[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 58 (Wednesday, March 26, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16833-16834]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-06721]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2014-0057]
Draft Guidance About Changes of Control and About Bankruptcy
Involving Byproduct, Source, or Special Nuclear Materials Licenses
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 changes of control and about bankruptcy
involving byproduct, source, or special nuclear materials licenses. The
NRC is requesting public comment on draft NUREG-1556, Volume 15,
Revision 1, ``Consolidated Guidance about Materials Licenses: Guidance
about Changes of Control and about Bankruptcy Involving Byproduct,
Source, or Special Nuclear Materials Licenses.'' The document has been
updated from the previous revision to include safety culture,
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 April 25, 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-2014-0057. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-
3422; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individual 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-2014-0057 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-2014-0057.
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
15, Revision 1, is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML14078A110.
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 15, 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-2014-0057 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 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.
II. Further Information
The NUREG provides guidance to a licensee for preparing requests
for changes of control and about bankruptcy involving byproduct,
source, or special nuclear materials licenses. The NUREG also provides
the NRC with criteria for reviewing requests for changes of control and
bankruptcy. The purpose of this notice is to provide the public with an
opportunity to review and provide comments on draft NUREG-1556, Volume
15, Revision 1, ``Consolidated Guidance about Materials Licenses:
Guidance about Changes of Control and about Bankruptcy Involving
Byproduct, Source, or Special Nuclear Materials Licenses.'' These
comments will be considered in the final version or subsequent
revisions.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 19th day of March, 2014.
For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John M. Moses,
Acting Deputy Director, Division of Materials Safety and State
Agreements, Office of Federal and State Materials and Environmental
Management Programs.
[FR Doc. 2014-06721 Filed 3-25-14; 8:45 am]
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