[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 158 (Wednesday, August 16, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42629-42630]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-20240]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Performance Testing of Electronic Personnel Dosimeters:
Availability
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a draft report NUREG/
CR-6354 entitled ``Performance Testing of Electronic Personnel
Dosimeters'' for review and comment.
The draft report discusses the use and applications of Electronic
Personnel Dosimeters (EPDs) for incremental dose control and use as
primary dosimeters for determination of the official dose for
individuals. EPDs have been used as secondary or supplemental
dosimeters for several years and presently being considered for use as
primary dosimeters in place of the commonly used film badges and
thermoluminescent dosimeters (TLDs). The authors of this report feel
that consideration of EPDs as primary dosimeters is currently in the
evolutionary phase, and point out that the EPD is not only a dosimeter,
but in addition is an electronic device, subject to radio frequency,
microwave, and electric fields and various environmental conditions.
The authors feel that side-by-side testing of EPDs and conventional
dosimeters are needed, both in the workplace and under laboratory
controlled conditions, that a type-testing program is needed for EPDs,
and lastly, that user guidelines be developed for their use as primary
dosimeters.
Draft NUREG/CR-6354 is available for inspection and copying for a
fee at the NRC Public Document Room, 2120 L Street NW. (Lower Level),
Washington DC 20555-0001. A free single copy of Draft NUREG/CR-6354, to
the extent of the supply, may be requested by writing to Distribution
Services, Printing and Mail Services Branch, Office of Administration,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
Submit comments on draft NUREG/CR-6354 by (90 days after
publication date). Mail comments to: Chief, Rules Review and Directives
Branch, Division of Freedom of Information and Publication Services,
Mail Stop T-6 D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001. Comments may be hand-delivered to 11545 Rockville Pike,
Maryland between 7:45 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. on Federal workdays.
Comments may also 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
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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 terminal emulation, the NRC NUREG and Reg Guide Comments
subsystem can then be accessed by selecting the ``NRC 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; Telnet via
Internet: fedworld.gov (192.239.92.3); File Transfer Protocol (FTP) via
Internet: ftp.fedworld.gov (192.239.92.205); and World Wide Web using:
http://www.fedworld.gov (this is the Uniform Resource Locator (URL)).
If using a method other than the toll free number 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 can also 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 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 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.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 4th day of August, 1995.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Sher Bahadur, Chief
Waste Management Branch, Division of Regulatory Applications, Office of
Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 95-20240 Filed 8-15-95; 8:45 am]
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