[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 59 (Thursday, March 27, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17194-17195]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-06785]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2011-0266]
Evaluations of Uranium Recovery Facility Surveys of Radon and
Radon Progeny
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Revised draft interim staff guidance; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff is issuing
for public comment Interim Staff Guidance (ISG) FSME-ISG-01,
``Evaluations of Uranium Recovery Facility Surveys of Radon and Radon
Progeny in Air and Demonstrations of Compliance with 10 CFR 20.1301.''
This ISG provides guidance to the NRC staff for evaluating uranium
recovery (UR) licensee demonstrations of compliance with the public
dose limits.
DATES: Submit comments by May 27, 2014. 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 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-2011-0266. 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-06-44M, 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: Duane Schmidt, Office of Federal and
State Materials and Environmental Management Programs, telephone: 301-
415-6919; email: [email protected]; U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Accessing Information and Submitting Comments
A. Accessing Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2011-0266 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may
access publicly-available information related to this document by any
of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2011-0266.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may access publicly available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection 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
revised draft ISG, FSME-ISG-01, ``Evaluations of Uranium Recovery
Facility Surveys of Radon and Radon Progeny in Air and Demonstrations
of Compliance with 10 CFR 20.1301,'' is available in ADAMS under
accession no. ML13310A198. The initial version of the draft ISG is
available in ADAMS under accession no. ML112720481.
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-2011-0266 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 you
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 entering the comment submissions into ADAMS.
II. Discussion
Uranium recovery facility licensees, including in-situ recovery
facilities and conventional uranium mills, are required to perform
surveys of radiation levels in unrestricted and controlled areas, and
to perform surveys of radioactive materials in effluents released to
unrestricted and controlled
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areas to demonstrate compliance with the dose limits for individual
members of the public provided in section 20.1301 of Title 10 of the
Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR). The NRC regulations in 10 CFR
20.1302 permit the use of alternative approaches to demonstrate
compliance with the public dose limits.
This ISG is being developed to document the criteria to be used by
the NRC staff to review radon and radon progeny surveys and evaluations
of dose to members of the public submitted by licensees under 10 CFR
20.1302 to demonstrate compliance with the NRC public dose limits of 10
CFR 20.1301. Specifically, when finalized, this ISG will provide
guidance to the NRC staff for reviewing licensee evaluations of doses
to members of the public from radon-222 and radon-222 progeny from UR
facilities including: (1) Surveys of environmental and effluent radon
and radon progeny in air; and (2) radon-related aspects of
demonstrations of compliance with the NRC's public dose limits of 10
CFR 20.1301. When finalized, this ISG may also be used by the NRC staff
in evaluating portions of license applications, renewals, or amendments
dealing with radon and radon progeny surveys and compliance. The NRC
published an initial draft version of this ISG for public comment on
November 21, 2011 (76 FR 72006). The NRC staff considered the public
comments in preparing the revised draft report.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20th day of March 2014.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrew Persinko,
Deputy Director, Decommissioning and Uranium Recovery Licensing
Directorate, Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection,
Office of Federal and State Materials and Environmental Management
Programs.
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