Erik Erb-Minimum Day Off Requirement for Security Officers

AGENCY:

Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION:

Petition for rulemaking; withdrawal by petitioner.

SUMMARY:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is announcing the withdrawal, without prejudice to a future filing, of a petition for rulemaking (PRM), PRM-26-6, “Minimum Day Off Requirement for Security Officers,” submitted to the NRC by Erik Erb and 91 co-signers (the petitioners) on August 17, 2010. The petitioners requested that the NRC amend its regulations to decrease the minimum days off requirement for security officers working 12-hour shifts from an average of 3 days per week to 2.5 or 2 days per week. The petitioner withdrew PRM-26-6 by email dated December 10, 2019.

DATES:

PRM-26-6 was withdrawn on December 10, 2019.

ADDRESSES:

Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2010-0310 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain publicly available information related to this action by any of the following methods:

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2010-0310. Address questions about NRC dockets to Dawn Forder; telephone: 301-415-3407; email: Dawn.Forder@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Yanely Malave, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-1519, email: Yanely.Malave-Velez@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

On August 17, 2010, the petitioner submitted PRM-26-6 to the NRC requesting that it amend its fitness-for-duty regulations to decrease the minimum days off requirement from an average of 3 days per week to 2.5 or 2 days per week for security officers working 12-hour shifts (ADAMS Accession No. ML102630127). On November 23, 2010, the NRC published a notice of receipt of, and request for public comment on PRM-26-6 in the Federal Register (75 FR 71368). The NRC received 5 comment letters from corporations, professional organizations, and private citizens. The NRC initially determined that the issues raised in PRM-26-6 would be considered in the “Quality Control/Quality Verification” rulemaking (Docket ID: NRC-2009-0090) and published a Federal Register notice (76 FR 28191) on May 16, 2011, to this effect. On December 9, 2015, the NRC published a notice in the Federal Register discontinuing the QC/QV rulemaking (80 FR 76394). By email dated December 10, 2019, the petitioner withdrew PRM-26-6 (ADAMS Accession No. ML20006D919).