10524 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 44 / Monday, March 8, 2010 / Notices 

[FR Doc. 2010–4825 Filed 3–5–10; 8:45 am] 

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[NRC–2010–0080] 

NUREG–0654/FEMA–REP–1, Rev. 1, 

Supplement 3, Guidance for Protective 

Action Recommendations for General 

Emergencies; Draft for Comment 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC). 

ACTION: Announcement of issuance for 

public comment, availability. 

SUMMARY: The NRC has issued for 

public comment a document entitled: 

‘‘NUREG–0654/FEMA–REP–1, Rev. 1, 

Supplement 3, Guidance for Protective 

Action Recommendations for General 

Emergencies, Draft Report for 

Comment.’’ 

DATES: Please submit comments by May 

24, 2010. Comments received after this 

date will be considered if it is practical 

to do so, but the NRC staff is able to 

ensure consideration only for comments 

received on or before this date. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any one of the following methods. 

Please include Docket ID NRC–2010– 

0080 in the subject line of your 

comments. Comments submitted in 

writing or in electronic form will be 

posted on the NRC Web site and on the 

Federal rulemaking Web site 

Regulations.gov. Because your 

comments will not be edited to remove 

any identifying or contact information, 

the NRC cautions you against including 

any information in your submission that 

you do not want to be publicly 

disclosed. 

The NRC requests that any party 

soliciting or aggregating comments 

received from other persons for 

submission to the NRC inform those 

persons that the NRC will not edit their 

comments to remove any identifying or 

contact information, and therefore, they 

should not include any information in 

their comments that they do not want 

publicly disclosed. 

Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for documents filed under Docket ID 

NRC–2010–0080. Address questions 

about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher 

301–492–3668; e-mail 

Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. 

Mail comments to: Michael T. Lesar, 

Chief, Rulemaking and Directives 

Branch (RDB), Division of 

Administrative Services, Office of 

Administration, Mail Stop: TWB–05– 

B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001, or by fax to RDB at 301–492–3446. 

You can access publicly available 

documents related to this notice using 

the following methods: 

NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR): 

The public may examine and have 

copied for a fee publicly available 

documents at the NRC’s PDR, Room O1 

F21, One White Flint North, 11555 

Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland. 

NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access 

and Management System (ADAMS): 

Publicly available documents created or 

received at the NRC are available 

electronically at the NRC’s Electronic 

Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/

reading-rm/adams.html. From this page, 

the public can gain entry into ADAMS, 

which provides text and image files of 

NRC’s public documents. If you do not 

have access to ADAMS or if there are 

problems in accessing the documents 

located in ADAMS, contact the NRC’s 

PDR reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 

301–415–4737, or by e-mail to 

pdr.resource@nrc.gov. NUREG–0654/ 

FEMA–REP–1, Rev. 1, Supplement 3, 

‘‘Guidance for Protective Action 

Recommendations for General 

Emergencies, Draft Report for Comment’’ 

is available electronically under 

ADAMS Accession Number 

ML100150268. 

Federal Rulemaking Web site: Public 

comments and supporting materials 

related to this notice can be found at 

http://www.regulations.gov by searching 

on Docket ID: NRC–2010–0080. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Randy Sullivan, Division of 

Preparedness and Response, Office of 

Nuclear Security and Incident 

Response, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001. Telephone: 301–415–1123, e-mail: 

randy.sullivan@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NRC 

is proposing to update its protective 

action recommendation guidance by 

issuing NUREG–0654/FEMA–REP–1, 

Rev. 1, Supplement 3, ‘‘Guidance for 

Protective Action Recommendations for 

General Emergencies, Draft Report for 

Comment.’’ When this document is 

issued in final form for use, it will 

supersede the existing guidance 

contained in Supplement 3 to NUREG– 

0654/FEMA–REP–1, Rev. 1, ‘‘Criteria for 

Preparation and Evaluation of 

Radiological Emergency Response Plans 

and Preparedness in Support of Nuclear 

Power Plants,’’ which was issued in 

draft form for interim use and guidance 

in 1996. This updated draft guidance 

reflects insights the NRC gained through 

study of protective action strategy 

efficacy documented in NUREG–0653, 

‘‘Review of NUREG–0654, Supplement 

3, ‘Criteria for Protective Action 

Recommendations for Severe 

Accidents’ ’’ (which can be found at the 

NRC Web site address: http://

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/nuregs/contract/cr6953/). 

The NRC has coordinated the draft 

Supplement 3 with the Federal 

Emergency Management Agency. The 

draft guidance incorporates the 

following elements: 

• Increased offsite response 

organization involvement in 

development of protective action 

strategy 

• Consideration of staged evacuation 

as the initial protective action at General 

Emergency 

• Increased use of shelter-in-place for 

certain scenarios 

• Guidance to improve 

communications with the public before 

and during an emergency 

The NRC expects to issue the guidance 

in final form in mid-2011 and nuclear 

power plant licensees to implement the 

guidance in their emergency 

preparedness programs within one year 

of the issuance of this guidance 

document in final form. Elements of the 

guidance should be demonstrated by 

each applicable licensee in its next 

biennial exercise with a scenario that 

requires offsite protective actions that is 

conducted more than one year after that 

issuance date. The NRC is seeking 

comment on the technical content of 

draft Supplement 3 as well as its 

implementation schedule. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 25th day 

of February 2010. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Robert E. Kahler, 

Chief, Inspection and Regulatory 

Improvements Branch, Division of 

Preparedness and Response, Office of Nuclear 

Security and Incident Response. 

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