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confidential, pursuant to the authority 

granted me by the Chairman’s 

Delegation of Authority to Close 

Advisory Committee Meetings, dated 

July 19, 1993, I have determined that the 

meeting would fall within exemption (4) 

of 5 U.S.C. 552(b) and that it is essential 

to close the meeting to protect the free 

exchange of views and to avoid 

interference with the operations of the 

Committee. 

It is suggested that those desiring 

more specific information contact 

Advisory Committee Management 

Officer, Michael P. McDonald, 1100 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20506, or call 202–606– 

8322. 

Lisette Voyatzis, 

Attorney-Advisor. 

[FR Doc. 2010–1107 Filed 1–21–10; 8:45 am] 

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[NRC–2010–0018] 

Draft Regulatory Guide: Issuance, 

Availability 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of Issuance and 

Availability of Draft Regulatory Guide, 

DG–8037, Information Relevant to 

Ensuring that Occupational Radiation 

Exposures at Medical Institutions Will 

be as Low as is Reasonably Achievable. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mohammad Saba, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001, telephone: (301) 251– 

7558 or e-mail to 

Mohammad.Saba@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing for public 

comment a draft guide in the agency’s 

‘‘Regulatory Guide’’ series. This series 

was 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. 

The draft regulatory guide (DG), 

entitled, ‘‘Information Relevant to 

Ensuring that Occupational Radiation 

Exposures at Medical Institutions Will 

be as Low as is Reasonably Achievable,’’ 

is temporarily identified by its task 

number, DG–8037, which should be 

mentioned in all related 

correspondence. DG–8037 is a proposed 

Revision 2 of Regulatory Guide 8.18, 

dated October 1982. 

This guide is directed specifically 

toward medical licensees and 

recommends methods that the staff of 

the NRC considers acceptable to 

maintain occupational exposures as low 

as is reasonably achievable (ALARA) in 

medical institutions. In a medical 

institution, certain persons other than 

employees are exposed to radiation from 

licensed radioactive material. These 

persons include visitors, as well as 

patients other than those being treated 

with radioactive material. This guide 

addresses the protection of these 

individuals. The content of this guide is 

also applicable to veterinary medical 

institutions, insofar as specific 

diagnostic or therapeutic procedures are 

performed. Similar protection practices 

are applicable for keeping employee and 

visitor exposures ALARA, whether the 

patients are animal or human. 

II. Further Information 

The NRC staff is soliciting comments 

on DG–8037. Comments may be 

accompanied by relevant information or 

supporting data and should mention 

DG–8037 in the subject line. Comments 

submitted in writing or in electronic 

form will be made available to the 

public in their entirety through the 

NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access 

and Management System (ADAMS). 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any one of the following methods. 

Please include Docket ID NRC–2010– 

0018 in the subject line of your 

comments. Comments submitted in 

writing or in electronic form will be 

posted on the NRC website and on the 

Federal rulemaking Web site 

Regulations.gov. Because your 

comments will not be edited to remove 

any identifying or contact information, 

the NRC cautions you against including 

any information in your submission that 

you do not want to be publicly 

disclosed. 

The NRC requests that any party 

soliciting or aggregating comments 

received from other persons for 

submission to the NRC inform those 

persons that the NRC will not edit their 

comments to remove any identifying or 

contact information, and therefore, they 

should not include any information in 

their comments that they do not want 

publicly disclosed. 

Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for documents filed under Docket ID 

NRC–2010–0018. Address questions 

about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher 

301–492–3668; e-mail 

Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. 

Mail comments to: Michael T. Lesar, 

Chief, Rulemaking and Directives 

Branch (RDB), Office of Administration, 

Mail Stop: TWB–05–B01M, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, or by fax 

to RDB at (301) 492–3446. 

You can access publicly available 

documents related to this notice using 

the following methods: 

NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR): 

The public may examine and have 

copied for a fee publicly available 

documents at the NRC’s PDR, Room O1 

F21, One White Flint North, 11555 

Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland. 

NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access 

and Management System (ADAMS): 

Publicly available documents created or 

received at the NRC are available 

electronically at the NRC’s Electronic 

Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/ 

reading-rm/adams.html. From this page, 

the public can gain entry into ADAMS, 

which provides text and image files of 

NRC’s public documents. If you do not 

have access to ADAMS or if there are 

problems in accessing the documents 

located in ADAMS, contact the NRC’s 

PDR reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 

301–415–4737, or by e-mail to 

pdr.resource@nrc.gov. DG–8037 is 

available electronically under ADAMS 

Accession Number ML091940170 . In 

addition, electronic copies of DG–8037 

are available through the NRC’s public 

Web site under Draft Regulatory Guides 

in the ‘‘Regulatory Guides’’ collection of 

the NRC’s Electronic Reading Room at 

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

Federal Rulemaking Web site: Public 

comments and supporting materials 

related to this notice can be found at 

http://www.regulations.gov by searching 

on Docket ID: NRC–2010–0018. 

Requests for technical information 

about DG–8037 may be directed to the 

NRC contact, Mohammad Saba at (301) 

251–7558 or e-mail to 

Mohammad.Saba@nrc.gov. 

Comments would be most helpful if 

received by March 19, 2010. Comments 

received after that 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. Although a time limit is given, 

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. 


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Regulatory guides are not 

copyrighted, and Commission approval 

is not required to reproduce them. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 12th day 

of January 2010. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Andrea D. Valentin, 

Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, 

Division of Engineering, Office of Nuclear 

Regulatory Research. 

[FR Doc. 2010–1197 Filed 1–21–10; 8:45 am] 

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[Docket Nos. 50–321 and 50–366; NRC– 

2010–0024] 

Southern Nuclear Operating Company, 

Inc., Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant, 

Units 1 and 2; Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is considering 

issuance of an Exemption, pursuant to 

Title 10 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (10 CFR) Section 73.5, 

‘‘Specific exemptions,’’ from the 

implementation date for a certain new 

requirement of 10 CFR part 73, 

‘‘Physical protection of plants and 

materials,’’ for Renewed Facility 

Operating License Nos. DPR–57 and 

NPF–5, issued to Southern Nuclear 

Operating Company, Inc. (SNC, the 

licensee), for operation of the Edwin I. 

Hatch Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2 

(HNP), located in Appling County, 

Georgia. In accordance with 10 CFR 

51.21, the NRC prepared an 

environmental assessment documenting 

its finding. The NRC concluded that the 

proposed actions will have no 

significant environmental impact. 

Environmental Assessment 

Identification of the Proposed Action 

The proposed action would exempt 

HNP from the required implementation 

date of March 31, 2010, for a certain 

new requirement of 10 CFR part 73. 

Specifically, HNP would be granted an 

exemption from being in full 

compliance with a certain new 

requirement contained in 10 CFR 73.55 

by the March 31, 2010, deadline. SNC 

has proposed an alternate full 

compliance implementation date of 

December 6, 2010, approximately 8 

months beyond the date required by 10 

CFR part 73. The proposed action, an 

extension of the schedule for 

completion of certain actions required 

by the revised 10 CFR part 73, does not 

involve any physical changes to the 

reactor, fuel, plant structures, support 

structures, water, or land at the HNP 

site. 

The proposed action is in accordance 

with the licensee’s application dated 

November 6, 2009, as supplemented by 

letter dated November 20, 2009. 

The Need for the Proposed Action 

The proposed action is needed to 

provide the licensee with additional 

time to perform upgrades to the HNP 

security system due to procurement, 

resource, and logistical impacts, 

including the spring 2010 Unit 1 

refueling outage and other factors. 

Environmental Impacts of the Proposed 

Action 

The NRC has completed its 

environmental assessment of the 

proposed exemption. The staff has 

concluded that the proposed action to 

extend the implementation deadline 

would not significantly affect plant 

safety and would not have a significant 

adverse effect on the probability of an 

accident occurring. 

The proposed action would not result 

in an increased radiological hazard 

beyond those previously analyzed in the 

environmental assessment and finding 

of no significant impact made by the 

Commission in promulgating its 

revisions to 10 CFR part 73 as discussed 

in a Federal Register notice dated 

March 27, 2009 (74 FR 13967). There 

will be no change to radioactive 

effluents that affect radiation exposures 

to plant workers and members of the 

public. Therefore, no changes or 

different types of radiological impacts 

are expected as a result of the proposed 

exemption. 

The proposed action does not result 

in changes to land use or water use, or 

result in changes to the quality or 

quantity of non-radiological effluents. 

No changes to the National Pollution 

Discharge Elimination System permit 

are needed. No effects on the aquatic or 

terrestrial habitat in the vicinity of the 

plant, or to threatened, endangered, or 

protected species under the Endangered 

Species Act, or impacts to essential fish 

habitat covered by the MagnusonSteven’s Act are expected. There are no 

impacts to the air or ambient air quality. 

There are no impacts to historical and 

cultural resources. There would be no 

impact to socioeconomic resources. 

Therefore, no changes to or different 

types of non-radiological environmental 

impacts are expected as a result of the 

proposed exemption. 

Accordingly, the NRC concludes that 

there are no significant environmental 

impacts associated with the proposed 

action. In addition, in promulgating its 

revisions to 10 CFR part 73, the 

Commission prepared an environmental 

assessment and published a finding of 

no significant impact [Part 73, Power 

Reactor Security Requirements, 74 FR 

13926, 13967 (March 27, 2009)]. 

The licensee currently maintains a 

security program acceptable to the NRC 

and the new 10 CFR part 73 security 

measures that will be implemented by 

March 31, 2010, will continue to 

provide acceptable physical protection 

of the HNP. Therefore, the extension of 

the implementation date for the 

specified new requirement of 10 CFR 

part 73, to December 6, 2010, would not 

have any significant environmental 

impacts. 

The NRC staff’s safety evaluation will 

be provided in the exemption that will 

be issued as part of the letter to the 

licensee approving the exemption to the 

regulation, if granted. 

Environmental Impacts of the 

Alternatives to the Proposed Action 

As an alternative to the proposed 

action, the NRC staff considered denial 

of the proposed action (i.e., the ‘‘noaction’’ alternative). Denial of the 

exemption request would result in no 

change in current environmental 

impacts. If the proposed action was 

denied, the licensee would have to 

comply with the March 31, 2010, 

implementation deadline. The 

environmental impacts of the proposed 

exemption and the ‘‘no action’’ 

alternative are similar. 

Alternative Use of Resources 

The action does not involve the use of 

any different resources than those 

considered in the Final Environmental 

Statement for the HNP, dated October 

1972, as supplemented through the 

‘‘Generic Environmental Impact 

Statement for License Renewal of 

Nuclear Plants: Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear 

Plant, Units 1 and 2—Final Report 

(NUREG—1437, Supplement 4).’’ 

Agencies and Persons Consulted 

In accordance with its stated policy, 

on January 5, 2010, the NRC staff 

consulted with the Georgia State 

official, Mr. Jim Hardeman of the 

Georgia Department of Natural 

Resources, regarding the environmental 

impact of the proposed action. The State 

official had no comments. 

Finding of No Significant Impact 

On the basis of the environmental 

assessment, the NRC concludes that the 

proposed action will not have a 

significant effect on the quality of the 

human environment. Accordingly, the 

NRC has determined not to prepare an 


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