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Dated: January 5, 2007. 

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Education Division, Office of Protected 

Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[Docket No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2006–0957] 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

Multi-Agency Radiation Survey and 

Assessment of Materials and 

Equipment Manual 

AGENCY: Department of Defense, 

Department of Energy, Environmental 

Protection Agency, and the Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of availability with 

request for public comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Defense 

(DoD), Department of Energy (DOE), 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

(EPA), and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) are announcing for 

public comment the availability of a 

draft document, entitled the ‘‘MultiAgency Radiation Survey and 

Assessment of Materials and Equipment 

Manual’’ (MARSAME). MARSAME 

provides information on planning, 

conducting, evaluating, and 

documenting radiological surveys for 

demonstrating compliance with 

measurable action levels. MARSAME, 

when finalized, will be a multi-agency 

consensus document. The agencies are 

seeking public comment in order to 

receive feedback from the widest range 

of interested parties and to ensure that 

all information relevant to developing 

the document is received. The agencies 

will review public comments received 

on the draft MARSAME as well as 

comments from a concurrent, 

independent, scientific peer review. 

Suggested changes will be incorporated, 

where appropriate, in response to those 

comments. 

DATES: The comment period closes on 

April 16, 2007. Comments received after 

that date will be considered if it is 

practical to do so, but no assurance can 

be given for consideration of late 

comments. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments by 

one of the methods: 

• http://www.regulations.gov: Follow 

the on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• http://www.marsame.org: Follow 

the on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Mail: Air and Radiation Docket and 

Information Center, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Mail Code 6102T, 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC 20460 or Chief, 

Rulemaking, Directives and Editing 

Branch, Division of Administrative 

Services, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555–

0001. 

• Hand Delivery: Air and Radiation 

Docket and Information Center, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, EPA 

West Building, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC. Such deliveries are only accepted 

during the Docket’s normal hours of 

operation, and special arrangements 

must be made for deliveries of boxed 

information. 

Copies of all comments received by 

one agency will be periodically copied 

and sent to the others. Copies of the 

draft MARSAME and all comments 

received may be examined or copied for 

a fee electronically in http:// 

www.regulations.gov, or in hard copy at 

the HQ EPA Docket Public Reading 

Room, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, Room 3334, Docket ID No. 

EPA–HQ–OAR–2006–0957, 1301 

Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460, and the NRC Public 

Document Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, 

Rockville, Maryland 20852–2747. The 

HQ EPA Docket Public Reading Room is 

open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The telephone number for the 

EPA HQ Docket Public Reading Room is 

(202) 566–1744. DOE, EPA, and NRC 

each have a publication number for 

MARSAME. They are: for DOE, DOE/ 

EH–707; for EPA, EPA 402–R–06–002; 

for NRC, NUREG–1575, Sup. 1. A free 

single copy of the draft MARSAME may 

be requested by writing to: the 

Distribution and Mail Services Section, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001 or by fax 

to (301) 415–2289. The document is also 

available through the Internet at: 

http://www.epa.gov/radiation/marssim. 

Instructions for Using the EPA Docket: 

Direct your comments to Docket ID No. 

EPA–HQ–OAR–2006–0957. EPA’s 

policy is that all comments received 

will be included in the public docket 

without change and may be made 

available online at www.regulations.gov, 

including any personal information 

provided, unless the comment includes 

information claimed to be Confidential 

Business Information (CBI) or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Do not submit 

information that you consider to be CBI 

or otherwise protected through 

www.regulations.gov. The 

www.regulations.gov Web site is an 

‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which 

means EPA will not know your identity 

or contact information unless you 

provide it in the body of your comment. 

If you submit an electronic comment, 

EPA recommends that you include your 

name and other contact information in 

the body of your comment and with any 

disk or CD–ROM you submit. If EPA 

cannot read your comment due to 

technical difficulties and cannot contact 

you for clarification, EPA may not be 

able to consider your comment. 

Electronic files should avoid the use of 

special characters, any form of 

encryption, and be free of any defects or 

viruses. All documents in the docket are 

listed in the www.regulations.gov 

index. Although listed in the index, 

some information is not publicly 

available, e.g., CBI or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Certain other material, such as 

copyrighted material, will be publicly 

available only in hard copy. 

Instructions for Using the MARSAME 

comment Web site: Alternatively, you 

may submit a comment via the http:// 

www.marsame.org comment system 

without going through 

www.regulations.gov. Users of the 

MARSAME comment Web site will be 

asked for their name and e-mail address, 

and then will receive a username and 

password at the e-mail address that was 

submitted. User’s names and e-mail 

address will not appear in any public 

document or database. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

of the following points of contact for 

each agency for technical information 

(See ADDRESSES section above for 

directions on obtaining a copy of the 

draft MARSAME.): DoD: Steven 

Doremus, Phone: (757) 887–7745, U.S. 

Navy, NAVSEADET RASO, NWS, PO 

Drawer 260, Yorktown, VA 23691–0260; 

DOE: W. Alexander Williams, Phone: 

(301) 903–8149, U.S. Department of 

Energy (EM–23), 1000 Independence 

Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20585; 

EPA: Kathryn Snead; Phone: (202) 343–

9228, U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, Mail Stop 6608J, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20460–1000; NRC: 

Robert A. Meck, Phone: (301) 415–6205, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Mail Stop T9–C39, Washington, DC 

20555–0001. Questions concerning the 

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project should be addressed to CAPT 

Colleen Petullo, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency/U.S. Public Health 

Service, OSWER/ERT, PO Box 93478, 

Las Vegas, NV 89193–3478, (702) 784–

8004. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

MARSAME provides information on 

planning, conducting, evaluating, and 

documenting environmental 

radiological surveys for demonstrating 

compliance with measurable action 

levels applied to materials and 

equipment. MARSAME, when finalized, 

will be a multi-agency consensus 

document and a supplement to the 

Multi-Agency Radiation Survey and Site 

Investigation Manual (MARSSIM). 

MARSAME was developed 

collaboratively over the past five years 

by the technical staffs of the four 

Federal agencies having authority for 

control of radioactive materials: DoD, 

DOE, EPA, and NRC (60 FR 12555; 

March 7, 1995). For a time, staff from 

the Department of Homeland Security 

participated in the development of 

MARSAME. Contractors to the DOE, 

EPA, and NRC, and members of the 

public have been present during the 

open meetings of the MARSAME work 

group. MARSAME’s objective is to 

describe standardized and consistent 

approaches for surveys, which provide 

a high degree of assurance that 

established action levels can be 

measured and an appropriate 

disposition of materials or equipment 

can be technically defended. The 

techniques, methodologies, and 

philosophies that form the bases of this 

manual were developed to be consistent 

with current Federal limits, guidelines, 

and procedures. 

Although Federal agency personnel 

are involved in the preparation of this 

document, the manual does not 

represent the official position of any 

participating agency at this time. An 

earlier draft of the document has been 

reviewed within the Federal agencies. 

Comments were received and comments 

from the review that reflected a 

technical error or flaw in logic or 

information flow were addressed. The 

other comments from the Federal 

agencies will be addressed along with 

the public comments. The public review 

is a necessary step in the development 

of a final multi-agency consensus 

document. The document will also 

receive formal technical peer review. 

The draft has not been approved by the 

participating agencies for use in part or 

in whole and should not be used, cited, 

or quoted except for the purposes of 

providing comments as requested. 

Reviewers are requested to focus on 

technical accuracy, and 

understandability. Reviewers are also 

requested to address five questions 

while reviewing MARSAME: 

(1) Does MARSAME provide a 

practical and implementable approach 

to performing radiation measurements 

of materials and equipment? Are there 

any major drawbacks to the proposed 

methods? 

(2) Is MARSAME technically 

accurate? 

(3) Does MARSAME provide benefits 

that are not available using current 

methods? What is the value of 

MARSAME in comparison with other 

currently available alternatives? 

(4) What are the costs associated with 

MARSAME in comparison with other 

currently available alternatives? 

(5) Is the information in MARSAME 

understandable and presented in a 

logical sequence? How can the 

presentation of material be modified to 

improve the understandability of the 

manual? 

Comments may be submitted as 

proposed modified text, or as a 

discussion. Comments should be 

accompanied by supporting bases, 

rationale, or data. To ensure efficient 

and complete comment resolution, 

commenters are requested to reference 

the page number and the line number of 

MARSAME to which the comment 

applies. Enter only the beginning page 

and line number, even if your comment 

applies to a number of pages or lines to 

follow. 

Comments corresponding to an entire 

chapter, an entire section, or an entire 

table should be referenced to the line 

number for the title of the chapter 

(always line number 1), section, or table. 

Comments on footnotes should be 

referenced to the line in the main text 

where the footnote is indicated. 

Comments on figures should be 

referenced to the page on which the 

figure appears. Figures do not have line 

numbers. The figure number should be 

included in the text of the comment. 

Comments on the entire manual should 

be referenced to the title page. 

Title: Draft Multi-Agency Radiation′ 

Survey and Assessment of Materials and 

Equipment Manual. 

For the Department of Defense, dated this 

19th day of December, 2006. 

Alex Beehler, 

Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense 

(Environment, Safety and Occupational 

Health). 

For the U.S. Department of Energy, dated 

this 1st day of January 2007. 

Andrew C. Lawrence, 

Director, Office of Nuclear Safety and 

Environment, Office of Health, Safety and 

Security. 

For the U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency, dated this 19th day of December 

2006. 

Elizabeth Cotsworth, 

Director, Office of Radiation and Indoor Air. 

For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, dated this 28th day of 

December 2006. 

James T. Wiggins, 

Acting Director, Office of Nuclear Regulatory 

Research. 

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