[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 33 (Wednesday, February 19, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9487-9488]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-03238]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2020-0026]
Standard Format and Content of License Applications for Receipt
and Storage of Unirradiated Power Reactor Fuel and Associated
Radioactive Material at a Nuclear Power Plant
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft regulatory guide; request for comment.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for
public comment draft regulatory guide (DG), DG-3036, ``Standard Format
and Content of License Applications for Receipt and Storage of
Unirradiated Power Reactor Fuel and Associated Radioactive Material at
a Nuclear Power Plant.'' This regulatory guide (RG) describes the
standard format and content that the NRC staff considers acceptable for
license applications to authorize the receipt, possession, and storage
of unirradiated fuel assemblies and associated radioactive materials at
a nuclear power plant.
DATES: Submit comments by April 20, 2020. Comments received after this
date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC is
able to ensure consideration only for comments received on or before
this date.
Although a time limit is given for public comment, comments and
suggestions in connection with items for inclusion in RGs currently
being developed or improvements in all published RGs are encouraged at
any time.
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-2020-0026. 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.
Mail comments to: Office of Administration, Mail Stop:
TWFN-7A06, 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: Kevin Ramsey, Office of Nuclear
Materials Safety and Safeguards, telephone: 301-415-7506, email:
[email protected], and Edward O'Donnell, Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research, telephone: 301-415-3317, email:
[email protected]. Both are staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2020-0026 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may
obtain publicly-available information related to this document by any
of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2020-0026.
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]. DG-3036 is available in ADAMS under
Accession No. ML14161A621.
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-2020-0026 in your comment submission.
The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact information
in comment submissions that you do not want to be publicly disclosed.
The NRC posts all comment submissions at https://www.regulations.gov as
well as enters 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 in their comment submissions
that they do not want to be publicly disclosed. Your request should
state that the NRC will not 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
The NRC is issuing for public comment a draft guide in the NRC's
``Regulatory Guide'' series. This series was developed to describe and
make available to the public such information as methods that are
acceptable to the NRC staff for implementing specific parts of the
NRC's regulations, techniques that the staff uses in evaluating
specific problems or postulated events, and data that the staff needs
in its review of applications for permits and licenses.
The draft regulatory guide, entitled ``Standard Format and Content
of License Applications for Receipt and Storage of Unirradiated Power
Reactor Fuel and Associated Radioactive Material at a Nuclear Power
Plant,'' is temporarily identified by its task number, DG-3036. DG-3036
is proposed revision 2 of Regulatory Guide 3.15. The guide describes a
method that the staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
considers acceptable for use in preparing license applications to
authorize the receipt, possession, and storage of unirradiated fuel
assemblies and associated radioactive materials at a nuclear power
reactor for eventual use in that reactor and provides a format for a
license application.
This revision of the guide (revision 2) updates references and
reflects experience gained in licensing, operation, and subsequent
decommissioning of unirradiated power reactor fuel storage sites since
the guide was addresses new issues identified since the guide was
originally issued in April 1983.
III. Backfitting, Issue Finality, and Forward Fitting
Issuance of this draft regulatory guide in final form would not
constitute
[[Page 9488]]
backfitting as defined in title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations
(10 CFR) section 50.109, ``Backfitting,'' and as described in NRC
Management Directive 8.4, ``Management of Backfitting, Forward Fitting,
Issue Finality, and Information Requests''; constitute forward fitting
as that term is defined and described in Management Directive 8.4; or
affect issue finality of any approval issued under 10 CFR part 52,
``Licenses, Certificates, and Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants.'' As
explained in the draft regulatory guide, licensees would not be
required to comply with the positions set forth in this draft
regulatory guide.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 13th day of February, 2020.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Robert G. Roche-Rivera,
Acting Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Generic Issues Branch, Division
of Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2020-03238 Filed 2-18-20; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 7590-01-P