Nonsubstantive change request for Appendix E administrative reporting

Nonsubstantive Change Request

to

Information Collections in 10 CFR Part 50

Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities (3150-0011)

as a result of

Miscellaneous Changes Final Rule (80 FR 74974)

The NRC is seeking a nonsubstantive change to information collections in 10 CFR Part 50, “Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities” as a result of a miscellaneous changes final rule. The final rule removes the requirement on nuclear power plant licensees to submit any changes to their emergency plans or procedures to the Commission, as specified in § 50.4, within 30 days. Changes to an emergency plan, however, must still be reported to the NRC or requested in a license amendment application as required in 10 CFR 50.54(q). With regard to changes to procedures that are required to be submitted under appendix E, section V only, and not under 10 CFR 50.54(q), the NRC has found that these changes consist of administrative information that is inconsequential to the NRC's licensing or regulatory oversight activities (such as address changes and phone number changes). Even after the effective date of this rule, these changes to procedures will remain subject to NRC inspection. Thus, the change to appendix E, section V will reduce the regulatory burden on the licensee and the administrative burden on the NRC staff without impacting the NRC's oversight and inspection of nuclear power plant licensees.

Appendix E to 10 CFR Part 50—Emergency Planning and Preparedness for Production and Utilization Facilities—was amended as follows:

Appendix E, V. Implementing Procedures

No less than 180 days before the scheduled issuance of an operating license for a nuclear power reactor or a license to possess nuclear material, or the scheduled date for initial loading of fuel for a combined license under part 52 of this chapter, the applicant's or licensee's detailed implementing procedures for its emergency plan shall be submitted to the Commission as specified in §50.4. Licensees who are authorized to operate a nuclear power facility shall submit any changes to the emergency plan or procedures to the Commission, as specified in §50.4, within 30 days of such changes.

 

This change results in a burden reduction of 50 hours of reporting burden for 70 respondents, or 3,500 hours of reporting burden.