[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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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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