ML19270G584

Withdrawal FRN

ML19270G584
Person / Time
Issue date:	09/27/2019
From:	Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards
To:
Shared Package
ML19177A368	List: ML19177A369 ML19268A174 ML19270G584
References
RG 3.53
Download: ML19270G584 (1)

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Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 188 / Friday, September 27, 2019 / Notices 51191 Additionally, the NRC hosted a public been superseded by newer guidance and storage installation (ISFSI). At that time, webinar held on August 8, 2019, to is therefore no longer needed. there were no precedents for obtain comments from individuals in DATES: The withdrawal of RG 3.53 takes applications for ISFSIs, there was not a other areas of the country. effect on September 27, 2019. consolidated set of guidance, and Specific details regarding the dates, ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID information technology did not exist to times, locations, and other logistical NRC-2019-0157 when contacting the provide guidance electronically for information for each of the meetings can NRC about the availability of ISFSIs. The staff issued RG 3.53 to be found on the NRCs NEIMA Section information regarding this document. expedite the staffs reviews of ISFSI 108 public website at https:// You may obtain publicly-available applications, which were anticipated www.nrc.gov/waste/decommissioning/ information related to this document, under the new requirements in title 10 neima-section-108.html. For using the following methods:

information about attending the NEIMA of the Code of Federal Regulations (10

• Federal rulemaking website: Go to CFR) part 72, Licensing Requirements Section 108 Category 3 public meetings, https://www.regulations.gov/ and search please see the public website listed for the Independent Storage of Spent for Docket ID NRC-2019-0157. Address Nuclear Fuel, High Level Radioactive above or contact the individual listed in questions about NRC docket IDs in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT Waste, and Reactor-Related Greater than Regulations.gov to Jennifer Borges; Class C Waste.

section of this document. telephone: 301-287-9127; email:

IV. Local Community Advisory Board Jennifer.Borges@nrc.gov. For technical Since 1982, many of the guidance Questionnaire questions, contact the individuals listed documents and regulatory positions in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION listed in the RG have been withdrawn The NRC is seeking input from or superseded by more current CONTACT section of this document.

existing CABs in the vicinity of power

• NRCs Agencywide Documents guidance. Examples of new or revised reactors undergoing decommissioning, Access and Management System staff guidance for ISFSIs include RG similar established stakeholder groups, (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly- 3.48, Standard Format and Content for or local government organizations available documents online in the the Safety Analysis Report for an regarding best practices and lessons ADAMS Public Document collection at Independent Spent Fuel Storage learned associated with CABs at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ Installation or Monitored Retrievable decommissioning nuclear power adams.html. To begin the search, select Storage Installation (Dry Storage), RG reactors. Comments may be submitted Begin Web-based ADAMS Search. For 3.50, Standard Format and Content for by November 15, 2019. Comments problems with ADAMS, please contact a Specific License Application for An submitted after this date will be the NRCs Public Document Room (PDR) Independent Spent Fuel Storage considered if it is practical to do so, but reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301- Installation or Monitored Retrievable the Commission is able to ensure 415-4737, or by email to pdr.resource@

consideration only for comments Storage Facility, RG 3.60, Design of an nrc.gov. The ADAMS accession number received by this date. Independent Spent Fuel Storage for each document referenced in this Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day Installation (Dry Storage), and RG 3.62, notice (if that document is available in of September, 2019. ADAMS) is provided the first time that Standard Format and Content for the For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. a document is referenced. The basis for Safety Analysis Report for Onsite Bruce A. Watson, the withdrawal of this regulatory guide Storage of Spent Fuel Storage Casks.

Chief, Reactor Decommissioning Branch, is found in ADAMS under Accession These guidance documents incorporate Division of Decommissioning, Uranium No. ML19177A369. the lessons learned during the licensing Recovery, and Waste Programs, Office of

• NRCs PDR: You may examine and process and from operational Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. purchase copies of public documents at experiences with ISFSIs. The current

[FR Doc. 2019-21012 Filed 9-26-19; 8:45 am] the NRCs PDR, Room O1-F21, One information technology available today BILLING CODE 7590-01-P White Flint North, 11555 Rockville makes the numerous RGs in the areas of Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. design, construction, and operation of Regulatory guides are not an ISFSI readily available electronically NUCLEAR REGULATORY copyrighted, and NRC approval is not on the NRCs public website and it is COMMISSION required to reproduce them. easy for applicants to navigate and

[NRC-2019-0157] FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: identify these guides.

Haile Lindsay, Office of Nuclear Applicability of Existing Regulatory Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 23rd day Material Safety and Safeguards; of September, 2019.

Guides to the Design, Construction, telephone: 301-415-0616; email:

and Operation of an Independent Haile.Lindsay@nrc.gov, or Harriet For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Spent Fuel Storage Installation Karagiannis, Office of Nuclear Thomas H. Boyce, AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Regulatory Research; telephone: 301- Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Generic Commission. 415-2493; email: Harriet.Karagiannis@ Issues Branch, Division of Engineering, Office nrc.gov. Both are staff of the U.S. of Nuclear Regulatory Research.

ACTION: Regulatory guide; withdrawal.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, [FR Doc. 2019-20972 Filed 9-26-19; 8:45 am]

SUMMARY

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Washington, DC 20555-0001. BILLING CODE 7590-01-P Commission (NRC) is withdrawing SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NRC Regulatory Guide (RG) 3.53, is withdrawing RG 3.53 because it has jbell on DSK3GLQ082PROD with NOTICES Applicability of Existing Regulatory been superseded and is no longer Guides to the Design, Construction, and needed. RG 3.53 was published in July Operation of an Independent Spent Fuel 1982 to describe the applicability of Storage Installation. This document is existing regulatory guides that would being withdrawn because the aid in the design, construction, and information included in the RG has operation of an independent spent fuel VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:29 Sep 26, 2019 Jkt 247001 PO 00000 Frm 00085 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 9990 E:\FR\FM\27SEN1.SGM 27SEN1