[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 118 (Monday, June 20, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 35922]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-15227]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2011-0135]


Interim Staff Guidance Regarding the Environmental Report for 
Applications To Construct and/or Operate Medical Isotope Production 
Facilities

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Interim staff guidance; request for public comment.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff is 
requesting public comment on a proposed draft Interim Staff Guidance 
(ISG), NPR-ISG-2011-001, ``Staff Guidance Regarding the Environmental 
Report for Applications to Construct and/or Operate Medical Isotope 
Production Facilities.'' This ISG provides guidance to the 
Environmental Review and Guidance Update Branch (RERB) of the Division 
of License Renewal (DLR), Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation on the 
information that should be included in the Environmental Report, which 
is part of an application to construct and operate a medical isotope 
production facility. The draft ISG is located in the Agencywide 
Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) ML11116A166.

DATES: Comments may be submitted by August 4, 2011. Comments received 
after this date will be considered, if it is practical to do so, but 
the Commission is able to ensure consideration only for comments 
received on or before this date.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any one of the following methods. 
Please include Docket ID NRC-2011-0135 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 Web site 
http://www.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-
2011-0135. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher 301-
492-3668; e-mail [email protected].
     Mail comments to: Cindy K. Bladey, Chief, Rules, 
Announcements, and Directives Branch (RADB), Division of Administrative 
Services, 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 have copied for a fee publicly available documents at the NRC's 
PDR, Room O1 F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, 
Rockville, Maryland 20852.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): Publicly available documents created or received at the NRC 
are available online in the NRC Library 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].
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Public comments and 
supporting materials related to this notice can be found at http://www.regulations.gov by searching for documents filed under Docket ID: 
NRC-2011-0135.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Scott Sloan, Project Manager, 
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-1619, e-mail: 
[email protected].
    The NRC staff is issuing this notice to solicit public comments on 
the proposed NPR-ISG-2011-001. After the NRC staff considers any public 
comments, it will make a determination regarding issuance of the 
proposed ISG.


    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 13th day of June 2011.
    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrew S. Imboden,
Chief, Environmental Review and Guidance Update Branch, Division of 
License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2011-15227 Filed 6-17-11; 8:45 am]
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