[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 219 (Tuesday, November 15, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 69362]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-6268]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


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

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Einziger, 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) 415-2597; 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-22, ``Potential Rod Splitting Due to 
Exposure to an Oxidizing Atmosphere During Short-Term Cask Loading 
Operations in LWR or Other Uranium Oxide Based Fuel,'' 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-22 concerning 
exposure of spent fuel to an oxidizing atmosphere during the air 
blowdown operation. Draft Interim Staff Guidance-22, Revision 0, 
provides guidance to NRC staff on what documents should be reviewed and 
evaluated to ensure that sufficient controls are in place to prevent 
any part of the fuel rods from being exposed to an oxidizing 
atmosphere.

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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         Interim staff guidance               ADAMS accession number
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Interim Staff Guidance-22..............  ML052560673
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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 
December 30, 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) 415-2597; fax number: (301) 415-8555; e-mail: 
[email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 31st day of October, 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. E5-6268 Filed 11-14-05; 8:45 am]
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