[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 119 (Thursday, June 20, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28859-28860]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-13005]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2011-0266]
Evaluations of Uranium Recovery Facility Surveys of Radon and
Radon Progeny
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Interim staff guidance; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing
Interim Staff Guidance (ISG) DUWP-ISG-01, ``Evaluations of Uranium
Recovery Facility Surveys of Radon and Radon Progeny in Air and
Demonstrations of Compliance with 10 CFR 20.1301.'' This ISG provides
guidance to the NRC staff for evaluating uranium recovery (UR) licensee
demonstrations of compliance with the public dose limits. This action
is necessary because there is insufficient existing guidance on this
topic. This action will benefit NRC staff and UR licensees by providing
detailed descriptions of methods acceptable to the NRC staff to meet
the public dose limit requirement.
DATES: This guidance goes into effect on July 22, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2011-0266 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You
may obtain publicly-available information related to this document
using any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2011-0266. Address
questions about NRC docket IDs 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.
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
final ISG, DUWP-ISG-01, ``Evaluations of Uranium Recovery Facility
Surveys of Radon and Radon Progeny in Air and Demonstrations of
Compliance with 10 CFR 20.1301,'' is available in ADAMS under Accession
No. ML15051A002.
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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Brown, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards; U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-7677; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Discussion
Uranium recovery facility licensees, including in-situ recovery
facilities and conventional uranium mills, are required to perform
surveys of radiation levels in unrestricted and controlled areas, and
to perform surveys of radioactive materials in effluents released to
unrestricted and controlled areas to demonstrate compliance with the
dose limits for individual members of the public provided in Sec.
20.1301 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR). The
NRC's regulations in 10 CFR 20.1302 permit the use of alternative
approaches to demonstrate compliance with the public dose limits.
This ISG was developed to document the criteria to be used by the
NRC to review radon and radon progeny surveys and evaluations of dose
to members of the public submitted by licensees under 10 CFR 20.1302 to
demonstrate compliance with the NRC's public dose limits of 10 CFR
20.1301. Specifically, this final ISG provides guidance to the NRC
staff for reviewing licensee evaluations of doses to members of the
public from radon-222 and radon-222 progeny from UR facilities
including: (1) Surveys of environmental and effluent radon and radon
progeny in air; and (2) radon-related aspects of demonstrations of
compliance with the NRC's public dose limits of 10 CFR 20.1301. This
ISG also may be used by the NRC in evaluating portions of license
applications, renewals, or amendments dealing with radon and radon
progeny surveys and compliance. The NRC published an initial draft
version of this ISG for public comment on November 21, 2011
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(76 FR 72006). The NRC considered the public comments in preparing a
revised draft report, published for public comment on March 27, 2014
(79 FR 17194). The NRC then considered the public comments on the
revised draft in preparing the final report. This ISG was also the
subject of an NRC staff non-concurrence. A completed NRC Non-
Concurrence Process Form 757 is available in ADAMS under Accession No.
ML19121A171.
The NRC has prepared a regulatory analysis for this ISG. The
analysis examines the costs and benefits of the alternatives considered
by the NRC. The regulatory analysis can be found in ADAMS under
Accession No. ML19057A490.
This ISG is a rule as defined in the Congressional Review Act (5
U.S.C. 801-808). However, the Office of Management and Budget has not
found it to be a major rule as defined in the Congressional Review Act.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 14th day of June, 2019.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Bo M. Pham,
Deputy Director, Division of Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery and
Waste Programs, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2019-13005 Filed 6-19-19; 8:45 am]
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