[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 149 (Wednesday, August 4, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47187-47188]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-17707]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


NUREG-1792, Good Practices for Implementing Human Reliability 
Analysis (HRA), Draft Report for Comment

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

ACTION: Notice of availability of Draft NUREG-1792 ``Good Practices for 
Implementing Human Reliability Analysis (HRA) for comment, and notice 
of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is announcing the 
availability of and is seeking comments on NUREG-1792, ``Good Practices 
for Implementing Human Reliability Analysis (HRA), Draft Report for 
Public Comment.''

DATES: Comments on this document should be submitted by October 4, 
2004. Comments received after that date will be considered to the 
extent practicable. To ensure efficient and complete comment 
resolution, comments should include references to the section, page, 
and line numbers of the document to which the comment applies, if 
possible.

ADDRESSES: Members of the public are invited and encouraged to submit 
written comments to Michael Lesar, Chief, Rules and Directives Branch, 
Office of Administration, Mail Stop T6-D59, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Hand-deliver comments attention 
to Michael Lesar, 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD, between 7:30 
a.m. and 4:15 p.m. on Federal workdays. Comments may also be sent 
electronically to [email protected].
    This document is available at the Agencywide Documents Access and 
Management System (ADAMS) Public Electronic Reading Room on the 
Internet at the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html under Accession No. ML041980358; on the NRC Web site at 
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/docs4comment; and 
at the NRC Public Document Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD. 
The PDR's mailing address is USNRC PDR, Washington, DC 20555; telephone 
(301) 415-4737 or (800) 397-4205; fax (301) 415-3548; e-mail 
[email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Erasmia Lois, Probability Risk 
Assessment Branch, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, telephone 
(301) 415-6560, e-mail [email protected], or Susan Cooper, Probability Risk 
Assessment Branch, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, telephone 
(301) 415-5183 or (302) 234-4423, e-mail [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

NUREG-1792, ``Good Practices for Implementing Human Reliability 
Analysis (HRA), Draft Report for Comment''

    The purpose of Good Practices for Implementing Human Reliability 
Analysis (HRA) Draft Report for Comment is to provide guidance for 
performing HRA and reviewing HRAs to assess the quality of analyses. 
This report supports the NRC's activities for addressing probabilistic 
risk assessment (PRA) quality issues and supports the implementation of 
Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.200, ``An Approach for Determining the 
Technical Adequacy of Probabilistic Risk Assessment Results For Risk-
Informed Activities.''
    The HRA good practices described in NUREG-1792 are generic; that 
is, they

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are not tied to any specific methods or tools that could be used for 
doing HRAs. The document provides guidance for implementing the RG 
1.200 when performing a Level 1 and a limited Level 2 PRA for internal 
events (excluding fire) with the reactor at full power. The good 
practices are directly linked to RG 1.200, which reflects and endorses, 
with certain clarifications and substitutions, the American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers (ASME) standard RA-Sa-2003, ``Addenda to ASME 
Standard for Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Nuclear Power Plant 
Applications,'' and Revision A3 of the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) 
document ``Probabilistic Risk (PRA) Peer Review Process Guidance'' 
(NEI-00-02).
    The NRC will hold a public meeting on August 16, 2004, at the NRC 
headquarters, 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland, Room T-10A1 
(8:30 am--5 pm, preliminary agenda attached). The purpose of the 
meeting is to present and discuss the HRA good practices and to allow 
stakeholders to address issues needing clarification. The NRC is not 
soliciting comments on the draft NUREG as part of this meeting. Public 
comments on the draft NUREG can be provided as discussed above.
    The NRC is seeking public comment in order to receive feedback from 
the widest range of interested parties and to ensure that all 
information relevant to developing this document is available to the 
NRC staff. This document is issued for comment only and is not intended 
for interim use. The NRC will review public comments received on the 
document, incorporate suggested changes as necessary, and issue the 
final NUREG-1792 for use.

    Dated at Rockville, MD, this 28th day of July 2004.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Charles Ader,
Director, Division of Risk Analysis and Applications, Office of Nuclear 
Regulatory Research.

Attachment

Public Meeting on NUREG-1792: ``Good Practices for Implementing 
Human Reliability Analysis (HRA), Draft Report for Comment''

    U.S. NRC Headquarters, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 
20852, Room T-10A1 August 16, 2004

Preliminary Agenda

Time and Topic

9 to 9:15 a.m.--Introduction and Overview of HRA Good Practices
9:15 to 9:30 a.m.--General HRA Good Practices
9:30 to 10:30 a.m.--Post-Initiator Human Events
10:30 a.m.--to 10:45 a.m.--BREAK
10:45 a.m.--to 11:45 a.m.--Post-Initiator Human Events (continued)
11:45 to 1 p.m.--LUNCH
1 to 2:45 p.m.--Pre-Initiator Human Events
2:45 to 3 p.m.--BREAK
3 to 3:45 p.m.--Errors of Commission
3:45 to 4:30 p.m.--HRA Documentation
4:30 to 5 p.m.--Wrap-up

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