CONTENTS

1 ESTABLISHMENT OF THE U.S. NUCLEAR

REGULATORY COMMISSION............................................... 1

2 OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT .............. 3

3 INFORMATION ABOUT NRC

REGULATORY PROGRAMS ................................................... 5

3.1 Nuclear Reactors.......................................................................... 5

3.2 Nuclear Materials ........................................................................ 5

3.3 Radioactive Waste........................................................................ 6

3.4 Decommissioning ........................................................................ 7

3.5 Enforcement ................................................................................ 8

3.6 Common Defense and Security ................................................... 8

3.7 Nuclear Research ......................................................................... 8

3.8 International Activities and Non-Proliferation ............................. 9

3.9 Office of the Inspector General .................................................... 9

4 DEVELOPMENT OF NRC REGULATIONS........................ 11

4.1 The Federal Register.................................................................... 11

4.2 Petitions for Rulemaking ........................................................... 12

4.3 National Codes and Standards ................................................... 12

5 NRC STAKEHOLDERS .......................................................... 13

5.1 The Public and the Media ......................................................... 13

5.2 The Congress ............................................................................. 13

5.3 NRC Licensees .......................................................................... 13

5.4 Other Federal Agencies and Departments .................................. 13

5.5 Federal, State, Tribal, and Local Organizations .......................... 14

5.6 Industry and Its Workers ........................................................... 15

5.7 International Community .......................................................... 15

This Citizen’s Guide provides an overview of the U.S. Nuclear

Regulatory Commission, the information we produce, and how to

obtain it. To learn more about our programs and activities, visit

our Web site at http://www.nrc.gov. For information about all U.S.

Government organizations, services, and activities, select FIRSTGOV

from NRC’s home page on our Web site.
6 AGENCY INFORMATION .................................................... 17

6.1 Regulatory Guides ..................................................................... 17

6.2 Generic Communications .......................................................... 18

6.3 NUREG–Series Publications ..................................................... 18

6.3.1 Licensing and Other Safety Reviews .......................................... 19

6.3.2 Operational Information ........................................................... 20

6.3.3 Regulatory Decisions ................................................................. 21

6.3.4 Public Participation ................................................................... 21

6.4 News Releases, Speeches, and Fact Sheets .................................. 22

6.5 Contracts ................................................................................... 22

6.6 Forms ........................................................................................ 23

7 INFORMATION SYSTEMS ................................................... 25

7.1 Agencywide Documents Access and Management System ......... 25

7.2 World Wide Web Site ............................................................... 25

7.3 The NRC Government Information Locator Service ................. 25

8 SOURCES OF INFORMATION ............................................ 27

8.1 Within the NRC ....................................................................... 27

8.1.1 The Public Document Room..................................................... 27

8.1.2 The Office of Public Affairs ....................................................... 27

8.1.3 Commission Meetings, Documents, and Programs .................... 28

8.1.4 Hearing Records (Dockets) for Regulatory Proceedings ............. 30

8.1.5 Public Meeting Notices ............................................................. 30

8.1.6 Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act Requests .............. 30

8.1.7 The Technical Library ............................................................... 31

8.2 Outside the NRC ...................................................................... 32

8.2.1 Radiation Safety Information Computational Center ................ 32

8.2.2 U.S. Government Printing Office .............................................. 32

8.2.3 National Technical Information Service .................................... 32

8.2.4 Energy Science and Technology Software Center....................... 33

8.2.5 Office of Scientific and Technical Information .......................... 33

9 Endnotes – Sources of NRC Information .................................. 35
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ESTABLISHMENT OF THE U.S. NUCLEAR

REGULATORY COMMISSION

Congress established the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

(NRC) as an independent agency in January 1975 by passing the

Energy Reorganization Act of 1974. This Act, along with provisions

in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, gave NRC a mandate

to assume from the former Atomic Energy Commission the responsibility for regulating various commercial, industrial, academic, and

medical uses of nuclear materials and nuclear energy.

The NRC’s mission is to regulate the Nation’s civilian use of

byproduct, source, and special nuclear materials to ensure the

adequate protection of public health and safety, to promote the

common defense and security, and to protect the environment.

The NRC’s regulatory mission covers three major areas:

• Nuclear Reactors: Commercial reactors for generating

electric power and non-power reactors used for research,

testing, and training and for decommissioning of nuclear

facilities from service.

• Nuclear Materials: Use of materials in medical, industrial,

and academic settings and in facilities that produce nuclear fuel.

• Radioactive Waste: Transportation, storage, and disposal

of radioactive waste.

For example, NRC regulates (1) over 100 commercial nuclear power

plants that provide about 20 percent of the nation’s electricity; (2)

over 45 fuel cycle facilities involved in the extraction, processing, and

fabrication of uranium into reactor fuel; (3) approximately 5,000

large and small users of nuclear material for industrial, medical, or

academic purposes; and (4) low-level and high-level waste facilities,

interim storage of spent nuclear fuel, containers used in the transportation of radioactive material, and decommissioning of nuclear facilities.

Congress has passed other acts affecting NRC’s regulation of civilian

uses of nuclear energy; these acts are published in a compact disk or

in two volumes titled “Nuclear Regulatory Legislation” (NUREG–

0980).1

 * Select Who We Are, then Governing Legislation on our

Web site at http://www.nrc.gov for summaries or complete versions

of this legislation.

*Endnote 1 is the first of a number of Endnotes found in Section 9 at the end of

this guide that list the sources for NRC information.

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OPPORTUNITIES FOR

PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT

The NRC places a high priority on keeping its stakeholders—the

general public, Congress, NRC licensees, other Federal agencies,

States, Indian Tribes, local governments, nuclear industry managers

and workers, and the international community—informed of its

activities. (See also Section 5, “NRC Stakeholders.”) See the latest

volume of “NRC’s Performance and Accountability Report”

(NUREG-1542) to learn more about our goals and how well we have

met them.

Public involvement in the NRC’s activities is a cornerstone of appropriate regulation of the nuclear industry. The NRC recognizes the

public’s interest in the safe regulation of nuclear activities and publishes information about the regulatory process and opportunities for

citizens to make their opinions known in the rulemaking, licensing,

enforcement, and hearing processes as well as in public meetings.

NRC’s public meetings of the Advisory Committees on Reactor

Safeguards, Nuclear Waste, and Medical Uses of Isotopes serve as

independent forums for the public to articulate opinions and concerns about various issues facing the Commission. The NRC solicits

public involvement early in the regulatory process so that safety

concerns can be resolved in a timely and practical manner. This process

is considered vital to assuring the public that the NRC is making sound,

balanced decisions about nuclear safety in a fair manner.

See NRC’s policy on meetings open to the public by selecting Public

Involvement on our home page, then Frequently Asked Questions

About Public Meetings. For more information, see “Public Involvement in the Nuclear Regulatory Process” (NUREG/BR-0215) by

selecting Electronic Reading Room on our home page, then Collection of Documents by Type. See also Section 6.3.4 in this guide.

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INFORMATION ABOUT NRC

REGULATORY PROGRAMS

3.1 Nuclear Reactors

The NRC licenses and inspects commercial nuclear power plants to

ensure that they operate safely and securely. Approximately one-fifth

of the Nation’s electricity is generated by 103 commercial nuclear

reactors in 31 States. NRC’s reactor oversight process uses a variety

of tools to monitor and evaluate the performance of commercial

nuclear power plants and focuses on those plant activities most

important to safety.

NRC continues to regulate nuclear reactors after they are permanently shut down and decommissioned within 60 years of shutdown.

Decommissioning removes a facility or site safely from service and

reduces residual radioactivity to a level that permits either—

• release of the property for unrestricted use and termination of

the license or

• release of the property under restricted conditions and termination of the license.

During the reactor decommissioning process, NRC conducts inspections, processes license amendments (including approval of the

License Termination Plan), and monitors the status of activities to

ensure that radioactive contamination and exposure are minimized.

3.2 Nuclear Materials

The NRC licenses and inspects 21 nuclear fuel cycle facilities, 23

uranium recovery facilities, 2 gaseous diffusion enrichment facilities,

and 1 mixed-oxide fuel fabrication facility. Seven major facilities are

licensed to operate in six States, and the gaseous diffusion facilities are

certified to operate in Paducah, Kentucky, and Piketon, Ohio.

The NRC and Agreement States license and inspect over 21,000

licensees who use radioactive material for—

• medical diagnosis and therapy,

• medical and biological research,

• academic training and research,

• industrial gauges,

• nondestructive testing,

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• production of radiopharmaceuticals, and

• fabrication of commercial products

(e.g., smoke detectors, other sealed sources and devices).

Of the 21,000 licensees, the NRC regulates approximately 5,000. The

remaining licensees are regulated by the 32 States that participate in the

NRC Agreement States Program. An Agreement State is one that has

signed an agreement with the NRC to regulate the use of some radioactive materials within the State’s borders. To learn more, select What We

Do on our home page, then State and Tribal Programs.

About 3 million packages of radioactive materials are shipped each

year in the United States, either by highway, rail, air, or water.

Regulating the safety of these shipments is the joint responsibility of

the NRC and the Department of Transportation (DOT). The NRC

establishes requirements for the design and manufacture of packages

for radioactive materials. The DOT regulates the shipments while

they are in transit and sets standards for labeling these packages and

for smaller quantity packages. Over the last 30 years, over 1,000

shipments of commercially generated spent nuclear fuel have been

made throughout the United States without causing any radiological

releases to the environment or harm to the public. To learn more,

see our brochure, “The Regulation and Use of Radioisotopes in

Todays World” (NUREG/BR-0217) in our Electronic Reading

Room, or select Nuclear Materials on our home page, then Materials

Transportation.

3.3 Radioactive Waste

Low-level waste. The NRC and Agreement States regulate low-level

radioactive waste disposal facilities. The facilities must be designed,

constructed, and operated to meet safety standards, and the operator

must analyze how the facility will perform a thousand years into the

future. Low-level waste includes items, such as rags, filters, needles,

and animal tissue that have become contaminated with radioactive

material or have become radioactive through exposure to neutron

radiation. It is typically stored on the nuclear plant site by owners

licensed by the NRC, either until its radioactivity levels have been

significantly reduced and can be disposed of as ordinary trash or until

amounts are large enough for shipment to one of three U.S. low-level

waste disposal sites in containers approved by the DOT and the NRC.
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To learn more, see our brochure, “Radioactive Waste: Production,

Storage, Disposal” (NUREG/BR–0216) in the Electronic Reading

Room of our Web site.

High-level waste. High-level radioactive waste is mostly the highly

radioactive material produced as a byproduct of the reactions that

occur inside nuclear reactors. It is principally spent (used) reactor

fuel. The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (NWPA) and its

amendments (1987) outline a detailed approach for the disposal of

high-level radioactive waste. The NWPA gave the Department of

Energy (DOE) responsibility for constructing and operating a highlevel waste repository. It gave the NRC responsibility for regulating

all construction and operational activities for the repository. The

NRC certifies spent fuel storage and transport cask designs and

licenses the interim storage of spent fuel at site-specific reactor or

away-from-reactor sites. The disposal of high-level radioactive waste

requires a determination of acceptable health and environmental

impacts over thousands of years.

Current plans call for the ultimate disposal of the waste in solid form

in a licensed deep, geologic repository. The NWPA amendments

directed DOE to investigate only one potential high-level waste

repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. On July 23, 2002, the

President signed a joint resolution from Congress that permits the

DOE to submit a license application seeking NRC’s authorization to

construct a repository at Yucca Mountain. The DOE intends to

submit a license application to NRC in December 2004.

The NRC will issue a license to DOE only if DOE can demonstrate that

it can construct and operate a repository safely and comply with NRC’s

regulations.

3.4 Decommissioning

NRC has a program for decommissioning of materials and fuel cycle

facilities similar to that used for nuclear reactor facilities. Approximately

300 materials licenses are terminated each year. Some facilities require

more complex decommissioning activities for timely cleanup of unusual

and difficult sites, particularly those with a great deal of soil contamination or with old, contaminated buildings. In addition, NRC is responsible for overseeing the cleanup of formerly licensed, contaminated sites.

To learn more about decommissioning, select Nuclear Reactors on our

home page, then Reactor Decommissioning, or select Nuclear Materials, then Materials Decommissioning.
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3.5 Enforcement

The NRC uses enforcement action as part of its regulatory oversight

program to emphasize to licensees the importance of complying with

NRC regulations and to encourage prompt identification and correction of these violations. Violations are identified through inspections

and investigations and are subject to civil enforcement action, such as

fines, and may also be subject to criminal prosecution. To learn

more, on our home page at http://www.nrc.gov, select, What We Do,

then Enforcement.

3.6 Common Defense and Security

Part of the NRC’s mission concerns promotion of the common

defense and security. Hence, NRC imposes regulations and license

requirements aimed at protecting nuclear facilities from sabotage and

special nuclear material from theft and diversion. Following the

events of September 11, 2001, NRC further stepped up security

measures for NRC licensees. To learn more, select What We Do on

our home page, then Nuclear Security and Safeguards.

3.7 Nuclear Research

The NRC conducts a wide range of research and technical studies to

(1) support realistic safety and security decision-making, (2) assess the

safety significance of potential technical issues, and (3) prepare the agency

for the future by evaluating potential safety issues involving new reactor

designs and technology. The research program focuses on—

• reviewing emerging technologies (e.g., digital instrumentation

and control systems),

• understanding and resolving nuclear plant aging issues arising

out of operating experience,

• decommissioning licensed facilities,

• understanding the risks associated with nuclear facilities,

including independent reviews of operating experience to

identify potential safety concerns,

• providing the technical basis to support the NRC’s move

toward using more risk insights in its regulations, and

• participating in numerous joint international safety

research agreements.
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The results of this research are often published in a NUREG–series

report. To learn more, see “Nuclear Research Programs To Ensure

Public Health and Safety” (NUREG/BR–0282) in the Electronic

Reading Room or on our home page, select What We Do, then

Research under Support for Decisions.

3.8 International Activities and Non-Proliferation

The NRC participates in a wide range of mutually beneficial programs to exchange health and safety information with counterparts in

the international community and to enhance the safety and security

of peaceful nuclear activities worldwide. Among NRC’s international

activities are the—

• licensing of imports and exports for nuclear facilities, equipment, materials, and related commodities;

• development of legal instruments addressing issues such as

non-proliferation, nuclear safety, spent fuel, and waste management;

• collaboration in numerous international and joint research

projects on nuclear safety; and

• maintenance of arrangements with counterpart foreign

national regulatory organizations for information exchange.

To learn more, on our home page at http://www.nrc.gov, select

What We Do, then International Programs.

3.9 Office of the Inspector General

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the NRC was established on April 15, 1989. The Inspector General reports to and

serves under the administrative supervision of the NRC Chairman,

but operates with personnel and contracting and budget authority

independent of the NRC. This office is statutorily mandated to

promote the economy and efficiency of NRC’s programs and operations and to detect and prevent fraud and abuse, should it occur, in

these programs and operations. To fulfill its mandate, the OIG

conducts and supervises audits and investigations. It also reviews

and comments on existing and proposed regulations and legislation.

The OIG operates a confidential, toll-free hotline (1-800-233-3497)

to which individuals may report incidents of possible fraud, waste,

and abuse in the agency.
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DEVELOPMENT OF

NRC REGULATIONS

When Congress enacts legislation to create a Federal agency, it

provides general authority for the agency to perform its mission.

One way the NRC more specifically accomplishes this mission is by

issuing regulations. The process of developing regulations is called

rulemaking. A regulation is sometimes referred to as a rule. The

NRC’s regulations are found in Chapter I of Title 10, “Energy,”

of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). Chapter I is divided into

Parts 1 through 199. These regulations are binding on all persons

and organizations who are regulated by the NRC in the possession

of nuclear materials or the operation of nuclear facilities. To see Title 10

of the CFR, select Electronic Reading Room on our home page, Collections of Documents by Type, then Regulations (10 CFR).

4.1 The Federal Register

The Federal Register (see Section 9, Endnote 2) is the official

publication used by all Federal agencies to inform the public

of various actions that the government is considering. It is

published each Federal workday (access the Federal Register at

http:/www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html). The NRC publishes

proposed and final rules, advanced notices of proposed rulemakings,

policy statements, memoranda of understanding, petitions for

rulemaking, general notices, and announcements informing the

public of NRC actions. The NRC also publishes a semiannual

agenda of its regulatory activity (NUREG–0936).

Most NRC rulemakings are initiated by the NRC staff or the Commission, although a member of the public may petition the NRC to

develop, change, or rescind any of its regulations (see Petitions for

Rulemaking in this section). Most rulemakings provide the public

with at least one opportunity to comment on a proposed rule.

After a draft proposed rule is developed, the Commission decides

whether to approve it for publication in the Federal Register to obtain

public comment. A published notice includes an NRC point of

contact for the rule and the address to which you may send comments on the rule. The NRC may also hold public meetings and

workshops to discuss the proposed rule and receive further comments. To access all proposed rulemakings published in the Federal

Register and to submit your comments electronically, use Web address

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http://ruleforum.llnl.gov then select Draft Rule Text for Comment

in the left-side tool bar under Related Documents. The NRC considers

electronically submitted comments in the same way that it considers

mailed or hand-delivered comments.

4.2 Petitions for Rulemaking

Anyone may petition the NRC to issue, amend, or rescind a regulation (see 10 CFR 2.802, “Petitions for Rulemaking”). Before filing a

petition, you are encouraged to contact the NRC’s Rules and Directives Branch3

 in the Office of Administration about the process. The

NRC is permitted to—

• describe the procedure and process for filing and responding

to a petition for rulemaking,

• clarify an existing NRC regulation and the basis for the

regulation, and

• assist you in clarifying a potential petition so that the

Commission is able to understand the nature of the issues

of concern.

4.3 National Codes and Standards

NRC regulations and regulatory guides may incorporate or endorse

national codes and standards developed by professional societies, such

as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. NRC has assembled a reference collection consisting of codes and standards in

current use. The collection may be consulted by appointment at the

NRC Technical Library.4

 Copying of most codes and standards is

restricted because they are copyrighted. Recognizing that participation in standards development improves the effectiveness and efficiency of the regulatory process, Federal law stipulates that Federal

agencies participate in the development and use of consensus standards. To learn more, select What We Do on our home page, then

Standards Development under Regulations and Guidance.
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NRC

STAKEHOLDERS

5.1 The Public and the Media

The NRC recognizes the public’s interest in the safe regulation of

nuclear activities and provides opportunities for citizens to participate

in meetings and regulatory proceedings, ask questions about nuclear

regulation, and make their opinions known. The media is kept

informed of major NRC actions primarily through news releases.

Fact sheets and brochures are also good sources of information

for both the public and the media. For types of information not

specifically described in this “Citizen’s Guide,” members of the

public and the media may write, call, or e-mail the Office of Public

Affairs5 (OPA).

5.2 The Congress

The NRC keeps Congress fully and currently informed of its activities. Members of the Commission and NRC senior staff regularly

provide information to Congress and reply to inquiries from various

committees of the House and Senate and to Members of Congress

who are interested in aspects of NRC’s responsibilities. NRC’s Office

of Congressional Affairs6 is the focal point for NRC communications

with Congress. To learn more, select What We Do on our home page,

then Congressional Affairs.

5.3 NRC Licensees

The NRC strives to conduct an efficient and effective regulatory

program and has established strategic and performance goals for

doing so in regulating the current licensees. To learn more, select

Nuclear Reactors, Nuclear Materials, or Radioactive Waste on our

home page.

5.4 Other Federal Agencies and Departments

The NRC produces reports jointly with other agencies and departments, participates in task forces and interagency committees to share

information about specific regulatory issues of mutual importance,

and has memoranda of understanding with various other Federal

agencies. Other cooperative interagency activities are also carried out

with other regulatory bodies such as the Environmental Protection

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Agency or the Department of Transportation. For example, the staff

and the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards reviewed the

nuclear propulsion system for the Virginia class submarine for DOE

under a reimbursable agreement, and the NRC is assisting DOE in

the review of transportation container designs for the return of spent

nuclear fuel from foreign research reactors.

5.5 Federal, State, Tribal, and Local Organizations

While NRC’s contacts with States are far-reaching and involve

activities of many of the agency’s offices, as well as the Commission

itself, NRC’s program of cooperation with Federal, State, and local

governments, interstate organizations, and Indian Tribes is administered primarily through the Office of State and Tribal Programs (STP).7

This office strives to maintain effective relations and communications

with these organizations and to promote greater awareness and mutual

understanding of the policies, activities, and concerns of all organizations

involved as they relate to radiological safety at NRC-licensed facilities and

at facilities licensed through Agreement States.

A total of 32 States have formal agreements with the NRC by which

those States have assumed regulatory responsibility over certain

nuclear material. The NRC reviews Agreement State radiation

control programs periodically to ensure adequate protection of the

public health and safety and to ensure that their programs are compatible with NRC’s program.

The NRC provides technical assistance primarily to Agreement States

and sponsors conferences and special workshops on specific areas

when needed. NRC also disseminates nuclear safety information of

interest to organizations, including the Agreement States; the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors, Inc; the Organization

of Agreement States; the National Governors’ Association; the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners; and the

National Congress of American Indians.

NRC communicates with affected State, local, and Tribal governments in order to provide timely and complete information on the

proposed Yucca Mountain radioactive waste repository (see also

Section 3.3). To learn more about STP programs, select What We

Do on our home page, then State and Tribal Programs.
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5.6 Industry and Its Workers

To further the protection of the public health and safety in regulating

the use of nuclear materials, the NRC exchanges technical information and operational data, often taken from databases, with various

industry groups and standards organizations. These exchanges include

participating in standards committees or sharing other publicly

available documents with such organizations as the Institute of

Nuclear Power Operations, the American Concrete Institute, the

American Society of Civil Engineers, and the American Board of

Health Physicists (see also Section 4.3).

5.7 International Community

The NRC works with international organizations such as the International Nuclear Regulators Association, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Nuclear Energy Agency, and

the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to help improve

nuclear safety worldwide. The NRC provides for bilateral information exchange and cooperation on nuclear safety through letters of

agreement with its counterpart foreign national regulatory authorities,

ensuring prompt notification of safety problems that warrant action

or investigation. Additionally, over 60 joint international safety

research agreements with other countries enable sharing technical

information, funding, technical support, and the results of joint

research projects and programs. To improve nuclear safety regulation

of Soviet-designed reactors, the NRC assists the foreign licensees

through workshops, peer review of regulatory documents, working

group meetings, and technical information and specialist exchanges.

The NRC also issues import and export licenses for nuclear facilities,

major components, material, and related commodities as well as assisting

in the development of legal instruments to address vital issues in the

nuclear safety field. See also Section 3.8, “International Activities and

Non-Proliferation,” in this guide or to learn more, select What We Do,

on our home page, then International Programs.
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AGENCY

INFORMATION

On the basis of Congressional authorization of its mission through

statutes and the issuance of its basic operating regulations, NRC

issues licenses authorizing individuals or companies to conduct

certain activities involving nuclear materials. NRC oversees licensees

to ensure that they comply with Commission requirements and safety

standards, develops guidance to assist them with compliance, and

authorizes certain actions. In addition, the NRC publishes other

information and documents to support its regulatory mission, inform

the public of its activities, and assist licensees in complying with its

regulations. NRC has, for example—

• regulatory guides;

• generic communications;

• publications in the NUREG series;

• news releases, speeches, and fact sheets;

• information about obtaining contracts; and

• information about obtaining forms.

Much of this information and more is available on NRC’s Web site

at http://www.nrc.gov. All recent publicly available official agency

records are available in the Agencywide Documents Access and

Management System (known as ADAMS). Contact NRC’s Public

Document Room (PDR)8 for help in finding NRC information from

either of these sources.

6.1 Regulatory Guides

These guides provide advice for preparing a license application. They

describe acceptable methods of implementing NRC regulations,

techniques used by the NRC staff in evaluating specific problems or

postulated accidents, and data needed by the staff in its review of

applications for permits and licenses. An NRC licensee may commit

to following a regulatory guide when it receives or modifies its license.

The guides are issued in 10 divisions:

1. Power Reactors

2. Research and Test Reactors

3. Fuels and Materials Facilities

4. Environmental and Siting

5. Materials and Plant Protection

6. Products

7. Transportation

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8. Occupational Health

9. Antitrust and Financial Review

10. General

The guides are issued at two stages—as drafts for public comments

and then as active (final) guides. Comments are solicited on draft

guides for a minimum of two months following their issuance.

Comments received on a current draft regulatory guide and information on the resolution of those comments may be viewed electronically and copied for a fee at the NRC’s PDR. These documents are

also available in ADAMS. For assistance using ADAMS, contact the

PDR. To access draft guides and comment on these guides, select Public

Involvement on our home page, then Documents for Comment.

A single copy of each guide, whether draft or active, is sent to each

affected NRC licensee. Requests for single copies of a draft or a final

guide (which may be reproduced) or for placement on an automatic

distribution list for single copies of future draft guides in specific

divisions may be made in writing to the NRC.9

 For a list of all

regulatory guides, select Electronic Reading Room on our home

page, Collections of Documents by Type, then Regulatory Guides.

6.2 Generic Communications

The NRC issues generic communications, which include bulletins,

generic letters, information notices, and regulatory issue summaries,

to inform licensees about specific problems, developments, or other

matters of interest.

The NRC distributes these generic communications to appropriate

groups of licensees and interested groups or organizations. To learn

more, select What We Do on the home page, then Generic Communications under Regulations and Guidance. To purchase a subscription for Generic Communications, contact the U.S. Government

Printing Office (see Endnote 1 in Section 9) or to copy them for a

fee, contact the PDR.

6.3 NUREG–Series Publications

The NRC publishes in its NUREG series scientific, technical, and

administrative information dealing with licensing and regulation of

civilian nuclear facilities and materials. These publications present

information supporting regulatory decisions, guidance for meeting

NRC regulations, results of task force investigations of specific topics
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or incidents, results of research programs, resolution of generic safety

issues, analyses of certain regulatory programs, proceedings of conferences and workshops, and general information about NRC of interest

to the public. The publications contain no legally binding requirements and contain only unclassified information.

To see an index for those publications available on our Web site,

select Electronic Reading Room on our home page, Collections of

Documents by Type, then NUREG–Series Publications. NUREG–

series publications issued since November 1, 2000, are available in

ADAMS (see Section 7, Information Systems). All NUREG–series

publications are available for viewing either electronically or on

microfiche in the PDR. The PDR’s document reproduction contractor will reproduce these publications for a fee. You may also

purchase publications from the GPO or the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) (see Endnote 1). NRC provides the public a free

paper copy of any draft publication issued for comment (see Endnote 9).

6.3.1 Licensing and Other Safety Reviews

Some publications are related to NRC’s licensing and safe operation

oversight reviews and include Safety Evaluation Reports, Environmental Impact Statements, Safety Analysis Reports, and Standard

Review Plans. Parties to a review proceeding receive a free copy of any

related publication. Publications in this category related to proceedings that began before 1975 will not have a NUREG–series designator, but are referenced by docket numbers assigned to the case involved in a proceeding. Contact the PDR (see Endnote 8) for help

finding them.

Standard Review Plans. To ensure consistency of its reviews and to

ensure technical adequacy of the licensee’s submittal, the NRC staff

follows a plan for review of various licensee submittals. Each plan

addresses—

• responsibilities of NRC staff reviewers,

• matters that are reviewed,

• the Commission’s regulations and acceptance criteria necessary for the review,

• how the review is accomplished,

• the conclusions that are appropriate, and

• the implementation requirements.
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A sampling of these plans published for a variety of NRC regulatory

areas follows.

Reactors:

• Standard Review Plan for the Review of Safety Analysis

Reports for Nuclear Power Reactors (NUREG-0800)*

• Standard Review Plan for Evaluating Nuclear Power License

Termination Plans (NUREG–1700)*

Materials:

• Standard Review Plan for Transportation Packages for Radioactive Material (NUREG–1609)*

• Standard Review Plan for the Review of a Reclamation Plan

for Mill Tailings Sites Under Title II of the Uranium Mill

Tailings Radiation Control Act (NUREG–1620)*

Decommissioning:

• NMSS Decommissioning Standard Review Plan

(NUREG–1727)

• NMSS Handbook for Decommissioning Fuel Cycle and

Materials Licensees (NUREG/BR–0243) is similar to a

standard review plan.

Waste:

• Standard Review Plan for the Review of a License Application

for a Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility

(NUREG-1200)

• Environmental Standard Review Plan for the Review of a

License Application for a Low-Level Radioactive Waste

Disposal Facility (NUREG-1300)

• Standard Review Plan for Spent Fuel Dry Storage Facilities

(NUREG-1567)*

6.3.2 Operational Information

Operational information includes information about agency regulatory plans and programs, some of it mandated by the Government

*Available at http://www.nrc.gov in the Electronic Reading Room.
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Performance and Results Act and other recent acts, including the

following publications:

• Strategic Plan (NUREG-1614)*

• Accountability and Performance Report (NUREG-1542)*

• NRC Information Digest (NUREG-1350)*

• Report to Congress on Abnormal Occurrences

(NUREG-0090)*

• Reactor Oversight Process (NUREG-1649)*

The following publications describe NRC programs:

• The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and How It

Works (NUREG/BR-0256)*

• NRC, Regulator of Nuclear Safety (NUREG/BR-0164)*

6.3.3 Regulatory Decisions

• Nuclear Regulatory Commission Issuances (NUREG-0750)*

• U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Staff Practice and

Procedure Digest (NUREG-0386)

The issuances (NUREG-0750) contain adjudications, formal orders,

opinions, and other Commission decisions, including those of the

Atomic Safety and Licensing Boards, the Administrative Law Judges,

the Directors’ Decisions (in accordance with 10 CFR 2.206), and the

Decisions on Petitions for Rulemaking. Semiannual compilations of

the monthly editions are published along with quarterly indices for

them. NRC’s Office of the General Counsel (OGC) publishes a

digest (NUREG-0386) of these decisions as a research tool for

citizens and lawyers who participate in NRC proceedings.

6.3.4 Public Participation

Some publications may aid in understanding the opportunities for

participation.

• A Guide to Open Meetings (NUREG/BR-0128)

• Public Petition Process (NUREG/BR-0200)

*Available at http://www.nrc.gov in the Electronic Reading Room.
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6.4 News Releases, Speeches, and Fact Sheets

The Office of Public Affairs (OPA) (see Endnote 5) routinely provides

news releases and speeches to the media and to others who request them

and posts them daily on our home page. Select More News and Information for an index to news releases, speeches, fact sheets on various

topics, and more, or contact OPA to obtain fact sheets.

Members of the news media may request that OPA place them on a

daily facsimile or e-mail list for all NRC news releases and speeches.

Any member of the public may request placement on the mailing list

to receive free weekly compilations.

6.5 Contracts

NRC publicizes and posts proposed business opportunities valued at

greater than $25,000 on the FedBizOpps Web site at http://

www.fbo.gov . Once at this site, select Vendors located at the lower

center of the screen. Search for NRC business opportunities either in

the agency acronym menu or in the alphabetized list. Once you find

NRC, select Posted Dates. Once you have selected a procurement of

interest, select Synopsis, then Register To Receive Notification, and

follow the guidelines to receive further notice about that particular

NRC procurement.

The FedBizOpps system also includes an e-mail notification service.

This service allows vendors to fill out a subscription form in order to

receive e-mail notification when notices are posted to FedBizOpps

that fit a particular agency/office/location, procurement classification

code, set-aside type, or place-of-performance zip code. At the

FedBizOpps Web site, select Vendors Notification Service located

under “Related Links”. Select a notification option and follow the

instructions on the screen that follow.

NRC utilizes PRO-NET as the primary database to identify small

and disadvantaged businesses to fulfill our requirements.

NRC also posts to its Web site notices of proposed contract actions

with estimated values between $10,000 and $25,000. Contact the

Division of Contracts and Property Management staff for more

information.10 Also published to the Web site is the NRC’s supplement to the Federal Acquisition Regulation, the NRC Acquisition

Regulation (48 CFR Chapter 20).
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Procurement Opportunities for Small Business. The NRC is

committed to ensuring that small, small disadvantaged, and womenowned businesses are given equal opportunity to compete for and win

their fair share of NRC contracts. NRC sets annual goals for awarding contracts to small, small disadvantaged, 8(a), women-owned,

HUBZone, and service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses. The

Office of Small Business and Civil Rights is the NRC’s advocate for all

categories of small businesses. To learn more, select Contracting with

NRC on our home page, then Opportunities for Small Businesses.

6.6 Forms

To obtain public-use NRC forms related to NRC regulatory requirements, select Electronic Reading Room, Collections of Documents

by Type, then Forms. They are also available free upon request by

calling, writing, or sending an e-mail message to the Forms Manager

in the Graphics Section.11 Requesters must identify the specific form

by number. Allow 2 weeks for delivery.
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INFORMATION

SYSTEMS

7.1 Agencywide Documents Access and Management System

The Agencywide Documents Access and Management System

(ADAMS) is an information system that provides access to all documents made public by the NRC since November 1, 1999. Several

hundred new documents are added daily. ADAMS permits full text

searching and the ability to view document images, download files,

and print locally. Documents can be searched and retrieved using

the Citrix-based client access or the Web-based access. To learn

more, select Electronic Reading Room on our home page, then

ADAMS Documents.

The ADAMS Public Legacy Library, previously the Bibliographic

Retrieval System, contains citations to documents created before

November 1999. These documents are available on microfiche or

hardcopy and can be copied for a fee by sending a request to the

Public Document Room (see Endnote 8). The Public Legacy

Library can be accessed through the Citrix-based ADAMS search

by selecting Electronic Reading Room, ADAMS, then CitrixBased Access.

7.2 World Wide Web Site

The NRC Home Page at our Web site http://www.nrc.gov is a

gateway to agency information. The site provides coverage of NRC’s

regulatory programs for commercial power reactors, nuclear materials,

and radioactive waste, as well as information about the agency’s

organization, budget, mission, strategic plan, and public participation

in its regulatory activities. For government-wide information, access

the www.firstgov.gov site.

7.3 The NRC Government Information Locator Service

NRC participates in the Federal Government Information Locator

Service (GILS). The Federal GILS identifies and describes information resources throughout the Federal government. It also describes

how the public can obtain the information. The NRC’s GILS

provides the public ways to locate—

• information products (e.g., books, maps, and publications in

any medium)

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• automated information systems (e.g., document and data

retrieval systems, and

• information locators (e.g., indices, directories, and documents).

Select Electronic Reading Room on our home page, Collections of

Documents by Type, then Government Information Locator

Service.
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SOURCES OF

INFORMATION

8.1 Within the NRC

8.1.1 The Public Document Room

The Public Document Room (PDR) (see Endnote 8) serves as a

bridge between the agency and the public, providing onsite and

remote access to a comprehensive collection of publicly available

NRC documents in paper, microfiche, or electronic format. Reflecting the Commission’s openness policy, the NRC staff has released

over two million documents to the PDR since the agency’s founding

in 1975. This comprehensive collection includes regulatory guides,

Freedom of Information Act responses, NUREG-series publications,

Commission (SECY) papers, inspection reports, Weekly Information

Reports, transcripts of Commission meetings, existing and proposed

regulations and amendments, material from NRC’s licensing and

enforcement proceedings, petitions for rulemaking or for enforcement action, news releases, and correspondence on technical, legal,

policy, and some administrative matters. Some documents from the

regulatory activities of NRC’s forerunner agency, the Atomic Energy

Commission, are also available upon request from the PDR.

The PDR has a staff of reference librarians to assist the public with

their information needs. The staff provides reference services, including assistance searching the ADAMS Publicly Available Record

System (PARS) Library, NRC’s Web site, and the Public Legacy

Library (PLL), previously the Bibliographic Retrieval System (BRS).

Use of the PDR reference services is without charge. However, the user

is responsible for fees for documents that are reproduced by the copy

service. The PDR staff does not maintain collections of such formally

published materials as books, monographs, serials, periodicals, industry

codes or standards, or general indexes that are usually available in a

traditional library.

8.1.2 The Office of Public Affairs

The Office of Public Affairs (see Endnote 5) conducts its activities

at its Headquarters in Rockville, Maryland, and at four locations

throughout the country—King of Prussia, Pennsylvania; Atlanta,

Georgia; Lisle, Illinois; and Arlington, Texas. The office provides

information on NRC activities to the media and the public. The

chief means for doing this are through issuance of news releases,

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speeches, brochures, fact sheets, and videos; maintaining a current Web

page; answering questions by telephone and in person at meetings;

and responding to correspondence—both written and electronic.

8.1.3 Commission Meetings, Documents, and Programs

8.1.3.1 Meetings

In accordance with the Government in the Sunshine Act, the public

is welcome to observe all Commission meetings, unless a meeting is

closed because it involves one or more of the “exempted” subjects

described in NRC Regulations (10 CFR Part 9). “Exempted” subjects usually involve classified information, investigations, enforcement actions, internal rules and practices, or personnel matters.

Advance notices of Commission meetings are published in the Federal

Register, sent by e-mail to a regular list of recipients, and listed at our

Web site (select Public Involvement, then Public Meeting Schedule).

Contact the Office of the Secretary12 of the Commission to obtain

meeting schedules or to be added to the list of recipients who regularly receive advance notice of these meetings.

Transcripts from open Commission meetings are available to the

public. Other papers relating to a public meeting, along with illustrative slides, are available to members of the public who attend a

meeting. Copies of these papers are placed in ADAMS and posted to

our Web site (select Electronic Reading Room on our home page,

Collections of Documents by Type, then Commission Documents).

Live Webcasts are available for most meetings. At NRC’s Home

page, if a meeting is scheduled, you will be able to select Live

Commission Meeting Webcast.

8.1.3.2 Decision-Making Documents

The Commission’s general policy is to release to the public written issue

papers submitted by the NRC staff after the Commission has acted

on the paper. Policy, rulemaking, and adjudicatory matters, as well

as general information, are provided to the Commission for consideration. Such documents are referred to as “SECY Papers.” Commission decisions on a SECY Paper are recorded in a “Staff Requirements

Memorandum” (SRM). The SRM includes a concise statement of

any additional requirements or tasks the staff is to perform. Along

with the SRM, the Commission also issues a Commission Voting

Record (CVR). This CVR contains clear indication of the individual

votes of the Commissioners; a copy of each Commissioner’s vote

sheet; a comment resolution section indicating the extent to which

differing views, if any, were expressed in the individual vote sheets;
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and how they were accommodated, resolved, and reflected in the final

decision. After the Commission’s decision, all SECY Papers and

other associated documents are released to the public unless they

contain specific, limited types of information (adjudicatory, enforcement, or investigatory, lawyer-client or legal work, classified, securitysensitive, or proprietary, and personal privacy) that the Commission

has specifically agreed should be withheld. To access publicly released

SECY Papers, SRMs, and CVRs at our Web site, select Electronic

Reading Room, Collections of Documents by Type, then Commission Documents. You may also view them in ADAMS or order

copies for a fee from the PDR.

Commission Action Memoranda (COMs), another decision-making

tool used by the Commission and the staff, are (1) written memoranda between Commissioners on issues before the agency or on

matters a Commissioner wants to bring to the attention of his or her

fellow Commissioners or (2) memoranda from the NRC staff seeking

guidance from the Commission. After voting is completed on a

COM, an SRM is written to record the decision. Publicly released

COMs, the pertinent SRMs, and copies of individual Commissioner

comments, and Commissioner correspondence are available on our

Web site, in ADAMS, and in the PDR.

8.1.3.3 Commission’s History Program

Through the Commission History Program, the origins and evolution of NRC regulatory policies are documented. They are discussed

in three volumes of nuclear regulatory history:

1. Controlling the Atom: The Beginnings of Nuclear Regulation

1946-1962 (1984) (NUREG-1610).

2. Containing the Atom: Nuclear Regulation in a Changing

Environment, 1963-1971 (1992).

3. Permissible Dose: A History of Radiation Protection in the

Twentieth Century (2000 ).

Controlling the Atom has been reprinted by the NRC and is available

as NUREG-1610. Containing the Atom and Permissible Dose are

available from the University of California Press. In addition, the

NRC has published a 70-page booklet, “A Short History of Nuclear

Regulation, 1946-1999” (NUREG/BR-0175, Rev. 1), which

summarizes major issues in the NRC’s history. The short history

is available at our Web site. Select Who We Are on our home page,

then History.
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8.1.4 Hearing Records (Dockets) for Regulatory Proceedings

The Commission’s Rules of Practice (10 CFR Part 2) provide procedures, called “discovery,” that permit parties to a formal NRC proceeding under 10 CFR Part 2, Subpart G, to request documents or

obtain answers to questions that are relevant to the issues in a proceeding. Select What We Do on our home page, then Adjudication

for an overview of the NRC hearing process. The docket files containing

presiding officer, party, or citizen submissions for all 10 CFR Part 2

licensing and enforcement proceedings as well as for rulemaking

proceedings (including the determinations on petitions for

rulemaking) are available to the public in NRC’s Public Document

Room or through ADAMS where they can be viewed by searching on

the docket number or proceeding number for a particular proceeding.

Using the ADAMS search menu, enter the proceeding number in the

case or reference field to search. In addition, NRC has established a

unique process, known as the Licensing Support Network (LSN)13,

that provides public access to “discovery” information produced by

the parties and potential parties to the planned high-level waste

repository licensing proceeding. Select Electronic Reading Room on

our home page, then HLW Licensing Support Network site to access

the LSN.

8.1.5 Public Meeting Notices

Public Meeting Notices. Meeting announcements are provided to

the public as soon as the NRC staff is certain that a meeting will be

held and has arranged for a firm date, time, and facility. Select

Public Involvement on our home page, then Public Meeting Schedule, or, if you do not have Internet access, contact the NRC Public

Document Room staff for information about meetings.

8.1.6 Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act Requests

Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act Requests. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Privacy Act (PA) program office

is responsible for administering policies, programs, and procedures to

ensure NRC compliance with the Freedom of Information Act and

the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. 552 and 5 U.S.C. 552a. NRC regulations

governing administration of the FOIA and Privacy Act programs are

contained in 10 CFR Part 9. Select Electronic Reading Room on

our home page, then FOIA and Privacy Act Requests for more

information. You may submit a Freedom of Information Act or

Privacy Act request in writing, or electronically via a form at our

Web site, to the NRC FOIA/PA Officer.14
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As previously described, a great deal of NRC information is already

publicly available at the PDR and in ADAMS. A number of libraries

around the country have agreed to maintain a set of microfiche

containing most of the publicly available documents issued between

1987 and 1999. Contact the PDR for more information.

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The FOIA requires that the

NRC allow the public access to the information unless it is exempted

under the FOIA from disclosure (e.g., classified national security,

business proprietary, personal privacy, investigative information).

Submit these requests to the FOIA/PA Officer (see Endnote 14).

Your letter must specifically state that you are submitting an FOIA

request and must adequately describe the specific records or type of

records you seek to enable NRC staff to conduct a search for the requested records with a reasonable amount of effort. Disclosure will be

made by providing a copy of the documents requested or by making

copies of the documents requested available for viewing in ADAMS. If a

person is seeking records that pertain to another person, that information

is usually not disclosed unless the requester obtains the other person’s

written consent and submits it along with the request.

Privacy Act (PA). Under the PA, a person may seek access to records

that are retrieved by that person’s name or other personal identifier,

such as a social security number or an employee identification number. Such records will be made available unless they fall within the

exemptions of the PA or the FOIA.

The request should adequately describe the types of records that

NRC should search (e.g., investigative, personnel, security clearance).

A person making a request under the PA must establish his or her

identity by a signature, address, date of birth, employee identification

number, and one other item of identification such as a photocopy of

a driver’s license or other document.

A requester may be required to pay fees for searching, reviewing, and

copying records, but will be notified beforehand if fees will exceed $25.

8.1.7 The Technical Library

The Technical Library (see Endnote 4) houses scientific and technical

books, journals, reports, standards, codes, microforms, CD-ROMs,

and electronic databases necessary to support most regional and

headquarters’ staff needs. Further, the Library staff provides information and document retrieval to NRC staff as well as access to information resources outside of the NRC through use of the interlibrary
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loan network. Although the primary function of service is to the

NRC staff, limited resources are available to similarly serve the

general public. The Technical Library is open to the public for

reference use by appointment.

8.2 Outside the NRC

8.2.1 Radiation Safety Information Computational Center

The Radiation Safety Information Computational Center15 (RSICC)

was established in 1962 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The

RSICC is a specialized information analysis center authorized to

collect, analyze, maintain, and distribute computer software and data

sets in the areas of radiation transport and safety. This center serves

as a repository for computer software sponsored by the NRC.

8.2.2 U.S. Government Printing Office

You may order NRC publications directly from the Government

Printing Office (GPO) (see Endnote 1). Your order can be charged

to VISA, Mastercard, or Superintendent of Document Accounts.

GPO also offers convenience deposit accounts. Upon receipt of an

initial deposit ($50 minimum), GPO will assign you a unique account number. You can charge future purchases against the deposit

account to the extent of sufficient funds in the account. For detailed

information and forms, contact GPO.

The Federal Depository Library Program16 (FDLP), a GPO program,

was established by Congress to ensure that the American public has access

to its Government’s information. This program involves the acquisition,

format conversion, and distribution of depository materials and the

coordination of Federal depository libraries in the 50 states, the District

of Columbia, and U.S. territories. The mission of the FDLP is to disseminate information products from all three branches of the Government to more than 1,300 libraries nationwide. Libraries that have been

designated as Federal depositories maintain these information products as

part of their existing collections and are responsible for assuring that the

public has free access to the material provided by the FDLP. Some of

these libraries have older NRC records.

8.2.3 National Technical Information Service

The National Technical Information Services (NTIS) (see Endnote 1) is

part of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Technology Administration. Among other services, it maintains a permanent repository of
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unclassified scientific, technical, engineering, and business information, which it collects and disseminates worldwide. You may purchase most NRC publications and regulatory guides from NTIS.

8.2.4 Energy Science and Technology Software Center

The Energy Science and Technology Service Center17 (ESTSC)

offers a variety of software that operates on personal computers,

mainframes, or supercomputers. Many packages are designed to

function in several computing environments, computers, and operating systems. Software is available on diskettes or magnetic tape along

with supporting documentation. The center serves as a repository for

computer software sponsored by the DOE. The collection also

contains selected software from the Nuclear Energy Agency of the

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The

prices for software vary according to customer category, the computer

platform on which the software will be used, and the level of review

received. Specific information on software in the collection and

payment options can be obtained by contacting the ESTSC.

8.2.5 Office of Scientific and Technical Information

The Office of Scientific and Technical Information18 (OSTI), within

the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (OASCR),

in the DOE’s Office of Science is responsible for leading the

Department’s Technical Information Management Program. They

also provide direction and coordination for the dissemination of

scientific and technical information (OSTI) resulting from DOE

research and development and environmental programs. To effectively disseminate OSTI information, OSTI has produced Energy

Files. This Virtual Library Collection of Energy Science and Technology provides a vast array of information and resources pertaining to

energy science and technology: The DOE Information Bridge,

which allows access to full-text OSTI reports; PubSCIENCE—which

provides access to scientific journal literature; and the PrePRINT

Network, OSTI’s newest product—which provides a searchable gateway

to preprint servers.
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ENDNOTES: SOURCES OF

NRC INFORMATION

An endnote number found throughout this guide, identifies the

sources of the information it follows (e.g., NUREG-0980 is available

from the sources listed in Endnote 1).

See also our Web site at http://www.nrc.gov.

1. Unless otherwise specified, obtain NUREG-0980 or other

NUREG-series publications listed in this guide in one of the

following ways:

• Access most NUREG-series publications issued after October

1999 in full text at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.

• Order photocopies of these publications for a fee from the

NRC Public Document Room (see Endnote 8).

• Contact the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO)

by telephone at 202-512-1800 or WWW address: http://

www.access.gpo.gov/#info.

• Contact the National Technical Information Service (NTSI)

by telephone at 703-487-4650, facsimile at 702-321-8547, or

WWW address: http://www.ntis.gov/help/ordermethods.

asp?loc=7-4-0#phone.

2. The Federal Register is available in the NRC Library and many

public libraries. You may view the table of contents for the day’s

issue of the Federal Register at Internet Web site address http://

www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html.

3. Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,

Washington, DC 20555-0001, Attention: Chief, Rules Review

and Directives Branch; Telephone: 301-415-7163, or toll-free at

800-368-5609.

4. Office of the Chief Information Officer, NRC Technical Library,

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-

0001; Telephone: 301-415-5610; e-mail address: library@nrc.gov.

5. Office of Public Affairs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,

Washington, DC 20555-0001; e-mail address: OPA@nrc.gov;

Telephone: 1-800-368-5642, or locally, call 301-415-8200.

6. Office of Congressional Affairs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; Telephone: 301-415-1776.

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7. Office of State and Tribal Programs, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; e-mail address:

kjk@nrc.gov; Telephone: 301-415-3340.

8. NRC Public Document Room

• Located at 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland, across

from the White Flint Metrorail Station.

• Operating Hours: Monday through Friday, Federal work

days from 7:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., Eastern time.

• Telephone: 1-800-397-4209, or locally, 301-415-4737, or

TDD number, 1-800-635-4512.

• Facsimile: 301-415-3548.

• E-mail address: pdr@nrc.gov.

9. Office of the Chief Information Officer, Reproduction and

Distribution Services Branch, Mail Stop O-P137; U.S. Nuclear

Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001 or e-mail

address: DISTRIBUTION@nrc.gov.

10. Office of Administration, Division of Contracts, U.S. Nuclear

Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; Telephone: 301-415-6598 or e-mail address: mer@nrc.gov.

11. Office of the Chief Information Officer, NRC Forms Manager,

Graphics Section, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; Telephone: 301-415-5877; e-mail

address: FORMS@nrc.gov. Requesters must identify the specific

form by number. Allow two weeks for delivery.

12. Office of the Secretary of the Commission, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; Telephone:

Recorded message at 301-415-2092. For more information

about these meetings, call 301-415-1661.

13. Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, Licensing Support

Network Administrator, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,

Mail Stop T3-F23, Washington, DC 20555-0001; e-mail address: LSNWebmaster@nrc.gov ; Telephone: 301-415-7550;

WWW address: http://lsnnet.gov/.

14. Office of the Chief Information Officer, FOIA/PA Officer, U. S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001;

e-mail address: FOIA@nrc.gov; Telephone: 301-415-7169 between

7 a.m. and 4 p.m, Federal work days. Facsimile: 301-415-5130.
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15. Radiation Safety Information Computational Center, P.O. Box

2008, Oak Ridge National Library, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6362;

Telephone: 865-574-6176; WWW address: http://wwwrsicc.ornl.gov/rsicc.html

16. Federal Depository Library Program’s, one of the Government

Printing Office’s programs (see Endnote 1), WWW address:

http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/locators/findlibs/index.html

17. Energy Science and Technology Software Center, Director’s

Office, P.O. Box 1020, Oak Ridge TN, 37831-1020; Telephone:

865-576-2606; WWW address: http://apollo.osti.gov/html/osti/

estsc/estsc.html

18. Office of Scientific and Technical Information, Department of

Energy, P.O. Box 62, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6362; Telephone

865-576-8401; WWW address: http://www.OSTI.GOV/

aboutosti.html
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