Regulatory Guides; Withdrawal

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Regulatory Guides; Withdrawal

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is withdrawing several guides in

its Regulatory Guide Series. Regulatory guides may be withdrawn when

(1) they are superseded by the Commission's regulations, (2) equivalent

recommendations have been incorporated in approved codes or standards,

or (3) there have been changes in methods, techniques, or the need for

specific guidance. Since the methods discussed in these regulatory

guides fall into one of these categories, the regulatory guides listed

below are being withdrawn. New applications for licenses or amendments

should address current guidance. However, withdrawal of these

regulatory guides does not alter any existing license conditions that

were based on these guides. Applications that reference these

regulatory guides and are pending as of the date of this notice do not

need to be withdrawn or amended.

Regulatory Guide 3.2, Efficiency Testing of Air-Cleaning Systems

Containing Devices for Removal of Particles (January 1973)

Regulatory Guide 3.9, Concrete Radiation Shields (June 1973)

Regulatory Guide 3.33, Assumptions Used for Evaluating the Potential

Radiological Consequences of Accidental Nuclear Criticality in a Fuel

Reprocessing Plant (April 1977)

Regulatory Guide 3.34, Assumptions Used for Evaluating the Potential

Radiological Consequences of Accidental Nuclear Criticality in a

Uranium Fuel Fabrication Plant (Revision 1, July 1979)

Regulatory Guide 3.35, Assumptions Used for Evaluating the Potential

Radiological Consequences of Accidental Nuclear Criticality in a

Plutonium Processing and Fuel Fabrication Plant (Revision 1, July 1979)

Regulatory Guide 5.1, Serial Numbering of Fuel Assemblies for Light-

Water-Cooled Nuclear Power Reactors (December 1972)

Regulatory Guide 5.14, Use of Observation (Visual Surveillance)

Techniques in Material Access Areas (Revision 1, May 1980)

Regulatory Guide 5.24, Analysis and Use of Process Data for the

Protection of Special Nuclear Material (June 1974)

Regulatory Guide 5.29, Nuclear Material Control Systems for Nuclear

Power Plants (Revision 1, June 1975)

Regulatory Guide 5.30, Materials Protection Contingency Measures for

Uranium and Plutonium Fuel Manufacturing Plants (June 1974)

Regulatory Guide 5.45, Standard Format and Content for the Special

Nuclear Material Control and Accounting Section of a Special Nuclear

Material License Application (Including That for a Uranium Enrichment

Facility) (December 1974)

Regulatory Guide 8.3, Film Badge Performance Criteria (February 1973)

In addition, Draft Regulatory Guide DG-0008, ``Applications for the

Use of Sealed Sources in Portable Gauging Devices'' (May 1995), is

being withdrawn from consideration as a regulatory guide. The NRC

recently published NUREG-1556, ``Consolidated Guidance About Materials

Licenses: Program-Specific Guidance About Portable Gauge Licenses,''

which contains information on the same subject.

Comments and suggestions in connection with items for inclusion in

guides currently being developed or improvements in all published

guides are encouraged at any time. Written comments may be submitted to

the Rules and Directives Branch, Division of Administrative Services,

Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,

Washington, DC 20555.

(5 U.S.C. 552(a))

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd day of December 1997.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Malcolm R. Knapp,

Acting Director, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.

[FR Doc. 98-1047 Filed 1-15-98; 8:45 am]

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