[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 132 (Wednesday, July 9, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39340-39341]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-15544]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Notice of Issuance of Regulatory Guide

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of Issuance and Availability of Regulatory Guide 10.3, 
Revision 2.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Orr, Regulatory Guide Development 
Branch, Division of Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, 
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, 
telephone (301) 415-6373 or e-mail to [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Introduction

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a revision 
to an existing guide in the agency's ``Regulatory Guide'' series. This 
series

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was developed to describe and make available to the public information 
such as methods that are acceptable to the NRC staff for implementing 
specific parts of the agency's regulations, techniques that the staff 
uses in evaluating specific problems or postulated accidents, and data 
that the staff needs in its review of applications for permits and 
licenses.
    Revision 2 of Regulatory Guide 10.3, ``Guide for the Preparation of 
Applications for Special Nuclear Material Licenses for Less than 
Critical Mass Quantities,'' was issued with a temporary identification 
as Draft Regulatory Guide DG-0014. This guide directs the reader to the 
type of information needed by the NRC staff to evaluate an application 
for a specific license for the receipt, possession, use, and transfer 
of special nuclear material (SNM) in less than ``critical mass'' 
quantities. As defined in Title 10, part 70, ``Domestic Licensing of 
Special Nuclear Material,'' of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR 
part 70), SNM is defined as: (1) any isotope of plutonium, uranium 233 
(U-233), uranium-235 (U-235), uranium enriched in the isotopes U-233 or 
U-235; or (2) any material artificially enriched by any of the 
foregoing; and any other material which the Commission determines to be 
special nuclear material, but does not include source material.
    This regulatory guide endorses the methods and procedures contained 
in the current revision of NUREG-1556, Volume 17, ``Consolidated 
Guidance about Materials Licenses: Program-Specific Guidance about 
Special Nuclear Material of Less than Critical Mass Licenses,'' as a 
process that the NRC staff finds acceptable for meeting the regulatory 
requirements.

II. Further Information

    In January 2008, DG-0014 was published with a public comment period 
of 60 days from the issuance of the guide. No comments were received 
and the public comment period closed on April 18, 2008. Electronic 
copies of Regulatory Guide 10.3, Revision 2 are available through the 
NRC's public Web site under ``Regulatory Guides'' at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/.
    In addition, regulatory guides are available for inspection at the 
NRC's Public Document Room (PDR), which is located at Room O-1F21, One 
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852-
2738. The PDR's mailing address is USNRC PDR, Washington, DC 20555-
0001. The PDR can also be reached by telephone at (301) 415-4737 or 
(800) 397-4209, by fax at (301) 415-3548, and by e-mail to [email protected].
    Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and NRC approval is not 
required to reproduce them.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 1st day of July, 2008.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Stephen C. O'Connor,
Acting Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of 
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. E8-15544 Filed 7-8-08; 8:45 am]
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