Energia i regulacje · 24.11.1999

Consolidated Guidance About Materials Licenses: Program-Specific Guidance About Licenses Authorizing Distribution to General Licensees

The NRC is announcing the availability of, and requesting comments on, draft NUREG-1556, Volume 16, ``Consolidated Guidance about Materials Licenses: Program-Specific Guidance about Licenses Authorizing Distribution to General Licensees,'' dated September 1999. This draft NUREG report is the 16th program-specific guidance document developed to support an improved material licensing process. The NRC is using Business Process Redesign techniques to redesign its material 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 draft guide has been developed in parallel with the proposed rulemaking on 10 CFR Parts 30, 31, 32, 170, and 171, ``Requirements for Certain Generally Licensed Industrial Devices Containing Byproduct Material.'' The proposed rule was published in the Federal Register on July 26, 1999 (64 FR 40295). Comments received in response to publication of this draft guidance will be considered in developing the final guide. Finalization of the guidance will continue to par