[Federal Register: January 10, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 7)]
[Notices]
[Page 1899]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Notice of Availability of Interim Staff Guidance Documents for
Spent Fuel Storage Casks
AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of Availability.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Matthew Gordon, Structural Mechanics
and Materials Branch, Division of Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation
Division, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20005-0001. Telephone:
(301) 492-3331; fax number: (301) 492-3342; e-mail: mxg9@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is preparing and issuing
Revision 1 to the Interim Staff Guidance (ISG)-18 document for ``The
Design and Testing of Lid Welds on Austenitic Stainless Steel Canisters
as Confinement Boundary for Spent Fuel Storage.'' This ISG document
provides clarifying guidance to the NRC staff when reviewing licensee
integrated safety analyses, license applications or amendment requests,
or other related licensing activities for dry cask storage systems
under 10 CFR Part 72. The NRC is soliciting public comments on the
Draft of ISG-18, Revision 1, which will be considered in the final
version or subsequent revisions.
II. Summary
The purpose of this notice is to provide the public with an
opportunity to review and comment on the Draft of ISG-18, Revision 1,
``The Design and Testing of Lid Welds on Austenitic Stainless Steel
Canisters as Confinement Boundary for Spent Fuel Storage.''
III. Further Information
Documents related to this action are available electronically at
the NRC's Electronic Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
From this site, you can access the NRC's Agencywide
Document Access and Management System (ADAMS), which provides text and
image files of NRC's public documents. The ADAMS accession numbers for
the documents related to this notice are provided in the following
table. If you do not have access to ADAMS or if there are problems in
accessing the documents located in ADAMS, contact the NRC Public
Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or
by e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov.
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Interim staff guidance documents ADAMS Accession No.
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Draft of Interim Staff Guidance-18, ML072410351
Revision 1.
Draft of Interim Staff Guidance-18, ML072410352
Revision 1 Enclosed Sketches A&B.
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These documents may also be viewed electronically on the public
computers located at the NRC's PDR, O-1 F21, One White Flint North,
11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. The PDR reproduction
contractor will copy documents for a fee. Comments and questions on
ISG-18, Revision 1, should be directed to Matthew Gordon, Structural
Mechanics and Materials Branch, Division of Spent Fuel Storage and
Transportation, Office of Nuclear Materials Safety and Safeguards, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20005-0001 by February
25, 2008. Comments received after this date will be considered if it is
practical to do so, but assurance of consideration cannot be given to
comments received after this date. Comments can also be submitted by
telephone, fax, or e-mail to the following: Telephone: (301) 492-3331;
fax number: (301) 492-3331; e-mail: mxg9@nrc.gov.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 3rd day of January, 2008.
For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Christopher M. Regan,
Chief, Structural Mechanics and Materials Branch, Division of Spent
Fuel Storage and Transportation, Office of Nuclear Materials Safety and
Safeguards.
[FR Doc. E8-269 Filed 1-9-08; 8:45 am]
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