[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 169 (Friday, August 30, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70672-70673]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-19556]



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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2024-0143]


Draft Interim Staff Guidance: Guidance for the Implementation of 
Training and Experience Requirements

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Draft guidance; request for comment.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is soliciting 
public comment on its draft Interim Staff Guidance (ISG), NMSS-ISG-03, 
``Guidance for the Implementation of Training and Experience 
Requirements.'' The purpose of this ISG is to provide guidance on the 
implementation of the training and experience (T&E) requirements in NRC 
regulations. This ISG clarifies the roles and responsibilities of 
individuals subject to T&E requirements, outlines the information 
needed to demonstrate compliance with NRC regulations, and provides 
step-by-step instructions for adding authorized individuals to medical-
use licenses. If finalized, this ISG is intended for use by licensees, 
applicants, and NRC staff. This guidance is also available to Agreement 
States and the public.

DATES: Submit comments by November 4, 2024. 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-2024-0143. Address 
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; 
telephone: 301-415-0624; email: [email protected]. For technical 
questions, contact the individual 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: Cindy Flannery, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-0223; email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2024-0143 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-2024-0143.
     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, at 301-415-4737, 
or by email to [email protected]. The draft ISG, NMSS-ISG-03, 
``Guidance for the Implementation of 10 CFR part 35 Training and 
Experience Requirements,'' is available in ADAMS under Accession No. 
ML24200A183.
     NRC's PDR: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies 
of publicly available documents, is open by appointment. To make an 
appointment to visit the PDR, please send an email to 
[email protected] or call 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, between 8 
a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern time (ET), 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-2024-0143 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

    The NRC is issuing this draft ISG to clarify the roles and 
responsibilities of individuals subject to T&E requirements in part 35 
of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), ``Medical Use 
of Byproduct Material'' and to explain how individuals can fulfill 
these requirements. To do so, the draft ISG outlines applicable 
regulatory requirements, consolidates and clarifies existing guidance, 
and provides insight into the NRC staff's evaluation of applications or 
license amendment requests seeking to add authorized individuals to a 
license. If finalized, this ISG is intended for use by licensees and 
applicants that are seeking to add authorized individuals to their 
license. Authorized individuals include authorized users, radiation 
safety officers, associate radiation safety officers, authorized 
nuclear pharmacists, authorized medical physicists, and ophthalmic 
physicists. Further, if finalized, this ISG can be used by NRC staff 
and Agreement State regulators when evaluating applications and license 
amendment requests.
    The draft ISG does not contain new expectations or requirements for 
implementing the T&E requirements. Rather, it consolidates the guidance 
previously contained in various sources into a streamlined format to 
improve clarity and accessibility. In the Staff Requirements Memorandum 
for SECY-20-0005, ``Staff Requirements--SECY-20-0005--Rulemaking Plan 
for Training and Experience Requirements for Unsealed Byproduct 
Material (10 CFR part 35),'' dated January 27, 2022 (ADAMS Accession 
No. ML22027A519), the Commission directed the staff to develop 
implementation guidance to clarify expectations on how individuals 
fulfill T&E requirements and clarify the roles and responsibilities of 
persons subject to the T&E requirements. This draft ISG supplements 
NUREG-1556, ``Consolidated Guidance About Materials Licenses,'' Volume 
9, Revision 3, ``Program-Specific Guidance About Medical Use Licenses, 
Final Report,'' issued September 2019 (ADAMS

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Accession No. ML19256C219), which contains guidance on medical T&E 
criteria. NUREG-1556 is updated periodically, concurrent with 
regulatory changes. However, given the types of questions that the NRC 
and Agreement States routinely receive about T&E requirements, the NRC 
staff has determined that supplemental guidance would benefit 
individuals applying for authorized individual status, until the next 
update to NUREG-1556, Volume 9, Revision 3.
    The staff is also issuing for public comment a draft regulatory 
analysis for this ISG (ADAMS Accession No. ML24205A116).

    Dated: August 27, 2024.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Kevin Williams,
Director, Division of Materials Safety, Security, Sate, and Tribal 
Programs, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2024-19556 Filed 8-29-24; 8:45 am]
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