Notices. Draft NUREG; request for comments
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BILLING CODE 7536-01-P NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [NRC-2016-0053] Program-Specific Guidance About Possession Licenses for Manufacturing and Distribution AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Draft NUREG; request for comments. SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC)is revising its licensing guidance for possession licenses for manufacturing and distribution. The NRC is requesting public comment on draft NUREG-1556, Volume 12, Revision 1, “Consolidated Guidance about Materials Licenses: Program-Specific Guidance about Possession Licenses for Manufacturing and Distribution.” The document has been updated from the previous revision to include information on safety culture, security of radioactive materials, protection of sensitive information, and changes in regulatory policies and practices. This document is intended for use by applicants, licensees, and the NRC staff. DATES: Submit comments by August 12, 2016. Comments received after this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC is only able to assure consideration of comments received on or before this date. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods (unless this document describes a different method for submitting comments on a specific subject): • *Federal Rulemaking Web site:* Go to *http://www.regulations.gov* and search for Docket ID NRC-2016-0053. 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. • *Mail comments to:* Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration, Mail Stop: OWFN-12-H08, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. For additional direction on accessing information and submitting comments, see “Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments” in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eric Reber, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards; U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-5608; email: *Eric.Reber@nrc.gov.* SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments A. Obtaining Information Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2016-0053 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You may obtain publicly-available information related to this action by the following methods: • *Federal Rulemaking Web site:* Go to *http://www.regulations.gov* and search for Docket ID NRC-2016-0053. • *NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS):* You may obtain publicly-available 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 draft NUREG-1556, Volume 12, Revision 1, is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML16182A163. • *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. The draft NUREG-1556, Volume 12, Revision 1, is also available on the NRC's public Web site on:
(1)The “Consolidated Guidance About Materials Licenses (NUREG-1556)” page at *http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1556/;* and
(2)the “Draft NUREG-Series Publications for Comment” page at *http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/doc-comment.html#nuregs.* B. Submitting Comments Please include Docket ID NRC-2016-0053 in the subject line of your comment submission, in order to ensure that the NRC is able to make your comment submission available to the public in this docket. The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact information that you do not want publicly disclosed in your comment submission. The NRC will post all comment submissions at *http://www.regulations.gov* as well as enter the comment submissions into ADAMS, and the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to remove identifying or contact information. If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons for submission to the NRC, you should inform these persons that they should not to include identifying or contact information that they do not want to be publicly disclosed in their comment submission. II. Further Information The NUREG provides guidance to current holders of possession licenses for manufacturing and distribution and to an applicant in preparing an application for such a license. The NUREG also provides the NRC with criteria for evaluating a license application. The purpose of this notice is to provide the public with an opportunity to review and provide comments on draft NUREG-1556, Volume 12, Revision 1, “Consolidated Guidance about Materials Licenses: Program-Specific Guidance about Licenses for Manufacturing and Distribution.” Comments submitted in response to this notice will be considered in the final version or subsequent revisions. Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 6th day of July 2016. For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Daniel S. Collins, Director, Division of Material Safety, State, Tribal and Rulemaking Programs, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. [FR Doc. 2016-16559 Filed 7-12-16; 8:45 am]