80_FR_21348 80 FR 21274 - Guidance for Evaluation of Acute Chemical Exposures and Proposed Quantitative Standards

80 FR 21274 - Guidance for Evaluation of Acute Chemical Exposures and Proposed Quantitative Standards

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FR Document2015-08932

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is providing supplemental information to an earlier notice, appearing in the Federal Register on March 4, 2015, which requested comment on a draft interim staff guidance (ISG), ``Guidance for Evaluation of Acute Chemical Exposures and Proposed Quantitative Standards.'' The draft ISG, if issued in final form, would supplement existing guidance in NUREG-1520, ``Standard Review Plan for the Review of a License Application for a Fuel Cycle Facility,'' by providing additional guidance and the descriptions of proposed quantitative standards for the NRC to follow when evaluating the integrated safety analysis (ISAs) of acute chemical exposures. This action is necessary to provide the public with the backfitting information with respect to the draft ISG, and includes references to the key documents on backfitting issues. The public comment period was originally scheduled to close on May 18, 2015. The NRC is extending the public comment period on this action to allow more time for members of the public to review the additional information on backfitting before submitting any comments.

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Guidance for Evaluation of Acute Chemical Exposures and Proposed 
Quantitative Standards

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Draft interim staff guidance; supplemental information; 
extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is providing 
supplemental information to an earlier notice, appearing in the Federal 
Register on March 4, 2015, which requested comment on a draft interim 
staff guidance (ISG), ``Guidance for Evaluation of Acute Chemical 
Exposures and Proposed Quantitative Standards.'' The draft ISG, if 
issued in final form, would supplement existing guidance in NUREG-1520, 
``Standard Review Plan for the Review of a License Application for a 
Fuel Cycle Facility,'' by providing additional guidance and the 
descriptions of proposed quantitative standards for the NRC to follow 
when evaluating the integrated safety analysis (ISAs) of acute chemical 
exposures. This action is necessary to provide the public with the 
backfitting information with respect to the draft ISG, and includes 
references to the key documents on backfitting issues. The public 
comment period was originally scheduled to close on May 18, 2015. The 
NRC is extending the public comment period on this action to allow more 
time for members of the public to review the additional information on 
backfitting before submitting any comments.

DATES: The due date of comments requested in the document published on 
March 4, 2015 (80 FR 11692) is extended. Comments should be filed no 
later than July 1, 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: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. 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

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20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-7110, email: Marilyn.Diaz@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID 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 pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 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

    The NRC is providing supplemental information to a notice 
requesting comment on its draft ISG, ``Guidance for Evaluation of Acute 
Chemical Exposures and Proposed Quantitative Standards,'' that was 
published in the Federal Register (80 FR 11692; March 4, 2015). The 
draft ISG, if issued in final form, would supplement existing guidance 
in NUREG-1520, ``Standard Review Plan for the Review of a License 
Application for a Fuel Cycle Facility'' (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML101390110), by providing additional guidance for the NRC to follow 
when evaluating the ISAs of acute chemical exposures, including the 
descriptions of proposed quantitative standards used to classify 
exposure events using the general criteria of section 70.61 of title 10 
of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR). The draft ISG identifies 
sources of information that the staff could use when reviewing the 
proposed quantitative standards.
    This supplemental information provides the NRC's proposed position 
on backfitting with respect to the draft ISG, and includes references 
to the key documents on backfitting. The public comment period was 
originally scheduled to close on May 18, 2015. The NRC has decided to 
extend the public comment period on the draft ISG to allow more time 
for members of the public to review the supplemental information before 
submitting any comments.

III. Supplemental Information

    The NRC believes that the draft ISG, if issued in final form, would 
not constitute backfitting as defined in 10 CFR 70.76(a)(1). All fuel 
cycle facility licensees are required to conduct and maintain an ISA 
that analyzes the chemical hazards of licensed material. The 
performance requirements in 10 CFR 70.61(b) and (c) require that the 
risk of each credible high or intermediate consequence event be 
limited, and such events include those arising from an acute chemical 
exposure as specified in 10 CFR 70.61(b)(4) and (c)(4). For all 
credible event consequences as specified in 10 CFR 70.61(b)(4) and 
(c)(4), the ISA summary must describe the proposed quantitative 
standards used to address acute chemical exposures from credible event 
sequences in accordance with 10 CFR 70.65(b)(7). This requirement is 
reinforced by the ISA definition in 10 CFR 70.4. Subpart H of 10 CFR 
part 70 contains performance-based requirements under which the 
applicant/licensee must address all credible hazards, and there is no 
regulatory language limiting consideration of chemical hazards to 
specific exposure pathways. The draft ISG is consistent with the 
regulatory language in subpart H of 10 CFR part 70 and the NRC's 
position that the ISA should consider all acute chemical exposures, 
including dermal and ocular exposures.
    Since the initial NRC approval of ISA summaries, there have been a 
number of hazardous chemical exposure incidents involving dermal and 
ocular exposures at fuel cycle facilities. Two of these incidents of 
exposure have resulted in intermediate or high consequences. See Table 
1, Fuel Cycle Facility Dermal and Ocular Exposure Events Known to the 
NRC Staff. The NRC believes that these events demonstrate the need for 
fuel cycle facilities to address all exposure pathways when updating 
their safety programs, ISAs, and ISA summaries. The information 
contained in the draft ISG reflects and reiterates existing NRC 
regulatory requirements for the fuel cycle facility licensees who will 
be subject to the draft ISG. Therefore, issuance of the draft ISG in 
final form would not constitute backfitting. The NRC's positions on 
backfitting with respect to consideration of all exposure pathways (the 
subject of this draft ISG) are set forth in a September 15, 2014, 
letter to the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML14251A150; Enclosure: ADAMS Accession No. ML14251A149). The NRC's 
September 2014 letter responds to a March 26, 2014, letter from NEI to 
the NRC (ADAMS Accession No. ML14086A267), which raises backfitting 
issues with respect to consideration of dermal and ocular exposures to 
hazardous chemicals at NRC-regulated fuel cycle facilities. The NEI 
also provided their views on backfitting with respect to consideration 
of dermal and ocular exposures to hazardous chemicals at NRC-regulated 
fuel cycle facilities in a November 7, 2014, letter to the General 
Counsel of the NRC (ADAMS Accession No. ML14322B019).
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    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day of April 2015.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Craig G. Erlanger,
Deputy Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety, Safeguards, and 
Environmental Review, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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                                                                                                                                                                                      ADAMS Accession No./
                                                                                                            Document                                                                        Web link/
                                                                                                                                                                                     Federal Register citation

                                              Developing and Maintaining Emergency Operations Plans, Comprehensive Preparedness Guide 101, Version 2.0,                              http://www.fema.gov.
                                                November 2010.
                                              Docket Nos. 50–206, 50–361, 50–362, and 72–041, Emergency Planning Exemption Request, San Onofre Nuclear                               ADAMS Accession No.
                                                Generating Station, Units 1, 2, 3 and Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation, dated March 31, 2014.                              ML14092A332.
                                              Docket Nos. 50–206, 50–361, 50–362, and 72–041, Response to Request for Additional Information Regarding                               ML14258A003.
                                                Emergency Planning Exemption Request, San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, Units 1, 2, 3 and ISFSI dated,
                                                September 9, 2014.
                                              Docket Nos. 50–206, 50–361, 50–362, and 72–041, Response to Request for Additional Information Regarding                               ML14280A265.
                                                Emergency Planning Exemption Request, San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, Units 1, 2, 3 and ISFSI dated
                                                October 2, 2014.
                                              Docket Nos. 50–206, 50–361, 50–362, and 72–041, Response to Request for Additional Information Regarding                               ML14287A228.
                                                Emergency Planning Exemption Request, San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, Units 1, 2, 3 and ISFSI dated
                                                October 7, 2014.
                                              Docket Nos. 50–206, 50–361, 50–362, and 72–041, Response to Requests for Clarification of October 6, 2014 RAI                          ML14303A257.
                                                Responses concerning Emergency Planning Exemption Request, San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, Units 1,
                                                2, 3, and ISFSI, dated October 27, 2014.
                                              Docket Nos. 50–206, 50–361, 50–362, and 72–041, Response to Request for Additional Information Regarding                               ML14309A195.
                                                Emergency Planning Exemption Request, San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, Units 1, 2, 3 and ISFSI, dated
                                                November 3, 2014.
                                              Docket Nos. 50–206, 50–361, 50–362, and 72–041, Redacted Version of Response to Request for Additional Infor-                          ML14351A078.
                                                mation Proposed Exemptions from Certain Portions of 10 CFR 50.47 and Appendix E, San Onofre Nuclear Gener-
                                                ating Station, Units 1, 2, 3 and ISFSI, dated December 15, 2014.
                                              Protective Action Guides and Planning Guidance for Radiological Incidents, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency                        http://www.epa.gov.
                                                Draft for Interim Use and Public Comment, March 2013.
                                              SECY 14–0144, ‘‘Request by Southern California Edison for Exemptions from Certain Emergency Planning Require-                          ML14251A554.
                                                ments,’’ dated December 17, 2014.
                                              Staff Requirements Memorandum to SECY–14–0144, dated March 2, 2015 .................................................................   ML15061A521.
                                              Final Environmental Statement Related to the Operation of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, Units 2 and 3,                        ADAMS Legacy Library
                                                Docket Nos. 50–361 and 50–362, dated April 30, 1981.                                                                                  Accession No.
                                                                                                                                                                                      8105180391.
                                              NUREG–0586, Supplement 1, ‘‘Final Generic Environmental Impact Statement on Decommissioning of Nuclear Fa-                             ADAMS Accession No.
                                               cilities, issued November 2002.                                                                                                        ML023470327.



                                                Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day            Exposures and Proposed Quantitative                    consideration only for comments
                                              of April 2015.                                          Standards.’’ The draft ISG, if issued in               received before this date.
                                                For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.                final form, would supplement existing                  ADDRESSES:   You may submit comments
                                              Meena K. Khanna,                                        guidance in NUREG–1520, ‘‘Standard                     by any of the following methods (unless
                                              Chief, Plant Licensing IV–2 and                         Review Plan for the Review of a License                this document describes a different
                                              Decommissioning Transition Branch,                      Application for a Fuel Cycle Facility,’’               method for submitting comments on a
                                              Division of Operating Reactor Licensing,                by providing additional guidance and                   specific subject):
                                              Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.                   the descriptions of proposed
                                              [FR Doc. 2015–08929 Filed 4–16–15; 8:45 am]
                                                                                                                                                               • Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to
                                                                                                      quantitative standards for the NRC to                  http://www.regulations.gov and search
                                              BILLING CODE 7590–01–P                                  follow when evaluating the integrated                  for Docket ID NRC–2015–0044. Address
                                                                                                      safety analysis (ISAs) of acute chemical               questions about NRC dockets to Carol
                                                                                                      exposures. This action is necessary to                 Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463;
                                              NUCLEAR REGULATORY                                      provide the public with the backfitting
                                              COMMISSION                                                                                                     email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For
                                                                                                      information with respect to the draft                  technical questions, contact the
                                              [NRC–2015–0044]                                         ISG, and includes references to the key                individual listed in the FOR FURTHER
                                                                                                      documents on backfitting issues. The                   INFORMATION CONTACT section of this
                                              Guidance for Evaluation of Acute                        public comment period was originally                   document.
                                              Chemical Exposures and Proposed                         scheduled to close on May 18, 2015.
                                              Quantitative Standards                                                                                           • Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey,
                                                                                                      The NRC is extending the public                        Office of Administration, Mail Stop:
                                              AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory                              comment period on this action to allow                 OWFN–12–H08, U.S. Nuclear
                                              Commission.                                             more time for members of the public to                 Regulatory Commission, Washington,
                                              ACTION: Draft interim staff guidance;                   review the additional information on                   DC 20555–0001.
                                              supplemental information; extension of                  backfitting before submitting any
                                                                                                                                                               For additional direction on accessing
                                              comment period.                                         comments.
                                                                                                                                                             information and submitting comments,
                                              SUMMARY:   The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory                  DATES:  The due date of comments                       see ‘‘Obtaining Information and
                                                                                                                                                             Submitting Comments’’ in the
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                                              Commission (NRC) is providing                           requested in the document published on
                                                                                                      March 4, 2015 (80 FR 11692) is                         SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
                                              supplemental information to an earlier
                                              notice, appearing in the Federal                        extended. Comments should be filed no                  this document.
                                              Register on March 4, 2015, which                        later than July 1, 2015. Comments                      FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
                                              requested comment on a draft interim                    received after this date will be                       Marilyn Diaz, Office of Nuclear Material
                                              staff guidance (ISG), ‘‘Guidance for                    considered if it is practical to do so, but            Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear
                                              Evaluation of Acute Chemical                            the Commission is able to ensure                       Regulatory Commission, Washington DC


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                                              20555–0001; telephone: 301–415–7110,                    submissions to remove such information                standards used to address acute
                                              email: Marilyn.Diaz@nrc.gov.                            before making the comment                             chemical exposures from credible event
                                              SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:                              submissions available to the public or                sequences in accordance with 10 CFR
                                                                                                      entering the comment submissions into                 70.65(b)(7). This requirement is
                                              I. Obtaining Information and                            ADAMS.                                                reinforced by the ISA definition in 10
                                              Submitting Comments
                                                                                                                                                            CFR 70.4. Subpart H of 10 CFR part 70
                                                                                                      II. Background
                                              A. Obtaining Information                                                                                      contains performance-based
                                                                                                        The NRC is providing supplemental                   requirements under which the
                                                 Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2015–
                                                                                                      information to a notice requesting                    applicant/licensee must address all
                                              0044 when contacting the NRC about
                                                                                                      comment on its draft ISG, ‘‘Guidance for              credible hazards, and there is no
                                              the availability of information for this
                                                                                                      Evaluation of Acute Chemical                          regulatory language limiting
                                              action. You may obtain publicly-
                                                                                                      Exposures and Proposed Quantitative                   consideration of chemical hazards to
                                              available information related to this
                                                                                                      Standards,’’ that was published in the                specific exposure pathways. The draft
                                              action by any of the following methods:
                                                 • Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to                 Federal Register (80 FR 11692; March 4,               ISG is consistent with the regulatory
                                              http://www.regulations.gov and search                   2015). The draft ISG, if issued in final              language in subpart H of 10 CFR part 70
                                              for Docket ID NRC–2015–0044.                            form, would supplement existing                       and the NRC’s position that the ISA
                                                 • NRC’s Agencywide Documents                         guidance in NUREG–1520, ‘‘Standard                    should consider all acute chemical
                                              Access and Management System                            Review Plan for the Review of a License               exposures, including dermal and ocular
                                              (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly                        Application for a Fuel Cycle Facility’’               exposures.
                                              available documents online in the                       (ADAMS Accession No. ML101390110),
                                                                                                      by providing additional guidance for the                 Since the initial NRC approval of ISA
                                              ADAMS Public Documents collection at                                                                          summaries, there have been a number of
                                              http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/                          NRC to follow when evaluating the ISAs
                                                                                                      of acute chemical exposures, including                hazardous chemical exposure incidents
                                              adams.html. To begin the search, select                                                                       involving dermal and ocular exposures
                                              ‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then                     the descriptions of proposed
                                                                                                      quantitative standards used to classify               at fuel cycle facilities. Two of these
                                              select ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS                                                                                incidents of exposure have resulted in
                                              Search.’’ For problems with ADAMS,                      exposure events using the general
                                                                                                      criteria of section 70.61 of title 10 of the          intermediate or high consequences. See
                                              please contact the NRC’s Public                                                                               Table 1, Fuel Cycle Facility Dermal and
                                              Document Room (PDR) reference staff at                  Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR).
                                                                                                      The draft ISG identifies sources of                   Ocular Exposure Events Known to the
                                              1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by                                                                           NRC Staff. The NRC believes that these
                                              email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The draft                information that the staff could use
                                                                                                      when reviewing the proposed                           events demonstrate the need for fuel
                                              ISG is available in ADAMS under                                                                               cycle facilities to address all exposure
                                              Accession No. ML15051A029.                              quantitative standards.
                                                                                                        This supplemental information                       pathways when updating their safety
                                                 • NRC’s PDR: You may examine and
                                                                                                      provides the NRC’s proposed position                  programs, ISAs, and ISA summaries.
                                              purchase copies of public documents at
                                                                                                      on backfitting with respect to the draft              The information contained in the draft
                                              the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One
                                                                                                      ISG, and includes references to the key               ISG reflects and reiterates existing NRC
                                              White Flint North, 11555 Rockville
                                                                                                      documents on backfitting. The public                  regulatory requirements for the fuel
                                              Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
                                                                                                      comment period was originally                         cycle facility licensees who will be
                                              B. Submitting Comments                                  scheduled to close on May 18, 2015.                   subject to the draft ISG. Therefore,
                                                Please include Docket ID NRC–2015–                    The NRC has decided to extend the                     issuance of the draft ISG in final form
                                              0044 in the subject line of your                        public comment period on the draft ISG                would not constitute backfitting. The
                                              comment submission, in order to ensure                  to allow more time for members of the                 NRC’s positions on backfitting with
                                              that the NRC is able to make your                       public to review the supplemental                     respect to consideration of all exposure
                                              comment submission available to the                     information before submitting any                     pathways (the subject of this draft ISG)
                                              public in this docket.                                  comments.                                             are set forth in a September 15, 2014,
                                                The NRC cautions you not to include                                                                         letter to the Nuclear Energy Institute
                                                                                                      III. Supplemental Information                         (NEI) (ADAMS Accession No.
                                              identifying or contact information that
                                              you do not want to be publicly                             The NRC believes that the draft ISG,               ML14251A150; Enclosure: ADAMS
                                              disclosed in your comment submission.                   if issued in final form, would not                    Accession No. ML14251A149). The
                                              The NRC posts all comment                               constitute backfitting as defined in 10               NRC’s September 2014 letter responds
                                              submissions at http://                                  CFR 70.76(a)(1). All fuel cycle facility              to a March 26, 2014, letter from NEI to
                                              www.regulations.gov as well as entering                 licensees are required to conduct and                 the NRC (ADAMS Accession No.
                                              the comment submissions into ADAMS.                     maintain an ISA that analyzes the                     ML14086A267), which raises backfitting
                                              The NRC does not routinely edit                         chemical hazards of licensed material.                issues with respect to consideration of
                                              comment submissions to remove                           The performance requirements in 10                    dermal and ocular exposures to
                                              identifying or contact information.                     CFR 70.61(b) and (c) require that the                 hazardous chemicals at NRC-regulated
                                                If you are requesting or aggregating                  risk of each credible high or                         fuel cycle facilities. The NEI also
                                              comments from other persons for                         intermediate consequence event be                     provided their views on backfitting with
                                              submission to the NRC, then you should                  limited, and such events include those                respect to consideration of dermal and
                                              inform those persons not to include                     arising from an acute chemical exposure               ocular exposures to hazardous
                                              identifying or contact information that                 as specified in 10 CFR 70.61(b)(4) and                chemicals at NRC-regulated fuel cycle
                                              they do not want to be publicly                         (c)(4). For all credible event                        facilities in a November 7, 2014, letter
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                                              disclosed in their comment submission.                  consequences as specified in 10 CFR                   to the General Counsel of the NRC
                                              Your request should state that the NRC                  70.61(b)(4) and (c)(4), the ISA summary               (ADAMS Accession No. ML14322B019).
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                                                         Table 1. Fuel Cycle Facility Dermal and Ocular Exposure Events Known to the NRC Staff 1
                                                                                (events in shaded are of intermediate or high consequence)

                                                                    Date                 Event Description (drawn from NMED text)

                                                         1.         12/3/1992             Employee sprayed with an acid/uranium mixture




                                                         2.         1/27/1998             UF6 release, three workers received minor HF acid burns on necks and arms

                                                                                         (NRC Event Notification (EN) 33601)

                                                         3.         8/10/2001             UF6 release, two workers treated for HF acid burns (EN38198)


                                                         4.         4/4/2006              UF6 release, "minor reddening of the skin ... as an apparent result of HF

                                                                                         exposure" (NRC Press Release [ADAMS Accession No. ML061170441]




                                                         1 Table 1 presents all events involving chemical exposures at fuel cycle facilities known to the
                                                         NRC staff based upon staff review of the Nuclear Medical Events Database (NMED). There may
                                                         be additional events not included in this Table. This Table includes some chemical exposure
                                                         events which were not classified as intermediate or high consequence, because small changes in
                                                         scenario (e.g., location of the worker relative to the spill/release, magnitude of the spill/release,
                                                         how fast a worker can exit an area, timeliness and nature of first aid) can change the
                                                         classification of the severity of an event (classified in accordance with the 10 CFR 70.61 criteria).

                                                         2 This event may be classified as intermediate or high consequence, and was the subject of NRC
                                                         Information Notice (IN) 2007-022 (ADAMS Accession No. ML071410230). Another chemical
                                                         exposure event was identified in IN 2007-022, but is not included in this Table because the event
                                                         involved an inhalation exposure.
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                                                                    Date                 Event Description (drawn from NMED text)

                                                         7.         2/12/2009             Holes in glove resulted in second degree nitric acid burns (EN44848)




                                                         8.         4/5/2011              KOH exposure on both facial cheeks (EN46730)




                                                         9.         4/13/2011             Residual HF passed through zipper of chemical resistant suite and onto the skin

                                                                                         of abdomen (EN467 49)




                                                         10.        4/28/2011            Chemical exposure on ring finger, treated for weak HF or caustic exposure

                                                                                         (EN46799)



                                                         11.        4/30/2011             Loose HF tubing allowed HF to spray into the atmosphere. Employee noticed

                                                                                         redness around his right eye (EN46806)

                                                         12.        6/1/2011             Irritation to the eye occurred while cleaning out an HF filter bowl (EN46915)




                                                         13.        4/23/2012             Exposure to dilute nitric acid on left forearm and left foot from exposure to

                                                                                         uranium bearing acid (EN47861)



                                                         14.        10/14/2013            HF exposure to an employee's face (EN49437)




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                                              Deputy Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety,         New Postal Product                                    public comment, and takes other
                                              Safeguards, and Environmental Review,                                                                         administrative steps.
                                                                                                      AGENCY:   Postal Regulatory Commission.               DATES: Comments are due: April 20,
                                              Office of Nuclear Material Safety and
                                              Safeguards.                                             ACTION:   Notice.                                     2015.
                                              [FR Doc. 2015–08932 Filed 4–16–15; 8:45 am]             SUMMARY:  The Commission is noticing a                ADDRESSES:   Submit comments
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CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
GS 4.107:
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionDraft interim staff guidance; supplemental information; extension of comment period.
DatesThe due date of comments requested in the document published on March 4, 2015 (80 FR 11692) is extended. Comments should be filed no later than July 1, 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.
ContactMarilyn Diaz, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-7110, email: [email protected]
FR Citation80 FR 21274 

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