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-2016-0044 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 the Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (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 Unified Agenda.

A "Regulation Identifier Number" or RIN is given to a rulemaking activity when the NRC has published or plans to publish a Federal Register notice. 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 a rulemaking activity since publication of the last NRC Agenda on December 15, 2015 (80 FR 78108). Specifically, the information in this Agenda has been updated through March 18, 2016.

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 an annual review of all ongoing and potential rulemaking activities. In conjunction with its budget and long-term planning process, the NRC compiles a Common Prioritization of Rulemaking (CPR) listing to develop program budget estimates and to determine the relative priority of NRC rulemaking activities. The most current listing of each rulemaking activity for the Fiscal Year 2017/2018 planning period is available on the NRC's Rulemaking Priorities Web page at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/rulemaking-ruleforum/rule-priorities.html. 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 activities that support the Strategic Plan cross-cutting strategies of Regulatory Effectiveness and Openness. Specifically, this factor considers whether the rulemaking activity enhances regulatory effectiveness and/or openness in the way that the NRC conducts regulatory activities. Factor C is a governmental factor representing interest to the NRC, Congress, or other governmental bodies. Factor D is an external factor representing interest to members of the public, non-governmental organizations, the nuclear industry, vendors, and suppliers. The overall priority is determined by adding the factor scores together for each rulemaking activity.

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 THE NRC'S UNIFIED AGENDA

The NRC did not receive any public comments on its last Agenda that published on December 15, 2015 (80 FR 78108).

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18^th day of March 2016.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

NAME: Leslie Terry,

Acting Chief,

Rules, Announcements, and Directives Branch,

Division of Administrative Services,

Office of Administration.