[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 55 (Tuesday, March 24, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 12401]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-6408]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2008-0385]


Notice of Issuance of Regulatory Guide

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of Issuance and Availability of Regulatory Guide 1.125, 
Revision 2.

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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) 251-7495 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 2 of Regulatory Guide 1.125, ``Physical Models for Design, 
and Operation of Hydraulic Structures and Systems for Nuclear Power 
Plants,'' was issued with a temporary identification as Draft 
Regulatory Guide, DG-1198. This guide describes the detail and 
documentation of data and studies that an applicant should include in 
the preliminary and/or final safety analysis report (PSAR/FSAR) to 
support the use of physical hydraulic model testing for predicting the 
performance of hydraulic structures and systems for nuclear power 
plants. Hydraulic structures are defined as anything that can be used 
to divert, restrict, stop, or otherwise manage the natural flow of 
water. The regulatory position of this guide is applicable only to 
physical models used to predict the action or interaction of surface 
waters with features located outside the containment. The 
recommendations of this guide do not apply to internal plant systems or 
structures.

II. Further Information

    In July 2008, DG-1198 was published with a public comment period of 
60 days from the issuance of the guide. The public comment period 
closed on September 5, 2008. The staff's responses to the public 
comments are located in the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and 
Management System (ADAMS), Accession Number ML082810214.
    Electronic copies of Regulatory Guide 1.125, Revision 2 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 16th day of March, 2009.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrea D. Valentin,
Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of Engineering, 
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. E9-6408 Filed 3-23-09; 8:45 am]
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