[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 234 (Tuesday, December 6, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 87978-87979]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-29214]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2016-0122]
Program-Specific Guidance About Medical Use Licenses
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft NUREG; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is revising its
licensing guidance for licenses authorizing medical use of byproduct
material. The NRC is requesting public comment on draft NUREG-1556,
Volume 9, Revision 3, ``Consolidated Guidance About Materials Licenses:
Program-Specific Guidance About Medical Use Licenses.'' 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.
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DATES: Submit comments by February 6, 2017. 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 comment 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-2016-0122. 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.
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: Katie Tapp, Office of Nuclear Material
Safety and Safeguards; U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-0236; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2016-0122 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-2016-0122.
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 9, Revision 3, is available in ADAMS under
Accession No. ML16328A214.
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 9, Revision 3, 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-2016-0122 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 medical use of byproduct
material licensees and to an applicant that are preparing a medical use
of byproduct material license application. 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 9, Revision 3,
``Consolidated Guidance About Materials Licenses: Program-Specific
Guidance About Medical Use Licenses.'' These comments will be
considered in the final version or subsequent revisions.
This draft of NUREG-1556, Volume 9, Revision 3 does not include any
revisions associated with the proposed rule ``Medical Use of Byproduct
Material-Medical Event Definitions, Training and Experience, and
Clarifying Amendments.'' This proposed rule amends requirements in
parts 30, 32, and 35 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations for
the following:
Reporting and notification of medical event for permanent
implant brachytherapy; training and experience for authorized users,
medical physicists, Radiation Safety Officers and nuclear pharmacists;
measuring molybdenum contamination and reporting of failed
technetium and rubidium generators;
allowing Associate Radiation Safety Officers to be named
on a medical use license; and,
clarifying other revisions to the regulations.
This draft of NUREG-1556, Volume 9, Revision 3 does not include any
guidance for the proposed rule revisions as that rule is not final at
this time.
The proposed rule and proposed changes to NUREG-1556, Volume 9,
associated with the proposed rule were published for public comment in
the Federal Register (79 FR 42409, 79 FR 42224) on July 21, 2014.
Comments received on those changes are being considered by the NRC
staff separately. If the proposed rule becomes final, the proposed
revisions to NUREG-1556, Volume 9 addressing the implementation of the
proposed rule will be incorporated into this NUREG-1556, Volume 9,
Revision 3 before its final publication.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 30th day of November, 2016.
For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Daniel S. Collins,
Director, Division of Material Safety, State, Tribal, and Rulemaking
Programs, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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