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Document 

ADAMS accession No./web 

link/Federal Register 

citation 

PRM–50–116—Nuclear Energy Institute Petition to Amend 10 CFR 50.72, ‘‘Immediate Notification Requirements for Operating Nuclear Power Reactors,’’ August 2, 2018.ML18247A204. 

PRM–50–116: Petition for rulemaking; notice of docketing and request for comment, November 20, 2018 ......... 83 FR 58509. 

Management Directive 8.3, ‘‘NRC Incident Investigation Program,’’ June 25, 2014 ............................................... ML18073A200. 

NUREG–1614, Volume 7, ‘‘Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2018–2022,’’ February 2018 .......................................... ML18032A561. 

NUREG–1022, Rev 3, Supplement 1, ‘‘Event Report Guidelines 10 CFR 50.72(b)(3)(xiii),’’ September 2014 ...... ML14267A447. 

NEI 13–01, Rev 0, ‘‘Reportable Action Levels for Loss of Emergency Preparedness Capabilities,’’ July 2014 .... ML14197A206. 

‘‘Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant Units 1 and 2—NRC Special Inspection Report 05000317/2015009 and 

05000318/2015009,’’ May 27, 2015.

ML15147A354. 

Event Notification Report for January 28, 2015: EN 50769 ..................................................................................... https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

doc-collections/event-status/ 

event/2015/20150128

en.html#en50769. 

Event Notification Report for January 28, 2015: EN 50771 ..................................................................................... https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

doc-collections/event-status/ 

event/2015/20150128

en.html#en50771. 

Event Notification Report for April 10, 2015: EN 50961 .......................................................................................... https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

doc-collections/event-status/ 

event/2015/20150410

en.html#en50961. 

V. Conclusion 

For the reasons cited in this 

document, the NRC will consider the 

petition in the rulemaking process. The 

NRC will evaluate the current 

requirements and guidance for 

immediate notification of nonemergency 

events for operating nuclear power 

reactors, assess whether the 

requirements present an unnecessary 

reporting burden, and if they do, 

determine whether reporting can be 

reduced or eliminated that does not 

have a commensurate safety benefit. 

The NRC tracks the status of all rules 

and PRMs on its website at https://

www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/regulatory/ 

rulemaking/rules-petitions.html. The 

public may monitor the docket for the 

rulemaking on the Federal rulemaking 

website, https://www.regulations.gov, by 

searching on Docket ID NRC–2020– 

0036. Publication of this document in 

the Federal Register closes Docket ID 

NRC–2018–0201 for PRM–50–116. 

Dated: August, 9, 2021. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Annette L. Vietti-Cook, 

Secretary of the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2021–17244 Filed 8–11–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

10 CFR Part 72 

[NRC–2021–0124] 

RIN 3150–AK66 

List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage 

Casks: TN Americas LLC; NUHOMS®

EOS Dry Spent Fuel Storage System, 

Certificate of Compliance No. 1042, 

Amendment No. 2 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is proposing to 

amend its spent fuel storage regulations 

by revising the TN Americas LLC, 

NUHOMS® EOS Dry Spent Fuel Storage 

System listing within the ‘‘List of 

approved spent fuel storage casks’’ to 

include Amendment No. 2 to Certificate 

of Compliance No. 1042. Amendment 

No. 2 would revise the certificate of 

compliance to add a dry shielded 

canister for storage, add new heat load 

zone configurations, and make other 

changes to the storage system. 

Amendment No. 2 also would change 

the certificate of compliance, technical 

specifications, and updated final safety 

analysis report for consistency and 

clarity. 

DATES: Submit comments by September 

13, 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. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID NRC–2021– 

0124, at https://www.regulations.gov. If 

your material cannot be submitted using 

https://www.regulations.gov, call or 

email the individuals listed in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of 

this document for alternate instructions. 

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: 

Christian J. Jacobs, Office of Nuclear 

Material Safety and Safeguards; 

telephone: 301–415–6825; email: 

Christian.Jacobs@nrc.gov or Andrew G. 

Carrera, Office of Nuclear Material 

Safety and Safeguards; telephone: 301– 

415–1078; email: Andrew.Carrera@

nrc.gov. Both are staff of the U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Table of Contents 

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting 

Comments 

II. Rulemaking Procedure 

III. Background 

IV. Plain Writing 

V. Availability of Documents 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2021– 

0124 when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information for this 

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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–2021–0124. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Dawn 

Forder, telephone: 301–415–3407, 

email: Dawn.Forder@nrc.gov. For 

technical questions contact the 

individuals listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

document. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable 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 between 8:00 a.m. and 

4:00 p.m. (EST), Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

B. Submitting Comments 

Please include Docket ID NRC–2021– 

0124 in your comment submission. The 

NRC requests that you submit comments 

through the Federal rulemaking website 

at https://www.regulations.gov. If your 

material cannot be submitted using 

https://www.regulations.gov, call or 

email the individuals listed in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of 

this document for alternate instructions. 

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, 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. Rulemaking Procedure 

Because the NRC considers this action 

to be non-controversial, the NRC is 

publishing this proposed rule 

concurrently with a direct final rule in 

the Rules and Regulations section of this 

issue of the Federal Register. The direct 

final rule will become effective on 

October 26, 2021. However, if the NRC 

receives any significant adverse 

comment by September 13, 2021, then 

the NRC will publish a document that 

withdraws the direct final rule. If the 

direct final rule is withdrawn, the NRC 

will address the comments in a 

subsequent final rule. Absent significant 

modifications to the proposed revisions 

requiring republication, the NRC will 

not initiate a second comment period on 

this action in the event the direct final 

rule is withdrawn. 

A significant adverse comment is a 

comment where the commenter 

explains why the rule would be 

inappropriate, including challenges to 

the rule’s underlying premise or 

approach, or would be ineffective or 

unacceptable without a change. A 

comment is adverse and significant if: 

(1) The comment opposes the rule and 

provides a reason sufficient to require a 

substantive response in a notice-andcomment process. For example, a 

substantive response is required when: 

(a) The comment causes the NRC to 

reevaluate (or reconsider) its position or 

conduct additional analysis; 

(b) The comment raises an issue 

serious enough to warrant a substantive 

response to clarify or complete the 

record; or 

(c) The comment raises a relevant 

issue that was not previously addressed 

or considered by the NRC. 

(2) The comment proposes a change 

or an addition to the rule, and it is 

apparent that the rule would be 

ineffective or unacceptable without 

incorporation of the change or addition. 

(3) The comment causes the NRC to 

make a change (other than editorial) to 

the rule. 

For a more detailed discussion of the 

proposed rule changes and associated 

analyses, see the direct final rule 

published in the Rules and Regulations 

section of this issue of the Federal 

Register. 

III. Background 

Section 218(a) of the Nuclear Waste 

Policy Act of 1982, as amended, 

requires that ‘‘[t]he Secretary [of the 

Department of Energy] shall establish a 

demonstration program, in cooperation 

with the private sector, for the dry 

storage of spent nuclear fuel at civilian 

nuclear power reactor sites, with the 

objective of establishing one or more 

technologies that the [Nuclear 

Regulatory] Commission may, by rule, 

approve for use at the sites of civilian 

nuclear power reactors without, to the 

maximum extent practicable, the need 

for additional site-specific approvals by 

the Commission.’’ Section 133 of the 

Nuclear Waste Policy Act states, in part, 

that ‘‘[t]he Commission shall, by rule, 

establish procedures for the licensing of 

any technology approved by the 

Commission under Section 219(a) [sic: 

218(a)] for use at the site of any civilian 

nuclear power reactor.’’ 

To implement this mandate, the 

Commission approved dry storage of 

spent nuclear fuel in NRC-approved 

casks under a general license by 

publishing a final rule that added a new 

subpart K in part 72 of title 10 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 

entitled ‘‘General License for Storage of 

Spent Fuel at Power Reactor Sites’’ (55 

FR 29181; July 18, 1990). This rule also 

established a new subpart L in 10 CFR 

part 72 entitled ‘‘Approval of Spent Fuel 

Storage Casks,’’ which contains 

procedures and criteria for obtaining 

NRC approval of spent fuel storage cask 

designs. The NRC subsequently issued a 

final rule on March 24, 2017 (82 FR 

14987), as corrected (82 FR 34387; July 

25, 2017), that approved the TN 

Americas LLC NUHOMS® EOS Dry 

Spent Fuel Storage System design and 

added it to the list of NRC-approved 

cask designs in § 72.214, ‘‘List of 

approved spent fuel storage casks,’’ as 

Certificate of Compliance No. 1042. 

IV. Plain Writing 

The Plain Writing Act of 2010 (Pub. 

L. 111–274) requires Federal agencies to 

write documents in a clear, concise, 

well-organized manner. The NRC has 

written this document to be consistent 

with the Plain Writing Act as well as the 

Presidential Memorandum, ‘‘Plain 

Language in Government Writing,’’ 

published June 10, 1998 (63 FR 31885). 

The NRC requests comment on the 

proposed rule with respect to clarity 

and effectiveness of the language used. 

V. Availability of Documents 

The documents identified in the 

following table are available to 

interested persons as indicated. 


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Federal Register 

citation 

Direct Final Rule, 10 CFR Part 72, ‘‘List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks: TN Americas LLC, NUHOMS®

EOS Dry Spent Fuel Storage System, Certificate of Compliance No. 1042; [NRC–2016–0254] RIN 3150– 

AJ88,’’ March 24, 2017.

82 FR 14987. 

Correcting Amendment, 10 CFR Part 72, ‘‘List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks: TN Americas LLC, 

NUHOMS® EOS Dry Spent Fuel Storage System, Certificate of Compliance No. 1042; [NRC–2016–0254] 

RIN 3150–AJ88,’’ July 25, 2017.

82 FR 34387. 

Initial Application from TN Americas LLC for Certificate of Compliance No. 1042, Amendment No. 2, to 

NUHOMS EOS Dry Spent Fuel Storage System Certificate of Compliance No. 1042, April 18, 2019.

ML19114A227 (package). 

Submittal of Acceptance Review of TN Americas LLC Application for Certificate of Compliance No. 1042, 

Amendment No. 2, to NUHOMS EOS System, Revision 1, Response to Request for Supplemental Information., August 5, 2019.

ML19225C845. 

Acceptance Review of TN Americas LLC Application for Certificate of Compliance No. 1042, Amendment No. 2, 

to NUHOMS EOS System, Revision 2, Supplemental Information, October 2, 2019.

ML19282A518. 

Acceptance Review of TN Americas LLC Application for Certificate of Compliance No. 1042, Amendment No. 2, 

to NUHOMS EOS System, Revision 3—Supplemental Information, October 29, 2019.

ML19311C551. 

TN Americas LLC, Application for Certificate of Compliance No. 1042, Amendment No. 2, to NUHOMS EOS 

System, Revision 5, June 30, 2020.

ML20190A135. 

Application for Certificate of Compliance No. 1042, Amendment No. 2, to NUHOMS EOS System, Revision 6, 

Revised Responses to Request for Additional Information, October 29, 2020.

ML20315A417. 

TN America, LLC—Application for Certificate of Compliance No. 1042 Amendment No. 2 to NUHOMS EOS 

System, Revision 7—Revised Response to Request for Additional Information, January 27, 2021.

ML21027A324. 

User Need Memorandum Package to T. Martinez Navedo from J. McKirgan with Proposed Certificate of Compliance No. 1042, Amendment No. 2; Associated Proposed Technical Specifications; and the Preliminary 

Safety Evaluation Report, June 7, 2021.

ML21125A103 (package). 

The NRC may post materials related 

to this document, including public 

comments, on the Federal Rulemaking 

website at https://www.regulations.gov 

under Docket ID NRC–2021–0124. 

Dated: August 4, 2021. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Margaret M. Doane, 

Executive Director for Operations. 

[FR Doc. 2021–17228 Filed 8–11–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

10 CFR Part 430 

[EERE–2017–BT–STD–0023] 

RIN 1905–AE01 

Energy Conservation Program: Energy 

Conservation Standards for Microwave 

Ovens 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notification of proposed 

determination and request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Energy Policy and 

Conservation Act, as amended, 

prescribes energy conservation 

standards for various consumer 

products and certain commercial and 

industrial equipment, including 

microwave ovens. EPCA also requires 

the U.S. Department of Energy (‘‘DOE’’) 

to periodically determine whether morestringent, amended standards would be 

technologically feasible and 

economically justified, and would result 

in significant energy savings. In this 

notification of proposed determination 

(‘‘NOPD’’), DOE has initially determined 

that energy conservation standards for 

microwave ovens do not need to be 

amended and requests comment on this 

proposed determination and the 

associated analyses and results. 

DATES: 

Meeting: DOE will hold a webinar on 

Monday, September 13, 2021, from 

10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. See section VII, 

‘‘Public Participation,’’ for webinar 

registration information, participant 

instructions, and information about the 

capabilities available to webinar 

participants. 

Comments: Written comments and 

information are requested and will be 

accepted on or before October 12, 2021. 

Interested persons are encouraged to 

submit comments using the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal at https://

www.regulations.gov. Alternatively, 

interested persons may submit 

comments, identified by docket number 

EERE–2017–BT–STD–0023, by any of 

the following methods: 

1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

2. Email: to MWO2017STD0023@

ee.doe.gov. Include docket number 

EERE–2017–BT–STD–0023 in the 

subject line of the message. 

No telefacsimiles (‘‘faxes’’) will be 

accepted. For detailed instructions on 

submitting comments and additional 

information on this process, see section 

VII of this document. 

Although DOE has routinely accepted 

public comment submissions through a 

variety of mechanisms, including email, 

postal mail, or hand delivery/courier, 

the Department has found it necessary 

to make temporary modifications to the 

comment submission process in light of 

the ongoing Covid–19 pandemic. DOE is 

currently suspending receipt of public 

comments via postal mail and hand 

delivery/courier. If a commenter finds 

that this change poses an undue 

hardship, please contact Appliance 

Standards Program staff at (202) 586– 

1445 to discuss the need for alternative 

arrangements. Once the Covid–19 

pandemic health emergency is resolved, 

DOE anticipates resuming all of its 

regular options for public comment 

submission, including postal mail and 

hand delivery/courier. 

Docket: The docket, which includes 

Federal Register notices, webinar 

attendee lists and transcripts, 

comments, and other supporting 

documents/materials, is available for 

review at https://www.regulations.gov. 

All documents in the docket are listed 

in the https://www.regulations.gov 

index. However, not all documents 

listed in the index may be publicly 

available, such as information that is 

exempt from public disclosure. 

The docket web page can be found at 

https://www.regulations.gov/ 

#!docketDetail;D=EERE-2017-BT-STD0023. The docket web page contains 

instructions on how to access all 

documents, including public comments, 

in the docket. See section VII, ‘‘Public 

Participation,’’ for further information 


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