83 FR 46198 - Guidance About Administrative Licensing Procedures

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 177 (September 12, 2018)

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is revising its guidance about administrative licensing procedures and agency policies for reviewing nuclear materials licensing requests. The NRC is requesting public comment on draft NUREG-1556, Volume 20, ``Consolidated Guidance About Materials Licenses: Guidance About Administrative Licensing Procedures.'' The document has been updated from the original version to include information on updated regulatory requirements, safety culture, security of radioactive materials, protection of sensitive information, and changes in regulatory policies and practices. This document is intended for use by the NRC staff when reviewing NRC materials licensing requests.

[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 177 (Wednesday, September 12, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46198-46199]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-19755]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[Docket No. NRC-2018-0093]


Guidance About Administrative Licensing Procedures

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Draft NUREG; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is revising its 
guidance about administrative licensing procedures and agency policies 
for reviewing nuclear materials licensing requests. The NRC is 
requesting public comment on draft NUREG-1556, Volume 20, 
``Consolidated Guidance About Materials Licenses: Guidance About 
Administrative Licensing Procedures.'' The document has been updated 
from the original version to include information on updated regulatory 
requirements, safety culture, security of radioactive materials, 
protection of sensitive information, and changes in regulatory policies 
and practices. This document is intended for use by the NRC staff when 
reviewing NRC materials licensing requests.

DATES: Submit comments by October 15, 2018. Comments received after 
this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC 
is only able to assure consideration of 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 Website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2018-0093. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer Borges; telephone: 301-287-
9127; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact 
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of 
this document.
     Mail comments to: May Ma, Program Management, 
Announcements, and Editing (PMAE), Office of Administration, Mail Stop: 
TWFN-7-A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001.
    For additional direction on accessing information and submitting 
comments, see ``Accessing Information and Submitting Comments'' in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Anthony McMurtray, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards; U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-2746; email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Accessing Information and Submitting Comments

A. Accessing Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2018-0093 when contacting the NRC 
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may 
access publicly-available information related to this action by the 
following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2018-0093.
     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 ``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 draft NUREG-1556, Volume 20, 
Revision 1, is available in ADAMS under Accession Number ML18240A014.
     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.
    The draft NUREG-1556, Volume 20, Revision 1, is also available on 
the NRC's public website at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1556/ under ``Consolidated Guidance About 
Materials Licenses (NUREG-1556).''

B. Submitting Comments

    Please include Docket ID NRC-2018-0093 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 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, and 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.

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II. Additional Information

    NUREG-1556, Volume 20, Revision 1 provides guidance to NRC 
management and staff regarding administrative licensing procedures and 
agency policies for reviewing NRC materials licensing requests. The 
purpose of this notice is to provide the public with an opportunity to 
review and provide comments on draft NUREG-1556, Volume 20, Revision 1, 
``Consolidated Guidance About Materials Licenses: Guidance About 
Administrative Licensing Procedures.'' These comments will be 
considered in the final version or subsequent revisions.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 6th day of September 2018.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Daniel S. Collins,
Director, Division of Materials Safety, Security, State and Tribal 
Programs, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2018-19755 Filed 9-11-18; 8:45 am]
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