[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 117 (Tuesday, June 17, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 34347]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-13572]


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Office of New Reactors; Notice of Availability of the Final 
Interim Staff Guidance DC/COL-ISG-03 on Probabilistic Risk Assessment 
Information To Support Design Certification and Combined License 
Applications

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: The NRC is issuing its Final Interim Staff Guidance (ISG) DC/
COL-ISG-03 (ADAMS Accession No. ML081430087). This ISG supplements the 
guidance provided to the staff in section 19.0, ``Probabilistic Risk 
Assessment and Severe Accident Evaluation for New Reactors,'' of NUREG-
0800, ``Standard Review Plan for the Review of Safety Analysis Reports 
for Nuclear Power Plants,'' concerning the review of probabilistic risk 
assessment (PRA) information and severe accident assessment submitted 
to support design certification (DC) and combined license (COL) 
applications.
    The NRC staff issues DC/COL-ISGs to facilitate timely 
implementation of the current staff guidance and to facilitate 
activities associated with review of applications for DC and COLs by 
the Office of New Reactors. The NRC staff will also incorporate the 
approved DC/COL-ISGs into the next revision to the review guidance 
documents for new reactor applications.
    Disposition: On February 12, 2008, the staff issued the proposed 
ISG ``Probabilistic Risk Assessment Information to Support Design 
Certification and Combined License Applications,'' (COL/DC-ISG-003) 
(ADAMS Accession No. ML080370218) to solicit public and industry 
comment. The staff received comments (ADAMS Accession Nos. ML080810201, 
ML080810204 and ML080840432) on the proposed guidance on March 21, 
2008. These comments were further discussed in a public meeting held at 
the NRC on May 8, 2008. This final issuance incorporates changes from 
the majority of the comments. To the extent that comments are not 
incorporated in this final issuance, the comments are rejected by the 
staff or are outside the scope of this guidance.

ADDRESSES: The NRC maintains an Agencywide Documents Access and 
Management System (ADAMS), which provides text and image files of NRC's 
public documents. These documents may be accessed through the NRC's 
Public Electronic Reading Room on the Internet at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who 
encounter problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS should 
contact the NRC Public Document Room reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 
301-415-4737, or by e-mail at [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Lynn A. Mrowca, Chief, PRA 
Licensing, Operations Support Maintenance Branch 1, Division of Safety 
Systems and Risk Assessment, Office of the New Reactors, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone 301-415-
0525 or e-mail at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The agency posts its issued staff guidance 
in the agency external Web page http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/isg/.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day of June 2008.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
George M. Tartal,
Acting Chief, Rulemaking, Guidance and Advanced Reactor Branch, 
Division of New Reactor Licensing, Office of New Reactors.
 [FR Doc. E8-13572 Filed 6-16-08; 8:45 am]
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