[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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