Department of Defense
Department of Energy
Environmental Protection Agency
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- [EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0276; FRL-10023-12-OAR]
AGENCY:
Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION:
Notice of availability with request for public comment.
SUMMARY:
The Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Energy (DOE), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) are announcing for public comment the availability of a draft revision document, entitled the “Multi-Agency Radiation Survey and Site Investigation Manual” (MARSSIM). MARSSIM provides information on planning, conducting, evaluating, and documenting environmental radiological surveys of surface soil and building surfaces for demonstrating compliance with regulations. MARSSIM, when finalized as Revision 2, will be a multi-agency consensus document. The agencies are seeking public comment in order to receive feedback from the widest range of interested parties and to ensure that all information relevant to developing the document is received. The agencies will review public comments received on the draft MARSSIM Revision 2 as well as comments from a concurrent, independent, scientific peer review. The Agencies will review comments received during the public comment period and make revisions to the document as appropriate.
DATES:
Comments must be received on or before September 14, 2021.
ADDRESSES:
Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0276, to the Federal eRulemaking Portal: www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting comments. Once submitted, comments cannot be edited or withdrawn. The EPA may publish any comment received to its public docket. Do not electronically submit any information you consider to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Multimedia submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be accompanied by a written comment. The written comment is considered the official comment and should include discussion of all points you wish to make. The EPA will generally not consider comments or comment contents located outside of the primary submission ( i.e., on the web, cloud or other file sharing system). For additional submission methods, the full EPA public comment policy, information about CBI or multimedia submissions, and general guidance on making effective comments, please visit: www2.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-dockets.
www.regulations.gov
www2.epa.gov/dockets/commenting-epa-docketsYou may obtain publicly-available information related to this action, including copies of the MARSSIM ( printed page 32035) Revision 2, by any of the following methods:
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access Management System (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the ADAMS Public Documents collection at www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select “Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.” Please refer to ML21008A572 when contacting the NRC about the availability of the MARSSIM Rev. 2 draft. 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. Attention: The PDR, where you may have previously examined and ordered copies of public documents is currently closed for in-person document review.
www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.htmlYou may submit your request to the PDR via email at pdr.resource@nrc.gov or call 1-800-397-4209 between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (EST), Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. The DOE, EPA, and NRC each have a publication number for MARSSIM. They are: For the DOE, DOE/AU-0002; for the EPA, EPA 402-P-20-001; for the NRC, NUREG-1575, Rev. 2. A free single copy of the draft MARSSIM Revision 2 may be requested by email to DISTRIBUTION.Resource@nrc.gov.
The MARSSIM Revision 2 document is also available for download at: www.epa.gov/radiation/multi-agency-radiation-survey-and-site-investigation-manual-marssim.
www.epa.gov/radiation/multi-agency-radiation-survey-and-site-investigation-manual-marssimInstructions: All submissions received must include the Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0276 for this rulemaking. Comments received may be posted without change to www.regulations.gov/, including any personal information provided. For detailed instructions and additional information on submitting comments, see the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Any of the following points of contact for each agency for technical information (See ADDRESSES section above for directions on obtaining a copy of the draft MARSSIM Revision 2.): DoD: Erik Abkemeier, Phone: (757) 887-7635, erik.j.abkemeier@navy.mil, U.S. Navy, NAVSEADET RASO, 160 Main Road, Yorktown, VA 23691-5105; DOE: Derek Favret (AU-22), Phone: (202) 586-0250, derek.favret@hq.doe.gov, or Amanda Anderson (EM-3.11), Phone: (240) 702-5556, amanda.anderson@em.doe.gov, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20585; EPA: Kathryn Snead; Phone: (202) 343-9228, snead.kathryn@epa.gov, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Stop 6608T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460-1000; NRC: Mark Fuhrmann, Phone: (301) 415-0879, mark.fuhrmann@nrc.gov, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Mail Stop TWF 10 A-12 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852-2738. Questions concerning the multi-agency document development project should be addressed to Kathryn Snead, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, MC 6608T, Washington, DC 20460, (202) 343-9228, snead.kathryn@epa.gov.
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