76856 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 245 / Monday, December 22, 2014 / Unified Agenda 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2014–0039] 

10 CFR Chapter I 

Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory 

and Deregulatory Actions 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Semiannual regulatory agenda. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is publishing its 

semiannual regulatory agenda (the 

Agenda) in accordance with Public Law 

96–354, ‘‘The Regulatory Flexibility 

Act,’’ and Executive Order 12866, 

‘‘Regulatory Planning and Review.’’ The 

Agenda is a compilation of all rules on 

which the NRC has recently completed 

action or has proposed or is considering 

action. This issuance of the NRC’s 

Agenda contains 60 rulemaking 

activities: 3 are Economically 

Significant; 11 represent Other 

Significant agency priorities; 45 are 

Substantive, Nonsignificant rulemaking 

activities; and one is an Administrative 

rulemaking activity. This issuance 

updates any action occurring on rules 

since publication of the last semiannual 

regulatory agenda on June 13, 2014 (79 

FR 34204). The NRC is requesting 

comment on its rulemaking activities as 

identified in this Agenda. The complete 

Agenda will be available online at 

www.reginfo.gov, in a format that offers 

users enhanced ability to obtain 

information from the Agenda database. 

DATES: Submit comments on this agenda 

by January 21, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments on any 

rule in the Agenda by the date and 

methods specified in the proposed rule 

notice. Comments received on rules for 

which the comment period has closed 

will be considered if it is practical to do 

so, but assurance of consideration 

cannot be given except as to comments 

received on or before the closure dates 

specified in the proposed rule. You may 

submit comments on this Agenda 

through the Federal Rulemaking Web 

site by going to http://

www.regulations.gov and searching for 

Docket ID NRC–2014–0039. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Carol 

Gallagher; telephone: 301–287–3422; 

email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For 

technical questions on any rule listed in 

the Agenda, contact the individual 

listed under the heading ‘‘Agency 

Contact’’ for that rule. 

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: 

Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, telephone: 

301–287–0949; email: Cindy.Bladey@

nrc.gov. Persons outside the 

Washington, DC, metropolitan area may 

call, toll-free: 1–800–368–5642. For 

further information on the substantive 

content of any rule listed in the Agenda, 

contact the individual listed under the 

heading ‘‘Agency Contact’’ for that rule. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Obtaining Information and Submitting 

Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2014– 

0039 when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information for this 

document. You may obtain publicallyavailable 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–2014–0039. 

• NRC’s Public Web site: Go to http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/rulemaking-ruleforum/

unified-agenda.html and select fall 

2014. 

• NRC’s Public Document Room: 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–2014– 

0039 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 in 

comment submissions 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, 

and 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 into ADAMS. 

Introduction 

The information contained in this 

semiannual publication is updated to 

reflect any action that has occurred on 

rules since publication of the last NRC 

Agenda on June 13, 2014 (79 FR 34204). 

Within each group, the rules are ordered 

according to the Regulation Identifier 

Number (RIN). 

The information in this Agenda has 

been updated through September 18, 

2014. The date for the next scheduled 

action under the heading ‘‘Timetable’’ is 

the date the rule is scheduled to be 

published in the Federal Register. The 

date is considered tentative and is not 

binding on the Commission or its staff. 

The Agenda is intended to provide the 

public early notice and opportunity to 

participate in the NRC rulemaking 

process. However, the NRC may 

consider or act on any rulemaking even 

though it is not included in the Agenda. 

The NRC Agenda lists all open 

rulemaking actions. Three rules impact 

small entities. 

Common Prioritization of Rulemaking 

The NRC has a process for developing 

rulemaking budget estimates and 

determining the relative priorities of 

rulemaking projects during budget 

formulation. This process produces a 

‘‘Common Prioritization of Rulemaking’’ 

(CPR). The NRC adds new rules and 

evaluates rule priorities annually. The 

CPR process considers four factors and 

assigns a score to each factor. Those 

factors include (1) support for the NRC’s 

Strategic Plan goals; (2) support for the 

Strategic Plan organizational excellence 

objectives; (3) a governmental factor 

representing interest to the NRC, 

Congress, or other governmental bodies; 

and (4) an external factor representing 

interest to members of the public, nongovernmental organizations, the nuclear 

industry, vendors, and suppliers. 

The NRC’s fall Agenda contains its 

annual regulatory plan, which includes 

a statement of the major rules that the 

Commission expects to publish in the 

coming fiscal year (FY) and a 

description of the other significant 

regulatory priorities from the CPR that 

the Commission expects to work on 

during the coming FY and beyond. 

The NRC has received comments from 

the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) with 

several recommendations for improving 

the NRC’s rulemaking prioritization 

process and assessing the cumulative 

impact of rulemaking activities on each 

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regulated community. The NRC is 

considering these comments and will 

respond in a future Agenda. 

Section 610 Periodic Reviews Under 

the Regulatory Flexibility Act 

Section 610 of the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act (RFA) requires agencies 

to conduct a review within 10 years of 

promulgation of those regulations that 

have or will have a significant economic 

impact on a substantial number of small 

entities. The NRC undertakes these 

reviews to decide whether the rules 

should be unchanged, amended, or 

withdrawn. At this time, the NRC does 

not have any rules that have a 

significant economic impact on a 

substantial number of small entities; 

therefore, the NRC has not included any 

RFA Section 610 periodic reviews in 

this edition of the Agenda. A complete 

listing of NRC regulations that impact 

small entities and related Small Entity 

Compliance Guides will be available 

from the NRC’s Web site at http://

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

rulemaking/flexibility-act/smallentities.html. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day 

of September 2014. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Cindy Bladey, 

Chief, Rules, Announcements, and Directives 

Branch, Division of Administrative Services, 

Office of Administration. 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION—PROPOSED RULE STAGE

Sequence No. Title 

Regulation 

Identifier 

No. 

553 .................... Revision of Fee Schedules: Fee Recovery for FY 2015 [NRC–2014–0200] (Reg Plan Seq No. 159) ......... 3150–AJ44 

References in boldface appear in The Regulatory Plan in part II of this issue of the Federal Register. 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION—LONG-TERM ACTIONS

Sequence No. Title 

Regulation 

Identifier 

No. 

554 .................... Controlling the Disposition of Solid Materials [NRC–1999–0002] ................................................................... 3150–AH18 

555 .................... Variable Annual Fee Structure for Small Modular Power Reactors [NRC–2008–0664] ................................. 3150–AI54 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION—COMPLETED ACTIONS

Sequence No. Title 

Regulation 

Identifier 

No. 

556 .................... Revision of Fee Schedules: Fee Recovery for FY 2014 [NRC–2013–0276] .................................................. 3150–AJ32 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION (NRC) 

Proposed Rule Stage 

553. • Revision of Fee Schedules: Fee 

Recovery for FY 2015 [NRC–2014–0200] 

Regulatory Plan: This entry is Seq. 

No. 159 in part II of this issue of the 

Federal Register. 

RIN: 3150–AJ44 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION (NRC) 

Long-Term Actions 

554. Controlling the Disposition of Solid 

Materials [NRC–1999–0002] 

Legal Authority: 42 U.S.C. 2201; 42 

U.S.C. 5841 

Abstract: The NRC staff provided a 

draft proposed rule package on 

Controlling the Disposition of Solid 

Materials to the Commission on March 

31, 2005, which the Commission 

disapproved (ADAMS Accession 

Number: ML051520285). The 

rulemaking package included a 

summary of stakeholder comments 

(NUREG/CR–6682), Supplement 1 

(ADAMS Accession Number: 

ML003754410). The Commission’s 

decision was based on the fact that the 

Agency is currently faced with several 

high priority and complex tasks, that the 

current approach to review specific 

cases on an individual basis is fully 

protective of public health and safety, 

and that the immediate need for this 

rule has changed due to the shift in 

timing for reactor decommissioning. 

The Commission has deferred action on 

this rulemaking. 

Timetable: 

Action Date FR Cite 

ANPRM ............... To Be Determined 

Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 

Required: Yes. 

Agency Contact: Solomon Sahle, 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office 

of Federal and State Materials and 

Environmental Management Programs, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, Phone: 

301 415–3781, Email: solomon.sahle@

nrc.gov. 

RIN: 3150–AH18 

555. Variable Annual Fee Structure for 

Small Modular Power Reactors [NRC– 

2008–0664] 

Legal Authority: 42 U.S.C. 2201; 42 

U.S.C. 5841 

Abstract: The advanced notice of 

proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) was 

published in the Federal Register on 

March 25, 2009 (74 FR 12735), seeking 

comments from the public on a possible 

variable fee structure for part 171 

annual fees for power reactors based on 

licensed power limits. The comment 

period ended on June 8, 2009, and the 

NRC received 16 public comments. The 

Commission approved the staff’s 

recommendation to establish an NRC 

workgroup to analyze suggested 

methodologies for a variable annual fee 

structure for power reactors in SECY– 

09–0137 dated October 13, 2009. On 

February 7, 2011, the Office of the Chief 

Financial Officer (OCFO) sent a 

memorandum to the Commission 

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(ADAMS Accession No. ML110380251) 

responding to SECY–09–0137. 

Timetable: 

Action Date FR Cite 

ANPRM ............... 03/25/09 74 FR 12735 

ANPRM Comment 

Period End.

06/08/09 

NPRM .................. 11/00/15 

Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 

Required: Yes. 

Agency Contact: Arlette P. Howard, 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office 

of the Chief Financial Officer, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, Phone: 

301 415–1481, Email: arlette.howard@

nrc.gov. 

RIN: 3150–AI54 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION (NRC) 

Completed Actions 

556. Revision of Fee Schedules: Fee 

Recovery for FY 2014 [NRC–2013–0276] 

Legal Authority: 42 U.S.C. 2201; 42 

U.S.C. 5841 

Abstract: The final rule amends the 

Commission’s licensing, inspection, and 

annual fees charged to its applicants 

and licensees. These amendments 

implement the Omnibus Budget 

Reconciliation Act of 1990 (OBRA–90) 

as amended, which requires that the 

NRC recover approximately 90 percent 

of its budget authority in Fiscal Year 

(FY) 2014, less the amounts 

appropriated from the Waste Incidental 

to Reprocessing, and generic homeland 

security activities. 

Completed: 

Reason Date FR Cite 

NPRM .................. 04/14/14 79 FR 21036 

Final Rule ............ 06/30/14 79 FR 37124 

Final Rule Effective.08/29/14 

Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 

Required: Yes. 

Agency Contact: Arlette P. Howard, 

Phone: 301 415–1481, Email: 

arlette.howard@nrc.gov. 

RIN: 3150–AJ32 

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