Availability of Draft NUREGs on Risk Review of Use of Nuclear Byproduct Material

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NRC is announcing the availability of, and requesting comment on, three draft documents: NUREG/CR-6642, ``Risk Analysis and Evaluation of Regulatory Options for Nuclear Byproduct Material Systems;'' NUREG-1711, ``Nuclear Byproduct Material Risk Review: Regulatory and Other Bases for Barriers to Dose;'' and NUREG-1712, ``Nuclear Byproduct Material Risk Review: Results of Survey of NRC and Agreement State Materials Licensing and Inspection Personnel,'' all dated July 1999. NRC recognizes that, in order to accomplish its principal mission in an efficient and cost-effective manner, it has to focus on those regulated activities that pose the greatest risk to the public. The nuclear byproduct material risk review is one of several staff actions to address the issue. The intent is to develop a clearly understood technical basis for determining whether and what risk-informed adjustments can be made to the regulation of nuclear byproduct material. Nuclear byproduct material is defined in section 11.e(1) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 and Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), Sec. 30.4. Regulation of this material is addressed in 10 CFR parts 30 through 36 and 39. The three