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STC-21-060 - Enclosure 1: Federal Register Notice

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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 129 / Friday, July 9, 2021 / Notices 36307 submissions are available for inspection by accessing the Communication Access meeting, and CART has been arranged and copying, when permitted, at the Realtime Translation (CART) link for this meeting and will be embedded OSHA Docket Office. For information provided. CART is text-only translation into the Zoom platform as well as on using http://www.regulations.gov to that occurs real time during the meeting available via streamtext link. The web make submissions or to access the and is not an exact transcript. link to access CART (in English) is:

docket, click on the Help tab at the MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Following https://www.streamtext.net/

top of the homepage. Contact the OSHA welcome remarks and introductions, the player?event=NCD. If you require Docket Office at (202) 693-2350 for Chairman, Executive Director and additional accommodations, please information about materials not Executive Committee will provide notify Anthony Simpson by sending an available through that website and for reports; followed by a community email to asimpson.cntr@ncd.gov as soon assistance in using the internet to locate presentation; a strategic plan as possible and no later than 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> submissions and other documents in the presentation; subcommittee updates on prior to the meeting.

docket. policy projects; a schedule of remaining Due to last-minute confirmations or 2021 Council Meetings; and any cancellations, NCD may substitute items Authority and Signature unfinished business before without advance public notice.

James S. Frederick, Acting Assistant adjournment. Dated: July 7, 2021.

Secretary of Labor for Occupational Agenda: The times provided below Anne C. Sommers McIntosh, Safety and Health, authorized the are approximations for when each preparation of this notice pursuant to 29 agenda item is anticipated to be Executive Director.

U.S.C. 655, 40 U.S.C. 3704, Secretary of discussed (all times Eastern Daylight [FR Doc. 2021-14764 Filed 7-7-21; 4:15 pm]

Labors Order No. 8-2020 (85 FR Time): BILLING CODE 8421-02-P 58393), 5 U.S.C. App. 2, and 29 CFR Thursday, July 22, 2021 part 1912.

1:00-1:05 p.m.Welcome and Call to NUCLEAR REGULATORY Signed at Washington, DC, on July 2, 2021.

Order COMMISSION James S. Frederick, 1:05-1:15 p.m.Chairmans Report Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor for 1:15-2:00 p.m.Executive Directors [NRC-2021-0137]

Occupational Safety and Health. Report

[FR Doc. 2021-14631 Filed 7-8-21; 8:45 am] 2:00-2:15 p.m.Executive Committee Systematic Assessment for How the BILLING CODE 4510-26-P Report NRC Addresses Environmental Justice 2:15-2:45 p.m.Community in Its Programs, Policies, and Activities Presentation: National Disability AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory NATIONAL COUNCIL ON DISABILITY Institute 2:45-3:15 p.m.Strategic Plan Commission.

Sunshine Act Meetings Presentation ACTION: Public meeting and request for 3:15-3:45 p.m.Subcommittee Updates comment.

TIME AND DATE: The Members of the 3:45-4:00 p.m.Schedule of 2021 National Council on Disability (NCD) Council Meetings, unfinished

SUMMARY

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory will hold a quarterly business meeting business Commission (NRC) is requesting on Thursday, July 22, 2021, 1:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m.-Adjourn comments as part of its systematic 4:00 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Public Comment: There is no in- review for how NRC programs, policies, person public comment session during and activities address environmental PLACE: This meeting will occur via this council meeting, however the justice. Specifically, the NRC would like Zoom videoconference. Registration is Council is soliciting public comment by input on how the agency is addressing not required. Interested parties are email, providing an opportunity to hear environmental justice, considering the encouraged to join the meeting in an from youindividuals, businesses, agencys mission and statutory attendee status by Zoom Desktop Client, providers, educators, parents and authority. The information will be used Mobile App, or Telephone to dial-in.

advocates. Public comment submissions to inform the agencys assessment of Updated information is available on will be reviewed during the meeting and how it addresses environmental justice.

NCDs event page at https://ncd.gov/

events/2021/upcoming-council-meeting. delivered to members of the Council at DATES: Submit comments by August 23, To join the Zoom webinar, please use its conclusion. Your comments are 2021. Comments received after this date the following URL: https://zoom.us/j/ important in bringing to the Councils will be considered if it is practical to do 99051495407?pwd=MGpQQitxSn attention issues and priorities of the so, but the NRC is able to ensure NDVXR6MWpjNnlrVlE3dz09 or enter disability community. To provide consideration only for comments Webinar ID: 990 5149 5407 in the Zoom comments, please send an email to received on or before this date. The NRC app. The Passcode is: 151964. PublicComment@ncd.gov with the will hold public meetings related to its To join the Council Meeting by subject line Public Comment and assessment. See Section IV Public telephone, dial one of the preferred your name, organization, state, and Meeting, of this document for additional numbers listed. The following numbers topic of comment included in the body information.

are (for higher quality, dial a number of your email. Submission should be ADDRESSES: You may submit comments based on your current location): (669) received no later than July 21 to ensure by any of the following methods:

900-6833; (408) 638-0968; (312) 626- inclusion.

• Telephone: 301-415-3875.

6799; (346) 248-7799; (253) 215-8782; CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:

• Email: NRC-EJReview@nrc.gov.

jbell on DSKJLSW7X2PROD with NOTICES (646) 876-9923; or (301) 715-8592. You Nicholas Sabula, Public Affairs

• Mail comments to: Office of will be prompted to enter the meeting Specialist, NCD, 1331 F Street NW, Administration, Mail Stop: TWFN ID 990-5149-5407 and passcode Suite 850, Washington, DC 20004; 202- A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 151964. 272-2004 (V), or nsabula@ncd.gov. Commission, Washington, DC 20555-In the event of audio disruption or Accommodations: An ASL interpreter 0001, ATTN: Program Management, failure, attendees can follow the meeting will be on-camera during the entire Announcements and Editing Staff.

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36308 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 129 / Friday, July 9, 2021 / Notices

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to B. Submitting Comments Generating Units 2 and 3), CLI-15-6, 81 https://www.regulations.gov and search The NRC encourages comment NRC 340, 369 (2015).

for Docket ID NRC-2021-0137. Address The NRC, as an independent agency, submission via email and phone. Please questions about Docket IDs in was requested, rather than directed, to reference Docket ID NRC-2021-0137 in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; comply with Executive Order 12898, your comment submission.

telephone: 301-415-0624; email: and this Executive Order did not, in The NRC cautions you not to include Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical itself, create new substantive authority identifying or contact information that questions, contact the individual listed for Federal agencies. In a March 31, you do not want to be publicly in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 1994, letter to President Clinton, NRC disclosed in your comment submission.

CONTACT section of this document. Chairman Ivan Selin indicated that the The NRC will post comment For additional direction on obtaining NRC would endeavor to carry out the submissions received via information and submitting comments, measures set forth in Executive Order regulations.gov at https:// 12898 and the accompanying see Obtaining Information and www.regulations.gov as well as enter the Submitting Comments in the memorandum as part of the NRCs comment submissions into ADAMS. efforts to comply with NEPA (ADAMS SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of The NRC does not routinely edit Accession No. ML033210526). As noted this document. comment submissions to remove FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: in the NRCs 1995 Environmental identifying or contact information. Justice Strategy (ADAMS Accession No.

Allen Fetter, Office of the Executive If you are requesting or aggregating Director for Operations, U.S. Nuclear ML20081K602 (March 24, 1995)),

comments from other persons for because the NRC is not a land Regulatory Commission, Washington, submission to the NRC, then you should DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-415- management agency, i.e., it neither inform those persons not to include sites, owns, or manages facilities or 8556, email: Allen.Fetter@nrc.gov. identifying or contact information that properties, the NRC determined that SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: they do not want to be publicly Executive Order 12898 would I. Obtaining Information and disclosed in their comment submission. primarily apply to [NRC] efforts to Submitting Comments Your request should state that the NRC fulfill NEPA requirements as part of does not routinely edit comment NRCs licensing process.

A. Obtaining Information submissions to remove such information On August 24, 2004, following public Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2021- before making the comment comment on a draft Policy Statement 0137 when contacting the NRC about submissions available to the public or (68 FR 62642), the Commission issued the availability of information for this entering the comment into ADAMS. its Policy Statement on the Treatment action. You may obtain publicly II. Background of Environmental Justice Matters in NRC available information related to this Regulatory and Licensing Actions (69 action by any of the following methods: The NRC is an independent agency FR 52040). The purpose of this Policy

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to established by the Energy Statement was to set forth a https://www.regulations.gov and search Reorganization Act of 1974 that began comprehensive statement of the for Docket ID NRC-2021-0137. operations in 1975 as a successor to the Commissions policy on the treatment of

• NRCs Agencywide Documents licensing and regulatory activities of the environmental justice matters in NRC Access and Management System Atomic Energy Commission. The NRCs regulatory and licensing actions. Id. at (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly mission is to license and regulate the 52,041. The Policy Statement explains available documents online in the Nations civilian use of radioactive that the focus of an environmental ADAMS Public Documents collection at materials to provide reasonable justice review should be on identifying https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ assurance of adequate protection of and weighing disproportionately adams.html. To begin the search, select public health and safety and to promote significant and adverse environmental Begin Web-based ADAMS Search. For the common defense and security and to impacts on minority and low-income problems with ADAMS, please contact protect the environment. As part of its populations that may be different from the NRCs Public Document Room (PDR) licensing and regulatory activities, the the impacts on the general population.

reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301- NRC conducts safety, security, and It is not a broad-ranging or even limited 415-4737, or by email to pdr.resource@ environmental reviews. review of racial or economic nrc.gov. The Staff Requirements Specifically, with respect to discrimination. Id. at 52,047.

Memorandum (SRM)-M210218B, environmental reviews, the National The Policy Statement also reiterates Briefing on Equal Employment Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of guidance on defining the geographic Opportunity, Affirmative Employment, 1969, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq., requires all area for environmental justice and Small Business, 10:00 a.m., Federal agencies to evaluate the impacts assessments and identifying low-income Thursday, February 18, 2021, Video of proposed major actions on the human and minority communities. Id. In Conference Meeting, dated April 23, environment. As part of its addition, it explains that a scoping 2021, which provides direction to the responsibilities under NEPA, the NRC process is used to assist the NRC in staff or this assessment, is available in considers environmental justice. ensuring that minority and low-income ADAMS under Accession No. According to the Commission, [t]he communities, including transient ML21113A070. term environmental justice refers to the populations, affected by the proposed

• Attention: The PDR, where you may federal policy established in 1994 by action are not overlooked in assessing examine and order copies of public Executive Order 12898, which directed the potential for significant impacts documents, is currently closed. You federal agencies to identify and address unique to those communities. Id. at jbell on DSKJLSW7X2PROD with NOTICES may submit your request to the PDR via disproportionately high and adverse 52,048. In performing a NEPA analysis, email at pdr.resource@nrc.gov or call human health or environmental effects published demographic data, 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, of its programs, policies, and activities community interviews and public input between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (ET), on minority and low-income through well-noticed public scoping Monday through Friday, except Federal populations. Entergy Nuclear meetings should be used in identifying holidays. Operations, Inc. (Indian Point Nuclear minority and low-income communities VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:01 Jul 08, 2021 Jkt 253001 PO 00000 Frm 00060 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\09JYN1.SGM 09JYN1

Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 129 / Friday, July 9, 2021 / Notices 36309 that may be subject to adverse and interested persons on 15, 2021, from 1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m. ET environmental impacts. Id. environmental impacts of the proposed and 8:00 p.m.-9:30 p.m. ET, via On April 23, 2021, in a Staff agency action, such as in-person and webinar. The public meetings will Requirements Memorandum (ADAMS virtual meetings, Federal Register provide forums for the NRC staff to Accession No. ML21113A070), the notices requesting input, and dialog discuss issues and questions with Commission directed the staff to with community organizations. stakeholders and interested persons.

systematically review how the agencys (i) How could the NRC expand how During the public meetings, the NRC programs, polices, and activities address it engages and gathers input? does not intend to provide responses to environmental justice. As part of this (ii) What formal tools might there be comments submitted during the public review, the Commission directed the to enhance information gathering from meetings. The public meetings were staff to evaluate recent Executive Orders stakeholders and interested persons in noticed on the NRCs public meeting and assess whether environmental NRCs programs, policies, and website. Members of the public should justice is appropriately considered and activities? monitor the NRCs public meeting addressed in the agencys programs, (iii) Can you describe any challenges website for additional information about policies, and activities, given the that may affect your ability to engage the public meetings at https://

agencys mission. As directed, the staff with the NRC on environmental justice www.nrc.gov/public-involve/public-will consider the practices of other issues? meetings/index.cfm. The NRC will post Federal, State, and Tribal agencies and (b) How could the NRC enhance notices for additional public meetings evaluate whether the NRC should opportunities for members of associated with this effort and may post incorporate environmental justice environmental justice communities to additional material related to this action beyond implementation through NEPA. participate in licensing and regulatory to the Federal Rulemaking website at The staff will also review the adequacy activities, including the identification of https://www.regulations.gov/ under of the 2004 Policy Statement. The impacts and other environmental justice Docket ID NRC-2021-0137.

Commission further directed the staff to concerns?

consider whether establishing formal (c) What ways could the NRC enhance Dated: July 6, 2021.

mechanisms to gather external identification of environmental justice For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

stakeholder input would benefit any communities? Gregory F. Suber, future environmental justice efforts. To (d) What has the NRC historically Director, Environmental Justice Review Team, carry out the Commissions direction, done well, or currently does well that Office of the Executive Director for the staff is seeking to engage we could do more of or expand with Operations.

stakeholders and interested persons respect to environmental justice in our [FR Doc. 2021-14673 Filed 7-8-21; 8:45 am]

representing a broad range of programs, policies, and activities, BILLING CODE 7590-01-P perspectives. This Federal Register including engagement efforts? In your notice and the meetings referenced view, what portions of the 2004 Policy herein are part of this engagement effort. Statement are effective?

(3) What actions could the NRC take SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE III. Requested Information and COMMISSION to enhance consideration of Comments environmental justice in the NRCs The NRC is interested in obtaining a [Release No. 34-92320; File No. SR-programs, policies and activities and NYSEArca-2021-28]

broad range of perspectives from agency decision-making, considering stakeholders and interested persons. the agencys mission and statutory Self-Regulatory Organizations; NYSE The focus of this request is to gather authority? Arca, Inc.; Notice of Designation of a information to inform a systematic (a) Would you recommend that NRC Longer Period for Commission Action assessment for how the NRC addresses consider any particular organizations on a Proposed Rule Change To List environmental justice in its programs, environmental justice program(s) in its and Trade the Shares of policies, and activities, considering the assessment? ConvexityShares Daily 1.5x SPIKES agencys mission and statutory (b) Looking to other Federal, State, Futures ETF Under NYSE Arca Rule authority. The NRC is particularly and Tribal agencies environmental 8.200-E (Trust Issued Receipts) interested in receiving input on the justice programs, what actions could the following questions: NRC take to enhance consideration of July 2, 2021.

(1) What is your understanding of environmental justice in the NRCs On May 13, 2021, NYSE Arca, Inc.

what is meant by environmental justice programs, policies, and activities? (NYSE Arca) filed with the Securities at the NRC? (c) Considering recent Executive and Exchange Commission (2) As described in the Commissions Orders on environmental justice, what (Commission), pursuant to Section 2004 Policy Statement on the Treatment actions could the NRC take to enhance 19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of Environmental Justice Matters in NRC consideration of environmental justice of 1934 (Act) 1 and Rule 19b-4 Regulatory and Licensing Actions (69 in the NRCs programs, policies, and thereunder,2 a proposed rule change to FR 52040), the NRC currently addresses activities? list and trade shares of the environmental justice in its NEPA (d) Are there opportunities to expand ConvexityShares Daily 1.5x SPIKES reviews to determine if a proposed consideration of environmental justice Futures ETF under NYSE Arca Rule agency action will have in NRC programs, policies, and 8.200-E, Commentary .02 (Trust Issued disproportionately high and adverse activities, considering the agencys Receipts). The proposed rule change impacts on minority and low-income mission? If so, what are they? was published for comment in the jbell on DSKJLSW7X2PROD with NOTICES communities, defined as environmental Federal Register on May 26, 2021.3 The justice communities. IV. Public Meeting Information (a) When the NRC is conducting The NRC plans to hold public 1 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).

licensing and other regulatory reviews, meetings during the public comment 2 17 CFR 240.19b-4.

the agency uses a variety of ways to period for this action. The first public 3 See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 91949 gather information from stakeholders meetings are currently planned for July (May 20, 2021), 86 FR 28420.

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