[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 193 (Friday, October 6, 2023)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 69555-69556]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-22287]
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Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 193 / Friday, October 6, 2023 /
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
10 CFR Chapter I
[NRC-2023-0058]
Required Assessment of U.S. Department of Energy Laboratories by
Licensees, Applicants, and Suppliers To Verify the Effective
Implementation of Their Quality Assurance Programs
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft regulatory issue summary; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is seeking public
comment on a draft regulatory issue summary (RIS) that clarifies the
agency's regulatory position regarding the required assessment of U.S.
Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories by licensees,
applicants, and vendors to verify the effective implementation of the
laboratories' quality assurance (QA) programs. This draft RIS requires
no action or written response on the part of an addressee.
DATES: Submit comments by December 5, 2023. 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
on or before this date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods;
however, the NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the
Federal rulemaking website:
Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2023-0058. 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.
Mail comments to: Office of Administration, Mail Stop:
TWFN-7-A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001, ATTN: Program Management, Announcements and Editing Staff.
For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Phyllis Clark, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-6447, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2023-0058 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 Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2023-0058.
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, at 301-415-4737,
or by email to [email protected]. The draft RIS ``Required
Assessment of U.S. Department of Energy Laboratories by Licensees,
Applicants, and Suppliers to Verify the Effective Implementation of
Their Quality Assurance Programs,'' is available in ADAMS under
Accession No. ML22080A051.
NRC's PDR: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies
of publicly available documents, is open by appointment. 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
a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern time (ET), Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays.
B. Submitting Comments
The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the
Federal rulemaking website (https://www.regulations.gov). Please
include Docket ID NRC-2023-0058 in your comment submission.
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 will post all comment submissions at
https://www.regulations.gov as well as enter 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 into ADAMS.
II. Background
The NRC staff has received several inquiries from nuclear industry
stakeholders on what type of assessment is required for U.S. Department
of Energy (DOE) national laboratories that provide basic components to
the U.S. nuclear power industry. The NRC is issuing this draft
regulatory issue summary (RIS) to clarify the agency's regulatory
position regarding the required assessment of U.S. DOE national
laboratories by licensees, applicants, and vendors to verify the
effective implementation of the laboratories' quality assurance
programs.
The NRC issues RISs to communicate with stakeholders on a broad
range of matters. It provides guidance to applicants and licensees on
the scope and detail of information that should be provided in
licensing applications to facilitate NRC review.
As noted in the Federal Register on 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 1 CFR
chapter I.
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III. Proposed Action
The NRC is requesting public comments on the draft RIS. All
comments that are to receive consideration in the final RIS must still
be submitted electronically or in writing as indicated in the ADDRESSES
section of this document. The NRC staff will make a final determination
regarding issuance of the RIS after it considers any public comments
received in response to this request.
Dated: October 3, 2023.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Lisa M. Regner,
Chief, Generic Communication and Operating Experience Branch, Division
of Reactor Oversight, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2023-22287 Filed 10-5-23; 8:45 am]
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