The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has announced the availability of a draft guidance document concerning Yttrium-90 Microsphere Brachytherapy Sources and Devices TheraSphere® and SIR-Spheres®. NRC is requesting submittal of comments on this document by January 8, 2018. The document revises guidance for licenses authorizing the use of Yttrium-90 (Y–90) Microsphere Brachytherapy Sources and Devices TheraSphere® and SIRSpheres®. The NRC is requesting public comment on the draft revision of the licensing guidance (Rev. 10). The document has been revised to significantly update the criteria for training and experience, medical event reporting, inventory requirement specifications, and waste disposal issues. The revised guidance document also provides new information regarding cremation and autopsy. This guidance is intended for use by NRC applicants, NRC licensees, and the NRC staff. More information on this may be found at Government Printing Office: Federal Register / Vol 82, NO. 214

The NRC issued for public comment draft regulatory guide (DG), DG–8056, ‘‘Instructions for Recording and Reporting Occupational Radiation Dose Data.’’

This DG is a proposed Revision 4 to Regulatory Guide (RG) 8.7 of the same name.

The DG addresses issues that were identified after Revision 3 was issued in December 2016. The DG reinstates the longstanding staff position concerning a licensee’s consideration of prior occupational dose when making prospective occupational dose monitoring determinations. The DG retains the guidance from Revision 3 on completing NRC Form 4, ‘‘Cumulative Occupational Dose History,’’

and NRC Form 5, ‘‘Occupational Dose Record for a Monitoring Period.’’ Submit comments by December 15, 2017. More information on this may be found at Federal Register /Vol. 82, No. 198