[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 98 (Monday, May 22, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 29369]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-7782]



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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Notice of Availability of Draft Interim Staff Guidance Document 
HLWRS-ISG-01 Review Methodology for Seismically Initiated Event 
Sequences

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Jon Chen, Project Manager, Project 
Management Section, Division of High-Level Waste Repository Safety 
(HLWRS), Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20005-0001. Telephone: (301) 415-
5526; fax number: (301) 415-5399; e-mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction

    The Yucca Mountain Review Plan (July 2003, NUREG-1804, Revision 2) 
provides guidance for U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff to 
evaluate a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) license application for a 
geologic repository. NRC prepares Interim Staff Guidance (ISG) to 
provide clarifications or refinements to the guidance provided in the 
Yucca Mountain Review Plan. NRC is soliciting public comments on Draft 
HLWRS-ISG-01, ``Review Methodology for Seismically Initiated Event 
Sequences.'' Comments received will be considered, as appropriate, in 
the final version or subsequent revisions to HLWRS-ISG-01.

II. Summary

    The purpose of this notice is to provide the public an opportunity 
to review and comment on draft HLWRS-ISG-01, concerning the review 
methodology for seismically initiated event sequences. HLWRS-ISG-01 
provides guidance to NRC staff for review of seismically initiated 
event sequences in the preclosure safety analysis.

III. Further Information

    The documents related to this action are available electronically 
at NRC's Electronic Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. From this site, you can access 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 Reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, (301) 415-4737, or by 
e-mail at [email protected].

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                                                               ADAMS
                           ISG                               accession
                                                              number
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Draft HLWRS-ISG-01, ``Review Methodology for Seismically     ML061170532
 Initiated Event Sequences''............................
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    These documents may also be viewed electronically on the public 
computers located at NRC's PDR, O-1F21, One White Flint North, 11555 
Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. The PDR reproduction contractor 
will copy documents for a fee. Comments and questions on draft HLWRS-
ISG-01 should be directed to the NRC contact listed below by July 6, 
2006. 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.
    Contact: Mahendra Shah, Senior Structural Engineer, Engineering 
Section, Technical Review Directorate, Division of High-Level 
Repository Safety, 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) 415-8537; fax number: (301) 415-5399; or by 
(e-mail) at [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 16th day of May 2006.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
N. King Stablein,
Chief, Project Management Section B, Division of High-Level Waste 
Repository Safety, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
 [FR Doc. E6-7782 Filed 5-19-06; 8:45 am]
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