[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 122 (Monday, June 27, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 36969]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-12639]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Notice of Availability of Interim Staff Guidance Documents for 
Fuel Cycle Facilities

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Wilkins Smith, Project Manager, 
Technical Support Group, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, 
Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20005-0001. Telephone: (301) 415-
5788; fax number: (301) 415-5370; e-mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Introduction

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is preparing and issuing 
Interim Staff Guidance (ISG) documents for fuel cycle facilities. These 
ISG documents provide clarifying guidance to the NRC staff when 
reviewing licensee integrated safety analyses, license applications or 
amendment requests or other related licensing activities for fuel cycle 
facilities under Subpart H of 10 CFR Part 70. FCSS-ISG-01, -04, and -09 
have been issued and are provided for information.

II. Summary

    The purpose of this notice is to provide notice to the public of 
the issuance of Interim Staff Guidance documents for fuel cycle 
facilities. FCSS-ISG-01, Revision 0, provides guidance to NRC staff 
relative to methods for qualitative evaluation of likelihood in the 
context of a review of a license application or amendment request under 
10 CFR Part 70, Subpart H. FCSS-ISG-01, Revision 0, has been approved 
and issued after a general revision based on NRC staff and public 
comments on the initial draft. FCSS-ISG-04, Revision 0 has been 
approved and issued and provides guidance relative to baseline design 
criteria for new facilities and new processes at existing facilities. 
FCSS-ISG-09, Revision 0, has been approved and issued and provides 
guidance relative to initiating event frequencies for integrated safety 
assessments.

III. Further Information

    Documents related to this action are available electronically at 
the NRC's Electronic Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. From this site, you can access the NRC's Agencywide 
Document Access and Management System (ADAMS), which provides text and 
image files of NRC's public documents. The ADAMS accession numbers for 
the documents related to this notice are provided in the following 
table. If you do not have access to ADAMS or if there are problems in 
accessing the documents located in ADAMS, contact the NRC Public 
Document Room (PDR) Reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or 
by e-mail to [email protected].

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                 Interim staff guidance                    accession No.
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FCSS Interim Staff Guidance-01, Revision 0..............     ML051520236
FCSS Interim Staff Guidance-04, Revision 0..............     ML051520313
FCSS Interim Staff Guidance-09, Revision 0..............     ML051520323
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    These documents may also be viewed electronically on the public 
computers located at the NRC's PDR, O 1 F21, One White Flint North, 
11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. The PDR reproduction 
contractor will copy documents for a fee. Comments on these documents 
may be forwarded to Wilkins Smith, Project Manager, Technical Support 
Group, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20005-0001. Comments can also be submitted by telephone, 
fax, or e-mail which are as follows: Telephone: (301) 415-5788; fax 
number: (301) 415-5370; e-mail: [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 9th day of June, 2005. For the 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Melanie A. Galloway,
Chief, Technical Support Group, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and 
Safeguards, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 05-12639 Filed 6-24-05; 8:45 am]
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