Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.: Transportation packages for spent nuclear fuel; standard review plan,

[Federal Register: April 3, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 64)]

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NUREG-1617]

Standard Review Plan for Transportation Packages for Spent Nuclear Fuel; Notice of Issuance and Availability

The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a draft report NUREG-1617 entitled ``Standard Review Plan for Transportation Packages for Spent Nuclear Fuel'' for review and comment.

The Standard Review Plan for Transportation Packages for Spent Nuclear Fuel provides guidance for the review and approval of applications for packages used to transport spent nuclear fuel under 10 CFR Part 71.

This standard review plan (SRP) is intended for use by the 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-1617 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-1617 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 C to NUREG-1617 contains a data form that will be used to aid the NRC staff in transcribing the comment. A photocopy of the Appendix C form or a similar form containing the same information should be used. Comments on draft NUREG-1617 should be submitted by July 6, 1998.

This Standard Review Plan is scheduled for publication as an NRC NUREG document in 1999. A separate Standard Review Plan for Transportation Packages for Radioactive Material, NUREG 1609, was issued for public comment in September 1997. To ensure consistency between the two standard review plans, comments on sections common to both plans will be incorporated, as appropriate, in both documents.

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.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 30th day of March, 1998.

For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Susan F. Shankman, Acting Deputy Director, Spent Fuel Project Office, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.

[FR Doc. 98-8769Filed4-2-98; 8:45 am]

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