[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 115 (Monday, June 16, 1997)] [Notices] [Pages 32666-32667] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 97-15696] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 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- 1067, ``Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Reactors,'' is planned for Division 1, ``Power Reactors.'' This regulatory guide is being developed to describe methods and procedures that are acceptable to the NRC staff for implementing the requirements of the final rule on decommissioning that pertain to the initial activities and the major phases of the process of decommissioning nuclear power reactors. 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 August 18, 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 M.T. Masnik at the NRC, telephone (301)415-1191; 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 [[Page 32667]] Commission, Washington, DC 20555, Attention: Printing, Graphics and Distribution Branch; or by fax at (301) 415-5272. 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 4th day of June 1997. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Joseph A. Murphy, Director, Division of Regulatory Applications, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. [FR Doc. 97-15696 Filed 6-13-97; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590-01-P