[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 167 (Wednesday, August 27, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50659-50660]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-19830]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Office of New Reactors; Supplement to Interim Staff Guidance; 
Limited Work Authorizations Solicitation of Public Comment

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Solicitation of public comment.

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SUMMARY: The NRC is issuing a supplement to its Proposed Interim Staff 
Guidance (ISG) COL/ESP-ISG-004 for use and comment. This supplemental 
guidance would be added, along with the resolution of other issues 
identified in comments received from the public, to COL/ESP-ISG-004 to 
provide clarifications and examples related to

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the definition of construction. This additional guidance is intended to 
clarify the delineation of preconstruction activities and those 
activities that require prior NRC approval (i.e., construction 
activities). Upon receiving public comments, the NRC staff will 
evaluate and disposition the comments, as appropriate. Once the NRC 
staff completes the COL/ESP-ISG, including this supplemental 
information, the staff will issue it for use. The NRC staff will also 
incorporate the approved COL/ESP-ISG-004 into the next revisions of the 
Regulatory Guide 1.206, ``Combined License Applications for Nuclear 
Power Plants,'' and related guidance documents.

DATES: Comments must be filed no later than 30 days from the date of 
publication of this notice in the Federal Register. Comments received 
after this date will be considered, if it is practical to do so, but 
the NRC staff is able to ensure consideration only for comments 
received on or before this date.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be submitted to: Chief, Rulemaking, Directives, 
and Editing Branch, Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC, 20555-0001. Comments should be delivered 
to: 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland, Room T-6D59, between 
7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. on Federal workdays. Persons may also provide 
comments via e-mail to [email protected]. The NRC maintains an 
Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS), which 
provides text and image files of NRC's public documents. These 
documents may be accessed through the NRC's Public Electronic Reading 
Room on the Internet at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. 
Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who encounter problems in 
accessing the documents located in ADAMS should contact the NRC Public 
Document Room reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by e-
mail at [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Jerry N. Wilson, Division of New 
Reactor Licensing, Office of the New Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC, 20555-0001; telephone 301-415-3145 or e-
mail at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NRC posts its issued staff guidance, 
including the subject supplement to draft COL/ESP-ISG-004, on the NRC 
external Web page (http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/isg/).
    The NRC staff is issuing this notice to solicit public comments on 
the supplement to proposed COL/ESP-ISG-004. After the NRC staff 
considers any public comments, it will make a determination regarding 
the proposed COL/ESP-ISG-004.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 19th day of August, 2008.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David B. Matthews,
Division Director, Division of New Reactor Licensing, Office of New 
Reactors.
[FR Doc. E8-19830 Filed 8-26-08; 8:45 am]
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