[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 144 (Friday, July 26, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48956-48957]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-18968]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Draft Regulatory Guide; Issuance, Availability

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued for public comment a 
draft of a new guide in its Regulatory Guide Series. Regulatory Guides 
are 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.
    This draft guide, temporarily identified by its task number, DG-
3021 (which should be mentioned in all correspondence concerning this 
draft guide), is ``Site Evaluations and Determination of Design 
Earthquake Ground Motion for Seismic Design of Independent Spent Fuel 
Storage Installations and Monitored Retrievable Storage 
Installations.'' This draft guide is being developed to provide 
guidance on methods acceptable to the NRC staff on (1) identifying and 
characterizing capable tectonic sources and seismogenic sources, (2) 
conducting investigations to identify and characterize uncertainty in 
seismic sources important for the probabilistic seismic hazard 
analysis, (3) conducting probabilistic seismic hazard analyses for the 
site, and (4) determining the design earthquake ground motion for 
independent spent fuel storage installations and monitored retrievable 
storage installations.
    This draft guide has not received complete staff approval and does 
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

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may be examined at the NRC Public Document Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, 
Rockville, MD. Comments will be most helpful if received by October 7, 
2002.
    You may also provide comments via the NRC's interactive rulemaking 
web site through the NRC home page 
(http://www.nrc.gov). This site provides the ability 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 guide and the related documents, contact Mr. M. Shah at 
(301) 415-8537; e-mail [email protected].
    Although a time limit is given for comments on this draft guide, 
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 [email protected]. 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. (5 U.S.C. 
552(a))

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd day of July, 2002.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Mabel F. Lee,
Director, Program Management, Policy Development and Analysis Staff, 
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 02-18968 Filed 7-25-02; 8:45 am]
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