[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 188 (Friday, September 27, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Page 51191]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-20972]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2019-0157]
Applicability of Existing Regulatory Guides to the Design,
Construction, and Operation of an Independent Spent Fuel Storage
Installation
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Regulatory guide; withdrawal.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is withdrawing
Regulatory Guide (RG) 3.53, ``Applicability of Existing Regulatory
Guides to the Design, Construction, and Operation of an Independent
Spent Fuel Storage Installation.'' This document is being withdrawn
because the information included in the RG has been superseded by newer
guidance and is therefore no longer needed.
DATES: The withdrawal of RG 3.53 takes effect on September 27, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2019-0157 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 https://www.regulations.gov/ and search for Docket ID NRC-2019-0157. 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 Document 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]. 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. The
basis for the withdrawal of this regulatory guide is found in ADAMS
under Accession No. ML19177A369.
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: Haile Lindsay, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards; telephone: 301-415-0616; email:
[email protected], or 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: The NRC is withdrawing RG 3.53 because it
has been superseded and is no longer needed. RG 3.53 was published in
July 1982 to describe the applicability of existing regulatory guides
that would aid in the design, construction, and operation of an
independent spent fuel storage installation (ISFSI). At that time,
there were no precedents for applications for ISFSIs, there was not a
consolidated set of guidance, and information technology did not exist
to provide guidance electronically for ISFSIs. The staff issued RG 3.53
to expedite the staff's reviews of ISFSI applications, which were
anticipated under the new requirements in title 10 of the Code of
Federal Regulations (10 CFR) part 72, ``Licensing Requirements for the
Independent Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel, High Level Radioactive
Waste, and Reactor-Related Greater than Class C Waste.''
Since 1982, many of the guidance documents and regulatory positions
listed in the RG have been withdrawn or superseded by more current
guidance. Examples of new or revised staff guidance for ISFSIs include
RG 3.48, ``Standard Format and Content for the Safety Analysis Report
for an Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation or Monitored
Retrievable Storage Installation (Dry Storage),'' RG 3.50, ``Standard
Format and Content for a Specific License Application for An
Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation or Monitored Retrievable
Storage Facility,'' RG 3.60, ``Design of an Independent Spent Fuel
Storage Installation (Dry Storage),'' and RG 3.62, ``Standard Format
and Content for the Safety Analysis Report for Onsite Storage of Spent
Fuel Storage Casks.'' These guidance documents incorporate the lessons
learned during the licensing process and from operational experiences
with ISFSIs. The current information technology available today makes
the numerous RGs in the areas of design, construction, and operation of
an ISFSI readily available electronically on the NRC's public website
and it is easy for applicants to navigate and identify these guides.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 23rd day of September, 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. 2019-20972 Filed 9-26-19; 8:45 am]
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