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nrc.gov and Robert Roche-Rivera, Office 

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telephone: 301–415–8113, email: 

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staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Discussion 

The NRC is issuing a revision in the 

NRC’s ‘‘Regulatory Guide’’ series. This 

series was developed to describe and 

make available to the public information 

regarding methods that are acceptable to 

the NRC staff for implementing specific 

parts of the agency’s regulations, 

techniques that the NRC staff uses in 

evaluating specific issues or postulated 

events, and data that the NRC staff 

needs in its review of applications for 

permits and licenses. 

RG 1.187, Revision 3, ‘‘Guidance for 

Implementation of 10 CFR 50.59, 

‘Changes, Tests, and Experiments,’ ’’ 

addresses a clarification to the RG in 

response to post-promulgation 

comments on RG 1.187, Revision 2 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML20125A730). 

Specifically, this Revision (i.e., Revision 

3) adds an additional clarification in 

section C.2.e of the RG related to the 

Human Factors Engineering screening 

examples in NEI 96–07, Appendix D, 

Revision 1, ‘‘Supplemental Guidance for 

Application of 10 CFR 50.59 to Digital 

Modifications,’’ (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML20135H168), that discuss an increase 

in response time. 

II. Additional Information 

Proposed Revision 2 of RG 1.187 was 

issued with a temporary identification 

of Draft Regulatory Guide (DG)–1356 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML19045A435). 

The NRC published a notice of the 

availability of DG–1356 in the Federal 

Register on May 30, 2019 (84 FR 25077) 

for a 45-day public comment period. 

The public comment period closed on 

July 15, 2019. Public comments on DG– 

1356 and the staff responses to the 

public comments are available in 

ADAMS under Accession No. 

ML20125A729. Based on the public 

comments, subsequent public meetings, 

and revisions to NEI 96–07, Appendix 

D, the NRC revised the proposed 

Revision 2 of RG 1.187 and issued the 

final Revision 2 on July 7, 2020 (85 FR 

40696), with a 30-day postpromulgation public comment period. 

Revision 2 of RG 1.187 endorsed NEI 

96–07, Appendix D, Revision 1, as a 

means for complying with the 

requirements of section 50.59 of title 10 

of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 

CFR), ‘‘Changes, tests and experiments’’ 

when conducting digital 

instrumentation and control (I&C) 

modifications, with certain 

clarifications. The post-promulgation 

public comment period closed on 

August 6, 2020. Post-promulgation 

public comments on RG 1.187, Revision 

2 and the staff responses to the postpromulgation public comments are 

available under ADAMS under 

Accession No. ML21109A001. 

The NRC notes that a nonconcurrence on RG 1.187, Revision 2, 

was submitted and entered the NonConcurrence Process (NCP) under 

tracking number of NCP–2020–005. The 

NCP form and attachments are available 

in ADAMS under Accession No. 

ML20197A381. 

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. Backfitting, Forward Fitting, and 

Issue Finality 

Revision 3 of RG 1.187 provides 

guidance on complying with the 

requirements of 10 CFR 50.59 when 

performing a digital I&C modification. 

As explained in RG 1.187, Revision 3, 

licensees are not required to comply 

with the positions set forth in this 

regulatory guide. Therefore, RG 1.187, 

Revision 3, does not constitute 

backfitting as defined in 10 CFR 50.109, 

‘‘Backfitting,’’ and as described in NRC 

Management Directive (MD) 8.4, 

‘‘Management of Backfitting, Forward 

Fitting, Issue Finality, and Information 

Requests’’; constitute forward fitting as 

that term is defined and described in 

MD 8.4; or affect issue finality of any 

approval issued under 10 CFR part 52, 

‘‘Licenses, Certificates, and Approvals 

for Nuclear Power Plants.’’ If, in the 

future, the NRC were to impose a 

position in this RG 1.187, Revision 3, in 

a manner that would constitute 

backfitting or forward fitting or affect 

the issue finality for a part 52 approval, 

then the NRC would address the 

backfitting provision in 10 CFR 50.109, 

the forward fitting provision of MD 8.4, 

or the applicable issue finality provision 

in part 52, respectively. 

Dated: June 7, 2021. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Meraj Rahimi, 

Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Programs 

Management Branch, Division of Engineering, 

Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. 

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Self-Regulatory Organizations; ICE 

Clear Europe Limited; Notice of Filing 

of Proposed Rule Change Relating to 

the ICE Clear Europe Articles of 

Association 

June 7, 2021. 

Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the 

Securities Exchange Act of 1934 

(‘‘Act’’),1 and Rule 19b–4 thereunder,2

notice is hereby given that on May 25, 

2021, ICE Clear Europe Limited (‘‘ICE 

Clear Europe’’ or the ‘‘Clearing House’’) 

filed with the Securities and Exchange 

Commission (‘‘Commission’’) the 

proposed rule changes described in 

Items I, II and III below, which Items 

have been prepared primarily by ICE 

Clear Europe. The Commission is 

publishing this notice to solicit 

comments on the proposed rule change 

from interested persons. 

I. Clearing Agency’s Statement of the 

Terms of Substance of the Proposed 

Rule Change 

ICE Clear Europe Limited (‘‘ICE Clear 

Europe’’ or the ‘‘Clearing House’’) 

proposes to modify its Articles of 

Association (the ‘‘Articles’’). The 

revisions would not involve any 

changes to the ICE Clear Europe 

Clearing Rules or Procedures. 

II. Clearing Agency’s Statement of the 

Purpose of, and Statutory Basis for, the 

Proposed Rule Change 

In its filing with the Commission, ICE 

Clear Europe included statements 

concerning the purpose of and basis for 

the proposed rule change and discussed 

any comments it received on the 

proposed rule change. The text of these 

statements may be examined at the 

places specified in Item IV below. ICE 

Clear Europe has prepared summaries, 

set forth in sections (A), (B), and (C) 

below, of the most significant aspects of 

such statements. 

(A) Clearing Agency’s Statement of the 

Purpose of, and Statutory Basis for, the 

Proposed Rule Change, Security-Based 

Swap Submission or Advance Notice 

(a) Purpose 

The purpose of the amendments is to 

update the Articles to reflect certain 

changes in the composition of the ICE 

Clear Europe Board and the composition 

and structure of Board committees, to 

clarify certain director independence 

standards, to clarify certain superquorum standards applicable to certain 

actions relating to CDS clearing, to 

revise certain provisions regarding 

directors and to reflect the use of 

gender-neutral language, as discussed in 

more detail herein. 

In article 3,3 definitions of certain 

specific committees would be deleted, 

including the Audit Committee, Board 

Risk Committee, Compensation 

Committee and Nomination Committee, 

and the definition of Committee would 

be revised to generally reference any 

committee constituted by the Board 

under the Articles. Although ICE Clear 

Europe is not proposing to change its 

current committee structure at this time, 

it does not believe the committees need 

to be defined in the Articles. Since the 

Board is authorized to create, modify or 

dissolve committees as it determines to 

be appropriate, the amendments would 

facilitate future changes to the 

committee structure by the Board 

without need to amend the Articles. The 

definition of Product Risk Committee, 

however, would not be removed from 

the Articles because there are references 

to this committee throughout the 

Articles in light of certain specific 

requirements relating to the CDS 

Director. 

In addition, the amendments would 

modify certain other definitions, 

including CDS Director, Committees, 

Independent Director, Risk Committee 

and Super-Quorum Matters. These 

definitions would be updated as 

follows: 

• CDS Director—a sentence would be 

added to the definition to clarify that 

the CDS Director may also meet the 

criteria required of an Independent 

Director, however, for the avoidance of 

doubt they will continue to be classified 

only as a CDS Director. 

• Independent Director—this 

definition would be updated such that 

instead of describing this person as 

independent of the Company and of the 

Clearing House (without further 

definition of independence), the 

definition would require the director to 


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