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Direct heating
equipment
manufacturers
• Empire Comfort
Systems*
• Louisville Tin and
Stove Co.*
• Rinnai
• Williams Furnace
Co.

Pool heater
manufacturers
• AquaCal Autopilot,
Inc.*
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• Built Right Pool
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• Lochinvar LLC.
• Pentair.
• Rheem.
• Thermeau Industries, Inc. (Canadian).
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Issue 30: DOE requests comment on
the completeness of the manufacturer
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additional manufacturers that may
belong on this list.
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DOE will accept comments, data, and
information regarding this RFI and other
matters relevant to DOE’s consideration
of amended energy conservations
standard for DHE and pool heaters no
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and reviewing the public comments.
These actions will be taken to aid in the
development of a NOPR for energy
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Issued in Washington, DC, on March 17,
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Kathleen B. Hogan,
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Energy.
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY
COMMISSION
10 CFR Part 61
[NRC–2015–0003; NRC–2011–0012]
RIN–3150–AI92

Guidance for Conducting Technical
Analyses for Low-Level Radioactive
Waste Disposal
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Draft NUREG; request for
comment.
AGENCY:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is issuing for public
comment a draft NUREG, NUREG–2175,

SUMMARY:

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‘‘Guidance for Conducting Technical
Analyses for 10 CFR part 61.’’ The NRC
is proposing to amend its regulations
that govern low-level radioactive waste
(LLRW) disposal facilities to require
new and revised site-specific technical
analyses, to permit the development of
site-specific criteria for LLRW
acceptance based on the results of these
analyses, and to facilitate
implementation and better align the
requirements with current health and
safety standards. The NRC has prepared
draft guidance to address the
implementation of the proposed
regulations. This notice is announcing
the availability of the draft guidance for
public comment.
Submit comments by July 24,
2015. Comments received after this date
will be considered if it is practical to do
so, but the Commission is able to ensure
consideration only for comments
received before this date.

DATES:

You may submit comments
by any of the following methods (unless
this document describes a different
method for submitting comments on a
specific subject):
• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to
http://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2015–0003. The
proposed amendments to the NRC
LLRW regulations are issued in a
separate notice, under Docket ID NRC–
2011–0012. Address questions about
NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher;
telephone: 301–287–3422; email:
[email protected]. For technical
questions, contact the individuals listed
in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section of this document.
• Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey,
Office of Administration, Mail Stop:
3WFN–06–A44M, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001.
For additional direction on obtaining
information and submitting comments,
see ‘‘Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments’’ in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
this document.
ADDRESSES:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Priya Yadav, Office of Nuclear Material
Safety and Safeguards, telephone: 301–
415–6667, email: [email protected];
or Stephen Dembek, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards,
telephone: 301–415–2342, email:
[email protected]; U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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I. Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments

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A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2015–
0003 when contacting the NRC about
the availability of information for this
action. You may obtain publiclyavailable information related to this
action by any of the following methods:
• Federal rulemaking Web site: Go to
http://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2015–0003.
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
adams.html. To begin the search, select
‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then
select ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS
Search.’’ For problems with ADAMS,
please contact the NRC’s Public
Document Room (PDR) reference staff at
1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by
email to [email protected]. The
guidance for conducting technical
analyses for 10 CFR part 61, Draft
NUREG–2175, is available in ADAMS
under Accession No. ML15056A516.
• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and
purchase copies of public documents at
the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC–2015–
0003 in the subject line of your
comment submission.
The NRC cautions you not to include
identifying or contact information that
you do not want to be publicly
disclosed in your comment submission.
The NRC will post all comment
submissions at http://
www.regulations.gov as well as enter the
comment submissions into ADAMS.
The NRC does not routinely edit
comment submissions to remove
identifying or contact information.
If you are requesting or aggregating
comments from other persons for
submission to the NRC, then you should
inform those persons not to include
identifying or contact information that
they do not want to be publicly
disclosed in their comment submission.
Your request should state that the NRC
does not routinely edit comment
submissions to remove such information
before making the comment
submissions available to the public or
entering the comment into ADAMS.
II. Discussion
The guidance for conducting
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of the Code of Federal Regulations
(CFR), NUREG–2175, provides guidance
on conducting technical analyses (i.e.,
performance assessment, inadvertent
intruder assessment, assessment of the
stability of a LLRW disposal site,
defense-in-depth analyses, protective
assurance period analyses, and
performance period analyses) to
demonstrate compliance with the
performance objectives in the proposed
10 CFR part 61, ‘‘Licensing
Requirements for Land Disposal of
Radioactive Waste.’’ This guidance
should facilitate licensees’
implementation of the proposed
amendments as well as assist regulatory
authorities in reviewing the technical
analyses. This guidance applies to all
waste streams disposed of at a 10 CFR
part 61 LLRW disposal facility,
including large quantities of depleted
uranium and blended waste.
NUREG–2175 provides detailed
guidance in new areas, such as the
inadvertent intruder analysis, defensein-depth analyses, and analyses for the
three phases of the analysis timeframe
(compliance period, protective
assurance period, and performance
period). This guidance discusses the use
of a graded level of effort needed to riskinform the analyses for the compliance
period (1,000 years), the protective
assurance period (from 1,000 years to
10,000 years after disposal site closure),
and also covers the performance period
analyses that should be performed for
analysis of long-lived waste beyond
10,000 years. Additional topics covered
in this document include: (1)
Demonstration that radiation doses are
minimized to the extent reasonably
achievable; (2) identification and
screening of the features, events, and
processes to develop scenarios for
technical analyses; (3) use of the waste
classification tables or the results of the
technical analyses to develop sitespecific waste acceptance criteria; and
(4) use of performance confirmation to
evaluate and verify the accuracy of
information used to demonstrate
compliance prior to site closure.
III. Proposed Rulemaking
On May 3, 2011, the NRC published
preliminary proposed rule language (76
FR 24831), ‘‘Part 61: Site Specific
Analyses for Demonstrating Compliance
with Subpart C Performance Objectives’’
(ADAMS Accession No. ML111150205).
As a result of additional direction from
the Commission in staff requirement
memoranda (SRM)–COMWDM–11–
0002/COMGEA–11–0002, ‘‘Revisions to
Part 61,’’ dated January 19, 2012
(ADAMS Accession No. ML120190360),
the NRC staff published a second

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version of the preliminary proposed rule
language (77 FR 72997; December 7,
2012), ‘‘November 2012 Preliminary
Rule Language for Proposed Revisions
to Low-Level Waste Disposal
Requirements (10 CFR part 61)’’
(ADAMS Accession No.
ML12311A444). Based on comments
received, the NRC published in the
Proposed Rules section of this issue of
the Federal Register a third version of
the proposed rule language. Documents
related to the proposed rule, including
public comments, are available on the
Federal rulemaking Web site at http://
www.regulations.gov under Docket ID
NRC–2011–0012.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day
of February 2015.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrew Persinko,
Deputy Director, Division of
Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery, and
Waste Programs, Office of Nuclear Material
Safety and Safeguards.
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