[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 223 (Friday, November 19, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 63348]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-30227]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Lessons Learned From Maintenance Rule Baseline Inspections


Availability of NUREG-1648

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of Availability.
SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announces the completion and 
availability of NUREG-1648, ``Lessons Learned From Maintenance Rule 
Baseline Inspections,'' dated October, 1999.

ADDRESSES: Copies of NUREG-1648 may be obtained from the Reproduction 
and Distribution Services Section, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 20555-0001. 
Copies are also available electronically. See ``Electronic Access.'' 
which follows. A copy of the document is also available for inspection 
and/or copying for a fee in the NRC Public Document Room, 2120 L 
Street, NW. (Lower Level), Washington, DC 20555-0001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Richard Correia, Division of 
Inspection Program Management, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, 
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. 
Telephone: 301-415-1009.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On November 1, 1999, the NRC announced the 
availability of NUREG-1648, ``Lessons Learned From Maintenance Rule 
Baseline Inspections,'' dated October 1999. This NUREG report provides 
details concerning lessons learned from implementing the NRC's first 
risk-informed performance-based regulation, the maintenance rule, 10 
CFR 50.65. Licensees can use the lessons learned information in this 
document to enhance and improve their maintenance rule programs.
    NUREG-1648 is now available for use by licensees and other NRC 
staff. It supplements the lessons learned information previously found 
in NUREG-1526, ``Lessons Learned From Early Implementation of the 
Maintenance Rule at Nine Nuclear Power Plants,'' dated June, 1995.
    The risk-informed, performance-based approach of implementing 10 
CFR 50.65 and the guidance documents that implement this approach, 
NUMARC 93-01, ``Industry Guideline for Monitoring the Effectiveness of 
Maintenance at Nuclear Power Plants,'' as endorsed by Regulatory Guide 
1.160, ``Monitoring the Effectiveness of Maintenance at Nuclear Power 
Plants,'' gives licensees flexibility in monitoring the effectiveness 
of maintenance at nuclear power plants. During the NRC maintenance rule 
baseline inspections, the inspection teams also found that many 
licensees used unique and diverse methods to implement the maintenance 
rule that went beyond the guidance contained in the documents noted 
above. Licensees can use these lessons learned methods to enhance and 
improve their existing maintenance rule programs.

Electronic Access

    NUREG-1648 is also available electronically by visiting NRC's 
Public Web Site at (http://www.nrc.gov), choose the ``Nuclear 
Reactors'' page of the site and then choose the ``Maintenance Rule.'' 
The Maintenance Rule Home Page may also be accessed directly by using 
the uniform resource locator (URL) at (http://www.nrc.gov/NRR/mrule/
mrhome.htm). The user must ensure that the URL is typed exactly as 
shown because the Web server file name convention is case sensitive.

Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act

    In accordance with the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Act of 
1996, the NRC has determined that this action is not a major rule and 
has verified this determination with the Office of Information and 
Regulatory Affairs of the Office of Management and Budget.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 1st day of November, 1999.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Bruce A. Boger,
Director, Division of Inspection Program Management, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 99-30227 Filed 11-18-99; 8:45 am]
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