[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 204 (Friday, October 21, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65544-65545]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-27343]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2009-0323]
Standard Format and Content of License Applications for Mixed
Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facilities
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Regulatory guide; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or Commission) is
issuing a revision to regulatory guide (RG) 3.39, ``Standard Format and
Content of License Applications for Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication
Facilities.'' This guide endorses the standard format and content for
license applications and integrated safety analysis (ISA) summaries
described in the current version of NUREG-1718, ``Standard Review Plan
for the Review of an Application for a Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel
Fabrication Facility,'' as a method that the NRC staff finds acceptable
for meeting the regulatory requirements of Title 10 of the Code of
Federal Regulations (10 CFR) part 70, ``Domestic Licensing of Special
Nuclear Material'' for mixed oxide fuel fabrication facilities.
ADDRESSES: You can access publicly available documents related to this
regulatory guide 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].
The regulatory guide is available electronically under ADAMS Accession
Number ML100280809. The regulatory analysis may be found in ADAMS under
Accession Number ML111780401.
Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Public comments and
supporting materials related to this regulatory guide can be found at
http://www.regulations.gov by searching on Docket ID NRC-2009-0323.
Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and NRC approval is not
required to reproduce them.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sabrina Atack, Mixed Oxide and Uranium
Deconversion Branch, Special Projects and Technical Support
Directorate, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, Office of
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-492-3204; or e-
mail: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The 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 1 of Regulatory Guide 3.39 was issued with a temporary
identification as Draft Regulatory Guide, DG-3038. This guide endorses
the standard format and content for license applications and integrated
safety analysis (ISA) summaries described in the current version of
NUREG-1718, ``Standard Review Plan for the Review of an Application for
a Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility,'' as a
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method that the NRC staff finds acceptable for meeting the regulatory
requirements of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR)
part 70, ``Domestic Licensing of Special Nuclear Material'' for mixed
oxide fuel fabrication facilities.
Subpart H of 10 CFR part 70, ``Additional Requirements for Certain
Licensees Authorized To Possess a Critical Mass of Special Nuclear
Material,'' identifies risk-informed performance requirements for mixed
oxide fuel fabrication facilities. Subpart H requires applicants to
establish and maintain a safety program that includes an integrated
safety analysis (ISA), process safety information, and management
measures and to submit a description of the safety program as part of
the license application. Subpart H of 10 CFR part 70 also requires the
applicant to submit an ISA summary to the NRC for approval.
This guide directs the reader to documentation regarding the type
of information acceptable to the NRC staff for review of a license
application and ISA summary for a mixed oxide fuel fabrication
facility. Applicants may choose to submit information supporting the
license application in the form of a safety analysis report (SAR),
which may be a separate report submitted as part of the application or
may be integrated into the license application. This documentation also
provides guidance for acceptable format and content for licensing
documents submitted as part of an application to construct, use, or
possess special nuclear material or modify licensing commitments for a
mixed oxide fuel fabrication facility.
II. Further Information
On July 24, 2009, DG-3038 was published in the Federal Register
with a public comment period of 60 days from the issuance of the guide
(74 FR 36780). The comment period closed on September 21, 2009. The
staff's responses to the comments received are located in ADAMS under
Accession Number ML100280863.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 13th day of October, 2011.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Harriet Karagiannis,
Acting Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2011-27343 Filed 10-20-11; 8:45 am]
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