[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 182 (Thursday, September 23, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 52933]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-20565]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2020-0278]
Measuring, Evaluating, and Reporting Radioactive Material in
Liquid and Gaseous Effluents and Solid Waste
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Regulatory guide; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing
revision 3 of Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.21, ``Measuring, Evaluating, and
Reporting Radioactive Material in Liquid and Gaseous Effluents and
Solid Waste.'' The revision of RG describes an approach that is
acceptable to the staff of the NRC to meet regulatory requirements for;
(1) measuring, evaluating, and reporting plant related radioactivity in
effluents and solid radioactive waste shipments from NRC licensed
facilities, and (2) assessing and reporting the public dose to
demonstrate compliance with NRC regulations.
DATES: Revision 3 of RG 1.21 is available on September 23, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2020-0278 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-2020-0278. Address
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann;
telephone: 301-415-0624; email: [email protected]. For technical
questions, contact the individual(s) 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.
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. (ET), Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays.
Revision 3 of RG 1.21 and the regulatory analysis may be found in
ADAMS under Accession Nos. ML21139A224 and ML20287A434, respectively.
Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and NRC approval is not
required to reproduce them.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steven Garry, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301-415-2766, email:
[email protected], and Kyle Song, Office of Nuclear Regulatory
Research, telephone: 301-415-3637, email: [email protected]. Both are
staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Discussion
The NRC is issuing a new guide in the NRC's ``Regulatory Guide''
series. This series was developed to describe and make available to the
public information regarding methods that are acceptable to the NRC
staff for implementing specific parts of the agency's regulations,
techniques that the NRC staff uses in evaluating specific issues or
postulated events, and data that the NRC staff needs in its review of
applications for permits and licenses.
II. Additional Information
Revision 3 of RG 1.21 was issued with a temporary identification of
Draft Regulatory Guide (DG) 1377. The NRC published a notice of the
availability of DG-1377 in the Federal Register on January 5, 2021, (86
FR 326) for a 45-day public comment period. The public comment period
closed on February 19, 2021. Public comments on DG-1377 and the staff
responses to the public comments are available under ADAMS under
Accession No. ML21132A226.
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
Revision 3 of RG 1.21 does not constitute backfitting as defined in
10 CFR 50.109, ``Backfitting,'' and as described in NRC Management
Directive (MD) 8.4, ``Management of Backfitting, Forward Fitting, Issue
Finality, and Information Requests''; constitute forward fitting as
that term is defined and described in MD 8.4; or affect the issue
finality of any approval issued under 10 CFR part 52. As explained in
Revision 3 of RG 1.21, applicants and licensees would not be required
to comply with the positions set forth in the RG.
Dated: September 17, 2021.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Meraj Rahimi,
Chief, Regulatory Guide and Programs Management Branch, Division of
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2021-20565 Filed 9-22-21; 8:45 am]
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