[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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