[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 59 (Tuesday, March 27, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18271-18272]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-7313]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2011-0182]
Terrestrial Environmental Studies for Nuclear Power Stations
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Regulatory guide; issuance.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a
revision to Regulatory Guide (RG) 4.11, ``Terrestrial Environmental
Studies for Nuclear Power Stations.'' This guide provides technical
guidance that the NRC staff considers acceptable for terrestrial
environmental studies and analyses supporting licensing decisions for
nuclear power reactors.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2011-0182 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, using the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2011-0182. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-492-
3668; email: [email protected].
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. Revision 2 of Regulatory Guide 4.11 is available in ADAMS
under Accession No. ML113350385. The regulatory analysis may be found
in ADAMS under Accession No. ML113350388.
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.
Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and NRC approval is not
required to reproduce them.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mekonen Bayssie, Regulatory Guide
[[Page 18272]]
Development Branch, Division of Engineering, Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001, telephone: 301-251-7489; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The NRC is issuing a revision to an existing guide in the NRC'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 2 of RG 4.11 was issued with a temporary identification as
Draft Regulatory Guide, DG-4016. This guide focuses on terrestrial
analyses for licensing new nuclear power stations under Title 10 of the
Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) part 52, ``Licenses,
Certifications, and Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants'' and power
reactors under 10 CFR Part 50, ``Domestic Licensing of Production and
Utilization Facilities'' and this guide is also useful in identifying
the more limited studies and analyses needed for nuclear reactor
operating license renewal under 10 CFR part 54, ``Requirements for
Renewal of Operating Licenses for Nuclear Power Plants,'' and portions
may also be relevant to nuclear reactor decommissioning.
II. Further Information
DG-4016, was published in the Federal Register on August 12, 2011
(76 FR 50274) for a 60-day public comment period. The public comment
period closed on October 14, 2011. No public comments were received.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 16th day of March, 2012.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Richard A. Jervey,
Acting Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2012-7313 Filed 3-26-12; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 7590-01-P