[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 1 (Monday, January 3, 2011)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-33072]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2010-0265]
Final Regulatory Guide: Issuance, Availability
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of Issuance and Availability of Regulatory Guide 3.71,
Revision 2, ``Nuclear Criticality Safety Standards for Fuels and
Material Facilities.''
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tamara D. Powell, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-492-
3211 or e-mail: Tamara.Powell@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a revision
to an existing guide 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 2 of Regulatory Guide 3.71, entitled, ``Nuclear
Criticality Safety Standards for Fuels and Material Facilities,'' was
issued with a temporary identification as Draft Regulatory Guide, DG-
3030. Regulatory Guide 3.71 provides applicants, licensees, and
certificate holders with updated guidance concerning criticality safety
standards that the NRC has endorsed for use with nuclear fuels and
material facilities. As such, Regulatory Guide 3.71 describes methods
that the NRC staff considers acceptable for complying with the NRC's
regulations in Title 10, of the Code of Federal Regulations, parts 70,
``Domestic Licensing of Special Nuclear Material,'' and 76,
``Certification of Gaseous Diffusion Plants'' (10 CFR parts 70 and 76).
The NRC staff has revised Regulatory Guide 3.71 to provide guidance
on complying with these portions of the NRC's regulations. This guide
describes procedures for preventing nuclear criticality accidents in
operations that involve handling, processing, storing, and/or
transporting special nuclear material at fuel and material facilities.
It also endorses specific nuclear criticality safety standards
developed by the American Nuclear Society's Standards Subcommittee 8
(ANS-8), ``Operations with Fissionable Materials Outside Reactors.''
Regulatory Guide 3.71 is not intended for use by nuclear reactor
licensees.
II. Further Information
In July 2010, DG-3030 was published with a public comment period of
60 days from the issuance of the guide. The public comment period
closed on September 29, 2010. The staff's responses to the public
comments received are located in the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access
and Management System under Accession Number ML103210349. Electronic
copies of Regulatory guide 3.71, Revision 2 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) located at Room O-1F 21, 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: 301-415-4737 or 800-397-4209, by fax:
301-415-3548, and by e-mail: pdr@nrc.gov.
Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and Commission approval is
not required to reproduce them.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 23rd day of December 2010.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John N. Ridgely,
Acting Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2010-33072 Filed 12-30-10; 8:45 am]
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