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No. 163 August 24, 2017 

Part XXVII 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

Semiannual Regulatory Agenda 

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40448 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 163 / Thursday, August 24, 2017 / Unified Agenda 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2017–0078] 

10 CFR Chapter I 

Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory 

and Deregulatory Actions 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Semiannual regulatory agenda. 

SUMMARY: We are publishing our 

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 

rulemaking activities on which we have 

recently completed action or have 

proposed or are considering action. We 

have completed 10 rulemaking activities 

since publication of our last Agenda on 

December 23, 2016 (81 FR 94894). This 

issuance of our Agenda contains 34 

active and 24 long-term rulemaking 

activities: 3 are Economically 

Significant; 8 represent Other 

Significant agency priorities; 45 are 

Substantive, Nonsignificant rulemaking 

activities; and 2 are Administrative 

rulemaking activities. In addition, 3 

rulemaking activities impact small 

entities. We are requesting comment on 

the rulemaking activities as identified in 

this Agenda. 

DATES: Submit comments on rulemaking 

activities as identified in this Agenda by 

September 25, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments on any 

rulemaking activity in the Agenda by 

the date and methods specified in any 

Federal Register notice on the 

rulemaking activity. Comments received 

on rulemaking activities 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 Federal Register notice. 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–2017–0078. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Carol 

Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; 

email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For 

technical questions on any rulemaking 

activity listed in the Agenda, contact the 

individual listed under the heading 

‘‘Agency Contact’’ for that rulemaking 

activity. 

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: 

301–415–3280; 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 rulemaking activity listed 

in the Agenda, contact the individual 

listed under the heading ‘‘Agency 

Contact’’ for that rulemaking activity. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Obtaining Information and Submitting 

Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2017– 

0078 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: 

• Reginfo.gov: 

Æ For completed rulemaking 

activities go to http://www.reginfo.gov/

public/do/eAgendaHistory?showStage=

completed, select ‘‘spring 2017 Unified 

Agenda of Federal Regulatory and 

Deregulatory Actions’’ from drop down 

menu, and select ‘‘Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission’’ from drop down menu. 

Æ For active rulemaking activities go 

to http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/

eAgendaMain and select ‘‘Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission’’ from drop 

down menu. 

Æ For long-term rulemaking activities 

go to http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

eAgendaMain, select ‘‘Current Long 

Term Actions’’ link, and select ‘‘Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission’’ from drop 

down menu. 

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2017–0078. 

• 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–2017– 

0078 in your comment submission. 

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 the 

Agencywide Documents Access and 

Management System (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 into ADAMS. 

Introduction 

The Agenda is a compilation of all 

rulemaking activities on which an 

agency has recently completed action or 

has proposed or is considering action. 

The Agenda reports rulemaking 

activities in three major categories: 

Completed, active, and long-term. 

Completed rulemaking activities are 

those that were completed since 

publication of an agency’s last Agenda; 

active rulemaking activities are those 

that an agency currently plans to have 

an Advance Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking, a Proposed Rule, or a Final 

Rule issued within the next 12 months; 

and long-term rulemaking activities are 

rulemaking activities under 

development but for which an agency 

does not expect to have a regulatory 

action within the 12 months after 

publication of the current edition of the 

Unified Agenda. 

We assign a ‘‘Regulation Identifier 

Number’’ (RIN) to a rulemaking activity 

when our Commission initiates a 

rulemaking and approves a rulemaking 

plan, or when the NRC staff begins work 

on a Commission delegated rulemaking 

that does not require a rulemaking plan. 

The Office of Management and Budget 

uses this number to track all relevant 

documents throughout the entire 

‘‘lifecycle’’ of a particular rulemaking 

activity. We report all rulemaking 

activities in the Agenda that have been 

assigned a RIN and meet the definition 

for a completed, an active, or a longterm rulemaking activity. 

The information contained in this 

Agenda is updated to reflect any action 

that has occurred on a rulemaking 

activity since publication of our last 

Agenda on December 23, 2016 (81 FR 

94894). Specifically, the information in 

this Agenda has been updated through 

March 31, 2017. The NRC provides 

additional information on planned 

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rulemaking and petition for rulemaking 

activities, including priority and 

schedule, on our Web site at https://

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

rulemaking/rules-petitions.html#cprlist. 

The date for the next scheduled action 

under the heading ‘‘Timetable’’ is the 

date the next regulatory action for the 

rulemaking activity 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 our rulemaking process. 

However, we may consider or act on any 

rulemaking activity even though it is not 

included in the 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. We undertake these reviews to 

decide whether the rules should be 

unchanged, amended, or withdrawn. At 

this time, we do not have any rules that 

have a significant economic impact on 

a substantial number of small entities; 

therefore, we have not included any 

RFA Section 610 periodic reviews in 

this edition of the Agenda. A complete 

listing of our regulations that impact 

small entities and related Small Entity 

Compliance Guides are 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 31st day 

of March 2017. 

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. 

377 .................................................................... Revision of Fee Schedules: Fee Recovery for FY 2018 [NRC–2017–0026] .. 3150–AJ95 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION—FINAL RULE STAGE

Sequence No. Title Regulation 

Identifier No. 

378 .................................................................... Revision of Fee Schedules; Fee Recovery for FY 2017 [NRC–2016–0081] .. 3150–AJ73 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION—LONG-TERM ACTIONS

Sequence No. Title Regulation 

Identifier No. 

379 .................................................................... Revision of Fee Schedules: Fee Recovery for FY 2019 [NRC–2017–0032] .. 3150–AJ99 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION (NRC) 

Proposed Rule Stage 

377. • Revision of Fee Schedules: Fee 

Recovery for FY 2018 [NRC–2017–0026] 

Legal Authority: 31 U.S.C. 483; 42 

U.S.C. 2201; 42 U.S.C. 2214; 42 U.S.C. 

5841 

Abstract: This rule would implement 

the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act 

of 1990 (OBRA–90), as amended, which 

requires the Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission to recover approximately 

90 percent of its budget authority in a 

given fiscal year, less the amounts 

appropriated from the Waste Incidental 

to Reprocessing, generic homeland 

security activities, and Inspector 

General services for the Defense Nuclear 

Facilities Safety Board, through fees 

assessed to licensees. This rulemaking 

would amend the Commission’s fee 

schedules for licensing, inspection, and 

annual fees charged to its applicants 

and licensees. The licensing and 

inspection fees are established under 10 

CFR part 170 and recover the Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission’s cost of 

providing services to identifiable 

applicants and licensees. Examples of 

services provided by the Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission for which 10 

CFR part 170 fees are assessed include 

license application reviews, license 

renewals, license amendment reviews, 

and inspections. The annual fees 

established under 10 CFR part 171 

recover budgeted costs for generic (e.g., 

research and rulemaking) and other 

regulatory activities not recovered under 

10 CFR part 170 fees. 

Timetable: 

Action Date FR Cite 

NPRM .................. 01/00/18 

Final Rule ............ 05/00/18 

Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 

Required: Yes. 

Agency Contact: Michele D. Kaplan, 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office 

of the Chief Financial Officer, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, Phone: 

301 415–5256, Email: michele.kaplan@

nrc.gov. 

RIN: 3150–AJ95 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION (NRC) 

Final Rule Stage 

378. Revision of Fee Schedules; Fee 

Recovery for FY 2017 [NRC–2016–0081] 

Legal Authority: 31 U.S.C. 483; 42 

U.S.C. 2201; 42 U.S.C. 2214; 42 U.S.C. 

5841 

Abstract: This rule would implement 

the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act 

of 1990 (OBRA–90), as amended, which 

requires the Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission to recover approximately 

90 percent of its budget authority in a 

given fiscal year, less the amounts 

appropriated from the Waste Incidental 

to Reprocessing and generic homeland 

security activities, through fees assessed 

to licensees. This rulemaking would 

amend the Commission’s fee schedules 

for licensing, inspection, and annual 

fees charged to its applicants and 

licensees. The licensing and inspection 

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fees are established under 10 CFR part 

170 and recover the Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission’s cost of providing services 

to identifiable applicants and licensees. 

Examples of services provided by the 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission for 

which 10 CFR part 170 fees are assessed 

include license application reviews, 

license renewals, license amendment 

reviews, and inspections. The annual 

fees established under 10 CFR part 171 

recover budgeted costs for generic (e.g., 

research and rulemaking) and other 

regulatory activities not recovered under 

10 CFR part 170 fees. 

Timetable: 

Action Date FR Cite 

NPRM .................. 01/30/17 82 FR 8696 

NPRM Comment 

Period End.

03/01/17 

Final Rule ............ 06/00/17 

Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 

Required: Yes. 

Agency Contact: Michele D. Kaplan, 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office 

of the Chief Financial Officer, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, Phone: 

301 415–5256, Email: michele.kaplan@

nrc.gov. 

RIN: 3150–AJ73 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION (NRC) 

Long-Term Actions 

379. • Revision of Fee Schedules: Fee 

Recovery for FY 2019 [NRC–2017–0032] 

Legal Authority: 31 U.S.C. 483; 42 

U.S.C. 2201; 42 U.S.C. 2214; 42 U.S.C. 

5841 

Abstract: This rule would implement 

the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act 

of 1990 (OBRA–90), as amended, which 

requires the Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission to recover approximately 

90 percent of its budget authority in a 

given fiscal year, less the amounts 

appropriated from the Waste Incidental 

to Reprocessing, generic homeland 

security activities, and Inspector 

General services for the Defense Nuclear 

Facilities Safety Board, through fees 

assessed to licensees. This rulemaking 

would amend the Commission’s fee 

schedules for licensing, inspection, and 

annual fees charged to its applicants 

and licensees. The licensing and 

inspection fees are established under 10 

CFR part 170 and recover the Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission’s cost of 

providing services to identifiable 

applicants and licensees. Examples of 

services provided by the Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission for which 10 

CFR part 170 fees are assessed include 

license application reviews, license 

renewals, license amendment reviews, 

and inspections. The annual fees 

established under 10 CFR part 171 

recover budgeted costs for generic (e.g., 

research and rulemaking) and other 

regulatory activities not recovered under 

10 CFR part 170 fees. 

Timetable: 

Action Date FR Cite 

NPRM .................. 01/00/19 

Final Rule ............ 05/00/19 

Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 

Required: Yes. 

Agency Contact: Michele D. Kaplan, 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office 

of the Chief Financial Officer, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, Phone: 

301 415–5256, Email: michele.kaplan@

nrc.gov. 

RIN: 3150–AJ99 

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