[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 1 (Monday, January 3, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 189]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-33072]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2010-0265]


Final Regulatory Guide: Issuance, Availability

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of Issuance and Availability of Regulatory Guide 3.71, 
Revision 2, ``Nuclear Criticality Safety Standards for Fuels and 
Material Facilities.''

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tamara D. Powell, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-492-
3211 or e-mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Introduction

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a revision 
to an existing guide in the agency's ``Regulatory Guide'' series. This 
series was developed to describe and make available to the public 
information such as methods that are acceptable to the NRC staff for 
implementing specific parts of the agency's regulations, techniques 
that the staff uses in evaluating specific problems or postulated 
accidents, and data that the staff needs in its review of applications 
for permits and licenses.
    Revision 2 of Regulatory Guide 3.71, entitled, ``Nuclear 
Criticality Safety Standards for Fuels and Material Facilities,'' was 
issued with a temporary identification as Draft Regulatory Guide, DG-
3030. Regulatory Guide 3.71 provides applicants, licensees, and 
certificate holders with updated guidance concerning criticality safety 
standards that the NRC has endorsed for use with nuclear fuels and 
material facilities. As such, Regulatory Guide 3.71 describes methods 
that the NRC staff considers acceptable for complying with the NRC's 
regulations in Title 10, of the Code of Federal Regulations, parts 70, 
``Domestic Licensing of Special Nuclear Material,'' and 76, 
``Certification of Gaseous Diffusion Plants'' (10 CFR parts 70 and 76).
    The NRC staff has revised Regulatory Guide 3.71 to provide guidance 
on complying with these portions of the NRC's regulations. This guide 
describes procedures for preventing nuclear criticality accidents in 
operations that involve handling, processing, storing, and/or 
transporting special nuclear material at fuel and material facilities. 
It also endorses specific nuclear criticality safety standards 
developed by the American Nuclear Society's Standards Subcommittee 8 
(ANS-8), ``Operations with Fissionable Materials Outside Reactors.'' 
Regulatory Guide 3.71 is not intended for use by nuclear reactor 
licensees.

II. Further Information

    In July 2010, DG-3030 was published with a public comment period of 
60 days from the issuance of the guide. The public comment period 
closed on September 29, 2010. The staff's responses to the public 
comments received are located in the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access 
and Management System under Accession Number ML103210349. Electronic 
copies of Regulatory guide 3.71, Revision 2 are available through the 
NRC's public Web site under ``Regulatory Guides'' at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/.
    In addition, regulatory guides are available for inspection at the 
NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) located at Room O-1F 21, One White 
Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852-2738. The 
PDR's mailing address is USNRC PDR, Washington, DC 20555-0001. The PDR 
can also be reached by telephone: 301-415-4737 or 800-397-4209, by fax: 
301-415-3548, and by e-mail: [email protected].
    Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and Commission approval is 
not required to reproduce them.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 23rd day of December 2010.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John N. Ridgely,
Acting Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of 
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2010-33072 Filed 12-30-10; 8:45 am]
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