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Download as PDF 33494 Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 111 / Friday, June 9, 2006 / Notices in current environmental impacts. The environmental impacts of the proposed action and the no-action alternative are therefore similar, and the no-action alternative is accordingly not further considered. Conclusion The NRC staff has concluded that the proposed action is consistent with the NRC’s unrestricted release criteria specified in 10 CFR 20.1402. Because the proposed action will not significantly impact the quality of the human environment, the NRC staff concludes that the proposed action is the preferred alternative. Agencies and Persons Consulted NRC provided a draft of this Environmental Assessment to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for review on March 30, 2006. On May 5, 2006, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection responded by email. The State agreed with the conclusions of the EA, and otherwise had no comments. The NRC staff has determined that the proposed action is of a procedural nature, and will not affect listed species or critical habitat. Therefore, no further consultation is required under Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act. The NRC staff has also determined that the proposed action is not the type of activity that has the potential to cause effects on historic properties. Therefore, no further consultation is required under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. III. Finding of No Significant Impact The NRC staff has prepared this EA in support of the proposed action. On the basis of this EA, the NRC finds that there are no significant environmental impacts from the proposed action, and that preparation of an environmental impact statement is not warranted. Accordingly, the NRC has determined that a Finding of No Significant Impact is appropriate. jlentini on PROD1PC65 with NOTICES IV. Further Information Documents related to this action, including the application for license amendment and supporting documentation, are available electronically at the NRC’s Electronic Reading Room at https://www.nrc.gov/ reading-rm/adams.html. From this site, you can access the NRC’s Agencywide Document Access and Management System (ADAMS), which provides text and image files of NRC’s public documents. The documents related to VerDate Aug<31>2005 16:01 Jun 08, 2006 Jkt 208001 this action are listed below, along with their ADAMS accession numbers. 1. NRC License No. 37–02766–01 inspection and licensing records. 2. Letter dated November 8, 2005, requesting that the MRI Building at the Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, be released for unrestricted use [ADAMS Accession No. ML053220642]. 3. Letter dated January 31, 2006, providing additional information for MRI Building Decommissioning at Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [ADAMS Accession No. ML060340527]. 4. Letter dated February 2, 2006, providing additional information for MRI Building Decommissioning at Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [ADAMS Accession No. ML060400106]. 5. NUREG–1757, ‘‘Consolidated NMSS Decommissioning Guidance.’’ 6. Title 10 Code of Federal Regulations, Part 20, Subpart E, ‘‘Radiological Criteria for License Termination.’’ 7. Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 51, ‘‘Environmental Protection Regulations for Domestic Licensing and Related Regulatory Functions.’’ 8. NUREG–1496, ‘‘Generic Environmental Impact Statement in Support of Rulemaking on Radiological Criteria for License Termination of NRCLicensed Nuclear Facilities.’’ 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 to pdr@nrc.gov. These documents may also be viewed electronically on the public computers located at the NRC’s PDR, O 1 F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. The PDR reproduction contractor will copy documents for a fee. Dated at King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, this 1st day of June 2006. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Pamela J. Henderson, Chief, Medical Branch, Division of Nuclear Materials Safety, Region I. [FR Doc. E6–8976 Filed 6–8–06; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590–01–P NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Final Regulatory Guide; Issuance, Availability The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a revision PO 00000 Frm 00061 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 to an existing guide in the agency’s Regulatory Guide Series. This series has been developed to describe and make available to the public such information as methods that are acceptable to the NRC staff for implementing specific parts of the NRC’s regulations, techniques that the staff uses in evaluating specific problems or postulated accidents, and data that the staff needs in its review of applications for permits and licenses. Revision 1 of Regulatory Guide 8.38, entitled ‘‘Control of Access to High and Very High Radiation Areas in Nuclear Power Plants,’’ describes an acceptable program for implementing the requirements of Title 10, Part 20, of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR Part 20), ‘‘Standards for Protection Against Radiation.’’ In particular, 10 CFR 20.1101, ‘‘Radiation Protection Programs,’’ requires licensees to develop and implement a radiation protection program appropriate to the scope of licensed activities and potential hazards. To augment that requirement, 10 CFR 20.2102, ‘‘Records of Radiation Protection Programs,’’ requires licensees to document those radiation protection programs. An important aspect of such programs at nuclear power plants is the institution of a system of controls that includes procedures, training, audits, and physical barriers to protect workers against unplanned exposures in high and very high radiation areas. Toward that end, 10 CFR 20.1601 provides specific requirements applicable to controlling access to high radiation areas, while 10 CFR 20.1602 provides additional requirements to prevent unauthorized or inadvertent entry into very high radiation areas. Appendix A to the revised guide augments this guidance with recommended procedures for good operating practices for underwater diving operations in high and very high radiation areas. In addition, Appendix B summarizes past experience with very high and potentially very high radiation areas, so that pertinent historical information is readily accessible. Dose rates in areas of nuclear power plants that are accessible to individuals can vary over several orders of magnitude. High radiation areas, where personnel can receive doses in excess of the regulatory limits in a relatively short time, require special controls. Very high radiation areas require much stricter monitoring and controls, because failure to adequately implement effective radiological controls can result in radiation doses that result in a significant health risk. Thus, it is important that licensees have effective programs for controlling access to high E:\FR\FM\09JNN1.SGM 09JNN1 jlentini on PROD1PC65 with NOTICES Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 111 / Friday, June 9, 2006 / Notices and very high radiation areas because of the potential for overexposure. The primary purpose of this revision is to clarify the terminology related to the physical barriers that licensees could use to prevent unauthorized personnel access to high and very high radiation areas. The original version of Regulatory Guide 8.38 used the term ‘‘inadvertent entry’’ with two different connotations. As used in Section 1.5, ‘‘Physical Controls,’’ the term was intended to connote ‘‘not a willful violation.’’ In several other sections, however, ‘‘inadvertent entry’’ was used to mean ‘‘an accidental, or unintended, entry.’’ This disparity led to inconsistent readings of the staff’s regulatory position by licensees and other stakeholders. Consequently, in preparing this revision, the NRC staff rewrote Section 1.5 to eliminate the use of the term ‘‘inadvertent entry,’’ and provide additional guidance on the acceptability of physical barriers used to control access to high radiation areas. The staff also revised Section 1.6, ‘‘Shielding,’’ and Section 4.2, ‘‘Materials,’’ to explicitly state the staff’s regulatory positions, which were only implied in the original version. In addition, the staff updated Appendix B to include recent references that discuss industry experiences with high and very high radiation areas. Revision 1 to Regulatory Guide 8.38 does not change previous staff positions. Therefore, this revision does not constitute a backfit, as defined in 10 CFR 50.109. The NRC previously solicited public comment on this revised guide by publishing a Federal Register notice (70 FR 58490) concerning Draft Regulatory Guide DG–8028 on October 6, 2005. Following the closure of the public comment period on December 5, 2005, the staff considered all stakeholder comments in the course of preparing Revision 1 of Regulatory Guide 8.38. The staff’s responses to all comments received are available in the NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ adams.html, under Accession #ML061350247. The NRC staff encourages and welcomes comments and suggestions in connection with improvements to published regulatory guides, as well as items for inclusion in regulatory guides that are currently being developed. You may submit comments by any of the following methods. Mail comments to: Rules and Directives Branch, Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory VerDate Aug<31>2005 16:01 Jun 08, 2006 Jkt 208001 Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 0001. Hand-deliver comments to: Rules and Directives Branch, Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, between 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. on Federal workdays. Fax comments to: Rules and Directives Branch, Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission at (301) 415–5144. Requests for technical information about Revision 1 of Regulatory Guide 8.38 may be directed to Harriet Karagiannis at (301) 415–6377 or by email to HXK@nrc.gov. Regulatory guides are available for inspection or downloading through the NRC’s public Web site in the Regulatory Guides document collection of the NRC’s Electronic Reading Room at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/. Electronic copies of Revision 1 of Regulatory Guide 8.38 are also available in the NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) at https:// www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html, under Accession #ML061350096. 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@nrc.gov. Requests for single copies of draft or final guides (which may be reproduced) or for placement on an automatic distribution list for single copies of future draft guides in specific divisions should be made in writing to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555–0001, Attention: Reproduction and Distribution Services Section; by e-mail to DISTRIBUTION@nrc.gov; or by fax to (301) 415–2289. Telephone requests cannot be accommodated. 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 31st day of May, 2006. For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Brian W. Sheron, Director, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. [FR Doc. 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DATES: Although USTR will accept any comments received during the course of the dispute settlement proceedings, comments should be submitted on or before June 30, 2006 to be assured of timely consideration by USTR. ADDRESSES: Comments should be submitted (i) electronically, to FR0619@ustr.eop.gov, Attn: ‘‘Thailand Shrimp Zeroing/Bond Dispute (DS343)’’ in the subject line, or (ii) by fax, to Sandy McKinzy at (202) 395–3640. For documents sent by fax, USTR requests that the submitter provide a confirmation copy to the electronic mail address listed above. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elissa Alben, Assistant General Counsel, Office of the United States Trade Representative, 600 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20508, (202) 395–9622. 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Final Regulatory Guide; Issuance, Availability

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a revision 
to an existing guide in the agency's Regulatory Guide Series. This 
series has been developed to describe and make available to the public 
such information as methods that are acceptable to the NRC staff for 
implementing specific parts of the NRC's regulations, techniques that 
the staff uses in evaluating specific problems or postulated accidents, 
and data that the staff needs in its review of applications for permits 
and licenses.
    Revision 1 of Regulatory Guide 8.38, entitled ``Control of Access 
to High and Very High Radiation Areas in Nuclear Power Plants,'' 
describes an acceptable program for implementing the requirements of 
Title 10, Part 20, of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR Part 20), 
``Standards for Protection Against Radiation.'' In particular, 10 CFR 
20.1101, ``Radiation Protection Programs,'' requires licensees to 
develop and implement a radiation protection program appropriate to the 
scope of licensed activities and potential hazards. To augment that 
requirement, 10 CFR 20.2102, ``Records of Radiation Protection 
Programs,'' requires licensees to document those radiation protection 
programs. An important aspect of such programs at nuclear power plants 
is the institution of a system of controls that includes procedures, 
training, audits, and physical barriers to protect workers against 
unplanned exposures in high and very high radiation areas. Toward that 
end, 10 CFR 20.1601 provides specific requirements applicable to 
controlling access to high radiation areas, while 10 CFR 20.1602 
provides additional requirements to prevent unauthorized or inadvertent 
entry into very high radiation areas. Appendix A to the revised guide 
augments this guidance with recommended procedures for good operating 
practices for underwater diving operations in high and very high 
radiation areas. In addition, Appendix B summarizes past experience 
with very high and potentially very high radiation areas, so that 
pertinent historical information is readily accessible.
    Dose rates in areas of nuclear power plants that are accessible to 
individuals can vary over several orders of magnitude. High radiation 
areas, where personnel can receive doses in excess of the regulatory 
limits in a relatively short time, require special controls. Very high 
radiation areas require much stricter monitoring and controls, because 
failure to adequately implement effective radiological controls can 
result in radiation doses that result in a significant health risk. 
Thus, it is important that licensees have effective programs for 
controlling access to high

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and very high radiation areas because of the potential for 
overexposure.
    The primary purpose of this revision is to clarify the terminology 
related to the physical barriers that licensees could use to prevent 
unauthorized personnel access to high and very high radiation areas. 
The original version of Regulatory Guide 8.38 used the term 
``inadvertent entry'' with two different connotations. As used in 
Section 1.5, ``Physical Controls,'' the term was intended to connote 
``not a willful violation.'' In several other sections, however, 
``inadvertent entry'' was used to mean ``an accidental, or unintended, 
entry.'' This disparity led to inconsistent readings of the staff's 
regulatory position by licensees and other stakeholders. Consequently, 
in preparing this revision, the NRC staff rewrote Section 1.5 to 
eliminate the use of the term ``inadvertent entry,'' and provide 
additional guidance on the acceptability of physical barriers used to 
control access to high radiation areas.
    The staff also revised Section 1.6, ``Shielding,'' and Section 4.2, 
``Materials,'' to explicitly state the staff's regulatory positions, 
which were only implied in the original version. In addition, the staff 
updated Appendix B to include recent references that discuss industry 
experiences with high and very high radiation areas.
    Revision 1 to Regulatory Guide 8.38 does not change previous staff 
positions. Therefore, this revision does not constitute a backfit, as 
defined in 10 CFR 50.109.
    The NRC previously solicited public comment on this revised guide 
by publishing a Federal Register notice (70 FR 58490) concerning Draft 
Regulatory Guide DG-8028 on October 6, 2005. Following the closure of 
the public comment period on December 5, 2005, the staff considered all 
stakeholder comments in the course of preparing Revision 1 of 
Regulatory Guide 8.38. The staff's responses to all comments received 
are available in the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management 
System (ADAMS) at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html, under 
Accession ML061350247.
    The NRC staff encourages and welcomes comments and suggestions in 
connection with improvements to published regulatory guides, as well as 
items for inclusion in regulatory guides that are currently being 
developed. You may submit comments by any of the following methods.
    Mail comments to: Rules and Directives Branch, Office of 
Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001.
    Hand-deliver comments to: Rules and Directives Branch, Office of 
Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 11555 Rockville 
Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, between 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. on 
Federal workdays.
    Fax comments to: Rules and Directives Branch, Office of 
Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission at (301) 415-5144.
    Requests for technical information about Revision 1 of Regulatory 
Guide 8.38 may be directed to Harriet Karagiannis at (301) 415-6377 or 
by e-mail to HXK@nrc.gov.
    Regulatory guides are available for inspection or downloading 
through the NRC's public Web site in the Regulatory Guides document 
collection of the NRC's Electronic Reading Room at https://www.nrc.gov/
reading-rm/doc-collections/. Electronic copies of Revision 1 of 
Regulatory Guide 8.38 are also available in the NRC's Agencywide 
Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) at https://www.nrc.gov/
reading-rm/adams.html, under Accession ML061350096.
    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@nrc.gov. Requests for single copies of draft or final 
guides (which may be reproduced) or for placement on an automatic 
distribution list for single copies of future draft guides in specific 
divisions should be made in writing to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, Attention: Reproduction and 
Distribution Services Section; by e-mail to DISTRIBUTION@nrc.gov; or by 
fax to (301) 415-2289. Telephone requests cannot be accommodated.
    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 31st day of May, 2006.

    For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Brian W. Sheron,
Director, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
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