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page. (See Handbook for Electronic 

Filing Procedures, https://

www.usitc.gov/documents/handbook_

on_filing_procedures.pdf). Persons with 

questions regarding filing should 

contact the Secretary at (202) 205–2000. 

Any person desiring to submit a 

document to the Commission in 

confidence must request confidential 

treatment by marking each document 

with a header indicating that the 

document contains confidential 

information. This marking will be 

deemed to satisfy the request procedure 

set forth in Rules 201.6(b) and 

210.5(e)(2) (19 CFR 201.6(b) & 

210.5(e)(2)). Documents for which 

confidential treatment by the 

Commission is properly sought will be 

treated accordingly. A redacted nonconfidential version of the document 

must also be filed simultaneously with 

any confidential filing. All information, 

including confidential business 

information and documents for which 

confidential treatment is properly 

sought, submitted to the Commission for 

purposes of this investigation may be 

disclosed to and used: (i) By the 

Commission, its employees and Offices, 

and contract personnel (a) for 

developing or maintaining the records 

of this or a related proceeding, or (b) in 

internal investigations, audits, reviews, 

and evaluations relating to the 

programs, personnel, and operations of 

the Commission including under 5 

U.S.C. appendix 3; or (ii) by U.S. 

government employees and contract 

personnel, solely for cybersecurity 

purposes. All contract personnel will 

sign appropriate nondisclosure 

agreements. All nonconfidential written 

submissions will be available for public 

inspection on EDIS. 

The Commission vote for this 

determination took place on August 5, 

2021. 

The authority for the Commission’s 

determination is contained in section 

337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended (19 U.S.C. 1337), and in Part 

210 of the Commission’s Rules of 

Practice and Procedure (19 CFR part 

210). 

By order of the Commission. 

Issued: August 5, 2021. 

Lisa Barton, 

Secretary to the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2021–17082 Filed 8–10–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7020–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Notice of Lodging of Proposed 

Consent Decree Under the Clean Water 

Act 

On August 5, 2021, the Department of 

Justice filed a complaint and lodged a 

proposed consent decree with the 

United States District Court for the 

District of North Dakota in the lawsuit 

entitled United States and North Dakota 

v. Summit Midstream Partners, LLC and 

Meadowlark Midstream Company, LLC, 

Civil Action No. 1:21–cv–00161. The 

Department of the Interior’s Fish and 

Wildlife Service, the North Dakota 

Department of Environmental Quality, 

and the North Dakota Department of 

Game and Fish (‘‘Trustees’’) are also 

providing notice of an opportunity for 

public comment on a Draft Restoration 

Plan. 

The United States and the State of 

North Dakota filed this lawsuit under 

the Clean Water Act and North Dakota 

water pollution control laws. The 

complaint names Summit Midstream 

Partners, LLC and Meadowlark 

Midstream Company, LLC as 

defendants. The complaint seeks 

injunctive relief, civil penalties, and 

natural resource damages for violations 

of the Clean Water Act and North 

Dakota law as a result of a produced 

water spill from a pipeline owned and 

operated by Defendants. Defendants’ 

pipeline discharged more than 700,000 

barrels of produced water between 

August 2014 and January 2015; 

produced water from the spill reached 

groundwater, a nearby creek, and 

downstream rivers. 

The Consent Decree requires 

Defendants to perform injunctive relief; 

remediate environmental impacts; pay 

$250,000 in natural resource damage 

assessment costs; pay $1,000,000 to be 

used by the Trustees for the costs of 

projects that restore, rehabilitate, 

replace, or acquire the equivalent of 

natural resources; and pay a 

$20,000,000 civil penalty to be split 

evenly between the United States and 

North Dakota. Based on certain ability to 

pay limitations, the civil penalty will be 

paid over six years, subject to interest. 

The Consent Decree resolves the civil 

claims alleged by the United States and 

North Dakota in the complaint. Under 

the Consent Decree, the United States 

and North Dakota also agreed not to sue 

Defendants for natural resource damages 

resulting from the produced water spill. 

The Trustees have written a Draft 

Restoration Plan that describes 

proposed alternatives for restoring 

natural resources and natural resource 

services injured by the produced water 

spill. The preferred alternatives include 

three restoration project types: (1) 

Aquatic service enhancements; (2) 

conservation of environmentally 

sensitive lands; and (3) recreational 

access enhancement. 

The publication of this notice opens 

a period for public comment on the 

Consent Decree and the Draft 

Restoration Plan. Comments on the 

Consent Decree should be addressed to 

the Assistant Attorney General, 

Environment and Natural Resources 

Division, and should refer to United 

States and North Dakota v. Summit 

Midstream Partners, LLC and 

Meadowlark Midstream Company, LLC, 

D.J. Ref. No. 90–5–2–1–11253. All 

comments must be submitted no later 

than thirty (30) days after the 

publication date of this notice. 

Comments may be submitted either by 

email or by mail: 

To submit 

comments: Send them to: 

By email ....... pubcomment-ees.enrd@

usdoj.gov. 

By mail ......... Assistant Attorney General, 

U.S. DOJ—ENRD, 

P.O. Box 7611, 

Washington, DC 20044–7611. 

During the public comment period, 

the Consent Decree may be examined 

and downloaded at this Justice 

Department website: https://

www.justice.gov/enrd/consent-decrees. 

We will provide a paper copy of the 

Consent Decree upon written request 

and payment of reproduction costs. 

Please mail your request and payment 

to: Consent Decree Library, U.S. DOJ— 

ENRD, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 

20044–7611. 

Please enclose a check or money order 

for $23.00 (25 cents per page 

reproduction cost) payable to the United 

States Treasury. For a paper copy 

without the appendices and signature 

pages, the cost is $16.25. 

Comments on the Draft Restoration 

Plan may be submitted to the Trustees, 

and should refer to Blacktail Creek— 

Summit Midstream Pipeline Release 

Settlement Agreement, DOI Reference 

#9590. All comments on the Draft 

Restoration Plan must be submitted no 

later than 30 days after the publication 

date of this notice. Comments on the 

Draft Restoration Plan may be submitted 

either by email or by mail: 

To submit 

comments: Send them to: 

By email ....... FW6Blacktail_

CreekNRDAR@fws.gov. 


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To submit 

comments: Send them to: 

By mail ......... Jessica Johnson 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 

3425 Miriam Ave., 

Bismarck, ND 58501. 

During the public comment period, a 

copy of the Draft Restoration Plan will 

be available electronically at https://

www.fws.gov/mountain-prairie/pressrel/ 

archives/index.php and at https://

deq.nd.gov/EHSRulesRegs.aspx. A link 

to the Draft Restoration Plan and 

updates about it will also be made 

available on the Listserv of the North 

Dakota Department of Environmental 

Quality (‘‘NDDEQ’’). To be placed on 

the Listserv, please visit https://

deq.nd.gov/subscriptions/ and selfregister, or contact the NDDEQ by phone 

at (701) 328–5150, or by email at deq@

nd.gov. A copy of the Draft Restoration 

Plan may also be examined at 3425 

Miriam Avenue, Bismarck ND 58501. 

Arrangements to view the Draft 

Restoration Plan must be made in 

advance by contacting (701) 250–4402. 

Susan Akers, 

Assistant Section Chief,Environmental 

Enforcement Section,Environment and 

Natural Resources Division. 

[FR Doc. 2021–17093 Filed 8–10–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–15–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. 50–348, 50–364; and 50–424, 

50–425; NRC–2021–0139] 

Southern Nuclear Operating Company; 

Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant, Units 

1 and 2; Vogtle Electric Generating 

Plant, Units 1 and 2 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Exemption; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is granting 

exemptions in response to a request 

dated June 9, 2021, from Southern 

Nuclear Operating Company, Inc., 

seeking exemptions from specific 

regulations that require periodic 

updates of the Farley Nuclear Plant, 

Units 1 and 2, and Vogtle Electric 

Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2, 

Updated Final Safety Reports (UFSARs). 

DATES: The exemption was issued on 

August 4, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2021–0139 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–2021–0139. 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, 

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

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

G. Lamb, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001, telephone: 301–415–3100, email: 

John.Lamb@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The text of 

the exemptions is attached. 

Dated: August 6, 2021. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

John G. Lamb, 

Senior Project Manager, Plant Licensing 

Branch 2–1, Division of Operating Reactor 

Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation. 

Attachment—Exemption 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

Docket Nos. 50–348, 50–364; and 50– 

424, 50–425 

Southern Nuclear Operating Company 

Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant, Units 

1 and 2 

Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Units 

1 and 2 

I. Background 

Southern Nuclear Operating Company 

(SNC, the licensee) is the holder of 

Facility Operating License Nos. NPF–2, 

NPF–8, NPF–68, and NPF–81, for the 

Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant (Farley), 

Units 1 and 2; and the Vogtle Electric 

Generating Plant (Vogtle), Units 1 and 2, 

respectively. The licenses provide, 

among other things, that the licensee is 

subject to all rules, regulations, and 

orders of the Commission now or 

hereafter in effect. The Farley, Units 1 

and 2; and Vogtle, Units 1 and 2, 

facilities consist of two pressurizedwater reactors located at each of the 

licensee’s sites in Houston County, 

Alabama, and Burke County, Georgia, 

respectively. 

II. Request/Action 

In accordance with Section 50.71 of 

title 10 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (10 CFR), ‘‘Maintenance of 

records, making of reports,’’ paragraph 

(e)(4) states, in part, that ‘‘Subsequent 

revisions [to the Updated Final Safety 

Analysis Report (UFSAR) submitted as 

part of the original license application] 

must be filed annually or 6 months after 

each refueling outage provided the 

interval between successive updates [to 

the UFSAR] does not exceed 24 

months.’’ By letter dated June 9, 2021 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML21160A156), 

SNC requested that the due date for 

submittal of the Farley, Units 1 and 2, 

UFSAR be by October 31 of every oddnumbered year, provided the interval 

between successive updates does not 

exceed 24 months, and that the due date 

for submittal of the Vogtle, Units 1 and 

2, UFSAR be by October 31 of every 

even-numbered year, provided the 

interval between successive updates 

does not exceed 24 months. 

Pursuant to 10 CFR 50.12, 

‘‘Implementation of the Equal Access to 

Justice Act in Agency Proceeding,’’ the 

NRC may, upon application by any 


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