[Federal Register: January 11, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 8)]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Consolidated Guidance About Materials Licenses: Program-Specific
Guidance About Special Nuclear Material of Less Than Critical Mass
Licenses
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: The NRC is announcing the availability of final NUREG-1556,
Volume 17, ``Consolidated Guidance about Materials Licenses: Program-
Specific Guidance about Special Nuclear Material of Less Than Critical
Mass Licenses,'' dated November 2000.
The NRC is using Business Process Redesign techniques to redesign
its materials licensing process, as described in NUREG-1539,
``Methodology and Findings of the NRC's Materials Licensing process
Redesign.'' A critical element of the new process is consolidating and
updating numerous guidance documents into a NUREG-series of reports.
This final NUREG report is the 17th guidance document developed to
support an improved materials licensing process.
This guidance is intended for use by applicants, licensees, and the
NRC staff, and will also be available to Agreement States. This
document combines and updates the guidance found in Regulatory Guide
10.3 ``Guide for the preparation of Applications for Special Nuclear
Material Licenses of Less Than Critical mass Quantities.'' This final
report takes a more risk-informed, performance-based approach to
licensing quantities of special nuclear material of less than critical
mass, and reduces the information (amount and level of detail) needed
to support an application to use this material.
A free single copy of final NUREG 1556, Volume 17, may be requested
by writing to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Mrs. Carrie
Brown, Mail Stop TWFN 9-C24, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Alternatively,
submit requests through the Internet by addressing electronic mail to
cxb@nrc.gov. A copy of this final NUREG 1556 Volume 17, is available
for inspection and/or copying for a fee in the NRC Public Document
Room, 2120 L Street, NW. (Lower Level), Washington, DC 20555-0001.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mrs. Carrie Brown, TWFN 9-F-24,
Division of Industrial and Medical Nuclear Safety, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555, telephone (301) 415-8092.
Electronic Access: Final NUREG-1556, Vol. 17 is available
electronically by visiting the NRC's Home Page
(http://www.nrc.gov/nrc/nucmat.html)
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 21st day of December, 2000.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Patricia K. Holahan,
Chief, Rulemaking and Guidance Branch, Division of Industrial and
Medical Nuclear Safety, NMSS.
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