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Generation Fuel Core Reference Report’’ 

(Proprietary), dated August 2007, and 

WCAP–12610–P–A and CENPD–404–P– 

A, ‘‘Optimized ZIRLOTM’’ (Proprietary), 

dated July 2006, have demonstrated that 

predicted chemical, mechanical, and 

material performance characteristics of 

the Optimized ZIRLOTM alloy cladding 

are bounded by those approved for 

zircaloy under anticipated operational 

occurrences (AOOs) and postulated 

accidents. The LFAs shall be placed in 

non-limiting core regions as required by 

PVNGS, Unit 3 Technical Specification 

4.2.1, ‘‘Fuel Assemblies.’’ Also, APS and 

Westinghouse utilize NRC approved 

methods for the reload design process 

for the PVNGS reload cores containing 

Optimized ZIRLOTM fuel rod cladding. 

Therefore, the environmental impact, 

due to the unlikely event of an LFA clad 

failure, would be minimal and would be 

bounded by the environmental impacts 

associated with previous accident 

analyses. 

The details of the NRC staff’s safety 

evaluation will be provided in the 

exemption that will be issued as part of 

the letter to the licensee approving the 

exemption to the regulation. 

The proposed action will not 

significantly increase the probability or 

consequences of accidents. No changes 

are being made in the types of effluents 

that may be released offsite. There is no 

significant increase in the amount of 

any effluent released offsite. There is no 

significant increase in occupational or 

public radiation exposure. Therefore, 

there are no significant radiological 

environmental impacts associated with 

the proposed action. 

Based on the nature of the exemption, 

the proposed action does not result in 

changes to land use or water use, or 

result in changes to the quality or 

quantity of non-radiological effluents. 

No changes to the National Pollution 

Discharge Elimination System permit 

are needed. No effects on the aquatic or 

terrestrial habitat in the vicinity of the 

plant, or to threatened, endangered, or 

protected species under the Endangered 

Species Act, or impacts to essential fish 

habitat covered by the MagnusonStevens Act are expected. There are no 

impacts to the air or ambient air quality. 

There are no impacts to historic and 

cultural resources. There would be no 

noticeable effect on socioeconomic 

conditions in the region. Therefore, no 

changes or different types of nonradiological environmental impacts are 

expected as a result of the proposed 

action. Accordingly, the NRC concludes 

that there are no significant 

environmental impacts associated with 

the proposed action. 

Environmental Impacts of the 

Alternatives to the Proposed Action: 

As an alternative to the proposed 

action, the staff considered denial of the 

proposed action (i.e., the ‘‘no-action’’ 

alternative). Denial of the application 

would result in no change in current 

environmental impacts. The 

environmental impacts of the proposed 

action and the alternative action are 

similar. 

Alternative Use of Resources: 

The action does not involve the use of 

any different resources than those 

previously considered in the Final 

Environmental Statement for the Palo 

Verde Nuclear Generating Station, 

NUREG–0841, dated February 1982. 

Agencies and Persons Consulted: 

In accordance with its stated policy, 

on July 8, 2010, the NRC staff consulted 

with the Arizona State official, Aubrey 

Godwin of the Arizona Radiation 

Regulatory Authority regarding the 

environmental impact of the proposed 

action. The State official had no 

comments. 

Finding of No Significant Impact 

On the basis of the environmental 

assessment, the NRC concludes that the 

proposed action will not have a 

significant effect on the quality of the 

human environment. Accordingly, the 

NRC has determined not to prepare an 

environmental impact statement for the 

proposed action. 

For further details with respect to the 

proposed action, see the licensee’s letter 

dated November 2, 2009, as 

supplemented by letter dated May 12, 

2010. Documents may be examined, 

and/or copied for a fee, at the NRC’s 

Public Document Room (PDR), located 

at One White Flint North, Public File 

Area O1 F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first 

floor), Rockville, Maryland. Publicly 

available records will be accessible 

electronically from the Agencywide 

Documents Access and Management 

System (ADAMS) Public Electronic 

Reading Room on the Internet at the 

NRC Web site, http://www.nrc.gov/ 

reading-rm/adams.html. Persons who 

do not have access to ADAMS or who 

encounter problems in accessing the 

documents located in ADAMS should 

contact the NRC PDR Reference staff by 

telephone at 1–800–397–4209 or 301– 

415–4737, or send an e-mail to 

pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 17th day 

of August 2010. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Nageswaran Kalyanam, 

Project Manager, Plant Licensing Branch IV, 

Division of Operating Reactor Licensing, 

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

[FR Doc. 2010–20915 Filed 8–23–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

Development of U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission Safety Culture 

Policy Statement: Public Meeting 

AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC). 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The NRC plans to hold a 

public meeting on September 28, 2010, 

in its Las Vegas, Nevada hearing facility 

to solicit comments on the revision of 

its draft safety culture policy statement, 

including the revised definition and 

traits. The revision has been developed 

as a result of the NRC staff’s evaluation 

of the public comments submitted in 

response to the draft policy statement 

(74 FR 57525, November 6, 2009; 

ML093030375), the results of the NRC’s 

February 2010 workshop (February 

workshop) on safety culture, and 

additional comments that stakeholders 

and other interested parties have 

provided to the staff at the various 

outreach activities that have occurred 

since February. The draft policy 

statement focuses on the unique aspects 

of nuclear safety and security and 

highlights the Commission’s 

expectations that the policy applies to 

individuals and organizations 

performing or overseeing NRC-regulated 

activities. 

As part of the NRC staff’s outreach 

activities which have focused on 

engaging a broad range of stakeholders 

including the Agreement States, the 

NRC held a 3-day Safety Culture 

Workshop in February 2010 at NRC 

headquarters in which participants were 

asked to reach alignment on (1) a 

common definition of safety culture and 

(2) high level descriptions or traits of 

areas important to safety culture. The 

February workshop also provided an 

additional venue for interested parties 

to provide comments on the draft policy 

statement that had been published in 

the Federal Register. Workshop 

panelists successfully aligned on a 

common definition of safety culture and 

developed a list of traits that they 

believe exist in a positive safety culture. 

Following the February workshop, the 

NRC staff participated in various 

industry forums in order to obtain 


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additional input from stakeholders and 

other interested parties to confirm that 

the draft definition and traits developed 

at the February workshop reflect a broad 

consensus view. 

In preparation for the February 

workshop, the NRC staff noted that 

some stakeholders and interested parties 

who reside in the Western half of the US 

were unable to attend the workshop or 

participate remotely. Thus, the NRC 

hearing facility in Las Vegas, Nevada, 

with its excellent broadcast capabilities 

was chosen as the site for the upcoming 

meeting. Additionally, the meeting will 

be simultaneously broadcast to a 

location at NRC headquarters in 

Rockville, Md., and webstreamed so that 

individuals may participate remotely 

from their own personal computers 

(PCs). Please check the following NRC 

Web sites for any updates to the 

workshop schedules and/or information 

regarding this event: http:// 

www.nrc.gov/public-involve/publicmeetings/index.cfm and/or http:// 

www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/regulatory/ 

enforcement/safety-culture.html. 

The goal of the meeting is to provide 

an opportunity for stakeholders and 

other interested parties to offer their 

thoughts on the revised draft policy 

statement including the revised 

definition and traits. The revised draft 

policy statement has benefitted from 

public comments, the results of the 

February workshop, and additional 

comments that stakeholders and other 

interested parties have provided to the 

staff at the various outreach activities 

and will be used to focus much of the 

discussion at the September meeting. It 

will be published for a 30-day public 

comment period prior to the meeting on 

both the NRC’s Safety Culture website at 

http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/ 

regulatory/enforcement/safetyculture.html and in the Federal 

Register. 

DATES: The meeting is planned for 

September 28, 2010. Additional 

information will be available on the 

NRC Public Meeting Schedule Web site 

at http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/ 

public-meetings/index.cfm at least ten 

days prior to the meeting. 

Locations: The public meeting will be 

held at the NRC’s hearing facility in Las 

Vegas, Nevada, and will be 

simultaneously broadcast to a location 

at NRC headquarters at 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. 

Additionally, the meeting will be 

webstreamed so that individuals may 

participate remotely from their own 

PCs. Regarding the NRC headquarters’ 

location, because parking is extremely 

limited, the most convenient 

transportation to this location is via 

Metro’s Red Line to the White Flint 

Station, which is directly across 

Marinelli Rd. from NRC headquarters. 

Please allow time at both locations to 

register with building security upon 

entering the buildings. The public 

meeting notice will provide specific 

details. 

Document Accessibility: The 

documents referenced in this notice are 

publicly available. NRC’s Public 

Document Room (PDR): The public may 

examine and have copied for a fee, 

publicly available documents at the 

NRC’s PDR, Public File Area O–1 F21, 

One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852–2738. 

NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access 

and Management System (ADAMS): 

Publicly available documents created or 

received at the NRC after November 1, 

1999, are available electronically at the 

NRC’s Electronic Reading Room at 

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

adams.html. From this site, the public 

can gain entry into ADAMS, which 

provides text and image files of NRC’s 

public documents. If you do not have 

access to ADAMS or if there are 

problems in accessing the documents 

located in ADAMS, contact the PDR 

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

415–4737 or by e-mail to 

pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jose 

Ibarra, telephone (301) 415–2581, or by 

email to Jose.Ibarra@nrc.gov, or 

Catherine Thompson, telephone (301) 

415–3409, or by email to 

Catherine.Thompson@nrc.gov. Both of 

these individuals can also be contacted 

by mail at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Office of Enforcement, 

Concerns Resolution Branch, Mail Stop 

O–4 A15A, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001. Prior to the meeting, attendees are 

requested to register with one of the 

contacts listed in the meeting notice, so 

that sufficient accommodations can be 

made for their participation. Please let 

the contact know if special services are 

necessary, such as services for the 

hearing impaired, etc. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

1. Purpose of the Public Meeting 

The NRC is working towards 

increasing the attention that is given to 

safety culture as part of its efforts to 

ensure the safe and secure possession 

and use of radioactive material within 

the NRC’s jurisdiction. Additionally, the 

NRC has been working with the 

Agreement States to facilitate their 

consideration and support of this effort 

in their oversight programs for their 

materials licensees. The goal of this 

meeting is to provide an opportunity for 

stakeholders and other interested parties 

to offer their thoughts on the proposed 

revisions, including the revised 

definition and traits. The revised draft 

policy statement, definition and traits 

have benefitted from public comments, 

the results of the February workshop, 

and additional comments that have been 

provided to the staff at the various 

outreach activities. 

2. Topics of Discussion 

The NRC staff is planning to cover the 

following topics: (1) What is Safety 

Culture; (2) The NRC’s Safety Culture 

Initiative; (3) The February Workshop; 

(4) Staff’s Review of the Public 

Comments Received on the November 

2009 Federal Register Notice; (5) 

Revisions to the Draft Policy Statement 

Including the Definition and Traits; (6) 

Update on INPO’s Validation Study; and 

(7) Questions Regarding Next Steps. 

3. Draft Agenda 

The meeting is currently planned to 

begin at 8:30 a.m. and conclude at 4:15 

p.m. The agenda will include 

introductory remarks briefly addressing 

the draft safety culture policy statement, 

the revised draft safety culture policy 

statement which will be published prior 

to the meeting including how the 

definition and traits have been revised, 

and the activities the NRC has engaged 

in to arrive at this point as well as what 

the next steps will be. This will be 

followed by sessions that address the 

topics provided in section 2 of this 

notice, in more depth. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 17th day 

of August, 2010. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Roy P. Zimmerman, 

Director, Office of Enforcement. 

[FR Doc. 2010–20966 Filed 8–23–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2010–0002] 

Sunshine Federal Register Notice 

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETINGS: Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission. 

DATES: Weeks of August 23, 30, and 

September 6, 13, 20, 27, 2010. 

PLACE: Commissioners’ Conference 

Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland. 

STATUS: Public and closed. 


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