[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 80 (Tuesday, April 25, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24231-24232]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-10293]


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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 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 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, temporarily identified by its task number, DG-1095 
(which should be mentioned in all correspondence concerning this draft 
guide), is titled ``Guidance for Implementation of 10 CFR 50.59, 
`Changes, Tests and Experiments.' '' This guide is being developed to 
describe methods acceptable to the NRC staff for complying with the 
NRC's regulations with regard to the process for evaluating changes, 
tests, and experiements that a licensee wishes to make without prior 
NRC approval. A letter has been issued as part of the guide to request 
public comments on specific questions related to the guidance. This 
guide proposes to endorse, with some clarifications, a Nuclear Energy 
Institute document, Revision 1 of NEI 96-07, ``Guidelines for 10 CFR 
50.59 Evaluations.''
    This draft guide has not received complete staff approval and does 
not represent an official NRC staff position.
    Comments may be accompanied by relevant information or supporting 
data. Written comments may be submitted to the Rules and Directives 
Branch, Office

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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 June 9, 2000.
    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]. Electronic copies of this draft guide, under 
Accession Number ML003698165, are available in NRC's Public Electronic 
Reading Room, which can also be accessed through NRC's web site, 
WWW.NRC.GOV>. For information about the draft guide and the related 
documents, contact Ms. E. McKenna at (301) 415-2189; 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: 
Reproduction and Distribution Services Section; or by fax to (301) 415-
2289, or by email to [email protected]>. 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 April 2000.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Charles E. Ader,
Director, Program Management, Policy Development & Analysis Staff, 
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 00-10293 Filed 4-24-00; 8:45 am]
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