[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 82 (Monday, April 29, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 21001]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-10457]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NUREG-1520]


Standard Review Plan for the Review of a License Application for 
a Fuel Cycle Facility; Notice of Availability

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued NUREG-1520 
entitled Standard Review Plan (SRP) for the Review of an Application 
for a Fuel Cycle Facility. This SRP provides guidance to the NRC 
reviewers in the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards 
(NMSS) who perform safety and environmental impact reviews of 
applications to construct or modify and operate nuclear fuel cycle 
facilities licensed under 10 CFR part 70. As such, adherence to this 
SRP helps to ensure the quality, uniformity, and predictability of the 
staff reviews. This SRP also makes information about licensing 
acceptance criteria widely available to interested members of the 
public and the regulated industry. Each SRP section addresses the 
responsibilities of the staff reviewers, the matters that they review, 
the Commission's regulations pertinent to specific technical matters, 
the acceptance criteria used by the staff, the process and procedures 
used to accomplish the review, and the conclusions that are appropriate 
to summarize the review.

ADDRESSES: NUREG-1520 is available for inspection and copying for a fee 
at the Commission's Public Document Room, at the U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, 
Rockville, Maryland 20852, and electronically from the ADAMS Public 
Library component on the NRC Web site, http://www.nrc.gov (the Public 
Electronic Reading Room). The document's accession number is 
ML020930033.
    Copies of NUREG-1520 also may be obtained through the Government 
Printing Office at http://www.access.gpo.gov/ by searching for ``NUREG-
1520'' under the topic of ``Nuclear Power/200'' or through the National 
Technical Information Services at a nominal cost. NUREG-1520 also can 
be downloaded as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file by first setting the browser 
to http://www.nrc.gov and then using the ``Nuclear Materials,'' ``Fuel 
cycle facilities,'' ``Fuel Cycle Facilities Regulations, Guidance, and 
Communications'' and ``Guidance'' links in sequence or by going 
directly to http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1520/. A free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader is available from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information regarding 
NUREG-1520, contact Yawar Faraz, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and 
Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001, telephone (301) 415-8113.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The Commission promulgated a major amendment to 10 CFR part 70 on 
September 18, 2000 (65 FR 56211). The amendment, which primarily 
involved the addition of subpart H to 10 CFR part 70, identifies 
appropriate consequence criteria and the level of protection needed to 
prevent or mitigate accidents that equal or exceed these criteria; 
requires affected licensees to perform an integrated safety analysis 
(ISA) to identify potential accidents at the facility and the items 
relied on for safety necessary to prevent these potential accidents 
and/or mitigate their consequences; requires the implementation of 
measures to ensure that the items relied on for safety are available 
and reliable to perform their function when needed; requires the 
inclusion of the safety bases, including a summary of the ISA, with the 
license application; and allows for licensees to make certain changes 
to their safety program and facilities without prior NRC approval. 
After revising part 70, the NRC staff updated the existing draft part 
70 SRP to address the new requirements. As it had done in revising the 
regulations in part 70, the NRC staff worked closely with the 
stakeholders in developing the guidance contained in the SRP. The part 
70 stakeholders included representatives of the fuel cycle industry, 
private citizens, and other groups who declared an interest. The staff 
had previously issued a separate SRP on the licensing of a mixed oxide 
(MOX) fuel fabrication facility. The MOX SRP was published in August 
2000 as NUREG-1718 and is guiding the staff's ongoing review of the 
proposed MOX facility.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day of April, 2002.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Daniel M. Gillen,
Chief, Fuel Cycle Facilities Branch, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and 
Safeguards, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 02-10457 Filed 4-26-02; 8:45 am]
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