[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 132 (Tuesday, July 12, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40068-40069]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-3678]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Notice of Availability of Interim Staff Guidance Documents for 
Spent Fuel Storage Casks

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Chris Brown, Materials Engineer, 
Structural and Materials Section, Spent Fuel Project Office, Office of 
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20005-0001. telephone: (301) 415-1988; fax 
number: (301) 415-8555; e-mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Introduction

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) prepares draft Interim 
Staff Guidance (ISG) documents for spent fuel storage or transportation 
casks or radioactive materials transportation package designs. 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. The NRC is soliciting 
public comments on Draft ISG-21, ``Use of Computational Modeling 
Software,'' which will be considered in the final version or subsequent 
revisions.

II. Summary

    The purpose of this notice is to provide the public an opportunity 
to review and comment on the Draft Interim Staff Guidance-21 on the use 
of Computational Modeling Software (CMS) by an applicant. Draft Interim 
Staff Guidance-21, Revision 0, provides guidance to NRC staff on how to 
review computational modeling methods used by an applicant as part of, 
and in support of, the structural and thermal technical bases for a 
spent fuel storage or transportation cask or radioactive materials 
transportation package design.

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/doc-collections/isg/spent-fuel.html. From this site, you can access 
the NRC's Agencywide Documents 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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                                                         ADAMS accession
                 Interim staff guidance                         No.
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Interim Staff Guidance-21..............................      ML051710071
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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 and questions on the 
draft SFPO ISG-21 should be directed to the NRC contact listed below by 
August 11, 2005. Comments received after this date will be considered 
if it is practical to do so, but assurance of consideration cannot be 
given to comments received after this date. Christopher Brown, 
Materials Engineer, Structural and Materials Section, Spent Fuel 
Project Office, 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) 415-1988; fax number: (301) 415-8555; e-mail: 
[email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 29th day of June, 2005.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Gordon Bjorkman,
Chief, Structural and Materials Section, Spent Fuel Project Office, 
Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. E5-3678 Filed 7-11-05; 8:45 am]
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