[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 242 (Friday, December 16, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 91206-91207]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-30343]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2016-0158]
Program-Specific Guidance About Possession Licenses for
Production of Radioactive Material Using an Accelerator
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 possession licenses for the production of
radioactive material using an accelerator. The NRC is requesting public
comment on draft NUREG-1556, Volume 21, Revision 1, ``Consolidated
Guidance About Materials Licenses: Program-Specific Guidance about
Possession Licenses for Production of Radioactive Material Using an
Accelerator.'' The document has been updated from the original version
to include information on safety culture and changes in regulatory
policies and practices. This document is intended for use by
applicants, licensees, and the NRC staff.
DATES: Submit comments by January 20, 2017. Comments received after
this date will be considered if it is practicable to do so, but the NRC
is only able to assure consideration of comments received on or before
this date.
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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-2016-0158. 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 obtaining information and submitting
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert MacDougall, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards; U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-5175; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2016-0158 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-2016-0158.
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 21, Revision 1, is available in ADAMS under
Accession No. ML16336A536.
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 21, 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-2016-0158 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
This NUREG provides guidance to existing licensees that produce
radioactive materials using an accelerator, and to applicants preparing
license applications to possess such materials. This NUREG also
provides NRC reviewers criteria for evaluating such a license
application. The purpose of this notice is to provide the public an
opportunity to review and comment on draft NUREG-1556, Volume 21,
Revision 1, ``Consolidated Guidance About Materials Licenses: Program-
Specific Guidance About Possession Licenses for the Production of
Radioactive Material Using an Accelerator.'' These comments will be
considered in the final version or subsequent revisions.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day of December, 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.
[FR Doc. 2016-30343 Filed 12-15-16; 8:45 am]
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