[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 58 (Thursday, March 26, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14739-14740]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-7961]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Regulatory Guide; Issuance, Availability

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a revision to 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 
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.
    Revision 3 of Regulatory Guide 1.134, ``Medical Evaluation of 
Licensed Personnel at Nuclear Power Plants,'' has been developed to 
provide guidance acceptable to the NRC staff on evaluating the medical 
qualifications of applicants for initial or renewal operator or senior 
operator licenses for nuclear power plants. Regulatory Guide 1.134 also 
provides for notification to the NRC of an operator's incapacitating 
disability or illness. This guide endorses the American National 
Standards Institute standard, ANSI/ANS-3.4-1996, ``Medical 
Certification and Monitoring of Personnel Requiring Operator Licenses 
for Nuclear Power Plants.''
    The NRC has verified with the Office of Management and Budget the 
determination that this regulatory guide is not a major rule.
    Comments and suggestions in connection with items for inclusion in 
guides currently being developed or improvements in all published 
guides

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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 may be obtained free of charge by writing the 
Printing, Graphics and Distribution Branch, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, 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 13th day of March 1998.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Joseph A. Murphy,
Acting Director, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 98-7961 Filed 3-25-98; 8:45 am]
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