[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 159 (Friday, August 16, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50118-50119]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-19853]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2013-0081]


Policy Statement on Adequacy and Compatibility of Agreement State 
Programs; Statement of Principles and Policy for the Agreement State 
Program

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Policy statements; extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is extending the 
comment period of a notice that was published in the Federal Register 
on June 3, 2013 (78 FR 33122), requesting comments on proposed 
revisions to the NRC's policy statements on Agreement State Programs. 
Both the ``Policy Statement on Adequacy and Compatibility of Agreement 
State Programs'' and the ``Statement of Principles and Policy for the 
Agreement State Programs'' have been revised to add information on 
security of radioactive materials and incorporate changes in the NRC's 
policies and procedures since the last revision in 1997. The public 
comment period was scheduled to expire on August 19, 2013. However, the 
NRC received requests for extending the comment period from the 
Organization of Agreement States (OAS) and from the State of Florida. 
The parties requested the extension of the comment period so that the 
Agreement States would have time to discuss the proposed revisions 
during the OAS annual meeting before submitting their comments. The NRC 
agrees with these requests and the NRC has decided to extend the 
comment period until September 16, 2013.

DATES: The comment period has been extended and expires on September 
16, 2013. Comments received after this date will be considered if it is 
practical to do so, but the NRC is able to assure consideration only 
for comments received on or before this date.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods 
(unless this document describes a different method for submitting 
comments on a specific subject):
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0081. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-
3442; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact 
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of 
this document.
     Email comments to: [email protected]. If you do 
not receive an automatic email reply confirming receipt, then contact 
us at 301-415-1677.
     Fax comments to: Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission at 301-415-1101.
     Mail comments to: Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, ATTN: Rulemakings and 
Adjudications Staff.
     Hand deliver comments to: 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 
Maryland 20852, between 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. (Eastern Time) Federal 
workdays; telephone: 301-415-1677.
    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: Lisa Dimmick, Office of Federal and 
State Materials and Environmental Management Programs, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-
0694, email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Accessing Information and Submitting Comments

A. Accessing Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2013-0081 when contacting the NRC 
about the availability of information for the proposed revisions of the 
policy statements. You may access publicly-available information 
related to the proposed revisions of the policy statements by any of 
the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0081.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may access public 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 proposed revisions to the 
``Policy Statement on Adequacy and Compatibility of Agreement State 
Programs'' are available in under ADAMS Accession No. ML12202B165. The 
proposed revisions to the ``Statement of Principles and Policy for the 
Agreement State Program'' are available under ADAMS Accession No. 
ML12202B157.
     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-2013-0081 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 that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your 
comment submission. The NRC will post all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as enter 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 that they do not want to be 
publicly disclosed in their comment submission. 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

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entering the comment submissions into ADAMS.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day of August, 2013.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
 Andrew L. Bates,
Acting Secretary for the Commission.
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