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of 1996, has developed regulations for 

the establishment of a permit system for 

various activities in Antarctica and 

designation of certain animals and 

certain geographic areas a requiring 

special protection. The regulations 

establish such a permit system to 

designate Antarctic Specially Protected 

Areas. 

Application Details 

Permit Application: 2022–006 

1. Applicant: Ron Naveen, Oceanites, 

PO Box 15259, Chevy Case, MD 20825. 

Activity for Which Permit Is 

Requested: Waste management. The 

applicant seeks a waste management 

permit to expand upon existing research 

activities conducted in the West 

Antarctica Peninsula. The applicant 

seeks to use unoccupied aerial systems 

(UAS) to enable more efficient 

monitoring of penguin breeding sites 

and to increase penguin censusing 

capabilities. The permit will cover any 

unintentional or accidental loss of 

remotely piloted aircrafts through 

planned research operations. The 

applicant has provided a detailed 

mitigation plan to minimize risk of 

equipment loss, including use of 

observers and experienced pilots. 

Location: West Antarctic Peninsula. 

Dates of Permitted Activities: 

November 1, 2021–August 31, 2023. 

Erika N. Davis, 

Program Specialist, Office of Polar Programs. 

[FR Doc. 2021–17823 Filed 8–19–21; 8:45 am] 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2021–0117] 

Acceptability of ASME Code Section III, 

Division 5, High Temperature Reactors 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Draft regulatory guide; draft 

NUREG; request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing for public 

comment a draft regulatory guide (DG), 

DG–1380 (proposed Revision 2 to 

Regulatory Guide [RG] 1.87), 

‘‘Acceptability of ASME Code Section 

III, Division 5, ‘High Temperature 

Reactors’’’ and accompanying draft 

NUREG–2245, ‘‘Technical Review of the 

2017 Edition of ASME Section III, 

Division 5, ‘High Temperature 

Reactors,’’’ that documents the NRC 

staff’s review of the 2017 Edition of 

ASME Section III, Division 5, certain 

portions of the 2019 Edition, and 

associated Code Cases N–861 and N– 

862. This DG describes an approach that 

is acceptable to the staff of the NRC to 

meet regulatory requirements for 

mechanical/structural integrity of 

components that operate in elevated 

temperature environments and that are 

subject to time-dependent material 

properties and failure modes. It 

endorses, with conditions, the American 

Society of Mechanical Engineers 

(ASME) Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code 

(ASME Code) Section III, ‘‘Rules for 

Construction of Nuclear Facility 

Components,’’ Division 5, ‘‘High 

Temperature Reactors.’’ The draft 

NUREG provides the technical basis for 

DG–1380. 

DATES: Submit comments by October 19, 

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–2021–0117. 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: 

Jeffrey Poehler, Office of Nuclear 

Regulatory Research, telephone: 301– 

415–8353, email: Jeffrey.Poehler@

nrc.gov, Robert Roche-Rivera, Office of 

Nuclear Regulatory Research, telephone: 

301–415–8113, email: Robert.RocheRivera@nrc.gov, and Jordan Hoellman, 

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, 

telephone: 301–415–5481, email: 

Jordan.Hoellman2@nrc.gov. All 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– 

0117 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–2021–0117. 

• 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. 

B. Submitting Comments 

The NRC encourages electronic 

comment submission through the 

Federal Rulemaking website (https://

www.regulations.gov). Please include 

Docket ID NRC–2021–0117 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 

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they do not want to be publicly 

disclosed in their comment 

submissions. 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. 

This proposed Revision 2 to RG 1.87, 

entitled ‘‘Acceptability of ASME Code 

Section III, Division 5, ‘High 

Temperature Reactors,’’’ is temporarily 

identified by its task number, DG–1380 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML21091A276). 

The staff is also issuing for public 

comment a draft regulatory analysis 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML21091A277), 

and draft NUREG–2245, ‘‘Technical 

Review of the 2017 Edition of ASME 

Section III, Division 5, ‘High 

Temperature Reactors,’’’ (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML21223A097) that 

documents the NRC staff’s review of the 

2017 Edition of ASME Section III, 

Division 5, certain portions of the 2019 

Edition, and associated Code Cases N– 

861 and N–862. Code Cases N–872 and 

N–898 (‘‘the Alloy 617 Code Cases’’), 

approved by ASME in 2020, are not 

included in this review and are being 

considered for endorsement in a parallel 

effort. 

The NRC published Revision 1 of RG 

1.87, ‘‘Guidance for Construction of 

Class 1 Components in ElevatedTemperature Reactors,’’ in June 1975 to 

provide licensees and applicants with 

agency-approved guidance for 

complying with paragraph 50.55a of 

title 10 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (10 CFR) ‘‘Codes and 

standards,’’ and General Design 

Criterion 1, ‘‘Quality Standards and 

Records.’’ The guide described interim 

licensing guidelines to aid applicants in 

implementing these requirements with 

respect to ASME Class 1 components 

operating at elevated temperatures. 

Specifically, the guide approved, with 

conditions, the initial versions of five 

Code Cases namely, Code Cases 1592– 

0, 1593–0, 1594–0, 1595–0, and 1596–0. 

These five Code Cases are the precursors 

to the other iterations of ASME’s high 

temperature construction rules: Code 

Cases N–47 through N–51; ASME Code, 

Section III, Subsection NH; and 

currently ASME Code, Section III, 

Division 5. The current version of RG 

1.87 (Revision 1) does not reflect the 

changes and updates with respect to 

modern design, fabrication, inspection, 

testing, and overpressure provisions 

(among others) addressed by the 

aforementioned Code iterations, 

research, and operating experience. 

This revision (Revision 2) updates the 

guidance to endorse, with conditions, 

the 2017 Edition of ASME Code Section 

III, Division 5, as a method acceptable 

to the staff for the materials, 

mechanical/structural design, 

construction, testing, and quality 

assurance of mechanical systems and 

components and their supports of hightemperature reactors. This revision of 

the guide also addresses the 

acceptability of the Code Cases N–861 

and N–862, which are related to 

Division 5 of the ASME Code, Section 

III. Draft NUREG–2245 provides the 

technical basis for NRC staff positions 

stated in the DG, including proposed 

exceptions and limitations on the use of 

Division 5. Additionally, this revision 

adds an appendix to the RG namely 

Appendix A, ‘‘High Temperature 

Reactor Quality Group Classification,’’ 

which provides guidance for the quality 

group classification of components in 

non-light water reactor designs. 

III. Backfitting, Forward Fitting, and 

Issue Finality 

DG–1380 and NUREG–2245, if 

finalized, would not constitute 

backfitting as defined in 10 CFR 50.109, 

‘‘Backfitting,’’ and as described in NRC 

Management Directive (MD) 8.4, 

‘‘Management of Backfitting, Forward 

Fitting, Issue Finality, and Information 

Requests’’ (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML18093B087); constitute forward 

fitting as that term is defined and 

described in MD 8.4; or affect the issue 

finality of any approval issued under 10 

CFR part 52, ‘‘Licenses, Certificates, and 

Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants.’’ 

The guidance would not apply to any 

current licensees or applicants or 

existing or requested approvals under 

10 CFR part 52, and therefore its 

issuance cannot be a backfit or forward 

fit or affect issue finality. Further, as 

explained in DG–1380, applicants and 

licensees would not be required to 

comply with the positions set forth in 

DG–1380. 

Dated: August 17, 2021. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Ronaldo V. Jenkins, 

Acting Chief, Regulatory Guidance and 

Programs Management Branch, Division of 

Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory 

Research. 

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BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. MC2021–126 and CP2021–130] 

New Postal Products 

AGENCY: Postal Regulatory Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Commission is noticing 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: August 23, 

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. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Table of Contents 

I. Introduction 

II. Docketed Proceeding(s) 

I. Introduction 

The Commission gives notice that the 

Postal Service filed request(s) for the 

Commission to consider matters related 

to negotiated service agreement(s). The 

request(s) may propose the addition or 

removal of a negotiated service 

agreement from the market dominant or 

the competitive product list, or the 

modification of an existing product 

currently appearing on the market 

dominant or the competitive product 

list. 

Section II identifies the docket 

number(s) associated with each Postal 

Service request, the title of each Postal 

Service request, the request’s acceptance 

date, and the authority cited by the 

Postal Service for each request. For each 

request, the Commission appoints an 

officer of the Commission to represent 

the interests of the general public in the 

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