[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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