[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 224 (Monday, November 21, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72005-72006]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-29986]


=======================================================================
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2011-0265]


NUREG-1556, Volume 2, Revision 1, ``Consolidated Guidance About 
Materials Licenses Program-Specific Guidance About Industrial 
Radiography Licenses;'' Draft Guidance for Comment

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of availability and request for comments.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is revising its 
licensing guidance for industrial radiography licensees. The NRC has 
issued for public comment a document entitled: NUREG-1556, Volume 2, 
Revision 1, ``Consolidated Guidance About Materials Licenses: Program-
Specific Guidance About Industrial Radiography Licenses, Draft Report 
for Comment.''
    The document has been updated to include safety culture, security 
of radioactive materials, protection of sensitive information, an 
appendix on lay-barges and offshore radiography, and incorporated 
changes in regulatory policies and practices.
    The NRC originally published NUREG-1556, Volume 2, ``Consolidated 
Guidance About Materials Licenses: Program-Specific Guidance About 
Industrial Radiography Licenses'' in August 1998. This document is 
intended for use by applicants, licensees, and NRC staff and will also 
be available to Agreement States.

DATES: Please submit comments by January 13, 2012. Comments received 
after this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the 
NRC is able to assure consideration only for comments received on or 
before this date.

ADDRESSES: Please include Docket ID NRC-2011-0265 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-
2011-0265. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher, 
telephone: (301) 492-3668; email: [email protected].

[[Page 72006]]

     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 email to 
[email protected]. The NUREG-1556, Volume 2, Revision 1, 
``Consolidated Guidance About Materials Licenses: Program-Specific 
Guidance About Industrial Radiography Licenses, Draft Report for 
Comment'' is available electronically under ADAMS Accession Number 
ML11312A123.
     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-2011-0265.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tomas Herrera, Division of Materials 
Safety and State Agreements, Office of Federal and State Materials and 
Environmental Management Programs, telephone (301) 415-7138, email: 
[email protected].
    NRC's Public Web site: The document will also be posted on NRC's 
public Web Site at: (1) http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1556/ on the ``Consolidated guidance About Materials 
Licenses (NUREG-1556)'' under Volume 2, Revision 1 and (2) http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/docs4comment.html on the 
``Draft NUREG-Series Publications for Comment.''

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 10th day of November 2011.
    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
James Luehman,
Deputy Director, Licensing and Inspection Directorate, Division of 
Materials Safety and State Agreements. Office of Federal and State 
Materials and Environmental Management Programs.
[FR Doc. 2011-29986 Filed 11-18-11; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 7590-01-P