[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 68 (Wednesday, April 9, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19663-19664]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-07929]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2014-0070]
Regulatory Guide 3.29, Preheat and Interpass Temperature Control
for the Welding of Low-Alloy Steel for Use in Fuel Reprocessing Plants
and in Plutonium Processing and Fuel Fabrication Plants
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Regulatory guide; withdrawal.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is withdrawing
Regulatory Guide (RG) 3.29, ``Preheat and Interpass Temperature Control
for the Welding of Low-Alloy Steel for Use in Fuel Reprocessing Plants
and in Plutonium Processing and Fuel Fabrication Plants.'' This guide
is being withdrawn because the guidance can be found in RG 1.50, Rev.
1, ``Control of Preheat Temperature for Welding of Low-Alloy Steel.''
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2014-0070 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You
may access publicly-available information related to this action by the
following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2014-0070. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-
3422; 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 access publicly available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and
then 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 in this document
(if that document is available in ADAMS) is provided the first time
that a document is referenced. The bases document for the withdrawal of
RG 3.29 is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML13274A528.
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555
Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jose Cuadrado, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, telephone: 301-287-9127, email:
[email protected]; or Jazel Parks, Office of Nuclear Regulatory
Research, telephone: 301-251-7690, email: [email protected], U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The NRC is withdrawing Regulatory Guide (RG) 3.29, ``Preheat and
Interpass Temperature Control for the Welding of Low-Alloy Steel for
Use in Fuel Reprocessing Plants and in Plutonium Processing and Fuel
Fabrication Plants,'' which was published in May 1975 (ADAMS Accession
No. ML003739381). RG 3.29 provides guidance on methods acceptable to
the NRC for meeting quality assurance (QA) requirements with regard to
controlling the welding of low-alloy steel components for fuel
reprocessing plants and for plutonium processing and fuel fabrication
facilities.
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RG 3.29 is being withdrawn because the guidance it provides is
duplicated in RG 1.50, Rev. 1, ``Control of Preheat Temperature for
Welding of Low-Alloy Steel,'' which was updated in March 2011 (ADAMS
Accession No. ML101870612), and is up-to-date. In addition to endorsing
portions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Boiler and
Pressure Vessel Code (Sections III, VIII, and IX), RG 3.29 provides
additional guidance.
II. Further Information
The withdrawal of RG 3.29 does not alter any prior or existing
licensing commitments based on its use. Regulatory guides may be
withdrawn when their guidance no longer provides useful information, or
is superseded by technological innovations, Congressional actions, or
other events.
Regulatory guides are revised for a variety of reasons and the
withdrawal of a regulatory guide should be thought of as the final
revision of the guide. Although a regulatory guide is withdrawn,
current licensees may continue to use it, and withdrawal does not
affect any existing licenses or agreements. Withdrawal of a guide means
that the guide should not be used for future NRC licensing activities.
Changes to existing licenses can be accomplished using other regulatory
products.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 28th day of March , 2014.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Thomas H. Boyce,
Branch Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Generic Issues Branch, Division
of Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2014-07929 Filed 4-8-14; 8:45 am]
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