[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 108 (Monday, June 8, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27191-27192]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-13298]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2008-0497]
NRC Enforcement Policy Revision
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of availability of revised draft supplements and request
for comments.
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SUMMARY: On September 15, 2008 (73 FR 53286), the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) published a notice of availability and request for
comments on its draft proposed revised Enforcement Policy (Enforcement
Policy). A corrected proposed revised Enforcement Policy was published
on October 16, 2008 (73 FR 61442). The public comment period for the
revised Enforcement Policy ended on November 14, 2008. The NRC is now
soliciting written comments from interested parties including public
interest groups, States, members of the public and the regulated
industry (i.e., reactor and materials licensees, vendors, and
contractors), on additional proposed revisions to Section 6.0,
Supplements-Violation Examples, of the proposed revised Enforcement
Policy. This Notice of Availability and request for comments apply only
to new proposed revisions to Section 6.0 of the proposed revised
Enforcement Policy.
DATES: Submit comments on or before July 8, 2009. Comments received
after this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the
Commission is able to assure consideration only for comments received
on or before this date.
ADDRESSES: Comments will be made available to the public in their
entirety; personal information, such as your name, address, telephone
number, e-mail address, etc. will not be removed from your submission.
You may submit comments by any one of the following methods:
Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov; search on
docket ID: NRC-2008-0497.
Mail Comments to: Michael T. Lesar, Chief, Rulemaking and
Directives Branch, Mail Stop: TWB-05-B01M, Division of Administrative
Services, Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001.
You can access publicly available documents related to this notice
using the following methods:
Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: Documents related to this notice,
including public comments, are accessible at http://www.regulations.gov, by searching on docket ID: NRC-2008-0497.
NRC's Public Document Room (PDR): The public may examine and have
copied for a fee, publicly available documents at the NRC's PDR, Public
File Area O-1F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike,
Rockville, Maryland.
NRC's Agencywide Document Access and Management System (ADAMS): The
revised draft Supplements of the proposed revised Enforcement Policy
are available electronically at the NRC's Electronic Reading Room at
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html under ADAMS Accession Number
(ML091520156). From this site, the public can gain entry into ADAMS,
which provides text and image files of the NRC's public documents. In
addition, revised draft Supplements of the proposed revised Enforcement
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Policy will be available at http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/regulatory/enforcement/public-involvement.html. If you do not have Internet access
or if there are problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS,
contact the PDR Reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737 or by
e-mail to [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doug Starkey, Office of Enforcement,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555;
[email protected], 301-415-3456.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
As discussed in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION of the September 15,
2008 document (73 FR 53286), the NRC, in developing the proposed
revised Enforcement Policy, in many instances reworded, deleted, or
moved (i.e., moved to the NRC Enforcement Manual, an NRC staff guidance
document) some of the information in the current Enforcement Policy.
(See the table at ML083050133 for a listing of subject matter in the
current Enforcement Policy which was not carried over into the proposed
revised Enforcement Policy.) For example, Section 6.0, Supplements-
Violation Examples, of the proposed revised Enforcement Policy was
significantly reorganized, reworded, and contained much less detail
than the supplements in the current Enforcement Policy. In addition,
the NRC had also planned to add detailed violation examples to the
Enforcement Manual to serve as further guidance to NRC inspectors.
However, based on public comments received in response to the September
and October 2008 publications of the proposed revised Enforcement
Policy, the NRC has reconsidered its original plan to have abbreviated
violation examples in the revised Enforcement Policy and detailed
violation examples in the Enforcement Manual. The NRC now proposes to
continue its past practice of providing violation example supplements
in the Enforcement Policy. These revised supplements are intended to
cover, in more detail than originally planned, a broad range of
circumstances in each of the four severity levels in each of 14
activity areas. It should be noted that the supplements in Section 6.0
of the proposed revised Enforcement Policy are not intended to address
every possible circumstance and are therefore neither exhaustive nor
controlling.
Because the revised violation supplements that are being proposed
for the revised Enforcement Policy have, in some instances, been
changed significantly from those previously published, the NRC is
providing an opportunity for public comments on the proposed revised
supplements.
The NRC maintains the Enforcement Policy on its Web site at http://www.nrc.gov; select Public Meetings and Involvement, Enforcement, and
then Enforcement Policy.
Procedural Requirements:
Paperwork Reduction Act
This policy statement does not contain new or amended information
collection requirements subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). Existing requirements were approved by the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB), approval number 3150-0136.
Public Protection Notification
The NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to
respond to, a request for information or an information collection
requirement unless the requesting document displays a currently valid
OMB control number.
Congressional Review Act
In accordance with the Congressional Review Act of 1996, the NRC
has determined that this action is not a major rule and has verified
this determination with the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Dated at Rockville, MD, this 1st day of June 2009.
Cynthia A. Carpenter,
Director, Office of Enforcement.
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