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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 153 / Thursday, August 12, 2021 / Proposed Rules
from June 9 to June 8 of the following year.

Erin Morris, Associate Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service.
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY
COMMISSION
10 CFR Part 50
Docket No. PRM50116; NRC20180201

Elimination of Immediate Notification Requirements for Nonemergency Events Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Petition for rulemaking;
consideration in the rulemaking process.
AGENCY:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission NRC will consider in its rulemaking process issues raised in a petition for rulemaking PRM, dated August 2, 2018, submitted by Mr. Bill Pitesa on behalf of the Nuclear Energy Institute. The petition was docketed by the NRC on November 20, 2018, and assigned Docket No. PRM50116. The petitioner requested that the NRC
amend its regulations to eliminate immediate notification requirements for nonemergency events for operating nuclear power reactors. The NRC will evaluate the current requirements and guidance for immediate notification of nonemergency events for operating nuclear power reactors, assess whether the requirements present an unnecessary reporting burden, and if they do, determine whether reporting can be reduced or eliminated that does not have a commensurate safety benefit.
DATES: The docket for the petition for rulemaking, PRM50116, is closed on August 12, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID
NRC20180201 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain publicly available information related to this action by any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC20180201 or the future rulemaking Docket ID NRC
20200036. Address questions about NRC dockets to Dawn Forder;
telephone: 3014153407; email:
Dawn.Forder@nrc.gov. For technical
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questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section of this document.
NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System ADAMS: You may obtain publicly available documents online in the ADAMS Public Documents collection at https www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
adams.html. To begin the search, select Begin Web-Based ADAMS Search. For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRCs Public Document Room PDR
reference staff at 18003974209, at 3014154737, or by email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. For the convenience of the reader, instructions about obtaining materials referenced in this document are provided in the Availability of Documents section.
Attention: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies of public documents, is currently closed. You may submit your request to the PDR via email at pdr.resource@nrc.gov or call 18003974209 between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Daniel Doyle, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 205550001; telephone: 301415
3748, email: Daniel.Doyle@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Table of Contents I. The Petition II. Public Comments on the Petition III. Reasons for Consideration IV. Availability of Documents V. Conclusion
I. The Petition Section 2.802 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations 10 CFR, Petition for rulemakingrequirements for filing, provides an opportunity for any person to petition the Commission to issue, amend, or rescind any regulation. The NRC received and docketed a PRM dated August 2, 2018, filed by Mr. Bill Pitesa on behalf of the Nuclear Energy Institute NEI. The NRC
assigned this PRM the docket number of PRM50116. On November 20, 2018
83 FR 58509, the NRC published a notice of docketing and request for comment on PRM50116 in the Federal Register. The petitioner requests that the NRC revise its regulations in 10 CFR 50.72, Immediate notification requirements for operating nuclear power reactors, to remove the current requirement for licensees to immediately report nonemergency events that occur at operating nuclear power reactors. The petitioner states that licensees currently
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have procedures for responding to nonemergency events and ensuring that NRC resident inspectors are notified of nonemergency events independent of the requirements in 50.72. The petitioner did not request removal of 50.72 in its entirety, only the nonemergency notification requirements in 50.72b. The petitioner believes that duplicative notifications under 50.72 serve no safety function and are not needed to prevent or minimize possible injury to the public or to allow the NRC to take necessary action.
The petitioner suggests that in lieu of the currently required notifications, the NRC should establish guidance for the resident inspectors that provides consistent and standard expectations for using the existing communication protocols that the petitioner claims have proven to be effective for communicating from the site to the resident inspectors and, from there, to NRC management.
II. Public Comments on the Petition On November 20, 2018, the NRC
requested comments from the public on the petition and posed five specific questions to gain a better understanding of the scope and basis for the issues raised by the petitioner. The comment period ended on February 4, 2019, and the NRC received 16 public comments.
Eleven comments from NEI and nuclear power reactor licensees supported the petition, one comment from two private citizens partially supported the petition, two comments from a private citizen and a nongovernmental organization opposed the petition, and two comments from private citizens were out of scope. The following is a summary of the comments organized by the specific questions in the notice of docketing.
In the first question, the NRC
requested feedback on how stakeholders review and use the information contained in nonemergency event notifications, and how they would be affected if all nonemergency event notifications were eliminated. Two private citizens stated that they do not regularly review notifications on the NRCs website, but the information may be beneficial to maintain for public review. The same commenters supported the removal of redundancies in communication and suggested that the NRC maintain only those 50.72
requirements that do not have a corresponding 50.73, Licensee event report system report so the public is kept informed.
Several industry commenters also responded to this question. While their comments varied regarding the level of
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