16868 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 56 / Thursday, March 22, 2012 / Notices 

Dated: March 16, 2012. 

Susanne Bolton, 

Committee Management Officer. 

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[NRC–2012–0072] 

Quality Verification for Plate-Type 

Uranium-Aluminum Fuel Elements for 

Use in Research and Test Reactors 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Draft regulatory guide; request 

for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC or the Commission) 

is issuing for public comment draft 

regulatory guide (DG), DG–2005, 

‘‘Quality Verification for Plate-Type 

Uranium-Aluminum Fuel Elements for 

Use in Research and Test Reactors.’’ 

This guide describes a method that the 

staff of the NRC considers acceptable for 

complying with the Commission’s 

regulations concerning establishing and 

executing a quality assurance program 

for verifying the quality of plate-type 

uranium-aluminum fuel elements used 

in research and test reactors (RTRs). 

DATES: Submit comments by May 21, 

2012. Comments received after this date 

will be considered if it is practical to do 

so, but the NRC is able to ensure 

consideration only for comments 

received on or before this date. 

Although a time limit is given, 

comments and suggestions in 

connection with items for inclusion in 

guides currently being developed or 

improvements in all published guides 

are encouraged at any time. 

ADDRESSES: You may access information 

and comment submissions related to 

this document, which the NRC 

possesses and is publicly available, by 

searching on http://www.regulations.gov 

under Docket ID NRC–2012–0072. You 

may submit comments by the following 

methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2012–0072. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Carol 

Gallagher; telephone: (301) 492–3668; 

email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. 

• Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, 

Chief, Rules, Announcements, and 

Directives Branch (RADB), Office of 

Administration, Mail Stop: TWB–05– 

B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001. 

• Fax comments to: RADB at 301– 

492–3446. 

For additional direction on accessing 

information and submitting comments, 

see ‘‘Accessing Information and 

Submitting Comments’’ in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mekonen Bayssie, Office of Nuclear 

Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001, telephone: (301) 251– 

7489; or email at: 

Mekonen.Bayssie@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Accessing Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Accessing Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2012– 

0072 when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information regarding 

this document. You may access 

information related to this document, 

which the NRC possesses and is 

publicly available, by the following 

methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2012–0072. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may access publicly 

available documents online in the NRC 

Library at http://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/adams.html. To begin the search, 

select ‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and 

then select ‘‘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 draft 

regulatory guide is available 

electronically under ADAMS Accession 

Number ML11206A205. The regulatory 

analysis may be found in ADAMS under 

Accession Number ML11206A211. 

Regulatory guides are not 

copyrighted, and NRC approval is not 

required to reproduce them. 

• 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–2012– 

0072 in the subject line of your 

comment submission, in order to ensure 

that the NRC is able to make your 

comment submission available to the 

public in this docket. 

The NRC cautions you not to include 

identifying or contact information in 

comment submissions that you do not 

want to be publicly disclosed. The NRC 

posts all comment submissions at 

http://www.regulations.gov as well as 

enters the comment submissions into 

ADAMS. The NRC does not 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 in 

their comment submissions that they do 

not want to be publicly disclosed. Your 

request should state that the NRC will 

not edit comment submissions to 

remove such information before making 

the comment submissions available to 

the public or entering the comment 

submissions into ADAMS. 

II. Further Information 

The NRC is issuing for public 

comment a draft guide in the NRC’s 

‘‘Regulatory Guide’’ series. This series 

was developed to describe and make 

available to the public such information 

as methods that are acceptable to the 

NRC staff for implementing specific 

parts of the NRC’s regulations, 

techniques that the staff uses in 

evaluating specific problems or 

postulated accidents, and data that the 

staff needs in its review of applications 

for permits and licenses. 

The draft regulatory guide, entitled, 

‘‘Quality Verification for Plate-Type 

Uranium-Aluminum Fuel Elements for 

Use in Research and Test Reactors,’’ is 

temporarily identified by its task 

number, DG–2005. The DG–2005 is 

proposed revision 2 of Regulatory Guide 

2.3, dated July 1976. 

This guide describes a method that 

the staff of the NRC considers 

acceptable for complying with the 

Commission’s regulations concerning 

establishing and executing a quality 

assurance program for verifying the 

quality of plate-type uranium-aluminum 

fuel elements used in research and test 

reactors (RTRs). 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 13th day 

of March, 2012. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Thomas H. Boyce, 

Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, 

Division of Engineering, Office of Nuclear 

Regulatory Research. 

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