[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 186 (Monday, September 26, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59448-59449]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-24615]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2011-0224]


Draft Regulatory Guide; Issuance, Availability

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of issuance and availability of Draft Regulatory Guide, 
DG-8050, ``Applications of Bioassay for Radioiodine.''

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for 
public comment draft regulatory guide (DG), DG-8050, ``Applications of 
Bioassay for Radioiodine.'' This regulatory guide provides criteria and 
methods acceptable to the staff of the NRC for the development and 
implementation of personnel monitoring and bioassay programs for any 
licensee handling or

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processing unsealed materials containing iodine-125 (\125\I), iodine-
131 (\131\I), or a combination of the two. It also provides guidance on 
the selection of workers who should participate in such a bioassay 
program to detect and measure possible exposure. The guide does not 
address measurement techniques and procedures.

DATES: Submit comments by November 22, 2011. Comments received after 
this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC 
is able to ensure consideration only for comments received on or before 
this date. Although a time limit is given, comments and suggestions in 
connection with items for inclusion in guides currently being developed 
or improvements in all published guides are encouraged at any time.

ADDRESSES: Please include Docket ID NRC-2011-0224 in the subject line 
of your comments. For additional instructions on submitting comments 
and instructions on accessing documents related to this action, see 
``Submitting Comments and Accessing Information'' in the SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION section of this document. You may submit comments by any 
one of the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for documents filed under Docket ID NRC-
2011-0224. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher, 
telephone: 301-492-3668; e-mail: [email protected].
     Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Chief, Rules, 
Announcements, and Directives Branch (RADB), Office of Administration, 
Mail Stop: TWB-05-B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, 
DC 20555-0001.
     Fax comments to: RADB at 301-492-3446.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Submitting Comments and Accessing Information

    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.
    You can access publicly available documents related to this 
document 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, 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 the 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]. 
DG-1278 is available electronically under ADAMS Accession No. 
ML102800439. The regulatory analysis is available electronically under 
ADAMS Accession Number ML102800445.
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Public comments and 
supporting materials related to this notice can be found at http://www.regulations.gov by searching on Docket ID NRC-2011-0224.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: R. A. Jervey, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-251-7404 or e-
mail [email protected].
    The NRC is issuing for public comment a draft guide in the agency's 
``Regulatory Guide'' series. This series was developed to describe and 
make available to the public such information as methods that are 
acceptable to the NRC staff for implementing specific parts of the 
NRC'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.
    The draft regulatory guide (DG), entitled, ``Applications of 
Bioassay for Radioiodine,'' is temporarily identified by its task 
number, DG-8050, which should be mentioned in all related 
correspondence. DG-8050 is proposed Revision 2 of Regulatory Guide 
8.20, dated September 1979.
    This regulatory guide provides criteria and methods acceptable to 
the staff of the NRC for the development and implementation of personal 
monitoring and bioassay programs for any licensee handling or 
processing unsealed materials containing iodine-125 (\125\I), iodine-
131 (\131\I), or a combination of the two. It also provides guidance on 
the selection of workers who should participate in such a bioassay 
program to detect and measure possible exposure. The guide does not 
address measurement techniques and procedures.


    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 16th day of September, 2011.
Robert G. Carpenter,
Acting Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of 
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
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