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NRC NEWS

 U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 

 Office of Public Affairs Telephone: 301/415-8200

 Washington, DC 20555-001 E-mail: opa@nrc.gov 

 Web Site: http://www.nrc.gov/OPA

No. 04-036 March 25, 2004

NRC STAFF ISSUES DRAFT LETTER, CONCERNING POTENTIAL

REACTOR CONTAINMENT SUMP ISSUE, FOR PUBLIC COMMENT

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff has issued for public comment a draft letter asking

operators of pressurized water reactors (PWR) for information related to a component of a safety-related

water recirculation system called a containment sump.

 Operating experience at boiling water reactors, as well as recent research, has indicated debris

from certain pipe-break accidents inside a containment building could potentially block PWR sumps. 

The letter asks PWR operators to document how their plants’ long-term reactor core cooling

requirements would be met under accident conditions, given the potential for sump blockage.

Interested members of the public have 60 days from the issuance of a notice in the Federal

Register, expected shortly, to comment on the draft letter. The NRC staff plans to hold a public

meeting in the spring to further explain the rationale for the letter and to gather comments. Meeting

details will be published as soon as they are available. The staff expects to issue the final Generic

Letter later this summer.

The draft Generic Letter is available electronically through the NRC’s Agencywide Documents

Access and Management System (ADAMS) on the NRC web site at:

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams/web-based.html , by entering accession number ML040830518. 

Help in using ADAMS is available from the NRC’s Public Document Room at 800/397-4209 or 

301/415-4737.

The NRC web site also contains a section dealing with staff activities on the PWR containment

sump issue, available at this address:

http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/ops-experience/pwr-sump-performance.html .

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§ 179.102 Delegation of authority. ( a ) The Chief Financial Officer and his or her delegates are designated by the Director and authorized to perform all the duties for which the Director is responsible under the Debt Collection Act of 1982 and Office of Personnel Management regulations with the exception of debts arising from the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, the Employees' Life Insurance Fund, the Retired Federal Employees Health Benefits Act (74 Stat. 849), and the Employees Health Benefits Fund. However, the Chief Financial Officer and his or her delegates will request a review by the General Counsel or his or her designee for all claims processed (in amounts of $2500 or more) for compromise, suspension, and termination of collection action.
( b ) The Associate Director for Retirement and Insurance and his or her delegates are designated by the Director and authorized to perform all the duties for which the Director is responsible under the Debt Collection Act of 1982 and Office of Personnel Management regulations on debts caused by payments from the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund (subchapter III of chapter 83 or chapter 84), claims under the provisions of the Federal Employees' Life Insurance Fund (chapter 87), the Retired Federal Employees Health Benefits Act (74 Stat. 849), the Employees Health Benefits Fund (chapter 89), the Panama Canal Construction Annuity Act (58 Stat. 257), and, the Lighthouse Service Widows' Annuity Act (64 Stat. 465).
[59 FR 35216, July 11, 1994]
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###### Department of Transportation

###### Federal Aviation Administration

          - 14 CFR Part 71
          - [Docket No. FAA-2003-16503; Airspace Docket No. 03-ACE-87]

# AGENCY:

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT. 

# ACTION:

Direct final rule; confirmation of effective date. 

# SUMMARY:

This document confirms the effective date of the direct final rule which revises Class E airspace at Winterset, IA.

# EFFECTIVE DATE:

0901 UTC, April 15, 2004. 

# FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Kathy Randolph, Air Traffic Division, Airspace Branch, ACE-520C, DOT Regional Headquarters Building, Federal Aviation Administration, 901 Locust, Kansas City, MO 64106; telephone: (816) 329-2525.

# SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

                    The FAA published this direct final rule with a request for comments in the                     **Federal Register**                     on December 3, 2003 (68 FR 67590) and subsequently published a correction to the direct final rule on December 15, 2003 (68 FR 69599). The FAA uses the direct final rulemaking procedure for a non-controversial rule where the FAA believes that there will be no adverse public comment. This direct final rule advised the public that no adverse comments were anticipated, and that unless a written adverse comment, or a written notice of intent to submit such an adverse comment, were received within the comment period, the regulation would become effective on April 15, 2004. No adverse comments were received, and thus this notice confirms that this direct final rule will become effective on that date.                

Issued in Kansas City, MO, on January 21, 2004.

Paul J. Sheridan,

Acting Manager, Air Traffic Division, Central Region.

[FR Doc. 04-2443  Filed 2-4-04; 8:45 am]

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NRC NEWS

 U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 

 Office of Public Affairs Telephone: 301/415-8200

 Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 E-mail: opa@nrc.gov 

 Web Site: http://www.nrc.gov/OPA

No. 05-101 July 13, 2005

NRC APPROVES EXPEDITED PROCEDURES FOR PERMITTING 

HIGHER DOSE LIMITS FOR PATIENT CAREGIVERS

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved new procedures for permitting visitors to

patients receiving nuclear medicine or brachytherapy to receive radiation doses above current

regulatory limits if warranted by the patient’s needs. 

Members of the public visiting patients who are undergoing nuclear medicine or brachytherapy

procedures receive radiation doses from radiation emanating from the patient. The actual dose depends

on many factors, including the medical procedure involved, the frequency and duration of the visits,

proximity to the patient and the extent of the visitor’s involvement in the patient’s care.

Under NRC regulations, the permissible annual radiation dose to any member of the public,

including hospital visitors, is 0.1 rem (100 millirem). Visitors to patients who cannot be discharged

under NRC regulations are permitted to receive a dose of up to 0.5 rem (500 millirem) under certain

circumstances. (For comparison, the average annual dose from natural sources to an individual in the

United States is about 0.3 rem, or 300 millirem.)

Two recent cases involving exposures of visitors have shown that these limits are not sufficient

to take certain patient needs into account. When a family member or friend becomes a caregiver and is

actively involved in the patient’s care, a hospital licensee trying to enforce the regulatory dose limits

may be forced to choose between risking potential NRC enforcement action by violating the regulatory

limits or compromising the patient’s care to minimize the caregiver’s dose.

Currently, licensees may request emergency, case-specific exemptions from NRC regulations

for these situations, asking the NRC staff to determine an allowable dose above the regulatory limit.

This approach lacks standard procedures for granting exemptions and may not always ensure proper

control of the caregiver’s exposures. 

The new procedures approved by the Commission would allow the licensee to determine a dose

limit based on the conditions of a particular case and establish standard procedures for requesting and

granting an expedited license exemption. Caregivers would be given instruction in how to limit their

exposure. NRC Regional offices will have authority to grant expedited exemptions for limits up to 5

rem, provided the licensee submits sufficient justification. Requests for limits above 5 rem will require

special justification by the licensee and additional review by the agency’s Office of Nuclear Materials

Safety and Safeguards.
The NRC staff expects to issue a Regulatory Issues Summary on the new procedures, including

guidance on their implementation, by mid-2006. Until then, the current procedures for requesting an

exemption from the regulatory requirement remain in effect.

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NRC NEWS

 U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 

 Office of Public Affairs Telephone: 301/415-8200

 Washington, DC 20555-001 E-mail: opa@nrc.gov 

 Web Site: http://www.nrc.gov/OPA

No. 04-065 May 28, 2004

NRC ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF LICENSE RENEWAL

 APPLICATION FOR NINE MILE POINT NUCLEAR STATION, UNITS 1 AND 2

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced today that copies of an application for a 20-

year renewal of the operating licenses for Units 1 and 2 at the Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station are

available to interested parties. The licensee, Constellation Energy Group, submitted the application on

May 27.

The Nine Mile Point plant is located near Oswego, N.Y., and the current operating licenses for

Units 1 and 2 expire on August 22, 2009, and October 31, 2026, respectively.

The application is available on the NRC Web site at this address:

http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal/applications.html . 

In addition, a copy of the license renewal application will be available at the Penfield Library

Reference and Document Department, State University of New York, in Oswego.

The NRC staff is currently conducting an initial review of the application to determine whether

it contains enough information for the required formal review. If the application has sufficient

information, the NRC will formally “docket,” or file, the application and will announce an opportunity

to request a public hearing.

For further information, contact Rajender Auluck, Division of Regulatory Improvement

Programs, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Mail Stop

O11-F1, Washington, DC 20555; telephone (301) 415-1025.

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### §439b. Repealed. Pub. L. 96–187, title I, §105(1), Jan. 8, 1980, 93 Stat. 1354

Section, Pub. L. 92–225, title III, §318, formerly §319, as added Pub. L. 93–443, title II, §210, Oct. 15, 1974, 88 Stat. 1289; renumbered §318, Pub. L. 94–283, title I, §105, May 11, 1976, 90 Stat. 481, set forth prohibitions respecting franked solicitations.

#### **Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries**

#### Effective Date of Repeal

Repeal effective Jan. 8, 1980, see section 301(a) of Pub. L. 96–187, set out as an Effective Date of 1980 Amendment note under section 30101 of Title 52, Voting and Elections.