[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 120 (Friday, June 21, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29248-29249]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-13277]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2018-0232]
Environmental Dosimetry-Performance Specifications, Testing, and
Data Analysis
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Regulatory guide; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing
Revision 2 to Regulatory Guide (RG) 4.13, ``Environmental Dosimetry-
Performance Specifications, Testing, and Data Analysis.'' Revision 2
provides updated guidance that the NRC staff considers acceptable for
performing surveys and evaluations of public dose in the unrestricted
area and the controlled area of a licensed facility from direct
radiation using environmental dosimetry. The RG endorses the American
National Standards Institute/Health Physics Society (ANSI/HPS) N13.37-
2014, ``Environmental Dosimetry-Criteria for System Design and
Implementation.''
DATES: Revision 2 to RG 4.13 is available on June 21, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2018-0232 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You
may obtain publicly-available information related to this document,
using the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2018-0232. Address
questions about NRC docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Jennifer Borges;
telephone: 301-287-9127; email: [email protected]. For technical
questions, contact the individuals 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 ``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 in this notice (if that document is available in
ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is referenced.
Revision 2 to Regulatory Guide 4.13 and the regulatory analysis may be
found in ADAMS under Accession Nos. ML19044A595 and ML18087A167
respectively.
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.
Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and NRC approval is not
required to reproduce them.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steven Garry, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301-415-2766, email:
[email protected], and Harriet Karagiannis, Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research, telephone: 301-415-2493, email:
[email protected]. Both are staff of the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Discussion
The NRC is issuing a revision to an existing guide 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
agency's regulations, techniques that the NRC staff uses in evaluating
specific issues or postulated events, and data that the NRC staff needs
in its review of applications for permits and licenses.
Revision 2 of RG 4.13 was issued with a temporary identification of
Draft Regulatory Guide, DG-4019, to provide updated guidance that the
NRC staff considers acceptable for performing surveys and evaluations
of public dose in the unrestricted area and the controlled area of a
licensed facility from direct radiation using environmental dosimetry.
This revision also provides updated NRC guidance on an acceptable
dosimetry program by endorsing ANSI/HPS N13.37-2014. The 2014 ANSI/HPS
standard provides up-to-date environmental dosimetry system design
criteria and dosimeter laboratory test protocols and data-analysis
methods suitable to assess potential facility-related radiation doses.
II. Additional Information
The NRC published a notice of the availability of DG-4019 in the
Federal Register on October 17, 2018 (83 FR 52576) for a 60-day public
comment period. The public comment period closed on December 17, 2018.
Public comments on DG-4019 and the staff responses to the public
comments are available under ADAMS under Accession No. ML19044A594.
III. Congressional Review Act
This RG 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.
IV. Backfitting and Issue Finality
This RG provides guidance on establishing and conducting an
environmental dosimetry program that the NRC staff considers acceptable
for
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monitoring direct radiation released into the unrestricted area and the
controlled area of a licensed facility. The NRC regards these
requirements as constituting information collection and reporting
requirements. The NRC has long taken the position that information
collection and reporting requirements are not subject to the NRC's
backfitting and issue finality regulations in title 10 of the Code of
Federal Regulations (CFR) 50.109, 10 CFR 70.76, 10 CFR 72.62, 10 CFR
76.76 and 10 CFR part 52 (e.g., ``Material Control and Accounting
Methods,'' December 23, 2002 (67 FR 78130); and ``Regulatory
Improvements to the Nuclear Materials Management and Safeguards
System,'' June 9, 2008 (73 FR 32453)). Therefore, the NRC has
determined that its backfitting and issue finality regulations do not
apply to this RG because the RG does not include any provisions within
the scope of matters covered by the backfitting provisions in 10 CFR
parts 50, 70, 72, or 76, or the issue finality provisions of 10 CFR
part 52.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day of June 2019.
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. 2019-13277 Filed 6-20-19; 8:45 am]
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