Report to Congress on Abnormal Occurrences; Fiscal Year 2014; Dissemination of Information

AGENCY:

Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION:

Notice of availability.

SUMMARY:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is making available NUREG-0090, Volume 37, “Report to Congress on Abnormal Occurrences: Fiscal Year 2014.” The report describes those events that the NRC or an Agreement State identified as abnormal occurrences (AOs) during fiscal year (FY) 2014, based on the criteria defined in this report's Appendix A, “Abnormal Occurrence Criteria and Guidelines for Other Events of Interest.” The report describes 12 events at Agreement State-licensed facilities and 1 event at an NRC-licensed facility.

DATES:

NUREG-0090, Volume 37, is available June 5, 2015.

ADDRESSES:

Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0137 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You may obtain publicly-available information related to this document using any of the following methods:

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0137. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-3463; email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact the individuals listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document.
• NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the ADAMS Public Documents collection at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select “ADAMS Public Documents” and then select “Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.” For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov.
• NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Katie Tapp, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-252-7520, email: Katherine.Tapp@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Section 208 of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, as amended (Pub. L. 93-438), defines an “abnormal occurrence” as an unscheduled incident or event that the NRC determines to be significant from the standpoint of public health or safety. The report describes those events that the NRC identified as AOs during FY 2014, based on the criteria defined in this report's Appendix A, “Abnormal Occurrence Criteria and Guidelines for Other Events of Interest.”

The report describes 12 events at Agreement State-licensed facilities and one event at an NRC-licensed facility. One Agreement State-licensee event involved radiation exposure to an embryo/fetus. The NRC-licensee and the other 11 Agreement State-licensee events were medical events as defined in part 35 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations, and occurred at medical institutions. Agreement States are the 37 States that currently have entered into formal agreements with the NRC pursuant to Section 274 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (AEA) (Pub. L. 83-703) to regulate certain quantities of AEA-licensed material at facilities located within their borders.

The Federal Reports Elimination and Sunset Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-68) requires that the NRC report AOs to Congress annually. The full report, NUREG-0090, Volume 37, “Report to Congress on Abnormal Occurrences: Fiscal Year 2014” is available electronically at the NRC's Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/,, and in ADAMS under Accession No. ML15140A285.