[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 69 (Monday, April 11, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 20052]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-8530]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2010-0187]


Notice of Issuance of Regulatory Guide

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of Issuance and Availability of Revision 4 of Regulatory 
Guide 1.149, ``Nuclear Power Plant Simulation Facilities for Use in 
Operator Training, License Examinations, and Applicant Experience 
Requirements.''

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert G. Carpenter, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-251-
7483 or e-mail [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Introduction

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or Commission) 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 4 of Regulatory Guide 1.149, ``Nuclear Power Plant 
Simulation Facilities for Use in Operator Training, License 
Examinations, and Applicant Experience Requirements,'' was issued with 
a temporary identification as Draft Regulatory Guide, DG-1248.
    This guide describes methods acceptable to the NRC's staff for 
complying with those portions of the Commission's regulations 
associated with approval or acceptance of a nuclear power plant 
simulation facility for use in operator and senior operator training, 
license examination operating tests, and meeting applicant experience 
requirements.

II. Further Information

    In May 2010, DG-1248 was published with a public comment period of 
60 days from the issuance of the guide. The public comment period 
closed on August 27, 2010. Electronic copies of Regulatory Guide 1.149, 
Revision 4 are available through the NRC's public Web site under 
``Regulatory Guides'' at  http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/ and through the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and 
Management System (ADAMS) at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html, 
under Accession No. ML110420119. The regulatory analysis may be found 
in ADAMS under Accession No. ML110420133. Public comments and the NRC 
responses may be found in ADAMS under Accession No. ML110420139.
    In addition, regulatory guides are available for inspection at the 
NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) located at Room O-1F21, 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 at (301) 415-4737 or (800) 397-4209, 
by fax at (301) 415-3548, and by e-mail to [email protected].
    Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and NRC approval is not 
required to reproduce them.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 4th 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. 2011-8530 Filed 4-8-11; 8:45 am]
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