[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 36 (Friday, February 24, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11660-11661]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-03601]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2017-0056]
Emergency Planning For Research and Test Reactors and Other Non-
Power Production and Utilization Facilities
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft regulatory guide; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for
public comment draft regulatory guide (DG), DG-2004, ``Emergency
Planning for Research and Test Reactors and Other Non-Power Production
and Utilization Facilities.'' This DG is proposed Revision 2 of
Regulatory Guide (RG) 2.6, ``Emergency Planning for Research and Test
Reactors.'' The NRC proposes to revise the RG by updating it to approve
the use of the most current version of the American National Standards
Institute (ANSI)/American Nuclear Society (ANS) standard ANSI/ANS-
15.16-2015, ``Emergency Planning for Research Reactors.'' The proposed
revision provides licensees and applicants with a method that the NRC
staff considers acceptable for use in complying with the regulations on
the content of emergency plans for research and test reactors and other
non-power production and utilization facilities.
DATES: Submit comments by April 25, 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. Although a time limit is given, comments and suggestions in
connection with items for inclusion in guides currently being developed
or improvements in all published guides are encouraged at any time.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2017-0056. 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-12H08, 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: Geoffrey Wertz, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301-415-0893, email:
[email protected]; or Mark Orr, Office of Nuclear Regulatory
Research, telephone: 301-415-6003, email: [email protected]. Both are
staff members of the 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-2017-0056 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information regarding 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-2017-0056.
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 it is mentioned in this
document. The DG-2004 is available in ADAMS under Accession No.
ML16035A476. The regulatory analysis for this DG is available in ADAMS
under Accession No. ML16035A477.
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-2017-0056 in 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 enters 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. Additional Information
The NRC is issuing for public comment a DG in the NRC's
``Regulatory Guide'' series. This series was developed to describe and
make available to the public information regarding methods that are
acceptable to the NRC staff for implementing specific parts of the
NRC's regulations, techniques that the staff uses in evaluating
specific issues or postulated events, and data that the staff needs in
its review of applications for permits and licenses.
The DG, entitled ``Emergency Planning for Research and Test
Reactors and Other Non-Power Production and Utilization Facilities,''
is proposed Revision 2 of RG 2.6, ``Emergency Planning for Research and
Test Reactors.'' The DG is temporarily identified by its task number,
DG-2004. This proposed revision addresses new issues identified since
the guide was last revised in March 1983. This revision endorses the
latest version of the consensus standard, ANSI/ANS-15.16-2015,
``Emergency Planning for Research Reactors'' (Ref. 9) (ANSI/ANS-15.16
or the standard). The scope was expanded to address non-power
facilities according to part 50 of title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR), other than research and test reactors. Other
changes to RG 2.6
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include editorial changes, and the current program guidance for RGs.
Copies of ANSI/ANS-15.16-2015 may be purchased from the American
Nuclear Society (ANS) Web site (http://www.new.ans.org/store/); or by
writing to: American Nuclear Society, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La
Grange Park, Illinois 60526, U.S.A., telephone: 1-800-323-3044.
Revising this regulatory guide to adopt, in whole or in part, a
consensus standard is consistent with the NRC policy of evaluating the
latest versions of national consensus standards to determine their
suitability for endorsement by regulatory guides. This approach also
complies with the NRC's Management Directive (MD) 6.5, ``NRC
Participation in the Development and Use of Consensus Standards''
(ADAMS Accession No. ML16193A497), and is in accordance with Public Law
104-113, ``National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995.''
III. Backfitting
The regulatory positions held in this DG demonstrate the method
that the NRC staff finds acceptable for an applicant or holder of a
license under 10 CFR part 50 for a research and test reactor and other
non-power production or utilization facility to meet the applicable
emergency preparedness requirements.
The issuance of the guidance in this DG would not constitute
``backfitting,'' as that term is defined in 10 CFR 50.109,
``Backfitting,'' because non-power production and utilization facility
licensees are not included within the scope of entities protected by 10
CFR 50.109.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 17th day of February, 2017.
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. 2017-03601 Filed 2-23-17; 8:45 am]
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