[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 19 (Friday, January 28, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5215-5216]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-1909]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2011-0025]


Draft Regulatory Guide: Issuance, Availability

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of Issuance and Availability of Draft Regulatory Guide, 
DG-7007, ``Administrative Guide for Verifying Compliance with Packaging 
Requirements for Shipment and Receipt of Radioactive Material.''

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bernard White, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards, Division of Spent Fuel Storage and 
Transportation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001, telephone: 1-301-492-3303 or e-mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Introduction

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for public 
comment a draft 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 NRC'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.
    The draft regulatory guide (DG), entitled ``Administrative Guide 
for Verifying Compliance with Packaging Requirements for Shipment and 
Receipt of Radioactive Material,'' is temporarily identified by its 
task number, DG-7007, which should be mentioned in all related 
correspondence. DG-7007 is proposed Revision 1 of Regulatory Guide 7.7, 
dated August 1977.
    This guide describes an approach that the staff of the NRC 
considers acceptable for meeting the administrative requirements in 
Title 10, of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 71, ``Packaging and 
Transportation of Radioactive Material'' (10 CFR Part 71). The 
regulations in 10 CFR Part 71 apply to NRC licensees that package, 
transport, or receive licensed material.
    The initial version of Regulatory Guide 7.7 endorsed the guidance 
in the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Standard N14.10.3-
1975, ``Administrative Guide for Verifying Compliance with Packaging 
Requirements for Shipments of Radioactive Materials,'' as an acceptable 
process for complying with the requirements of 10 CFR 71.5, 
``Transportation of Licensed Material.''
    The ANSI standard was withdrawn without replacement; hence, this 
proposed revision to Regulatory Guide 7.7 contains guidance on the 
administrative requirements for planning, packaging, transporting, 
receiving, reporting, and record keeping for shipments of radioactive 
materials. The staff developed and published this guidance to provide 
licensees with an acceptable method to satisfy the administrative 
requirements in 10 CFR part 71.

II. Further Information

    The NRC staff is soliciting comments on DG-7007. Comments may be 
accompanied by relevant information or supporting data and should 
mention DG-7007 in the subject line. Comments submitted in writing or 
in electronic form will be made available to the public in their 
entirety through the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management 
System (ADAMS).

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any one of the following methods. 
Please include Docket ID NRC-2011-0025 in the subject line of your 
comments. Comments submitted in writing or in electronic form will be 
posted on the NRC Web site and on the Federal rulemaking website 
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-2011-0025. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher, 301-492-3668; e-mail: 
[email protected].
    Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Chief, Rules, Announcements, and 
Directives Branch (RADB), Office of Administration, Mail Stop: TWB-05-
B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, or 
by fax to RADB at 301-492-3446.
    You can access publicly available documents related to this notice 
using the following methods:
    NRC's Public Document Room (PDR): The public may examine and copy 
for a fee publicly available documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, 
One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852-
2738.
    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 by e-mail to 
[email protected]. The Regulatory Analysis is available 
electronically under ADAMS Accession Number ML101390333.
    Comments would be most helpful if received by March 30, 2011. 
Comments received after that 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. Although a time limit is given, 
comments and suggestions in connection with items for inclusion in 
guides currently being developed or improvements in all published 
guides are encouraged at any time.
    Electronic copies of DG-7007 are available through the NRC's public 
Web site under Draft Regulatory Guides in the ``Regulatory Guides'' 
collection of the NRC's Electronic Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/. Electronic copies are also available in 
ADAMS (http://

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www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html), under Accession No. ML101040727.
    Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and Commission approval is 
not required to reproduce them.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 21st day of January, 2011.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Edward O'Donnell,
Acting Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of 
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2011-1909 Filed 1-27-11; 8:45 am]
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