[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 146 (Tuesday, July 29, 2008)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 43874-43875]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-17321]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

10 CFR Part 73

[Docket No. PRM-73-13; NRC-2007-0023]


David Lochbaum, Union of Concerned Scientists; Consideration of 
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 David Lochbaum, 
on behalf of the Union of Concerned Scientists, in the ongoing ``Power 
Reactor Security Requirements'' rulemaking. The petitioner requested 
that the NRC amend its regulations to require that licensees implement 
procedures to ensure that when information becomes known to a licensee 
about an individual that would prevent that individual from gaining 
unescorted access to the protected area of a nuclear power plant, the 
licensee will implement measures to ensure the individual does not 
enter the protected area, whether escorted, or not; and, when 
sufficient information is not available to a licensee about an 
individual to determine whether the criteria for unescorted access are 
satisfied, the licensee will implement measures to allow that 
individual to enter the protected area only when escorted at all times 
by an armed member of the security force who remains in periodic 
communication with security supervision.

DATES: The docket for the petition for rulemaking PRM-73-13 is closed 
on July 29, 2008.

ADDRESSES: You can access publicly available documents related to this 
petition for rulemaking using the following methods:

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    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 April 9, 2007 (72 FR 17440), the Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission (NRC) published for public comment a petition for 
rulemaking (PRM) filed by David Lochbaum, Union of Concerned 
Scientists. The comment period closed on June 25, 2007 and the NRC 
received twelve comments.
    The NRC has determined that the issues raised in PRM-73-13 are 
appropriate for consideration and, in fact, the issues are already 
being considered in the ongoing ``Power Reactors Security 
Requirements'' rulemaking. NRC staff will address the comments filed in 
PRM-73-13 as part of the ``Power Reactor Security Requirements'' 
rulemaking. The proposed rule was 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. E8-17321 Filed 7-28-08; 8:45 am]
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