[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 195 (Wednesday, October 8, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 52599]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-26639]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Draft Regulatory Guide; Issuance, Availability

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued for public comment a 
proposed revision of a 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 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 is a proposed Revision 1 to Regulatory Guide 3.54, 
and it is temporarily identified as DG-3010, ``Spent Fuel Heat 
Generation in an Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation.'' The 
guide is in Division 3, ``Fuels and Materials Facilities.'' This 
regulatory guide is being revised to present a method that is 
acceptable to the NRC staff for calculating heat generation rates for 
use as design input for an independent spent fuel storage installation. 
The procedures proposed in this guide, for both boiling water reactors 
and pressurized water reactors, are simpler and therefore are expected 
to be more useful to applicants and reviewers.
    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 and Directives Branch, Division of Administrative Services, 
Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001. 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 January 2, 1998.
    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 website, contact Ms. Carol Gallagher, (301) 415-
5905; e-mail [email protected]. The draft guide may also be viewed and 
downloaded at this interactive site.
    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 12th day of September 1997.
    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Joseph A. Murphy,
Director, Division of Regulatory Applications, Office of Nuclear 
Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 97-26639 Filed 10-7-97; 8:45 am]
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