[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 178 (Monday, September 15, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48322-48323]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-24383]


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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 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.
    The draft guide, temporarily identified by its task number, DG-1060 
(which should be mentioned in all correspondence concerning this draft 
guide), is titled ``Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) 
Standards for Decommissioning Cost Accounting.'' The guide is intended 
for Division 1, ``Power Reactors.'' This draft guide is being developed 
to propose NRC's endorsement of the Financial Accounting Standards 
Board draft standard No. 158-B, ``Accounting for Certain Liabilities 
Related to Closure or Removal of Long-Lived Assets.'' (Copies may be 
obtained from FASB, 401 Merritt 7, P.O. Box 5116, Norwalk, CT 06856-
5116.)
    This Draft Regulatory Guide DG-1060 is being issued in anticipation 
of rulemaking regarding the funding for decommissioning power reactors. 
An advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) was published on April 
8, 1996 (61 FR 15427). After consideration of the responses, the staff 
believes it is likely that the proposed rule will include a periodic 
reporting requirement. Issuance of a final regulatory guide is 
dependent upon issuance of a final rule that includes a provision for a 
reporting requirement. In the interest of efficiency and utility, the 
staff is proposing to endorse this draft FASB standard to facilitate 
licensees' plans for decommissioning.
    The draft guide has not received complete staff review and does not 
represent an official NRC staff position.
    Public comments are being solicited on Draft Regulatory Guide DG-
1060. Comments may be accompanied by additional relevant information or 
supporting data. Written comments may be submitted to the Rules 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 November 
24, 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.
    You may also provide comments via the NRC's interactive rulemaking 
website through the NRC home page (http://www.nrc.gov). This site 
provides the availability to upload comments as files (any format), if 
your web browser supports that function. For information about the 
interactive rulemaking

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website, contact Ms. Carol Gallagher, (301) 415-5905; 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: 
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 9th day of September 1997.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Joseph A. Murphy,
Director, Division of Regulatory Applications, Office of Nuclear 
Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 97-24383 Filed 9-12-97; 8:45 am]
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