[Federal Register: August 27, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 167)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Office of New Reactors; Supplement to Interim Staff Guidance;
Limited Work Authorizations Solicitation of Public Comment
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Solicitation of public comment.
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SUMMARY: The NRC is issuing a supplement to its Proposed Interim Staff
Guidance (ISG) COL/ESP-ISG-004 for use and comment. This supplemental
guidance would be added, along with the resolution of other issues
identified in comments received from the public, to COL/ESP-ISG-004 to
provide clarifications and examples related to
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the definition of construction. This additional guidance is intended to
clarify the delineation of preconstruction activities and those
activities that require prior NRC approval (i.e., construction
activities). Upon receiving public comments, the NRC staff will
evaluate and disposition the comments, as appropriate. Once the NRC
staff completes the COL/ESP-ISG, including this supplemental
information, the staff will issue it for use. The NRC staff will also
incorporate the approved COL/ESP-ISG-004 into the next revisions of the
Regulatory Guide 1.206, ``Combined License Applications for Nuclear
Power Plants,'' and related guidance documents.
DATES: Comments must be filed no later than 30 days from the date of
publication of this notice in the Federal Register. Comments received
after this date will be considered, if it is practical to do so, but
the NRC staff is able to ensure consideration only for comments
received on or before this date.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be submitted to: Chief, Rulemaking, Directives,
and Editing Branch, Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC, 20555-0001. Comments should be delivered
to: 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland, Room T-6D59, between
7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. on Federal workdays. Persons may also provide
comments via e-mail to nrcrep.resource@nrc.gov. The NRC maintains an
Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS), which
provides text and image files of NRC's public documents. These
documents may be accessed through the NRC's Public Electronic Reading
Room on the Internet at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who encounter problems in
accessing the documents located in ADAMS should contact the NRC Public
Document Room reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by e-
mail at pdr@nrc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Jerry N. Wilson, Division of New
Reactor Licensing, Office of the New Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC, 20555-0001; telephone 301-415-3145 or e-
mail at Jerry.Wilson@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NRC posts its issued staff guidance,
including the subject supplement to draft COL/ESP-ISG-004, on the NRC
external Web page (http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/isg/).
The NRC staff is issuing this notice to solicit public comments on
the supplement to proposed COL/ESP-ISG-004. After the NRC staff
considers any public comments, it will make a determination regarding
the proposed COL/ESP-ISG-004.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 19th day of August, 2008.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David B. Matthews,
Division Director, Division of New Reactor Licensing, Office of New
Reactors.
[FR Doc. E8-19830 Filed 8-26-08; 8:45 am]
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