[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 1 (Monday, January 3, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 140-141]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-34052]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Risk-Informed Revisions to Technical Requirements; Workshop and 
Website

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of public workshop and NRC Part 50 (Option 3) website.

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SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has instructed its staff to 
explore changes to specific technical requirements of 10 CFR Part 50, 
to incorporate risk-informed attributes. The staff is studying the 
ensemble of technical requirements contained in 10 CFR Part 50 (and its 
associated implementing documents, such as regulatory guides and 
standard review plan sections) to (1) identify individual or sets of 
requirements potentially meriting change; (2) prioritize which of these 
requirements (or sets of requirements) should be changed; and (3) 
develop the technical bases to an extent that is sufficient to 
demonstrate the feasibility of changing the requirements. This work 
will result in recommendations to the Commission on any specific 
regulatory changes that should be pursued. Public participation in the 
development of these recommendations will be obtained via workshops and 
information on a website.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice serves as initial notification 
of a public workshop, and website, to provide for the exchange of 
information with all stakeholders regarding the staff's efforts to 
risk-inform the technical requirements of 10 CFR Part 50. The subject 
of the workshop will be to discuss the preliminary work being performed 
by the NRC staff on risk-informing the technical requirements of 10 CFR 
Part 50. The meeting will focus on the overall framework of the risk-
informing process, the criteria used to identify and prioritize 
candidate regulations and design basis accidents (DBAs), the results of 
the staff's initial efforts in risk-informing the two trial 
implementation issues (i.e., 10 CFR 50.44 and special treatment rules), 
a list of some additional candidate requirements and DBAs to be 
examined, and discussion of preliminary issues associated with the 
development and implementation of the entire process.
    This notice provides only the date, the location and a brief 
summary of the workshop; the workshop agenda and other details will be 
provided in a forthcoming notice. The address for the Part 50 (Option 
3) website is as follows: http://nrc-part50.sandia.gov.
    The Part 50 (Option 3) website can also be accessed from the NRC 
website (http://www.nrc.gov), by selecting ``Nuclear Reactors,'' and 
then ``Risk-Informed Part 50 (Option 3).''

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Workshop Meeting Information

    The staff intends to conduct a workshop to provide for an exchange 
of information related to the risk-informed revisions to the technical 
requirements of 10 CFR Part 50. Persons other than NRC staff and NRC 
contractors interested in making a presentation at the workshop should 
notify Mary Drouin, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, MS: T10-E50, 
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington D.C. 20555-0001, (301) 
415-6675, email: [email protected].

    Date: February 24, 2000 (with possible extension to February 25, 
2000).
    Agenda: To be provided.
    Location: NRC Auditorium, 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 
20852.
    Registration: No registration fee for workshop; however, 
notification of attendance is requested so that adequate space, 
materials, etc., for the workshop can be arranged. Notification of 
attendance should be directed to Alan Kuritzky, Office of Nuclear 
Regulatory Research, MS: T10-E50, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, D.C. 20555-0001, (301) 415-6255, email: [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alan Kuritzky, Office of Nuclear 
Regulatory Research, MS: T10-E50, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, D.C. 20555-0001, (301) 415-6255, email: [email protected].

    Dated this 23d day of December 1999.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Mark A. Cunningham,
Probabilistic Risk Analysis Branch, Division of Risk Analysis and 
Applications, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 99-34052 Filed 12-30-99; 8:45 am]
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