[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 17 (Monday, January 27, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4361-4362]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-01487]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2014-0005]
Draft Program-Specific Guidance About Academic, Research and
Development, and Other Licenses of Limited Scope Including Electron
Capture Devices and X-Ray Fluorescence Analyzers
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft NUREG; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is revising its
licensing guidance for academic, research and development, and other
licenses of limited scope including electron capture devices and X-ray
fluorescence analyzers. The NRC is requesting public comment on draft
NUREG-1556, Volume 7, Revision 1, ``Consolidated Guidance about
Materials Licenses: Program-Specific Guidance about Academic, Research
and Development, and Other Licenses of Limited Scope Including Electron
Capture Devices and X-Ray Fluorescence Analyzers.'' The document has
been updated from the previous revision to include safety culture,
security of radioactive materials, protection of sensitive information,
and changes in regulatory policies and practices. This document is
intended for use by applicants, licensees, and the NRC staff and will
also be available to Agreement States.
DATES: Submit comments by February 26, 2014. Comments received after
this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC
is only able to assure consideration of comments received on or before
this date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comment 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-2014-0005. 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.
Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Chief, Rules,
Announcements, and Directives Branch (RADB), Office of Administration,
Mail Stop: 3WFN-06-A44MP, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001.
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: Tomas Herrera, Office of Federal and
State Materials and Environmental Management Programs; U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-
7138; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Accessing Information and Submitting Comments
A. Accessing Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2014-0005 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-2014-0005.
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 NUREG-1556, Volume
7, Revision 1, is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML14015A110.
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.
The draft NUREG-1556, Volume 7, Revision 1, is also available on
the NRC's public Web site on the: (1) ``Consolidated Guidance About
Materials Licenses (NUREG-1556)'' page at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1556/; and the (2) ``Draft NUREG-
Series Publications for Comment'' page at http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/doc-comment.html#nuregs.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC-2014-0005 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 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, and 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
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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 entering the comment submissions
into ADAMS.
II. Further Information
The NUREG provides guidance to an applicant in preparing an
academic, research and development, and other licenses of limited scope
application for use of unsealed radioactive materials in laboratory
studies or similar activities, veterinary uses of licensed materials,
and small sealed sources such as in electron capture devices and X-ray
fluorescence analyzers. The NUREG also provides the NRC with criteria
for evaluating a license application. The purpose of this notice is to
provide the public with an opportunity to review and provide comments
on draft NUREG-1556, Volume 7, Revision 1, ``Consolidated Guidance
about Materials Licenses: Program-Specific Guidance about Academic,
Research and Development, and Other Licenses of Limited Scope Including
Electron Capture Devices and X-Ray Fluorescence Analyzers.'' These
comments will be considered in the final version or subsequent
revisions.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 16th day of January, 2014.
For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Laura A. Dudes,
Director, Division of Materials Safety and State Agreements, Office of
Federal and State Materials and Environmental Management Programs.
[FR Doc. 2014-01487 Filed 1-24-14; 8:45 am]
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