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Plan on the National Science 

Foundation homepage at the following 

link: https://www.nsf.gov/publications/ 

pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf17133. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions regarding the service contract 

inventory should be directed to Richard 

Pihl in the BFA/DACS at 703–292–7395 

or rpihl@nsf.gov. 

Dated: October 11, 2017. 

Suzanne Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22300 Filed 10–13–17; 8:45 am] 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2017–0205] 

Instructions for Recording and 

Reporting Occupational Radiation 

Dose Data 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Draft regulatory guide; request 

for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing for public 

comment draft regulatory guide (DG), 

DG–8056, ‘‘Instructions for Recording 

and Reporting Occupational Radiation 

Dose Data.’’ This DG is a proposed 

Revision 4 to Regulatory Guide (RG) 8.7 

of the same name. The DG addresses 

issues that were identified after 

Revision 3 was issued in December 

2016. The DG reinstates the longstanding staff position concerning a 

licensee’s consideration of prior 

occupational dose when making 

prospective occupational dose 

monitoring determinations. The DG 

retains the guidance from Revision 3 on 

completing NRC Form 4, ‘‘Cumulative 

Occupational Dose History,’’ and NRC 

Form 5, ‘‘Occupational Dose Record for 

a Monitoring Period.’’ 

DATES: Submit comments by December 

15, 2017. Comments received after this 

date will be considered if it is practical 

to do so, but the NRC is able to ensure 

consideration only for comments 

received on or before this date. 

Although a time limit is given, 

comments and suggestions in 

connection with items for inclusion in 

guides currently being developed or 

improvements in all published guides 

are encouraged at any time. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2017–0205. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Carol 

Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; 

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: May Ma, Office 

of Administration, Mail Stop: OWFN–2– 

A13, 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: 

Terry Brock, telephone: 301–415–1793; 

email: Terry.Brock@nrc.gov or Harriet 

Karagiannis, telephone: 301–415–2493; 

email: Harriet.Karagiannis@nrc.gov. 

Both are staff of the Office of Nuclear 

Regulatory Research, 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–2017– 

0205 when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information regarding 

this action. You may obtain publicallyavailable information related to this 

action, by any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2017–0205. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may obtain 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 (if it is available in 

ADAMS) is provided the first time that 

it is mentioned in this document. DG– 

8056 is electronically available in 

ADAMS under Accession No. 

ML17144A182. 

• 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–2017– 

0205 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 posts all comment 

submissions at http://

www.regulations.gov as well as enters 

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. Additional Information 

The NRC is issuing for public 

comment a DG in the NRC’s ‘‘Regulatory 

Guide’’ series. This series was 

developed to describe and make 

available to the public information 

regarding methods that are acceptable to 

the NRC staff for implementing specific 

parts of the NRC’s regulations, 

techniques that the staff uses in 

evaluating specific issues or postulated 

events, and data that the staff needs in 

its review of applications for permits 

and licenses. 

The NRC staff is issuing DG–8056 for 

public comment to address issues 

identified by the NRC staff and other 

stakeholders subsequent to the issuance 

of RG 8.7, Revision 3 in December 2016. 

Revision 3 was issued as a draft (with 

a temporary identification of DG–8030) 

for public comment on August 28, 2015 

(80 FR 52345) under ADAMS Accession 

No. ML15169A218. The public 

comment period for Revision 3 closed 

on October 27, 2015. The NRC received 

one set of comments from an industry 

association. Those comments and the 

NRC staff’s responses are available 

under ADAMS Accession No. 

ML16060A392. The NRC issued 

Revision 3 in its final form on December 

8, 2016 (81 FR 88710). The final version 

of Revision 3, however, modified a staff 

position regarding the consideration of 

prior occupational dose, and whether 

that should be a factor in licensee 

occupational monitoring determinations 

in accordance with 10 CFR 20.1502. 


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After issuing Revision 3, the Nuclear 

Energy Institute (NEI) submitted a letter 

to NRC stating that Revision 3 requires 

licensees to consider exposures received 

by employees during prior employment 

at a different facility when determining 

whether monitoring is required 

pursuant to section 10 CFR 20.1502, 

which was a change in agency position 

from: (1) The staff position that was in 

both Revisions 1 and 2 of Regulatory 

Guide 8.7, (2) the staff position that is 

in Regulatory Guide 8.34, and (3) over 

two decades of industry practice 

developed in accordance with these 

staff positions. 

In response, the NRC staff reassessed 

the requirements in 10 CFR part 20 and 

concluded that another revision to RG 

8.7 was warranted. This revision 

contains essentially the staff position as 

set forth in Revisions 1 and 2 of RG 8.7. 

However, the staff is not rescinding 

Revision 3 because it allows a more 

conservative option for those licensees 

who want to consider prior 

occupational dose when making 10 CFR 

20.1502 determinations. DG–8056 

retains clarifying changes made in 

Revision 3. 

III. Use of NRC Forms 4 and 5 

DG–8056 references NRC Form 4, 

‘‘Cumulative Occupational Dose History 

(04–2015),’’ or its electronic equivalent, 

which is available for use by NRC 

licensees to record an individual’s 

cumulative occupational dose history. 

DG–8056 also references NRC Form 5, 

‘‘Occupational Dose Record for a 

Monitoring Period (04–2015),’’ or its 

electronic equivalent, which is available 

for use by NRC licensees to record the 

occupational dose for any monitoring 

period beginning on or after January 1, 

2016. As noted in the December 8, 2016 

Federal Register notice for Revision 3, 

all NRC licensees should have begun 

using the updated NRC Form 5, 

‘‘Occupational Dose Record for a 

Monitoring Period (04–2015),’’ or its 

equivalent, for any monitoring period 

beginning on or after January 1, 2017. 

Both forms are available online through 

the NRC Library on the NRC’s public 

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

IV. Backfitting 

This DG addresses compliance with 

the NRC’s requirements in 10 CFR part 

20 to record and report an individual’s 

cumulative occupational dose history 

and the occupational dose received by 

an individual for a specific monitoring 

period. The NRC regards these 

requirements as constituting 

information collection and reporting 

requirements. The NRC has long taken 

the position that information collection 

and reporting requirements are not 

subject to the NRC’s backfitting and 

issue finality regulations in 10 CFR 

50.109, 10 CFR 70.76, 10 CFR 72.62, 10 

CFR 76.76, and 10 CFR part 52 (e.g., 

‘‘Material Control and Accounting 

Methods,’’ December 23, 2002 (67 FR 

78130); and ‘‘Regulatory Improvements 

to the Nuclear Materials Management 

and Safeguards System,’’ June 9, 2008 

(73 FR 32453)). Therefore, the NRC has 

determined that its backfitting and issue 

finality regulations would not apply to 

this DG, if ultimately issued as a RG, 

because the DG does not include any 

provisions within the scope of matters 

covered by the backfitting provisions in 

10 CFR parts 50, 70, 72, or 76, or the 

issue finality provisions of 10 CFR part 

52. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 10th day 

of October 2017. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Thomas H. Boyce, 

Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Generic 

Issues Branch, Division of Engineering, Office 

of Nuclear Regulatory Research. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22289 Filed 10–13–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

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[NRC–2017–0204] 

Performance Review Boards for Senior 

Executive Service 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Appointments. 

SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) has announced 

appointments to the NRC Performance 

Review Board (PRB) responsible for 

making recommendations on 

performance appraisal ratings and 

performance awards for NRC Senior 

Executives and Senior Level System 

employees and appointments to the 

NRC PRB Panel responsible for making 

recommendations to the appointing and 

awarding authorities for NRC PRB 

members. 

DATES: October 16, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2017–0204 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–2017–0204. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Carol 

Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; 

email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For 

technical questions, contact the 

individual 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. 

• 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: 

Miriam L. Cohen, Secretary, Executive 

Resources Board, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–287– 

0747, email: Miriam.Cohen@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

following individuals appointed as 

members of the NRC PRB are 

responsible for making 

recommendations to the appointing and 

awarding authorities on performance 

appraisal ratings and performance 

awards for Senior Executives and Senior 

Level System employees: 

Victor M. McCree, Executive Director 

for Operations 

Margaret M. Doane, General Counsel 

Frederick D. Brown, Deputy Executive 

Director for Materials, Waste, 

Research, State, Tribal, Compliance, 

Administration, and Human Capital 

Programs, Office of the Executive 

Director for Operations 

Catherine Haney, Regional 

Administrator, Region II 

Kimberly A. Howell, Director, Office of 

Investigations 

Michael R. Johnson, Deputy Executive 

Director for Reactor and Preparedness 

Programs, Office of the Executive 

Director for Operations 

David J. Nelson, Chief Information 

Officer 

Marc L. Dapas, Director, Office of 

Nuclear Material Safety and 

Safeguards 

Michael F. Weber, Director, Office of 

Nuclear Regulatory Research 

Brian E. Holian, Acting Director, Office 

of Nuclear Reactor Regulation 

Maureen E. Wylie, Chief Financial 

Officer 


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