[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 173 (Monday, September 8, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 47232]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-23698]
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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 3.70, ``Use of Fixed Neutron Absorbers at Fuels
and Materials Facilities,'' provides guidance that is acceptable to the
NRC staff on procedures for preventing criticality accidents by using
fixed neutron absorbers in operations involving handling, storing, and
transporting special nuclear fuels at fuels and materials facilities.
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, both active and draft guides, may be obtained
free of charge by writing the Office of Administration, Attn: Printing,
Graphics and Distribution Branch, USNRC, Washington, DC 20555-0001, or
by fax at (301) 415-5272. 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 9th day of August 1997.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Malcolm R. Knapp,
Acting Director, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 97-23698 Filed 9-5-97; 8:45 am]
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