[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 146 (Tuesday, July 29, 2008)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 43874]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-17319]
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Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 146 / Tuesday, July 29, 2008 /
Proposed Rules
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
10 CFR Part 73
[Docket No. PRM-73-11; NRC-2001-0023]
Petition for Rulemaking Filed by Scott Portzline, Three Mile
Island Alert; Consider Petition in the Rulemaking Process
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Resolution and closure of petition docket.
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SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering the
issues raised in a petition for rulemaking submitted by Scott
Portzline, on behalf of the Three Mile Island Alert, in the ongoing
``Power Reactor Security Requirements'' rulemaking. The petitioner
requested that the NRC regulations governing physical protection of
plants and materials be amended to require NRC licensees to post at
least one armed guard at each entrance to the ``owner controlled
areas'' (OCAs) surrounding all U.S. nuclear power plants. The
petitioner stated that this should be accomplished by adding armed site
protection officers (SPOs) to the security forces--not by simply moving
SPOs from their protected area (PA) posts to the OCA entrances. The
petitioner believes that its proposed amendment would provide an
additional layer of security that would complement existing measures
against radiological sabotage and would be consistent with the long-
standing principle of defense-in-depth.
DATES: The docket for the petition for rulemaking PRM-73-11 is closed
on July 29, 2008.
ADDRESSES: You can access publicly available documents related to this
petition for rulemaking using the following methods:
Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: Further NRC action on the issues
raised by this petition will be accessible at the federal rulemaking
portal, http://www.regulations.gov, by searching on rulemaking docket
ID: NRC-2006-0016 and docket ID: NRC-2008-0019. The NRC also tracks all
rulemaking actions in the ``NRC Regulatory Agenda: Semiannual Report
(NUREG-0936).''
NRC's Public Document Room (PDR): The public may examine and have
copied for a fee, publicly available documents at the NRC's PDR, Public
File Area O-1F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike,
Rockville, Maryland.
NRC's Agencywide Document Access and Management System (ADAMS):
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 page, the public can
gain entry into ADAMS, which provides text and image files of NRC's
public documents. If you do not have access to ADAMS or if there are
any problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, contact the
NRC PDR Reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737 or by e-mail to
[email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lauren Quinones, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001, Telephone: 301-415-2007, or toll-free: 800-368-5642, e-
mail: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On November 2, 2001 (66 FR 55603), the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) published for public comment a
petition for rulemaking (PRM) filed by Scott Portzline, Three Mile
Island Alert. The comment period closed on January 16, 2002. Eleven
comments were received.
In a Federal Register notice published January 5, 2007 (72 FR 481),
the NRC informed the public that PRM-73-11 and the public comments
received on the petition would be considered in the proposed
rulemaking, ``Power Reactor Security Requirements,'' published in the
Federal Register on October 26, 2006 (71 FR 62664). That rulemaking did
consider the topics of PRM-73-13 and proposed extensive revisions to
the NRC regulations in 10 CFR Parts 50, 72, and 73 that address
security requirements for nuclear power reactor licensees. The comment
period on that proposed rule expired on March 26, 2007.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 1st day of July 2008.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
R.W. Borchardt,
Executive Director for Operations.
[FR Doc. E8-17319 Filed 7-28-08; 8:45 am]
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