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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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For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Michael Junge, 

Chief, Operator Licensing and Human 

Performance Branch, Division of Construction 

Inspection and Operational Programs, Office 

of New Reactors. 

[FR Doc. 2014–30769 Filed 12–31–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2013–0041] 

Revision to Seismic Design 

Parameters 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Standard review plan-final 

section revision; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing a final 

revision to the following section in 

Chapter 3 of NUREG–0800, ‘‘Standard 

Review Plan for the Review of Safety 

Analysis Reports for Nuclear Power 

Plants: LWR Edition,’’ Section 3.7.1, 

‘‘Seismic Design Parameters.’’ 

DATES: The effective date of this 

Standard Review Plan (SRP) update is 

February 2, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2013–0041 when contacting the 

NRC about the availability of 

information regarding this document. 

You may access 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–2013–0041. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Carol 

Gallagher; telephone: 301–287–3422; 

email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For 

technical questions, contact the 

individual(s) listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

document. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may access publicly 

available documents online in the NRC 

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 

notice (if that document is available in 

ADAMS) is provided the first time that 

a document is referenced. The final 

revision for Standard Review Plan (SRP) 

Section 3.7.1, ‘‘Seismic Design 

Parameters,’’ is available under ADAMS 

Accession No. ML14198A460. A redline 

strikeout comparing the proposed 

revision to the final revision can be 

found in ADAMS under Accession No. 

ML14198A466. The responses to public 

comments can be found in ADAMS 

under Accession No. ML14198A462. 

• 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. 

• The NRC posts its issued staff 

guidance on the NRC’s external Web 

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

doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr0800/. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jonathan DeGange, Office of New 

Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001; telephone: 301–415–6992, email: 

Jonathan.DeGange@nrc.gov or Nishka 

Devaser, telephone: 301–415–5196, 

email: NishkaDevaser@nrc.gov, Office of 

New Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555 

0001. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

On March 1, 2013 (78 FR 13911), the 

NRC published for public comment the 

proposed revision to this section of the 

SRP. The staff made changes to the 

proposed revision after consideration of 

comments received. A summary of the 

comments and the staff’s disposition of 

the comments are available in a separate 

document, ‘‘Response to Public 

Comments on Draft SRP Section 3.7.1’’ 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML14198A462). 

The changes to this SRP section 

reflect current staff’s review methods 

and practices based on lessons learned 

from NRC reviews of design certification 

and combined license applications 

completed since the last revision of this 

chapter. Changes include: (1) 

Enhancements to guidance to the staff 

for evaluating the acceptability of 

seismic, civil, structural design, and 

analysis issues, (2) updates to review 

interfaces to improve the efficiency and 

consistency of staff reviews and (3) 

updates to references covered in the 

section. 

The revised section has incorporated 

staff dispositions of all public comments 

received on the proposed revision. The 

most salient changes in response to the 

public comments are the rewrite of 

Appendix B to SRP Section 3.7.1. The 

new Appendix B provides further 

enhancement of the guidance on 

developing power spectral density 

functions associated with ground 

motion artificial time histories. No new 

SRP acceptance criteria were added as 

a result of this rewrite of Appendix B. 

II. Backfitting and Issue Finality 

Issuance of this final SRP section does 

not constitute backfitting as defined in 

§ 50.109 of Title 10 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations (10 CFR) (the 

Backfit Rule) and is not otherwise 

inconsistent with the issue finality 

provisions in 10 CFR part 52. The staff’s 

position is based upon the following 

considerations: 

1. The SRP positions do not constitute 

backfitting, inasmuch as the SRP is 

internal guidance directed at the NRC 

staff with respect to their regulatory 

responsibilities. 

The SRP provides guidance to the 

staff on how to review an application for 

NRC 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 current 

licensees and regulatory approvals 

either now or in the future. 

The staff does not intend to impose or 

apply the positions described in the SRP 

to existing (already issued) licenses and 

regulatory approvals. Hence, the 

issuance of a final SRP—even if 

considered guidance which is within 

the purview of the issue finality 

provisions in 10 CFR part 52—need not 

be evaluated as if it were a backfit or as 

being inconsistent with issue finality 

provisions. If, in the future, the staff 

seeks to impose a position in the SRP on 

holders of already issued holders of 

licenses SRP in a manner which does 

not provide issue finality as described 

in the applicable issue finality 

provision, then the staff must make the 

showing as set forth in the Backfit Rule 

or address the criteria for avoiding issue 

finality as described 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. This is because neither the 

Backfit Rule nor the issue finality 

provisions under 10 CFR part 52—with 

certain exclusions discussed below— 

were intended to apply to every NRC 

action which substantially changes the 

expectations of current and future 

applicants. 


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