arrives at a regulatory decision. 

III. Backfitting, Forward Fitting, and 

Issue Finality 

Issuance of DG–4029, if finalized, 

would not constitute backfitting as that 

term is defined in section 50.109 of title 

10 of the Code of Federal Regulations 

(10 CFR) section, ‘‘Backfitting,’’ and as 

described in NRC Management Directive 

(MD) 8.4, ‘‘Management of Backfitting, 

Forward Fitting, Issue Finality, and 

Information Requests’’; constitute 

forward fitting as that term is defined 

and described in MD 8.4; or affect issue 

finality of any approval issued under 10 

CFR part 52, ‘‘Licenses, Certificates, and 

Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants.’’ 

As explained in DG–4029, applicants 

and licensees are not required to comply 

with the positions set forth in DG–4029. 

Dated: June 16, 2021. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Meraj Rahimi, 

Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Project 

Management Branch, Division of Engineering, 

Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. 

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POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. MC2021–101 and CP2021–104; 

MC2021–102 and CP2021–105] 

New Postal Products 

AGENCY: Postal Regulatory Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Commission is 

acknowledging a recent Postal Service 

filing for the Commission’s 

consideration concerning a negotiated 

service agreement. This notice informs 

the public of the filing, invites public 

comment, and takes other 

administrative steps. 

DATES: Comments are due: June 22, 

2021. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments 

electronically via the Commission’s 

Filing Online system at http://

www.prc.gov. Those who cannot submit 

comments electronically should contact 

the person identified in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section by 

telephone for advice on filing 

alternatives. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David A. Trissell, General Counsel, at 

202–789–6820. 

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