[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 23 (Thursday, February 3, 2011)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 6086-6087]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-1784]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
10 CFR Part 73
[NRC-2011-0015]
RIN 3150-AI49
Draft Regulatory Guide: Issuance, Availability
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of Availability of Draft Regulatory Guide.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Commission or NRC) is
issuing for public comment Draft Regulatory Guide, DG-5020, ``Applying
for Enhanced Weapons Authority, Applying for Preemption Authority, and
Accomplishing Firearms Background Checks under 10 CFR Part 73.'' The
DG-5020 is a proposed new regulatory guide. This guide describes
methods that the staff or NRC considers acceptable for licensees and
certificate holders to comply with the Commission's regulations
implementing the provisions of Section 161A, ``Use of Firearms by
Security Personnel,'' of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42
U.S.C. 2201a), that are found in the proposed Title 10 of the Code of
Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 73.18, ``Authorization for use of Enhanced
Weapons and Preemption of Firearms Laws,'' and 10 CFR 73.19, ``Firearms
Background Checks for Armed Security Personnel.''
DATES: Submit comments on Draft Regulatory Guide, DG-5020, May 4, 2011.
Comments received after this 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.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any one of the following methods.
Please include Docket ID: NRC-2011-0015 in the subject line of your
comments. Comments submitted in writing or in electronic form will be
posted on the NRC Web site and on the Federal rulemaking Web site at
http://www.regulations.gov. Because your comments will not be edited to
remove any identifying or contact information, the NRC cautions you
against including any information in your submission that you do not
want to be publicly disclosed.
The NRC requests that any party soliciting or aggregating comments
received from other persons for submission to the NRC inform those
persons that the NRC will not edit their comments to remove any
identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not
include any information in their comments that they do not want
publicly disclosed.
To ensure efficient and complete comment resolution, you should
reference the section and page numbers of DG-5020 to which the comment
applies.
Federal rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and
search for documents filed under Docket ID: NRC-2011-0015. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher, telephone: 301-492-
3668; e-mail: [email protected].
Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Chief, Rules, Announcements, and
Directives Branch (RADB), Division of Administrative Services, Office
of Administration, Mail Stop: TWB-05-B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, or by fax to RADB at 301-492-
3446.
You can access publicly available documents related to this
document using the following methods:
NRC's Public Document Room (PDR): The public may examine and have
copied, for a fee, publicly available documents at the NRC's PDR, Room
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 DG-5020 is available electronically under
ADAMS Accession Number ML100321956. In addition, electronic copies of
DG-5020 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/.
Federal rulemaking Web site: Public comments and supporting
materials related to this notice can be found at http://www.regulations.gov by searching for documents filed under Docket ID:
NRC-2011-0015.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Philip G. Brochman, Office of Nuclear
Security and Incident Response, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-6557; e-mail:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
The NRC is issuing for public comment a draft regulatory guide in
the agency's ``Regulatory Guide'' series. This series was developed to
describe and make available to the public such information as 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 for permits and licenses.
The draft regulatory guide is temporarily identified by its task
number, DG-5020, which should be mentioned in all related
correspondence. The DG-5020 is a proposed new regulatory guide.
This guide describes methods that the staff or NRC considers
acceptable for licensees and certificate holders to comply with the
Commission's regulations implementing the provisions of Section 161A,
``Use of Firearms by Security Personnel,'' of the Atomic Energy Act of
1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2201a), that are found in the proposed 10
CFR 73.18 and 10 CFR 73.19. See the proposed rule (Docket ID: NRC-2011-
0018) published elsewhere in today's Federal Register.
Section 161A provides authority for the Commission to designate
classes of facilities, radioactive material, and other property, as
appropriate, for licensees and certificate holders to (1) transfer,
receive, possess, transport, import, and use enhanced weapons and (2)
preempt
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State, local, and certain Federal firearms laws (including
regulations). In addition, Section 161A mandates that each security
officer complete a satisfactory fingerprint-based firearms background
check by the U.S. Attorney General for designated classes of
facilities, radioactive material, and other property, where the
affected licensee's or certificate holder's protective strategy employs
firearms and the officer's official duties require access to any
covered weapon. The NRC is issuing DG-5020 for comment in conjunction
with DG-5019, ``Reporting and Recording Safeguards Events,'' and the
associated proposed rule. See the DG-5019 (Docket ID: NRC-2011-0014)
proposed elsewhere in today's Federal Register.
Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and Commission approval is
not required to reproduce them.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 12th day of January 2011.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Thomas H. Boyce,
Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of Engineering,
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2011-1784 Filed 2-2-11; 8:45 am]
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