[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 209 (Tuesday, October 28, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64000-64001]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-25700]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Notice of Issuance of Regulatory Guide

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of Issuance and Availability of Regulatory Guide 1.114,

[[Page 64001]]

Revision 3, ``Guidance to Operators at the Controls and to Senior 
Operators in the Control Room of a Nuclear Power Unit.''

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Orr, Regulatory Guide Development 
Branch, Division of Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, 
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, 
telephone (301) 415-6373 or e-mail to [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Introduction

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a revision 
to an existing guide in the agency's ``Regulatory Guide'' series. This 
series was developed to describe and make available to the public 
information such as methods that are acceptable to the NRC staff for 
implementing specific parts of the agency'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 3 of Regulatory Guide 1.114, ``Guidance to Operators at 
the Controls and to Senior Operators in the Control Room of a Nuclear 
Power Unit,'' was issued with a temporary identification as Draft 
Regulatory Guide DG-1194. This guide describes a method that the staff 
of the NRC considers acceptable for complying with the Commission's 
regulations that require the presence of an operator at the controls of 
a nuclear power unit and a senior operator in the control room from 
which the nuclear power unit is being operated. In addition, this guide 
clarifies and provides guidance on the acceptable boundaries of the 
control room. The ``vital area,'' as identified in Title 10 Section 
73.2, ``Definitions,'' of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR 
73.2), and 10 CFR 73.55(c) serves as the basis for the ``control room 
vital area'' as used in this regulatory guide.

II. Further Information

    In April 2008, DG-1194 was published with a public comment period 
of 60 days from the issuance of the guide. The public comment period 
closed on June 6, 2008. The staff's responses to the public comments 
are located in the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management 
System (ADAMS), Accession Number ML082380256.
    Electronic copies of Regulatory Guide 1.114 are available through 
the NRC's public Web site under ``Regulatory Guides'' at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/.
    In addition, regulatory guides are available for inspection at the 
NRC's Public Document Room (PDR), which is located at Room O-1F21, One 
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852-
2738. 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) 397-4209, by fax at (301) 415-3548, and by e-mail to 
[email protected].
    Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and NRC approval is not 
required to reproduce them.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 21st day of October, 2008.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrea D. Valentin,
Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of Engineering, 
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. E8-25700 Filed 10-27-08; 8:45 am]
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