[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 8 (Thursday, January 11, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 2461]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-833]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Consolidated Guidance About Materials Licenses: Program-Specific 
Guidance About Special Nuclear Material of Less Than Critical Mass 
Licenses

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: The NRC is announcing the availability of final NUREG-1556, 
Volume 17, ``Consolidated Guidance about Materials Licenses: Program-
Specific Guidance about Special Nuclear Material of Less Than Critical 
Mass Licenses,'' dated November 2000.
    The NRC is using Business Process Redesign techniques to redesign 
its materials 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 NUREG report is the 17th guidance document developed to 
support an improved materials licensing process.
    This guidance is intended for use by applicants, licensees, and the 
NRC staff, and will also be available to Agreement States. This 
document combines and updates the guidance found in Regulatory Guide 
10.3 ``Guide for the preparation of Applications for Special Nuclear 
Material Licenses of Less Than Critical mass Quantities.'' This final 
report takes a more risk-informed, performance-based approach to 
licensing quantities of special nuclear material of less than critical 
mass, and reduces the information (amount and level of detail) needed 
to support an application to use this material.
    A free single copy of final NUREG 1556, Volume 17, may be requested 
by writing to the US 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 this final NUREG 1556 Volume 17, is 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, TWFN 9-F-24, 
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 Access: Final NUREG-1556, Vol. 17 is available 
electronically by visiting the NRC's Home Page 
(http://www.nrc.gov/nrc/nucmat.html)

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 21st day of December, 2000.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Patricia K. Holahan,
Chief, Rulemaking and Guidance Branch, Division of Industrial and 
Medical Nuclear Safety, NMSS.
[FR Doc. 01-833 Filed 1-10-01; 8:45 am]
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