[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 169 (Thursday, August 30, 2018)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 44247]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-18816]
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Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 169 / Thursday, August 30, 2018 /
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
10 CFR Chapter I
[NRC-2018-0185]
Use of Electronic Signatures by Medical Licensees on Internal
Documents
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft regulatory issue summary; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is seeking public
comment on a draft regulatory issue summary (RIS). The draft RIS
describes one means by which medical licensees can use electronic
signatures to satisfy NRC's signature requirements on internal records
that the NRC requires the licensee to maintain. The draft RIS is
addressed to medical licensees, NRC master materials licensees,
Agreement State Radiation Control Program Directors, and State Liaison
Officers. The NRC provides this RIS to the Agreement States for their
information and for distribution to their licensees, as they deem
appropriate.
DATES: Submit comments by October 29, 2018. Comments received after
this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the
Commission is able to ensure consideration only for comments received
before this date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2018-0185. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer Borges; telephone: 301-287-
9127; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of
this document.
Mail comments to: May Ma, Office of Administration, Mail
Stop: TWFN-7-A60M, 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: Maryann Ayoade, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington DC 20555-0001; telephone 301-415-0862, email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2018-0185 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain
publicly-available information related to this action by any of the
following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2018-0185.
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, ``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 NRC Regulatory Issue Summary 2018-XX, ``Use
Of Electronic Signatures By Medical Licensees On Internal Documents,''
is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML16349A179.
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-2018-0185 in your comment submission.
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 will post all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as enter 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 into ADAMS.
II. Background
The NRC issues RISs to communicate with stakeholders on a broad
range of matters. These matters may include communicating and
clarifying NRC technical or policy positions on regulatory matters that
have not been communicated to or are not broadly understood by the
nuclear industry. The draft RIS describes one means by which medical
licensees can use electronic signatures to satisfy NRC's signature
requirements on internal records that the NRC requires the licensee to
maintain.
As noted in 83 FR 20858 (May 8, 2018), this document is being
published in the Proposed Rules section of the Federal Register to
comply with publication requirements under 1 CFR chapter I.
Proposed Action
The NRC is requesting public comments on the draft RIS. The NRC
staff will make a final determination regarding issuance of the RIS
after it considers any public comments received in response to this
request.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 27th day of August 2018.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Brian J. Benney,
Senior Project Manager, ROP and Generic Communications Branch, Division
of Inspection and Regional Support, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2018-18816 Filed 8-29-18; 8:45 am]
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