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Vol. 90, No. 21 

Monday, February 3, 2025 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

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10 CFR Parts 50 and 52 

[NRC–2024–0203] 

Draft Regulatory Guide: Acceptability 

of ASME Code, Section III, Division 5, 

‘‘High Temperature Reactors’’ 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Draft guide; reopening of 

comment period. 

SUMMARY: On December 13, 2024, the 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

(NRC) solicited comments on draft 

Regulatory Guide (DG) DG–1436, 

‘‘Acceptability of ASME Code, Section 

III, Division 5, ‘High Temperature 

Reactors.’ ’’ The public comment period 

closed on January 27, 2025. The NRC 

has decided to reopen the public 

comment period to allow more time for 

members of the public to develop and 

submit their comments. 

DATES: The comment period for the 

document published on December 13, 

2024 (89 FR 100921) has been reopened. 

Comments should be submitted no later 

than February 26, 2025. 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. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods; 

however, the NRC encourages electronic 

comment submission through the 

Federal rulemaking website. 

• Federal rulemaking website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2024–0203. Address 

questions about Docket IDs in 

Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; 

telephone: 301–415–0624; email: 

Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical 

questions, contact the individuals listed 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this document. 

• Mail comments to: Office of 

Administration, Mail Stop: TWFN–7– 

A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001, ATTN: Program Management, 

Announcements and Editing Staff. 

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: 

Ramo ́n L Gascot, Office of Nuclear 

Regulatory Research, telephone: 301– 

415–2004; email: Ramon.Gascot@

nrc.gov; Joseph Bass, Office of Nuclear 

Regulatory Research, telephone: 301– 

415–0770; email: Joseph.Bass@nrc.gov; 

and Margaret Audrain, Office of Nuclear 

Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301– 

415–2133; email: Margaret.Audrain@

nrc.gov. All are staff of the U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2024– 

0203 when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information for this 

action. You may obtain publicly 

available information related to this 

action by any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2024–0203. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly 

available documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

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

adams.html. To begin the search, 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, at 

301–415–4737, or by email to 

PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. The DG, 

entitled ‘‘Acceptability of ASME Code, 

Section III, Division 5, ‘High 

Temperature Reactors,’ ’’ is available in 

ADAMS under Accession No. 

ML24275A266. 

• NRC’s PDR: The PDR, where you 

may examine and order copies of 

publicly available documents, is open 

by appointment. To make an 

appointment to visit the PDR, please 

send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov 

or call 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415– 

4737, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern 

time (ET), Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

B. Submitting Comments 

The NRC encourages electronic 

comment submission through the 

Federal rulemaking website (https://

www.regulations.gov). Please include 

Docket ID NRC–2024–0203 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 https://

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. Discussion 

On December 13, 2024, the NRC 

solicited comments on DG–1436 

‘‘Acceptability of ASME Code, Section 

III, Division 5, ‘High Temperature 

Reactors.’ ’’ The public comment period 

closed on January 27, 2025. The NRC 

has decided to reopen the public 

comment period on this document until 

February 26, 2025, to allow more time 

for members of the public to develop 

and submit their comments. 

As noted in the Federal Register on 

December 9, 2022 (87 FR 75671), this 

document is being published in the 

‘‘Proposed Rules’’ section of the Federal 

Register to comply with publication 

requirements under chapter I of title 1 

of the Code of Federal Regulations. 

III. Submitting Suggestions for 

Improvement of Regulatory Guides 

A member of the public may, at any 

time, submit suggestions to the NRC for 

improvement of existing Regulatory 

Guides (RGs) or for the development of 

new RGs. Suggestions can be submitted 


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on the NRC’s public website at https:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/reg-guides/contactus.html. 

Suggestions will be considered in future 

updates and enhancements to the 

‘‘Regulatory Guide’’ series. 

Dated: January 28, 2025. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Meraj Rahimi, 

Chief, Regulatory Guide and Programs 

Management Branch, Division of Engineering, 

Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. 

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