[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 68 (Friday, April 8, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19817-19818]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-8415]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2009-0345]


Final Regulatory Guide: Issuance, Availability

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of issuance and availability of Regulatory Guide (RG) 
5.79, ``Protection of Safeguards Information.''

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Norman, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-2278 or e-
mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Introduction

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or Commission) is 
issuing a new 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.
    Regulatory Guide (RG) 5.79 ``Protection of Safeguards 
Information,'' was issued August 6, 2009 as a Draft Regulatory Guide 
(DG) for public comment under the temporary identification number DG-
5034. RG 5.79 is a new regulatory guide which describes methods the 
staff of the NRC consider acceptable to implement the general 
performance requirements specified in Title 10, Section 73.21(a)(i) and 
(ii), of the Code of Federal Regulations, ``Protection of Safeguards 
Information: Performance Requirements,'' (10 CFR 73.21) that establish, 
implement, and maintain an information protection system that includes 
the applicable measures for safeguards information (SGI) specified in 
10 CFR 73.22, ``Protection of Safeguards Information: Specific 
Requirements,'' or 10 CFR 73.23, ``Protection of Safeguards 
Information--Modified Handling: Specific Requirements.'' This guide 
applies to all licensees, certificate holders, applicants, or other 
persons who produce, receive, or acquire SGI (including SGI with the 
designation or marking: ``Safeguards Information--Modified Handling'' 
(SGI-M)).
    The guidance and criteria contained in this document pertain to the 
protection of SGI as defined in 10 CFR part 73, ``Physical Protection 
of Plants and Materials.'' It is intended to assist licensees and other 
persons who produce, receive, or acquire SGI to establish an 
information protection system that addresses (1) information to be 
protected, (2) conditions for access, (3) protection while in use or 
storage, (4) preparing and marking documents or other matter, (5) 
reproduction of matter containing SGI, (6) external transmission of 
documents and material, (7) processing SGI on electronic systems, (8) 
removal from the SGI category, and (9) destruction of matter containing 
SGI.
    10 CFR 73.21 ``Protection of Safeguards Information: Performance 
Requirements,'' requires, in part, that

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each licensee, certificate holder, applicant, or other person who 
produces, receives, or acquires Safeguards Information (SGI) shall 
ensure that it is protected against unauthorized disclosure.

II. Further Information

    On August 6, 2009, a Federal Register Notice was issued (74 FR 
39343) announcing the availability of DG-5034 for public comment 
period. The public comment period closed on October 1, 2009. The 
staff's responses to the public comments received are available through 
the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) 
under Accession Number ML103270225. The Regulatory Analysis for this 
Regulatory Guide is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML103270227. 
Electronic copies of RG 5.79 are available through the NRC's public Web 
site under ``Regulatory Guides'' at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/reg-guides/.
    In addition, regulatory guides are available for inspection at the 
NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) located at 11555 Rockville Pike, 
Rockville, Maryland. The PDR's mailing address is USNRC PDR, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001. The PDR can also be reached by telephone at 
(301) 415-4737 or (800) 397-4205, by fax at (301) 415-3548, and by e-
mail to [email protected].
    Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and Commission approval is 
not required to reproduce them.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 1st day of April 2011.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Harriet Karagiannis,
Acting Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of 
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2011-8415 Filed 4-7-11; 8:45 am]
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