[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 211 (Tuesday, October 31, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 65024]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-27939]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Draft Regulatory Guides; Issuance, Availability

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued for public comment 
drafts of two new guides 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.
    Draft Regulatory Guide DG-1102, ``Design, Inspection, and Testing 
Criteria for Air Filtration and Adsorption Units of Post-Accident 
Engineered-Safety-Feature Atmosphere Cleanup Systems in Light-Water-
Cooled Nuclear Power Plants,'' as a proposed Revision 3 to Regulatory 
Guide 1.52, is being developed to describe methods acceptable to the 
NRC staff for complying with the NRC's regulations with regard to the 
design, inspection, and testing criteria for air filtration and iodine 
adsorption units of engineered-safety-feature atmosphere cleanup 
systems in light-water-cooled nuclear power plants. This guide applies 
only to post-accident atmosphere cleanup systems that are designed to 
mitigate the consequences of postulated accidents.
    Draft Regulatory Guide DG-1103, ``Design, Inspection, and Testing 
Criteria for Air Filtration and Adsorption Units of Normal Ventilation 
Exhaust Systems in Light-Water-Cooled Nuclear Power Plants,'' as a 
proposed Revision 2 to Regulatory Guide 1.140, is being developed to 
present methods acceptable to the NRC staff for meeting the NRC's 
regulations with regard to the criteria for air filtration and 
adsorption units installed in the normal ventilation exhaust systems of 
light-water-cooled nuclear power plants.
    These draft guides have not received complete staff approval and do 
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 of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555. Copies of comments received may be examined at 
the NRC Public Document Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD. 
Comments will be most helpful if received by December 29, 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 these draft guides, 
under Accession Numbers ML003714744 for DG-8026 and ML003714764 for DG-
8027, 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 guides, contact Mr. J. Segala at (301) 415-1858; e-mail 
[email protected].
    Although a time limit is given for comments on these draft guides, 
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, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD. 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 19th day of October 2000.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Clare V. Kasputys,
Deputy Director, Program Management, Policy Development & Analysis 
Staff, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 00-27939 Filed 10-30-00; 8:45 am]
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