[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 12 (Tuesday, January 20, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 3008]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-1213]


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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-3013 
(which should be mentioned in all correspondence concerning this draft 
guide), is titled ``Nuclear Criticality Safety Standards for Fuels and 
Material Facilities.'' The guide is intended for Division 3, ``Fuels 
and Materials Facilities.'' This draft guide is being developed to 
provide guidance on procedures for preventing nuclear criticality 
accidents in operations involving handling, processing, storing, and 
transporting special nuclear material at fuels and materials 
facilities. The guide will also endorse 13 standards on nuclear 
criticality safety that have been developed by the American National 
Standards Institute/American Nuclear Society.
    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-
3013. 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 March 31, 
1998.
    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].
    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.
    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 6th day of January 1998.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Joseph A. Murphy,
Director, Division of Regulatory Applications, Office of Nuclear 
Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 98-1213 Filed 1-16-98; 8:45 am]
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