[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 60 (Wednesday, March 28, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18871-18872]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-7438]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2011-0025]
Administrative Guide for Verifying Compliance With Packaging
Requirements for Shipment and Receipt of Radioactive Material
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 7.7, ``Administrative Guide for
Verifying Compliance with Packaging Requirements for Shipment and
Receipt of Radioactive Material.'' This regulatory guide describes an
approach the staff of the NRC considers acceptable for meeting the
administrative requirements associated with the shipment and receipt of
radioactive materials.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2011-0025 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
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for Docket ID NRC-2011-0025. 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 or 1
(301)-415-4737, or by emailing 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 1 of Regulatory Guide 7.7 is available
in ADAMS under Accession No. ML112160407. The regulatory analysis may
be found in ADAMS under Accession No. ML112160410. Public comments and
the NRC staff response to them may be found in ADAMS under Accession
No. ML112160411.
Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and NRC approval is not
required to reproduce them.
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, MD 20852.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bernard White, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, Division of Spent Fuel Storage and
Transportation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001, telephone: (301) 492-3303 or 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.
This revision to Regulatory Guide 7.7 provides licensees and
applicants with a method the NRC considers acceptable for meeting the
administrative requirements for transporting licensed material under 10
CFR part 71, ``Packaging and Transportation of Radioactive Material''
either in a Type B or a Type AF package and receipt, and for opening of
the package under 10 CFR Part 20, ``Standards for Protection Against
Radiation.'' The NRC's administrative requirements for the shipment,
receipt, and opening of a Type B package appear in Subpart J,
``Precautionary Procedures'' of 10 CFR part 20 and subpart G,
``Operating Controls and Procedures,'' of 10 CFR part 71.
The staff developed and published this guidance to provide
licensees with an acceptable method to satisfy the administrative
requirements in 10 CFR part 20 and part 71 for transferring, shipping,
and receiving radioactive material.
II. Further Information
Revision 1 of Regulatory Guide 7.7 was issued with a temporary
identification as Draft Regulatory Guide, DG-7007. Draft Regulatory
Guide, DG-7007, was published in the Federal Register on January 28,
2011 (76 FR 5215) for a 60 days public comment period. The public
comment period closed on March 30, 2011. The NRC staff's responses to
the public comments on DG-7007 are available under ADAMS Accession
Number ML112160411.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 19th day of March, 2011.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Richard Jervey,
Acting Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
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