[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 83 (Monday, April 30, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25504-25505]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-10313]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2012-0098]
Draft Emergency Preparedness Frequently Asked Questions
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of availability and opportunity for public comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the Commission)
is making available for comment Emergency Preparedness (EP) frequently
asked questions (EPFAQs). These EPFAQs will be used to provide
clarification of guidance documents related to the development and
maintenance of EP program elements. The NRC staff developed these
EPFAQs from feedback obtained through numerous public meetings. The NRC
is publishing these preliminary results to inform the public and
solicit comments.
DATES: Submit comments by May 30, 2012. Comments submitted after this
date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but assurance of
consideration cannot be given except for comments received on or before
this date.
ADDRESSES: You may access information and comment submissions related
to this document by searching on http://www.regulations.gov under
Docket ID NRC-2012-0098.
You may submit comments by the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-0098. 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 R. Anderson, Office of Nuclear
Security and Incident Response, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-6615 or by email at:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Accessing Information and Submitting Comments
A. Accessing Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2012-0098 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may
access information related to this document by the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-0098.
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 draft Emergency
Preparedness Frequently Asked Questions is available electronically
under ADAMS Accession Number ML12108A151, and it is also available on
the NRC's Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/emerg-preparedness/faq/faq-contactus.html.
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-2012-0098 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.
II. Background
The NRC has developed the EPFAQ program for the staff to provide
clarification of guidance [ADAMS Accession Number for the EPFAQ process
is ML112650253]. This process is intended to describe the manner in
which the NRC may provide interested outside parties an opportunity to
share their individual views with NRC staff regarding the appropriate
response to questions raised on the interpretation or applicability of
EP guidance issued or endorsed by the NRC, before the NRC
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issues an official response to such questions.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20th day of April 2012.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Mark Thaggard,
Deputy Director for Emergency Preparedness, Division of Preparedness
and Response, Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response.
[FR Doc. 2012-10313 Filed 4-27-12; 8:45 am]
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