[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 83 (Friday, April 29, 2022)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 25431]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-09172]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
10 CFR Chapter I
[NRC-2018-0185]
Use of Electronic Signatures by Medical Licensees on Internal
Documents
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft regulatory issue summary; discontinuation.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is discontinuing the
publication of draft regulatory issue summary (RIS), ``Use of
Electronic Signatures by Medical Licensees on Internal Documents,''
because the guidance no longer provides useful information as the
contents are now considered standard practice.
DATES: The effective date for discontinuation of the draft RIS is April
29, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2018-0185 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 Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2018-0185. Address
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann;
telephone: 301-415-0624; email: [email protected]. For technical
questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT 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 https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, 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 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.
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
documents, by appointment, at the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR),
Room P1 B35, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville,
Maryland 20852. To make an appointment to visit the PDR, please send an
email to [email protected] or call 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737,
between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (ET), Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Said Daibes Figueroa, Office of
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-6863, email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
On October 20, 2010, the NRC published a notice in the Federal
Register (75 FR 64749) requesting public comment on specific issues
related to the use of electronic signatures in medical licensee
documents. Many of the commenters supported the view that the NRC
should be receptive to licensees' use of electronic signatures and
adopt its use for licensees' internal documents because the use of
electronic medical records has become standard practice in medical
facilities. The NRC assessed public comment responses to identify means
by which medical licensees can use electronic signatures to satisfy
NRC's signature requirements. The comments are publicly available in
ADAMS under Accession No. ML21131A034. A draft RIS ``Use of Electronic
Signatures by Medical Licensees on Internal Documents,'' was developed
summarizing the findings and published in the Federal Register (83 FR
44247) on August 30, 2018, seeking public comment. The comments
received were supportive of the adoption of the use of electronic
signatures by NRC medical licensees. The comments are publicly
available through ADAMS Accession Nos. ML21105A813 and ML21105A812.
II. Additional Information
The NRC is discontinuing the issuance of the draft RIS, ``Use of
Electronic Signatures by Medical Licensees on Internal Documents,''
because the use of electronic signatures within the medical community,
including electronic signatures that uniquely identify the signed
individual, provide authentications and non-repudiation, and assure
data integrity, has become such common practice that the guidance in
this RIS no longer provides useful information.
The draft RIS was published in the Federal Register for comment on
August 30, 2018 (83 FR 44247). The draft RIS described one means by
which medical licensees can use electronic signatures to satisfy NRC's
signature requirements on internal records that the NRC requires the
licensee to maintain. The comments received during the public comment
period on the draft RIS may be considered by the NRC staff for the
development of any future related guidance. Should such guidance be
developed, the NRC will inform the public through a new notice of
availability of the documents for public comment in the Federal
Register.
This notice documents final staff action on docket NRC-2018-0185.
No further action is expected for this docket.
As noted in ``Relocation of Regulatory Issue Summary Notices in the
Federal Register'' (May 8, 2018, 83 FR 20858), this document is being
published in the Proposed Rules section of the Federal Register to
comply with publication requirements under chapter I of title 1 of the
Code of Federal Regulations.
Dated: April 25, 2022.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Christian E. Einberg,
Chief, Medical Safety and Events Assessments Branch, Division of
Materials Safety, Security, State and Tribal Programs, Office of
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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