[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 86 (Wednesday, May 6, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 21017]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-10457]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2009-0190]
Withdrawal of Regulatory Guide
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Withdrawal of Regulatory Guide 4.8.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert G. Carpenter, Regulatory Guide
Development Branch, Division of Engineering, Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001, telephone: 301-251-7483 or e-mail to
Robert.Carpenter@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or Commission) is
withdrawing Regulatory Guide 4.8, ``Environmental Technical
Specifications for Nuclear Power Plants,'' published in December 1975.
Regulatory Guide 4.8 provides guidance to applicants on the preparation
of proposed environmental technical specifications and includes a
standard format and an identification of their principal content. The
NRC is withdrawing this regulatory guide because it is no longer
needed.
Regulatory Guide 4.8 was an acceptable method of meeting the
requirements of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 50,
``Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities,'' which
states that each operating license for a nuclear power plant issued by
the NRC will contain such conditions and limitations as the Commission
deems appropriate and necessary. Certain environmental conditions and
limitations were incorporated into facility operating licenses as
environmental technical specifications. Regulatory Guide 4.8 is no
longer needed because environmental technical specifications are no
longer used. The information is now contained in Environmental
Protection Plans that generally appear in Appendix B to the operating
license.
II. Further Information
The withdrawal of Regulatory Guide 4.8 does not alter any prior or
existing licensing commitments based on its use. The guidance provided
in this regulatory guide is no longer necessary. Regulatory guides may
be withdrawn when their guidance is superseded by congressional action
or no longer provides useful information.
Regulatory guides are available for inspection or downloading
through the NRC's public Web site under ``Regulatory Guides'' in the
NRC's Electronic Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections. Regulatory guides are also available for inspection at the
NRC's Public Document Room (PDR), Room O-1 F21, One White Flint North,
11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852-2738. The PDR's mailing
address is U.S. NRC PDR, Washington, DC 20555-0001. You can reach the
staff by telephone at 301-415-4737 or 800-397-4209, by fax at 301-415-
3548, and by e-mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov.
Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and NRC approval is not
required to reproduce them.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 23rd day of March 2009.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrea D. Valentin,
Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of Engineering,
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. E9-10457 Filed 5-5-09; 8:45 am]
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