[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 140 (Tuesday, July 22, 2014)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 42474-42475]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-17217]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
10 CFR Parts 26 and 73
[NRC-2014-0118]
RIN 3150-AJ41
Enhanced Security at Fuel Cycle Facilities; Special Nuclear
Material Transportation
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft regulatory basis; extension of comment period.
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SUMMARY: On June 18, 2014, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
published a request for public comment on a draft regulatory basis to
support the potential amendments to revise a number of existing
security related regulations relating to physical protection of special
nuclear material (SNM) at NRC-licensed facilities and in transit, as
well as the fitness-for-duty programs for security officers at certain
fuel cycle facilities. The public comment period originally was
scheduled to close on August 4, 2014. The NRC has decided to extend the
public comment period on this document 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
June 18, 2014 (79 FR 34641) is extended. Comments must be filed no
later than October 17, 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-2014-0118. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-
3422; email: [email protected]. For
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technical questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document.
Email comments to: [email protected]. If you do
not receive an automatic email reply confirming receipt, then contact
us at 301-415-1677.
Fax comments to: Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission at 301-415-1101.
Mail comments to: Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, ATTN: Rulemakings and
Adjudications Staff.
Hand deliver comments to: 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville,
Maryland 20852, between 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. (Eastern Time) Federal
workdays; telephone: 301-415-1677.
For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
Comments that contain proprietary or sensitive
information: Please contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document to determine the most
appropriate method for submitting these comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alex Sapountzis, Office of Nuclear
Security and Incident Response, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-287-3660, email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2014-0118 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-2014-0118.
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]. The
draft regulatory basis document is available in ADAMS under Accession
No. ML14113A468.
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-2014-0118 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 June 18, 2014 (79 FR 34641), the NRC published a request for
public comment on a draft regulatory basis to support the potential
amendments to revise a number of existing security related regulations
relating to physical protection of SNM at NRC-licensed facilities and
in transit, as well as the fitness for duty programs for security
officers at certain fuel cycle facilities. The request for public
comment asked commenters to consider and address certain questions as
they develop and provide their remarks. The public comment period was
originally scheduled to close on August 4, 2014. The NRC has decided to
extend the public comment period on this document to allow more time
for members of the public to develop and submit their comments. The
deadline for submitting comments will be extended to October 17, 2014.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 16th day of July 2014.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
George Wilson,
Acting Director, Division of Intergovernmental Liaison and Rulemaking,
Office of Federal and State Materials and Environmental Management
Programs.
[FR Doc. 2014-17217 Filed 7-21-14; 8:45 am]
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