[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 126 (Wednesday, July 1, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37670-37671]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-16130]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2015-0120]


Selection of Material Balance Areas and Item Control Areas

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Draft regulatory guide; reopening of comment period.

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SUMMARY: On May 14, 2015, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) 
solicited comments on DG 5057, ``Special Nuclear Material Control and 
Accounting Systems for Non-Fuel Cycle Facilities. The public comment 
period closed on June 15, 2015. The NRC has decided to reopen the 
public comment period to allow more time for members

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of the public to develop and submit their comments.

DATES: The comment period for the document published on May 14, 2015 
(80 FR 27709) has been reopened. Comments should be filed no later than 
July 31, 2015. 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 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 specified subject):
     Federal rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0120. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact 
the individuals listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section 
of this document.
     Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration, 
Mail Stop: OWFN-12-H08, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, 
DC 20555-0001.
    For additional direction on accessing information and submitting 
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tom Pham, Office of Nuclear Material 
Safety and Safeguards, telephone: 301-415-7254, email address: 
[email protected], and Mekonen Bayssie, Office of Nuclear Regulatory 
Research, telephone: 301-415-1699, email address: 
[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-2015-0120 when contacting the NRC 
about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain 
publically-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-2015-0120.
     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 
ADAMS accession number for each document referenced (if it is available 
in ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is mentioned. The 
draft regulatory guide is available electronically under ADAMS 
accession number ML15015A271. The regulatory analysis may be found in 
ADAMS under Accession No. ML15015A294.
    Regulatory guides are not copyrighted and NRC approval is not 
required to reproduce them.
     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-2015-0120 in 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 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

    On May 14, 2015, the NRC solicited comments on Selection of 
Material Balance Areas and Item Control Areas.
    The purpose of This DG provides guidance to licensees and 
applicants on the NRC's regulations concerning the material control and 
accounting of special nuclear material. The public comment period 
closed on June 15, 2015. The NRC has decided to reopen the public 
comment period on this document until July 31, 2015, to allow more time 
for members of the public to submit their comments.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day of June 2015.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Thomas H. Boyce,
Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Generic Issues Branch, Division of 
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2015-16130 Filed 6-30-15; 8:45 am]
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