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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 21 (Monday, February 3, 2025)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 8782-8783]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02036]

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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.

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Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 21 / Monday, February 3, 2025 / 
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

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.

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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: [email protected]. 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: Ram[oacute]n L Gascot, Office of 
Nuclear Regulatory Research, telephone: 301-415-2004; email: 
[email protected]; Joseph Bass, Office of Nuclear Regulatory 
Research, telephone: 301-415-0770; email: [email protected]; and 
Margaret Audrain, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301-
415-2133; email: [email protected]. 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 [email protected]. 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 
[email protected] 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/doc-collections/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.
[FR Doc. 2025-02036 Filed 1-31-25; 8:45 am]
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