E9-3390. Regulatory Changes To Implement the Additional Protocol to the US/IAEA Safeguards Agreement; Correction

AGENCY:

Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION:

Final rule; correcting amendment.

SUMMARY:

On December 23, 2008 (73 FR 78599), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) published a final rule that amended the NRC's regulations to implement the requirements under the Protocol Additional to the Agreement between the United States of America and the International Atomic Energy Agency for the Application of Safeguards in the United States of America (Additional Protocol) for certain NRC and Agreement State licensees to report information on various nuclear fuel cycle-related activities and to provide the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) with access to those locations. This document is necessary to correct an erroneous amendatory instruction which resulted in two undesignated center headings.

DATES:

The correction is effective February 18, 2009, and is applicable to December 23, 2008, the date the original rule became effective.

ADDRESSES:

You can access publicly available documents related to this document using the following methods:

Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for documents filed under Docket ID NRC-2008-0543. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher 301-492-3668; e-mail [e-mail].

NRC's Public Document Room (PDR): The public may examine and have copied for a fee publicly available documents at the NRC's PDR, Public File Area O1 F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland.

NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS): Publicly available documents created or received at the NRC are available electronically at the NRC's electronic Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/​reading-rm/​adams.html. From this page, the public can gain entry into ADAMS, which provides text and image files of NRC's public documents. If you do not have access to ADAMS or if there are problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, contact the NRC's PDR reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to [e-mail].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Michael T. Lesar, Chief, Rulemaking, Directives and Editing Branch, Office of Administration, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone [phone], e-mail [e-mail].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

This document corrects an erroneous amendatory instruction which resulted in two undesignated center headings.

List of Subjects in 10 CFR Part 75

• Criminal penalties
• Intergovernmental relations
• Nuclear materials
• Nuclear power plants and reactors
• Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
• Security measures

For the reasons set out in the preamble and under the authority of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended; the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, as amended; and 5 U.S.C. 552 and 553, the NRC is adopting the following amendment to 10 CFR Part 75.

PART 75—SAFEGUARDS ON NUCLEAR MATERIAL—IMPLEMENTATION OF US/IAEA AGREEMENT

1. The authority citation for Part 75 continues to read as follows:

Authority: Secs. 53, 63, 103, 104, 122, 161, 68 Stat. 930, 932, 936, 937, 939, 948, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2073, 2093, 2133, 2134, 2152, 2201); sec. 201, 88 Stat. 1242, as amended (42 U.S.C. 5841); sec. 1704, 112 Stat. 2750 (44 U.S.C. 3504 note).

Section 75.4 also issued under secs. 135, 141, Public Law 97-425, 96 Stat. 2232, 2241 (42 U.S.C. 10155, 10161.

2. On page 78613, in the third column, instruction 50 is corrected to read as follows: “50. Section 75.37 and the undesignated center heading “Installations Designated for IAEA Safeguards” that follows § 75.37 are removed.”

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 10th day of February 2009.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Michael T. Lesar,

Chief, Rulemaking, Directives, and Editing Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Office of Administration.