[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 66 (Monday, April 7, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16629-16630]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-8832]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Draft Regulatory Guide; Issuance, Availability
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued for public comment a
draft of a guide planned for its Regulatory Guide Series. This series
has been developed
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to describe and make available to the public such information as
methods acceptable to the NRC staff for implementing specific parts of
the NRC'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.
The draft guide, temporarily identified by its task number, DG-
3011, ``Use of Fixed Neutron Absorbers at Fuels and Materials
Facilities,'' is planned for Division 3, ``Fuels and Materials
Facilities.'' This regulatory guide is being developed to provide
guidance that is acceptable to the NRC staff on procedures for
preventing criticality accidents by using fixed neutron absorbers in
operations involving handling, storing, and transporting special
nuclear fuel at fuels and materials facilities.
The draft guide has not received complete staff review and does not
represent an official NRC staff position.
Public comments are being solicited on the guide. Comments should
be accompanied by supporting data. Written comments may be submitted to
the Rules Review and Directives Branch, Office of Administration, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555. Copies of comments
received may be examined at the NRC Public Document Room, 2120 L Street
NW., Washington, DC. Comments will be most helpful if received by June
20, 1997.
Although a time limit is given for comments on this draft guide,
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.
Comments may be submitted electronically, in either ASCII text or
Wordperfect format (version 5.1 or later), by calling the NRC
Electronic Bulletin Board on FedWorld. The bulletin board may be
accessed using a personal computer, a modem, and one of the commonly
available communications software packages, or directly via Internet.
If using a personal computer and modem, the NRC subsystem on
FedWorld can be accessed directly by dialing the toll free number: 1-
800-303-9672. Communication software parameters should be set as
follows: parity to none, data bits to 8, and stop bits to 1 (N,8,1).
Using ANSI or VT-100 terminal emulation, the NRC NUREGs and RegGuides
for Comment subsystem can then be accessed by selecting the ``Rules
Menu'' option from the ``NRC Main Menu.'' For further information about
options available for NRC at FedWorld, consult the ``Help/Information
Center'' from the ``NRC Main Menu.'' Users will find the ``FedWorld
Online User's Guides'' particularly helpful. Many NRC subsystems and
data bases also have a ``Help/Information Center'' option that is
tailored to the particular subsystem.
The NRC subsystem on FedWorld can also be accessed by a direct dial
phone number for the main FedWorld BBS, 703-321-3339, or by using
Telnet via Internet, fedworld.gov. If using 703-321-3339 to contact
FedWorld, the NRC subsystem will be accessed from the main FedWorld
menu by selecting the ``Regulatory, Government Administration and State
Systems,'' then selecting ``Regulatory Information Mall.'' At that
point, a menu will be displayed that has an option ``U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission'' that will take you to the NRC Online main menu.
The NRC Online area also can be accessed directly by typing ``/go nrc''
at a FedWorld command line. If you access NRC from FedWorld's main
menu, you may return to FedWorld by selecting the ``Return to
FedWorld'' option from the NRC Online Main Menu. However, if you access
NRC at FedWorld by using NRC's toll-free number, you will have full
access to all NRC systems but you will not have access to the main
FedWorld system.
If you contact FedWorld using Telnet, you will see the NRC area and
menus, including the Rules menu. Although you will be able to download
documents and leave messages, you will not be able to write comments or
upload files (comments). If you contact FedWorld using FTP, all files
can be accessed and downloaded but uploads are not allowed; all you
will see is a list of files without descriptions (normal Gopher look).
An index file listing all files within a subdirectory, with
descriptions, is included. There is a 15-minute time limit for FTP
access.
Although FedWorld can be accessed through the World Wide Web, like
FTP that mode only provides access for downloading files and does not
display the NRC Rules menu.
For more information on NRC bulletin boards call Mr. Arthur Davis,
Systems Integration and Development Branch, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555, telephone (301)415-5780; e-mail
AXD[email protected]. For more information on this draft regulatory guide,
contact S. Parra at the NRC, telephone (301)415-6433; e-mail
[email protected].
Regulatory guides are available for inspection at the Commission's
Public Document Room, 2120 L Street NW., Washington, DC. Requests for
single copies of draft or final guides (which may be reproduced) or for
placement on an automatic distribution list for single copies of future
draft guides in specific divisions should be made in writing to the
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555, Attention:
Distribution and Mail Services Section; or by fax at (301)415-2260.
Telephone requests cannot be accommodated. 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 25th day of March 1997.
Bill M. Morris,
Director, Division of Regulatory Applications Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 97-8832 Filed 4-4-97; 8:45 am]
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