[Federal Register: June 29, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 123)]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2009-0262]
Draft Regulatory Guide: Issuance, Availability
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of Issuance and Availability of Draft Regulatory Guide,
DG-3037.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Margie Kotzalas, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone: (301) 492-
3202, e-mail Margie.Kotzalas@nrc.gov, or, R.A. Jervey, telephone (301)
251-7404, e-mail Richard.Jervey@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for public
comment a draft guide in the agency's ``Regulatory Guide'' series. This
series was developed to describe and make available to the public
information and methods that are acceptable to the NRC staff for
implementing specific parts of the NRC'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.
The draft regulatory guide (DG), entitled, ``Guidance for Fuel
Cycle Facility Change Processes,'' is temporarily identified by its
task number, DG-3037, which should be mentioned in all related
correspondence. DG-3037 will be a new regulatory guide.
Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 70, ``Domestic
Licensing of Special Nuclear Material'' (10 CFR Part 70) contains the
regulations for fuel cycle facility licensees that possess greater than
a critical mass of special nuclear material and are engaged in enriched
uranium processing, fabrication of uranium fuel or fuel assemblies,
uranium enrichment, enriched uranium hexafluoride conversion, plutonium
processing, and fabrication of mixed-oxide fuel or fuel assemblies.
Subsection (a) of 10 CFR 70.72, ``Facility changes and change
process,'' requires that fuel cycle facility licensees establish a
configuration management system to evaluate, implement, and track each
change to the site, structures, processes, systems, equipment,
components, computer programs, and activities of personnel. Such
changes may be made by the licensee without prior approval of the NRC,
provided that the changes meet the criteria of 10 CFR 70.72(c). DG-3037
provides guidance on how to meet the requirements of 10 CFR 70.72(c).
II. Further Information
The NRC staff is soliciting comments on DG-3037. Comments may be
accompanied by relevant information or supporting data and should
reference DG-3037 in the subject line. Comments submitted in writing or
in electronic form will be made available to the public in their
entirety through the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management
System (ADAMS).
Personal information will not be removed from your comments. You
may submit comments by any of the following methods:
1. Mail comments to: Rulemaking and Directives Branch, Office of
Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001.
2. E-mail comments to: nrcrep.resource@nrc.gov.
Requests for technical information about DG-3037 may be directed to
the NRC contact, Margie Kotzalas at (301) 492-3202 or e-mail to
Margie.Kotzalas@nrc.gov.
Comments would be most helpful if received by August 17, 2009.
Comments received after that date will be considered if it is practical
to do so, but the NRC is able to ensure consideration only for comments
received on or before this date. Although a time limit is given,
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.
Electronic copies of DG-3037 are available through the NRC's public
Web site under Draft Regulatory Guides in the ``Regulatory Guides''
collection of the NRC's Electronic Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/
reading-rm/doc-collections/. Electronic copies are also available in
ADAMS (http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html), under Accession No.
ML091200493.
In addition, regulatory guides are available for inspection at the
NRC's Public Document Room (PDR), which is located at 11555 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland. The PDR's mailing address is USNRC PDR,
Washington, DC 20555-0001. The PDR can also be reached by telephone at
(301) 415-4737 or (800) 397-4205, by fax at (301) 415-3548, and by e-
mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov.
Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and Commission approval is
not required to reproduce them.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd day of June, 2009. For
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
M.P. Orr,
Acting Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. E9-15279 Filed 6-26-09; 8:45 am]
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