This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER

contains notices to the public of the proposed

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purpose of these notices is to give interested

persons an opportunity to participate in the

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Proposed Rules Federal Register

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Vol. 87, No. 83 

Friday, April 29, 2022 

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; 

discontinuation. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission is discontinuing the 

publication of draft regulatory issue 

summary (RIS), ‘‘Use of Electronic 

Signatures by Medical Licensees on 

Internal Documents,’’ because the 

guidance no longer provides useful 

information as the contents are now 

considered standard practice. 

DATES: The effective date for 

discontinuation of the draft RIS is April 

29, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2018–0185 when contacting the 

NRC about the availability of 

information regarding this document. 

You may obtain publicly available 

information related to this document 

using any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2018–0185. 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 individual listed 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this document. 

• 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, 301– 

415–4737, or by email to 

PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. The ADAMS 

accession number for each document 

referenced (if it is available in ADAMS) 

is provided the first time that it is 

mentioned in this document. 

• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and 

purchase copies of public documents, 

by appointment, at the NRC’s Public 

Document Room (PDR), Room P1 B35, 

One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. 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 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 

p.m. (ET), Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Said 

Daibes Figueroa, Office of Nuclear 

Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

301–415–6863, email: Said.Daibes@

nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

On October 20, 2010, the NRC 

published a notice in the Federal 

Register (75 FR 64749) requesting 

public comment on specific issues 

related to the use of electronic 

signatures in medical licensee 

documents. Many of the commenters 

supported the view that the NRC should 

be receptive to licensees’ use of 

electronic signatures and adopt its use 

for licensees’ internal documents 

because the use of electronic medical 

records has become standard practice in 

medical facilities. The NRC assessed 

public comment responses to identify 

means by which medical licensees can 

use electronic signatures to satisfy 

NRC’s signature requirements. The 

comments are publicly available in 

ADAMS under Accession No. 

ML21131A034. A draft RIS ‘‘Use of 

Electronic Signatures by Medical 

Licensees on Internal Documents,’’ was 

developed summarizing the findings 

and published in the Federal Register 

(83 FR 44247) on August 30, 2018, 

seeking public comment. The comments 

received were supportive of the 

adoption of the use of electronic 

signatures by NRC medical licensees. 

The comments are publicly available 

through ADAMS Accession Nos. 

ML21105A813 and ML21105A812. 

II. Additional Information 

The NRC is discontinuing the 

issuance of the draft RIS, ‘‘Use of 

Electronic Signatures by Medical 

Licensees on Internal Documents,’’ 

because the use of electronic signatures 

within the medical community, 

including electronic signatures that 

uniquely identify the signed individual, 

provide authentications and nonrepudiation, and assure data integrity, 

has become such common practice that 

the guidance in this RIS no longer 

provides useful information. 

The draft RIS was published in the 

Federal Register for comment on 

August 30, 2018 (83 FR 44247). The 

draft RIS described 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 comments received 

during the public comment period on 

the draft RIS may be considered by the 

NRC staff for the development of any 

future related guidance. Should such 

guidance be developed, the NRC will 

inform the public through a new notice 

of availability of the documents for 

public comment in the Federal Register. 

This notice documents final staff 

action on docket NRC–2018–0185. No 

further action is expected for this 

docket. 

As noted in ‘‘Relocation of Regulatory 

Issue Summary Notices in the Federal 

Register’’ (May 8, 2018, 83 FR 20858), 

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. 

Dated: April 25, 2022. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Christian E. Einberg, 

Chief, Medical Safety and Events Assessments 

Branch, Division of Materials Safety, Security, 

State and Tribal Programs, Office of Nuclear 

Material Safety and Safeguards. 

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