[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 131 (Wednesday, July 8, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41072-41073]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-14621]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2019-0091]
Leakage Tests on Packages for Shipment of Radioactive Material
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Regulatory guide; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing
Revision 2 to Regulatory Guide (RG) 7.4, ``Leakage Tests on Packages
for Shipment of Radioactive Material.'' This RG (Revision 2) endorses
the methods and procedures developed by the Standards Committee on
Packaging and Transportation of Radioactive and Nonnuclear Hazardous
Materials, N14 Subcommittee of the American National Standards
Institute (ANSI) in ANSI N14.5-2014, ``American National Standard for
Radioactive Materials--Leakage Tests on Packages for Shipment,'' dated
June 19, 2014.
DATES: Revision 2 to RG 7.4 is available on July 8, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2019-0091 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You
may obtain publicly-available information related to this document
using any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2019-0091. 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.
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 is available in ADAMS) is provided the first
time that it is mentioned in this document.
Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and NRC approval is not
required to reproduce them.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: JoAnn Ireland, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, telephone: 301-415-6950, email:
[email protected] and Harriet Karagiannis, Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research, telephone: 301-415-2493, email:
[email protected], U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Discussion
The NRC issues RGs to describe methods that are acceptable to the
staff for implementing specific parts of the agency's regulations, to
explain techniques that the staff uses in evaluating specific issues or
postulated events, and to describe information that the staff needs in
its review of applications for permits and licenses. Regulatory guides
are not NRC regulations and compliance with them is not required.
Methods and solutions that differ from those set forth in RGs are
acceptable if supported by a basis for the issuance or continuance of a
permit or license by the Commission.
Revision 2 of RG 7.4 was issued with a temporary identification of
Draft Regulatory Guide, DG-7010. RG 7.4 (Revision 2) endorses an update
to ANSI N14.5-2014, ``American National Standard for Radioactive
Materials--Leakage Tests on Packages for Shipment,'' that has new
information, corrections, and clarifications, to ensure integrity of
radioactive material containers and to minimize the distribution of
contamination to the environment.
II. Additional Information
The NRC published a notice of the availability of DG-7010 in the
Federal Register on April 8, 2019 (84 FR 13969) for a 60-day public
comment period. The public comment period closed on June 7, 2019, and
the NRC received four comment documents. Public comments on DG-7010 and
the staff responses to the public comments are available in ADAMS under
Accession No. ML19240B379. Revision 2 to RG 7.4 and the regulatory
analysis may be found in ADAMS under Accession Nos. ML19240B383 and
ML20034F254, respectively.
III. Congressional Review Act
This RG is a rule as defined in the Congressional Review Act (5
U.S.C. 801-808). However, the Office of Management and Budget has not
found it to be a major rule as defined in the Congressional Review Act.
IV. Backfitting, Forward Fitting, and Issue Finality
As discussed in Section D, ``Implementation,'' of RG 7.4, the NRC
staff does not intend to use the guidance in this regulatory guide to
support NRC staff actions in a manner that would constitute backfitting
as that term is defined in section 50.109 of title 10 of the Code of
Federal Regulations (10 CFR), ``Backfitting,'' and as described in NRC
Management Directive 8.4, ``Management of Backfitting, Forward Fitting,
Issue Finality, and Information Requests,'' nor does the NRC staff
intend to use the guidance to affect the issue finality of an approval
under 10 CFR part 52, ``Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals for
Nuclear Power Plants.'' The staff also does not intend to use the
guidance to support NRC staff
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actions in a manner that constitutes forward fitting as that term is
defined and described in Management Directive 8.4.
Dated: July 1, 2020.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Meraj Rahimi,
Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Generic Issues Branch, Division of
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2020-14621 Filed 7-7-20; 8:45 am]
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