[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 87 (Thursday, May 5, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 25725]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-10876]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2010-0018]


Final Regulatory Guide: Issuance, Availability

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of Issuance and Availability of Regulatory Guide 8.18, 
Revision 2, ``Information Relevant to Ensuring that Occupational 
Radiation Exposures at Medical Institutions will be As Low As is 
Reasonably Achievable.''

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hector L. Rodriguez-Luccioni, U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone: 
301-251-7685 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 8.18, ``Information Relevant to 
Ensuring that Occupational Radiation Exposures at Medical Institutions 
will be As Low As is Reasonably Achievable,'' was issued with a 
temporary identification as Draft Regulatory Guide, DG-8037.
    This guide is directed specifically toward medical licensees and 
recommends methods that the staff of the NRC considers acceptable to 
maintain occupational exposures as low as is reasonably achievable 
(ALARA) in medical institutions. In a medical institution, certain 
persons other than employees are exposed to radiation from licensed 
radioactive material. These persons include visitors and patients other 
than those being treated with radioactive material. This guide 
addresses the protection of these individuals. The content of this 
guide is also applicable to veterinary medical institutions, insofar as 
specific diagnostic or therapeutic procedures are performed. Similar 
protection practices are applicable for keeping employee and visitor 
exposures ALARA, whether the patients are animal or human.

II. Further Information

    In January 2010, DG-8037 was published with a public comment period 
of 60 days from the issuance of the guide. The public comment period 
closed on March 19, 2010.
    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.
    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/doc-collections/. From this page, the public 
can gain entry into ADAMS, which provides text and image files of NRC's 
public documents (http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html). 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]. 
Regulatory Guide 8.18, Revision 2 is available electronically under 
ADAMS Accession Number ML102350460. The regulatory analysis may be 
found under ADAMS Accession Number ML102350474 and the staff's 
responses to the public comments received are located under Accession 
Number ML102350467.
    Federal Rulemaking Website: Public comments and supporting 
materials related to this notice can be found at http://www.regulations.gov by searching on Docket ID: NRC-2010-0018.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hector L. Rodriguez-Luccioni, Project 
Manager, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of Engineers, 
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Mail Stop: CSB-02A07M, Washington, DC 20555-0001. 
Telephone: (301) 251-7685; fax number: (301) 251-7422; e-mail: 
[email protected].
    Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and Commission approval is 
not required to reproduce them.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 28th 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. 2011-10876 Filed 5-4-11; 8:45 am]
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