[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 10 (Tuesday, January 17, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4925-4926]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-00907]


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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; extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: On December 16, 2016, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(NRC) solicited comments 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 public comment period was 
originally scheduled to close on January 20, 2017. The NRC has decided 
to extend the public comment period to allow more time for members of 
the public to develop and submit their comments.

DATES: The due date of comments requested in the document published on 
December 16, 2016 (81 FR 91206) is extended. Comments should be filed 
no later than February 24, 2017. Comments received after this date will 
be considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC 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-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-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: 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: (1) The ``Consolidated Guidance About 
Materials Licenses (NUREG-1556)'' page at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1556/;

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and (2) the ``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 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

    On December 16, 2016, the NRC solicited comments 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 purpose of the document published on December 16, 2016 (81 FR 
91206) was to provide the public an opportunity to review and comment 
on draft NUREG-1556, Volume 21, Revision 1. This NUREG provides 
guidance both to current holders of possession licenses for radioactive 
material produced in an accelerator and to persons preparing 
applications for such licenses. The NUREG also provides the NRC 
criteria for evaluating a license application.
    The public comment period was originally scheduled to close on 
January 20, 2017. The NRC has decided to extend the public comment 
period on this document until February 24, 2016, to allow more time for 
members of the public to submit their comments.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day of January 2017.

    For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Daniel S. Collins,
Director, Division of Material Safety, State, Tribal, and Rulemaking, 
Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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