[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.
[FR Doc. 2019-25163 Filed 11-19-19; 8:45 am]
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