[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 156 (Friday, August 12, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50274-50275]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-20511]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2011-0182]
Terrestrial Environmental Studies for Nuclear Power Stations
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft regulatory guide; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the Commission)
is issuing for public comment draft regulatory guide (DG), DG-4016,
``Terrestrial Environmental Studies for Nuclear Power Stations.'' This
guide provides technical guidance that the NRC staff considers
acceptable for terrestrial environmental studies and analyses
supporting licensing decisions for nuclear power reactors.
DATES: Submit comments by October 11, 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. 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.
ADDRESSES: Please include Docket ID NRC-2011-0182 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, 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. You may submit comments by any one of the following
methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for documents filed under Docket ID NRC-
2011-0182. 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), Office of Administration,
Mail Stop: TWB-05-B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001.
Fax comments to: RADB at 301-492-3446.
You can access publicly available documents related to this
regulatory guide 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, O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville,
Maryland 20852.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): Publicly available documents created or received at the NRC
are available online in the NRC Library 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 the NRC's public documents. If
you do not have access to ADAMS or if there are
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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 regulatory analysis is available
electronically under ADAMS Accession Number ML110130046.
Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Public comments and
supporting materials related to this regulatory guide can be found at
http://www.regulations.gov by searching on Docket ID NRC-2011-0182.
Electronic copies of DG-4016 are available through the NRC's public
Web site under Draft Regulatory Guides in the ``Regulatory Guides''
collection of the NRC's Library at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/. Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and Commission
approval is not required to reproduce them.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Peyton Doub, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-6703, e-mail
to [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The 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 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.
This guide focuses on terrestrial analyses for licensing new
nuclear power stations under the combined licensing process in Title 10
of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) part 52, ``Licenses,
Certifications, and Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants'' and power
reactors under 10 CFR part 50, ``Domestic Licensing of Production and
Utilization Facilities.'' This guide is also useful in identifying the
more limited studies and analyses needed for nuclear reactor operating
license renewal under 10 CFR Part 54, ``Requirements for Renewal of
Operating Licenses for Nuclear Power Plants,'' and portions may also be
relevant to nuclear reactor decommissioning.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day of August, 2011.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Edward O'Donnell,
Acting Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2011-20511 Filed 8-11-11; 8:45 am]
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