[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 42 (Wednesday, March 4, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11692-11693]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-04478]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2015-0044]
Guidance for Evaluation of Acute Chemical Exposures and Proposed
Quantitative Standards
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft interim staff guidance; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is soliciting
public comment on its draft Interim Staff Guidance (ISG), ``Guidance
for Evaluation of Acute Chemical Exposures and Proposed Quantitative
Standards.'' The ISG supplements existing guidance in NUREG-1520,
``Standard Review Plan for the Review of a License Application for a
Fuel Cycle Facility,'' by providing additional guidance for the NRC to
follow when evaluating descriptions of proposed quantitative standards.
The ISG identifies sources of information on which proposed
quantitative standards may be based.
DATES: Submit comments by May 18, 2015. Comments received after this
date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the Commission
is able to ensure consideration only for comments received before this
date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods
(unless this document describes a different method for submitting
comments on a specific subject):
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0044. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of
this document.
Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration,
Mail Stop: OWFN-12-H08, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001.
For additional direction on accessing information and submitting
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marilyn Diaz, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-287-9068, email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-NRC-2015-0044 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain
publicly-available information related to this action by any of the
following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0044.
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 [email protected]. The
draft ISG is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML15051A029.
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.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC-2015-0044 in the subject line of your
comment submission, in order to ensure that the NRC is able to make
your comment submission available to the public in this docket.
The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact
information that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your
comment submission. The NRC posts all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as entering the comment submissions into
ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to remove
identifying or contact information.
If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons
for submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to
include identifying or contact information that they do not want to be
publicly disclosed in their comment submission. Your request should
state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to
remove such information before making the comment submissions available
to the public or entering the comment submissions into ADAMS.
II. Background
A fuel cycle facility licensee that is regulated under part 70 of
Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), and that is
subject to subpart H, ``Additional Requirements for Certain Licensees
Authorized to Possess a Critical Mass of Special Nuclear Material,'' is
required to conduct an Integrated safety analysis (ISA) and submit an
ISA summary that supports the license application. As relevant to the
ISG, the 10 CFR 70.65(b)(7) provision requires that for all credible
acute chemical exposure events set forth in 10 CFR 70.61(b)(4) and
(c)(4), the ISA summary describe ``the proposed quantitative standards
used to assess the consequences to an individual from acute chemical
exposure to licensed material or chemicals produced from licensed
materials.''
The ISG will assist the NRC in determining whether ISA summaries
and the underlying ISAs conducted by applicants or licensees adequately
consider all credible acute chemical exposure events and exposure
pathways. The ISG identifies several sources of chemical hazards
information on which proposed quantitative standards may be based. As
stated in the ISG, these sources of information include the Emergency
Response Planning Guidelines (ERPGs), the Acute Exposure Guidelines
Levels (AEGLs), Temporary Emergency Exposure Levels (TEELs), and the
Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals
(GHS). The ERPGs, AEGLs, TEELs and GHS hazard statements contain
information relevant to inhalation exposure pathways. As detailed in
the ISG, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Skin
Notations, and the GHS hazards statements, contain useful data on which
an applicant may base its
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proposed quantitative standards for dermal and ocular exposures.
The information from the ISG will be incorporated into the next
revision of NUREG-1520, ``Standard Review Plan for the Review of a
License Application for a Fuel Cycle Facility,'' (ADAMS Accession No.
ML101390110).
Additional background information and documents related to this
notice can be found in ADAMS under the following accession numbers:
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1............................. Memorandum of ML11354A432
Understanding
Between NRC and OSHA
Relating to NRC-
Licensed Facilities.
2............................. NRC Information ML071410230
Notice 2007-022,
Recent Hydrogen
Fluoride Exposures
at Fuel Cycle
Facilities (June 19,
2007).
3............................. Letter from Felix M. ML083360632
Killar, Senior
Director, Fuel and
Materials Safety,
NEI, to Daniel H.
Dorman, Director,
Division of Fuel
Cycle Safety and
Safeguards, Office
of Nuclear Materials
Safety and
Safeguards (NMSS)
(September 8, 2008).
4............................. Letter from Daniel H. ML082900889
Dorman, Director,
Division of Fuel
Cycle Safety and
Safeguards, NMSS, to
Felix M. Killar,
Senior Director,
Fuel Supply.
Material Licenses,
of the Nuclear
Energy Institute
(NEI) (November 10,
2008).
5............................. Letter from Felix M. ML090690732
Killar, Senior
Director, Fuel and
Materials Safety,
NEI, to Daniel H.
Dorman, Director,
Division of Fuel
Cycle Safety and
Safeguards, NMSS
(February 24, 2009).
6............................. Letter from Daniel H. ML090920296
Dorman, Director,
Division of Fuel
Cycle Safety and
Safeguards, NMSS, to
Felix M. Killar,
Senior Director,
Fuel Supply.
Material Licenses,
of the Nuclear
Energy Institute
(NEI) (June 12,
2009).
7............................. Letter from Janet R. ML14086A267
Schlueter, Sr.
Director, Fuel and
Materials Safety,
NEI, to Marissa G.
Bailey, Director,
Division of Fuel
Cycle Safety and
Safeguards, NMSS
(March 26, 2014).
8............................. Letter from Marissa ML14251A150
G. Bailey, Director,
Division of Fuel
Cycle Safety and
Safeguards, NMSS, to
Janet R. Schlueter,
NEI (September 15,
2014).
9............................. Letter from Ellen ML14322B019
Ginsberg, the
General Counsel of
the NEI to Margaret
Doane, the General
Counsel of the NRC,
(November 7, 2014).
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Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day of February, 2015.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Marissa G. Bailey,
Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety, Safeguards and Environmental
Review, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2015-04478 Filed 3-3-15; 8:45 am]
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