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Proposed Rules
Federal Register Vol. 86, No. 124
Thursday, July 1, 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
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10 CFR Part 52
NRC20170029
RIN 3150AJ98

NuScale Small Modular Reactor Design Certification U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission NRC is proposing to amend its regulations to certify the NuScale standard design for a small modular reactor. Applicants or licensees intending to construct and operate a NuScale standard design may do so by referencing this design certification rule.
The applicant for certification of the NuScale standard design is NuScale Power, LLC. The public is invited to submit comments on this proposed rule.
DATES: Submit comments by August 30, 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 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; however, the NRC
encourages electronic comment submission through the Federal Rulemaking website:
Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC20170029. 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 SUMMARY:

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confirming receipt, then contact us at 3014151677.
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:
Yanely Malave, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, telephone: 3014151519, email:
Yanely.Malave@nrc.gov, and Prosanta Chowdhury, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, telephone: 3014151647, email: Prosanta.Chowdhury@nrc.gov.
Both are staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 205550001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments II. Background III. Regulatory and Policy Issues IV. Technical Issues Associated With the NuScale Design V. Discussion A. Introduction Section I
B. Definitions Section II
C. Scope and Contents Section III
D. Additional Requirements and Restrictions Section IV
E. Applicable Regulations Section V
F. Issue Resolution Section VI
G. Duration of This Appendix Section VII
H. Processes for Changes and Departures Section VIII
I. Reserved Section IX
J. Records and Reporting Section X
VI. Section-by-Section Analysis VII. Regulatory Flexibility Certification VIII. Regulatory Analysis IX. Backfitting and Issue Finality X. Plain Writing XI. Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact XII. Paperwork Reduction Act XIII. Agreement State Compatibility XIV. Voluntary Consensus Standards XV. Availability of Documents XVI. Procedures for Access to Proprietary and Safeguards Information for Preparation of Comments on the NuScale Design Certification Proposed Rule XVII. Incorporation by Reference Reasonable Availability to Interested Parties
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments A. Obtaining Information Please refer to Docket ID NRC2017
0029 when contacting the NRC about
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the availability of information for this proposed rule. You may obtain publicly available information related to this proposed rule by any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC20170029.
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. The ADAMS
accession number for each document referenced in this proposed rule if that document is available in ADAMS is provided the first time that it is mentioned in this document. In addition, for the convenience of the reader, instructions about obtaining materials referenced in this document are provided in Section XV, Availability of Documents, of this document.
Attention: The Public Document Room 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 by calling 18003974209 between 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 NRC20170029 in your comment submission.
The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact information that you do not want to be publicly
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