[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 159 (Friday, August 16, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42024-42025]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-17584]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2019-0132]


Standard Review Plan for Spent Fuel Transportation

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Draft NUREG; request for comment.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) requests public 
comment on draft NUREG-2216, Revision 0, ``Standard Review Plan for 
Spent Fuel Transportation''. This Standard Review Plan (SRP) provides 
guidance to NRC staff for reviewing an application for package 
approval. NRC approval of a package design typically results in 
issuance of a certificate of compliance (CoC) or a letter amendment for 
a transportation package. This draft SRP will replace NUREG-1609, 
``Standard Review Plan for Transportation Packages for Radioactive 
Material'', NUREG-1617, ``Standard Review Plan for Transportation 
Packages for Spent Nuclear Fuel'', and all Interim Staff Guidance 
(ISGs) that were used to enhance these NUREGs.

DATES: Submit comments by September 30, 2019. 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 https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2019-0132. Address 
questions about NRC docket IDs in Regulations.gov 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: Office of Administration, Mail Stop: 
TWFN-7-A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001, ATTN: Program Management, Announcements and Editing Staff.
    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: Jeremy Smith, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-7308; email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2019-0132 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 https://www.regulations.gov; and search for Docket ID NRC-2019-0132.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the 
ADAMS Public Documents collection at https://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]. Draft NUREG-2216, Revision 0, 
``Standard Review Plan for Spent Fuel Transportation'' is available in 
ADAMS under Accession No. ML19214A229.
     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-2019-0132 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 
https://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 utilizes information that is currently contained in 
multiple documents (NUREG-1609, NUREG-1617, and numerous ISGs) to 
assist the NRC staff in its reviews of packages containing radioactive 
material. The NRC's intent in combining and updating these documents 
into one document is to assist NRC staff in its reviews by promoting a 
consistent regulatory review of transportation packages; by promoting 
quality and uniformity of these reviews across each technical 
discipline; presenting a basis for the review's scope; identifying 
acceptable approaches to meeting regulatory requirements; and 
suggesting possible evaluation findings that can be used in the safety 
evaluation report for applications submitted under part 71 of title 10 
of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR).

III. Discussion

    This SRP provides guidance to the NRC staff for reviewing an 
application for a package approval issued under 10 CFR part 71, 
``Packaging and Transportation of Radioactive Material.'' NRC approval 
of a package design typically results in issuance of a CoC or a letter 
amendment for a transportation package.
    The objectives of this SRP are to assist the NRC staff in its 
reviews by:
     Providing a basis that promotes uniform quality and a 
consistent regulatory review of an application for a CoC for a 
transportation package.
     presenting a basis for the review's scope.
     identifying acceptable approaches to meeting regulatory 
requirements.
     suggesting possible evaluation findings that can be used 
in the safety evaluation report.
    This SRP may be revised and updated as the need arises on a 
chapter-by-chapter basis to clarify the content, correct errors, or 
incorporate modifications approved by the Director of the NRC Division 
of Spent Fuel Management.
Proposed Action
    By this action, the NRC is requesting public comments on draft 
NUREG-2216, Revision 0. The NRC invites comments on all portions of 
this Standard Review Plan that the

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commenter thinks the NRC should consider. The NRC will make a final 
determination regarding issuance of the NUREG after it considers any 
public comments received in response to this request.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 12th day of August, 2019.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Michael C. Layton,
Director, Division of Spent Fuel Management, Office of Nuclear Material 
Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2019-17584 Filed 8-15-19; 8:45 am]
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