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January 14. Only authorized 

representatives or counsel for CASE, 

FPL, and the NRC Staff who have 

entered written notice of appearance 

pursuant to 10 CFR 2.314(b) will be 

entitled to participate. 

The sole purpose of the oral argument 

is to enable the Board to obtain the 

necessary factual and legal information 

to determine whether CASE has 

standing and whether its proffered 

contentions are admissible. Participants 

should be prepared to answer the 

Board’s questions concerning all factual 

and legal issues raised in the pleadings. 

While this oral argument will be open 

to the public, no witnesses, other 

representatives of the parties, or 

members of the public will be heard 

during the argument. 

It is so ordered. 

Rockville, Maryland, December 1, 2014. 

For the Atomic Safety and Licensing 

Board. 

Michael M. Gibson, 

Chairman, Administrative Judge. 

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[NRC–2012–0232] 

Probabilistic Risk Assessment and 

Severe Accident Evaluation for New 

Reactors 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Standard review plan-draft 

section revision; request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is soliciting public 

comment on the NUREG–0800, 

‘‘Standard Review Plan (SRP) for the 

Review of Safety Analysis Reports for 

Nuclear Power Plants: LWR [Light 

Water Reactor] Edition,’’ Section 19.0, 

Revision 3, ‘‘Probabilistic Risk 

Assessment and Severe Accident 

Evaluation for New Reactors.’’ The NRC 

seeks public comment on draft Section 

19.0, Revision 3, concerning deletion of 

certain considerations for the design 

certification rule, additional proposed 

acceptance criteria and review 

procedures for the NRC staff’s review of 

an applicant’s assessment of risk from 

accidents that could affect multiple 

modules in facilities with small 

modular integral pressurized water 

reactors (iPWRs), and additional 

procedures for the NRC staff’s review of 

the results of the Probabilistic Risk 

Assessment (PRA) for non-power modes 

of operation. 

DATES: Submit comments by February 6, 

2015. Comments received after this date 

will be considered, if it is practical to do 

so, but the Commission is able to ensure 

consideration only for comments 

received on or before this date. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods (unless 

this document describes a different 

method for submitting comments on a 

specific subject). 

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2012–0232. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Carol 

Gallagher; telephone: 301–287–3422; 

email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For 

technical questions, contact the 

individuals listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

document. 

• Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, 

Office of Administration, Mail Stop: 

3WFN–06–44M, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001. 

For additional direction on obtaining 

information and submitting comments, 

see ‘‘Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments’’ in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jonathan DeGange, telephone: 301–415– 

6992, email: Jonathan.DeGange@nrc.gov 

or Nishka Devaser, telephone: 301–415– 

5196, email: Nishka.Devaser@nrc.gov, 

both are staff of the Office of New 

Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555 

0001. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2012– 

0232 when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information regarding 

this document. You may obtain 

publicly-available information related to 

this document by any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2012–0232. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may access publicly 

available documents online in the NRC 

Library at http://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/adams.html. To begin the search, 

select ‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and 

then 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 SRP 

draft Section 19.0, Revision 3, Section 

Revision 2, and a redline strikeout 

detailing the specific changes from 

Revision 2 to Revision 3 are available in 

ADAMS under Accession Nos. 

ML14161A594, ML071700652, and 

ML14161A558. 

• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and 

purchase copies of public documents at 

the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

B. Submitting Comments 

Please include Docket ID NRC–2012– 

0232 in the subject line of your 

comment submission, in order to ensure 

that the NRC is able to make your 

comment submission available to the 

public in this docket. 

The NRC cautions you not to include 

identifying or contact information that 

you do not want to be publicly 

disclosed in your comment submission. 

The NRC will post all comment 

submissions at http://

www.regulations.gov as well as enter the 

comment submissions into ADAMS. 

The NRC does not routinely edit 

comment submissions to remove 

identifying or contact information. 

If you are requesting or aggregating 

comments from other persons for 

submission to the NRC, then you should 

inform those persons not to include 

identifying or contact information that 

they do not want to be publicly 

disclosed in their comment submission. 

Your request should state that the NRC 

does not routinely edit comment 

submissions to remove such information 

before making the comment 

submissions available to the public or 

entering the comment submissions into 

ADAMS. 

II. Background 

On October 9, 2012 (77 FR 61446), the 

NRC solicited public comment on a 

prior version of draft Section 19.0, 

Revision 3. However, recent preapplication interactions between NRC 

staff and potential applicants for design 

certification have highlighted the NRC’s 

expectations for information that is 

sufficiently complete and technically 

adequate to allow the NRC staff to 

conduct its detailed technical review 

and complete it within a predictable 

timeframe. For this reason, the NRC 

believes that it is important to include 

the additional guidance in Section 19.0, 

Revision 3, at this time. 

III. Further Information 

The NRC seeks public comment on 

draft Section 19.0, Revision 3. 

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Specifically, the NRC seeks public 

comment only on the following three 

specific areas of focus: (1) Deletion of 

considerations for the design 

certification rule, (2) proposed 

acceptance criteria and review 

procedures for the NRC staff’s review of 

the applicant’s assessment of risk from 

accidents that could affect multiple 

modules in facilities with small 

modular iPWRs, and (3) procedures for 

the NRC staff’s review of the results of 

the PRA for non-power modes of 

operation. This revision should clarify 

guidance related to the PRA for nonpower modes of operation and small 

modular iPWRs. 

Following the NRC staff’s evaluation 

of public comments, the NRC intends to 

finalize SRP Section 19.0, Revision 3 in 

ADAMS and post it on the NRC’s public 

Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr0800/. 

The SRP is guidance for the NRC staff. 

The SRP is not a substitute for the 

NRC’s regulations, and compliance with 

the SRP is not required. 

III. Backfitting and Issue Finality 

Issuance of this draft SRP, if finalized, 

would not constitute backfitting as 

defined in § 50.109 of Title 10 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 

(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 following 

considerations: 

1. The draft SRP positions, if 

finalized, would not constitute 

backfitting, inasmuch as the SRP is 

internal guidance to the NRC staff. 

The SRP provides internal guidance 

to the NRC staff on how to review an 

application for NRC’s regulatory 

approval in the form of licensing. 

Changes in internal staff guidance are 

not matters for which either nuclear 

power plant applicants or licensees are 

protected under either the Backfit Rule 

or the issue finality provisions of 10 

CFR part 52. 

2. The NRC staff has no intention to 

impose the SRP positions on existing 

licensees either now or in the future. 

The NRC staff does not intend to 

impose or apply the positions described 

in the draft SRP to existing licenses and 

regulatory approvals. Hence, the 

issuance of a final SRP—even if 

considered guidance within the purview 

of the issue finality provisions in 10 

CFR part 52—would not need to be 

evaluated as if it was a backfit or as 

being inconsistent with issue finality 

provisions. If, in the future, the NRC 

staff seeks to impose a position in the 

SRP on holders of already issued 

licenses in a manner that does not 

provide issue finality as described in the 

applicable issue finality provision, then 

the NRC staff must make the showing as 

set forth in the Backfit Rule or address 

the criteria for avoiding issue finality as 

described in the applicable issue finality 

provision. 

3. Backfitting and issue finality do 

not—with limited exceptions not 

applicable here—protect current or 

future applicants. 

Applicants and potential applicants 

are not, with certain exceptions, 

protected by either the Backfit Rule or 

any issue finality provisions under 10 

CFR part 52. Neither the Backfit Rule 

nor the issue finality provisions under 

10 CFR part 52, with certain exclusions, 

were intended to apply to every NRC 

action that substantially changes the 

expectations of current and future 

applicants. The exceptions to the 

general principle are applicable 

whenever an applicant references a 10 

CFR part 52 license (e.g., an early site 

permit) and/or NRC regulatory approval 

(e.g., a design certification rule) with 

specified issue finality provisions. 

The NRC staff does not, at this time, 

intend to impose the positions 

represented in the draft SRP in a 

manner that is inconsistent with any 

issue finality provisions. If, in the 

future, the NRC staff seeks to impose a 

position in the draft SRP in a manner 

that does not provide issue finality as 

described in the applicable issue finality 

provision, then the NRC staff must 

address the criteria for avoiding issue 

finality as described in the applicable 

issue finality provision. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day 

of November 2014. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Joseph Colaccino, 

Chief, New Reactor Rulemaking and 

Guidance Branch, Division of Advanced 

Reactors and Rulemaking, Office of New 

Reactors. 

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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL 

MANAGEMENT 

Submission for Review: (1) Report of 

Withholdings and Contributions for 

Health Benefits, Life Insurance and 

Retirement (Standard Form 2812); (2) 

Report of Withholdings and 

Contributions for Health Benefits By 

Enrollment Code (Standard Form 

2812–A); (3) Supplemental Semiannual 

Headcount Report (OPM Form 1523), 

3206–0262 

AGENCY: U.S. Office of Personnel 

Management. 

ACTION: 60-Day notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: Trust Funds Group of the 

Office of Chief Financial Officer, Office 

of Personnel Management (OPM), offers 

the general public and other federal 

agencies the opportunity to comment on 

changes to the existing information 

collection 3206–0262, Standard Form 

2812, Standard Form 2812–A, and OPM 

Form 1523. As required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. 

L. 104–13, 44 U.S.C. chapter 35), as 

amended by the Clinger-Cohen Act 

(Pub. L. 104–106), OPM is soliciting 

comments for this collection. 

DATES: Comments are encouraged and 

will be accepted until February 6, 2015. 

This process is conducted in accordance 

with 5 CFR 1320.1. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments on 

the proposed information collection to 

the Trust Funds Group, Room 4416, 

Office of Personnel Management, 1900 E 

Street NW., Washington, DC 20415, 

Attention: Paul Gvozdov, or sent via 

electronic mail to FundsManagementTrustFunds@opm.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A 

copy of this ICR, with applicable 

supporting documentation, may be 

obtained by contacting the Trust Funds 

Group, Room 4416, Office of Personnel 

Management, 1900 E Street NW., 

Washington, DC 20415, Attention: Paul 

Gvozdov, or sent via electronic mail to 

FundsManagement-TrustFunds@

opm.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

401 of the ‘‘Bipartisan Budget Act of 

2013,’’ signed into law by the President 

on December 26, 2013, makes another 

change to the Federal Employees’ 

Retirement System (FERS). Beginning 

January 1, 2014, new employees (as 

designated in the statute) will have to 

pay higher employee contributions, an 

increase of 1.3 percent of salary above 

the percentage set for the FERS Revised 

Annuity Employees (RAE). Section 8401 

of Title 5, United States Code, has been 

amended to add a new definition of 

FERS Further Revised Annuity 

Employees (FRAE). With one exception, 

there is no difference in the FERS basic 

benefit paid to FERS, FERS–RAE, and 

FERS–FRAE employees. (The FERS 

basic benefit for congressional 

employees and Members of Congress 

under FERS–RAE and FERS–FRAE is 

different than the basic benefit paid to 

those groups under FERS.) 

The Office of Management and Budget 

is particularly interested in comments 

that: 

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