[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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