[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 248 (Tuesday, December 28, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 81675]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-32448]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2010-0031]


Notice of Issuance of Regulatory Guide

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of Issuance and Availability of Regulatory Guide 4.16, 
Revision 2, ``Monitoring and Reporting Radioactive Materials in Liquid 
and Gaseous Effluents from Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities.''

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mekonen M. Bayssie, Regulatory Guide 
Development Branch, Division of Engineering, Office of Nuclear 
Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001, telephone (301) 251-7489 or e-mail <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#7439111f1b1a111a5a36150d07071d11341a06175a131b02"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="f9b49c9296979c97d7bb98808a8a909cb9978b9ad79e968f">[email protected]</span></a>.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Introduction

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a revision 
to an existing guide in the agency's ``Regulatory Guide'' series. This 
series was developed to describe and make available to the public 
information such as methods that are acceptable to the NRC staff for 
implementing specific parts of the agency's regulations, techniques 
that the staff uses in evaluating specific problems or postulated 
accidents, and data that the staff needs in its review of requests for 
licensing actions. In March 2010, Revision 2 of Regulatory Guide 4.16, 
``Monitoring and Reporting Radioactive Materials in Liquid and Gaseous 
Effluents from Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities,'' was published as Draft 
Regulatory Guide, DG-4017, with a public comment period of 60 days. 
This guide describes a method that the staff of the NRC considers 
acceptable for the development and implementation of effluent 
monitoring programs described in license applications and for 
monitoring and reporting effluent data by licensees. The guidance is 
applicable to nuclear fuel cycle facilities, with the exception of 
uranium milling facilities and nuclear power reactors. The NRC has 
developed other regulatory guides applicable to those facilities.
    Revision of this regulatory guide is necessary to update references 
and practices and to communicate its applicability to the enrichment 
plants which have come under the regulatory authority of the NRC since 
the issuance of Revision 1 of the guide.

II. Further Information

    The staff's responses to the public comments received on DG-4017 
are located in the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management 
System (ADAMS) under Accession Number ML101720322. The regulatory 
analysis may be found in ADAMS under Accession No. ML101720311. 
Electronic copies of Regulatory Guide 4.16, Revision 2 are available 
through the NRC's public Web site under ``Regulatory Guides'' at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/.
    In addition, regulatory guides are available for inspection at the 
NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) located at Room O-1F21, One White 
Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852-2738. The 
PDR's mailing address is USNRC PDR, Washington, DC 20555-0001. The PDR 
can also be reached by telephone at (301) 415-4737 or (800) 397-4209, 
by fax at (301) 415-3548, and by e-mail to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#661602144814031509131405032608140548010910"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="59293d2b772b3c2a362c2b3a3c19372b3a773e362f">[email protected]</span></a>.
    Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and NRC approval is not 
required to reproduce them.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 15th day of December, 2010.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John N. Ridgely,
Acting Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of 
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2010-32448 Filed 12-27-10; 8:45 am]
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