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security issues, which are matters 

separate from the technical 

requirements to operate a facility 

covered by backfitting and issue finality 

provisions. The security guidance in 

this regulatory guide would be the same 

for all entities to whom this draft 

regulatory guide applies; it does not 

distinguish between nuclear power 

plant licensees and certain fuel cycle 

facilities under part 70 (who are 

protected by backfitting and issue 

resolution provisions), and the other 

entities to whom this regulatory guide 

applies. Thus, the security-related 

guidance in the draft regulatory guide 

should not be viewed as falling within 

the scope of matters within the purview 

of backfitting and issue finality. 

The DG, if finalized, could be applied 

to applications for 10 CFR part 50 

operating licenses; 10 CFR part 52, 

subpart B, C, E, or F approvals; or 

licenses issued under part 70. Such 

action would not constitute backfitting 

as defined in 10 CFR 50.109 or 10 CFR 

70.76 or be otherwise inconsistent with 

the applicable issue finality provision in 

10 CFR part 52, inasmuch as such 

applicants are not within the scope of 

entities protected by 10 CFR 50.109, 10 

CFR 70.76, or the relevant issue finality 

provisions in 10 CFR part 52. 

Backfitting restrictions were not 

intended to apply to every NRC action 

that substantially changes settled 

expectations, and applicants have no 

reasonable expectation that future 

requirements may change, see 54 FR 

15372 (April 18, 1989), at 15385–86. 

Although the issue finality provisions in 

part 52 are intended to provide 

regulatory stability and issue finality, 

the matters addressed in this regulatory 

guide (concerning certain security 

requirements in part 73) are not within 

the scope of issues that may be resolved 

for design certification, design approval 

or a manufacturing license, and 

therefore are not subject to issue finality 

protections in part 52. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 23rd day 

of December, 2014. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Harriet Karagiannis, 

Acting Chief, Regulatory Guidance and 

Generic Issues Branch, Division of 

Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory 

Research. 

[FR Doc. 2014–30738 Filed 12–31–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. 50–454 and 50–455; NRC– 

2013–0178] 

License Renewal Application for Byron 

Station Units 1 and 2 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Draft supplemental generic 

environmental impact statement, 

issuance, public meetings, request for 

comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing for public 

comment a draft plant-specific 

Supplement 54 to the Generic 

Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) 

for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants, 

NUREG–1437, regarding the renewal of 

operating license NPF–37 and NPF–66 

for an additional 20 years of operation 

for Byron Station, Units 1 and 2 (Byron). 

Byron is located in Byron, Illinois. 

Possible alternatives to the proposed 

action (license renewal) include no 

action and reasonable alternative energy 

sources. The NRC staff plans to hold 

two public meetings during the public 

comment period to present an overview 

of the draft plant-specific supplement to 

the GEIS and to accept public comments 

on the document. 

DATES: Submit comments by February 

20, 2015. Comments received after this 

date will be considered, if it is practical 

to do so, but the NRC staff 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–2013–0178. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Carol 

Gallagher; telephone: 301–287–3422; 

email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For 

technical questions, contact the 

individual listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

document. 

• Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, 

Office of Administration, Mail Stop: 

3WFN–06–A44M, 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: Lois 

James, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation, telephone: 301–415–3306, 

email to Lois.James@nrc.gov; 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–2013– 

0178 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–2013–0178. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may access publicly 

available documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

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

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 

ADAMS accession number for each 

document referenced in this document 

(if that document is available in 

ADAMS) is provided the first time that 

a document is referenced. The draft 

plant-specific Supplement 54 to the 

GEIS for License Renewal of Nuclear 

Plants, NUREG–1437, is available in 

ADAMS under Accession No. 

ML14357A042. 

• 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–2013– 

0178 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 

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If you are requesting or aggregating 

comments from other persons for 

submission to the NRC, 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. 

II. Discussion 

The NRC is issuing for public 

comment a draft plant-specific 

Supplement 54 to the GEIS for License 

Renewal of Nuclear Plants, NUREG– 

1437, regarding the renewal of operating 

license NPF–37 AND NPF–66 for an 

additional 20 years of operation for 

Byron. Supplement 54 to the GEIS 

includes the preliminary analysis that 

evaluates the environmental impacts of 

the proposed action and alternatives to 

the proposed action. The NRC’s 

preliminary recommendation is that the 

adverse environmental impacts of 

license renewal for Byron are not great 

enough to deny the option of license 

renewal for energy-planning 

decisionmakers. 

III. Public Meetings 

The NRC staff will hold public 

meetings prior to the close of the public 

comment period to present an overview 

of the draft plant-specific supplement to 

the GEIS and to accept public comment 

on the document. Two meetings will be 

held at the Byron Forrest Preserve, 7993 

North River Road, Byron, Illinois 61010, 

on Tuesday, February 3, 2015. The first 

session will convene at 2 p.m. and will 

continue until 4 p.m., as necessary. The 

second session will convene at 7 p.m. 

and will continue until 9 p.m., as 

necessary. The meetings will be 

transcribed and will include: (1) A 

presentation of the contents of the draft 

plant-specific supplement to the GEIS; 

and (2) the opportunity for interested 

government agencies, organizations, and 

individuals to provide comments on the 

draft report. Additionally, the NRC staff 

will host informal discussions one hour 

prior to the start of each session at the 

same location. No comments on the 

draft supplement to the GEIS will be 

accepted during the informal 

discussions. To be considered in the 

final supplement to the GEIS, comments 

must be provided either at the 

transcribed public meeting or submitted 

in writing by the comment deadline 

identified above. Persons may preregister to attend or present oral 

comments at the meeting by contacting 

Mr. Lois James, the NRC project 

manager, at 1–800–368–5642, extension 

3306, or by email at Lois.James@nrc.gov 

no later than Tuesday, January 20, 2015. 

Members of the public may also register 

to provide oral comments within 15 

minutes of the start of each session. 

Individual oral comments may be 

limited by the time available, depending 

on the number of persons who register. 

If special equipment or accommodations 

are needed to attend or present 

information at the public meeting, the 

need should be brought to Ms. James’ 

attention no later than Tuesday, January 

20, 2015, to provide the NRC staff 

adequate notice to determine whether 

the request can be accommodated. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 23 day 

of December, 2014. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Elaine Keegan, 

Acting Chief, Projects Branch 2, Division of 

License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation. 

[FR Doc. 2014–30756 Filed 12–31–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2013–0227] 

Operator Licensing Examination 

Standards for Power Reactors 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: NUREG; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing NUREG– 

1021, Revision 10, ‘‘Operator Licensing 

Examination Standards for Power 

Reactors, Final Report.’’ This NUREG 

provides policy and guidance for the 

development, administration, and 

grading of examinations used for 

licensing operators at nuclear power 

plants pursuant to the Commission’s 

regulations. 

DATES: Revision 10 of NUREG–1021 is 

available January 2, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2013–0227 when contacting the 

NRC about the availability of 

information regarding this document. 

You may obtain publicly-available 

information related to this document 

using any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2013–0227. 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. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

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

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. Revision 

10 of NUREG–1021 is available in 

ADAMS under Accession No. 

ML14352A297. Draft NUREG–1021, 

Revision 10 is available in ADAMS 

under Accession No. ML13325A090. 

• 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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

James Kellum, Office of New Reactors, 

telephone: 301–415–5305, email: 

Jim.Kellum@nrc.gov; or Timothy Kolb, 

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, 

telephone: 301–415–1428, email: 

Timothy.Kolb@nrc.gov; U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Revision 

10 of NUREG–1021 provides policy and 

guidance for the development, 

administration, and grading of 

examinations used for licensing 

operators at nuclear power plants 

pursuant to the Commission’s 

regulations in Part 55 of Title 10 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations, ‘‘Operator 

Licenses.’’ This NUREG also provides 

guidance for maintaining operators’ 

licenses, and for the NRC to conduct 

requalification examinations when 

necessary. 

Revision 10 of NUREG–1021 replaces 

Revision 9, Supplement 1, of NUREG– 

1021. Draft NUREG–1021, Revision 10, 

was published in the Federal Register 

for public comment on December 9, 

2013 (78 FR 73898). The NRC received 

90 public comments from private 

citizens and industry organizations. The 

comments were generally in agreement 

with the draft revisions to the NUREG. 

Revision 10 of NUREG–1021 

incorporates the comments received on 

draft NUREG–1021, Revision 10. The 

NRC staff’s evaluation and resolution of 

the public comments are documented in 

ADAMS under Accession No. 

ML14345A266. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd 

day of December, 2014. 


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