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Information about applying for a
digital ID certificate is available on the
NRC’s public website at https://
www.nrc.gov/site-help/e-submittals/
getting-started.html. Once a participant
has obtained a digital ID certificate and
a docket has been created, the
participant can then submit
adjudicatory documents. Submissions
must be in Portable Document Format
(PDF). Additional guidance on PDF
submissions is available on the NRC’s
public website at https://www.nrc.gov/
site-help/electronic-sub-ref-mat.html. A
filing is considered complete at the time
the document is submitted through the
NRC’s E-Filing system. To be timely, an
electronic filing must be submitted to
the E-Filing system no later than 11:59
p.m. Eastern Time on the due date.
Upon receipt of a transmission, the EFiling system time-stamps the document
and sends the submitter an email notice
confirming receipt of the document. The
E-Filing system also distributes an email
notice that provides access to the
document to the NRC’s Office of the
General Counsel and any others who
have advised the Office of the Secretary
that they wish to participate in the
proceeding, so that the filer need not
serve the document on those
participants separately. Therefore,
applicants and other participants (or
their counsel or representative) must
apply for and receive a digital ID
certificate before adjudicatory
documents are filed so that they can
obtain access to the documents via the
E-Filing system.
A person filing electronically using
the NRC’s adjudicatory E-Filing system
may seek assistance by contacting the
NRC’s Electronic Filing Help Desk
through the ‘‘Contact Us’’ link located
on the NRC’s public website at https://
www.nrc.gov/site-help/esubmittals.html, by email to
[email protected], or by a tollfree call at 1–866–672–7640. The NRC
Electronic Filing Help Desk is available
between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., Eastern
Time, Monday through Friday,
excluding government holidays.
Participants who believe that they
have a good cause for not submitting
documents electronically must file an
exemption request, in accordance with
10 CFR 2.302(g), with their initial paper
filing stating why there is good cause for
not filing electronically and requesting
authorization to continue to submit
documents in paper format. Such filings
must be submitted by (1) first class mail
addressed to the Office of the Secretary
of the Commission, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001, Attention: Rulemaking
and Adjudications Staff; or (2) courier,

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express mail, or expedited delivery
service to the Office of the Secretary,
11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville,
Maryland 20852, Attention: Rulemaking
and Adjudications Staff. Participants
filing adjudicatory documents in this
manner are responsible for serving the
document on all other participants.
Filing is considered complete by firstclass mail as of the time of deposit in
the mail, or by courier, express mail, or
expedited delivery service upon
depositing the document with the
provider of the service. A presiding
officer, having granted an exemption
request from using E-Filing, may require
a participant or party to use E-Filing if
the presiding officer subsequently
determines that the reason for granting
the exemption from use of E-Filing no
longer exists.
Documents submitted in adjudicatory
proceedings will appear in the NRC’s
electronic hearing docket which is
available to the public at https://
adams.nrc.gov/ehd, unless excluded
pursuant to an order of the Commission
or the presiding officer. If you do not
have an NRC-issued digital ID certificate
as described above, click ‘‘cancel’’ when
the link requests certificates and you
will be automatically directed to the
NRC’s electronic hearing dockets where
you will be able to access any publicly
available documents in a particular
hearing docket. Participants are
requested not to include personal
privacy information, such as social
security numbers, home addresses, or
personal phone numbers in their filings,
unless an NRC regulation or other law
requires submission of such
information. For example, in some
instances, individuals provide home
addresses in order to demonstrate
proximity to a facility or site. With
respect to copyrighted works, except for
limited excerpts that serve the purpose
of the adjudicatory filings and would
constitute a Fair Use application,
participants are requested not to include
copyrighted materials in their
submission.
The Commission will issue a notice or
order granting or denying a hearing
request or intervention petition,
designating the issues for any hearing
that will be held and designating the
Presiding Officer. A notice granting a
hearing will be published in the Federal
Register and served on the parties to the
hearing.
If a person (other than AFRRI)
requests a hearing, that person shall set
forth with particularity the manner in
which his interest is adversely affected
by this Confirmatory Order and shall
address the criteria set forth in 10 CFR
2.309(d) and (f).

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If a hearing is requested by a person
whose interest is adversely affected, the
Commission will issue an order
designating the time and place of any
hearings. If a hearing is held, the issue
to be considered at such hearing shall be
whether this Confirmatory Order should
be sustained.
In the absence of any request for
hearing, or written approval of an
extension of time in which to request a
hearing, the provisions specified in
Section V above shall be final 30 days
from the date of this Confirmatory Order
without further order or proceedings. If
an extension of time for requesting a
hearing has been approved, the
provisions specified in Section V shall
be final when the extension expires if a
hearing request has not been received.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Dated this 19th day of November 2020.
George A. Wilson,
Director, Office of Enforcement.
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY
COMMISSION
[NRC–2020–0144]

Information Collection: NRC Online
Form for Requesting Alternatives to
Regulatory Codes and Standards
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of submission to the
Office of Management and Budget;
request for comment.
AGENCY:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) invites public
comment on our request for review and
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) approval of the information
collection that is summarized below.
The information collection is regarding
a NRC Online Form for requesting
alternatives to regulatory Codes and
Standards requirements.
DATES: Submit comments by December
24, 2020. 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: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to https://www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain. Find this
particular information collection by
selecting ‘‘Currently under Review—
Open for Public Comments’’ or by using
the search function.
SUMMARY:

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

David Cullison, NRC Clearance Officer,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone:
301–415–2084; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments

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A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2020–
0144 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 NRC–2020–0144. A copy
of the collection of information and
related instructions may be obtained
without charge by accessing Docket ID
NRC–2020–0144 on this website.
• NRC’s 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 NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR)
reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301–
415–4737, or by email to pdr.resource@
nrc.gov. A copy of the collection of
information and related instructions
may be obtained without charge by
accessing ADAMS Accession No.
ML20302A440. The supporting
statement is available in ADAMS under
Accession No. ML20225A233.
• Attention: The 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 [email protected] or call
1–800–397–4209 between 8:00 a.m. and
4:00 p.m. (EST), Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays.
• NRC’s Clearance Officer: A copy of
the collection of information and related
instructions may be obtained without
charge by contacting the NRC’s
Clearance Officer, David Cullison,
Office of the Chief Information Officer,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone:
301–415–2084; email:
[email protected].
B. Submitting Comments
The NRC cautions you not to include
identifying or contact information in
comment submissions that you do not
want to be publicly disclosed in your
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submissions are posted at https://
www.regulations.gov and entered into
ADAMS. Comment submissions are not
routinely edited to remove identifying
or contact information.
If you are requesting or aggregating
comments from other persons for
submission to the OMB, 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 comment submissions are not
routinely edited to remove such
information before making the comment
submissions available to the public or
entering the comment into ADAMS.
II. Background
Under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35), the NRC recently
submitted a proposed collection of
information to OMB for review entitled,
NRC Online Form, ‘‘Request for
Alternative Under 10 CFR 50.55a(z)(1)
and 10 CFR 50.55a(z)(2).’’ The NRC
hereby informs potential respondents
that an agency may not conduct or
sponsor, and that a person is not
required to respond to, a collection of
information unless it displays a
currently valid OMB control number.
The NRC published a Federal
Register notice with a 60-day comment
period on this information collection on
July 23, 2020 (85 FR 44549).
1. The title of the information
collection: NRC Online Form, ‘‘Request
for Alternative Under 10 CFR
50.55a(z)(1) and 10 CFR 50.55a(z)(2).’’
2. OMB approval number: 3150–0244.
3. Type of submission: Revision.
4. The form number if applicable:
There is no form number for the online
submission form.
5. How often the collection is required
or requested: On occasion.
6. Who will be required or asked to
respond: All holders of, and certain
applicants for, nuclear power plant
construction permits and operating
licenses under the provisions of part 50
of title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR), ‘‘Domestic
Licensing of Production and Utilization
Facilities’’ who use alternatives to the
requirements of 10 CFR 50.55a
paragraphs (b) through (h) when
authorized by the NRC have the option
of using the online form.
7. The estimated number of annual
responses: 218.
8. The estimated number of annual
respondents: 218.
9. An estimate of the total number of
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the information collection requirement
or request: 872.
10. Abstract: The NRC requested
emergency review of an online form to
allow licensees to submit requests for
alternatives under 10 CFR 50.55a(z)(1)
and (2) for a period of 6 months. The
collection was initiated to facilitate the
submission of alternatives related to the
COVID–19 public health emergency.
The collection is currently being revised
and resubmitted to OMB for renewal.
The revisions to the form will allow
respondents to use the NRC Online
Form, ‘‘Request for Alternative Under
10 CFR 50.55a(z)(1) and (2),’’ for all
alternative requests (COVID and NonCOVID alike) and provides a more
sophisticated form layout that provides
new features that allow licensees to
build requests within the portal (vice
attaching files) and allows for peer
reviews. The form which simplifies and
reduces the burden of filing of requests
for alternatives is described in the
following paragraphs. Under the
existing collection under OMB Control
No. 3150–0011, licensees are already
able to request alternatives. This
information collection only addresses
the incremental burden change to this
existing clearance due to the form and
not the total burden for the clearance.
Section 50.55a of 10 CFR incorporates
by reference Division 1 rules of Section
III, ‘‘Rules for Construction of Nuclear
Power Plant Components,’’ and Section
XI, ‘‘Rules for Inservice Inspection of
Nuclear Power Plant Components,’’ of
the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers (ASME) Boiler and Pressure
Vessel Code (B&PV Code); and the rules
of the ASME ‘‘Code for Operation and
Maintenance of Nuclear Power Plants’’
(OM Code). These rules of the ASME
B&PV and OM Codes set forth the
requirements to which nuclear power
plant components are designed,
constructed, tested, repaired, and
inspected. Section 50.55a(z) of 10 CFR
allows applicants to use alternatives to
the requirements of 10 CFR 50.55a
paragraphs (b) through (h) when
authorized by the NRC. To facilitate
licensees’ requests for alternatives to the
requirements in the above regulations,
the NRC is providing an optional online
form to submit the required information
for a specific alternative request under
10 CFR 50.55a(z).
Dated: November 18, 2020.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David C. Cullison,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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