Nuclear Regulatory Commission November 16, 2015 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has received an application from Rare Element Resources, Inc., for a license to possess and use source material associated with its Bear Lodge Project. The Bear Lodge Project includes a mine in the Black Hills National Forest in Crook County, Wyoming for the purpose of extracting rare earth element ores, and a rare earth element processing plant in Weston County, Wyoming. In addition, the license application contains sensitive unclassified non-safeguards information (SUNSI).

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is requesting information from the general public on a number of issues associated with medical treatment of patients with sodium iodide I-131 (hereafter referred to as I-131). Specifically, the NRC would like input on patient concerns about medical treatment involving the use of I-131, information that physicians use to make decisions on when it is safe to release I-131 patients based on radiation exposure concerns, radiation safety information used by I-131 patients after their release, and the availability of a radiation safety informational guidance brochure for I-131 patients that can be distributed nationwide. The information collected will be used to develop a Web site to provide patients with clear and consistent information about radioactive iodine treatments and to revise NRC patient release guidance.