[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 118 (Monday, June 20, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35922-35923]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-15220]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2010-0148]


Notice of Issuance of Regulatory Guide

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of Issuance and Availability of Regulatory Guide 8.4, 
Revision 1, ``Personnel Monitoring Device--Direct-Reading Pocket 
Dosimeters.''

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Harriet Karagiannis, Regulatory Guide 
Development Branch, Division of Engineering, Office of Nuclear 
Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001; telephone: 301-251-7477 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.
    Proposed Revision 1 of Regulatory Guide (RG) 8.4, ``Personnel 
Monitoring Device--Direct-Reading Pocket Dosimeters,'' was issued with 
a temporary identification as Draft Regulatory Guide, DG-8036 on April 
9, 2010 (75 FR 18241). This guidance sets forth the NRC staff's views 
of acceptable methods for complying with the NRC's regulations on 
direct-reading pocket dosimeters; it includes specific performance 
standards for personnel monitoring but not for area monitoring.
    The regulatory requirements for the use of personnel monitoring 
devices are mainly established in Title 10 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations, (CFR) part 20, ``Standards for Protection Against

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Radiation'' (10 CFR part 20), which requires licensees to determine and 
record occupational exposures to demonstrate compliance with dose 
limits for adults (including declared pregnant women), for an embryo/
fetus, and for minors, and to provide and direct the use of individual 
monitoring devices. In addition, 10 CFR part 34, ``Licenses for 
Industrial Radiography and Radiation Safety Requirements for Industrial 
Radiographic Operations,'' includes a specific provision, 10 CFR 34.47, 
``Personnel Monitoring,'' that requires the use of a direct-reading 
pocket dosimeter or, as an alternative to an ion-chamber pocket 
dosimeter, an electronic personnel dosimeter for industrial 
radiographer personnel monitoring. Also, NUREG-1556, ``Consolidated 
Guidance about Materials Licenses,'' Volume 2, ``Program-Specific 
Guidance about Industrial Radiography Licenses,'' issued August 1998, 
provides guidance for the use of pocket dosimeters in industrial 
radiographic operations.

II. Further Information

    On April 9, 2010, DG-8036 was published with a request for public 
comments (75 FR 18241). The public comment period closed on June 8, 
2010. The staff's response to public comments are located in NRC's 
Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) under 
Accession No. ML101900115. The regulatory analysis may be found in 
ADAMS under Accession No. ML101900101. Electronic copies of Regulatory 
Guide 8.4, Revision 1 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-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 10th day of June, 2011.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Thomas H. Boyce,
Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of Engineering, 
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2011-15220 Filed 6-17-11; 8:45 am]
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