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Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 59 / Wednesday, March 29, 2017 / Notices
Sunshine Act Meeting; National
Science Board
The National Science Board’s
Executive Committee, pursuant to NSF
regulations (45 CFR part 614), the
National Science Foundation Act, as
amended (42 U.S.C. 1862n-5), and the
Government in the Sunshine Act (5
U.S.C. 552b), hereby gives notice of the
scheduling of a teleconference on short
notice for the transaction of National
Science Board business, as follows:
DATE AND TIME: March 30, 2017 from
3:00–4:00 p.m. EDT.
National Science Board Executive
Committee members voted that it is
necessary to agency business to hold
this meeting on short notice.
SUBJECT MATTER: (1) Committee Chair’s
opening remarks; (2) Discussion of
future fiscal year planning.
STATUS: Closed.
This meeting will be held by
teleconference at the National Science
Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd.,
Arlington, VA 22230. Please refer to the
National Science Board Web site
www.nsf.gov/nsb for additional
information. Meeting information and
updates (time, place, subject or status of
meeting) may be found at https://
www.nsf.gov/nsb/meetings/notices.jsp.
Point of contact for this meeting is: Brad
Gutierrez, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington,
VA 22230. Telephone: (703) 292–7000.
Chris Blair,
Executive Assistant to the NSB Office.
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Recommended Practice for Dealing
With Outlying Observations
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Regulatory guide; withdrawal.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is withdrawing
Regulatory Guide (RG) 5.36,
‘‘Recommended Practice for Dealing
with Outlying Observations.’’ This RG is
being withdrawn because guidance for
licensees to develop written procedures
describing statistical analyses of nuclear
material accounting data, specifically
when dealing with outlying
observations in samples and for testing
their statistical significance, is no longer
needed.
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The effective date of the
withdrawal of RG 5.36 is March 29,
2017.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID
NRC–2017–0077 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of
information regarding this document.
You may obtain publicly-available
information related to this document,
using the following methods:
• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2017–0077. 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 Document 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 in this notice (if
that document is available in ADAMS)
is provided the first time that a
document is referenced. The basis for
the withdrawal of this guide is in
ADAMS under Accession No.
ML16225A444.
• 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.
Regulatory guides are not
copyrighted, and NRC approval is not
required to reproduce them.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Glenn Tuttle, Office of Nuclear
Materials Safety and Safeguards,
telephone: 301–415–7230; email:
Glenn.Tuttle@nrc.gov; and Harriet
Karagiannis, Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research, telephone: 301–
415–2493; email: Harriet.Karagiannis@
nrc.gov. Both are staff members of the
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NRC
staff issued RG 5.36 in June 1974 to
provide guidance on meeting the
requirements related to material control
and accounting (MC&A) statistical
control procedures in section 70.22(b) of
title 10 of the Code of Federal
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Regulations (10 CFR), ‘‘Contents of
applications.’’ This requirement,
regarding submittal of the licensees
description of its material control and
accounting (MC&A) procedures, did not
specifically require the methodology
that the guidance in RG 5.36 addressed
and no longer exists in 10 CFR 70.22(b).
The MC&A requirements have all been
moved to 10 CFR part 74, and no
specific requirements exist for
performing outlier testing.
Regulatory guide 5.36 endorsed
American Society for Testing and
Materials (ASTM) Standard E178–74,
‘‘Recommended Practice for Dealing
with Outlying Observations,’’ with
qualifications. ASTM E178–74 provided
a common method used in testing for
outlying observations. However, the
NRC is not aware that any licensee ever
used this particular RG or the ASTM
standard it endorsed since it is not
required by NRC regulations.
Instructions on performing such an
analysis, if a licensee chose to test their
MC&A data for outliers, can be found in
NUREG/CR–4604 (PNL–5849),
‘‘Statistical Methods for Nuclear
Material Management’’ (ADAMS
Accession No. ML103430339). NUREG/
CR–4604 was developed to be a
comprehensive guidance document on
statistical methods that licensees may
use in evaluating MC&A data.
Withdrawal of an RG means that the
guide no longer provides useful
information or has been superseded by
other guidance, technological
innovations, congressional actions, or
other events. The NRC is withdrawing
RG 5.36 because it is no longer needed.
The withdrawal of RG 5.36 does not
alter any prior or existing NRC licensing
approvals or the acceptability of
licensee commitments to RG 5.36.
Although RG 5.36 is withdrawn, current
licensees may continue to use it, and
withdrawal does not affect any existing
licenses or agreements.
However, by withdrawing RG 5.36,
the NRC will no longer specifically
approve its use in future requests or
applications for NRC licensing actions.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 23rd day
of March 2017.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Thomas H. Boyce,
Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Generic
Issues Branch, Division of Engineering, Office
of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
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Sunshine Act Meeting; National Science Board
The National Science Board's Executive Committee, pursuant to NSF
regulations (45 CFR part 614), the National Science Foundation Act, as
amended (42 U.S.C. 1862n-5), and the Government in the Sunshine Act (5
U.S.C. 552b), hereby gives notice of the scheduling of a teleconference
on short notice for the transaction of National Science Board business,
as follows:
DATE and TIME: March 30, 2017 from 3:00-4:00 p.m. EDT.
National Science Board Executive Committee members voted that it is
necessary to agency business to hold this meeting on short notice.
SUBJECT MATTER: (1) Committee Chair's opening remarks; (2) Discussion
of future fiscal year planning.
STATUS: Closed.
This meeting will be held by teleconference at the National Science
Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230. Please refer to the
National Science Board Web site www.nsf.gov/nsb for additional
information. Meeting information and updates (time, place, subject or
status of meeting) may be found at https://www.nsf.gov/nsb/meetings/notices.jsp. Point of contact for this meeting is: Brad Gutierrez, 4201
Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230. Telephone: (703) 292-7000.
Chris Blair,
Executive Assistant to the NSB Office.
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