[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 15 (Tuesday, January 24, 2006)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 3791-3792]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-676]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
10 CFR Part 73
RIN 3150-AH60
Design Basis Threat; Reopening of Comment Period
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Proposed rule: Reopening of comment period.
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SUMMARY: On November 7, 2005 (70 FR 67380), the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) published for public comment a proposed rule
consolidating the supplemental requirements established by the April
29, 2003, design basis threat (DBT) orders with the existing DBT
requirements in 10 CFR 73.1(a). Specific details of the attributes of
the DBT to be protected against, which include both safeguards
information (SGI) and classified information, are consolidated in
adversary characteristics documents (ACDs) and Regulatory Guides (RGs).
The proposed rule would revise the DBT requirements both for
radiological sabotage and for theft or diversion of Strategic Special
Nuclear Material (SSNM). ACDs and RGs provide guidance to licensees
concerning the DBT for radiological sabotage, theft and diversion. They
contain the specific details of the attributes of the threat which
licensees need to know in order to evaluate what is necessary to comply
with the proposed rule. On December 21, 2005, the Nuclear Energy
Institute (NEI) requested a 30 day extension to the public comment
period. Their request was based on the fact that though the proposed
rule was published on November 7, 2005, the RGs and the ACDs were not
available at that time. NEI requested copies of these documents. The
NRC staff agreed to
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provide these documents to the properly cleared individuals with a need
to know, and NEI received the draft RGs and ACDs for power reactors on
December 19, 2005. In view of the delay in providing the documents to
the cleared personnel and in the interests of obtaining public comment
from the broadest range of stakeholders, the comment period on the
proposed rule is being extended for an additional 30 days from the
original January 23, 2006, deadline to February 22, 2006.
DATES: The comment period has been extended and now expires on February
22, 2006. Comments received after this date will be considered if it is
practical to do so, but the Commission is able to ensure consideration
only for comments received before this date.
ADDRESSES: Mail written comments to: Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, Attn: Rulemakings and
Adjudications Staff.
Hand delivered comments should also be addressed to the Secretary,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and delivered to 11555 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, MD, between 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. Federal workdays.
You may also provide comments via the NRC's interactive rulemaking
Web site: http://ruleforum.llnl.gov. This site also provides the
availability to upload comments as files (any format), if your Web
browser supports that function. For information about the interactive
rulemaking site, contact Ms. Carol Gallagher, (301) 415-5905; e-mail:
[email protected].
Certain documents relating to this rulemaking, including comments
received, may be examined at the NRC Public Document Room, 11555
Rockville Pike, Room O1-F21, Rockville, MD. The same documents may also
be viewed and downloaded electronically via the rulemaking Web site:
http://ruleforum.llnl.gov. Documents created or received at the NRC
after November 1, 1999 are also available electronically at the NRC's
Public Electronic Reading room on the Internet at http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/ADAMS/index.html. From this site, the public can gain entry into
the NRC's Agencywide Document Access and Management System (ADAMS),
which provides text and image files of NRC's public documents. For more
information, contact the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) Reference staff
at 1-800-397-4209, 202-634-3273 or by e-mail to [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Manash K. Bagchi, Office of the
Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone (301) 415-2905; e-mail
[email protected] or Mr. Richard Rasmussen, Office of Nuclear Security and
Incident Response, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001; telephone (301) 415-8380; e-mail [email protected].
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day of January, 2006.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Annette L. Vietti-Cook,
Secretary of the Commission.
[FR Doc. 06-676 Filed 1-23-06; 8:45 am]
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