[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 134 (Friday, July 11, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39994-39995]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-15786]


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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 10.2, 
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:

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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 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 10.2, ``Guidance to Academic 
Institutions Applying for Specific Byproduct Material Licenses of 
Limited Scope,'' was issued with a temporary identification as Draft 
Regulatory Guide DG-0013. This guide directs the reader to the type of 
information sought by the NRC staff to evaluate an application from an 
academic institution for specific licenses of limited scope for the 
possession and use of byproduct material. It does not apply to 
applications for specific licenses of broad scope, licenses for source 
or special nuclear materials, or licenses for kilocurie irradiation 
sources. This guide identifies the general principles that the NRC 
staff will consider in evaluating an applicant's proposed radiation 
safety measures.
    Title 10, Part 30, ``Rules of General Applicability to Domestic 
Licensing of Byproduct Material,'' of the Code of Federal Regulations 
(10 CFR Part 30) provides the regulatory framework for a limited-scope 
byproduct material license. Other regulations pertaining to this type 
of license appear in 10 CFR Part 19, ``Notices, Instructions and 
Reports to Workers: Inspection and Investigations'' and 10 CFR Part 20, 
``Standards for Protection Against Radiation.'' The applicant should 
carefully study the regulations and submit all information requested.
    This regulatory guide endorses the methods and procedures for 
limited scope byproduct material licensing contained in the current 
revision of NUREG-1556, Volume 7, ``Consolidated Guidance about 
Materials Licenses: Program-Specific Guidance about Academic, Research, 
and Development, and Other Licenses of Limited Scope,'' as a process 
that the NRC staff has found acceptable for meeting the regulatory 
requirements.
    Since the publication of Revision 1 of Regulatory Guide 10.2 in 
December 1976, the NRC has revised the requirements for byproduct 
material licenses to implement a risk-informed, performance-based 
approach to regulation. Volume 7 of NUREG-1556 incorporates this 
revised approach.

II. Further Information

    In January 2008, DG-0013 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 10.2, 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 3rd 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. E8-15786 Filed 7-10-08; 8:45 am]
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