[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 121 (Thursday, June 23, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40928-40929]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-14867]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2015-0252]
Program-Specific Guidance About Licenses Authorizing Distribution
to General Licensees
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft NUREG; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is revising its
licensing guidance for licenses authorizing distribution to general
licensees. The NRC is requesting public comment on draft NUREG-1556,
Volume 16, Revision 1, ``Consolidated Guidance About Materials
Licenses: Program-Specific Guidance about Licenses Authorizing
Distribution to General Licensees.'' The document has been updated from
the previous revision to include information on safety culture,
security of radioactive materials, protection of sensitive information,
and changes in regulatory policies and practices. This document is
intended for use by applicants, licensees, and the NRC staff.
DATES: Submit comments by July 25, 2016. Comments received after this
date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC is
only able to assure consideration of 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-2015-0252. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; 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: OWFN-12-H8, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001.
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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: Vanessa Cox, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards; U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-8342; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0252 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may
obtain publicly-available information related to this action by the
following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0252.
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 NUREG-1556, Volume 16, Revision 1, is available in ADAMS under
Accession No. ML16167A386.
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.
The draft NUREG-1556, Volume 16, Revision 1, is also available on
the NRC's public Web site on the: (1) ``Consolidated Guidance About
Materials Licenses (NUREG-1556)'' page at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1556/; and the (2) ``Draft NUREG-
Series Publications for Comment'' page at http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/doc-comment.html#nuregs.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC-2015-0252 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 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, and 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
The NUREG provides guidance to existing licensees that distribute
generally licensed (GL) materials, products, or devices and to an
applicant in preparing a license application to distribute GL
materials, products, or devices. The NUREG also provides the NRC with
criteria for evaluating a license application. The purpose of this
notice is to provide the public with an opportunity to review and
provide comments on draft NUREG-1556, Volume 16, Revision 1,
``Consolidated Guidance About Materials Licenses: Program-Specific
Guidance About Licenses Authorizing Distribution to General
Licensees.'' These comments will be considered in the final version or
subsequent revisions.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 17th day of June, 2016.
For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Pamela J. Henderson,
Acting Director, Division of Material Safety, State, Tribal and
Rulemaking Programs, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2016-14867 Filed 6-22-16; 8:45 am]
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