[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 212 (Wednesday, November 4, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57206-57207]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-26535]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2009-0214]


Notice of Availability of Final Interim Staff Guidance on 
Streamlined Review Process for License Renewal for Research Reactors 
and Response to Comments

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of Availability of Final Interim Staff Guidance on 
Streamlined Review Process for License Renewal for Research Reactors 
and Response to Comments

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alexander Adams Jr., Division of 
Policy and Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone 
301-415-1127, e-mail [email protected]; or Marcus Voth, Division 
of Policy and Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone 
301-415-1210, e-mail [email protected].

ADDRESSES:
    Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: Documents related to this notice, 
including public comments, are accessible at http://www.regulations.gov, by searching on Docket ID: NRC-2009-0214.
    NRC's Public Document Room (PDR): The public may examine and have 
copied for a fee, publicly available documents at the NRC's PDR, Public 
File Area O-1 F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, 
Rockville, Maryland.
    NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS): 
Publicly available documents created or received at the NRC are 
available electronically at the NRC's Electronic Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. From this page, the public can gain 
entry into ADAMS, which provides text and image files of NRC's public 
documents. If you do not have access to ADAMS or if there are problems 
in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, contact the NRC's PDR 
reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to 
[email protected]. The document, ``Interim Staff Guidance on 
Streamlined Review Process for License Renewal for Research Reactors'' 
is available electronically under ADAMS Accession Number ML092240244.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 16, 2009 (74 FR 28,583), the NRC

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published a notice of availability and opportunity for comment on the 
draft Interim Staff Guidance Regarding the Review of Research and Test 
Reactor License Renewal Applications. When the comment period ended on 
July 16, 2009, one comment was received. The commenter cited practices 
of another federal agency that allowed for informal transmittal of 
information which, if applied to the license renewal process for 
research reactors, could result in improvements in efficiency. The 
staff considered the comment and notes that whenever possible less 
formal means are used. However, in license renewal matters most 
communication is a matter of official record. Under NRC regulations 
regarding internal rules and procedures an official record must be 
maintained.
    Because there are no other comments on the draft guidance that was 
published, no major changes were initiated. Minor editorial corrections 
and enhancements were made to the document and it has been re-published 
and made available to the public by the means described above.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 28th day of October 2009.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Kathryn M. Brock,
Chief, Research and Test Reactor Branch A, Division of Policy and 
Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. E9-26535 Filed 11-3-09; 8:45 am]
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