[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 26 (Monday, February 9, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7036-7037]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-02571]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2014-0256]
Aquatic Environmental Studies for Nuclear Power Stations
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft regulatory guide; request for comment and extension of
comment period.
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SUMMARY: On December 11, 2014, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC) solicited comments on draft regulatory guide (DG), DG-4023,
``Aquatic Environmental Studies for Nuclear Power Stations.'' The
public
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comment period was originally scheduled to close on February 9, 2015.
The NRC has decided to extend the public comment period to allow more
time for members of the public to develop and submit their comments.
DATES: The due date of comments requested in the document published on
December 11, 2014 (79 FR 73646) is extended. Comments should be filed
no later than March 11, 2015. Comments received after this date will be
considered, if it is practical to do so, but the Commission is able to
ensure consideration only for comments received on or before this date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comment by any of the following methods
(unless this document describes a different method for submitting
comments on a specific subject):
Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2014-0256. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-
3422; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individual(s) listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section
of this document.
Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration,
Mail Stop: OWFN-12 H08, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001.
For additional direction on accessing information and submitting
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ryan Whited, Office of New Reactors,
telephone: 301-415-1154, email: [email protected] and Edward
O'Donnell, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, telephone: 301-251-
7455, email: [email protected]. Both are staff of the U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2014-0256 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may
obtain publicly-available information related to this action by the
following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2014-0256.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available 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 [email protected]. The
DG is electronically available in ADAMS under Accession No.
ML13186A085.
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-2014-0256 in the subject line of your
comment submission, in order to ensure that the NRC is able to make
your comment submission available to the public in this docket.
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 as well as entering 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 submissions into ADAMS.
II. Discussion
On December 11, 2014, the NRC solicited comments on draft
regulatory guide, DG-4023, ``Aquatic Environmental Studies for Nuclear
Power Stations.'' It is a proposed new regulatory guide, and it is
temporarily identified by its task number, DG-4023. The draft guide
provides technical guidance for aquatic environmental studies and
analyses supporting decisions related to nuclear power stations by the
NRC. For purposes of DG-4023, the term ``aquatic'' encompasses
freshwater, estuarine, and marine environments. The draft guide
addresses wetlands containing submerged aquatic vegetation but does not
address wetlands also containing emergent vegetation. Instead, NRC's
Regulatory Guide 4.11, ``Terrestrial Environmental Studies for Nuclear
Power Stations,'' addresses such wetland features, along with the
terrestrial environment. Although the NRC is issuing separate
regulatory guides addressing terrestrial and aquatic environmental
studies, it recognizes that aquatic and terrestrial ecological issues
often overlap and are often interrelated.
The public comment period was originally scheduled to close on
February 9, 2015. The NRC has decided to extend the public comment
period on this document until March 11, 2015, to allow more time for
members of the public to submit their comments.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 4th day of February, 2015.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Thomas H. Boyce,
Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Generic Issues Branch, Division of
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2015-02571 Filed 2-6-15; 8:45 am]
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