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Dated: April 14, 2022. 

Aaron T. Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Navy 

[Docket ID: USN–2022–HQ–0011] 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, 

Department of Defense (DoD). 

ACTION: 60-Day information collection 

notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Naval Health Research Center 

announces a proposed public 

information collection and seeks public 

comment on the provisions thereof. 

Comments are invited on: Whether the 

proposed collection of information is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed information collection; ways 

to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and ways to minimize the 

burden of the information collection on 

respondents, including through the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

DATES: Consideration will be given to all 

comments received by June 21, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number and title, 

by any of the following methods: 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Mail: Department of Defense, Office of 

the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense 

for Privacy, Civil Liberties, and 

Transparency, Regulatory Directorate, 

4800 Mark Center Drive, Attn: Mailbox 

24, Suite 08D09, Alexandria, VA 22350– 

1700. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name, docket 

number and title for this Federal 

Register document. The general policy 

for comments and other submissions 

from members of the public is to make 

these submissions available for public 

viewing on the internet at http://

www.regulations.gov as they are 

received without change, including any 

personal identifiers or contact 

information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request more information on this 

proposed information collection or to 

obtain a copy of the proposal and 

associated collection instruments, 

please write to Naval Medical Center 

San Diego at 34800 Bob Wilson Drive, 

San Diego, CA 92134, ATTN: Dr. Kristen 

Walter, or call 619–553–0546. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title; Associated Form; and OMB 

Number: Personalized Web-Based 

Sexual Assault Prevention for Service 

Members; OMB Control Number 0703– 

0080. 

Needs and Uses: The aim of this study 

is to assist in the adaptation of an 

existing web-based sexual assault 

prevention program for college men and 

women, for use among the Navy 

population. To achieve this aim, data 

will be collected in several ways and 

respondents will participate in only one 

type of data collection. First, responses 

to a normative survey will provide 

information about the behavior and 

attitudes of Sailors regarding alcohol 

use and sexual assault. Next, focus 

groups and interviews will be 

conducted to obtain feedback about the 

content of the intervention and ways to 

adapt it for Sailors. Interviewees and 

focus group respondents will be 

selected based on their drinking habits, 

which will be determined by a brief preinterview/focus group survey. All data 

are anonymous, meaning that there is no 

way for us to match any personally 

identifiable information of any 

participant to their survey responses. 

After interview/focus group completion, 

a post-interview/focus group survey will 

be given to obtain non-personallyidentifiable demographic and alcohol 

use information to be used as 

descriptive information, as well as data 

from standardized measures that assess 

respondents’ opinions of the existing 

intervention. All surveys will be 

completed via a HIPAA compliant 

software. Data from these surveys will 

be incorporated into the intervention 

content and will help generate an 

adapted prototype of the sexual assault 

prevention program (+Change) for 

Sailors. 

The results of these surveys will 

impact the Department of the Navy by 

documenting the feasibility, 

acceptability, satisfaction, and utility of 

a multi-pronged, individually tailored, 

and easily distributed prevention 

program that addresses the large 

problem of sexual assault, and the 

associated effects of alcohol for Sailors. 

In the long-term, this research benefits 

the readiness of the force by producing 

an easily disseminated high-quality 

sexual assault prevention program that 

can be implemented in multiple 

military settings and sustain evaluation 

in a larger clinical trial. This research 

can also have a secondary impact on 

reducing hazardous alcohol use among 

service members and can prevent the 

occurrence of alcohol use problems and 

associated negative health sequelae in 

service members. These long-term 

objectives are consistent with both DoD 

and the national public health priorities. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households. 

Sexual Assault Prevention in Service 

Members Normative Survey 

Annual Burden Hours: 208.3. 

Number of Respondents: 500. 

Responses per Respondent: 1. 

Annual Responses: 500. 

Average Burden per Response: 25 

minutes. 

Interview/Focus Group and Pre/Post 

Surveys 

Annual Burden Hours: 152.25. 

Number of Respondents: 87. 

Responses per Respondent: 3. 

Annual Responses: 261. 

Average Burden per Response: 35 

minutes. 

Frequency: Once per respondent. 

Dated: April 14, 2022. 

Aaron T. Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Spent Nuclear Fuel Management, 

Accelerated Basin De-Inventory 

Mission for H-Canyon, at the Savannah 

River Site 

AGENCY: Office of Environmental 

Management, U.S. Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Amended record of decision. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) is amending its August 7, 

2000, Record of Decision (ROD) to the 

Savannah River Site Spent Nuclear Fuel 

Management Final Environmental 

Impact Statement (DOE/EIS–0279, DOE 

2000, SRS SNF EIS). The changes to the 

August 7, 2000, ROD memorialize 

DOE’s decision to manage 

approximately 29.2 metric tons of heavy 

metal (MTHM) of spent nuclear fuel 

(SNF) and target materials (hereafter 

referred to collectively as SNF), using 

conventional processing without 

recovery of uranium at the H-Canyon 

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1Conventional processing is a chemical 

separation process that involves dissolving spent 

nuclear fuel in nitric acid and separating fission 

products from uranium using solvent extraction. 

After conventional processing, the solution 

containing the fission products is transferred to 

DWPF for immobilization in glass. 

2A small quantity of low-activity liquid waste 

would be sent to the Salt Waste Processing Facility 

and eventually disposed of in grout at the SRS 

Saltstone Disposal Facility. 

(SRS). DOE anticipates that processing 

this SNF would begin in 2022 and 

continue for approximately 12 to 13 

years. DOE will send the dissolved 

material to the liquid high-level 

radioactive waste (HLW) system prior to 

immobilization the material in a 

borosilicate glass waste form in the 

Defense Waste Processing Facility 

(DWPF). In the meantime, DOE will 

continue to safely store SNF and target 

materials in L-Basin at SRS, pending 

processing in H-Canyon. 

ADDRESSES: This Amended ROD, the 

Supplement Analysis for the Spent 

Nuclear Fuel Accelerated Basin Deinventory Mission for H-Canyon at the 

Savannah River Site (SRS ABD SA), and 

related National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA) documents are available on 

the DOE NEPA website at 

www.energy.gov/nepa/nepa-documents 

and the SRS website at www.srs.gov/ 

general/pubs/envbul/nepa1.htm. To 

request copies of these documents, 

please contact: Mr. Jeffrey Bentley, 

NEPA Document Manager, Savannah 

River Operations Office, U.S. 

Department of Energy, P.O. Box B, 

Aiken, South Carolina 29802, telephone: 

(803) 226–5113, email: jeffrey.bentley@

srs.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information on the management 

of SNF at SRS, please contact Mr. 

Bentley as listed in ADDRESSES. For 

information on DOE’s NEPA process, 

please contact: Mr. William Ostrum, 

DOE-Office of Environmental 

Management, NEPA Compliance 

Officer, U.S. Department of Energy, 

1000 Independence Avenue SW, EM– 

4.31, Washington, DC 20585 or via 

phone at 202–586–2513 or email at 

William.Ostrum@hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

DOE’s purpose and need for action, as 

described in the SRS SNF EIS (DOE/ 

EIS–0279; DOE 2000), is to develop and 

implement a safe and efficient SNF 

management strategy that includes 

preparing SNF and target materials 

stored at or expected to be shipped to 

SRS for ultimate disposition offsite. 

In the SRS SNF EIS, DOE evaluated 

the potential environmental impacts of 

alternatives for management of the SNF 

and target material. DOE analyzed five 

reasonable alternatives that could be 

used to manage SNF: No Action, 

Minimum Impact, Direct Disposal, 

Maximum Impact, and the Preferred 

Alternative. The action alternatives 

represent combinations of technologies 

applied to fuel groups. 

Under the Preferred Alternative in the 

SRS SNF EIS, DOE would prepare about 

97 percent by volume (about 60 percent 

by mass) of the aluminum SNF (ASNF) 

for disposition using a melt-and-dilute 

process. The remaining 3 percent by 

volume (about 40 percent by mass) 

would be managed using chemical 

processing. 

DOE issued the Final SRS SNF EIS in 

March 2000 and issued a ROD on 

August 7, 2000, (65 FR 48224) selecting 

the Preferred Alternative. Since the ROD 

was issued, DOE has not implemented 

the melt-and-dilute technology. On 

April 5, 2013, DOE issued an Amended 

ROD to process a portion of the ASNF 

using conventional processing in lieu of 

the melt-and-dilute process (78 FR 

20625). 

DOE has explored various scenarios to 

address storage capacity limitations and 

technical issues associated with SNF 

and target materials at SRS. Due to the 

vast variety of ASNF at SRS, 

implementing a dry storage program, as 

a potential alternative to the melt-anddilute process, that would be effective 

for all SNF is technically challenging. 

Considering the storage capacity for 

non-aluminum SNF (NASNF) and the 

future availability of processing 

capabilities (H-Canyon) and liquid HLW 

systems (DWPF and Tank Farms) at 

SRS, DOE has reevaluated the 

management approach for SNF at SRS. 

DOE previously evaluated and 

decided to consolidate the SNF by fuel 

type at Hanford, Idaho National 

Laboratory, and SRS, in the 

Programmatic Spent Nuclear Fuel 

Management and Idaho National 

Engineering Laboratory Environmental 

Restoration and Waste Management 

Programs Environmental Impact 

Statement (SNF PEIS) (DOE/EIS–0203) 

and associated ROD (60 FR 28680, June 

1, 1995). However, the decision to 

consolidate SNF by fuel type has not 

been fully implemented. DOE’s 

inventory of ASNF has not been 

consolidated at SRS, and the NASNF 

has not been consolidated at the Idaho 

National Laboratory. This Amended 

ROD would not change that decision 

made in the 1995 ROD. 

Under this Amended ROD, SNF 

(including both ASNF and NASNF, and 

target materials) located at SRS, would 

be transferred from L-Basin to H-Canyon 

for conventional processing 1 with no 

uranium recovery. At H-Canyon, the 

SNF would be dissolved in hot nitric 

acid, producing a solution of highly 

enriched uranium (HEU), fission 

products, aluminum, and small amounts 

of transuranic materials such as 

neptunium and plutonium. The 

resulting solutions (including uranium235) would be transferred to the SRS 

liquid HLW system and processed for 

immobilization 2 at DWPF; HEU would 

not be recovered. The key benefit of the 

non-recovery scenario is that it requires 

only a single-unit process step in 

addition to neutralization, greatly 

simplifying the processing required in 

H-Canyon. Potentially, 75 percent of the 

H-Canyon conventional processing 

systems (Head End, First Uranium 

Cycle, High-Activity Waste Evaporation, 

Second Uranium Cycle, Low-Activity 

Waste Evaporation, Solvent Recovery, 

and Acid Recovery) would not be used. 

Additionally, no blending down of HEU 

to low enriched uranium would be 

required. The resulting liquid waste 

would be sent to DWPF for 

immobilization into borosilicate glass. 

The HLW glass-filled, stainless-steel 

canisters from DWPF would be stored in 

S-Area until sent to a repository for 

disposal. 

In accordance with DOE NEPA 

regulations at 10 CFR 1021.314, DOE 

prepared the SRS ABD SA (DOE/EIS– 

0279–SA–07, 2022). Based on the SRS 

ABD SA, DOE has determined that a 

supplemental or new environmental 

impact statement is not required. DOE 

also concluded in the SRS ABD SA that 

the proposed change and new 

information is not a substantial change 

relative to the alternatives analyzed in 

the SRS SNF EIS and, thus, no further 

NEPA analysis is required. 

The impacts of the Proposed Action 

as described in the SA were determined 

to be small and would not result in 

releases to the environment or radiation 

doses or risks to members of the public 

or workers that would be significantly 

larger than those evaluated in the SRS 

SNF EIS. Annual impacts of processing 

the SNF described in the SA would 

remain similar to or bounded by those 

analyzed in the SRS SNF EIS since 

annual throughput would be similar. 

Since approximately 16 percent more 

SNF would be processed over the life of 

the Proposed Action than the amount of 

SNF that was estimated to be processed 

under the SRS SNF EIS, some impacts 

of processing could increase by up to 16 

percent. However, the reduction in 

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reduce resource use and worker 

exposure and related impacts. 

Under the Proposed Action, DOE 

estimates that immobilization of liquid 

waste resulting from the processing of 

29.2 MTHM SNF (without uranium 

recovery) would result in about 505 

HLW glass-filled stainless-steel 

canisters. This results in 435 more 

canisters from SNF processing than was 

analyzed in the previous SRS SNF EIS. 

In the context of the approximately 

8,400 HLW glass-filled stainless-steel 

canisters that DOE’s most recent 

estimate indicated would be produced 

at DWPF, this increase is not substantial 

(less than 7 percent), and SRS’s total 

expected canisters would still be within 

the 10,000 canisters DOE evaluated in 

the Final Supplemental Environmental 

Impact Statement, Defense Waste 

Processing Facility (DOE/EIS–0082–S, 

November 1994) and no additional 

storage capacity would be needed. 

Although a national repository for 

SNF has not yet been identified, DOE 

remains committed to meeting its 

obligations to safely dispose of SNF and 

HLW. The estimated 505 additional 

HLW canisters that would eventually 

require disposal would be more than 

offset by the estimated 1,000 SNF 

storage canisters that would have 

needed disposal if the SNF were not 

processed in H-Canyon. 

Under the Proposed Action, because 

the uranium would not be recovered, 

the fissile material concentration in the 

HLW glass needs to be as much as 2,500 

grams per cubic meter to maximize the 

amount of material allowed in the HCanyon transfers sent to the HLW 

sludge batches. Analyses indicate that 

increasing the fissile material content in 

the glass up to 2,500 grams per cubic 

meter would not constitute a criticality 

issue and would have minimal impact 

on key properties related to durability of 

the glass. Testing has demonstrated that 

the HLW glass produced under the 

Proposed Action will meet the 

performance standards of previously 

produced DWPF glasses. 

Implementing the Proposed Action 

would entail activities at H-Canyon that 

are the same as or comparable to 

existing or historical operations and are 

largely bounded by activities evaluated 

in the SRS SNF EIS. Therefore, the 

Proposed Action is not expected to 

result in substantial increases to the 

range of cumulative impacts described 

in the SRS SNF EIS. 

Amended Decision 

DOE has decided to implement the 

Proposed Action as described in the 

SRS ABD SA. DOE will manage up to 

29.2 MTHM of SNF using conventional 

processing without uranium recovery in 

H-Canyon at SRS. DOE anticipates 

processing these materials beginning as 

early as 2022, and continuing 

approximately 12 to 13 years, consistent 

with program and policy priorities and 

funding. DOE will use three dissolvers 

in order to cost-effectively utilize HCanyon and expeditiously complete the 

mission, although only two dissolvers 

would be operated at any one time. 

Meanwhile, SNF will continue to be 

stored in L-Basin at SRS, pending 

processing in H-Canyon. 

In the ROD for the SRS SNF EIS (65 

FR 48224, August 7, 2000), DOE 

identified the Minimum Impact 

Alternative as the environmentally 

preferable alternative; this has not 

changed. No environmental impacts 

resulting from operations under this 

amended decision would require 

specific mitigation measures. DOE will 

continue its current practices and 

policies to use all practicable means to 

avoid or minimize environmental harm 

and impacts to workers when 

implementing the actions described 

herein. For example, DOE will continue 

to evaluate and implement, as 

appropriate, physical modifications to 

the H-Canyon facility and process 

chemistry changes that would reduce 

personnel exposure, facility effluents, 

and waste generation. 

Basis for Decision 

The proposed use of conventional 

processing for 29.2 MTHM of SNF, 

including target materials, as described 

in the SRS ABD SA (DOE/EIS–0279– 

SA–07, 2022) and this amendment to 

DOE’s 2000 SNF ROD (65 FR 48224) 

takes advantage of existing processes in 

existing facilities. The activities 

encompassed by this amended decision 

will not incur potential health or 

environmental impacts significantly 

different from those analyzed in existing 

NEPA reviews. This amended decision 

reduces the overall cost of managing the 

currently stored SNF by eliminating the 

need for storage in L-Basin and 

maximizes near-term utilization of HCanyon to expeditiously complete the 

mission. Further, the actions resulting 

from this Amended ROD allow 

processing of the remaining inventory of 

SNF stored at SRS L-Basin, converts the 

SNF to forms that are proliferation 

resistant and can be safely stored for 

long periods with minimal 

maintenance. 

As described in the SRS ABD SA, 

most impacts would be similar to or 

bounded by those described in the SRS 

SNF EIS. While the decision 

documented in this Amended ROD will 

increase the number of canisters of 

vitrified HLW, it is not expected to 

significantly affect the quantity of 

vitrified HLW canisters requiring 

management and would be more than 

offset by the SNF canisters that would 

not require disposal. 

The actions to be taken pursuant to 

this Amended ROD strongly support 

U.S. non-proliferation policy and goals 

by permanently dispositioning the HEU 

contained in the SNF. This Proposed 

Action is consistent with U.S. 

agreements regarding receipt of foreign 

research reactor materials in which 

involved countries with the economic 

ability to do so contribute to the costs 

of transportation and U.S. receipt, 

processing, and disposition of the 

materials. 

Signing Authority 

This document of the Department of 

Energy was signed on April 8, 2022, by 

William I. White, Senior Advisor for 

Environmental Management, Office of 

Environmental Management, pursuant 

to delegated authority from the 

Secretary of Energy. That document 

with the original signature and date is 

maintained by DOE. For administrative 

purposes only, and in compliance with 

the requirements of the Office of the 

Federal Register, the undersigned DOE 

Federal Register Liaison Officer has 

been authorized to sign and submit the 

document in electronic format for 

publication, as an official document of 

the Department of Energy. The 

administrative process in no way alters 

the legal effect of this document upon 

publication in the Federal Register. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on April 14, 

2022. 

Treena V. Garrett, 

Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. 

Department of Energy. 

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Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC; Notice of 

Application Accepted for Filing and 

Soliciting Comments, Motions To 

Intervene, and Protests 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: Request for a 

temporary amendment of the reservoir 

elevation requirement at the Wateree 

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