Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: d812c779-c17b-4eb3-9d66-b532cd68bd03
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Decommissioning Planning During Operations + HISTORY - HISTORY 12/2011 – DG-4014 , Proposed New Guide
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 4
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1115/ML111590642.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-4.22
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practical while at the same time not requiring definitive identification and quantification of all residual radioactivity. Existing 10 CFR 20.1401(a) specifically excludes uranium recovery facilities from the scope of Subpart E to 10 CFR Part 20. The DPR does not change the exclusion, therefore uranium recovery licensees are not subject to the new DPR requirements in Subpart E. This regulatory guide does not address the details of revisions to financial assurance requirements in the DPR. That guidance is presented in NUREG-1757, Volume 3, “Financial Assurance, Recordkeeping, and Timeliness,” Revision 1 (Ref. 8). The NRC issues regulatory guides to describe to the public methods that the staff considers acceptable for use in implementing specific parts of the agency’s regulations, to explain techniques that the staff uses in evaluating specific problems or postulated accidents, and to provide guidance to applicants. Regulatory guides are not substitutes for regulations and compliance with them is not required. This regulatory guide contains information collection requirements covered by 10 CFR Part 20 that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved under OMB control number 3150-0014. The NRC may neither conduct nor sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, an information collection request or requirement unless the requesting document displays a currently valid OMB control number. This regulatory guide is a rule as designated in the Congressional Review Act (5 U.S.C. 801– 808). However, OMB has not found it to be a major rule as designated in the Congressional Review Act. B. DISCUSSION The DPR adds a new paragraph, 10 CFR 20.1406(c), which establishes a new requirement for licensees with operating licenses to operate their facilities in a manner that minimizes the introduction of residual radioactivity into the site, including the subsurface, to facilitate remediation of the site for unrestricted use at the time of license termination. The