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16 January 2007
[Federal Register: January 16, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 9)]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[Docket No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2006-0957]
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Multi-Agency Radiation Survey and Assessment
of Materials and Equipment Manual
AGENCY: Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Environmental
Protection Agency, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of availability with request for public comment.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Energy (DOE),
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (NRC) are announcing for public comment the
availability of a draft document, entitled the ``Multi-Agency Radiation
Survey and Assessment of Materials and Equipment Manual'' (MARSAME).
MARSAME provides information on planning, conducting, evaluating, and
documenting radiological surveys for demonstrating compliance with
measurable action levels. MARSAME, when finalized, will be a multi-
agency consensus document. The agencies are seeking public comment in
order to receive feedback from the widest range of interested parties
and to ensure that all information relevant to developing the document
is received. The agencies will review public comments received on the
draft MARSAME as well as comments from a concurrent, independent,
scientific peer review. Suggested changes will be incorporated, where
appropriate, in response to those comments.
DATES: The comment period closes on April 16, 2007. Comments received
after that date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but no
assurance can be given for consideration of late comments.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments by one of the methods:
http://www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line
instructions for submitting comments.
http://www.marsame.org: Follow the on-line instructions
for submitting comments.
Mail: Air and Radiation Docket and Information Center,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 6102T, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460 or Chief, Rulemaking,
Directives and Editing Branch, Division of Administrative Services,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
Hand Delivery: Air and Radiation Docket and Information
Center, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA West Building, Room
3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. Such deliveries are
only accepted during the Docket's normal hours of operation, and
special arrangements must be made for deliveries of boxed information.
Copies of all comments received by one agency will be periodically
copied and sent to the others. Copies of the draft MARSAME and all
comments received may be examined or copied for a fee electronically in
http://www.regulations.gov, or in hard copy at the HQ EPA Docket Public
Reading Room, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Room 3334, Docket
ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2006-0957, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington,
DC 20460, and the NRC Public Document Room, 11555 Rockville Pike,
Rockville, Maryland 20852-2747. The HQ EPA Docket Public Reading Room
is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding
legal holidays. The telephone number for the EPA HQ Docket Public
Reading Room is (202) 566-1744. DOE, EPA, and NRC each have a
publication number for MARSAME. They are: for DOE, DOE/EH-707; for EPA,
EPA 402-R-06-002; for NRC, NUREG-1575, Sup. 1. A free single copy of
the draft MARSAME may be requested by writing to: the Distribution and
Mail Services Section, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001 or by fax to (301) 415-2289. The document is also
available through the Internet at: http://www.epa.gov/radiation/
marssim
.
Instructions for Using the EPA Docket: Direct your comments to
Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2006-0957. EPA's policy is that all comments
received will be included in the public docket without change and may
be made available online at http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal
information provided, unless the comment includes information claimed
to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not submit information
that you consider to be CBI or otherwise protected through
http://www.regulations.gov. The www.regulations.gov Web site is an ``anonymous
access'' system, which means EPA will not know your identity or contact
information unless you provide it in the body of your comment.
If you submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends that you
include your name and other contact information in the body of your
comment and with any disk or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read your
comment due to technical difficulties and cannot contact you for
clarification, EPA may not be able to consider your comment. Electronic
files should avoid the use of special characters, any form of
encryption, and be free of any defects or viruses. All documents in the
docket are listed in the http://www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in
the index, some information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or
other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain
other material, such as copyrighted material, will be publicly
available only in hard copy.
Instructions for Using the MARSAME comment Web site: Alternatively,
you may submit a comment via the http://www.marsame.org comment system
without going through http://www.regulations.gov. Users of the MARSAME comment
Web site will be asked for their name and e-mail address, and then will
receive a username and password at the e-mail address that was
submitted. User's names and e-mail address will not appear in any
public document or database.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any of the following points of contact
for each agency for technical information (See ADDRESSES section above
for directions on obtaining a copy of the draft MARSAME.): DoD: Steven
Doremus, Phone: (757) 887-7745, U.S. Navy, NAVSEADET RASO, NWS, PO
Drawer 260, Yorktown, VA 23691-0260; DOE: W. Alexander Williams, Phone:
(301) 903-8149, U.S. Department of Energy (EM-23), 1000 Independence
Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20585; EPA: Kathryn Snead; Phone: (202)
343-9228, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Stop 6608J, 1200
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460-1000; NRC: Robert A.
Meck, Phone: (301) 415-6205, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Mail
Stop T9-C39, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Questions concerning the multi-
agency document development
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project should be addressed to CAPT Colleen Petullo, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency/U.S. Public Health Service, OSWER/ERT, PO Box 93478,
Las Vegas, NV 89193-3478, (702) 784-8004.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: MARSAME provides information on planning,
conducting, evaluating, and documenting environmental radiological
surveys for demonstrating compliance with measurable action levels
applied to materials and equipment. MARSAME, when finalized, will be a
multi-agency consensus document and a supplement to the Multi-Agency
Radiation Survey and Site Investigation Manual (MARSSIM).
MARSAME was developed collaboratively over the past five years by
the technical staffs of the four Federal agencies having authority for
control of radioactive materials: DoD, DOE, EPA, and NRC (60 FR 12555;
March 7, 1995). For a time, staff from the Department of Homeland
Security participated in the development of MARSAME. Contractors to the
DOE, EPA, and NRC, and members of the public have been present during
the open meetings of the MARSAME work group. MARSAME's objective is to
describe standardized and consistent approaches for surveys, which
provide a high degree of assurance that established action levels can
be measured and an appropriate disposition of materials or equipment
can be technically defended. The techniques, methodologies, and
philosophies that form the bases of this manual were developed to be
consistent with current Federal limits, guidelines, and procedures.
Although Federal agency personnel are involved in the preparation
of this document, the manual does not represent the official position
of any participating agency at this time. An earlier draft of the
document has been reviewed within the Federal agencies. Comments were
received and comments from the review that reflected a technical error
or flaw in logic or information flow were addressed. The other comments
from the Federal agencies will be addressed along with the public
comments. The public review is a necessary step in the development of a
final multi-agency consensus document. The document will also receive
formal technical peer review. The draft has not been approved by the
participating agencies for use in part or in whole and should not be
used, cited, or quoted except for the purposes of providing comments as
requested.
Reviewers are requested to focus on technical accuracy, and
understandability. Reviewers are also requested to address five
questions while reviewing MARSAME:
(1) Does MARSAME provide a practical and implementable approach to
performing radiation measurements of materials and equipment? Are there
any major drawbacks to the proposed methods?
(2) Is MARSAME technically accurate?
(3) Does MARSAME provide benefits that are not available using
current methods? What is the value of MARSAME in comparison with other
currently available alternatives?
(4) What are the costs associated with MARSAME in comparison with
other currently available alternatives?
(5) Is the information in MARSAME understandable and presented in a
logical sequence? How can the presentation of material be modified to
improve the understandability of the manual?
Comments may be submitted as proposed modified text, or as a
discussion. Comments should be accompanied by supporting bases,
rationale, or data. To ensure efficient and complete comment
resolution, commenters are requested to reference the page number and
the line number of MARSAME to which the comment applies. Enter only the
beginning page and line number, even if your comment applies to a
number of pages or lines to follow.
Comments corresponding to an entire chapter, an entire section, or
an entire table should be referenced to the line number for the title
of the chapter (always line number 1), section, or table. Comments on
footnotes should be referenced to the line in the main text where the
footnote is indicated. Comments on figures should be referenced to the
page on which the figure appears. Figures do not have line numbers. The
figure number should be included in the text of the comment. Comments
on the entire manual should be referenced to the title page.
Title: Draft Multi-Agency Radiation Survey and Assessment of
Materials and Equipment Manual.
For the Department of Defense, dated this 19th day of December,
2006.
Alex Beehler,
Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Environment, Safety and
Occupational Health).
For the U.S. Department of Energy, dated this 1st day of January
2007.
Andrew C. Lawrence,
Director, Office of Nuclear Safety and Environment, Office of Health,
Safety and Security.
For the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, dated this 19th
day of December 2006.
Elizabeth Cotsworth,
Director, Office of Radiation and Indoor Air.
For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, dated this 28th day
of December 2006.
James T. Wiggins,
Acting Director, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
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