[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 246 (Friday, December 20, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 67354]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-32348]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Regulatory Guide; Issuance, Availability

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a new guide in its 
Regulatory Guide Series. This series has been developed to describe and 
make available to the public such information as methods acceptable to 
the NRC staff for implementing specific parts of the Commission's 
regulations, techniques used by the staff in evaluating specific 
problems or postulated accidents, and data needed by the staff in its 
review of applications for permits and licenses.
    Regulatory Guide 4.20, ``Constraint on Releases of Airborne 
Radioactive Materials to the Environment for Licensees Other than Power 
Reactors,'' provides guidance on methods acceptable to the NRC staff 
for compliance with the constraint on air emissions to the environment. 
This constraint is required by the NRC's regulations in 10 CFR Part 20, 
``Standards for Protection Against Radiation,'' in Section 20.1101(d). 
The draft of this Regulatory Guide 4.20 was issued in December 1995 as 
DG-8016.
    Comments and suggestions in connection with items for inclusion in 
guides currently being developed or improvements in all published 
guides are encouraged at any time. Written comments may be submitted to 
the Publications Branch, Division of Freedom of Information and 
Publications Services, Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555.
    Regulatory guides are available for inspection or copying for a fee 
at the Commission's Public Document Room, 2120 L Street NW., 
Washington, DC. Single copies of regulatory guides, both active and 
draft, may be obtained free of charge by writing the Office of 
Administration, Attn: Distribution and Services Section, USNRC, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001, or by fax at (301) 415-2260. Issued guides 
may also be purchased from the National Technical Information Service 
on a standing order basis. Details on this service may be obtained by 
writing NTIS, 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA 22161. Regulatory 
guides are not copyrighted, and Commission approval is not required to 
reproduce them.

(5 U.S.C. 552(a))

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 4th day of December 1996.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Themis P. Speis,
Deputy Director, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 96-32348 Filed 12-19-96; 8:45 am]
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