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7412(r)(1), by failing to identify risks 

associated with accidental releases of 

extremely hazardous substances and 

failing to design and maintain a safe 

facility. The Complaint also alleges 

numerous violations of Section 112(r)(7) 

of the CAA, 42 U.S.C. 7412(r)(7), and 

the Chemical Accident Prevention 

regulations promulgated at 40 CFR part 

68, including failure to implement safe 

work practices and failure to conduct 

mechanical integrity inspections and 

tests. Under the proposed settlement, 

the Defendant will pay $2,850,000 in 

civil penalties and will be required to 

update its response and personal 

protection plans to prevent employee 

injury, conduct a third-party audit of its 

risk management practices, perform 

corrective action based on the audit 

results, and develop key performance 

indicators to evaluate future 

compliance. 

The publication of this notice opens 

a period for public comment on the 

proposed Consent Decree. Comments 

should be addressed to the Assistant 

Attorney General, Environment and 

Natural Resources Division, and should 

refer to United States of America v. 

Formosa Plastics Corporation, Texas, 

D.J. Ref. No. 90–5–2–1–08995/1. 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 proposed Consent Decree may be 

examined and downloaded at this 

Justice Department website: http://

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

We will provide a paper copy of the 

proposed 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 $11.25 (25 cents per page 

reproduction cost) payable to the United 

States Treasury. 

Thomas Carroll, 

Assistant Section Chief, Environmental 

Enforcement Section, Environment and 

Natural Resources Division. 

[FR Doc. 2021–20121 Filed 9–16–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–15–P 

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS 

ADMINISTRATION 

[NARA–21–0013; NARA–2021–045] 

Records Schedules; Availability and 

Request for Comments 

AGENCY: National Archives and Records 

Administration (NARA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability of 

proposed records schedules; request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The National Archives and 

Records Administration (NARA) 

publishes notice of certain Federal 

agency requests for records disposition 

authority (records schedules). We 

publish notice in the Federal Register 

and on regulations.gov for records 

schedules in which agencies propose to 

dispose of records they no longer need 

to conduct agency business. We invite 

public comments on such records 

schedules. 

DATES: NARA must receive comments 

by November 1, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by the following method. You must cite 

the control number, which appears on 

the records schedule in parentheses 

after the name of the agency that 

submitted the schedule. 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

Due to COVID–19 building closures, 

we are currently temporarily not 

accepting comments by mail. However, 

if you are unable to comment via 

regulations.gov, you may contact 

request.schedule@nara.gov for 

instructions on submitting your 

comment. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kimberly Keravuori, Regulatory and 

External Policy Program Manager, by 

email at regulation_comments@

nara.gov. For information about records 

schedules, contact Records Management 

Operations by email at 

request.schedule@nara.gov, by mail at 

the address above, or by phone at 301– 

837–1799. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Public Comment Procedures 

We are publishing notice of records 

schedules in which agencies propose to 

dispose of records they no longer need 

to conduct agency business. We invite 

public comments on these records 

schedules, as required by 44 U.S.C. 

3303a(a), and list the schedules at the 

end of this notice by agency and 

subdivision requesting disposition 

authority. 

In addition, this notice lists the 

organizational unit(s) accumulating the 

records or states that the schedule has 

agency-wide applicability. It also 

provides the control number assigned to 

each schedule, which you will need if 

you submit comments on that schedule. 

We have uploaded the records 

schedules and accompanying appraisal 

memoranda to the regulations.gov 

docket for this notice as ‘‘other’’ 

documents. Each records schedule 

contains a full description of the records 

at the file unit level as well as their 

proposed disposition. The appraisal 

memorandum for the schedule includes 

information about the records. 

We will post comments, including 

any personal information and 

attachments, to the public docket 

unchanged. Because comments are 

public, you are responsible for ensuring 

that you do not include any confidential 

or other information that you or a third 

party may not wish to be publicly 

posted. If you want to submit a 

comment with confidential information 

or cannot otherwise use the 

regulations.gov portal, you may contact 

request.schedule@nara.gov for 

instructions on submitting your 

comment. 

We will consider all comments 

submitted by the posted deadline and 

consult as needed with the Federal 

agency seeking the disposition 

authority. After considering comments, 

we will post on regulations.gov a 

‘‘Consolidated Reply’’ summarizing the 

comments, responding to them, and 

noting any changes we have made to the 

proposed records schedule. We will 

then send the schedule for final 

approval by the Archivist of the United 

States. You may elect at regulations.gov 

to receive updates on the docket, 

including an alert when we post the 

Consolidated Reply, whether or not you 

submit a comment. If you have a 

question, you can submit it as a 

comment, and can also submit any 

concerns or comments you would have 

to a possible response to the question. 

We will address these items in 

consolidated replies along with any 

other comments submitted on that 

schedule. 

We will post schedules on our 

website in the Records Control Schedule 

(RCS) Repository, at https://

www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/rcs, 

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after the Archivist approves them. The 

RCS contains all schedules approved 

since 1973. 

Background 

Each year, Federal agencies create 

billions of records. To control this 

accumulation, agency records managers 

prepare schedules proposing retention 

periods for records and submit these 

schedules for NARA’s approval. Once 

approved by NARA, records schedules 

provide mandatory instructions on what 

happens to records when no longer 

needed for current Government 

business. The records schedules 

authorize agencies to preserve records of 

continuing value in the National 

Archives or to destroy, after a specified 

period, records lacking continuing 

administrative, legal, research, or other 

value. Some schedules are 

comprehensive and cover all the records 

of an agency or one of its major 

subdivisions. Most schedules, however, 

cover records of only one office or 

program or a few series of records. Many 

of these update previously approved 

schedules, and some include records 

proposed as permanent. 

Agencies may not destroy Federal 

records without the approval of the 

Archivist of the United States. The 

Archivist grants this approval only after 

thorough consideration of the records’ 

administrative use by the agency of 

origin, the rights of the Government and 

of private people directly affected by the 

Government’s activities, and whether or 

not the records have historical or other 

value. Public review and comment on 

these records schedules is part of the 

Archivist’s consideration process. 

Schedules Pending 

1. Department of Agriculture, Forest 

Service, Wildland Fire Incident 

Management (DAA–0095–2021–0005). 

2. Department of Defense, Defense 

Counterintelligence and Security 

Agency, Defense Information System for 

Security (DAA–0446–2021–0009). 

3. Department of Energy, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 

Hydropower Projects (DAA–0138–2019– 

0005). 

4. Department of Energy, Western 

Area Power Administration, 

Environmental Program (DAA–0201– 

2020–0011). 

5. Department of State, Office of U.S. 

Foreign Assistance Resources, 

Consolidated Schedule (DAA–0059– 

2019–0017). 

6. Department of Transportation, 

Federal Transit Administration, Drug 

and Alcohol Management Information 

System (DAA–0408–2020–0001). 

7. Department of Transportation, 

Office of the Secretary, Records related 

to Disadvantaged Business Enterprise 

(DAA–0398–2019–0008). 

8. Department of the Treasury, 

Internal Revenue Service, Estate and 

Gift Tax Returns (DAA–0058–2021– 

0005). 

9. Administrative Office of the United 

States Courts, Agency-wide, Records of 

Surety Agents (DAA–0021–2020–0002). 

Laurence Brewer, 

Chief Records Officer for the U.S. 

Government. 

[FR Doc. 2021–20091 Filed 9–16–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7515–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2020–0227] 

Operator Licensing Examination 

Standards for Power Reactors 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: NUREG; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing NUREG– 

1021, Revision 12, ‘‘Operator Licensing 

Examination Standards for Power 

Reactors.’’ 

DATES: NUREG–1021, Revision 12 is 

available on September 17, 2021 and 

will be applicable to operator licensing 

examinations that are administered 6 

months after this date. Power reactor 

facility licensees that elect to prepare, 

proctor, and grade written examinations 

and/or prepare operating tests with 

administration dates 6 months or more 

after the date of this notice, must do so 

based on the guidance in NUREG–1021, 

Revision 12. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2020–0227 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–2020–0227. 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. NUREG–1021, Revision 12 is 

available in ADAMS under Accession 

No. ML21256A276. 

• Attention: The PDR, where you may 

examine and purchase copies of public 

documents, is currently closed. You 

may submit your request to the PDR by 

email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov or call 1– 

800–397–4209 or 302–415–4737, 

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

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Maurin Scheetz, Office of Nuclear 

Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415– 

2758, email: Maurin.Scheetz@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Discussion 

NUREG–1021, Revision 12, ‘‘Operator 

Licensing Examination Standards for 

Power Reactors,’’ provides policies, 

procedures, and guidance for the 

development, administration, and 

grading of examinations used for 

licensing operators at nuclear power 

reactor facilities under the 

Commission’s regulations in part 55 of 

title 10 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (CFR), ‘‘Operators’ 

Licenses.’’ This NUREG also provides 

guidance for maintaining operators’ 

licenses and for the NRC to conduct 

requalification examinations when 

necessary. The NRC is issuing Revision 

12 of this NUREG to (1) streamline 

information into topic-based sections for 

ease of use, (2) clarify instructions for 

the identification and grading of 

performance deficiencies on the 

operating test, (3) revise instructions for 

the selection of critical tasks and the 

assessment of critical and significant 

performance deficiencies, and (4) 

implement changes to support the 

testing of fundamentals topics on the 

site-specific initial licensing 

examination instead of in a separate 

generic fundamentals examination. 

II. Additional Information 

Revision 12 of NUREG–1021 replaces 

Revision 11 of NUREG–1021. Draft 

NUREG–1021, Revision 12, was 

published in the Federal Register for 

public comment on December 1, 2020 

(85 FR 77280) with a 75-day comment 

period. The NRC received 124 public