[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 207 (Friday, October 25, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64028-64029]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-25259]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2012-0035]


Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Reactors

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Regulatory guide; issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing 
Revision 1 of regulatory guide (RG) 1.184 ``Decommissioning of Nuclear 
Power Reactors.'' This guide describes a method NRC considers 
acceptable for use in decommissioning power reactors.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2012-0035 when contacting the 
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You 
may access publicly-available information related to this action by the 
following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-0035. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-
3422; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact 
the individual(s) listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section 
of this document.
     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 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 RG 1.184, is available in ADAMS under 
Accession No. ML13144A840. The regulatory analysis may be found in 
ADAMS under Accession No. ML13144A842.
     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.
    Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and NRC approval is not 
required to reproduce them.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James C. Shepherd, Office of Federal 
and State Materials and Environmental Management Programs, telephone: 
301-415-6712, email: [email protected], or Edward O'Donnell, 
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, telephone: 301-251-7455; email: 
[email protected], U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001.

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.
    The NRC issued Revision 1 of RG 1.184 with a temporary 
identification as

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Draft Regulatory Guide, DG-1271 in the Federal Register on February 14, 
2012 (77 FR 8902), for a 60-day public comment period. The public 
comment period closed on April 16, 2012. Public comments on DG-1271 and 
the staff responses to the public comments are available in ADAMS under 
Accession No. ML13144A843.
    Revision 1 of RG 1.184 describes a method that the NRC staff 
considers acceptable for use in complying with the NRC's regulations 
relating to the decommissioning process for nuclear power reactors. The 
revision takes advantage of the 13 years of decommissioning experience 
since the first issuance of RG 1.184 in July 2000, and decommissioning 
guidance documents released since then have been incorporated into the 
guide.

II. Congressional Review Act

    This regulatory guide is a rule as defined in the Congressional 
Review Act (5 U.S.C. 801-808). However, the Office of Management and 
Budget has not found it to be a major rule as defined in the 
Congressional Review Act.

III. Backfitting and Issue Finality

    Issuance of this final regulatory guide does not constitute 
backfitting as defined in 10 CFR 50.109 and is not otherwise 
inconsistent with the issue finality provisions in 10 CFR part 52. As 
discussed in the ``Implementation'' section of this regulatory guide, 
the NRC has no current intention to impose this regulatory guide on 
holders of current operating licenses or combined licenses.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 4th day of October, 2013.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Thomas H. Boyce,
Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of Engineering, 
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2013-25259 Filed 10-24-13; 8:45 am]
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