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New knowledge thus created is 

meaningfully linked to society, with an 

emphasis on enhancing diversity. 

PREMs enable and foster excellent 

education, integrate research and 

education, and create bonds between 

learning and inquiry so that discovery 

and creativity more fully support the 

learning process. PREMs capitalize on 

diversity through participation and 

collaboration in center activities and 

demonstrate leadership in the 

involvement of groups 

underrepresented in science and 

engineering. 

PREMs will be required to submit 

annual reports on progress and plans, 

which will be used as a basis for 

performance review and determining 

the level of continued funding. To 

support this review and the 

management of the award PREMs will 

be required to develop a set of 

management and performance 

indicators for submission annually to 

NSF via the Research Performance 

Project Reporting module in 

Research.gov. These indicators are both 

quantitative and descriptive and may 

include, for example, the characteristics 

of personnel and students; sources of 

financial support and in-kind support; 

expenditures by operational component; 

research activities; education activities; 

patents, licenses; publications; degrees 

granted to students involved in PREM 

activities; descriptions of significant 

advances and other outcomes of the 

PREM effort. 

Each PREM’s annual report will 

include the following categories of 

activities: (1) Research, (2) education (3) 

outreach, (4) partnerships, (5) diversity, 

(6) management, and (7) budget issues. 

For each of the categories the report 

will describe overall objectives for the 

year, problems the PREM has 

encountered in making progress towards 

goals, anticipated problems in the 

following year, and specific outputs and 

outcomes. 

PREMs are required to file a final 

report through the RPPR and external 

technical assistance contractor. Final 

reports contain similar information and 

metrics as annual reports but are 

retrospective. 

Use of the Information: NSF will use 

the information to continue funding of 

PREMs, and to evaluate the progress of 

the program. 

Estimate of Burden: 50 hours per 

PREM for 32 PREMs for a total of 1,600 

hours. 

Respondents: Non-profit institutions. 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Report: One from each of the fifteen 

PREMs. 

Dated: May 13, 2022. 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation. 

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Spent Fuel Heat Generation in an 

Independent Spent Fuel Storage 

Installation 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Regulatory guide; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing Revision 3 

to Regulatory Guide (RG) 3.54, ‘‘Spent 

Fuel Heat Generation in an Independent 

Spent Fuel Storage Installation.’’ This 

RG includes methods acceptable to the 

NRC staff for calculating spent nuclear 

fuel heat generation rates for use for an 

Independent Spent Fuel Storage 

Installation. Revision 3 incorporates 

corrections to Appendix A, Table A–1 

that were erroneously recorded in the 

previous revision (Revision 2 to this 

RG). In general, this revision presents an 

up-to-date methodology for determining 

heat generation rates and it also allows 

loading of higher burnup fuel by using 

more accurate methods for decay heat 

calculations. 

DATES: Revision 3 to RG 3.54 is available 

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• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

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problems with ADAMS, please contact 

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reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301– 

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• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and 

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Revision 3 to RG 3.54 may be found 

in ADAMS under Accession No. 

ML22066B275. 

Regulatory guides are not 

copyrighted, and NRC approval is not 

required to reproduce them. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Alexis Sotomayor-Rivera, Office of 

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telephone: 301–415–7265; email: 

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415–2493; email: Harriet.Karagiannis@

nrc.gov, and Ramon Gascot Lozada 

telephone: 301–415–2004, email: 

Ramon.GascotLozada@nrc.gov, both 

staff of the Office of Nuclear Regulatory 

Research. All are staff at the U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Discussion 

The NRC is issuing an administrative 

revision to an existing guide in the 

NRC’s ‘‘Regulatory Guide’’ series. 

Regulatory guides were developed to 

describe and make available to the 

public information and methods that are 

acceptable to the NRC staff for 

implementing specific parts of the 

agency’s regulations, techniques that the 

staff uses in evaluating specific issues or 

postulated events, and data that the staff 

needs in its review of applications for 

permits and licenses. The NRC typically 

seeks public comment on a draft version 

of a RG by announcing its availability 

for comment in the Federal Register. 

However, as explained in NRC’s 

Management Directive (MD) 6.6 

‘‘Regulatory Guides,’’ (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML110330475) the NRC 

may directly issue a final RG without a 

draft version or public comment period 

if the changes to the RG are nonsubstantive. 

The NRC is issuing Revision 3 of RG 

3.54 directly as a final RG because the 


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changes between Revision 2 and 

Revision 3 are non-substantive. This 

revision (Revision 3) like Revision 2 

presents an up-to-date methodology for 

determining heat generation rates for 

both pressurized-water reactor and 

boiling water reactor fuel and provides 

greater flexibility (fewer restrictions). It 

allows loading of higher burnup fuel by 

using more accurate methods for decay 

heat calculations by covering a wider 

range of fuel characteristics, including 

operating history. Appendix A provides 

an example that illustrates the use of the 

RG for calculating the decay heat 

generation rate for a spent fuel 

assembly. However, Appendix A to 

Revision 2 of RG 3.54 included 

erroneous data. 

Revision 3 of RG 3.54 is issued to 

incorporate corrections for Appendix A, 

Table A–1 showing the correct 

irradiation data for an assembly C–64. 

These corrected data are as follows: (1) 

The last column of the Table A–1, the 

third row (operating (days)) is now 

recorded as 3.39E+02, (2) the fourth row 

(downtime (days)) is recorded as 

1.633E+03, (3) the fifth row (cumulative 

burnup (MWd/KgU)) is recorded as 

3.9384E+01, and (4) the sixth row 

(Power (W/KgU)) is recorded as 

2.8378E+04. 

II. Backfitting, Forward Fitting, and 

Issue Finality 

The NRC staff may use this RG as a 

reference in its regulatory processes, 

such as licensing, inspection, or 

enforcement. However, the NRC staff 

does not intend to use the guidance in 

this RG to support NRC staff actions in 

a manner that would constitute 

backfitting as that term is defined in 

Section 50.109 of title 10 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations (10 CFR), 

‘‘Backfitting,’’ and as described in NRC 

MD 8.4, ‘‘Management of Backfitting, 

Forward Fitting, Issue Finality, and 

Information Requests’’ (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML18093B087), nor does 

the NRC staff intend to use the guidance 

to affect the issue finality of an approval 

under 10 CFR part 52. The staff also 

does not intend to use the guidance to 

support NRC staff actions in a manner 

that constitutes forward fitting as that 

term is defined and described in MD 

8.4. If a licensee believes that the NRC 

is using this RG in a manner 

inconsistent with the discussion in the 

Implementation section of RG 3.54, then 

the licensee may file a backfitting or 

forward fitting appeal with the NRC in 

accordance with the process in MD 8.4. 

III. Congressional Review Act 

This RG is a rule as defined in the 

Congressional Review Act (5 U.S.C. 

801–808). However, the Office of 

Management and Budget has not found 

it to be a major rule as defined in the 

Congressional Review Act. 

IV. Submitting Suggestions for 

Improvement of Regulatory Guides 

Revision 3 of RG 3.54 is being issued 

without public comment. However, a 

member of the public may, at any time, 

submit suggestions to the NRC for 

improvement of existing RGs or for the 

development of new RGs to address new 

issues. Suggestions can be submitted on 

the NRC’s public website at https://

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/reg-guides/contactus.html. 

Suggestions will be considered in future 

updates and enhancements to the 

‘‘Regulatory Guide’’ series. 

Dated: May 13, 2022. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Meraj Rahimi, 

Chief, Regulatory Guide and Programs 

Management Branch, Division of Engineering, 

Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. 

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

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collection. The information collection is 

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DATES: Submit comments by July 18, 

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ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

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2084; email: Infocollects.Resource@

nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

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Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2022– 

0040 when contacting the NRC about 

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action by any of the following methods: 

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