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45074 Federal Register/Vol. 82, No. 186/Wednesday, September 27, 2017/Notices Production and Utilization Facilities.
This RG provides licensees and
applicants with a method the NRC staff
considers acceptable for use in
complying with the regulations on the
content of emergency plans for research
and test reactors and other non-power
production and utilization facilities.
DATES: Revision 2 of RG 2.6 is available on September 27, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2017-0056 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of
information regarding this document.
You may obtain publicly-available
information related to this document
using any of the following methods:
- Federal Rulemaking Web site:
Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2017-0056. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol
Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-3463;
email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov.
For technical questions, contact the
individuals listed in the FORFURTHER INFORMATIONCONTACT section of this document.
- NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
adams.html.
To begin the search, select
ADAMS Public Documents
and then
select Begin Web-based ADAMS
Search. For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC's Public
Document Room (PDR) reference staff at
1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by
email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov.
The ADAMS accession number for each
document referenced (if it is available in
ADAMS) is provided the first time that
a document is referenced. Revision 2 of
RG 2.6 and the regulatory analysis may
be found in ADAMS under Accession
numbers ML17263A472 and
ML16035A477 respectively.
- NRC's PDR:
You may examine and purchase copies of public documents at
the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and the NRC's approval is
not required to reproduce them. FORFURTHERINFORMATIONCONTACT
- Geoffrey Wertz, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301-
415-0893, email:
Geoffery.Wertz@
nrc.gov; or Stanley Gardocki, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, telephone:
301-415-1067, email:
Stanley.Gardocki@nrc.gov.
Both are staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001. SUPPLEMENTARYINFORMATION
- I. Introduction The NRC is issuing a revision to an existing guide in the NRC's Regulatory Guide series. This series was
developed to describe and make
available to the public information
regarding methods that are acceptable to
the NRC staff for implementing specific
parts of the agency's regulations, techniques that the NRC staff uses in
evaluating specific issues or postulated
events, and data that the NRC staff
needs in its review of applications for
permits and licenses.
Revision 2 of RG 2.6 was issued with a temporary designation of Draft
Regulatory Guide, DG-2004. The
purpose of issuing this RG is to provide
licensees and applicants with a method that the staff of the NRC considers
acceptable for use in complying with
the regulations on the content of
emergency plans for research and test
reactors and other non-power
production and utilization facilities
licensed under part 50 of title 10 of the
Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR),
Domestic Licensing of Production and
Utilization Facilities.
II. Additional Information The NRC published a notice of the availability of DG-2004 in the Federal Register on February 24, 2017, (82 FR 11660) for a 60-day public comment
period. The public comment period
closed on April 25, 2017. The NRC
received one public comment on DG-
2004. That comment and the NRC's
response to it are available in ADAMS
under Accession No. ML17137A099.
Revision 2 of RG 2.6 addresses new issues identified since the guide was
last revised in March 1983. This
revision endorses the latest version of a
consensus standard developed by the
American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and American Nuclear Society (ANS), ANSI/ANS-15.16-2015,
Emergency Planning for Research
Reactors. The NRC also expanded the
scope of the guide to address non-power
facilities under 10 CFR part 50, other
than research and test reactors. Other
changes to RG 2.6 include editorial
changes and the current program
guidance for RGs.
Revising this regulatory guide to adopt, in whole or in part, a consensus
standard is consistent with the NRC
policy of evaluating the latest versions
of national consensus standards to
determine their suitability for
endorsement by regulatory guides. This
approach also complies with the NRC's
Participation in the Development and Use of Consensus Standards (ADAMS
Accession No. ML16193A497), and is in
accordance with Public Law 104-113,
National Technology Transfer and
Advancement Act of 1995.
Copies of ANSI/ANS-15.16-2015 may be purchased from the ANS Web site
(http://www.new.ans.org/store/
); or by writing to: American Nuclear Society, 555 North Kensington Avenue, La
Grange Park, Illinois 60526, U.S.A.,
telephone: 1-800-323-3044.
III. Congressional Review Act This regulatory guide is a rule as defined in the Congressional Review Act (5 U.S.C. 801-808). However, the
Office of Management and Budget has
not found it to be a major rule as
defined in the Congressional Review
Act. IV. Backfitting The regulatory positions in this guidance document demonstrate the method that the NRC staff finds
acceptable for an applicant or holder of
a license under 10 CFR part 50 for a
research and test reactor and other non-
power production or utilization facility
to meet the requirements of the
underlying NRC regulations. The
issuance of this RG is not backfitting, as
that term is defined in 10 CFR 50.109,
Backfitting, because non-power
facilities licensed under 10 CFR part 50
are not included within the scope of
entities protected by 10 CFR 50.109.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 21st day of September 2017.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Thomas H. Boyce, Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Generic Issues Branch, Division of Engineering, Office
of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
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Regulatory Guide:
Physical Inventories and Material Balances at
Fuel Cycle Facilities
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Regulatory guide; issuance.
SUMMARY
- The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing Revision 0
of Regulatory Guide (RG) 5.88,
Physical Inventories and Material
Balances at Fuel Cycle Facilities. This
regulatory guide (RG) describes
approaches and methods that the staff
considers acceptable for licensees and VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:59 Sep 26, 2017Jkt 241001PO 00000Frm 00089Fmt 4703Sfmt 4703E:\FR\FM\27SEN1.SGM27SEN1 asabaliauskas on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with NOTICES 45075 Federal Register/Vol. 82, No. 186/Wednesday, September 27, 2017/Notices applicants to use when developing material control and accounting (MC&A)
system capabilities. This RG pertains to
the performance, evaluation, and
reporting of physical inventories and
material balances at fuel cycle facilities.
DATES: Revision 0 to RG 5.88 is available on September 27, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2017-0057 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of
information regarding this document.
You may obtain publicly-available
information related to this document
using any of the following methods:
- Federal Rulemaking Web site:
Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2017-0057. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol
Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-3463; email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov.
For technical questions, contact the
individuals listed in the FORFURTHER INFORMATIONCONTACT section of this document.
- NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Document collection at
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
adams.html. To begin the search, select
ADAMS Public Documents and then
select Begin Web-based ADAMS
Search. For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC's Public
Document Room (PDR) reference staff at
1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by
email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The ADAMS accession number for each
document referenced (if it is available in
ADAMS) is provided the first time that
it is mentioned in this document.
Regulatory Guide 5.88 is available in
ADAMS under Accession No.
ML17167A292. The regulatory analysis
supporting Revision 1 is available in
ADAMS under Accession No.
- NRC's PDR:
You may examine and purchase copies of public documents at
the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. FORFURTHERINFORMATIONCONTACT
- Glenn Tuttle, Office of Nuclear Material
Safety and Safeguards, 301-415-7230, email: Glenn.Tuttle@nrc.gov; or Mekonen Bayssie, Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research, 301-415-1699, email: Mekonen.Bayssie@nrc.gov. Both are staff members of the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. SUPPLEMENTARYINFORMATION
- I. Discussion The NRC is issuing a new guide in the NRC's Regulatory Guide series. This
series was developed to describe and
make available to the public information
regarding methods that are acceptable to
the NRC staff for implementing specific
parts of the agency's regulations, techniques that the NRC staff uses in
evaluating specific issues or postulated
events, and data that the NRC staff
needs in its review of applications for
permits and licenses.
Revision 0 of RG 5.88 was issued with a temporary identification of draft
Regulatory Guide, DG-5056. The new
RG provides updated guidance for
uranium enrichment facilities as well as
other type of facilities by incorporating
relevant guidance from three NUREGs
without making substantive changes to
that guidance.
The RG is titled Physical Inventories and Material Balances at Fuel Cycle
Facilities, provides guidance for
meeting the nuclear material control
and accounting (MC&A) requirements in
part 74 of title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR), Material Control and Accounting of Special Nuclear
Material, that cover these topics.
Regulatory Guide 5.88 updates and combines in one document guidance
previously provided by RG 5.13,
Conduct of Nuclear Material Physical
Inventories, published in November
1973; and RG 5.33, Statistical
Evaluation of Material Unaccounted
For, published in June 1974.
Due to several rulemakings that occurred from 1985 to 2002 which
significantly amended the MC&A
requirements, the above regulatory
guides became outdated as they no
longer cite the correct sections of the
regulations. Accordingly, RG 5.13 and
RG 5.33 are being withdrawn concurrent
with the issuance of RG 5.88, which
provides the correct citations to the 10
CFR part 74 regulations.
The NRC's guidance on the MC&A requirements pertaining to the
performance, evaluation, and reporting
of physical inventories and material
balances at fuel cycle facilities is also
provided in the following NUREGs that
were issued in conjunction with the
1985-2002 MC&A rulemakings:
- NUREG-1280, Standard Format and Content Acceptance Criteria for the
Material Control and Accounting (MC&A) Reform Amendment,
applicable to facilities using formula
quantities of strategic special nuclear
material (SNM).
- NUREG-1065, Acceptable Standard Format and Content for the
Fundamental Nuclear Material Control (FNMC) Plan Required for Low-Enriched Uranium Facilities,
applicable to fuel fabrication facilities
using low-enriched uranium.
- NUREG/CR-5734, Recommendations to the NRC on
Acceptable Standard Format and
Content for the Fundamental Nuclear
Material Control (FNMC) Plan Required
for Low-Enriched Uranium Enrichment
Facilities, applicable to uranium
enrichment plants.
The RG 5.88 incorporates guidance from these NUREGs that relates to
physical inventories and material
balances for strategic SNM. In addition
to providing guidance on these topics, the NUREGs listed above cover other
MC&A requirements as well.
Accordingly, these NUREGs are not
being withdrawn.
II. Additional Information The NRC published a notice of the availability of DG-5056 in the Federal Register on February 24, 2017 (82 FR 11661) for a 60-day public comment
period. The public comment period closed on April 25, 2017. There were no
public comments received on DG-5056.
III. Congressional Review Act This RG is a rule as defined in the Congressional Review Act (5 U.S.C.
801-808). However, the Office of
Management and Budget has not found
it to be a major rule as defined in the
Congressional Review Act.
IV. Backfitting and Issue Finality Issuance of RG 5.88 in final form would not constitute backfitting as defined in 10 CFR 70.76. As discussed
in the Implementation section of RG
5.88, the NRC has no current intention
to impose this guidance on holders of
part 70 licenses. Additionally, RG 5.88
incorporates relevant guidance from
NUREG-1280, NUREG-1065, and
NUREG/CR-5734 without making
substantive changes to that guidance.
Accordingly, the issuance of RG 5.88
does not constitute a new or
different staff position within the
definition of backfitting in 10 CFR
70.76. Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20th day of September, 2017.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Thomas H. Boyce, Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Generic Issues Branch, Division of Engineering, Office
of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
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