[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 243 (Thursday, December 18, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 75597-75598]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-29663]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2014-0178]


Standard Review Plan for Conventional Uranium Mills and Heap 
Leach Facilities

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Draft NUREG; request for comment.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for 
public comment a draft NUREG, NUREG-2126, ``Standard Review Plan for 
Conventional Uranium Mills and Heap Leach Facilities.'' The NRC has 
developed draft NUREG-2126 to provide guidance for NRC staff reviews of 
applications to develop and operate conventional uranium mills and heap 
leach facilities and to ensure a consistent quality and uniformity of 
staff reviews.

DATES: Submit comments by March 18, 2015. Comments received after this 
date

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will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the Commission is 
able to ensure consideration only for comments received on or 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-2014-0178. 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 obtaining information and submitting 
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Douglas T. Mandeville, Office of 
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, telephone: 301-415-0724, email: 
[email protected], U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington DC 20555-0001.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2014-0178 when contacting the NRC 
about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain 
publicly-available information related to this action by any of the 
following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2014-0178.
     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]. 
Draft NUREG-2126 is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML14325A634.
     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-2014-0178 in the subject line of your 
comment submission.
    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 posts all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as entering 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

    Under the provisions of part 40 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations, ``Domestic Licensing of Source Material,'' an NRC 
materials license is required to conduct uranium recovery by 
conventional mill or heap leach techniques. Applicants for a new 
license and operators seeking an amendment or renewal of an existing 
license are required to provide detailed information on the facilities, 
equipment, and procedures used in the proposed activities. This 
information is used by the NRC staff to determine whether the proposed 
activities will be protective of public health and safety and the 
environment. Each section in the Draft NUREG-2126 provides guidance on 
what information is to be reviewed, the basis for the review, how the 
NRC staff review is to be accomplished, what the staff will find 
acceptable in a demonstration of compliance with applicable 
regulations, and the evaluation criteria for determining compliance 
with the applicable regulations. Draft NUREG-2126 is intended to 
improve the understanding of the NRC staff's review process by 
interested members of the public and the uranium recovery industry. Any 
interested party may submit comments on draft NUREG-2126 for 
consideration by the NRC staff.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8 th day of December 2014.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrew Persinko,
Deputy Director, Division of Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery and 
Waste Programs, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2014-29663 Filed 12-17-14; 8:45 am]
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