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--- schema: federal-register doc_type: fedreg source_file: FR-2013-12-27.xml --- 78 249 Friday, December 27, 2013 Contents Agriculture Agriculture Department See Commodity Credit Corporation See Forest Service PROPOSED RULES Nondiscrimination in Programs or Activities Conducted by the United States Department of Agriculture, 78788-78794 2013-30812 Air Force Air Force Department NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 78947 2013-30925 Army Army Department See Engineers Corps NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities;
Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 78947-78948 2013-30927 2013-31007 Fiscal Bureau of the Fiscal Service NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Agency Service Delivery, 79076 2013-31045 Centers Disease Centers for Disease Control and Prevention NOTICES Criteria for a Recommended Standard: Occupational Exposure to Heat and Hot Environments, 78962-78963 2013-31066 Final Guidance: Protecting the Nanotechnology Workforce: NIOSH Nanotechnology Research and Guidance Strategic Plan 2013-2016, 78963 2013-31063 Meetings:
Board of Scientific Counselors, National Center for Health Statistics, 78966 2013-30904 Disease, Disability, and Injury Prevention and Control Special Emphasis Panel, 78964, 78966 2013-30909 2013-30910 2013-30906 Subcommittee for Dose Reconstruction Review, Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 78964-78965 2013-30907 Subcommittee on Procedures Review, Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 78963-78965 2013-30908 2013-30930 Requests for Nominations:
Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health, 78967 2013-30929 Centers Medicare Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services RULES Medicare Program: Physician Referrals to Health Care Entities With Which They Have Financial Relationships, etc., 78751-78769 2013-30923 PROPOSED RULES Emergency Preparedness Requirements for Participating Providers and Suppliers, 79082-79200 2013-30724 Medicare Program: Right of Appeal for Medicare Secondary Payer Determination Relating to Liability Insurance, etc., 78802-78807 2013-30661 NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities;
Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 78967-78970 2013-30994 2013-31015 2013-31016 Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Correction, 78970-78971 2013-30989 Chemical Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board NOTICES Meetings; Sunshine Act, 78810-78812 2013-31111 2013-31156 Coast Guard Coast Guard PROPOSED RULES Assessment Framework and Organizational Restatement Regarding Preemption for Certain Regulations, 79242-79252 2013-29714 Commerce Commerce Department See Economic Development Administration See International Trade Administration See National Institute of Standards and Technology See National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration See Patent and Trademark Office Commodity Credit Commodity Credit Corporation PROPOSED RULES Export Credit Guarantee Program and Facility Guarantee Program, 79254-79282 2013-29439 Commodity Futures Commodity Futures Trading Commission NOTICES Comparability Determinations:
Australia, Certain Entity-Level Requirements, 78864-78878 2013-30974 Canada, Certain Entity-Level Requirements, 78839-78852 2013-30979 European Union, Certain Entity-Level Requirements, 78923-78937 2013-30980 European Union, Certain Transaction-Level Requirements, 78878-78890 2013-30981 Hong Kong, Certain Entity-Level Requirements, 78852-78864 2013-30975 Japan, Certain Entity-Level Requirements, 78910-78923 2013-30976 Japan; Certain Transaction-Level Requirements, 78890-78898 2013-30977 Switzerland, Certain Entity-Level Requirements, 78899-78910 2013-30978 Comptroller Comptroller of the Currency NOTICES Meetings:
Minority Depository Institutions Advisory Committee, 79076-79077 2013-31010 Corporation Corporation for National and Community Service NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 78937-78938 2013-30921 Defense Department Defense Department See Air Force Department See Army Department See Engineers Corps See Navy Department NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 78938-78939 2013-30926 2013-30947 Arms Sales, 78939-78943 2013-31054 2013-31055 Environmental Assessments;
Availability, etc.: Temporary Storage of Wheeled Tactical Vehicles at Defense Supply Center, Richmond, VA, 78943 2013-30868 Meetings: National Commission on the Structure of the Air Force, 78943-78946 2013-31003 2013-31041 Privacy Act; Systems of Records, 78946 2013-30997 Economic Development Economic Development Administration NOTICES Trade Adjustment Assistance; Petitions, 78812 2013-31006 Education Department Education Department PROPOSED RULES Title I--Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged:
Migrant Education Program, 79222-79239 2013-30260 NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Application for Grants under the Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions Program, 78950-78951 2013-31014 Student Assistance General Provisions, 78951-78952 2013-31013 Energy Department Energy Department NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Paducah, KY, 78952 2013-31018 Engineers Engineers Corps RULES Reservoirs at Headwaters of the Mississippi River;
Use and Administration, 78717-78720 2013-31078 NOTICES Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.: Route 460 Location Study from Prince George County to the City of Suffolk, VA, 78948-78950 2013-30695 Environmental Protection Environmental Protection Agency RULES Air Quality State Implementation Plans; Approvals and Promulgations: Indiana; Disapproval of State Implementation Plan Revision for ArcelorMittal Burns Harbor, 78720-78725 2013-30885 Air Quality State Implementation Plans;
Approvals and Promulgations: Indiana; Volatile Organic Compound Emission Control Measures for Industrial Solvent Cleaning for Northwest Indiana, 78726-78727 2013-30543 Pesticide Tolerances: Indoxacarb, 78731-78738 2013-30585 Isopyrazam, 78740-78746 2013-30874 Pendimethalin, 78738-78740 2013-30575 Pesticide Tolerances; Exemptions from Requirements: Copper Sulfate Pentahydrate, 78727-78731 2013-31101 Multiple Chemicals; Emergency Exemptions, 78746-78748 2013-30877 Tolerance Exemptions: 2,5-Furandione, polymer with ethenylbenzene, reaction products with polyethylene-polypropylene glycol 2-aminopropyl Me ether, 78748-78751 2013-31108 PROPOSED RULES Air Quality State Implementation Plans;
Approvals and Promulgations: Colorado; Second Ten-Year PM10 Maintenance Plan for Pagosa Springs, 78797-78802 2013-31110 NOTICES Access by EPA Contractors to Information Claimed as Confidential Business Information, 78952-78953 2013-30886 Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Alternative Affirmative Defense Requirements for Ultra-low Sulfur Diesel, 78953-78954 2013-31115 Data Availabilities: Alaska Seafood Processing Effluent Limitation Guidelines, 78954-78955 2013-31113 Environmental Impact Statements;
Availability, etc.: Weekly Receipt (Filed 12/16/2013 Through 12/20/2013), 78955 2013-30992 Export Import Export-Import Bank NOTICES Applications for Long-Term Loans or Financial Guarantees in Excess of 100 Million Dollars, 78955-78956 2013-30858 Federal Aviation Federal Aviation Administration RULES Airworthiness Directives: Airbus Airplanes, 78694-78698, 78705-78710 2013-29998 2013-30066 Bell Helicopter Textron Canada Limited Helicopters, 78699-78701 2013-30186 Eurocopter Deutschland GmbH Helicopters, 78710-78713 2013-30466 The Boeing Company Airplanes, 78701-78705 2013-29670 2013-30779 Standard Instrument Approach Procedures, and Takeoff Minimums and Obstacle Departure Procedures, 78713-78716 2013-30482 2013-30486 PROPOSED RULES Establishment of Class E Airspace:
Flagstaff, AZ, 78794-78796 2013-31093 NOTICES Aeronautical Land-Use Assurances; Waivers: DuPage Airport, West Chicago, IL, 79059-79061 2013-31073 Wayne County Airport, Wooster, OH, 79059 2013-31074 Noise Exposure Maps: Key West International Airport, Key West, FL, 79061-79062 2013-31075 Federal Communications Federal Communications Commission RULES Provision of Spectrum for the Operation of Medical Body Area Networks, 78769 2013-30649 PROPOSED RULES Rates for Interstate Inmate Calling Services, 78809 2013-30826 Federal Emergency Federal Emergency Management Agency PROPOSED RULES Flood Elevation Determinations:
Pierce County, WA, and Incorporated Areas; Withdrawal, 78808-78809 2013-30952 NOTICES Changes in Flood Hazard Determinations, 78986-78992 2013-30944 2013-31020 Emergency Declarations: New Jersey; Amendment No. 5, 78992 2013-31001 Flood Hazard Determinations: Plaquemines Parish, LA and Incorporated Areas, and St. Charles Parish, LA and Incorporated Areas; Withdrawal, 78992-78993 2013-30950 Major Disaster Declarations: New Jersey; Amendment No. 10, 78993 2013-31000 New York; Amendment No. 2, 78993 2013-30961 Proposed Flood Elevation Determinations;
Correction, 78993-78995 2013-30942 Proposed Flood Hazard Determinations, 78995-78998 2013-31012 Federal Housing Finance Agency Federal Housing Finance Agency RULES Supplemental Orders on Reporting by Regulated Entities of Stress Testing Results, 78694 2013-30567 Federal Maritime Federal Maritime Commission NOTICES Agreements Filed, 78956 2013-30902 Ocean Transportation Intermediary License Applicants, 78956-78958 2013-30903 Federal Motor Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration NOTICES Qualification of Drivers;
Exemption Applications: Diabetes Mellitus, 79062-79071 2013-30871 Federal Reserve Federal Reserve System NOTICES Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Savings and Loan Holding Companies, 78958 2013-30999 Food and Drug Food and Drug Administration RULES Approvals of New Animal Drug Applications; Withdrawals: Roxarsone, 78716 2013-30837 2013-30838 PROPOSED RULES Supplemental Applications Proposing Labeling Changes for Approved Drugs and Biological Products: Correction and Extension of Comment Period, 78796-78797 2013-30881 NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities;
Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration Staff; Section 905(j) Reports: Demonstrating Substantial Equivalence for Tobacco Products, 78974-78975 2013-30880 Preparing a Claim of Categorical Exclusion or an Environmental Assessment for Submission to the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, 78973-78974 2013-30998 Prior Notice of Imported Food under the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002, 78971-78973 2013-30996 Foreign Assets Foreign Assets Control Office NOTICES Blocking or Unblocking of Persons and Properties, 79077-79079 2013-30803 2013-30808 2013-30811 Forest Forest Service NOTICES Meetings:
Pacific Southwest Recreation Resource Advisory Committee, 78810 2013-31005 Health and Human Health and Human Services Department See Centers for Disease Control and Prevention See Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services See Food and Drug Administration See Health Resources and Services Administration See Indian Health Service See Inspector General Office, Health and Human Services Department See National Institutes of Health See Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities;
Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 78958-78959 2013-30988 Privacy Act; Systems of Records, 78959-78962 2013-31118 Health Resources Health Resources and Services Administration NOTICES Revised Guidebook for the National Practitioner Data Bank; Draft, 78975 2013-31119 Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part C Early Intervention Services Grants, 78976 2013-31120 Homeland Homeland Security Department See Coast Guard See Federal Emergency Management Agency Housing Housing and Urban Development Department NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities;
Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Consolidated Public Housing Certification of Completion, 78999-79000 2013-31036 HUD Environmental Review Online System, 78998-78999 2013-31037 Federal Properties Suitable as Facilities to Assist the Homeless, 79000-79002 2013-30703 Indian Health Indian Health Service See Indian Health Service NOTICES Funding Opportunities: Professions Scholarship Programs, 78976-78981 2013-31076 Inspector General Health Inspector General Office, Health and Human Services Department RULES Medicare and State Health Care Programs:
Fraud and Abuse; Electronic Health Records Safe Harbor under the Anti-Kickback Statute, 79202-79220 2013-30924 PROPOSED RULES New Safe Harbors and Special Fraud Alerts, 78807-78808 2013-30429 Interior Interior Department See Land Management Bureau See National Park Service International Trade Adm International Trade Administration NOTICES Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews; Results, Extensions, Amendments, etc.: Certain Kitchen Appliance Shelving and Racks from the People's Republic of China, 78815-78816 2013-31116 Certain New Pneumatic Off-the-Road Tires from the Peoples Republic of China, 78814-78815 2013-31117 Purified Carboxymethylcellulose from the Netherlands, 78812-78814 2013-31114 Export Trade Certificates of Review:
Emporia Trading LLC, 78818-78819 2013-31140 Independent Film and Television Alliance, 78816-78818 2013-31141 International Trade Com International Trade Commission NOTICES Investigations; Terminations, Modifications and Rulings, etc.: 1,1,1,2-Tetrafluoroethane from China, 79007-79008 2013-30958 Certain Multiple Mode Outdoor Grills and Parts Thereof, 79007 2013-31056 Certain Paper Shredders, Certain Processes for Manufacturing or Relating to Same and Certain Products Containing Same and Certain Parts thereof, 79006 2013-30959 Justice Department Justice Department NOTICES Proposed Consent Decrees under the Clean Water Act, 79008 2013-31032 Labor Department Labor Department See Mine Safety and Health Administration Land Land Management Bureau NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities;
Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 79003-79004 2013-30993 Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.: Wyoming Greater Sage-Grouse Draft Land Use Plan Amendments, 79004-79005 2013-30991 Plats of Surveys: North Dakota, 79005 2013-31059 Maritime Maritime Administration NOTICES Meetings: National Maritime Strategy Symposium: Cargo Opportunities and Sealift Capacity, 79071-79073 2013-31095 Mine Mine Safety and Health Administration NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities;
Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Application for Waiver of Surface Sanitary Facilities' Requirements (Pertaining to Coal Mines), 79008-79009 2013-30948 Radiation Sampling and Exposure Records (Pertains to Underground Metal and Nonmetal Mines), 79009-79010 2013-30922 Criteria to Certify Coal Mine Rescue Teams, 79010-79012 2013-31033 National Highway National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 79073-79074 2013-30987 Technical Reports;
Availability: Evaluating Seat Belt Pretensioners and Load Limiters, 79074-79075 2013-31024 National Institute National Institute of Standards and Technology NOTICES Meetings: Manufacturing Extension Partnership Advisory Board, 78821-78822 2013-31099 National Conference on Weights and Measures, 78819-78821 2013-31092 National Institute National Institutes of Health NOTICES Meetings: Center for Scientific Review, 78981-78985 2013-30891 2013-31047 2013-31050 2013-31051 National Cancer Institute, 78982 2013-30890 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 78982-78984 2013-31048 2013-31049 National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, 78982 2013-30892 National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, 78983 2013-31052 Office of the Director, 78983-78984 2013-31053 National Oceanic National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration RULES Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and South Atlantic:
Revisions to Headboat Reporting Requirements for Species Managed by the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, 78779-78782 2013-31069 Shrimp Fishery of the Gulf of Mexico; Establish Funding Responsibilities for the Electronic Logbook Program, 78776-78779 2013-30949 Snapper-Grouper Fishery Off the Southern Atlantic States; Amendment 27, 78770-78776 2013-30943 Fisheries of the Northeastern United States: 2014 Commercial Summer Flounder Quota Adjustments, 78786-78787 2013-31070 Extension of Emergency Fishery Closure Due to the Presence of the Toxin that Causes Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning, 78783-78786 2013-30945 NOTICES Draft Guidance for Assessing the Effects of Anthropogenic Sound on Marine Mammals:
Acoustic Threshold Levels for Onset of Permanent and Temporary Threshold Shifts, 78822-78823 2013-30951 Meetings: Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, 78824 2013-31038 New England Fishery Management Council, 78823 2013-31043 North Pacific Fishery Management Council, 78824 2013-31039 Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to Specified Activities: Rockaway Delivery Lateral Project off New York, January 2013 through January 2014, 78824-78837 2013-31065 National Park National Park Service NOTICES Charter Renewals:
National Park System Advisory Board, 79005-79006 2013-31040 National Science National Science Foundation NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 79012-79014 2013-30869 2013-30889 Meetings: Advisory Committee for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, 79014 2013-30911 Navy Navy Department NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 78950 2013-30928 Nuclear Regulatory Nuclear Regulatory Commission RULES List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks:
Transnuclear, Inc. Standardized NUHOMS Cask System, 78693-78694 2013-31080 NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 79014-79017 2013-31028 2013-31029 2013-31030 2013-31031 Exemptions; Certain Physical Security Requirements: ZionSolutions, LLC; Zion Nuclear Power Station, Units 1 and 2, 79017-79018 2013-31086 Export Licenses: Deuterium, 79018-79019, 79021-79022 2013-30879 2013-31026 Meetings: ACRS Subcommittee on Materials, Metallurgy and Reactor Fuels, 79019-79020 2013-31034 ACRS Subcommittee on Radiation Protection and Nuclear Materials, 79020-79021 2013-31027 Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards;
ACRS Subcommittee on Reliability and Pra, 79020 2013-31023 Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards; Subcommittee on Materials, Metallurgy and Reactor Fuels, 79019 2013-31035 Meetings; Sunshine Act, 79021 2013-31197 Patent Patent and Trademark Office NOTICES Interim Patent Term Extensions: Term of U.S. Patent No. 5,496,801; Recombinant Human Parathyroid Hormone, 78838 2013-31017 Requests for Nominations: National Medal of Technology and Innovation, 78838-78839 2013-31019 Postal Regulatory Postal Regulatory Commission NOTICES New Postal Products, 79022-79026 2013-30956 2013-30957 2013-30970 2013-30971 2013-30973 Postal Service Postal Service RULES Deferral of Full-Service Intelligent Mail Barcode Requirement to Qualify for Automation Prices, 78720 2013-30705 NOTICES Meetings;
Sunshine Act, 79026 2013-31100 Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records, 79026-79027 2013-31105 Product Changes: Priority Mail Express Negotiated Service Agreement, 79027-79028 2013-30954 2013-30955 Priority Mail Negotiated Service Agreement, 79027 2013-30953 Presidio Presidio Trust NOTICES Meetings: Board of Directors, 79028 2013-31061 Securities Securities and Exchange Commission NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 79028 2013-30931 Self-Regulatory Organizations;
Proposed Rule Changes: BATS Exchange, Inc., 79030-79033 2013-30933 Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc., 79035 2013-30937 International Securities Exchange, LLC, 79037-79038, 79051-79053 2013-30932 2013-30963 NASDAQ OMX BX, Inc., 79040-79042 2013-30968 NASDAQ OMX PHLX LLC, 79039-79040 2013-30969 NASDAQ Stock Market LLC, 79033-79035, 79055-79057 2013-30939 2013-30967 National Securities Clearing Corp., 79028-79030, 79036-79037 2013-30934 2013-30936 New York Stock Exchange LLC, 79044-79046 2013-30964 NYSE Arca, Inc., 79042-79044, 79046-79047 2013-30941 2013-30966 NYSE MKT LLC, 79048-79051, 79053-79055 2013-30938 2013-30940 2013-30965 State Department State Department NOTICES Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition:
Chinese Paintings from Japanese Collections, 79058 2013-31088 Gauguin: Metamorphoses, 79057-79058 2013-31091 Treasures from Korea: Arts and Culture of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910, 79057 2013-31090 Substance Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 78985-78986 2013-30983 2013-30990 Transportation Department Transportation Department See Federal Aviation Administration See Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration See Maritime Administration See National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities;
Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: New Requirements and Procedures for Grant Payment Request Submission, 79058-79059 2013-30995 Treasury Treasury Department See Bureau of the Fiscal Service See Comptroller of the Currency See Foreign Assets Control Office NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals, 79076 2013-31004 Veteran Affairs Veterans Affairs Department NOTICES Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals:
Dental Patient Satisfaction Survey, 79079-79080 2013-31057 Separate Parts In This Issue Part II Health and Human Services Department, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 79082-79200 2013-30724 Part III Health and Human Services Department, Inspector General Office, Health and Human Services Department, 79202-79220 2013-30924 Part IV Education Department, 79222-79239 2013-30260 Part V Homeland Security Department, Coast Guard, 79242-79252 2013-29714 Part VI Agriculture Department, Commodity Credit Corporation, 79254-79282 2013-29439 Reader Aids Consult the Reader Aids section at the end of this page for phone numbers, online resources, finding aids, reminders, and notice of recently enacted public laws.
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Direct final rule; confirmation of effective date. SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC)is confirming the effective date of January 7, 2014, for the direct final rule that was published in the **Federal Register** on October 24, 2013. This direct final rule amended the NRC's spent fuel storage regulations by revising the Transnuclear, Inc. Standardized NUHOMS® Cask System listing within the “List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks” to include Amendment No. 11 to Certificate of Compliance
(CoC)No. 1004. DATES: The effective date of January 7, 2014, is confirmed for the direct final rule published October 24, 2013 (78 FR 63375). ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2012-0020 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information for this direct final rule. You may access publicly-available information related to this direct final rule by any of the following methods: • *Federal Rulemaking Web site:* Go to *http://www.regulations.gov* and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-0020. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-3422; email: *Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov.* For technical questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document. • *NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS):* You may access publicly available documents online in the NRC Library 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 *pdr.resource@nrc.gov.* The ADAMS accession number for each document referenced in this document (if that document is available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is referenced. • *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. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gregory Trussell, Office of Federal and State Materials and Environmental Management Programs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-6445, email: *Gregory.Trussell@nrc.gov.* SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Discussion On October 24, 2013 (78 FR 63375), the NRC published a direct final rule amending its regulations at § 72.214 of Title 10 of the *Code of Federal Regulations* (10 CFR) by revising the Transnuclear, Inc. Standardized NUHOMS® Cask System listing within the “List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks” to include Amendment No. 11 to CoC No. 1004. Amendment No. 11 added a new transfer cask, the OS197L, for use with the 32PT and 61BT dry shielded canisters, and converted the CoC No. 1004 Technical Specifications to the format in NUREG-1745, “Standard Format and Content for Technical Specifications for 10 CFR Part 72 Cask Certificates of Compliance.” In addition, the amendment made several other changes as described in Section III, “Discussion of Changes,” section of the direct final rule. II. Public Comments on the Companion Proposed Rule In the direct final rule, the NRC stated that if no significant adverse comments were received, the direct final rule would become effective on January 7, 2014. The NRC received one public comment on the companion proposed rule (78 FR 63408), from Mr. Richard Ochs (ADAMS Accession No. ML13320A027). Mr. Ochs stated his concern that the neutron emissions inside the outer shell of nuclear waste storage containers are dangerous to living organisms, including insects, microbes, bacteria or virus that attach to dust that passes through the screened windows in the outer steel covers of storage containers. Specifically, Mr. Ochs raises a concern based on the emergence of Lyme's Disease in Lyme, Connecticut, which he asserts occurred following an unintended release of radioactive gas from the nearby Millstone Nuclear Reactor. According to his comment, “[T]he Deer Tick has carried a spirochete bacteria for millions of years, but after the Millstone release, that spirochete was mutated, causing the emergence of Lyme's Disease.” The NRC staff reviewed this comment and concluded that this comment is not a significant adverse comment as defined in NUREG-BR-0053, Revision 6, “United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Regulations Handbook” (ADAMS Accession No. ML052720461), as it is beyond the scope of this rulemaking. Instead, this comment raises a generic concern regarding the use of any spent fuel storage casks and is not specific to any issue or concern with the amendment to the cask certificate that is the subject of this rulemaking effort. Moreover, the NRC staff has concluded that there would be no significant environmental impacts as confirmed in Section VII, “Finding of No Significant Environmental Impact: Availability,” of the direct final rule. This comment does not challenge that finding because, as the Environmental Assessment explained, this amendment to the rule will not result in any significant change in the types or significant revisions in the amounts of any effluent released, no significant increase in the individual or cumulative radiation exposure, and no significant increase in the potential for or consequences from radiological accidents. This amendment continues to ensure that the Commission's regulations regarding dose rates, found in 10 CFR Part 20, are maintained. A challenge to those dose rates, or the method by which the Commission establishes those dose rates, would be most appropriately addressed as a petition for rulemaking pursuant to 10 CFR 2.802. Therefore, this rule will become effective as scheduled. Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20th day of December 2013. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Helen Chang, Acting Chief, Rules, Announcements, and Directives Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration. [FR Doc. 2013-31080 Filed 12-26-13; 8:45 am]
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