[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 140 (Thursday, July 20, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45116-45117]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-18428]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Consolidated Guidance About Materials Licenses: Program-Specific 
Guidance About Well Logging, Tracer, and Field Flood Study Licenses

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is announcing the 
availability of the final NUREG-1556, Volume 14, ``Consolidated 
Guidance about Materials Licenses: Program-Specific Guidance about Well 
Logging, Tracer, and Field Flood Study Licenses,'' dated June 2000. 
This final NUREG report is the 14th program-specific guidance document 
developed to support an improved material licensing process. NRC is 
using Business Process Redesign (BPR) techniques to redesign its 
material licensing process, as described in NUREG-1539, ``Methodology 
and Findings of the NRC's Materials Licensing Process Redesign.'' A 
critical element of the new process is consolidating and updating 
numerous guidance documents into a NUREG-series of reports.
    This final guide has been developed in parallel with the final 
revision of 10 CFR Part 39, ``Energy Compensation Sources for Well 
Logging and Other Regulatory Clarifications,'' published as a Final 
Rule on April 17, 2000 (65 FR 20337). It is intended for use by 
applicants, licensees, NRC license reviewers, and other NRC personnel.
    This final report takes a more risk-informed, performance-based 
approach to licensing of well logging, tracer, and field flood study 
operations, and reduces the information (amount and level of detail) 
needed to support an application to use these devices.
    A free single copy of final NUREG-1556, Volume 14, may be requested 
by writing to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Mrs. Carrie 
Brown, Mail Stop TWFN 9-C24, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Alternatively, 
submit requests through the Internet by addressing electronic mail to 
[email protected]. A copy of final NUREG-1556, Volume 14, is also available 
for inspection and/or copying for a fee in the NRC Public Document 
Room, 2120 L Street, NW. (Lower Level), Washington, DC 20555-0001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Mrs. Carrie Brown, Mail Stop TWFN 9-
C24, Division of Industrial and Medical Nuclear Safety, Office of 
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555, telephone (301) 415-8092; electronic 
mail address: [email protected].

Electronic Access

    Final NUREG-1556, Vol. 14 is available electronically by visiting 
NRC's Home Page (http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/nucmat.html).


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    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 13th day of July, 2000.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Catherine Haney,
Acting Chief, Rulemaking and Guidance Branch, Division of Industrial 
and Medical Nuclear Safety, NMSS.
[FR Doc. 00-18428 Filed 7-19-00; 8:45 am]
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