[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 244 (Thursday, December 20, 2007)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 72233-72234]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-24636]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

10 CFR Parts 19, 20, and 50

RIN 3150-AH40


Occupational Dose Records, Labeling Containers, and the Total 
Effective Dose Equivalent; Deferral of Effective Date

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Final rule: deferral of effective date.

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SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission published a final rule 
amending regulations that would become effective January 3, 2008. The 
final rule, published December 4, 2007 (72 FR 68043) related to the 
reporting of annual dose to workers, the definition of Total Effective 
Dose Equivalent (TEDE), the labeling of certain containers holding 
licensed material, and the determination of cumulative occupational 
radiation dose. The NRC is deferring the effective date of the final 
rule until Office of Budget and Management (OMB) review and clearance 
of the rule's information collections is completed. NRC anticipates the 
new effective date for this rule will be February 15, 2008. The NRC 
will publish a subsequent document to confirm this effective date.

DATES: Effective Date: The effective date of the final rule published 
December 4, 2007 (72 FR 68043) is deferred until February 15, 2008.

ADDRESSES: Publicly available documents related to this rulemaking may 
be viewed electronically on the public computers located at the NRC's 
Public Document Room (PDR), Room O1F21, One White Flint North, 11555 
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland. The PDR reproduction contractor 
will copy documents for a fee. Publicly available documents created or 
received at the NRC are available electronically at the NRC's 
Electronic Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/reading-rm/adams.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. If you do not 
have access to ADAMS or if there are problems in accessing the 
documents

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located in ADAMS, contact the NRC's PDR Reference staff at (800) 397-
4209, (301) 415-4737, or by e-mail to [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stewart Schneider, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001; telephone (301) 415-4123; e-mail [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission published 
a final rule amending regulations that would become effective January 
3, 2008. The final rule, published December 4, 2007 (72 FR 68043) 
related to the reporting of annual dose to workers, the definition of 
Total Effective Dose Equivalent (TEDE), the labeling of certain 
containers holding licensed material, and the determination of 
cumulative occupational radiation dose. This final rule will limit the 
routine reporting of annual doses to those workers whose annual dose 
exceeds a specific dose threshold or who request a report. The rule 
will also modify the labeling requirements for certain containers 
holding licensed material within posted areas in nuclear power 
facilities, and will amend the definition of TEDE to be consistent with 
current Commission policy. Finally, this rule will remove the 
requirement that licensees attempt to obtain cumulative exposure 
records for workers unless these individuals are being authorized to 
receive a planned special exposure. These revisions will reduce the 
administrative and information collection burdens on NRC and Agreement 
State licensees without affecting the level of protection for either 
the health and safety of workers and the public, or for the 
environment.
    This final rule will amend information collection requirements 
contained in 10 CFR parts 19, 20, and 50, and NRC Form 4 that are 
subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et 
seq.). These information collection requirements were sent for approval 
to the Office of Management and Budget on November 28, 2007; while the 
changes to 10 CFR parts 19, 20, and 50, and NRC Form 4 do not contain a 
new or amended information collection requirements, the NRC has not 
received final clearance for these amended requirements. Because the 
rule will reduce the burden for existing information collection 
requirements, the public burden for the information collections in 10 
CFR part 19 and NRC Form 4 is expected to be decreased by 235 and 44 
hours per licensee, respectively. This reduction includes the time 
required for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, 
gathering and maintaining the data needed and completing and reviewing 
the information collection. Existing requirements were approved by the 
Office of Management and Budget, approval number(s) 3150-0044, 3150-
0014, 3150-0011, and 3150-0005.
    In order to allow sufficient time for OMB to complete its review of 
the information collections requirements imposed in this rule, the NRC 
is deferring the effective date of the December 4, 2007, amendments to 
10 CFR parts 19, 20, and 50 until February 15, 2008.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 13th day of December 2007.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Annette L. Vietti-Cook,
Secretary of the Commission.
 [FR Doc. E7-24636 Filed 12-19-07; 8:45 am]
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