[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 91 (Monday, May 12, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25979-25980]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-12363]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Draft Regulatory Guide; Issuance, Availability
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued for public comment
proposed revisions of three guides in its Regulatory Guide Series. This
series has been developed to describe and make available to the public
such information as methods acceptable to the NRC staff for
implementing specific parts of the NRC's regulations, techniques used
by the staff in evaluating specific problems or postulated accidents,
and data needed by the staff in its review of applications for permits
and licenses.
The draft guides are temporarily identified as DG-1048, which is
the proposed Revision 31 to Regulatory Guide 1.84, ``Design and
Fabrication Code Case Acceptability, ASME Section III, Division 1'';
DG-1049, which is the proposed Revision 31 to Regulatory Guide 1.85,
``Materials Code Case Acceptability, ASME Section III, Division 1'';
and DG-1050, which is the proposed Revision 12 to Regulatory Guide
1.147, ``Inservice Inspection Code Case Acceptability, ASME Section XI,
Division 1,'' and they will be in Division 1, ``Power Reactors.'' DG-
1048 and DG-1049 are being developed to provide updated guidance on
ASME Code Cases that are acceptable to the NRC staff for use in light-
water-cooled nuclear power plants. DG-1050 is being developed to
provide updated guidance on ASME Code Cases that are acceptable to the
NRC staff for use in inservice inspections of light-water-cooled
nuclear power plants.
These draft guides are being issued to involve the public in the
early stages of regulatory positions in these areas. The draft guides
have not received complete staff review and do not represent an
official NRC staff position.
Public comments are being solicited on the guides. Comments should
be accompanied by supporting data. Written comments may be submitted to
the Rules Review and Directives Branch, Division of Freedom of
Information and Publications Services, Office of Administration, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555. Copies of comments
received may be examined at the NRC Public Document Room, 2120 L Street
NW., Washington, DC. Comments will be most helpful if received by July
21, 1997.
Comments may be submitted electronically, in either ASCII text or
Wordperfect format (version 5.1 or later), by calling the NRC
Electronic Bulletin Board on FedWorld. The bulletin board may be
accessed using a personal computer, a modem, and one of the commonly
available communications software packages, or directly via Internet.
If using a personal computer and modem, the NRC subsystem on
FedWorld can be accessed directly by dialing the toll free number 1-
800-303-9672. Communication software parameters should be set as
follows: parity to none, data bits to 8, and stop bits to 1 (N,8,1).
Using ANSI or VT-100 terminal emulation, the NRC NUREGs and RegGuides
for Comment subsystem can then be accessed by selecting the ``Rules
Menu'' option from the ``NRC Main Menu.'' For further information about
options available for NRC at FedWorld, consult the ``Help/Information
Center'' from the ``NRC Main Menu.'' Users will find the ``FedWorld
Online User's Guides'' particularly helpful. Many NRC subsystems and
databases also have a ``Help/Information Center'' option that is
tailored to the particular subsystem.
The NRC subsystem on FedWorld can also be accessed by a direct dial
phone number for the main FedWorld BBS, 703-321-3339, or by using
Telnet via Internet, fedworld.gov. If using 703-321-3339 to contact
FedWorld, the NRC subsystem will be accessed from the main FedWorld
menu by selecting the ``Regulatory, Government Administration and State
Systems,'' then selecting ``Regulatory Information Mall.'' At that
point, a menu will be displayed that has an option ``U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission'' that will take you to the NRC Online main menu.
The NRC Online area also can be accessed directly by typing ``/go nrc''
at a FedWorld command line. If you access NRC from FedWorld's main
menu, you may return to FedWorld by selecting the ``Return to
FedWorld'' option from the NRC Online Main Menu. However, if you access
NRC at FedWorld by using NRC's toll-free number, you will have full
access to all NRC systems but you will not have access to the main
FedWorld system.
If you contact Fedworld using Telnet, you will see the NRC area and
menus, including the Rules menu. Although you will be able to download
documents and leave messages, you will not be able to write comments or
upload files (comments). If you contact Fedworld using FTP, all files
can be
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accessed and downloaded but uploads are not allowed; all you will see
is a list of files without descriptions (normal Gopher look). An index
file listing all files within a subdirectory, with descriptions, is
included. There is a 15-minute time limit for FTP access.
Although Fedworld can be accessed through the World Wide Web, like
FTP that mode only provides access for downloading files and does not
display the NRC Rules menu.
For more information on NRC bulletin boards, call Mr. Arthur Davis,
Systems Integration and Development Branch, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555, telephone (301) 415-5780; e-mail
AXD3@nrc.gov. For more information on the draft regulatory guides,
contact E.O. Woolridge, telephone (301) 415-6004; e-mail [email protected]
Although a time limit is given for comments on these draft guides,
comments and suggestions in connection with items for inclusion in
guides currently being developed or improvements in all published
guides are encouraged at any time.
Regulatory guides are available for inspection at the Commission's
Public Document Room, 2120 L Street NW., Washington, DC. Requests for
single copies of active or draft guides (which may be reproduced) or
for placement on an automatic distribution list for single copies of
future draft guides in specific divisions should be made in writing to
the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555,
Attention: Distribution and Mail Services Section. Telephone requests
cannot be accommodated. Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and
Commission approval is not required to reproduce them.
(5 U.S.C. 552(a))
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 28th day of April 1997.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Lawrence C. Shao,
Director, Division of Engineering Technology, Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 97-12363 Filed 5-9-97; 8:45 am]
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