[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 148 (Tuesday, August 4, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38673-38674]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-18554]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2009-0335]


Notice of Availability of Draft Interim Staff Guidance Document 
for Fuel Cycle Facilities

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Rahn, Senior Electrical/I&C 
Engineer, Technical Support Branch, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and 
Safeguards, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20005-0001, Telephone: 
(301) 492-3115; Fax: (301) 492-3363; E-mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction

    The NRC continues to prepare and issue Interim Staff Guidance (ISG)

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documents for fuel cycle facilities and on the use of digital 
instrumentation and controls in nuclear facilities. These ISG documents 
provide clarifying guidance to the NRC staff when reviewing licensee 
integrated safety analyses, license applications or amendment requests, 
or other related licensing activities for fuel cycle facilities under 
10 CFR Part 70. Draft DI&C-ISG-07, ``Digital Instrumentation and 
Control Systems in Safety Applications at Fuel Cycle Facilities,'' 
Revision 0, is being prepared for use by NRC staff reviewers in the 
review of new license applications or amendments for fuel cycle 
facilities in conjunction with the NRC Digital Instrumentation and 
Control Project, and is now being issued for public review and 
comments.

II. Summary

    The purpose of this notice is to notify the public of the 
availability for review and comments of DI&C-ISG-07, ``Digital 
Instrumentation and Control Systems in Safety Applications at Fuel 
Cycle Facilities,'' Revision 0, which provides guidance to NRC staff 
when performing reviews regarding the use of digital instrumentation 
and controls in safety applications at fuel cycle facilities. Such 
reviews would be applicable to new license applications or amendment 
requests submitted pursuant to 10 CFR Part 70.
    Upon receiving public comments, the NRC staff will evaluate the 
comments and make a determination to incorporate the comments, as 
appropriate. The NRC staff will incorporate the guidance from the 
approved ISG into a future revision to the standard review plan 
governing the performance of fuel cycle facility license application 
reviews.

DATES: Comments may be submitted by September 2, 2009. Comments 
received after this date will be considered, if it is practical to do 
so, but the NRC is able to ensure consideration only for comments 
received on or before this date.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any one of the following methods. 
Please include Docket ID NRC-2009-0335 in the subject line of your 
comments. Comments submitted in writing or in electronic form will be 
posted on the Federal rulemaking Web site Regulations.gov. Because your 
comments will not be edited to remove any identifying or contact 
information, the NRC cautions you against including any information in 
your submission that you do not want to be publicly disclosed.
    The NRC requests that any party soliciting or aggregating comments 
received from other persons for submission to the NRC inform those 
persons that the NRC will not edit their comments to remove any 
identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not 
include any information in their comments that they do not want 
publicly disclosed.
    Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to: http://www.regulations.gov and 
search for documents filed under Docket ID NRC-2009-0335. Address 
questions about NRC dockets by telephone: 301-492-3668; e-mail 
[email protected].
    Mail comments to: Michael T. Lesar, Chief, Rulemaking and 
Directives Branch (RDB), Division of Administrative Services, Office of 
Administration, Mail Stop: TWB-05-B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, or by fax to RDB at (301) 492-
3446.

III. Further Information

    The NRC maintains an Agencywide Documents Access and Management 
System (ADAMS), which provides text and image files of NRC's public 
documents created or received at the NRC after November 1, 1999. 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.
    The ADAMS accession number for the document related to this notice 
is provided in the following table. If you do not have access to ADAMS 
or if there are problems in accessing the document located in ADAMS, 
contact the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) Reference staff at 1-800-
397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by email to [email protected].

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                 Interim staff guidance                      accession
                                                              number
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DI&C--Interim Staff Guidance-07, Revision 0.............     ML091550599
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    This document may also be viewed electronically on the NRC's Public 
Web Site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/isg/digital-instrumentation-ctrl.html or on the public computers located at the 
NRC's PDR, O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, 
Rockville, MD 20852. The PDR reproduction contractor will copy 
documents for a fee. 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 (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-
397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by e-mail at [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 23rd day of July 2009.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Marissa G. Bailey,
 Director, Special Projects and Technical Support Directorate, Division 
of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, Office of Nuclear Material Safety 
and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. E9-18554 Filed 8-3-09; 8:45 am]
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