Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 55 / Tuesday, March 22, 2011 / Notices 16017 

Briefing on Small Modular Reactors 

(Public Meeting) (Contact: 

Stephanie Coffin, 301–415–6877) 

This meeting will be webcast live at 

the Web address—http://www.nrc.gov 

Thursday, March 31, 2011 

2:30 p.m. 

Discussion of Management Issues 

(Closed-Ex. 2) 

Week of April 4, 2011—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the week of April 4, 2011. 

Week of April 11, 2011—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the week of April 11, 2011. 

Week of April 18, 2011—Tentative 

Tuesday, April 19, 2011 

9 a.m. 

Briefing on Source Security—Part 37 

Rulemaking—Physical Protection of 

Byproduct Material (Public 

Meeting) (Contact: Merri Horn, 301– 

415–8126) 

This meeting will be webcast live at 

the Web address—http://www.nrc.gov 

Week of April 25, 2011—Tentative 

Thursday, April 28, 2011 

9 a.m. 

Information Briefing on Inspections, 

Tests, Analyses, and Acceptance 

Criteria (ITAAC) (Public Meeting) 

(Contact: Aida Rivera-Varona, 301– 

415–4001) 

This meeting will be webcast live at 

the Web address—http://www.nrc.gov 

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*The schedule for Commission 

meetings is subject to change on short 

notice. To verify the status of meetings, 

call (recording)—(301) 415–1292. 

Contact person for more information: 

Rochelle Bavol, (301) 415–1651. 

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The NRC Commission Meeting 

Schedule can be found on the Internet 

at:http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/ 

public-meetings/schedule.html. 

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The NRC provides reasonable 

accommodation to individuals with 

disabilities where appropriate. If you 

need a reasonable accommodation to 

participate in these public meetings, or 

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Branch, at 301–415–6200, TDD: 301– 

415–2100, or by e-mail at 

william.dosch@nrc.gov. Determinations 

on requests for reasonable 

accommodation will be made on a caseby-case basis. 

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Dated: March 17, 2011. 

Rochelle C. Bavol, 

Policy Coordinator, Office of the Secretary. 

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[NRC–2011–0062] 

Withdrawal of Regulatory Guide 8.5 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Withdrawal of Regulatory Guide 

8.5, ‘‘Criticality and Other Interior 

Evacuation Signals.’’ 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sheena A. Whaley, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Office of 

Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, 

Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and 

Safeguards, Technical Support Branch, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, telephone: 

301–492–3200; or by e-mail to 

Sheena.Whaley@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is withdrawing 

Regulatory Guide 8.5, ‘‘Criticality and 

Other Interior Evacuation Signals,’’ 

Revision 1, issued March 1981. 

Regulatory Guide 8.5 endorses the 

American National Standards Institute/ 

American Nuclear Society (ANSI/ANS) 

Standard N2.3–1979 ‘‘Immediate 

Evacuation Signal for Use in Industrial 

Installations,’’ published September 13, 

1979. 

In 1986, the ANS Standards 

Subcommittee combined ANSI/ANS– 

N2.3–1979 with ANSI/ANS–8.3–1986, 

‘‘Criticality Accident Alarm System’’ and 

withdrew ANSI/ANS–N2.3–1979. In 

December 2010 the NRC issued Revision 

2 of Regulatory Guide 3.71, ‘‘Nuclear 

Criticality Safety Standards for Fuels 

and Material Facilities’’ which endorses 

multiple ANSI/ANS standards 

including ANSI/ANS–8.3–1997, 

(Reaffirmed in 2003). 

The combining of ANSI/ANS–N2.3 

and ANSI/ANS–8.3 by the ANS and the 

endorsement of ANSI/ANS–8.3 by the 

NRC in Revision 2 of Regulatory Guide 

3.71 has made Regulatory Guide 8.5 

unnecessary. Consequently, the NRC is 

withdrawing it and recommends using 

the guidance in ANSI/ANS–8.3–1997 as 

endorsed with exceptions by Revision 2 

of Regulatory Guide 3.71 instead. 

II. Further Information 

The withdrawal of Regulatory Guide 

8.5 does not alter any prior or existing 

licensing commitments based on their 

use. The guidance provided in this 

regulatory guide is no longer necessary. 

Regulatory guides may be withdrawn 

when their guidance no longer provides 

useful information, or is superseded by 

technological, congressional actions, or 

other events. 

Guides are revised for a variety of 

reasons, and the withdrawal of a 

regulatory guide should be thought of as 

the final revision of the guide. Although 

a regulatory guide is withdrawn, current 

licensees may continue to use it, and 

withdrawal does not affect any existing 

licenses or agreements. Withdrawal 

means that the guide should not be used 

for future NRC licensing activities. 

Changes to existing licenses can be 

accomplished using other regulatory 

products. 

Regulatory guides and publicly 

available NRC documents are available 

electronically through the Electronic 

Reading Room on the NRC’s public Web 

site at: http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

doc-collections/. The documents can 

also be viewed on-line for free or 

printed for a fee in the NRC’s Public 

Document Room (PDR) at 11555 

Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD; the 

mailing address is USNRC PDR, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

301–415–4737, or 1–800–397–4209; fax 

301–415–3548; or by e-mail to 

pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 

Regulatory guides are not 

copyrighted, and NRC approval is not 

required to reproduce them. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 3rd day 

of February, 2011. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Thomas H. Boyce, 

Branch Chief, Regulatory Guide Development 

Branch, Division of Engineering, Office of 

Nuclear Regulatory Research. 

[FR Doc. 2011–6665 Filed 3–21–11; 8:45 am] 

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