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after the Archivist approves them. The 

RCS contains all schedules approved 

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Background 

Each year, Federal agencies create 

billions of records. To control this 

accumulation, agency records managers 

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2021–0007). 

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Citizenship and Immigration Services, 

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Federal Partnership Award files (DAA–0536– 

2022–0001). 

6. National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration, Agency-wide, Partnership 

Agreements (DAA–0255–2022–0002). 

Laurence Brewer, 

Chief Records Officer for the U.S. 

Government. 

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BILLING CODE 7515–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 030–34325; License No. 03– 

23853–01VA; EA–21–059; NRC–2022–0101] 

In the Matter of Department of 

Veterans Affairs 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Confirmatory order; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing a 

Confirmatory Order to the Department 

of Veterans Affairs to memorialize the 

agreement reached during an alternative 

dispute resolution mediation session 

held on March 2, 2022. The order will 

resolve all issues related to apparent 

violations that occurred when a nuclear 

medicine technologist willfully failed to 

conduct a measurement of the 

concentration of strontium-82 and 

strontium-85 prior to use of a strontium82/rubidium-82 generator and willfully 

falsified records relating to the same 

failure to conduct the required 

measurement. The Confirmatory Order 

includes a number of significant 

commitments undertaken by the 

Department of Veterans Affairs to 

enhance the safety culture among its 

employees involved in nuclear 

medicine. The Confirmatory Order is 

effective upon issuance. 

DATES: The confirmatory order was 

issued on April 21, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2022–0101 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–2022–0101. 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 

Confirmatory Order to the Department 

of Veterans Affairs is available in 

ADAMS under Accession No. 

ML22062B353. 

• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and 

purchase copies of public documents, 

by appointment, at the NRC’s PDR, 

Room P1 B35, One White Flint North, 

11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland 20852. To make an 

appointment to visit the PDR, please 

send an email to 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: 

Shelbie Lewman, Region III, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

telephone: 630–810–4373, email: 

Shelbie.Lewman@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The text of 

the Order is attached. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Dated: April 25, 2022. 

John B. Giessner, 

Regional Administrator, NRC Region III. 

United States of America 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

In the Matter of: Department of 

Veterans Affairs, Greater Los Angeles 

Healthcare System, 030–34325, 03– 

23853–01VA, EA–21–059 

Confirmatory Order Modifying License 

(Effective Upon Issuance) 

I 

The Department of Veterans Affairs 

(VA) holds Master Materials License No. 

03–23853–01VA, issued to the U.S. 

Department of Veterans Affairs on 

March 17, 2003, by the U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission (NRC or 

Commission) pursuant to Part 35 of 

Title 10 of the Code of Federal 


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Regulations (CFR). The license 

authorizes the use of any byproduct 

material for purposes authorized by the 

National Radiation Safety Committee 

and the use of depleted uranium for 

shielding, as described in its application 

dated September 21, 1998, in 

accordance with conditions specified 

therein. 

This Confirmatory Order is the result 

of an agreement reached during an 

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) 

mediation session conducted on March 

2, 2022, in Lisle, Illinois. 

II 

On April 22, 2021, the NRC 

completed Investigation Report 03– 

2020–010, which documented the 

identification of apparent violations at 

the facility of VA’s permittee, VA 

Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. 

The apparent violations were being 

considered for escalated enforcement 

action in accordance with the NRC 

Enforcement Policy. The apparent 

violations involved the willful failure of 

a nuclear medicine technologist (NMT) 

to conduct a measurement of the 

concentration of strontium-82 and 

strontium-85 prior to use of a strontium82/rubidium-82 generator, as required 

by 10 CFR 35.204(c), and falsification of 

records by the same NMT relating to the 

same failure to conduct the required 

measurement, in violation of 10 CFR 

30.9, 10 CFR 35.204(d) and 10 CFR 

35.2204. VA formally requested a copy 

of the NRC report on December 13, 

2021. In accordance with established 

Commission policy (see SRM–SECY– 

05–0213, ML060060088), NRC denied 

this request on December 14, 2021. 

By letter, dated December 2, 2021, the 

NRC provided VA with a factual 

summary of the results of the 

investigation with an opportunity to: (1) 

Provide a response in writing, (2) attend 

a predecisional enforcement conference 

or (3) participate in an ADR mediation 

session in an effort to resolve these 

concerns. 

In response to the NRC’s offer, VA 

requested the use of the NRC’s ADR 

process to resolve differences it had 

with the NRC. On March 2, 2022, the 

NRC and VA met in an ADR session 

mediated by a professional mediator, 

arranged through Cornell University’s 

Institute on Conflict Resolution. The 

ADR process is one in which a neutral 

mediator, with no decision-making 

authority, assists the parties in reaching 

an agreement on resolving any 

differences regarding the dispute. This 

Confirmatory Order is issued pursuant 

to the agreement reached during the 

ADR process. 

III 

During the ADR session, VA and the 

NRC reached a preliminary settlement 

in an Agreement in Principle. 

The NRC recognizes that VA has 

already taken corrective actions 

including: 

1. Removing the NMT who committed 

the willful violations as soon as the 

misconduct was witnessed by the 

Radiation Safety Officer (RSO); and 

2. Retraining the NMT staff 

concerning proper quality control 

procedures. 

Therefore, the parties agree to the 

following terms and conditions: 

1. VA commits to conduct an 

anonymous safety culture survey of VA 

employees nationwide working in 

nuclear medicine or related activities as 

identified below: 

a. Individuals handling permitted, 

unsealed, radioactive material in a 

patient care setting (e.g., nuclear 

medicine technologists); 

b. Authorized User physicians; 

c. Radiation Safety Officers (RSOs) 

and their staffs; 

d. National Health Physics Program 

staff and National Radiation Safety 

Committee (NRSC) members; and, 

e. Other personnel required by 10 CFR 

part 20 to be monitored due to 

occupational exposure to permitted, 

unsealed, radioactive material in a 

patient care setting. 

The survey will be conducted by VA’s 

National Center for Patient Safety 

(NCPS), an organization independent of 

the VHA National Health Physics 

Program, or another independent entity 

contracted by VA. 

The NRSC will review the results of 

the survey in consultation with the 

survey designer and the NRSC will 

determine corrective actions. Corrective 

actions identified and taken or a 

justification for no corrective actions 

will be available for NRC inspection 

upon request. 

The survey will be completed and 

analyzed no later than 18 months from 

the date of the Confirmatory Order and 

the results will be available for NRC 

inspection upon request. 

2. VA commits to conduct safety 

culture training. This training will 

consist of two National Health Physics 

Program (NHPP) webinars related to 

safety culture with announcement to 

VHA Email Groups for RSOs, Nuclear 

Medicine Supervisors, and Chief/Lead 

Nuclear Medicine Technologists (VAwide). The NRSC Chair will lead at least 

one of the webinars. The webinars will 

be recorded for future reference to allow 

RSOs, Nuclear Medicine Supervisors, 

and Chief/Lead Nuclear Medicine 

Technologists to complete later. Ninety 

(90) percent of the combined group of 

RSOs and Nuclear Medicine 

Supervisors, and Chief/Lead Nuclear 

Medicine Technologists must complete 

one webinar or view one recording. 

Documentation of the webinars and 

their attendance will be available for 

NRC inspection upon request. The NRC 

will be invited to attend one of the 

webinars. This commitment will be met 

no later than nine months from the date 

of the Confirmatory Order. 

3. VA commits to ‘‘re-energize’’ its 

employee concerns program related to 

reporting of radioactive program 

allegations or adverse events. 

Specifically, VA will: 

a. Add safety culture content to the 

‘‘Reporting Radiation Safety Concerns’’ 

posters and programs; 

b. Re-emphasize 24/7/365 availability 

of the hotline in webinars discussed 

above; and, 

c. Issue one or two ‘‘Scatterings’’ 

newsletters discussing its employees 

concerns program, with poster attached. 

This commitment will be met no later 

than nine months from the date of the 

Confirmatory Order. Documentation of 

this commitment will be available for 

NRC inspection upon request. 

4. In consideration of the completed 

actions and commitments delineated 

above and the license modifications 

described below, the NRC agrees to 

refrain from issuing a Notice of 

Violation or proposing a civil penalty in 

connection with the NRC’s December 2, 

2021, letter. The NRC agrees that the 

Confirmatory Order documenting the 

above items will not be considered an 

escalated enforcement action by the 

NRC for future assessment of violations 

occurring at VA if VA does not violate 

the terms of this Confirmatory Order. 

The terms and conditions set forth 

herein shall continue to apply for the 

duration of the Master Material License 

issued to VA. 

On March 2, 2022, VA consented to 

issuing this Confirmatory Order with 

the commitments, as described in 

Section V below. VA further agreed that 

this Confirmatory Order is to be 

effective upon issuance, the agreement 

memorialized in this Confirmatory 

Order settles the matter between the 

parties, and that it has waived its right 

to a hearing. 

IV 

I find that VA’s completed actions, as 

described in Section III above, 

combined with the commitments as set 

forth in Section V are acceptable and 

necessary, and conclude that with these 

commitments the public health and 

safety are reasonably assured. In view of 


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the foregoing, I have determined that 

public health and safety require that 

VA’s commitments be confirmed by this 

Confirmatory Order. Based on the above 

and VA’s consent, this Confirmatory 

Order is effective upon issuance. 

By no later than thirty (30) days after 

the completion of the commitments 

specified in Section V, VA is required 

to notify the NRC in writing and 

summarize its actions. 

V 

Accordingly, pursuant to Sections 81, 

161b, 161i, 161o, 182, and 186 of the 

Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, 

and the Commission’s regulations in 10 

CFR 2.202 and 10 CFR parts 30 and 35, 

it is hereby ordered, effective upon 

issuance, that license No. 03–23853– 

01VA is modified as follows: 

1. VA will conduct an anonymous 

safety culture survey of VA employees 

nationwide working in nuclear 

medicine or related activities as 

identified below: 

a. Individuals handling permitted, 

unsealed, radioactive material in a 

patient care setting (e.g., nuclear 

medicine technologists); 

b. Authorized User physicians; 

c. Radiation Safety Officers (RSOs) 

and their staffs; 

d. National Health Physics Program 

staff and National Radiation Safety 

Committee (NRSC) members; and, 

e. Other personnel required by 10 CFR 

part 20 to be monitored due to 

occupational exposure to permitted, 

unsealed, radioactive material in a 

patient care setting. 

The survey will be conducted by VA’s 

National Center for Patient Safety 

(NCPS), an organization independent of 

the VHA National Health Physics 

Program, or another independent entity 

contracted by VA. 

The NRSC will review the results of 

the survey in consultation with the 

survey designer and the NRSC will 

determine corrective actions. Corrective 

actions identified and taken or a 

justification for no corrective actions 

will be available for NRC inspection 

upon request. 

The survey will be completed and 

analyzed no later than 18 months from 

the date of the Confirmatory Order and 

the results will be available for NRC 

inspection upon request. 

2. VA will conduct safety culture 

training. This training will consist of 

two National Health Physics Program 

(NHPP) webinars related to safety 

culture with announcement to VHA 

Email Groups for RSOs, Nuclear 

Medicine Supervisors, and Chief/Lead 

Nuclear Medicine Technologists (VAwide). The NRSC Chair will lead at least 

one of the webinars. The webinars will 

be recorded for future reference to allow 

RSOs, Nuclear Medicine Supervisors, 

and Chief/Lead Nuclear Medicine 

Technologists to complete later. Ninety 

(90) percent of the combined group of 

RSOs and Nuclear Medicine 

Supervisors, and Chief/Lead Nuclear 

Medicine Technologists must complete 

one webinar or view one recording. 

Documentation of the webinars and 

their attendance will be available for 

NRC inspection upon request. The NRC 

will be invited to attend one of the 

webinars. VA will complete this safety 

culture training, including the 90% 

participation requirement, no later than 

nine months from the date of this 

Confirmatory Order. 

3. VA will ‘‘re-energize’’ its employee 

concerns program related to reporting 

radioactive program allegations or 

adverse events. Specifically, VA will: 

a. Add safety culture content to the 

‘‘Reporting Radiation Safety Concerns’’ 

posters and programs; 

b. Re-emphasize 24/7/365 availability 

of the hotline in webinars discussed 

above; and, 

c. Issue at least one ‘‘Scatterings’’ 

newsletters discussing the employee 

concerns program, with poster attached. 

This commitment will be met no later 

than nine months from the date of the 

Confirmatory Order. Documentation 

relating to the fulfillment of this 

commitment will be available for NRC 

inspection upon request. 

The Regional Administrator, Region 

III may, in writing, relax or rescind any 

of the above conditions upon 

demonstration of good cause by VA or 

its successors. 

VI 

In accordance with 10 CFR 2.202 and 

10 CFR 2.309, any person adversely 

affected by this Confirmatory Order, 

other than VA, may request a hearing 

within thirty (30) calendar days of the 

date of issuance of this Confirmatory 

Order. Where good cause is shown, 

consideration will be given to extending 

the time to request a hearing. A request 

for extension of time must be made in 

writing to the Director, Office of 

Enforcement, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555, 

and include a statement of good cause 

for the extension. 

All documents filed in NRC 

adjudicatory proceedings, including a 

request for hearing, a petition for leave 

to intervene, any motion or other 

document filed in the proceeding prior 

to the submission of a request for 

hearing or petition to intervene 

(hereinafter ‘‘petition’’), and documents 

filed by interested governmental entities 

participating under 10 CFR 2.315(c), 

must be filed in accordance with the 

NRC’s E-Filing rule (72 FR 49139; 

August 28, 2007, as amended at 77 FR 

46562, August 3, 2012). The E-Filing 

process requires participants to submit 

and serve all adjudicatory documents 

over the internet, or in some cases to 

mail copies on electronic storage media. 

Participants may not submit paper 

copies of their filings unless they seek 

an exemption in accordance with the 

procedures described below. 

To comply with the procedural 

requirements of E-Filing, at least 10 

days prior to the filing deadline, the 

participant should contact the Office of 

the Secretary by email at 

hearing.docket@nrc.gov, or by telephone 

at 301–415–1677, to (1) request a digital 

identification (ID) certificate, which 

allows the participant (or its counsel or 

representative) to digitally sign 

submissions and access the E-Filing 

system for any proceeding in which it 

is participating; and (2) advise the 

Secretary that the participant will be 

submitting a petition or other 

adjudicatory document (even in 

instances in which the participant, or its 

counsel or representative, already holds 

an NRC-issued digital ID certificate). 

Based upon this information, the 

Secretary will establish an electronic 

docket for the hearing in this proceeding 

if the Secretary has not already 

established an electronic docket. 

Information about applying for a 

digital ID certificate is available on the 

NRC’s public website at http://

www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals/ 

getting-started.html. Once a participant 

has obtained a digital ID certificate and 

a docket has been created, the 

participant can then submit 

adjudicatory documents. Submissions 

must be in Portable Document Format 

(PDF). Additional guidance on PDF 

submissions is available on the NRC’s 

public website at http://www.nrc.gov/ 

site-help/electronic-sub-ref-mat.html. A 

filing is considered complete at the time 

the document is submitted through the 

NRC’s E-Filing system. To be timely, an 

electronic filing must be submitted to 

the E-Filing system no later than 11:59 

p.m. Eastern Time on the due date. 

Upon receipt of a transmission, the EFiling system time-stamps the document 

and sends the submitter an email notice 

confirming receipt of the document. The 

E-Filing system also distributes an email 

notice that provides access to the 

document to the NRC’s Office of the 

General Counsel and any others who 

have advised the Office of the Secretary 

that they wish to participate in the 

proceeding, so that the filer need not 

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participants separately. Therefore, 

applicants and other participants (or 

their counsel or representative) must 

apply for and receive a digital ID 

certificate before adjudicatory 

documents are filed so that they can 

obtain access to the documents via the 

E-Filing system. 

A person filing electronically using 

the NRC’s adjudicatory E-Filing system 

may seek assistance by contacting the 

NRC’s Electronic Filing Help Desk 

through the ‘‘Contact Us’’ link located 

on the NRC’s public website at http://

www.nrc.gov/site-help/esubmittals.html, by email to 

MSHD.Resource@nrc.gov, or by a tollfree call at 1–866–672–7640. The NRC 

Electronic Filing Help Desk is available 

between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., Eastern 

Time, Monday through Friday, 

excluding government holidays. 

Participants who believe that they 

have a good cause for not submitting 

documents electronically must file an 

exemption request, in accordance with 

10 CFR 2.302(g), with their initial paper 

filing requesting authorization to 

continue to submit documents in paper 

format. Such filings must be submitted 

by: (1) First class mail addressed to the 

Office of the Secretary of the 

Commission, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001, Attention: Rulemaking and 

Adjudications Staff; or (2) courier, 

express mail, or expedited delivery 

service to the Office of the Secretary, 

Sixteenth Floor, One White Flint North, 

11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland, 20852, Attention: 

Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff. 

Participants filing a document in this 

manner are responsible for serving the 

document on all other participants. 

Filing is considered complete by firstclass mail as of the time of deposit in 

the mail, or by courier, express mail, or 

expedited delivery service upon 

depositing the document with the 

provider of the service. A presiding 

officer, having granted an exemption 

request from using E-Filing, may require 

a participant or party to use E-Filing if 

the presiding officer subsequently 

determines that the reason for granting 

the exemption from use of E-Filing no 

longer exists. 

Documents submitted in adjudicatory 

proceedings will appear in NRC’s 

electronic hearing docket, which is 

available to the public at https://

adams.nrc.gov/ehd, unless excluded 

pursuant to an order of the Commission 

or the presiding officer. Participants are 

requested not to include personal 

privacy information, such as social 

security numbers, home addresses, or 

home phone numbers in their filings, 

unless an NRC regulation or other law 

requires submission of such 

information. With respect to 

copyrighted works, except for limited 

excerpts that serve the purpose of the 

adjudicatory filings and would 

constitute a Fair Use application, 

participants are requested not to include 

copyrighted materials in their 

submission. 

The Commission will issue a notice or 

order granting or denying a hearing 

request or intervention petition, 

designating the issues for any hearing 

that will be held and designating the 

Presiding Officer. A notice granting a 

hearing will be published in the Federal 

Register and served on the parties to the 

hearing. 

If a person (other than VA) requests a 

hearing, that person shall set forth with 

particularity the manner in which his 

interest is adversely affected by this 

Confirmatory Order and shall address 

the criteria set forth in 10 CFR 2.309(d) 

and (f). 

If a hearing is requested by a person 

whose interest is adversely affected, the 

Commission will issue an order 

designating the time and place of any 

hearings. If a hearing is held, the issue 

to be considered at such hearing shall be 

whether this Confirmatory Order should 

be sustained. 

In the absence of any request for 

hearing, or written approval of an 

extension of time in which to request a 

hearing, the provisions specified in 

Section V above shall be final 30 days 

from the date of this Confirmatory Order 

without further order or proceedings. If 

an extension of time for requesting a 

hearing has been approved, the 

provisions specified in Section V shall 

be final when the extension expires if a 

hearing request has not been received. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Dated this 21st day of April 2022. 

/RA/ 

John B. Giessner, 

Regional Administrator, NRC Region III. 

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BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. 72–1041, 50–498, and 50–499; 

NRC–2022–0099] 

South Texas Project Nuclear Operating 

Company; South Texas Project Electric 

Generating Station Units 1 and 2; 

Independent Spent Fuel Storage 

Installation 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Exemption; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing an 

exemption in response to a request 

submitted by South Texas Project 

Nuclear Operating Company (STPNOC) 

on March 11, 2022, from meeting certain 

NRC regulatory requirements for one 

multipurpose canister (MPC), Serial 

Number 248 (MPC 248), in use at the 

South Texas Project Electric Generating 

Station, Units 1 and 2 (STPEGS). This 

exemption permits STPNOC to continue 

using MPC 248 to store spent fuel for 

the service life of the canister, including 

transferring the MPC to a HI–STORM 

FW overpack, without volumetric 

examination data from radiographic 

testing for a 1-inch section of the 

repaired weld seam joining the 

baseplate to the canister shell. 

DATES: This exemption was issued on 

April 25, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2022–0099 when contacting the 

NRC about the availability of 

information regarding this action. You 

may obtain publicly available 

information related to this action using 

any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2022–0099. 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. For the 

convenience of the reader, instructions 

about obtaining materials referenced in 

this document are provided in the 

‘‘Availability of Documents’’ section. 

• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and 

purchase copies of public documents, 

by appointment, at the NRC’s PDR, 

Room P1 B35, One White Flint North, 

11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland 20852. To make an 

appointment to visit the PDR, please 

send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov 

or call 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415– 

4737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. 


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