[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 31 (Wednesday, February 15, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8902-8903]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-3377]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2012-0035]
Draft Regulatory Guide: Issuance, Availability Decommissioning of
Nuclear Power Reactors
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft regulatory guide; request for comment
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for
public comment draft regulatory guide (DG) DG-1271 ``Decommissioning of
Nuclear Power Reactors.'' This guide describes a method NRC considers
acceptable for use in decommissioning power reactors.
DATES: Submit comments by April 16, 2012. 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: You may access information and comment submissions related
to this document, which the NRC possesses and is publicly-available, by
searching on http://www.regulations.gov under Docket ID NRC-2012-0035.
You may submit comments by the following methods:
Federal rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-0035. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-492-
3668; email: [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.
For additional direction on accessing information and submitting
comments, see ``Accessing Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James C. Shepherd, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-
6712 or email [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Accessing Information and Submitting Comments
A. Accessing Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2012-0035 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may
access information related to this document, which the NRC possesses
and is publicly available, by the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-0035.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may access publicly-available documents online in the NRC
Library at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the
search, select ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and then select ``Begin Web-
based ADAMS Search.'' For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC's
Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-
4737, or by email to [email protected]. The ADAMS accession number
for each document referenced in this notice (if that document is
available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is
referenced.
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC-2012-0035 in the subject line of your
comment submission, in order to ensure that the NRC is able to make
your comment submission available to the public in this docket.
The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact
information in comment submissions that you do not want to be publicly
disclosed. The NRC posts all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as entering the comment submissions into
ADAMS, and the NRC does not edit comment submissions to remove
identifying or contact information.
If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons
for submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to
include identifying or contact information in their comment submissions
that they do not want to be publicly disclosed. Your request should
state that the NRC will not edit comment submissions to remove such
information before making the comment submissions available to the
public or entering the comment submissions into ADAMS.
Further Information
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.
DG-1271 is proposed Revision 1 of Regulatory Guide 1.184,
``Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Reactors,'' dated July 2000. This
proposed revision of Regulatory Guide 1.184 describes a method that the
staff of the NRC considers acceptable for use in complying with the
NRC's regulations relating to the decommissioning process for nuclear
power reactors.
Backfitting and Issue Finality
As discussed in the ``Implementation'' section of DG-1271, the NRC
has no current intention to impose this regulatory guide on holders of
current operating licenses or combined licenses. Accordingly, the
issuance of this regulatory guide would not constitute ``backfitting''
as defined in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR)
50.109(a)(1) of the Backfit Rule or be otherwise inconsistent with the
applicable issue finality provisions in 10 CFR part 52.
This regulatory guide may be applied to applications for operating
licenses and combined licenses docketed by the NRC as of the date of
issuance of the final regulatory guide, as well as future applications
for operating licenses and combined licenses submitted after the
issuance of the regulatory guide. Such action would not constitute
backfitting as defined in 10 CFR 50.109(a)(1) or be otherwise
inconsistent with the applicable issue finality provision in 10 CFR
part 52, inasmuch as such applicants or potential applicants are not
within the scope of entities protected by the Backfit Rule or the
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relevant issue finality provisions in Part 52.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 2nd day of February 2012.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Thomas H. Boyce,
Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of Engineering,
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2012-3377 Filed 2-14-12; 8:45 am]
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