[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 239 (Wednesday, December 13, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 74959-74960]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-21153]


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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, Sr., Materials 
Engineer, Structural, Mechanics, and Materials Branch, Division of 
Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation, 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-1 Rev 2, Damaged 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-1 Revision 2 
concerning the definition of damaged fuel. Draft Interim Staff 
Guidance-1, Revision 2, provides guidance to NRC staff on what 
documents should be reviewed and evaluated to ensure that damaged fuel 
is sufficiently defined to determine if it meets all regulatory 
functions. Additionally, the ISG provides a technical discussion on 
gross breaches, a methodology for defining damaged fuel in terms of its 
function,

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and a default definition based on the ANSI 14-33 standard.

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
                 Interim Staff  Guidance                   Accession No.
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Interim Staff Guidance-1 Revision 2.....................     ML063410468
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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-1 Rev 2 should be directed to the NRC contact listed 
below by January 29, 2007. 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. Robert Einziger 
PhD, Sr., Materials Engineer, Structural, Mechanics, and Materials 
Branch, Division of Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation, Office of 
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20005-0001. Comments can also be submitted 
on the form provided at the Web site, by fax, or e-mail, which are as 
follows: telephone: (301) 415-2597; fax number: (301) 415-8555; e-mail: 
[email protected]. Submittals should be in either Word or WordPerfect; no 
PDF files.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 7th day of December, 2006.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Gordon Bjorkman,
Chief, Structural Mechanics, and Materials Branch Division of Spent 
Fuel Storage and Transportation Office of Nuclear Material Safety and 
Safeguards.
[FR Doc. E6-21153 Filed 12-12-06; 8:45 am]
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