[Federal Register: December 16, 1997 (Volume 62, Number 241)]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NUREG-1609]

Standard Review Plan for Transportation Packages for Radioactive Material; Notice of Issuance and Availability

The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a draft report NUREG-1609 entitled ``Standard Review Plan for Transportation Packages for Radioactive Material'' for review and comment. The Standard Review Plan for Transportation Packages for Radioactive Material provides guidance for the review and approval of applications for packages used to transport radioactive material (other than irradiated nuclear fuel) under Title 10 of Code of Federal Regulations, Chapter 1, part 71 (10 CFR part 71). The document is intended for use by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff. Its objectives are to (1) summarize 10 CFR Part 71 requirements for package approval, (2) describe the procedures by which the NRC staff determines that these requirements have been satisfied, and (3) document the practices developed by the staff in previous reviews of package applications.

Draft NUREG-1609 is available for inspection and copying for a fee at the NRC Public Document Room, 2120 L Street NW (Lower Level), Washington, D.C. 20555-0001. A free copy of draft NUREG-1609 may be requested by writing to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Printing and Graphics Branch, Washington, DC 20555-0001.

Comments on all aspects of this draft document are solicited and will be considered and may be incorporated in the Standard Review Plan, as appropriate. Appendix B to draft NUREG-1609 contains a data form that will be used to aid the NRC staff in transcribing the comments. A photocopy of the form in Appendix B or a similar form containing the same information should be used. Comments on draft NUREG-1609 should be submitted by March 31, 1998. The Standard Review Plan is scheduled for publication as an NRC NUREG document in 1998. A separate Standard Review Plan for Transportation Packages for Spent Nuclear Fuel (NUREG-1617) is in preparation. Draft NUREG-1617 is scheduled to be published for comment in the spring of 1998.

Mail comments to: Chief, Rules and Directives Branch, Division of Administrative Services, Mail Stop T-6 D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Comments may be hand-delivered to 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland between 7:30 am and 4:15 pm on Federal workdays. You may also provide comments via the NRC's interactive rulemaking website through the NRC home page (http://www.nrc.gov). This site provides the availability to upload comments as files (any format), if your web browser supports that function. For information about the interactive rulemaking website, contact Ms. Carol Gallagher, (301) 415- 5905; e-mail CAG@nrc.gov.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 10 day of December, 1997.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Cass R. Chappell,
Section Chief, Package Certification Section, Spent Fuel Project
Office, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.

[FR Doc. 97-32762 Filed 12-15-97; 8:45 am]
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