[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 105 (Wednesday, June 2, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 30864]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-13151]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2009-0339]
NUREG-1520, ``Standard Review Plan for the Review of a License
Application for a Fuel Cycle Facility''; Notice of Availability
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: NRC is announcing the completion and availability of NUREG-
1520, Revision 1, ``Standard Review Plan for the Review of a License
Application for a Fuel Cycle Facility,'' dated May 2010.
ADDRESSES: NRC's Public Document Room (PDR): The public may examine and
have copied, for a fee, publicly available documents at the NRC's PDR,
Room O1 F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville,
Maryland 20852.
NRC's Agencywide Documents 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/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 problems
in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, contact the NRC's PDR
reference staff at (1-800) 397-4209, (301) 415-4737, or via e-mail to
[email protected]. The Standard Review Plan (SRP) (NUREG-1520) is
available electronically under ADAMS Accession Number ML1013901100.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cinthya Rom[aacute]n Cuevas, Chemical
Engineer, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, or by
telephone at (301) 492-3224 or e-mail at [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The SRP for the review of a license
application for a fuel cycle facility (NUREG-1520), Revision 1,
provides NRC staff guidance for reviewing and evaluating the safety,
health, and environmental protection aspects of applications for
licenses to possess and use of Special Nuclear Materials to produce
nuclear reactor fuel. The licensing guidance revision is also intended
to provide information needed to better risk-inform the preoperational
readiness reviews. Specifically, items, features, or aspects of the
design identified during the licensing review as important, will be
highlighted to verify compliance with specific commitments during the
preoperational readiness reviews.
The SRP has been updated to improve and enhance the guidance by
providing increased clarity and definition in specific areas of the
licensing program and adding additional guidance in areas where
information was lacking or not suitably addressed. This effort was
focused on improving both the clarity, and also consistency, of the
SRP, with the Agency positions that support compliance with current
regulations. The changes do not involve any new staff positions rather
existing guidance has been consolidated to ensure the quality and
uniformity of staff safety reviews. In addition, this revision has been
reformatted and reorganized to improve the consistency within the
document.
On August 5, 2009 (74 FR 39117), NRC announced the availability of
draft NUREG-1520, Revision 01 and requested comments on it. The comment
period originally closed on September 21, 2009. In a second notice,
dated August 19, 2009 (74 FR 41946), NRC extended the comment period to
October 24, 2009. The NRC staff considered all of the comments,
including constructive suggestions to improve the document, in the
preparation of the final NUREG report. A matrix listing all the
comments with staff responses on NUREG-1520 was made publicly available
in ADAMS (ML092880360). The SRP was also transmitted to the Office of
the General Counsel (OGC) to ensure that the updated SRP sections are
consistent with current rules and authoritative statements of agency
policy. No legal objection was identified by OGC.
The final version of NUREG-1520, Revision 1, is now available for
use by applicants, licensees, NRC license reviewers, and other NRC
staff. It supersedes the last official revision published on March
2002.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 24th day of May, 2010.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Michael Tschiltz,
Deputy Director, Fuel Facility Licensing Directorate, Division of Fuel
Cycle Safety and Safeguards, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and
Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2010-13151 Filed 6-1-10; 8:45 am]
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