[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 215 (Tuesday, November 6, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66650-66651]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-27069]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2012-0268]
Proposed Revisions to Radiation Protection
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Standard review plan-draft section revision; request for
comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the Commission)
is revising the following sections in Chapter 12, ``Radiation
Protection'' and soliciting public comment on NUREG-0800, ``Standard
Review Plan for the Review of Safety Analysis Reports for Nuclear Power
Plants: LWR Edition,'' Section 12.1, ``Assuring that Occupational
Radiation Exposures Are As Low As Is Reasonably Achievable,'' Section
12.2, ``Radiation Sources,'' 12.3-12.4, ``Radiation Protection Design
Features,'' and Section 12.5, ``Operational Radiation Protection
Program.''
DATES: Submit comments by January 7, 2013. Comments received after this
date will be considered, if it is practical to do so, but the
Commission is able to ensure consideration only for comments received
on or before this date.
ADDRESSES: You may access information and comment submissions related
to this document, which the NRC possesses and are publicly available,
by searching on http://www.regulations.gov under Docket ID NRC-2012-
0268. You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-0268. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-492-
3668; email: [email protected].
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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: Ms. Amy E. Cubbage, Office of New
Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001, telephone at 301-415-2875, email at mailto:[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Accessing Information and Submitting Comments
A. Accessing Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2012-0268 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 are publicly available, by any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-0268.
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 numbers
for redline documents comparing current revisions and the proposed
revisions of individual sections are available in ADAMS under Accession
Nos.: Section 12.1, Proposed Revision 4 (ML12186A005), Current Revision
3 (ML070710474), Redline (ML12199A463); Section 12.2 Proposed Revision
4 (ML12186A009), Current Revision 3 (ML070710496), Redline
(ML12199A461); Section 12.3--12.4 Proposed Revision 5 (ML12191A219),
Current Revision 4 (ML113081427), Redline (ML12199A462); and Section
12.5 Proposed Revision 5 (ML12186A007), Current Revision 4
(ML100740544), Redline (ML12199A009).
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-2012-0268 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 enters the comment submissions into
ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely 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 does not routinely 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 Office of New Reactors and Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
are revising Sections 12.1--12.5 of the current Standard Review Plan
(SRP). Details of specific revisions are included in the end of each of
the revised sections themselves and are shown in the description of
changes.
The changes to this SRP Chapter reflect current staff review
methods and practices based on lessons learned from NRC reviews of
design certification (DC) and combined license (COL) applications
completed since the last revision of this chapter in March 2007.
Changes include: (1) Guidance to the staff for evaluating the
acceptability of the radiation protection program, including the
applicant's use of generic radiation protection and groundwater program
templates, (2) additional guidance for review of existing regulatory
requirements related to the material covered in Chapter 12 of the SRP,
(3) updating the review interfaces to improve the efficiency and
consistency of staff reviews, and (4) updating references covered in
SRP Chapter 12.
The NRC staff is issuing this notice to solicit public comments on
the proposed SRP revisions to Chapter 12. After the NRC staff considers
any public comments, it will make a determination regarding the
proposed SRP Sections in Chapter 12.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this October 26, 2012.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Amy E. Cubbage,
Chief, Policy Branch, Division of Advanced Reactors and Rulemaking,
Office of New Reactors.
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