[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 224 (Wednesday, November 20, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64113-64114]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-25163]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2018-0170]


Guidance for Implementation of Physical Protection of Category 1 
and Category 2 Quantities of Radioactive Material

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Draft NUREG; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is revising its 
guidance for implementation of physical protection of Category 1 and 
Category 2 quantities of radioactive material. The NRC is requesting 
public comments on draft NUREG-2155, Revision 2, ``Implementation 
Guidance for 10 CFR part 37, `Physical Protection of Category 1 and 
Category 2 Quantities of Radioactive Material.' '' The document has 
been updated from NUREG-2155, Revision 1, to include revisions to 
questions and answers and guidance related to general provisions in the 
rule, background investigations and access authorization programs, and 
physical protection requirements during use and in transit.

DATES:  Submit comments by February 18, 2020. 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-2018-0170. 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 accessing information and submitting 
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul Goldberg, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards; U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-7842; email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2018-0170 when contacting the NRC 
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may 
access publicly-available information related to this action by the 
following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2018-0170.
     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)

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reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by email to 
[email protected]. The draft NUREG-2155, is available in ADAMS under 
Accession No. ML19298A303.
     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.
     NRC's public website: The draft NUREG-2155, Revision 2 is 
also available on the NRC's public website at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/ under ``Implementation 
Guidance for 10 CFR part 37, `Physical Protection of Category 1 and 
Category 2 Quantities of Radioactive Material' '' (NUREG-2155).

B. Submitting Comments

    Please include Docket ID NRC-2018-0170 in the subject line of your 
comment submission, in order to ensure that the NRC is able to make 
your comment submission available to the public in this docket. The NRC 
cautions you not to include identifying or contact information that you 
do not want 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, and 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 submissions into ADAMS.

II. Additional Information

    NUREG-2155, Revision 2 is intended to provide guidance on, and to 
assist applicants and licensees in, the implementation of part 37 of 
title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), ``Physical 
Protection of Category 1 and Category 2 Quantities of Radioactive 
Material.'' This document describes methods that the NRC finds 
acceptable for implementing the regulations. The purpose of this notice 
is to provide the public with an opportunity to review and provide 
comments on draft NUREG-2155, Revision 2. These comments will be 
considered in the final version or subsequent revisions.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 15th day of November, 2019.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Paul J. Michalak,
Acting Director, Division of Materials Safety, Security, State and 
Tribal Programs, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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