[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 10 (Thursday, January 15, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 2426]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-1047]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Regulatory Guides; Withdrawal

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is withdrawing several guides in 
its Regulatory Guide Series. Regulatory guides may be withdrawn when 
(1) they are superseded by the Commission's regulations, (2) equivalent 
recommendations have been incorporated in approved codes or standards, 
or (3) there have been changes in methods, techniques, or the need for 
specific guidance. Since the methods discussed in these regulatory 
guides fall into one of these categories, the regulatory guides listed 
below are being withdrawn. New applications for licenses or amendments 
should address current guidance. However, withdrawal of these 
regulatory guides does not alter any existing license conditions that 
were based on these guides. Applications that reference these 
regulatory guides and are pending as of the date of this notice do not 
need to be withdrawn or amended.

Regulatory Guide 3.2, Efficiency Testing of Air-Cleaning Systems 
Containing Devices for Removal of Particles (January 1973)
Regulatory Guide 3.9, Concrete Radiation Shields (June 1973)
Regulatory Guide 3.33, Assumptions Used for Evaluating the Potential 
Radiological Consequences of Accidental Nuclear Criticality in a Fuel 
Reprocessing Plant (April 1977)
Regulatory Guide 3.34, Assumptions Used for Evaluating the Potential 
Radiological Consequences of Accidental Nuclear Criticality in a 
Uranium Fuel Fabrication Plant (Revision 1, July 1979)
Regulatory Guide 3.35, Assumptions Used for Evaluating the Potential 
Radiological Consequences of Accidental Nuclear Criticality in a 
Plutonium Processing and Fuel Fabrication Plant (Revision 1, July 1979)
Regulatory Guide 5.1, Serial Numbering of Fuel Assemblies for Light-
Water-Cooled Nuclear Power Reactors (December 1972)
Regulatory Guide 5.14, Use of Observation (Visual Surveillance) 
Techniques in Material Access Areas (Revision 1, May 1980)
Regulatory Guide 5.24, Analysis and Use of Process Data for the 
Protection of Special Nuclear Material (June 1974)
Regulatory Guide 5.29, Nuclear Material Control Systems for Nuclear 
Power Plants (Revision 1, June 1975)
Regulatory Guide 5.30, Materials Protection Contingency Measures for 
Uranium and Plutonium Fuel Manufacturing Plants (June 1974)
Regulatory Guide 5.45, Standard Format and Content for the Special 
Nuclear Material Control and Accounting Section of a Special Nuclear 
Material License Application (Including That for a Uranium Enrichment 
Facility) (December 1974)
Regulatory Guide 8.3, Film Badge Performance Criteria (February 1973)

    In addition, Draft Regulatory Guide DG-0008, ``Applications for the 
Use of Sealed Sources in Portable Gauging Devices'' (May 1995), is 
being withdrawn from consideration as a regulatory guide. The NRC 
recently published NUREG-1556, ``Consolidated Guidance About Materials 
Licenses: Program-Specific Guidance About Portable Gauge Licenses,'' 
which contains information on the same subject.
    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. Written comments may be submitted to 
the Rules and Directives Branch, Division of Administrative Services, 
Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555.

(5 U.S.C. 552(a))

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd day of December 1997.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Malcolm R. Knapp,
Acting Director, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 98-1047 Filed 1-15-98; 8:45 am]
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