[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 131 (Wednesday, July 9, 2014)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 38796]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-16049]
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Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 131 / Wednesday, July 9, 2014 /
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
10 CFR Part 61
[NRC-2014-0080]
Low-Level Radioactive Waste Regulatory Program
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Strategic assessment update; extension of comment period.
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SUMMARY: On May 15, 2014, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
published a request for public comment on developments concerning the
Low Level Radioactive Waste (LLRW) Regulatory Program. These
developments over the next several years would affect licensees and
States with LLRW disposal sites and actions that the NRC could take to
ensure safety, security, and the protection of the environment. The
public comment period was originally scheduled to close on July 14,
2014. The NRC has decided to extend the public comment period to allow
more time for members of the public to develop and submit their
comments.
DATES: The due date for comments requested in the document published on
May 15, 2014 (79 FR 27772) is extended. Comments must be filed no later
than September 15, 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-2014-0080. 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-06-44M, 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: Melanie C. Wong, Office of Federal and
State Materials and Environmental Management Programs, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-
2432; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2014-0080 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may
obtain 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-2014-0080.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain 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].
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-2014-0080 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. Further Information
On May 15, 2014 (79 FR 27772), the NRC published a request for
public comments on developments to the LLRW Regulatory Program in the
next several years that would affect licensees and States where LLRW
disposal sites are located and actions that the NRC could take to
ensure safety, security, and the protection of the environment. The
public comment period was originally scheduled to close on July 14,
2014. The NRC has decided to extend the public comment period to allow
more time for stakeholders to develop and submit their comments, and to
consider and address the questions posed by the NRC in the document
published on May 15, 2014 (79 FR 27772). The deadline for submitting
comments is extended to September 15, 2014.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 1st day of July, 2014.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Gregory Suber,
Acting Deputy Director, Environmental Protection and Performance
Assessment Directorate, Division of Waste Management and Environmental
Protection, Office of Federal and State Materials and Environmental
Management Programs.
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