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1The Oglala Delegation’s request to make filings 

by email was initially directed to the Commission. 

The Secretary of the Commission, in turn, referred 

the hearing request to the Chief Administrative 

Judge of the ASLBP for appropriate action. Absent 

instructions to the contrary, such broad referrals 

result in the entire hearing request, and all its 

issues, being referred to a Board for resolution. The 

Oglala Delegation’s request to make filings by email should therefore be resolved by the Board. 

proposed changes to 10 CFR 50.54(q) 

can be found at the Federal eRulemaking Portal (http:// 

www.regulations.gov) by searching on 

Docket ID: NRC–2008–0122. 

II. Further Information 

The NRC staff is soliciting comments 

on DG–1237. Comments may be 

accompanied by relevant information or 

supporting data, and should mention 

DG–1237 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). 

Personal information will not be 

removed from the comments. Comments 

may be submitted by any of the 

following methods: 

1. Mail to: Rulemaking and Directives 

Branch, Mail Stop: TWB–05–B01M, 

Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001. 

2. Fax to: Rulemaking and Directives 

Branch, Office of Administration, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission at (301) 

492–3446. 

Requests for technical information 

about DG–1237 may be directed to 

Steven F. LaVie at (301) 415–1081 or 

e-mail to Steven.LaVie@nrc.gov. 

Comments would be most helpful if 

received by September 1, 2009. 

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. 

Electronic copies of DG–1237 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/. Electronic copies are also 

available in ADAMS (http:// 

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

under Accession No. ML090080534. 

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.resource@nrc.gov. 

Regulatory guides are not 

copyrighted, and Commission approval 

is not required to reproduce them. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 7th day 

of May 2009. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Andrea D. Valentin, 

Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, 

Division of Engineering, Office of Nuclear 

Regulatory Research. 

[FR Doc. E9–11390 Filed 5–15–09; 8:45 am] 

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[Docket No. 40–08502–MLR; ASLBP No. 09– 

887–01–MLR–BD01] 

Cogema Mining, Inc.; Establishment of 

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 

Pursuant to delegation by the 

Commission dated December 29, 1972, 

published in the Federal Register, 37 FR 

28,710 (1972), and the Commission’s 

regulations, see 10 CFR 2.104, 2.300, 

2.303, 2.309, 2.311, 2.318, and 2.321, 

notice is hereby given that an Atomic 

Safety and Licensing Board (Board) is 

being established to preside over the 

following proceeding: 

Cogema Mining, Inc. Irigaray and 

Christensen Ranch Facilities (License 

Renewal for Source Materials License 

SUA–1341) 

This Board is being established in 

response to requests for hearing that 

were filed pursuant to a Notice of 

Request to Renew Source Materials 

License SUA–1341, COGEMA Mining, 

Inc., Irigaray and Christensen Ranch 

Facilities, Johnson and Campbell 

Counties, WY, and Opportunity to 

Request a Hearing dated February 9, 

2009 (74 FR 6436). Requests for hearing 

dated April 10, 2009 were filed by: (1) 

The Powder River Basin Resource 

Council; and (2) the Oglala Delegation of 

the Great Sioux Nation Treaty Council 

(Oglala Delegation), which also seeks 

‘‘leave to make filings by e-mail due to 

problems with the NRC’s EIE document 

system encountered by [petitioner’s 

counsel] due to computer system and 

software incompatibilities’’ (Pet. for 

Hearing at 125).1

The Board is comprised of the 

following administrative judges: 

Alex S. Karlin, Chair, Atomic Safety and 

Licensing Board Panel, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001; 

Paul B. Abramson, Atomic Safety and 

Licensing Board Panel, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001; 

William M. Murphy, Atomic Safety and 

Licensing Board Panel, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001. 

Unless otherwise authorized by the 

Board, all correspondence, documents, 

and other materials shall be filed in 

accordance with the NRC E–Filing Rule, 

which the NRC promulgated in August 

2007 (72 FR 49,139). 

Issued at Rockville, Maryland, this 12th 

day of May 2009. 

E. Roy Hawkens, 

Chief Administrative Judge, Atomic Safety 

and Licensing Board Panel. 

[FR Doc. E9–11532 Filed 5–15–09; 8:45 am] 

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Office of Nuclear Security and Incident 

Response 

[NRC–2008–0122] 

Interim Staff Guidance: Emergency 

Planning for Nuclear Power Plants; 

Solicitation of Public Comment 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC). 

ACTION: Announcement of issuance for 

public comment, availability. 

SUMMARY: The Office of Nuclear 

Security and Incident Response (NSIR) 

is soliciting public comment on its 

proposed Interim Staff Guidance (ISG) 

NSIR/DPR–ISG–01, ‘‘Emergency 

Planning for Nuclear Power Plants.’’ 

This ISG would provide guidance for 

addressing new emergency planning 

(EP) requirements for nuclear power 

plants based on proposed changes to EP 

regulations in Title 10, ‘‘Energy,’’ Part 

50, ‘‘Domestic Licensing of Production 

and Utilization Facilities,’’ of the Code 

of Federal Regulations (10 CFR Part 50), 

specifically Section 50.47, ‘‘Emergency 

Plans,’’ and Appendix E, ‘‘Emergency 

Planning and Preparedness for 

Production and Utilization Facilities’’ 

(reference RIN 3150–AI10). The NRC 

staff will modify the ISG as necessary 

for consistency with the final EP rule as 

part of the overall comment resolution 

process for the ISG and EP rule changes. 

Additional guidance on topics not 

directly related to the EP final rule, such 


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as integrating offsite response 

methodologies with onsite EP programs, 

is also provided in the ISG. Once the EP 

final rule is published and NRC staff 

completes the ISG, the staff will issue it 

for use. The NRC staff will incorporate 

the updated guidance information in 

NSIR/DPR–ISG–01 into future revisions 

of NUREG–0654/FEMA–REP–1, 

‘‘Criteria for the Preparation and 

Evaluation of Radiological Emergency 

Response Plans and Preparedness in 

Support of Nuclear Power Plants,’’ and 

other EP guidance documents. 

Some NRC EP regulatory 

requirements are being revised that 

warrant guidance outside the scope of 

the proposed ISG. The NRC staff plans 

to provide additional guidance for 

addressing proposed changes to Section 

50.54(q) concerning emergency plan 

changes in the form of a new Regulatory 

Guide (RG), proposed changes to 

Appendix E to 10 CFR Part 50 regarding 

emergency action levels for hostile 

action events in a revision to RG 1.101, 

‘‘Emergency Planning for Nuclear Power 

Plants,’’ and proposed changes to 

Section 50.47(b)(10) and Appendix E to 

10 CFR Part 50 regarding updates to 

evacuation time estimates in the form of 

a new NUREG/CR document. The 

Federal Emergency Management Agency 

(FEMA) is addressing offsite EP 

guidance changes in support of the 

proposed EP rule and other offsite EP 

program issues in a new supplement to 

NUREG–0654/FEMA–REP–1, as well as 

other FEMA documents. These 

documents will be issued separately for 

public comment prior to publishing the 

EP final rule. 

DATES: Comments must be filed no later 

than 75 days from the date of 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register. Comments received after this 

date will be considered, if it is practical 

to do so, but the NRC staff is able to 

ensure consideration only for comments 

received on or before this date. 

ADDRESSES: NSIR/DPR–ISG–01, 

‘‘Emergency Planning for Nuclear Power 

Plants,’’ is available for inspection and 

copying for a fee at the NRC Public 

Document Room, Public File Area O1– 

F21, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland. Publicly available documents 

created or received at the NRC after 

November 1, 1999, are available 

electronically at the NRC’s Electronic 

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

reading-rm.html. From this site, the 

public can gain entry into the NRC’s 

Agencywide Documents Access and 

Management System (ADAMS), which 

provides text and image files of NRC’s 

public documents. The ADAMS 

Accession number for this ISG is: 

ML083540070. 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 1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or 

by e-mail at pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 

Comments will be made available to 

the public in their entirety; personal 

information, such as your name, 

address, telephone number, e-mail 

address, etc., will not be removed from 

your submission. You may submit 

comments by any one of the following 

methods: Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: 

Go to http://www.regulations.gov; 

search on Docket ID: NRC–2008–0122. 

Direct questions about NRC dockets to 

Carol Gallagher by telephone at 301– 

492–3668 or e-mail at 

carol.gallagher@nrc.gov. Mail comments 

to: Michael T. Lesar, Chief, Rulemaking 

and Directives Branch, Office of 

Administration, Mail Stop: TWB–05– 

B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001. Cite the publication date and page 

number of this Federal Register notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Donald R. Tailleart, Division of 

Preparedness and Response, Office of 

Nuclear Security and Incident 

Response, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001; telephone 301–415–2966 or e-mail 

at don.tailleart@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NRC 

posts its issued staff guidance on the 

NRC external web page at http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/isg/. 

The NRC staff is issuing this notice to 

solicit public comments on the 

proposed NSIR/DPR–ISG–01. After the 

NRC staff considers any public 

comments, it will make a determination 

regarding the proposed NSIR/DPR–ISG– 

01. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day 

of May 2009. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Melvyn N. Leach, 

Director, Division of Preparedness and 

Response, Office of Nuclear Security and 

Incident Response. 

[FR Doc. E9–11036 Filed 5–15–09; 8:45 am] 

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Advisory Committee on Reactor 

Safeguards 

In accordance with the purposes of 

Sections 29 and 182b of the Atomic 

Energy Act (42 U.S.C. 2039, 2232b), the 

Advisory Committee on Reactor 

Safeguards (ACRS) will hold a meeting 

on June 3–5, 2009, 11545 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland. The date of 

this meeting was previously published 

in the Federal Register on Monday, 

October 6, 2008, (73 FR 58268–58269). 

Wednesday, June 3, 2009, Conference 

Room T–2B3, Two White Flint North, 

Rockville, Maryland 

8:30 a.m.–8:35 a.m.: Opening 

Remarks by the ACRS Chairman 

(Open)—The ACRS Chairman will make 

opening remarks regarding the conduct 

of the meeting. 

8:35 a.m.–9:45 a.m.: License Renewal 

Application and the Revised Final 

Safety Evaluation Report for the 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology (NIST) Reactor (Open)—The 

Committee will hear presentations by 

and hold discussions with 

representatives of the NRC staff and 

NIST regarding the License Renewal 

Application for the NIST Reactor, the 

associated NRC staff’s revised final SER, 

and related matters. 

10 a.m.–12 p.m.: Draft Final 

Regulatory Guides 1.21 and 4.1 

(Open)—The Committee will hear 

presentations by and hold discussions 

with representatives of the NRC staff 

regarding Draft Final Regulatory Guide 

1.21 (DG–1186), ‘‘Measuring, 

Evaluating, and Reporting Radioactive 

Materials in Liquid and Gaseous 

Effluents and Solid Wastes,’’ and Draft 

Final Regulatory Guide 4.1 (DG–4013), 

‘‘Radiological Environmental 

Monitoring for Nuclear Power Plants,’’ 

and related matters. 

1 p.m.–3 p.m.: Pellet-Clad Interaction 

Failures under Extended Power Uprate 

Conditions (Open/Closed)—The 

Committee will hear presentations by 

and hold discussions with 

representatives of the NRC staff and 

nuclear industry regarding pellet-clad 

interaction failures under extended 

power uprate conditions, and related 

matters. [Note: A portion of this Session 

may be closed pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 

552b(c)(4), to discuss project 

information that is proprietary to Global 

Nuclear Fuel (GNF) and/or 

Westinghouse, or their contractors.] 

3:15 p.m.–4:45 p.m. Diversity and 

Defense-in-Depth Topical Report 

Associated with the US–APWR Design 

(Open)—The Committee will hear 

presentations by and hold discussions 

with representatives of the NRC staff 

and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., 

regarding the Diversity and Defense-inDepth Topical Report and the associated 

NRC staff’s Safety Evaluation Report 

associated with the US–Advanced 

Pressurized Water Reactor (US–APWR) 

Design, and related matters. 


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