Guidance for Evaluation of Acute Chemical Exposures and Proposed Quantitative Standards, 11692-11693 [2015-04478]

Download as PDF 11692 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 42 / Wednesday, March 4, 2015 / Notices NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 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: Marilyn Diaz, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–287–9068, email: Marilyn.Diaz@nrc.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: www.regulations.gov as well as entering the comment submissions into ADAMS. 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, then you should inform those persons not to include identifying or contact information that they do not want to be publicly disclosed in their comment submission. Your request should state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to remove such information before making the comment submissions available to the public or entering the comment submissions into ADAMS. [NRC–2015–0044] I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments A fuel cycle facility licensee that is regulated under part 70 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), and that is subject to subpart H, ‘‘Additional Requirements for Certain Licensees Authorized to Possess a Critical Mass of Special Nuclear Material,’’ is required to conduct an Integrated safety analysis (ISA) and submit an ISA summary that supports the license application. As relevant to the ISG, the 10 CFR 70.65(b)(7) provision requires that for all credible acute chemical exposure events set forth in 10 CFR 70.61(b)(4) and (c)(4), the ISA summary describe ‘‘the proposed quantitative standards used to assess the consequences to an individual from acute chemical exposure to licensed material or chemicals produced from licensed materials.’’ The ISG will assist the NRC in determining whether ISA summaries and the underlying ISAs conducted by applicants or licensees adequately consider all credible acute chemical exposure events and exposure pathways. The ISG identifies several sources of chemical hazards information on which proposed quantitative standards may be based. As stated in the ISG, these sources of information include the Emergency Response Planning Guidelines (ERPGs), the Acute Exposure Guidelines Levels (AEGLs), Temporary Emergency Exposure Levels (TEELs), and the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS). The ERPGs, AEGLs, TEELs and GHS hazard statements contain information relevant to inhalation exposure pathways. As detailed in the ISG, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Skin Notations, and the GHS hazards statements, contain useful data on which an applicant may base its III. Congressional Review Act INFORMATION CONTACT This action is a rule as defined in the Congressional Review Act (5 U.S.C. 801–808). However, the Office of Management and Budget has not found it to be a major rule as defined in the Congressional Review Act. Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 17th day of February 2015. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Scott A. Morris, Director, Division of Inspection and Regional Support, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. [FR Doc. 2015–04479 Filed 3–3–15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590–01–P Guidance for Evaluation of Acute Chemical Exposures and Proposed Quantitative Standards Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Draft interim staff guidance; request for comment. AGENCY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is soliciting public comment on its draft Interim Staff Guidance (ISG), ‘‘Guidance for Evaluation of Acute Chemical Exposures and Proposed Quantitative Standards.’’ The ISG supplements existing guidance in NUREG–1520, ‘‘Standard Review Plan for the Review of a License Application for a Fuel Cycle Facility,’’ by providing additional guidance for the NRC to follow when evaluating descriptions of proposed quantitative standards. The ISG identifies sources of information on which proposed quantitative standards may be based. DATES: Submit comments by May 18, 2015. Comments received after this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the Commission is able to ensure consideration only for comments received 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 https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC–2015–0044. 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 mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES SUMMARY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:11 Mar 03, 2015 Jkt 235001 A. Obtaining Information Please refer to Docket ID NRC–NRC– 2015–0044 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain publiclyavailable information related to this action by any of the following methods: • Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC–2015–0044. • NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly available documents online in the ADAMS Public Documents collection at https://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 ISG is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML15051A029. • 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. B. Submitting Comments Please include Docket ID NRC–2015– 0044 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 to be publicly disclosed in your comment submission. The NRC posts all comment submissions at https:// PO 00000 Frm 00064 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 II. Background E:\FR\FM\04MRN1.SGM 04MRN1 11693 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 42 / Wednesday, March 4, 2015 / Notices proposed quantitative standards for dermal and ocular exposures. The information from the ISG will be incorporated into the next revision of 1 ............... 2 ............... 3 ............... 4 ............... 5 ............... 6 ............... 7 ............... 8 ............... 9 ............... [FR Doc. 2015–04478 Filed 3–3–15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590–01–P NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [NRC–2013–0046] Scope Expansion of the PostInvestigation Alternative Dispute Resolution Program Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Policy revision; issuance. AGENCY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a revision to its Enforcement Policy (Enforcement Policy or Policy) to incorporate Commission direction to add escalated non-willful (traditional) enforcement cases with the potential for civil penalties within the scope of the Commission’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Program and to make other conforming edits. DATES: This revision to the Enforcement Policy is effective March 4, 2015. ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2013–0046 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain publicly-available information related to this action by any of the following methods: SUMMARY: mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Additional background information and documents related to this notice can be found in ADAMS under the following accession numbers: Memorandum of Understanding Between NRC and OSHA Relating to NRC-Licensed Facilities ........................ NRC Information Notice 2007–022, Recent Hydrogen Fluoride Exposures at Fuel Cycle Facilities (June 19, 2007). Letter from Felix M. Killar, Senior Director, Fuel and Materials Safety, NEI, to Daniel H. Dorman, Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, Office of Nuclear Materials Safety and Safeguards (NMSS) (September 8, 2008). Letter from Daniel H. Dorman, Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, NMSS, to Felix M. Killar, Senior Director, Fuel Supply. Material Licenses, of the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) (November 10, 2008). Letter from Felix M. Killar, Senior Director, Fuel and Materials Safety, NEI, to Daniel H. Dorman, Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, NMSS (February 24, 2009). Letter from Daniel H. Dorman, Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, NMSS, to Felix M. Killar, Senior Director, Fuel Supply. Material Licenses, of the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) (June 12, 2009). Letter from Janet R. Schlueter, Sr. Director, Fuel and Materials Safety, NEI, to Marissa G. Bailey, Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, NMSS (March 26, 2014). Letter from Marissa G. Bailey, Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, NMSS, to Janet R. Schlueter, NEI (September 15, 2014). Letter from Ellen Ginsberg, the General Counsel of the NEI to Margaret Doane, the General Counsel of the NRC, (November 7, 2014). Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day of February, 2015. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Marissa G. Bailey, Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety, Safeguards and Environmental Review, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. VerDate Sep<11>2014 NUREG–1520, ‘‘Standard Review Plan for the Review of a License Application for a Fuel Cycle Facility,’’ (ADAMS Accession No. ML101390110). 18:11 Mar 03, 2015 Jkt 235001 • Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC–2013–0046. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact the individuals 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 https://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 the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section. • 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: Daniel Lenehan, telephone: 301–415– 3501, email: Daniel.Lenehan@nrc.gov, or Shahram Ghasemian, telephone: 301– 415–3591, email: Shahram.Ghasemian@ nrc.gov; both of the Office of Enforcement, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 0001. PO 00000 Frm 00065 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 ML11354A432 ML071410230 ML083360632 ML082900889 ML090690732 ML090920296 ML14086A267 ML14251A150 ML14322B019 SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background The Administrative Dispute Resolution Act of 1996 authorizes and encourages the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) procedures by Federal agencies. The term ‘‘ADR’’ refers to a number of voluntary processes, such as mediation and facilitated dialogues that can be used to assist parties in resolving disputes and potential conflicts. These techniques involve the use of a neutral third party, either from within the agency or from outside the agency, and are voluntary processes in terms of the decision to participate and the content of the final agreement. The NRC’s experience with ADR has demonstrated that the use of these techniques can result in more efficient resolution of issues, more effective outcomes, and improved relationships between the agency and other parties. The NRC established the ADR Program in its Office of Enforcement in 2004. Since the implementation of the ADR Program, the NRC has reached settlement agreements with licensees (or contractors) and individuals, and has issued subsequent ADR confirmatory orders in more than 90 enforcement cases. The parties to ADR in the NRC’s enforcement program are the NRC staff and, in most cases, a licensee. The proceedings are conducted using the facilitation skills of a trained independent mediator. Mediation allows the NRC staff and the licensee to communicate openly and directly and enables the parties to reach effective and workable agreements that meet the NRC’s regulatory interests. Historically, E:\FR\FM\04MRN1.SGM 04MRN1

Agencies

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 42 (Wednesday, March 4, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11692-11693]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-04478]


-----------------------------------------------------------------------

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2015-0044]


Guidance for Evaluation of Acute Chemical Exposures and Proposed 
Quantitative Standards

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Draft interim staff guidance; request for comment.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is soliciting 
public comment on its draft Interim Staff Guidance (ISG), ``Guidance 
for Evaluation of Acute Chemical Exposures and Proposed Quantitative 
Standards.'' The ISG supplements existing guidance in NUREG-1520, 
``Standard Review Plan for the Review of a License Application for a 
Fuel Cycle Facility,'' by providing additional guidance for the NRC to 
follow when evaluating descriptions of proposed quantitative standards. 
The ISG identifies sources of information on which proposed 
quantitative standards may be based.

DATES: Submit comments by May 18, 2015. Comments received after this 
date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the Commission 
is able to ensure consideration only for comments received 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 https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0044. 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: Marilyn Diaz, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-287-9068, email: 
Marilyn.Diaz@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-NRC-2015-0044 when contacting the NRC 
about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain 
publicly-available information related to this action by any of the 
following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0044.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly available documents online in the 
ADAMS Public Documents collection at https://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 ISG is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML15051A029.
     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.

B. Submitting Comments

    Please include Docket ID NRC-2015-0044 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 to be publicly disclosed in your 
comment submission. The NRC posts all comment submissions at https://www.regulations.gov as well as entering the comment submissions into 
ADAMS. 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, then you should inform those persons not to 
include identifying or contact information that they do not want to be 
publicly disclosed in their comment submission. Your request should 
state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to 
remove such information before making the comment submissions available 
to the public or entering the comment submissions into ADAMS.

II. Background

    A fuel cycle facility licensee that is regulated under part 70 of 
Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), and that is 
subject to subpart H, ``Additional Requirements for Certain Licensees 
Authorized to Possess a Critical Mass of Special Nuclear Material,'' is 
required to conduct an Integrated safety analysis (ISA) and submit an 
ISA summary that supports the license application. As relevant to the 
ISG, the 10 CFR 70.65(b)(7) provision requires that for all credible 
acute chemical exposure events set forth in 10 CFR 70.61(b)(4) and 
(c)(4), the ISA summary describe ``the proposed quantitative standards 
used to assess the consequences to an individual from acute chemical 
exposure to licensed material or chemicals produced from licensed 
materials.''
    The ISG will assist the NRC in determining whether ISA summaries 
and the underlying ISAs conducted by applicants or licensees adequately 
consider all credible acute chemical exposure events and exposure 
pathways. The ISG identifies several sources of chemical hazards 
information on which proposed quantitative standards may be based. As 
stated in the ISG, these sources of information include the Emergency 
Response Planning Guidelines (ERPGs), the Acute Exposure Guidelines 
Levels (AEGLs), Temporary Emergency Exposure Levels (TEELs), and the 
Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals 
(GHS). The ERPGs, AEGLs, TEELs and GHS hazard statements contain 
information relevant to inhalation exposure pathways. As detailed in 
the ISG, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Skin 
Notations, and the GHS hazards statements, contain useful data on which 
an applicant may base its

[[Page 11693]]

proposed quantitative standards for dermal and ocular exposures.
    The information from the ISG will be incorporated into the next 
revision of NUREG-1520, ``Standard Review Plan for the Review of a 
License Application for a Fuel Cycle Facility,'' (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML101390110).
    Additional background information and documents related to this 
notice can be found in ADAMS under the following accession numbers:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1.............................  Memorandum of                ML11354A432
                                 Understanding
                                 Between NRC and OSHA
                                 Relating to NRC-
                                 Licensed Facilities.
2.............................  NRC Information              ML071410230
                                 Notice 2007-022,
                                 Recent Hydrogen
                                 Fluoride Exposures
                                 at Fuel Cycle
                                 Facilities (June 19,
                                 2007).
3.............................  Letter from Felix M.         ML083360632
                                 Killar, Senior
                                 Director, Fuel and
                                 Materials Safety,
                                 NEI, to Daniel H.
                                 Dorman, Director,
                                 Division of Fuel
                                 Cycle Safety and
                                 Safeguards, Office
                                 of Nuclear Materials
                                 Safety and
                                 Safeguards (NMSS)
                                 (September 8, 2008).
4.............................  Letter from Daniel H.        ML082900889
                                 Dorman, Director,
                                 Division of Fuel
                                 Cycle Safety and
                                 Safeguards, NMSS, to
                                 Felix M. Killar,
                                 Senior Director,
                                 Fuel Supply.
                                 Material Licenses,
                                 of the Nuclear
                                 Energy Institute
                                 (NEI) (November 10,
                                 2008).
5.............................  Letter from Felix M.         ML090690732
                                 Killar, Senior
                                 Director, Fuel and
                                 Materials Safety,
                                 NEI, to Daniel H.
                                 Dorman, Director,
                                 Division of Fuel
                                 Cycle Safety and
                                 Safeguards, NMSS
                                 (February 24, 2009).
6.............................  Letter from Daniel H.        ML090920296
                                 Dorman, Director,
                                 Division of Fuel
                                 Cycle Safety and
                                 Safeguards, NMSS, to
                                 Felix M. Killar,
                                 Senior Director,
                                 Fuel Supply.
                                 Material Licenses,
                                 of the Nuclear
                                 Energy Institute
                                 (NEI) (June 12,
                                 2009).
7.............................  Letter from Janet R.         ML14086A267
                                 Schlueter, Sr.
                                 Director, Fuel and
                                 Materials Safety,
                                 NEI, to Marissa G.
                                 Bailey, Director,
                                 Division of Fuel
                                 Cycle Safety and
                                 Safeguards, NMSS
                                 (March 26, 2014).
8.............................  Letter from Marissa          ML14251A150
                                 G. Bailey, Director,
                                 Division of Fuel
                                 Cycle Safety and
                                 Safeguards, NMSS, to
                                 Janet R. Schlueter,
                                 NEI (September 15,
                                 2014).
9.............................  Letter from Ellen            ML14322B019
                                 Ginsberg, the
                                 General Counsel of
                                 the NEI to Margaret
                                 Doane, the General
                                 Counsel of the NRC,
                                 (November 7, 2014).
------------------------------------------------------------------------


    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day of February, 2015.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Marissa G. Bailey,
Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety, Safeguards and Environmental 
Review, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2015-04478 Filed 3-3-15; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 7590-01-P
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.