[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 196 (Tuesday, October 13, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52512-52513]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-24559]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2009-0448]


Notice of Availability of Draft Interim Staff Guidance 25, 
``Pressure and Helium Leakage Testing of the Confinement Boundary of 
Spent Fuel Storage Canisters,'' and Opportunity To Provide Comments

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of availability and opportunity to provide comments.

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DATES: Comments must be provided by November 27, 2009.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ron Parkhill, Senior Mechanical 
Engineer, Thermal and Containment Branch, Division of Spent Fuel 
Storage and Transportation Division, Office of Nuclear Material Safety 
and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20005-0001. Telephone: (301) 492-3324; fax number: (301) 492-3342; e-
mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Introduction

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing Draft Interim 
Staff Guidance 25, ``Pressure and Helium Leakage Testing of the 
Confinement Boundary of Spent Fuel Storage Canisters.'' This draft 
interim staff guidance (ISG) clarifies the agency's position on the 
shop helium leakage test and ASME (American Society of Mechanical 
Engineers) Code pressure testing requirements in order to provide 
reasonable assurance of the confinement of radioactive material for 
spent fuel storage canisters.
    The purpose of this notice is to provide the public with an 
opportunity to review and to solicit comments on this draft ISG. 
Comments received will be considered in the final version or subsequent 
revisions.

II. Opportunity To Provide Comments

    Comments and questions on draft ISG-25, should be directed to Ron 
Parkhill, Thermal and Containment Branch, Division of Spent Fuel 
Storage and Transportation, Office of Nuclear Materials Safety and 
Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20005-
0001 by November 27, 2009. Comments received after this date will be 
considered if it is practical to do so, but only those comments 
received on or before the due date can be assured consideration. 
Comments can also be submitted by

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telephone, fax, or e-mail to the following: Telephone: (301) 492-3324; 
fax number: (301) 492-3331; e-mail: [email protected].

III. Further Information

    Documents related to this action are available electronically at 
the NRC's Electronic Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. From this site, you can access the NRC's Agencywide 
Document Access and Management System (ADAMS), which provides text and 
image files of NRC's public documents. The ADAMS accession number for 
the document related to this notice is [ML090850380]. If you do not 
have access to ADAMS, or if there are problems in accessing the 
documents located in ADAMS, contact the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) 
reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to 
[email protected].
    This document may also be viewed electronically on the public 
computers located at the NRC's PDR, O-1 F21, One White Flint North, 
11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. The PDR reproduction 
contractor will copy documents for a fee.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 30th day of September 2009.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Michael Waters,
Chief, Thermal and Containment Branch, Division of Spent Fuel Storage 
and Transportation, Office of Nuclear Materials Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. E9-24559 Filed 10-9-09; 8:45 am]
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