NRC Regulatory Guides

[Mike Grissom <mikeg@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>]

Radsafers,

I know I'm raising an issue that has been addressed
before--but can anyone explicitly state why the US
NRC has not made their Regulatory Guides available
in PDF or other readily downloadable format on their
Web site's library section?

S.,

MikeG.

Refer to the following entry in today's US Federal
Register:

Federal Register: December 5, 1997 (Volume 62, Number
234, 64408).

Section: Notices
Agency: NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Title: Regulatory Guides; Availability
Action: Notice
...
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has updated the
Regulatory Guide List to advise of the wide range of
regulatory guides that are available and to list all
published versions of each guide. The Regulatory Guide
Series has been developed to describe and make available
to the public such information as methods acceptable to
the NRC staff for implementing specific parts of the
Commission's regulations, techniques used by the staff in
evaluating specific problems or postulated accidents, and
data needed by the staff in its review of applications for
permits and licenses.

Single copies of the Regulatory Guide List may be obtained
free of charge by writing the Information Management
Division, Attention: Printing, Graphics and Distribution
Branch, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001; or by fax at (301) 415-5272. Single copies
of regulatory guides, both final and draft guides, may
also be obtained free of charge at this address.

Regulatory guides may also be purchased from the National
Technical Information Service on a standing order basis.
Details on this service may be obtained by writing NTIS,
5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA 22161. 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, Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555.

Regulatory guides and the list of guides are available for
inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room, 2120
L Street NW., Washington, DC. Regulatory guides are not
copyrighted, and Commission approval is not required to
reproduce them.

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

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 13th day of November
1997.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Joseph A. Murphy,
Director, Division of Regulatory Applications, Office of
Nuclear Regulatory Research.
...


Michael P. Grissom
Asst Dir (ES&H)
SLAC MS-84
Phone: (650) 926-2346
Fax:   (650) 926-3030
E-mail: mikeg@slac.stanford.edu