[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 173 (Monday, September 8, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 47232]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-23698]


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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 3.70, ``Use of Fixed Neutron Absorbers at Fuels 
and Materials Facilities,'' provides 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 fuels at fuels and materials facilities.
    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 Rules and Directives Branch, Division of Administrative Services, 
Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555.
    Regulatory guides are available for inspection at the Commission's 
Public Document Room, 2120 L Street NW., Washington, DC. Single copies 
of regulatory guides, both active and draft guides, may be obtained 
free of charge by writing the Office of Administration, Attn: Printing, 
Graphics and Distribution Branch, USNRC, Washington, DC 20555-0001, or 
by fax at (301) 415-5272. 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 9th day of August 1997.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Malcolm R. Knapp,
Acting Director, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 97-23698 Filed 9-5-97; 8:45 am]
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