[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 15 (Tuesday, January 23, 2001)]
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Consolidated Guidance About Materials Licenses: Program-Specific 
Guidance About Change of Control and about Bankruptcy Involving 
Byproduct, Source, or Special Nuclear Material 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 15, ``Consolidated Guidance about Materials Licenses: 
Guidance about Change of Control and about Bankruptcy Involving 
Byproduct, Source, or Special Nuclear Material 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 fifteenth guidance document developed to 
support an improved materials licensing process.
    This guidance is intended for use by applicants, licensees, and NRC 
staff, and will also be available to Agreement States. This document 
combines and updates the guidance found in NRC Information Notice 89-
25, Rev. 1: ``Unauthorized Transfer of Ownership or Control of Licensed 
Activities''; NRC Information Notice 97-30: ``Control of Licensed 
Material During Reorganizations, Employee-Management Disagreements, and 
Financial Crises''; and Policy and Guidance Directive 8-11, ``NMSS 
Procedures for Reviewing Declarations of Bankruptcy.'' The guidance in 
this report supersedes Policy and Guidance Directive 8-11. This final 
report takes a more risk-informed, performance-based approach to 
evaluating changes of control or bankruptcy of byproduct, source, and 
special nuclear material licensees, reducing the information (amount 
and level of detail) needed to properly inform NRC of a change of 
control or bankruptcy.
    A free single copy of final NUREG-1556, Volume 15, 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 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-
F-31, 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 15, 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.
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