This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER

contains notices to the public of the proposed

issuance of rules and regulations. The

purpose of these notices is to give interested

persons an opportunity to participate in the

rule making prior to the adoption of the final

rules.

Proposed Rules Federal Register

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Vol. 83, No. 169 

Thursday, August 30, 2018 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

10 CFR Chapter I 

[NRC–2018–0185] 

Use of Electronic Signatures by 

Medical Licensees on Internal 

Documents 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Draft regulatory issue summary; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is seeking public 

comment on a draft regulatory issue 

summary (RIS). The draft RIS describes 

one means by which medical licensees 

can use electronic signatures to satisfy 

NRC’s signature requirements on 

internal records that the NRC requires 

the licensee to maintain. The draft RIS 

is addressed to medical licensees, NRC 

master materials licensees, Agreement 

State Radiation Control Program 

Directors, and State Liaison Officers. 

The NRC provides this RIS to the 

Agreement States for their information 

and for distribution to their licensees, as 

they deem appropriate. 

DATES: Submit comments by October 29, 

2018. Comments received after this date 

will be considered if it is practical to do 

so, but the Commission is able to ensure 

consideration only for comments 

received before this date. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2018–0185. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer 

Borges; telephone: 301–287–9127; 

email: Jennifer.Borges@nrc.gov. For 

technical questions, contact the 

individual listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

document. 

• Mail comments to: May Ma, Office 

of Administration, Mail Stop: TWFN–7– 

A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001. 

For additional direction on obtaining 

information and submitting comments, 

see ‘‘Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments’’ in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Maryann Ayoade, Office of Nuclear 

Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington DC 20555–0001; telephone 

301–415–0862, email: 

Maryann.Ayoade@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2018– 

0185 when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information for this 

action. You may obtain publiclyavailable information related to this 

action by any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2018–0185. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

adams.html. To begin the search, 

‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.’’ For 

problems with ADAMS, please contact 

the NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR) 

reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301– 

415–4737, or by email to pdr.resource@

nrc.gov. The NRC Regulatory Issue 

Summary 2018–XX, ‘‘Use Of Electronic 

Signatures By Medical Licensees On 

Internal Documents,’’ is available in 

ADAMS under Accession No. 

ML16349A179. 

• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and 

purchase copies of public documents at 

the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

B. Submitting Comments 

Please include Docket ID NRC–2018– 

0185 in your comment submission. 

The NRC cautions you not to include 

identifying or contact information that 

you do not want to be publicly 

disclosed in your comment submission. 

The NRC will post all comment 

submissions at http://

www.regulations.gov as well as enter the 

comment submissions into ADAMS. 

The NRC does not routinely edit 

comment submissions to remove 

identifying or contact information. 

If you are requesting or aggregating 

comments from other persons for 

submission to the NRC, then you should 

inform those persons not to include 

identifying or contact information that 

they do not want to be publicly 

disclosed in their comment submission. 

Your request should state that the NRC 

does not routinely edit comment 

submissions to remove such information 

before making the comment 

submissions available to the public or 

entering the comment into ADAMS. 

II. Background 

The NRC issues RISs to communicate 

with stakeholders on a broad range of 

matters. These matters may include 

communicating and clarifying NRC 

technical or policy positions on 

regulatory matters that have not been 

communicated to or are not broadly 

understood by the nuclear industry. The 

draft RIS describes one means by which 

medical licensees can use electronic 

signatures to satisfy NRC’s signature 

requirements on internal records that 

the NRC requires the licensee to 

maintain. 

As noted in 83 FR 20858 (May 8, 

2018), this document is being published 

in the Proposed Rules section of the 

Federal Register to comply with 

publication requirements under 1 CFR 

chapter I. 

Proposed Action 

The NRC is requesting public 

comments on the draft RIS. The NRC 

staff will make a final determination 

regarding issuance of the RIS after it 

considers any public comments 

received in response to this request. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 27th day 

of August 2018. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Brian J. Benney, 

Senior Project Manager, ROP and Generic 

Communications Branch, Division of 

Inspection and Regional Support, Office of 

Nuclear Reactor Regulation. 

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