[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 105 (Monday, June 2, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31348-31349]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-12720]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2014-0116]
Reporting of H-3, C-14, Tc-99, and I-129 on the Uniform Waste
Manifest
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft regulatory issue summary; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is seeking public
comment on the draft regulatory issue summary (RIS), which addresses
the reporting of H-3, C-14, Tc-99, and I-129 on the uniform waste
manifest. The purpose of this draft RIS is to identify instances where
licensees may use indirect methods to determine the activity of these
radionuclides reported on the uniform manifest when the radionuclide is
present at a concentration less than the lower limit of detection
(LLD).
DATES: Submit comments by July 2, 2014. Comments received after this
date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC 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-2014-0116. 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, Office of Administration,
Mail Stop: 3WFN-06-A44M, 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: Don Lowman, Office of Federal and
State Materials and Environmental Management Programs, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-
5452, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Accessing Information and Submitting Comments
A. Accessing Information
Additional background information and supporting documentation for
this draft RIS can be found at: http://www.nrc.gov/waste/llw-disposal/llw-pa/llw-uwm.html.
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2014-0116 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-2014-0116.
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
draft RIS, ``Reporting of H-3, C-14, Tc-99, and I-129 on the Uniform
Waste Manifest,'' is available in ADAMS under accession number
ML14098A283.
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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-2014-0116 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 entering the comment submissions into ADAMS.
II. Discussion
The NRC issues RISs to communicate with stakeholders on a broad
range of matters. This may include communicating staff technical
positions on matters that have not been communicated to, or are not
broadly understood by, the nuclear industry.
The NRC is issuing this draft RIS to inform addressees of the
option to use indirect methods to determine the activity of H-3, C-14,
Tc-99, and I-129 reported on the uniform waste manifest when the
radionuclide is present at a concentration less than the lower limit of
detection (LLD). Research indicates that the use of the LLD values as
the standard concentration reported on the uniform waste manifest may
be resulting in a significant over-estimation of the inventory of these
four radionuclides in disposal facilities. Over-estimation of inventory
could lead to premature loss of disposal system capacity (e.g., closure
of disposal sites), whereas underestimation of inventory could lead to
health and safety concerns.
The NRC is requesting public comments on the draft RIS. The NRC
staff will make a final determination regarding issuance of the RIS
after it considers any public comments received in response to this
request.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 23rd day of May 2014.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Larry W. Camper,
Director, Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection,
Office of Federal and State Materials and Environmental Management
Programs.
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