[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 60 (Tuesday, March 29, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-7327]


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[Federal Register: March 29, 1994]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

 

Meeting With Industry on In-Service Inspection Performance 
Demonstration Requirements

agency: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

action: Notice of meeting.

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summary: The staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will meet with 
representatives of the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), the Performance 
Demonstration Initiative (PDI), and the utilities to discuss technical 
issues related to performance demonstration requirements for in-service 
inspection. The discussion will focus on plans by the PDI to submit 
documentation of their program for NRC review. An additional discussion 
item will be integration into the PDI program of the current 
qualification requirements for inspectors looking for intergranular 
stress corrosion cracking (IGSCC).

dates: Wednesday, March 23, 1994.

time: 9 a.m.-12 p.m.

addresses: 11555 Rockville Pike, room 3-B13, Rockville, Maryland, 
20852.

for further information contact: Mr. Allen L. Hiser, Jr., Materials 
Engineering Branch, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555. Telephone: (301) 492-3988.

supplementary information: Recently the American Society of Mechanical 
Engineers (ASME) has adopted Appendix VIII, entitled ``Performance 
Demonstration for Ultrasonic Examination Systems,'' to Section XI of 
the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, and the NRC is preparing 
rulemaking to endorse the performance demonstration requirements in the 
regulations. In anticipation of the NRC endorsing those requirements, 
the industry initiated the Performance Demonstration Initiative (PDI) 
to provide compliance with Appendix VIII. At this meeting the industry 
representatives will discuss their plans to submit documentation 
concerning the PDI program to the NRC for review.
    In 1984, the NRC, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), and 
the Boiling Water Reactor Owners Group (BWROG) developed a coordination 
plan for training and qualification activities of personnel employed in 
the performance of examinations of BWR piping for intergranular stress 
corrosion cracking (IGSCC). At this meeting, the industry 
representatives will discuss integration of the coordination plan with 
the PDI program.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 17th day of March 1994.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Lawrence C. Shao,
Director, Division of Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory 
Research.
[FR Doc. 94-7327 Filed 3-28-94; 8:45 am]
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