[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 249 (Friday, December 28, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67335-67336]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-31929]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Draft Regulatory Guides; Issuance, Availability

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued for public comment 
four draft 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.
    The draft guides all pertain to licensees' use of Code Cases of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Boiler and Pressure 
Vessel Code, and the guides are being developed to provide updated 
guidance on the use of Code Cases. Code Cases provide alternatives that 
have been developed and approved by ASME or they explain the intent of 
existing Code requirements. The proposed Revision 32 of combined 
Regulatory Guides 1.84 and 1.85, temporarily identified by its task 
number, DG-1090 (which should be mentioned in all correspondence 
concerning this draft guide), is ``Design, Fabrication, and Materials 
Code Case Acceptability, ASME Section III.'' This draft guide provides 
guidance that is acceptable to the NRC staff for licensees on the use 
of ASME Section III Code Cases.
    Draft Regulatory Guide DG-1091, ``Inservice Inspection Code Case 
Acceptability, ASME Section XI, Division 1,'' is the proposed Revision 
13 of Regulatory Guide 1.147, which provides guidance that is 
acceptable to the NRC staff for licensees on the use of ASME Section XI 
Code Cases.
    Draft Regulatory Guide DG-1089, ``Operation and Maintenance Code 
Case Acceptability, ASME OM Code,'' is being developed to provide 
guidance that is acceptable to the NRC staff for licensees on the use 
of ASME OM Code Cases.
    Draft Regulatory Guide DG-1112, ``ASME Code Cases Not Approved for 
Use,'' is being developed to provide guidance to licensees on the ASME 
Code Cases that have not been approved by the NRC. The reasons the Code 
Cases were not approved are also stated.
    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 March 25, 2002.
    Comments may also be provided via the NRC's interactive rulemaking 
web site through the NRC homepage 
(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 web site, 
contact Ms. Carol Gallagher, (301) 415-5905; e-mail [email protected]. For 
information about the draft guides, contact Mr. W.E. Norris at (301) 
415-6796; 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 NRC's Public 
Document Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD; the PDR's mailing 
address is USNRC PDR, Washington, DC 20555; telephone (301) 415-4737 or 
(800) 397-4205; fax (301) 415-3548; e-mail PDR@NRC>GOV. 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 e-mail to 
[email protected]; or by fax to (301) 415-2289. Telephone requests 
cannot be accommodated. Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and 
Commission approval is not required to reproduce them.


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(5 U.S.C. 552(a))

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 12th day of December 2001.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Michael E. Mayfield,
Director, Division of Engineering Technology, Office of Nuclear 
Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 01-31929 Filed 12-27-01; 8:45 am]
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