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Proposed Rules
Federal Register Vol. 86, No. 181
Wednesday, September 22, 2021

This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER
contains notices to the public of the proposed issuance of rules and regulations. The purpose of these notices is to give interested persons an opportunity to participate in the rule making prior to the adoption of the final rules.

NUCLEAR REGULATORY
COMMISSION
10 CFR Part 52
NRC20200269
RIN 3150AK56

Extending the Duration of the AP1000
Design Certification Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Proposed rule and environmental assessment.
AGENCY:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission NRC is proposing to amend its regulations to update the design to reflect changes provided by Westinghouse Electric Company LLC
and to extend the duration of the AP1000 design certification for an additional 5 years. The NRC invites public comment on this proposed rule and environmental assessment.
DATES: Submit comments by October 22, 2021. 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.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods unless this document describes a different method for submitting comments on a specific subject:
Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC20200269. Address questions about NRC dockets to Dawn Forder; telephone: 3014153407;
email: Dawn.Forder@nrc.gov. For technical questions contact the individuals 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 3014151677.
For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting comments, see Obtaining Information and SUMMARY:

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Submitting Comments in the section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Daniel Doyle, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, telephone: 301
4153748, email: Daniel.Doyle@nrc.gov, or Bruce Bavol, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301
4156715, email: Bruce.Bavol@nrc.gov.
Both are staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 205550001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

Table of Contents I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments II. Rulemaking Procedure III. Background IV. Plain Writing V. Environmental Assessment and Final Finding of No Significant Impact VI. Paperwork Reduction Act VII. Voluntary Consensus Standards VIII. Availability of Documents
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments A. Obtaining Information Please refer to Docket ID NRC2020
0269 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 NRC20200269.
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 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 Public Document Room, where you may examine and order copies of public documents, is currently closed. You may submit your request via email at PDR.Resource@
nrc.gov or call 18003974209 between
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8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Attention: The Technical Library, which is located at Two White Flint North, 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, is open by appointment only. Interested parties may make appointments to examine documents by contacting the NRC
Technical Library by email at Library.Resource@nrc.gov between 8:00
a.m. and 4:00 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
B. Submitting Comments The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the Federal rulemaking website https
www.regulations.gov. Please include Docket ID NRC20200269 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 https
www.regulations.gov as well as enter 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 into ADAMS.
II. Rulemaking Procedure Because the NRC anticipates that this action will be non-controversial, the NRC is publishing this proposed rule concurrently with a direct final rule in the Rules and Regulations section of this issue of the Federal Register. The direct final rule will become effective on December 6, 2021. However, if the NRC
receives significant adverse comments on this proposed rule or environmental assessment by October 22, 2021, then the NRC will publish a document that withdraws the direct final rule and will subsequently address the comments received in any final rule as a response to this proposed rule. Absent significant
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