[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 105 (Friday, May 30, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31154-31155]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-12145]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Notice of Issuance of Regulatory Guide

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of Issuance and Availability of Regulatory Guide 3.65, 
Revision 1.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Orr, Regulatory Guide Development 
Branch, Division of Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, 
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, 
telephone (301) 415-6373 or e-mail to [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Introduction

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued revisions 
to existing guides in the agency's ``Regulatory Guide'' series. This 
series was developed to describe and make available to the public 
information such as methods that are acceptable to the NRC staff for 
implementing specific parts of the agency's regulations, techniques 
that the staff uses in evaluating specific problems or postulated 
accidents, and data that the staff needs in its review of applications 
for permits and licenses.
    Revision 1 of Regulatory Guide 3.65, ``Standard Format and Content 
of Decommissioning Plans for Materials Licensees,'' was issued with a

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temporary identification as Draft Regulatory Guide DG-3027. This 
regulatory guide provides guidance on decommissioning leading to 
termination of a materials license. Licensees decommissioning their 
facilities are required to demonstrate to the NRC that their proposed 
methods will ensure that decommissioning activities can be conducted 
safely, and that, at the completion of decommissioning activities, the 
facility will comply with NRC requirements for license termination as 
described in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR). In 
particular, licensees are required to demonstrate compliance with the 
following parts of 10 CFR:
     Part 30, ``Rules of General Applicability to Domestic 
Licensing of Byproduct Material'';
     Part 40, ``Domestic Licensing of Source Material'';
     Part 60, ``Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Wastes in 
Geologic Repositories'';
     Part 61, ``Licensing Requirements for Land Disposal of 
Radioactive Waste'';
     Part 63, ``Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Wastes in a 
Geologic Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada'';
     Part 70, ``Domestic Licensing of Special Nuclear 
Material'';
     Part 72, ``Licensing Requirements for the Independent 
Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste, and 
Reactor Related Greater Than Class C Waste''.
    This regulatory guide endorses the method described in the current 
version of NUREG-1757, Volume 1, ``Consolidated Decommissioning 
Guidance: Decommissioning Process for Materials Licensees,'' as a 
process that has been found acceptable to the NRC for meeting the 
regulatory requirements for decommissioning of materials facilities 
licensed under 10 CFR parts 30, 40, 70, 72 and to the ancillary surface 
facilities that support radioactive waste disposal activities licensed 
under 10 CFR parts 60, 61, and 63.

II. Further Information

    In February 2008, DG-3027 was published with a public comment 
period of 60 days from the issuance of the guide. The public comment 
period closed on April 18, 2008. Electronic copies of Regulatory Guide 
3.65, Revision 1 are available through the NRC's public Web site under 
``Regulatory Guides'' at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/
.
    In addition, regulatory guides are available for inspection at the 
NRC's Public Document Room (PDR), which is located at Room O-1F21, One 
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852-
2738. The PDR's mailing address is USNRC PDR, Washington, DC 20555-
0001. The PDR can also be reached by telephone at (301) 415-4737 or 
(800) 397-4209, by fax at (301) 415-3548, and by e-mail to [email protected].
    Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and NRC approval is not 
required to reproduce them.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22th day of May, 2008.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrea D. Valentin,
Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of Engineering, 
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. E8-12145 Filed 5-29-08; 8:45 am]
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