[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 104 (Friday, May 29, 2020)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 32293]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-11202]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
10 CFR Part 72
[NRC-2009-0558]
Security Performance (Adversary) Characteristics for Physical
Security Programs for 10 CFR Part 72 Licensees
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft regulatory guide; discontinuation.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is discontinuing
proposed Draft Regulatory Guide (DG), DG-5033, ``Security Performance
(Adversary) Characteristics for Physical Security Programs for 10 CFR
Part 72 Licensees.'' This DG was intended to support a new rule that
would contain security requirements for Independent Spent Fuel Storage
Installations (ISFSIs). Because the scope of the rulemaking has changed
and the rule will no longer include the new requirements that DG-5033
was intended to support, the staff is discontinuing development of DG-
5033.
DATES: The discontinuation of DG-5033 takes effect on May 29, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2009-0558 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of information regarding these documents.
You may obtain publicly-available information related to these
documents using any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2009-0558. 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 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]. The ADAMS accession number for each
document referenced (if it available in ADAMS) is provided the first
time that a document is referenced.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Duane White, Office of Nuclear
Security and Incident Response, telephone: 301-287-3627, email:
[email protected], or Mekonen Bayssie, Office of Nuclear Regulatory
Research, telephone: 301-415-1699, email: [email protected]. Both
are staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NRC is discontinuing development of DG-
5033, a non-public document containing Safeguards Information (SGI).
This DG was intended to support a new rule that would include new
security requirements for ISFSIs. On December 18, 2007, the Commission
issued SRM-SECY-07-0148, ``Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation
Security Requirements for Radiological Sabotage'' (ADAMS Accession No.
ML073530119), which approved the staff's recommendation to develop new,
risk informed, performance-based security requirements applicable to
all ISFSI licensees to enhance existing security requirements. The
Commission also approved the staff's recommendation to develop
regulatory guidance (i.e., DG-5033) for security scenarios for ISFSIs
that would be bounded by the adversary characteristics supporting the
design basis threat for radiological sabotage associated with power
reactors. The staff developed DG-5033 in response and transmitted it to
cleared stakeholders (i.e., individuals who were subject to
fingerprinting and criminal history records checks for access to SGI
and had an established ``need to know'') for comment on March 21, 2011.
Subsequently, the Commission directed the staff in a non-public SRM
for COMKLS-18-0003, ``Fiscal Year 2020 Budget to the Commission,''
dated August 22, 2018, to reduce the scope of the rulemaking and codify
only the requirements of the security orders issued by the NRC
following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. As a result, the
rule will no longer address security scenarios against which licensees
would perform dose calculations and apply site specific radiological
dose acceptance limits, which DG-5033 was intended to support.
Therefore, the staff has determined that the development of DG-5033 is
no longer warranted and is discontinued.
Dated: May 19, 2020.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Thomas H. Boyce,
Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Generic Issues Branch, Division of
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
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