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This rule would amend the Commission's regulations to revise the existing security requirements that apply during the storage of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) at an Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI), and during the storage of SNF and high-level waste at a Monitored Retrievable Storage Installation (MRS).  This rule would require conforming changes to the ISFSI and MRS licensing requirements for security plans and programs.  The specific objectives of this rule are to update the ISFSI and MRS security requirements to improve the consistency of and clarify the part 73 security requirements for both types of ISFSI licensees (i.e., general and specific); make generically applicable requirements similar to those imposed on ISFSI licensees by the post September 11, 2001, security orders; and use a risk-informed, performance-based structure in ISFSI and MRS security regulations.  This rulemaking would also address Issue 11 of PRM 72-6 filed by C-10 Research and Education Foundation Inc. (C-10).  Issue 11 requested that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission require Hardened On-Site Storage at all nuclear power plants as well as away-from-reactor dry cask storage sites; and that all nuclear industry interim onsite or off-site dry cask storage installations or ISFSIs be fortified against terrorist attack.  In addition, the petitioner requested that all sites be safeguarded against accident and age-related leakage.