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1Copies are available at current rates from the 

U.S. Government Printing Office, P.O. Box 37082, 

Washington, DC 20402–9328 (telephone (202) 512–

1800); or from the National Technical Information 

Service at 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA 

22161; http://www.ntis.gov; or (703) 487–4650. 

Copies are available for inspection or copying for 

a fee from the NRC’s Public Document Room at 

11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD; the PDR’s 

mailing address is USNRC PDR, Washington, DC 

20555; telephone (301) 415–4737 or (800) 397–

4209; fax (301) 415–3548; or e-mail PDR@nrc.gov. 

These documents are also available electronically 

through the NRC’s public Web site at http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/ 

staff/. 

2Copies are available at current rates from the 

U.S. Government Printing Office, P.O. Box 37082, 

Washington, DC 20402–9328 (telephone (202) 512–

1800); or from the National Technical Information 

Service at 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA 

22161; http://www.ntis.gov; or (703) 487–4650. 

Copies are available for inspection or copying for 

a fee from the NRC’s Public Document Room at 

11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD; the PDR’s 

mailing address is USNRC PDR, Washington, DC 

20555; telephone (301) 415–4737 or (800) 397–

4209; fax (301) 415–3548; or e-mail PDR@nrc.gov. 

These documents are also available electronically 

through the NRC’s public Web site at http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/ 

staff/. 

3Copies are available for inspection or copying 

for a fee from the NRC’s Public Document Room at 

11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD; the PDR’s 

mailing address is USNRC PDR, Washington, DC 

20555; telephone (301) 415–4737 or (800) 397–

4209; fax (301) 415–3548; e-mail PDR@nrc.gov. 

Revision 5 of NEI 95–10 is also available through 

the NRC’s license renewal Web page at http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal/ 

guidance.html#nuclear, and through the NRC’s 

Agencywide Documents Access and Management 

System (ADAMS) at http://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/adams.html, under Accession No. 

ML050280113. Note, however, that the NRC has 

temporarily limited public access to ADAMS so that 

the agency can complete security reviews of 

publicly available documents and remove 

potentially sensitive information. Please check the 

NRC’s Web site for updates concerning the 

resumption of public access to ADAMS. 

Room or from the Publicly Available 

Records (PARS) component of the 

NRC’s document system. From this site, 

you can access the NRC’s Agencywide 

Document Access and Management 

System (ADAMS), which provides text 

and image files of NRC’s public 

documents. The following references are 

available for inspection at NRC’s Public 

Electronic Reading Room at http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html 

(the Public Electronic Reading Room). 

1. Rademacher, Brother Jerome, 

Chairman, Department of Physics, 

Radiation Safety Officer, St. Mary’s 

University of Minnesota, January 10, 

2005 letter to the NRC (ML050140064). 

2. Rademacher, Brother Jerome, 

Chairman, Department of Physics, 

Radiation Safety Officer, St. Mary’s 

University of Minnesota, July 18, 2005 

letter to the NRC (ML052290386). 

3. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, ‘‘Environmental Review 

Guidance for Licensing Actions 

Associated with NMSS Programs,’’

NUREG–1748, August 2003. 

4. NRC, NUREG–1757, ‘‘Consolidated 

NMSS Decommissioning Guidance,’’

Volumes 1–3, September 2003. 

5. Johns, Jr., George F., Supervisor, 

Radiation Control Unit, Minnesota 

Department of Health, September 7, 

2005 letter to the NRC (ML052560161). 

If you do not have access to ADAMS 

or if there are problems in accessing the 

documents located in ADAMS, contact 

the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) 

reference staff at (800) 397–4209, (301) 

415–4737 or by email to pdr@nrc.gov. 

Documents may also be viewed 

electronically on the public computers 

located at the NRC’s PDR, O 1 F21, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. The PDR 

reproduction contractor will copy 

documents for a fee. 

Dated at Lisle, Illinois, this 19th day of 

September 2005. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Jamnes L. Cameron, 

Chief, Decommissioning Branch, Division of 

Nuclear Materials Safety Region III. 

[FR Doc. 05–19647 Filed 9–29–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

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COMMISSION 

Final Regulatory Guide: Issuance, 

Availability 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) has issued a revision 

to an existing guide in the agency’s 

Regulatory Guide Series. This series has 

been 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. 

Revision 1 of Regulatory Guide 1.188, 

entitled ‘‘Standard Format and Content 

for Applications To Renew Nuclear 

Power Plant Operating Licenses,’’

describes a method that the NRC staff 

finds acceptable for complying with the 

agency’s regulatory requirements in 

Title 10, Part 54, of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (10 CFR part 54), 

‘‘Requirements for Renewal of Operating 

Licenses for Nuclear Power Plants’’

(commonly known as the license 

renewal rule). Specifically, 10 CFR part 

54 specifies the information that a 

nuclear power plant licensee must 

include in its application to renew an 

operating license issued by the NRC. 

The NRC initially issued Regulatory 

Guide 1.188 in July 2001, after soliciting 

and resolving public comments on three 

draft regulatory guides (DG–1104 in 

August 2000, DG–1047 in August 1996, 

and DG–1009 in December 1990). As 

such, Regulatory Guide 1.188 

incorporated lessons learned from the 

review of license renewal applications 

and Owners Group topical report 

reviews. The guide also incorporated 

relevant information from development 

of the ‘‘Standard Review Plan for the 

Review of License Renewal 

Applications for Nuclear Power Plants’’

(SRP–LR) (NUREG–1800),1 and the 

‘‘Generic Aging Lessons Learned (GALL) 

Report’’ (NUREG–1801),1 as well as a 

summary of public comments received 

on those documents (NUREG–1832, 

‘‘Analysis of Public Comments on the 

Revised License Renewal Guidance 

Documents.’’) 2

Since the NRC initially published 

Regulatory Guide 1.188 in July 2001, the 

staff proposed to update both the SRPLR (NUREG–1800) and the GALL Report 

(NUREG–1801). Consequently, the staff 

also decided to revise Regulatory Guide 

1.188 to reflect the proposed updates to 

the guidance documents. Toward that 

end, the staff prepared Draft Regulatory 

Guide DG–1140, which also included a 

modification through which the NRC 

staff endorsed (with two exceptions) 

Revision 5 of NEI 95–10, ‘‘Industry 

Guideline for Implementing the 

Requirements of 10 CFR Part 54 ‘‘ The 

License Renewal Rule,’’ which the 

Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) 

published in January 2005.3

Specifically, the staff took exception to 

the use of a portion of Appendix F to 

Revision 5 of NEI 95–10, from the 

unnumbered paragraph following 

paragraph 4.4 through the end of 

Section 4, ‘‘Non-Safety SSCs Directly 

Connected to Safety-Related SSCs.’’ In 

addition, the NRC staff took exception 

to the use of paragraph 5.2.3.1, 

‘‘Exposure Duration.’’

The NRC staff then published a 

Federal Register notice (70 FR 5494) on 

February 2, 2005, to solicit stakeholder 

comments on Draft Regulatory Guide 

DG–1140 and/or Revision 5 of NEI 95–

10, and specifically on any 

inconsistency or incompatibility 

between the guidance in these 

documents and the NRC guidance set 

forth in NUREG–1800 and NUREG–

1801. Toward that end, the NRC also 

held a public workshop on March 2, 

2005, to give participants an 

opportunity to ask questions, obtain 

further information, offer comments and 

opinions, and otherwise facilitate the 

formulation and preparation of written 

57334 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 189 / Friday, September 30, 2005 / Notices 

4Copies are available for inspection or copying 

for a fee from the NRC’s Public Document Room at 

11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD; the PDR’s 

mailing address is USNRC PDR, Washington, DC 

20555; telephone (301) 415–4737 or (800) 397–

4209; fax (301) 415–3548; e-mail PDR@nrc.gov. 

Revision 6 of NEI 95–10 is also available through 

the NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access and 

Management System (ADAMS) at http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html, under 

Accession No. ML051860406. Note, however, that 

the NRC has temporarily limited public access to 

ADAMS so that the agency can complete security 

reviews of publicly available documents and 

remove potentially sensitive information. Please 

check the NRC’s Web site for updates concerning 

the resumption of public access to ADAMS. 

comments for NRC staff consideration of 

the revised license renewal guidance 

documents. 

The public comment period closed on 

March 31, 2005, without the submission 

of any stakeholder comments. However, 

in response to the exceptions stated in 

DG–1140, NEI issued Revision 6 of NEI–

95–10 in June 2005 4 to accept the NRC 

staff’s position with respect to those 

issues, thereby rendering the staff’s two 

exceptions unnecessary. Having 

reviewed this latest revision of NEI 95–

10, the NRC staff finds Revision 6 

acceptable for use in implementing the 

license renewal rule, without 

exceptions, as discussed in Revision 1 

of Regulatory Guide 1.188. Applicants 

may meet the intent of the license 

renewal rule using methods other than 

those provided in Revision 6 of NEI 95–

10; however, the NRC staff will 

determine the acceptability of such 

methods on a case-by-case basis. 

The NRC staff encourages and 

welcomes comments and suggestions in 

connection with improvements to 

published regulatory guides, as well as 

items for inclusion in regulatory guides 

that are currently being developed. You 

may submit comments by any of the 

following methods. 

Mail comments to: Rules and 

Directives Branch, Office of 

Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555–

0001. 

Hand-deliver comments to: Rules and 

Directives Branch, Office of 

Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, 11555 Rockville Pike, 

Rockville, Maryland 20852, between 

7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. on Federal 

workdays. 

Fax comments to: Rules and 

Directives Branch, Office of 

Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission at (301) 415–5144. 

Requests for technical information 

about Revision 1 of Regulatory Guide 

1.188 may be directed to Linh N. Tran 

at (301) 415–4103 or by e-mail to 

LNT@nrc.gov. 

Regulatory guides are available for 

inspection or downloading through the 

NRC’s public Web site in the Regulatory 

Guides document collection of the 

NRC’s Electronic Reading Room at 

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/. Revision 1 of Regulatory 

Guide 1.188 is also available 

electronically through the NRC’s 

Agencywide Documents Access and 

Management System (ADAMS) at http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html, 

under Accession No. ML051920430. 

Note, however, that the NRC has 

temporarily limited public access to 

ADAMS so that the agency can 

complete security reviews of publicly 

available documents and remove 

potentially sensitive information. Please 

check the NRC’s Web site for updates 

concerning the resumption of public 

access to ADAMS. 

In addition, regulatory guides are 

available for inspection at the NRC’s 

Public Document Room (PDR), which is 

located at 11555 Rockville Pike, 

Rockville, Maryland; the PDR’s mailing 

address is USNRC PDR, Washington, DC 

20555–0001. The PDR can also be 

reached by telephone at (301) 415–4737 

or (800) 397–4205, by fax at (301) 415–

3548, and by e-mail to PDR@nrc.gov. 

Requests for single copies of draft or 

final guides (which may be reproduced) 

or for placement on an automatic 

distribution list for single copies of 

future draft guides in specific divisions 

should be made in writing to the U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, Attention: 

Reproduction and Distribution Services 

Section; by e-mail to 

DISTRIBUTION@nrc.gov; or by fax to 

(301) 415–2289. Telephone requests 

cannot be accommodated. 

Regulatory guides are not 

copyrighted, and Commission approval 

is not required to reproduce them. (5 

U.S.C. 552(a)) 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day 

of September, 2005. 

For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

Carl J. Paperiello, 

Director, Office of Nuclear Regulatory 

Research. 

[FR Doc. 05–19704 Filed 9–29–05; 8:45 am] 

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Notice of Availability of NUREG–1800, 

Revision 1, ‘‘Standard Review Plan for 

Review of License Renewal 

Applications for Nuclear Power 

Plants,’’ NUREG–1801, Revision 1, 

‘‘Generic Aging Lessons Learned 

(GALL) Report,’’ and NUREG–1832, 

‘‘Analysis of Public Comments on the 

Revised License Renewal Guidance 

Documents’’

AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC). 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing NUREG–

1800, ‘‘Standard Review Plan for 

Review of License Renewal 

Applications for Nuclear Power Plants,’’

Revision 1 and NUREG–1801, ‘‘Generic 

Aging Lessons Learned (GALL) Report,’’

Revision 1. These documents describe 

methods acceptable to the NRC staff for 

implementing the license renewal rule, 

as well as techniques used by the NRC 

staff in evaluating applications for 

license renewal. The draft versions of 

these documents were issued for public 

comment on February 1, 2005 (70 FR 

5254). The NRC staff assessment of 

public comments is being issued as 

NUREG–1832, ‘‘Analysis of Public 

Comments on the Revised License 

Renewal Guidance Documents.’’

ADDRESSES: Electronic copies are 

available in the Commission’s Public 

Document Room (PDR), located at One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike 

(first floor), Rockville, Maryland, 20852 

or electronically from the NRC’s 

Agencywide Documents Access and 

Management System (ADAMS). The 

Public Electronic Reading Room is 

accessible from the NRC’s Web site at 

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

adams.html. NUREG–1800, Revision 1, 

is under ADAMS Accession number 

ML052110007; NUREG–1801, Revision 

1, is under ADAMS Accession numbers 

ML052110005 (Volume 1) and 

ML052110006 (Volume 2); and NUREG–

1832 (Analysis of Public Comments) is 

under ADAMS Accession number 

ML052110004. Persons who do not have 

access to ADAMS or who encounter 

problems in accessing the documents 

located in ADAMS should contact the 

NRC’s PDR Reference staff at 1–800–

397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by e-mail 

at pdr@nrc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Jerry Dozier, License Renewal Project 

Manager, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation, Mail Stop O–11F1, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission,