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collection are covered in § 4.331 of title 

10 of the Code of Federal Regulations 

(10 CFR) Compliance Reviews, which 

indicates that the NRC may conduct 

compliance reviews and Pre-Award 

reviews of recipients or use other 

similar procedures that will permit it to 

investigate and correct violations of the 

act and these regulations. The NRC may 

conduct these reviews even in absence 

of a complaint against a recipient. The 

reviews may be as comprehensive as 

necessary to determine whether a 

violation of these regulations has 

occurred. 

6. Who will be required or asked to 

respond: Recipients of Federal Financial 

Assistance provided by the NRC 

(including Educational Institutions, 

Other Nonprofit Organizations receiving 

Federal Assistance, and Agreement 

States). 

7. The estimated number of annual 

responses: 600. 

8. The estimated number of annual 

respondents: 200. 

9. An estimate of the total number of 

hours needed annually to comply with 

the information collection requirement 

or request: 3,600 (3,000 hrs. for 

reporting (5 hrs. per respondent) and 

600 hrs. for recordkeeping (3 hrs. per 

record keeper). 

10. Abstract: The regulations under 10 

CFR part 4 implement the provisions of 

the Title VI of the Civil Rights of 1964, 

Public Law 88–352; (78 Stat. 241; 42 

U.S.C. 2000a note), Title IV of the 

Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, 

Public Law 93–438, (88 stat. 1233; 42 

U.S.C. 580 note), which relate to 

nondiscrimination with respect to race, 

color, national origin or sex in any 

program or activity receiving Federal 

Financial assistance from NRC; Section 

504 or the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as 

amended, Public Law 93–112 (87 Stat. 

355; 29 U.S.C. 701 note), Public Law 

95–602 (92 Stat. 2955; 29 U.S.C. 701 

note, which relates to 

nondiscrimination with respect to 

disability in any program or activity 

receiving Federal financial assistance; 

and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, 

as amended, Public Law 94–135 (89 

Stat. 713; 42 U.S.C. 3001 note), Public 

Law 95–478 (92 Stat. 1513; 42 U.S.C. 

3001 note), which relates to 

nondiscrimination on the basis of age in 

any program or activity receiving 

Federal financial assistance. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 12th day 

of October 2017. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

David Cullison, 

NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22448 Filed 10–16–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2011–0012] 

RIN 3150–AI92 

Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Regulatory analysis; request for 

comment and public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is requesting 

comment on the draft regulatory 

analysis, ‘‘Draft Regulatory Analysis for 

Final Rule: Low-Level Radioactive 

Waste Disposal,’’ and seeking specific 

cost and benefit information to better 

inform the updated draft regulatory 

analysis. 

DATES: Submit comments by November 

16, 2017. Comments received after this 

date will be considered if it is practical 

to do so, but the NRC is able to assure 

consideration only for comments 

received on or before this date. 

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–2011–0012. 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. 

• Email comments to: 

Rulemaking.Comments@nrc.gov. If you 

do not receive an automatic email reply 

confirming receipt, then contact us at 

301–415–1677. 

• Fax comments to: Secretary, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission at 301– 

415–1101. 

• Mail comments to: Secretary, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, ATTN: 

Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff. 

• Hand deliver comments to: 11555 

Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 

20852, between 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. 

(Eastern Time) Federal workdays; 

telephone: 301–415–1677. 

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: 

Gregory Trussell, Office of Nuclear 

Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

301–415–6445; email: Gregory.Trussell@

nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2011– 

0012 when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information for this 

action. You may obtain publiclyavailable 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–2011–0012. 

• 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. The 

ADAMS Accession Number for each 

document referenced (if it is available in 

ADAMS) is provided the first time that 

it is mentioned in the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section. 

• 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–2011– 

0012 in your 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 and 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 


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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. Background 

The NRC’s licensing requirements for 

the disposal of commercial low-level 

radioactive waste (LLRW) in nearsurface disposal facilities can be found 

in part 61 of title 10 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations (10 CFR), 

‘‘Licensing Requirements for Land 

Disposal of Radioactive Waste.’’ The 

NRC originally adopted 10 CFR part 61 

on December 27, 1982 (47 FR 57446). 

The existing LLRW disposal facilities 

are located in and licensed by 

Agreement States, and those Agreement 

States have incorporated many of the 

requirements in 10 CFR part 61 into 

their corresponding regulations and as 

license conditions for their licensees. 

On March 26, 2015, the NRC 

published a proposed rule, ‘‘Low-level 

Radioactive Waste Disposal,’’ for an 

initial 120-day comment period in the 

Federal Register (80 FR 16082). The 

2015 proposed rule would have 

implemented changes to require new 

and revised site specific technical 

analyses and other requirements that 

would have permitted the development 

of site-specific waste acceptance criteria 

(WAC) based on the results of these 

analyses. In the 2015 proposed rule, the 

NRC explained that the changes would 

better align the requirements with 

current health and safety standards (i.e., 

10 CFR part 20) and identify any 

additional measures that would be 

prudent to implement for continued 

disposal of radioactive LLRW at a 

particular land disposal facility. In 

summary, the 2015 proposed rule would 

have specified requirements for: 

• Technical analyses for 

demonstrating compliance with the 

public dose limits; 

• Technical analyses for 

demonstrating compliance with dose 

limits for protection of inadvertent 

intruders; 

• Identification and description of 

defense-in-depth protections that, taken 

together with the technical analyses, 

constitute the safety case; 

• Development of site-specific WAC; 

and 

• Implementation of current 

dosimetry in the technical analyses. 

As a result of the comments received 

on the proposed rule, the NRC staff 

drafted a final rule package for 

Commission review, ‘‘SECY–16–0106, 

FINAL RULE: Low-Level Radioactive 

Waste Disposal (10 CFR part 61) (RIN 

3150–AI92),’’ dated September 15, 2016. 

The draft final rule package is available 

for review under ADAMS Accession No. 

ML16188A290 and includes a draft 

Federal Register notice (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML16188A371) and a 

draft final regulatory analysis (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML16189A050). 

In response to SECY–16–0106, the 

Commission issued a staff requirements 

memorandum (SRM), SRM–SECY–16– 

0106 (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML17251B147), dated September 8, 

2017, which directed the NRC staff to 

publish a supplemental proposed rule 

for public comment that is revised to 

include Commission-directed rule 

changes. The Commission directed 

changes that are pertinent to this public 

comment request are stated in table 1. 

TABLE 1—RULE CHANGES

Draft final rule SRM direction 

Compliance period of: 

• 1,000 years or 

• 10,000 years (if significant quantities of long-lived radionuclides are 

present) 

Compliance period of 1,000 years, independent of radionuclide content. 

New requirements applicable to all currently operating and future 

LLRW disposal facilities.

• New requirements applicable to all future LLRW disposal facilities. 

• The regulator may use a case-by-case basis (i.e., ‘‘grandfather provision’’) for applying new requirements to only those sites that plan to 

accept large quantities of depleted uranium for disposal. 

III. Discussion 

In addition to specified rule language 

changes, the Commission, in SRM– 

SECY–16–0106, also directed the NRC 

staff to ‘‘be informed by broader and 

more fully integrated, but reasonably 

foreseeable costs and benefits to the U.S. 

waste disposal system resulting from the 

proposed rule changes, including passthrough costs to waste generators and 

processors.’’ To support development of 

the new supplemental proposed rule as 

directed by the Commission in SRM– 

SECY–16–0106, the NRC staff is seeking 

comment on how to improve the 

approach/methodology and actual cost 

data currently used in the draft final 

rule regulatory analysis to provide more 

accurate cost and benefit data in the 

final regulatory analysis. In particular, 

the NRC is seeking information on any 

cost changes that should be 

incorporated into the regulatory analysis 

in light of the Commission’s changes to 

the draft final rule identified in table 1. 

All comments provided will be 

considered in improving the regulatory 

analysis to ensure that it is sufficiently 

informed by broader and more fully 

integrated, but reasonably foreseeable, 

costs and benefits to the U.S. waste 

disposal system; however, the NRC staff 

does not plan to provide responses to 

these comments. In addition, the NRC 

staff is requesting that comments be 

limited to focus on the regulatory 

analysis itself—the NRC plans to issue 

a separate notice and comment period 

on the changes being proposed in the 

supplemental proposed rule in 2018. At 

that time, members of the public will 

also be provided another opportunity to 

provide comments on the revised 

regulatory analysis, which will be 

updated based on comments from this 

action. 

During the comment period for this 

action, the NRC will conduct a public 

meeting at the NRC’s Headquarters that 

will explain the cost and benefit 

information it is seeking in this notice 

and to address questions. Information 

regarding the public meeting is posted 

on the NRC’s public meeting Web site. 

The NRC’s public meeting Web site is 

located at https://www.nrc.gov/publicinvolve.html. 

The NRC has also posted the meeting 

notice on the Federal rulemaking Web 

site at http://www.regulations.gov under 

Docket ID NRC–2011–0012. The NRC 

will post additional materials related to 

this document, including any public 

comments received, on the Federal 

rulemaking Web site. The Federal 

rulemaking Web site allows you to 

receive alerts when changes or additions 

occur in a docket folder. To subscribe: 

(1) Navigate to the docket folder (NRC– 


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1Notice of Market Dominant Price Adjustment, 

October 6, 2017, at 3 (Notice). 

2See Notice of the United States Postal Service 

of Filing USPS–LR–R2018–1/NP1, October 6, 2017. 

3Library Reference USPS–LR–R2018–1/6, 

October 6, 2017, Preface at 1. 

4Library Reference USPS–LR–R2018–1/7, 

October 6, 2017, Preface at 1. 

2011–0012); (2) click the ‘‘Sign up for 

Email Alerts’’ link; and (3) enter your 

email address and select how frequently 

you would like to receive emails (daily, 

weekly, or monthly). 

IV. Requested Information and 

Comments 

This section provides specific 

questions associated with the draft 

regulatory analysis (ADAMS Accession 

No. ML16189A050). These questions 

will also be discussed at the public 

meeting. The NRC staff will consider the 

responses to these questions as it revises 

the regulatory analysis. 

Question 1: Is the NRC considering 

appropriate alternatives for the 

regulatory action described in the draft 

regulatory analysis? 

Question 2: Are there additional 

factors that the NRC should consider in 

the regulatory action? What are these 

factors? 

Question 3: Is there additional 

information concerning regulatory 

impacts that the NRC should include in 

its regulatory analysis for this 

rulemaking? 

Question 4: Are all costs and benefits 

properly addressed to determine the 

economic impact of the rulemaking 

alternatives? What cost differences 

would be expected from moving from 

the discussed 1,000 year and 10,000 

year compliance periods to a single 

1,000 year compliance period? Are there 

any unintended consequences of 

making this revision? 

Question 5: Are there any costs that 

should be assigned to those sites not 

planning to accept large quantities of 

depleted uranium for disposal in the 

future? 

Question 6: Is NRC’s assumption that 

only two existing LLRW sites (i.e., 

EnergySolutions’ Clive Utah disposal 

facility and Waste Control Specialists’ 

Texas disposal facility) plan to accept 

large quantities of depleted uranium for 

disposal in the future reasonable? 

Question 7: What additional costs or 

cost savings, not already considered in 

the draft regulatory analysis, will the 

supplemental proposed rulemaking or 

alternatives cause to society, industry, 

and government? What are the potential 

transfer (‘‘pass-through’’) costs to the 

waste generators and processors? 

V. Availability of Documents 

The documents identified in the 

following table are available to 

interested persons through one or more 

of the following methods, as indicated. 

Document 

ADAMS 

Accession No./ 

Federal 

Register 

Citation 

December 27, 1982 10 CFR part 

61 Statement of Considerations .. 47 FR 57446 

March 26, 2015, 10 CFR part 61 

proposed rule ............................... 80 FR 16081 

SECY–16–0106, FINAL RULE: 

Low-Level Radioactive Waste 

Disposal (10 CFR part 61) (RIN 

3150–AI92) .................................. ML16188A290 

SECY–16–0106 draft Federal Register notice .................................. ML16188A371 

SECY–16–0106 draft regulatory 

analysis ........................................ ML16189A050 

SRM–SECY–0106 ........................... ML17251B147 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 12th day 

of October 2017. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Daniel S. Collins, 

Director, Division of Material Safety, State, 

Tribal and Rulemaking Programs, Office of 

Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22459 Filed 10–16–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION 

[Docket No. R2018–1; Order No. 4153] 

Market Dominant Price Adjustment 

AGENCY: Postal Regulatory Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Commission is noticing a 

recently-filed Postal Service notice of 

inflation-based rate adjustments 

affecting market dominant domestic and 

international products and services, 

along with numerous proposed 

classification changes. The adjustments 

and other changes are scheduled to take 

effect January 21, 2018. This notice 

informs the public of the filing, invites 

public comment, and takes other 

administrative steps. 

DATES: Comments are due: October 26, 

2017. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments 

electronically via the Commission’s 

Filing Online system at http://

www.prc.gov. Those who cannot submit 

comments electronically should contact 

the person identified in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section by 

telephone for advice on filing 

alternatives. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David A. Trissell, General Counsel, at 

202–789–6820. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Table of Contents 

I. Introduction and Overview 

II. Initial Administrative Actions 

III. Ordering Paragraphs 

I. Introduction and Overview 

On October 6, 2017, the Postal Service 

filed a notice of inflation-based rate 

adjustments affecting market dominant 

domestic and international products 

and services, along with related product 

description changes to the Mail 

Classification Schedule (MCS).1 The 

intended effective date is January 21, 

2018. Notice at 2. 

Contents of filing. The Postal Service’s 

filing consists of the Notice, which the 

Postal Service represents addresses the 

data and information required under 39 

CFR 3010.12; four attachments 

(Attachments A–D) to the Notice; and 

eight sets of workpapers filed as library 

references. 

Attachment A presents the proposed 

price and related product description 

changes to the MCS. Id. Attachment A. 

Attachments B and C address workshare 

discounts and related information and 

the price cap calculation. Notice, 

Attachments B and C, respectively. 

Attachment D is a copy of Governors’ 

Resolution No. 16–18. Notice, 

Attachment D. 

Several library references present 

supporting financial documentation for 

the five classes of mail and for FirstClass Mail International. Notice at 6 n.9. 

The First-Class Mail International 

library reference was filed under seal.2

Library Reference USPS–LR–R2018–1/6 

documents modifications to the cost 

avoidance models for USPS Marketing 

Mail and Periodicals.3 The Postal 

Service states that these modifications 

reflect the elimination of Flats 

Sequencing System (FSS)-specific 

pricing in Docket No. R2017–1 and the 

proposed Domestic Mail Manual (DMM) 

changes related to 5-Digit pallets. Id. 

Library Reference USPS–LR–R2018–1/7 

provides census data and volumes 

related to the Move Update assessment 

charge.4

Planned price adjustments. The Postal 

Service’s planned percentage changes 

by class are, on average, as follows: 

Market dominant class 

Planned price 

adjustment 

(%) 

First-Class Mail ..................... 1.905 

USPS Marketing Mail ........... 1.908 

Periodicals ............................ 1.924 

Package Services ................. 1.960 

Special Services ................... 1.986 


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