[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 99 (Tuesday, May 25, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28158-28159]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-10945]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2021-0096]
Control of Heavy Loads at Nuclear Facilities
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft regulatory guide; extension of comment period.
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SUMMARY: On May 4, 2021, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
solicited comments on draft regulatory guide (DG), DG-1381, ``Control
of Heavy Loads at Nuclear Facilities.'' The public comment period was
originally scheduled to close on June 3, 2021. The NRC has decided to
extend the public comment period to allow more time for members of the
public to develop and submit their comments.
DATES: The due date for comments requested in the document published on
May 4, 2021 (86 FR 23750) is extended another 30 days. Comments should
be filed no later than July 5, 2021. 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 on or before
this date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods;
however, the NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the
Federal Rulemaking website:
Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2021-0096. Address
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann;
telephone: 301-415-0624; 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-7-A60M, 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: Steven R. Jones, Office of Nuclear
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Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301-415-2712, email:
[email protected]; or Stanley Gardocki, Office of Nuclear Regulatory
Research, telephone: 301-415-1067, 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-2021-0096 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain
publicly available information related to this action by any of the
following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2021-0096.
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].
Attention: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies
of public documents, is currently closed. You may submit your request
to the PDR via email at [email protected] or call 1-800-397-4209 or
301-415-4737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (EST), Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays.
B. Submitting Comments
The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the
Federal Rulemaking website (https://www.regulations.gov). Please
include Docket ID NRC-2021-0096 in your comment submission.
The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact
information that you do not want to be 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. 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 into ADAMS.
II. Discussion
On May 4, 2021, the NRC published a document in the Federal
Register (86 FR 23750) requesting comments on DG-1381, ``Control of
Heavy Loads at Nuclear Facilities.'' This DG is a proposed new
regulatory guide to endorse selected national consensus standards
related to heavy load handling that replace NRC technical reports. The
national consensus standards provide greater flexibility in the
selection of lifting equipment and have incorporated recent operating
experience to provide a more accurate risk-informed perspective of
heavy load handling activities. This is a new regulatory guide
incorporating guidance for risk-informing heavy load handling
activities. The public comment period was originally scheduled to close
on June 3, 2021. Upon the request of industry, specifically Nuclear
Energy Institute, the NRC has decided to extend the public comment
period on this document until July 5, 2021, to allow more time for
members of the public to submit their comments.
Dated: May 19, 2021.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Meraj Rahimi,
Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Generic Issues Branch, Division of
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
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