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United States citizens, permanent 

residents, and nationals, particularly 

those individuals traditionally 

underemployed in the STEM research 

workforce, including but not limited to 

women, persons with disabilities, and 

racial and ethnic minorities. 

The scope of this information 

collection request will primarily cover 

descriptive information gathered from 

education and training (E&T) projects 

that are funded by NSF. NSF will 

primarily use the data from this 

collection for program planning, 

management, and audit purposes to 

respond to queries from the Congress, 

the public, NSF’s external merit 

reviewers who serve as advisors, 

including Committees of Visitors 

(COVs), the NSF’s Office of the 

Inspector General, and as a basis for 

either internal or third-party evaluations 

of individual programs. 

The collections will generally include 

three categories of descriptive data: (1) 

Staff and project participants (data that 

are also necessary to determine 

individual-level treatment and control 

groups for future third-party study or for 

internal evaluation); (2) project 

implementation characteristics (also 

necessary for future use to identify wellmatched comparison groups); and (3) 

project outputs (necessary to measure 

baseline for pre- and post-NSF-fundinglevel impacts). 

Use of the Information: This 

information is required for effective 

administration, communication, 

program and project monitoring and 

evaluation, and for measuring 

attainment of NSF’s program, project, 

and strategic goals, and as identified by 

the President’s Accountability in 

Government Initiative; GPRA, and the 

NSF’s Strategic Plan. The Foundation’s 

FY 2014–2018 Strategic Plan may be 

found at: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/ 

2014/nsf14043/nsf14043.pdf. 

Since this collection will primarily be 

used for accountability and evaluation 

purposes, including responding to 

queries from COVs and other scientific 

experts, a census rather than sampling 

design typically is necessary. At the 

individual project level funding can be 

adjusted based on individual project’s 

responses to some of the surveys. Some 

data collected under this collection will 

serve as baseline data for separate 

research and evaluation studies. 

NSF-funded contract or grantee 

researchers and internal or external 

evaluators in part may identify control, 

comparison, or treatment groups for 

NSF’s E&T portfolio using some of the 

descriptive data gathered through this 

collection to conduct well-designed, 

rigorous research and portfolio 

evaluation studies. 

Respondents: Individuals or 

households, not-for-profit institutions, 

business or other for profit, and Federal, 

State, local, or tribal government. 

Number of Respondents: 7,284. 

Burden on the Public: NSF estimates 

that a total reporting and recordkeeping 

burden of 58,449 hours will result from 

activities to monitor EHR STEM 

education programs. The calculation is 

shown in table 1. 

TABLE 1—ANTICIPATED PROGRAMS THAT WILL COLLECT DATA ON PROJECT PROGRESS AND OUTCOMES ALONG WITH

THE NUMBER OF RESPONDENTS AND BURDEN HOURS PER COLLECTION PER YEAR

Collection title Number of 

respondents Number of responses Annual hour burden 

Advancing Information STEM Learning (AISL) Monitoring System ............................. 155 155 ................................ 1,921 

Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) and Historically Black Colleges and Universities Research Infrastructure for Science and Engineering (HBCU–RISE) Monitoring System.40 40 .................................. 1,810 

Graduate STEM Fellows in K–12 Education (GK–12) Monitoring System .................. 1,267 1,267 ............................. 3,529 

Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program (IGERT) Monitoring System.3,307 3,307 ............................. 12,282 

Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Monitoring System .......... 563 563 ................................ 12,949 

Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation Bridge to the Doctorate (LSAMP– 

BD) Monitoring System.

55 55 .................................. 2,090 

Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (Noyce) Monitoring System ................. 422 422 ................................ 5,908

Research in Disabilities Education (RDE) Monitoring System ..................................... 12 12 .................................. 1,368 

Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S–STEM) 

Monitoring System.

500 1,000 .............................

(500 respondents × 2 

responses/yr.).

6,000 

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program 

(STEP) Monitoring System.

277 277 ................................ 6,648 

Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and 

Mathematics (TUES) Monitoring System.

686 686 ................................ 2,744 

Additional Collections not Specified ............................................................................. 900 900 ................................ 1,200 

Total ....................................................................................................................... 8,184 8,684 ............................. 58,449 

The total estimate for this collection 

is 58,449 annual burden hours. The 

average annual reporting burden is 

between 1.7 and 114 hours per 

‘‘respondent,’’ depending on whether a 

respondent is a direct participant who is 

self-reporting or representing a project 

and reporting on behalf of many project 

participants. 

Dated: February 3, 2016. 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation. 

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revision to several sections in Chapter 

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of NUREG–0800, ‘‘Standard Review 

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are available in a separate document, 

‘‘Response to Public Comments on Draft 

SRP Sections in Chapter 11’’ (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML15033A417). 

The Office of New Reactors and the 

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation are 

revising these sections from their 

current revisions. Details of specific 

changes in the proposed revisions are 

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The changes to this SRP chapter 

reflect current NRC staff’s review 

methods and practices based on lessons 

learned from the NRC’s reviews of 

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license applications completed since the 

last revision of this chapter. 

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Issuance of these revised SRP sections 

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Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), 

‘‘Backfitting,’’ (the Backfit Rule) or 

otherwise be inconsistent with the issue 

finality provisions in 10 CFR part 52. 

The NRC’s position is based upon the 

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1. The SRP positions do not constitute 

backfitting, inasmuch as the SRP is 

internal guidance directed at the NRC 

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responsibilities. 

The SRP provides guidance to the 

staff on how to review an application for 

the NRC’s regulatory approval in the 

form of licensing. Changes in internal 

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licensees are protected under either the 

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2. The NRC staff has no intention to 

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licensees and regulatory approvals 

either now or in the future. 

The staff does not intend to impose or 

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to existing (already issued) licenses and 

regulatory approvals. Therefore, the 

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holders of already issued licenses in a 

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Document ADAMS accession 

No. 

Section 11.1, ‘‘Coolant Source Terms,’’ Revision 4 ................................................................................................................... ML15029A022 

Section 11.2, ‘‘Liquid Waste Management System,’’ Revision 5 ............................................................................................... ML15029A032 

Section 11.3, ‘‘Gaseous Waste Management System,’’ Revision 4 ........................................................................................... ML15029A039 

Section 11.4, ‘‘Solid Waste Management System,’’ Revision 4 ................................................................................................. ML15029A174 

Section 11.5, ‘‘Process and Effluent Radiological Monitoring Instrumentation and Sampling Systems,’’ Revision 6 ............... ML15029A182 

BTP 11–3, ‘‘Design Guidance for Solid Radioactive Waste Management Systems Installed in Light-Water-Cooled Nuclear 

Power Reactor Plants,’’ Revision 4*.

ML15027A198 

BTP 11–5, ‘‘Postulated Radioactive Releases Due to a Waste Gas System Leak or Failure,’’ Revision 4 * ........................... ML15027A302 

BTP 11–6, ‘‘Postulated Radioactive Releases due to Liquid Containing Tank Failures,’’ Revision 4 * ..................................... ML15027A401 

* No changes resulting from public comments. See documents in the package at ADAMS Accession Number ML14113A532 to see changes 

made since last revision. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day 

of January, 2016. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Kimyata Morgan Butler, 

Chief, New Reactor Rulemaking and 

Guidance Branch, Division of Advanced 

Reactors and Rulemaking, Office of New 

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I. Background 

On December 8, 2014 (79 FR 72709), 

the NRC published for public comment 

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SRP. The staff made changes to the 

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(ADAMS Accession No. ML15086A472). 

The changes to this SRP section 

reflect current staff review methods and 

practices based on lessons learned from 

NRC reviews of design certification (DC) 

and combined license (COL) 

applications completed since the last 

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include: (1) Incorporation of guidance 

previously published in Interim Staff 

Guidance (ISG) DC/COL–ISG–003 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML081430087) 

concerning the review of probabilistic 

risk assessment (PRA) information and 

severe accident assessments submitted 

to support DC and COL applications, (2) 

incorporation of guidance for DC and 

COL applicants previously published in 

ISG DC/COL–ISG–020 (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML100491233) 

concerning review of information from 

PRA-based seismic margin analyses 

submitted in support of DC and COL 

applications, (3) incorporation of 

guidance previously published in ISG 

Digital Instrumentation and Controls 

(DI&C)/COL–ISG–003 (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML080570048) 

concerning review of DI&C system 

PRAs, including treatment of common 

cause failure (CCFs) in PRAs and 

uncertainty analysis associated with 

new reactor digital systems, (4) 

incorporation of additional procedures 

for review of PRA information and 

severe accident assessments developed 

during NRC reviews of DC and COL 

applications completed after Revision 2 

of SRP Section 19.0 was issued, (5) 

additional proposed acceptance criteria 

and review procedures for the staff’s 

review of an applicant’s assessment of 

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