[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 14 (Monday, January 22, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 6704]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-1599]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Consolidated Guidance About Materials Licenses: Program-Specific 
Guidance About Service Provider Licenses

AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

ACTION: Notice of availability of final NUREG.

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SUMMARY: The NRC is announcing the availability of the final NUREG-
1556, Volume 18, ``Consolidated Guidance about Materials Licenses: 
Program-Specific Guidance about Service Provider 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 eighteenth 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 the following draft 
regulatory guides: ``Guide for the Application for a License for the 
Use of Radioactive Materials for Calibrating Radiation Survey and 
Monitoring Instruments,'' ``Guide for the Application for the Use of 
Radioactive Materials in Leak-Testing Services,'' and ``Guide for the 
Applications for the Use of Radioactive Materials in Servicing 
Preregistered Gauges, Measuring Devices, and Sealed Sources Used in 
Such Devices.'' Additionally, NRC staff included information contained 
in the corresponding Standard Review Plans for these three draft 
regulatory guides. This final report takes a more risk-informed, 
performance-based approach to licensing service providers, and reduces 
the information (amount and level of detail) needed to support an 
application for these activities. This final document may be used for 
preparing or reviewing service provider licenses.
    A free single copy of final NUREG-1556, Volume 18, may be requested 
by writing to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Mrs. Carrie 
Brown, Mail Stop TWFN 9-C-24, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Alternatively, 
submit requests through the Internet by addressing electronic mail to 
[email protected]. A copy of final NUREG-1556, Volume 18, 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, 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 mail 
address: [email protected].

Electronic Access

    Final NUREG-1556, Volume 18, is available electronically by 
visiting the NRC's Home Page (http://www.nrc.gov/nrc/nucmat.html).

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day of January, 2001.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Patricia K. Holahan,
Chief, Rulemaking and Guidance Branch Division of Industrial and 
Medical Nuclear Safety, NMSS.
[FR Doc. 01-1599 Filed 1-19-01; 8:45 am]
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