SECY-22-0063, Weekly Information Report - Week Ending June 24, 2022
| ML22180A200 | |
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| Issue date: | 07/05/2022 |
| From: | Marissa Bailey NRC/EDO/AO |
| To: | Commissioners NRC/OCM |
| Jolicoeur J | |
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| SECY-22-0063 | |
| Download: ML22180A200 (7) | |
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INFORMATION REPORT JUNE 29, 2022 SECY-22-0063 FOR: The Commissioners FROM: Marissa G. Bailey Assistant for Operations Office of the Executive Director for Operations
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WEEKLY INFORMATION REPORT - WEEK ENDING JUNE 24, 2022 CONTENTS Enclosure Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer A Office of the Chief Information Officer B Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation C Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards D Office of the Secretary E Signed by Bailey, Marissa on 06/30/22 Marissa G. Bailey Assistant for Operations (Acting), OEDO CONTACT: John R. Jolicoeur, OEDO 301-415-1642
ML22180A200 OFFICE OEDO OEDO/AO NAME JJolicoeur MBailey DATE 6/29/2022 6/29/2022 Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer (OCHCO)
Items of Interest Week Ending June 24, 2022 ARRIVALS NONE RETIREMENTS NONE DEPARTURES RAHLF, SHARI A. ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT R-II JUNE 29, 2022 ENCLOSURE A
Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO)
Items of Interest Week Ending June 24, 2022 Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act Requests, Appeals, and Consultations Received During the Period of June 21 - June 24, as submitted by requester Tracking Requesters Requesters Request Description Received Number Name Organization Date 2022- Blake Smith Seeking all records related to name 06/21/2022 000190 individuals employment with the Atomic Energy Commission.
2022- Lawrence S I request a copy of ML22168A062. 06/21/2022 000191 Criscione 2022- Dwyane Triplett All records related to named 06/22/2022 000192 individual.
2022- Dwyane Triplett All records related to named 06/22/2022 000193 individual.
2022- Douglass Any information found in the public 06/23/2022 000194 Plante library pertaining to the SNAP-10 satellite and nuclear satellites.
2022- Henry Wixon United States The complete U.S. Nuclear 06/23/2022 000195 Department of Regulatory Commission (NRC)
Commerce Office of Investigations Report No. 1-2022-005 and all supporting documentation.
2022- Blake Myers Complaints filed to the NRC by the 06/24/2022 000196 named individual, while he was employed by Northeast Utilities, Connecticut Light Power, or the Northeast Nuclear Energy Company and working at the Millstone (2) nuclear power plant.
JUNE 29, 2022 ENCLOSURE B
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR)
Items of Interest Week Ending June 24, 2022 The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Held a Public Meeting on Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 53 Framework B On June 16, 2022, the NRC staff held a public meeting on 10 CFR Part 53 Framework B, a technology-inclusive alternative licensing framework for new commercial nuclear plants where risk insights are used in a supporting manner, similar to the established licensing frameworks in 10 CFR Parts 50 and 52. The NRC staff summarized Framework B preliminary proposed rule language and discussed a key feature of Framework B, an Alternative Evaluation for Risk Insights (AERI). AERI is a first-of-a-kind, optional alternative to a probabilistic risk assessment for designs where the projected consequences of potential accidents are very small. The NRC staff issued preliminary proposed rule language for Framework B, a Framework B development process and provisions summary white paper, and two pre-decisional draft regulatory guides associated with AERI in the Agencywide Document Access Management System under Accession Numbers ML22145A000, ML22160A039, ML22146A045, and ML22146A041 respectively, to support the public meeting.
NRC held a Public Meeting to Discuss Planned Rulemaking On June 22, 2022, the NRR and the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards staff held a hybrid, comment-gathering public meeting to discuss the planned rulemaking detailed in SECY-21-0109, Rulemaking Plan on Use of Increased Enrichment of Conventional and Accident Tolerant Fuel Designs for Light-Water Reactors" (ML21232A237), and Staff Requirements Memorandum SECY-21-0109 (ML22075A103). The NRC staff presented on the rulemaking process, the status, and path forward for the Increased Enrichment Rulemaking (ML22153A451). The Nuclear Energy Institute also presented on the Industry Perspectives on Rulemaking for Greater than 5% Enrichment (ML22172A135). Finally, the NRC staff facilitated a discussion with stakeholders on the scope of regulations and guidance documents that should be evaluated in this rulemaking effort. There were over 100 NRC, industry, and public attendees.
JUNE 29, 2022 ENCLOSURE C
Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards (NMSS)
Items of Interest Week Ending June 24, 2022 NMSS Staff Hosted a Public Meeting on Reporting Requirements for Low Enriched Uranium On June 22, 2022, the NRC hosted a public meeting to discuss foreign obligation reporting requirements for low enriched uranium (LEU). The participants included stakeholders who report to the Nuclear Materials Management and Safeguards System (NMMSS) as well as federal representatives from the U.S. Government interagency who are responsible for implementation of nuclear cooperation agreements, also known as Section 123 Agreements.
The fuel cycle industry has expressed interest in ensuring that tracking and reporting obligations on LEU of different enrichment levels does not become an impediment to blending operations needed to produce commercial LEU fuel enriched to greater than 5 weight percent. The meeting focused on providing background on the requirements to report foreign obligations to NMMSS, receiving industrys questions related to reporting obligations on LEU, and obtaining input on possible ways to facilitate foreign obligation exchanges involving LEU while maintaining adequate obligation tracking and reporting.
NMSS Staff Conducted Onsite Observation Visit at Idaho National Laboratory On June 22, 2022, members of the NMSS staff conducted an onsite observation visit (OOV) associated with the Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Center (INTEC) Tank Farm Facility (TFF) at the Idaho National Laboratory to get the status of closure of the remaining 4 of 11 high-level waste tanks at the INTEC TFF. Each NRC OOV is conducted in accordance with Section 3116(b) of the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 (NDAA), which requires the NRC to monitor, in coordination with the NDAA-covered State, certain disposal actions taken by the Department of Energy (DOE) for the purpose of assessing compliance with the performance objectives set out in 10 CFR Part 61, Subpart C. In addition, representatives of the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality participated in this OOV. A summary of the OOV will be issued to the DOE within 30 days.
Revision of Fee Schedules; Fee Recovery for Fiscal Year 2022: Final Rule; 10 CFR Parts 170 and 171 [NRC-2020-0031; RIN 3150-AK44]
On June 22, 2022, the NRC published a notice in the Federal Register (87 FR 37197) amending the licensing, inspection, special project, and annual fees charged to its applicants and licensees. These amendments are necessary to implement the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act, which requires the NRC to recover, to the maximum extent practicable, approximately 100 percent of its annual budget less certain amounts excluded from this fee-recovery requirement. This final rule is effective on August 22, 2022.
JUNE 29, 2022 ENCLOSURE D
Office of the Secretary (SECY)
Items of Interest Week Ending June 24, 2022 Document Released to Public Date of Subject Document Decision Documents
- 1. SECY-22-0052 06/06/22 Proposed Rule: Alignment of Licensing Processes and Lessons Learned from New Reactor Licensing (RIN 3150 AI66)
- 2. SECY-22-0053 06/07/22 Recommendations for Modifying the Reactor Oversight Process Engineering Inspections Periodicity Information Papers
- 1. SECY-22-0060 06/23/22 Weekly Information Report - Week Ending June 17, 2022 Memoranda
- 1. Staff Requirements Memoranda 06/22/22 Briefing on Human Capital and Equal M220614 Employment Opportunity
- 2. Staff Requirements Memoranda 06/24/22 Briefing on Results of the Agency Action M220616 Review Meeting Commission Correspondence None.
Federal Register Notices Issued
- 1. Items Containing Byproduct Material Incidental to Production (NRC-2015-0017; 3150-AJ54)
- 2. TMI-2 Solutions, LLC Three Mile Island Station, Unit No. 2 [Docket No. 50-0320; NRC-2022-0131]
JUNE 29, 2022 ENCLOSURE E