[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 171 (Thursday, September 3, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 47046]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-23813]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Regulatory Guide; Issuance, Availability
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a new guide 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 Commission'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.
Regulatory Guide 3.71, ``Nuclear Criticality Safety Standards for
Fuels and Material Facilities,'' has been developed to provide guidance
on procedures for preventing nuclear criticality accidents in
operations involving handling, processing, storing, and transporting
special nuclear material at fuels and material facilities. This guide
endorses specific ANSI/ANS-8 nuclear criticality safety standards of
the American National Standards Institute/American Nuclear Society for
these purposes. The guide also consolidates and replaces the guidance
from a number of regulatory guides, thereby withdrawing those
regulatory guides. Regulatory Guide 3.71 is not intended to be used by
nuclear reactor licensees.
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. Written comments may be submitted to
the Rules and Directives Branch, Division of Administrative Services,
Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555.
Regulatory guides are available for inspection at the Commission's
Public Document Room, 2120 L Street NW., Washington, DC. Single copies
of regulatory guides may be obtained free of charge by writing the
Office of Administration, Attention: Printing, Graphics and
Distribution Branch, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001, or by fax at (301)415-2260. Issued guides may also be
purchased from the National Technical Information Service on a standing
order basis. Details on this service may be obtained by writing NTIS,
5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA 22161. 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 18th day of August 1998.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Ashok C. Thadani,
Director, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 98-23813 Filed 9-2-98; 8:45 am]
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