[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 28 (Thursday, February 11, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 6922]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-3394]


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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.
    Revision 1 of Regulatory Guide 3.54, ``Spent Fuel Heat Generation 
in an Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation,'' has been 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.
    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 may be obtained free of charge by writing the 
Reproduction and Distribution Services Section, OCIO, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, or by fax at (301) 
415-2289. 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 26th day of January 1999.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Ashok C. Thadani,
Director, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 99-3394 Filed 2-10-99; 8:45 am]
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