80 FR 33303 - Fuel Cycle Oversight Process

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 112 (June 11, 2015)

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is soliciting public comment on a draft cornerstone technical document that will be used as a portion of a future revision to its Fuel Cycle Oversight Process.

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 112 (Thursday, June 11, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33303-33304]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-14288]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2015-0149]


Fuel Cycle Oversight Process

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Draft technical document; request for comment.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is soliciting 
public comment on a draft cornerstone technical document that will be 
used as a portion of a future revision to its Fuel Cycle Oversight 
Process.

DATES: Comments may be submitted by July 13, 2015. Comments received 
after this date will be considered, if it is practical to do so, but 
the NRC staff 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-2015-XXXX. 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 obtaining information and submitting 
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: April Smith, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-6547; email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0149 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-2015-0149.
     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 
ADAMS accession number for each document referenced (if it is available 
in ADAMS) is provided the first time that it is mentioned in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section. The draft cornerstone technical 
document is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML15140A644.
     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-2015-0149 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. Discussion

    In the Staff Requirements Memorandum for SECY-11-0140, 
``Enhancements to the Fuel Cycle Oversight Process,'' dated January 5, 
2012 (ADAMS Accession No. ML120050322), the Commission directed the NRC 
staff to develop a Revised Fuel Cycle Oversight Process (RFCOP). A 
portion of the RFCOP is the identification of cornerstones. The 
cornerstones are those aspects of licensee performance that are 
important to the mission and, therefore, merit regulatory oversight. 
The draft cornerstone technical document defines the cornerstones that 
will be used in the RFCOP and defines for each cornerstone, its 
objective and key

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attributes that implement the objective. Each key attribute has one or 
more inspectable areas. Inspectable areas are those aspects of the 
physical facility or the licensee's programs or processes that need to 
be verified to assure that a key attribute of a cornerstone is 
achieved.
    The NRC is soliciting public comment on its draft cornerstone 
technical document that will be used as a portion of the RFCOP. The NRC 
staff will consider any public comments prior to finalizing the 
cornerstone technical document for the RFCOP.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 4th day of June 2015.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Marissa Bailey,
Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety, Safeguards and Environmental 
Review, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2015-14288 Filed 6-10-15; 8:45 am]
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