[Federal Register: November 30, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 230)]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Revised Regulatory Guides: Impending Issuance, Availability
AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Impending Issuance, Availability of Regulatory Guides in
Divisions 3, 6, and 10.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Andrea D. Valentin, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-
7143 or e-mail ADW1@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
is currently reviewing and revising numerous guides in the agency's
``Regulatory Guide'' (RG) series. This series was developed to
describe, and make available to the public, methods that are acceptable
to the NRC staff for implementing specific parts of the NRC's
regulations, techniques that the staff uses in evaluating specific
problems or postulated accidents, and data that the staff needs in its
review of applications for permits and licenses.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The NRC has established 10 broad
divisions of RGs. The NRC periodically revises its RGs as new guidance
becomes available. In some cases, new guidance has been provided
through other means (e.g., agency's NUREG reports) and the RGs have not
been updated. The following list of RGs in Division 3, ``Fuels and
Materials Facilities,'' Division 6, ``Products,'' and Division 10,
``General,'' are now being revised to update the applicable guidance.
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RG Title
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3.16.................. General Fire Protection Guide for Plutonium
Processing and Fuel Fabrication Plants.
3.25.................. Standard Format and Content of Safety Analysis
Reports for Uranium Enrichment Facilities.
3.38.................. General Fire Protection Guide for Fuel
Reprocessing Plants.
3.39.................. Standard Format and Content of License
Applications for Plutonium Processing and Fuel
Fabrication Plants.
3.52.................. Standard Format and Content for the Health and
Safety Sections of License Renewal Applications
for Uranium Processing and Fuel Fabrication.
3.65.................. Standard Format and Content of Decommissioning
Plans for Licensees Under 10 CFR Parts 30, 40,
and 70.
3.66.................. Standard Format and Content of Financial
Assurance Mechanisms Required for
Decommissioning Under 10 CFR Parts 30, 40, 70,
and 72.
6.1................... Leak Testing Radioactive Brachytherapy Sources.
6.2................... Integrity and Test Specifications for Selected
Brachytherapy Sources.
6.4................... Classification of Containment Properties of
Sealed Radioactive Sources.
6.5................... General Safety Standard for Installations Using
Nonmedical Sealed Gamma-Ray Sources.
6.9................... Establishing Quality Assurance Programs for the
Manufacture and Distribution of Sealed Sources
and Devices Containing Byproduct Material.
10.2.................. Guidance to Academic Institutions Applying for
Specific Byproduct Material Licensees of
Limited Scope.
10.3.................. Guide for the Preparation of Applications for
Special Nuclear Material Licenses of Less than
Critical Mass.
10.4.................. Guide for the Preparation of Applications for
Licenses to Process Source Material.
10.5.................. Applications for Type A Licenses of Broad Scope.
10.6.................. Guide for the Preparation of Applications for
Use of Sealed Sources and Devices for
Performing Industrial Radiography.
10.7.................. Guide for the Preparation of Applications for
Licenses for Laboratory and Industrial Use of
Small Quantities of Byproduct Material.
10.8.................. Guide for the Preparation of Applications for
Medical Use Programs.
10.9.................. Guide for the Preparation of Applications for
Licenses for the Use of Self-Contained Dry
Source-Storage Gamma Irradiators.
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The NRC staff encourages and welcomes comments and suggestions in
connection with improvements to published RGs, as well as items for
inclusion in RGs that are currently being developed. You may submit
comments by any of the following methods:
1. Mail comments to Rulemaking, Directives, and Editing Branch,
Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001 (MS T-6 D59).
2. Hand-deliver comments to Rulemaking, Directives, and Editing
Branch, Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, between 7:30 a.m. and
4:15 p.m. on Federal workdays.
3. Fax comments to Rulemaking, Directives and Editing Branch,
Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, at (301)
415-5144.
4. E-mail comments to NRCREP@nrc.gov.
Availability and Dates
These draft revised RGs are expected to be published for review and
comment
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over the next 90 days. The comment period for each RG will be 60 days
from the date of its posting on the NRC Web site. The NRC will make
each revised RG publicly available through the following electronic
distribution methods:
1. The NRC's Electronic Reading Room on the agency's public Web
site, under ``Regulatory Guides'' at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/reg-guides/
.
2. The NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS), at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html (using the ADAMS
accession number specified in the footer on the first page of each
regulatory guide).
RGs are not copyrighted, and Commission approval is not required to
reproduce them. Copies of each RG and other related publicly available
documents, including public comments received, can be viewed
electronically on computers in the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR),
which is located at One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike,
Rockville, Maryland, Room O-1 F21, and is open to the public on Federal
workdays from 7:45 a.m. until 4:15 p.m. The PDR reproduction contractor
will make copies of documents for a fee. If you do not have access to
ADAMS or if you encounter problems in accessing the documents stored in
ADAMS, contact the PDR Reference Staff at (800) 397-4209 or (301) 415-
4737, or by e-mail to PDR@nrc.gov.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20th day of November, 2007.
For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrea D. Valentin,
Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of Engineering,
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. E7-23221 Filed 11-29-07; 8:45 am]
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