o For completed rulemaking activities go to http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaHistory?showStage=completed and select Nuclear Regulatory Commission from drop down menu.

o For active rulemaking activities go to http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaMain and select Nuclear Regulatory Commission from drop down menu.

o For long-term rulemaking activities go to http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaHistory?operation=OPERATION_GET_PUBLICATION&showStage=longterm&currentPubId=201410 and select Nuclear Regulatory Commission from drop down menu.

B. Submitting Comments.

Please include Docket ID NRC-2015-0222 in your comment submission.

The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact information that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your comment submission. The NRC will post all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as enter the comment submissions into ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to remove identifying or contact information.

If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons for submission to the NRC, 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 the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to remove such information before making the comment submissions available to the public or entering the comment into ADAMS.

INTRODUCTION

The Agenda is a compilation of all rulemaking activities on which an agency has recently completed action or has proposed or is considering action. The Agenda reports rulemaking activities in three major categories: completed, active, and long-term. Completed rulemaking activities are those that were completed since publication of an agency's last Agenda; active rulemaking activities are those that an agency currently plans to have an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, a Proposed Rule, or a Final Rule issued within the next 12 months; and long-term rulemaking activities are rulemaking activities under development but for which an agency does not expect to have a regulatory action within the 12 months after publication of the current edition of the Agenda.

A "Regulation Identifier Number" or RIN is given to each rulemaking activity that the NRC has published or plans on publishing a Federal Register notice and the Office of Management and Budget uses this number to track all relevant documents throughout the entire "lifecycle" of a particular rulemaking activity. The NRC reports all rulemaking activities in the Agenda that have been assigned a RIN and meet the definition for a completed, an active, or a long-term rulemaking activity.

The information contained in this Agenda is updated to reflect any action that has occurred on rulemaking activities since publication of the last NRC Agenda on June 18, 2015 (80 FR 35170). Specifically, the information in this Agenda has been updated through September 18, 2015.

The date for the next scheduled action under the heading "Timetable" is the date the next regulatory action for the rulemaking activity is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register. The date is considered tentative and is not binding on the Commission or its staff. The Agenda is intended to provide the public early notice and opportunity to participate in the NRC rulemaking process. However, the NRC may consider or act on any rulemaking activity even though it is not included in the Agenda.

COMMON PRIORITIZATION OF RULEMAKING

A key part of the NRC's regulatory program is a periodic review of all ongoing and potential rulemaking activities. In conjunction with its budget, the NRC compiles a Common Prioritization of Rulemaking (CPR) report to develop program budget estimates and to determine the relative priority of NRC rulemaking activities. The CPR process considers four factors and assigns a score to each factor. Factor A includes activities that support the NRC's Strategic Plan goals of ensuring the safe and secure use of radioactive materials. Factor B includes rulemaking activities that support the NRC's Strategic Plan cross-cutting strategies for enhancing regulatory effectiveness and/or openness in the conduct of regulatory activities. Factor C is a governmental factor representing the relative interest of the NRC, Congress, or other governmental bodies in the rulemaking activity. Factor D is an external factor representing the relative interest to members of the public, non-governmental organizations, the nuclear industry, vendors, and suppliers in the rulemaking activity. The overall priority is determined by adding the factor scores together for each rulemaking activity. The CPR report and a detailed description of the CPR process are available from the NRC's Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/rulemaking-ruleforum/rule-priorities.html.

The NRC's fall Agenda contains its annual regulatory plan, which includes a statement of the major rules that the NRC expects to publish in the coming FY and a description of the other significant regulatory priorities from the CPR that the NRC expects to work on during the coming FY and beyond. The NRC's regulatory plan was submitted to OMB in June 2015; updates have been reflected in the Agenda abstract for each rulemaking.

SECTION 610 PERIODIC REVIEWS UNDER THE REGULATORY FLEXIBILITY ACT

Section 610 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) requires agencies to conduct a review within 10 years of promulgation of those regulations that have or will have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities. The NRC undertakes these reviews to decide whether the rules should be unchanged, amended, or withdrawn. At this time, the NRC does not have any rules that have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities; therefore, the NRC has not included any RFA Section 610 periodic reviews in this edition of the Agenda. A complete listing of NRC regulations that impact small entities and related Small Entity Compliance Guides will be available from the NRC's Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/regulatory/rulemaking/flexibility-act/small-entities.html.

PUBLIC COMMENTS RECEIVED ON NRC AGENDAS

The NRC has received comments from the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) regarding the level of detail provided in the abstract for each NRC rulemaking activity and on the process the NRC uses to prioritize its rulemaking activities.

The NRC actively seeks to improve its rulemaking process and reporting. In recent Agendas NRC has reported additional information in the preamble and in the abstracts for its rules; in addition, in June of 2015, NRC launched a new public Web page with detail on the NRC's process for rulemaking prioritization: http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/rulemaking-ruleforum/rule-priorities.html. NRC finds these actions address NEI's suggestions related to reporting on its rulemaking prioritization. NRC notes that it has received comments from NEI and other members of the public regarding the methodology staff uses to prioritize rulemaking activities. Each year the NRC reviews its methodology for prioritizing rulemaking activities to determine if changes are necessary; at this time the NRC does not plan to make any changes to its methodology. However, the agency currently is engaged in an enterprise-wide project to review several of its regulatory and internal processes, including rulemaking (see http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1515/ML15159A234.pdf).

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18^th day of September 2015.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

NAME: Cindy Bladey,

Chief,

Rules, Announcements, and Directives Branch,

Division of Administrative Services,

Office of Administration.