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Dated: August 24, 2017. 

Katherine Ward, 

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Legal Affairs and General Counsel. 

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Preparation of Petitions for 

Rulemaking and Preparation and 

Submission of Proposals for 

Regulatory Guidance Documents 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Regulatory guide; withdrawal. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is withdrawing 

Regulatory Guide (RG) 10.12, 

‘‘Preparation of Petitions for 

Rulemaking under 10 CFR 2.802 and 

Preparation and Submission of 

Proposals for Regulatory Guidance 

Documents.’’ Regulatory Guide 10.12 is 

being withdrawn because the guidance 

in the RG is found in the revised 10 CFR 

2.802, ‘‘Petition for Rulemaking,’’ and in 

other user-friendly communication 

tools, such as the NRC’s public Web 

site. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2017–0186 when contacting the 

NRC about the availability of 

information regarding this document. 

You may access publicly-available 

information related to this document 

using any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2017–0186. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Carol 

Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; 

email: Carol.Gallagher@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 publiclyavailable documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

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

adams.html. To begin the search, select 

‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then 

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. The 

basis for the withdrawal of this guide is 

in ADAMS under Accession No. 

ML17236A456. 

• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and 

purchase copies of public documents at 

the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Harriet Karagiannis, Office of Nuclear 

Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001, telephone: 301–251– 

7477, email: Harriet.Karagiannis@

nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The NRC is withdrawing RG 10.12 

because it is no longer the most 

appropriate platform for communicating 

this guidance to the public. The 

proposed rule combined with the 

updates in the NRC’s public Web site 

provide more useful information for the 

Petition for Rulemaking (PRM) process. 

II. Further Information 

The withdrawal of RG 10.12 does not 

alter any prior or existing licensing 

commitments based on its use. 

Although a regulatory guide is 

withdrawn, its use in existing licenses 

is still valid, and changes to the licenses 

can be accomplished using other 

regulatory products. 

Withdrawal of a RG means that the 

guide no longer provides useful 

information or has been superseded by 

other guidance, technological 

innovations, congressional actions, or 

other events. A withdrawn guide should 

not be used for future NRC licensing 

activities. 

The RG 10.12 was issued in December 

1996. The RG 10.12 provides guidance 

on meeting the requirements in part 2 of 

title 10 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (10 CFR), ‘‘Agency Rules of 

Practice and Procedures,’’ section 2.802 

‘‘Petition for Rulemaking,’’ which 

pertains to the process for preparing a 

petition. As a result of the revised 10 

CFR 2.802 rulemaking the guidance that 

exists in RG 10.12 has been superseded. 

The staff has revised 10 CFR 2.802 to 

streamline the process for addressing a 

PRM. The rule: (1) Clarifies and codifies 

the NRC’s current policies and practices 

on the actions taken upon receipt of a 

PRM and at other stages of the PRM 

process; (2) clarifies and improves the 

current policies and practices for 

evaluating PRMs; (3) updates the means 

for communicating with the petitioner 

and the public information on the status 

of NRC PRMs and rulemaking activities 

addressing PRMs; and (4) establishes an 

improved process for resolving PRMs, 

including an administrative process for 

closing the PRM docket to reflect agency 

action for the PRM. These changes are 

enhancing the consistency, timeliness, 

and transparency of the NRC’s actions 

and are increasing the efficient use of 

the NRC’s resources in the PRM process. 

The rule text supersedes the guidance 

that exists in RG 10.12. 

In addition, information in RG 10.12 

is made available through other userfriendly tools, such as the NRC’s public 

Web site which is enhanced to provide 

updated guidance, including a brochure 

and a process flow chart, for submitting 

a PRM and proposals to change existing 

regulatory guidance documents. 

The revised 10 CFR 2.802 combined 

with Web site updates provide more upto-date information for the PRM process. 

Therefore, the guidance provided in this 

RG has been superseded. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day 

of August, 2017. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Edward M. O’Donnell, 

Acting Chief, Regulatory Guidance and 

Generic Issues Branch, Division of 

Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory 

Research. 

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