[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 93 (Monday, May 14, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28407-28408]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-11585]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2012-0109]
Special Nuclear Material Control and Accounting Systems for
Nuclear Power Plants
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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ACTION: Draft regulatory guide; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the Commission)
is issuing for public comment draft regulatory guide (DG), DG-5028,
``Special Nuclear Material Control and Accounting Systems for Nuclear
Power Plants.'' In DG-5028, the NRC proposes to endorse a revised
American National Standards Institute (ANSI) document, ANSI N15.8-2009,
``Methods of Nuclear Material Control--Material Control Systems--
Special Nuclear Material Control and Accounting Systems for Nuclear
Power Plants.''
DATES: Submit comments by July 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 by searching on http://www.regulations.gov under
Docket ID NRC-2012-0109. You may submit comments by the following
methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-0109. 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: Richard Jervey, Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001, telephone: 301-251-7401 or email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Accessing Information and Submitting Comments
A. Accessing Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2012-0109 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-2012-0109.
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]. DG-5028 is located under
ADAMS Accession Number ML113550061. The regulatory analysis may be
found under ADAMS Accession Number ML113550062.
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-2012-0109 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. Further Information
The NRC is issuing for public comment a draft guide in the NRC'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.
The draft regulatory guide, entitled, ``Special Nuclear Material
Control and Accounting Systems for Nuclear Power Plants,'' is
temporarily identified by its task number, DG-5028. DG-5028 is proposed
revision 2 of Regulatory Guide 5.29, dated June 1975.
The NRC withdrew Regulatory Guide 5.29 Revision 1 in January 1998
(63 FR 2426; January 15, 1998), because the underlying basis standard,
ANSI N15.8-1974, ``Methods of Nuclear Material Control--Material
Control Systems--Special Nuclear Material Control and Accounting
Systems for Nuclear Power Plants,'' did not include direction to
support accountability of partial fuel assemblies. ANSI revised ANSI
N15.8 in February 2009. ANSI N15.8-2009 provides guidance on the
fundamentals of an SNM control and accounting system, including
criteria for the receipt, internal control, physical inventory, and
shipment of SNM. Additionally, ANSI N15.8-2009 provides specific
guidance on the control and accounting of 1) fuel rods that are
separated from their parent assemblies; and 2) pieces of irradiated
material that are separated as a result of fuel damage. In DG-5028, the
NRC is proposing to endorse ANSI N15.8-2009 as an acceptable method for
implementing material control and accounting requirements at nuclear
power plants.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 7th day of May 2012.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Thomas H. Boyce,
Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of Engineering,
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
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