[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 171 (Thursday, September 3, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 47046]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-23813]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Regulatory Guide; Issuance, Availability

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a new guide in its 
Regulatory Guide Series. This series has been developed to describe and 
make available to the public such information as methods acceptable to 
the NRC staff for implementing specific parts of the Commission's 
regulations, techniques used by the staff in evaluating specific 
problems or postulated accidents, and data needed by the staff in its 
review of applications for permits and licenses.
    Regulatory Guide 3.71, ``Nuclear Criticality Safety Standards for 
Fuels and Material Facilities,'' has been developed to provide guidance 
on procedures for preventing nuclear criticality accidents in 
operations involving handling, processing, storing, and transporting 
special nuclear material at fuels and material facilities. This guide 
endorses specific ANSI/ANS-8 nuclear criticality safety standards of 
the American National Standards Institute/American Nuclear Society for 
these purposes. The guide also consolidates and replaces the guidance 
from a number of regulatory guides, thereby withdrawing those 
regulatory guides. Regulatory Guide 3.71 is not intended to be used by 
nuclear reactor licensees.
    Comments and suggestions in connection with items for inclusion in 
guides currently being developed or improvements in all published 
guides are encouraged at any time. Written comments may be submitted to 
the Rules and Directives Branch, Division of Administrative Services, 
Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555.
    Regulatory guides are available for inspection at the Commission's 
Public Document Room, 2120 L Street NW., Washington, DC. Single copies 
of regulatory guides may be obtained free of charge by writing the 
Office of Administration, Attention: Printing, Graphics and 
Distribution Branch, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001, or by fax at (301)415-2260. Issued guides may also be 
purchased from the National Technical Information Service on a standing 
order basis. Details on this service may be obtained by writing NTIS, 
5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA 22161. Regulatory guides are not 
copyrighted, and Commission approval is not required to reproduce them.

(5 U.S.C. 552(a))

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day of August 1998.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Ashok C. Thadani,
Director, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 98-23813 Filed 9-2-98; 8:45 am]
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