[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 94 (Wednesday, May 15, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 34735]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-12126]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Regulatory Guide; Issuance, Availability

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued revisions to two 
guides in its Regulatory Guide Series. This series has been developed 
to describe and make available to the public such information as 
methods acceptable to the NRC staff for implementing specific parts of 
the NRC's regulations, techniques used by the staff in evaluating 
specific problems or postulated accidents, and data needed by the staff 
in its review of applications for permits and licenses.
    Revision 1 of Regulatory Guide 8.30, ``Health Physics Surveys in 
Uranium Recovery Facilities,'' describes guidance acceptable to the NRC 
staff on health physics surveys at uranium recovery facilities. These 
health physics surveys are used in protecting workers at uranium 
recovery facilities from radiation and the chemical toxicity of 
uranium.
    Revision 1 of Regulatory Guide 8.31, ``Information Relevant to 
Ensuring that Occupational Radiation Exposures at Uranium Recovery 
Facilities Will Be As Low As Is Reasonably Achievable,'' provides 
guidance on design criteria and administrative practices that are 
acceptable to the NRC staff for maintaining occupational exposures as 
low as is reasonably achievable (ALARA) in uranium recovery facilities.
    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. Written comments may be submitted to 
the Rules and Directives Branch, Division of Administrative Services, 
Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555.
    Regulatory guides are available for inspection or downloading at 
the NRC's Web Site at WWW.NRC.GOV> under Regulatory Guides and in NRC's 
Electronic Reading Room (ADAMS System) at the same site. Single copies 
of regulatory guides may be obtained free of charge by writing the 
Reproduction and Distribution Services Section, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, or by fax to (301) 415-2289, or 
by e-mail to [email protected]>. Issued guides may also be purchased 
from the National Technical Information Service on a standing order 
basis. Details on this service may be obtained by writing NTIS, 5285 
Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA 22161.
    Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and Commission approval is 
not required to reproduce them.

(5 U.S.C. 552(a))

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 2nd day of May, 2002.
    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Ashok C. Thadani,
Director, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 02-12126 Filed 5-14-02; 8:45 am]
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