80_FR_14085 80 FR 14033 - Radiation Protection

80 FR 14033 - Radiation Protection

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 52 (March 18, 2015)

Page Range14033-14034
FR Document2015-06244

On July 25, 2014, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) published for comment an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) to obtain input from members of the public on the development of a draft regulatory basis. The draft regulatory basis would identify potential changes to the NRC's current radiation protection regulations. The potential changes, if implemented, would achieve a closer alignment between the NRC's radiation protection regulations and the recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) contained in ICRP Publication 103 (2007). The NRC is extending the comment period for the ANPR to provide additional time for members of the public to develop and submit their comments.

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 52 (Wednesday, March 18, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 52 (Wednesday, March 18, 2015)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 14033-14034]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-06244]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

10 CFR Part 20

 [NRC-2009-0279]
RIN 3150-AJ29


Radiation Protection

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Advance notice of proposed rulemaking; extension of comment 
period.

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SUMMARY: On July 25, 2014, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) 
published for comment an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) 
to obtain input from members of the public on the development of a 
draft regulatory basis. The draft regulatory basis would identify 
potential changes to the NRC's current radiation protection 
regulations. The potential changes, if implemented, would achieve a 
closer alignment between the NRC's radiation protection regulations and 
the recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological 
Protection (ICRP) contained in ICRP Publication 103 (2007). The NRC is 
extending the comment period for the ANPR to provide additional time 
for members of the public to develop and submit their comments.

DATES: The comment period has been extended and expires on June 22, 
2015. 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 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-2009-0279. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol

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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.
     Email comments to: [email protected]. If you do 
not receive an automatic email reply confirming receipt, then contact 
us at 301-415-1677.
     Fax comments to: Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission at 301-415-1101.
     Mail comments to: Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, ATTN: Rulemakings and 
Adjudications Staff.
     Hand deliver comments to: 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 
Maryland 20852, between 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. (Eastern Time) Federal 
workdays; telephone: 301-415-1677.
    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: Cardelia Maupin, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-2312; email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2009-0279 when contacting the NRC 
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may 
obtain publicly-available information related to this document by any 
of the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2009-0279.
     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 
ANPR document is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML14183B023.
     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-2009-0279 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 http://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 submissions into ADAMS.

II. Further Information

    On July 25, 2014 (79 FR 43284), the NRC published for comment an 
ANPR to obtain input from members of the public on the development of a 
draft regulatory basis. The draft regulatory basis would identify 
potential changes to the NRC's current radiation protection 
regulations. The potential changes, if implemented, would achieve a 
closer alignment between the NRC's radiation protection regulations and 
the recommendations in ICRP Publication 103 (2007). The ANPR identifies 
specific questions and issues with respect to a possible revision of 
the NRC's radiation protection requirements. Comments, including 
responses to the specific questions, will be considered by the NRC 
staff when it develops the draft regulatory basis.
    The Part 20 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 
ANPR public comment period was originally scheduled to close on 
November 24, 2014, after a 120-day comment period. In response to 
several requests from members of the public received throughout 
November 2014, the NRC extended the public comment period on the ANPR, 
by an additional 120 days, to March 24, 2015 (79 FR 69065; November 20, 
2014).
    In response to a second request, dated February 18, 2015, from 
several members of the public, the NRC is now extending the public 
comment period by an additional 90 days. The deadline for submitting 
comments is now extended from March 24, 2015, to June 22, 2015.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day of March 2015.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Laura A. Dudes,
Director, Division of Material Safety, State, Tribal and Rulemaking 
Programs, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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If multiple insured persons determination into an interpretation of COMMISSION are parties to the proceedings, and the procedure or policy provision not request for a final agency determination codified in the Code of Federal 10 CFR Part 20 or an interpretation of procedure or Regulations as needed if the request [NRC–2009–0279] policy provision not codified in the pertains to procedures or uncodified Code of Federal Regulations applies to policy provisions and contains the RIN 3150–AJ29 all parties, one request may be information required in § 400.767. (e) FCIC will provide you a written Radiation Protection submitted for all insured persons instead of separate requests for each final agency determination or an AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory person. In this case, the information interpretation of procedure or policy Commission. required in this section must be provision not codified in the Code of ACTION: Advance notice of proposed provided for each person. Federal Regulations within 90 days of rulemaking; extension of comment the date of receipt for a request that § 400.768 FCIC Obligations. period. meets all requirements in § 400.767. (a) FCIC reserves the right to not (f) If FCIC does not provide a response SUMMARY: On July 25, 2014, the U.S. provide a final agency determination or within 90 days of receipt of a request, Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) an interpretation of procedure or policy you may assume your interpretation is published for comment an advance provision not codified in the Code of correct for the applicable crop year. notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) Federal Regulations for any request However, your interpretation shall not to obtain input from members of the regarding, or that contains specific be considered generally applicable and public on the development of a draft factual information to situations or shall not be binding on any other regulatory basis. The draft regulatory cases, such as acts or failures to act of program participants. Additionally, in basis would identify potential changes any participant under the terms of a the case of a joint request for a final to the NRC’s current radiation policy, procedure, or any reinsurance agency determination or an protection regulations. The potential agreement. interpretation of procedure or policy changes, if implemented, would achieve (1) Regardless of whether or not FCIC provision not codified in the Code of a closer alignment between the NRC’s accepts a request, FCIC will not Federal Regulations, if FCIC does not radiation protection regulations and the consider specific factual information to provide a response within 90 days, recommendations of the International situations or cases in any final agency neither party may assume their Commission on Radiological Protection determination. interpretations are correct. (ICRP) contained in ICRP Publication (2) FCIC will not consider any (g) FCIC will publish all final agency 103 (2007). The NRC is extending the examples provided in your determinations as specially numbered comment period for the ANPR to interpretation because those are fact documents on the RMA Web site provide additional time for members of specific and could be construed as a because they are generally applicable to the public to develop and submit their finding of fact by FCIC. If an example all program participants. comments. is required to illustrate an (h) FCIC will not publish any interpretation, FCIC will provide the interpretation of procedure or policy DATES: The comment period has been example in the interpretation. provision not codified in the Code of extended and expires on June 22, 2015. (b) If, in the sole judgment of FCIC, Federal Regulations because they are Comments received after this date will the request is unclear, ambiguous, or only applicable to the parties in the be considered if it is practical to do so, incomplete, FCIC will not provide a dispute. You are responsible for but the NRC is able to ensure final agency determination or an providing copies of the interpretation of consideration only for comments interpretation of procedure or policy procedure or policy provision not received on or before this date. wreier-aviles on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with PROPOSALS provision not codified in the Code of codified in the Code of Federal ADDRESSES: You may submit comments Federal Regulations but notify you Regulations to all other parties involved by any of the following methods (unless within 30 days of the date of receipt by in the proceeding. this document describes a different FCIC that the request is unclear, (i) When issuing an interpretation, method for submitting comments on a ambiguous, or incomplete. 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14034 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 52 / Wednesday, March 18, 2015 / Proposed Rules Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; • NRC’s PDR: You may examine and In response to a second request, dated email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For purchase copies of public documents at February 18, 2015, from several technical questions, contact the the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One members of the public, the NRC is now individual listed in the FOR FURTHER White Flint North, 11555 Rockville extending the public comment period INFORMATION CONTACT section of this Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. by an additional 90 days. The deadline document. for submitting comments is now B. Submitting Comments • Email comments to: extended from March 24, 2015, to June Rulemaking.Comments@nrc.gov. If you Please include Docket ID NRC–2009– 22, 2015. do not receive an automatic email reply 0279 in your comment submission. Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day confirming receipt, then contact us at The NRC cautions you not to include of March 2015. 301–415–1677. identifying or contact information that For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, • Fax comments to: Secretary, U.S. you do not want to be publicly Laura A. Dudes, Nuclear Regulatory Commission at 301– disclosed in your comment submission. Director, Division of Material Safety, State, 415–1101. The NRC will post all comment Tribal and Rulemaking Programs, Office of • Mail comments to: Secretary, U.S. submissions at http:// Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, www.regulations.gov as well as enter the [FR Doc. 2015–06244 Filed 3–17–15; 8:45 am] Washington, DC 20555–0001, ATTN: comment submissions into ADAMS. BILLING CODE 7590–01–P Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff. The NRC does not routinely edit • Hand deliver comments to: 11555 comment submissions to remove Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland identifying or contact information. SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 20852, between 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. If you are requesting or aggregating (Eastern Time) Federal workdays; comments from other persons for 13 CFR Part 107 telephone: 301–415–1677. submission to the NRC, then you should For additional direction on obtaining inform those persons not to include RIN 3245–AG68 information and submitting comments, identifying or contact information that Small Business Investment see ‘‘Obtaining Information and they do not want to be publicly Companies—Early Stage Submitting Comments’’ in the disclosed in their comment submission. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of Your request should state that the NRC AGENCY: U.S. Small Business this document. does not routinely edit comment Administration. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: submissions to remove such information ACTION: Advance Notice of Proposed Cardelia Maupin, Office of Nuclear before making the comment Rulemaking (ANPRM). Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. submissions available to the public or Nuclear Regulatory Commission, entering the comment submissions into SUMMARY: The U.S. Small Business Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: ADAMS. Administration (SBA) is seeking input 301–415–2312; email: and comments on its Early Stage Small II. Further Information Business Investment Company (SBIC) Cardelia.Maupin@nrc.gov. On July 25, 2014 (79 FR 43284), the initiative, promulgated in the final rule SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: on April 27, 2012. The intent of the NRC published for comment an ANPR I. Obtaining Information and to obtain input from members of the initiative was to license and provide Submitting Comments public on the development of a draft SBA leverage to SBICs over a 5-year regulatory basis. 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The ANPR identifies conditions warrant SBA continuing to • Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to specific questions and issues with license Early Stage SBICs past fiscal http://www.regulations.gov and search respect to a possible revision of the year 2016 on an ongoing basis and, if so, for Docket ID NRC–2009–0279. NRC’s radiation protection what changes should be made to the • NRC’s Agencywide Documents requirements. Comments, including program to attract qualified early stage Access and Management System responses to the specific questions, will fund managers. (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly- be considered by the NRC staff when it DATES: Comments must be received on available documents online in the develops the draft regulatory basis. or before May 18, 2015. ADAMS Public Documents collection at The Part 20 of Title 10 of the Code of ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ Federal Regulations (10 CFR) ANPR identified by RIN 3245–AG68, by any of adams.html. 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CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionProposed Rules
ActionAdvance notice of proposed rulemaking; extension of comment period.
DatesThe comment period has been extended and expires on June 22, 2015. 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.
ContactCardelia Maupin, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-2312; email: [email protected]
FR Citation80 FR 14033 
RIN Number3150-AJ29
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