[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 188 (Thursday, September 29, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 56939]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-19445]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Final Regulatory Guide: Issuance, Availability
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a revision
to an existing guide in the agency's Regulatory Guide Series. This
series has been developed to describe and make available to the public
such information as methods that are acceptable to the NRC staff for
implementing specific parts of the NRC's regulations, techniques that
the staff uses in evaluating specific problems or postulated accidents,
and data that the staff needs in its review of applications for permits
and licenses.
Revision 1 of Regulatory Guide 1.193, ``ASME Code Cases Not
Approved for Use,'' lists the Code Cases that the NRC has determined
are not acceptable for generic use as specified in Section III, ``Rules
for Construction of Nuclear Power Plant Components,'' and Section XI,
``Rules for Inservice Inspection of Nuclear Power Plant Components,''
of the Boiler and Pressure Vessel (BPV) Code promulgated by the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). (In so doing, this
guide complements Revision 33 of Regulatory Guide 1.84, ``Design,
Fabrication, and Materials Code Case Acceptability, ASME Section III,''
and Revision 14 of Regulatory Guide 1.147, ``Inservice Inspection Code
Case Acceptability, ASME Section XI, Division 1,'' which list the Code
Cases that the NRC has determined to be acceptable alternatives to
applicable provisions of Section III and Section XI, respectively.)
Licensees may request NRC approval to implement one or more of the
Code Cases listed in Revision 1 of Regulatory Guide 1.193, as provided
in 10 CFR 50.55a(a)(3), which permits the use of alternatives to the
Code requirements referenced in 10 CFR 50.55a, provided that the
proposed alternatives result in an acceptable level of quality and
safety. To do so, a licensee must submit a plant-specific request that
addresses the NRC's concern about the given Code Case.
On August 3, 2004, the NRC staff published a draft of this guide as
Draft Regulatory Guide DG-1126. Following the closure of the public
comment period on September 2, 2004, the staff considered all
stakeholder comments in the course of preparing Revision 1 of
Regulatory Guide 1.193.
The NRC staff encourages and welcomes comments and suggestions in
connection with improvements to published regulatory guides, as well as
items for inclusion in regulatory guides that are currently being
developed. You may submit comments by any of the following methods.
Mail comments to: Rules and Directives Branch, Office of
Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001.
Hand-deliver comments to: Rules and Directives Branch, Office of
Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 11555 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, between 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. on
Federal workdays.
Fax comments to: Rules and Directives Branch, Office of
Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission at (301) 415-5144.
Requests for technical information about Revision 1 of Regulatory
Guide 1.193 may be directed to Wallace E. Norris, at (301) 415-6796 or
[email protected].
Regulatory guides are available for inspection or downloading
through the NRC's public Web site in the Regulatory Guides document
collection of the NRC's Electronic Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/. Electronic copies of Revision 1 of
Regulatory Guide 1.193 are also available in the NRC's Agencywide
Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html, under Accession ML052140501. Note,
however, that the NRC has temporarily suspended public access to ADAMS
so that the agency can complete security reviews of publicly available
documents and remove potentially sensitive information. Please check
the NRC's Web site for updates concerning the resumption of public
access to ADAMS.
In addition, regulatory guides are available for inspection at the
NRC's Public Document Room (PDR), which is located at 11555 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland; the PDR's mailing address is USNRC PDR,
Washington, DC 20555-0001. The PDR can also be reached by telephone at
(301) 415-4737 or (800) 397-4205, by fax at (301) 415-3548, and by e-
mail to [email protected]. Requests for single copies of draft or final
guides (which may be reproduced) or for placement on an automatic
distribution list for single copies of future draft guides in specific
divisions should be made in writing to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, Attention: Reproduction and
Distribution Services Section; by e-mail to [email protected]; or by
fax to (301) 415-2289. Telephone requests cannot be accommodated.
Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and Commission approval is
not required to reproduce them.
(5 U.S.C. 552(a))
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 15th day of August, 2005.
For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Carl J. Paperiello,
Director, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 05-19445 Filed 9-28-05; 8:45 am]
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