[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 237 (Friday, December 11, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65810-65811]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-29555]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2009-0550]


NUREG-1921, EPRI/NRC-RES Fire Human Reliability Analysis 
Guidelines, Draft Report for Comment

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Announcement of issuance for public comment, availability.

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SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued for public 
comment a document entitled: ``NUREG-1921 (EPRI 1019196), EPRI/NRC-RES 
Fire Human Reliability Analysis Guidelines, Draft Report for Comment.''

DATES: Please submit comments by February 15, 2010. Comments received 
after this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the 
NRC staff is able to ensure consideration only for comments received on 
or before this date.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any one of the following methods. 
Please include Docket ID NRC-2009-0550 in the subject line of your 
comments. Comments submitted in writing or in electronic form will be 
posted on the NRC Web site and on the Federal rulemaking Web site 
Regulations.gov. Because your comments will not be edited to remove any 
identifying or contact information, the NRC cautions you against 
including any information in your submission that you do not want to be 
publicly disclosed.
    The NRC requests that any party soliciting or aggregating comments 
received from other persons for submission to the NRC inform those 
persons that the NRC will not edit their comments to remove any 
identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not 
include any information in their comments that they do not want 
publicly disclosed.
    Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and 
search for documents filed under Docket ID NRC-2009-0550. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher 301-492-3668; e-mail 
[email protected].
    Mail comments to: Michael T. Lesar, Chief, Rulemaking and 
Directives Branch (RDB), Division of Administrative Services, Office of 
Administration, Mail Stop: TWB-05-B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, or by fax to RDB at (301) 492-
3446.
    You can access publicly available documents related to this notice 
using the following methods:
    NRC's Public Document Room (PDR): The public may examine and have 
copied for a fee publicly available documents at the NRC's PDR, Public 
File Area O1 F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, 
Rockville, Maryland.
    NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS): 
Publicly available documents created or received at the NRC are 
available electronically at the NRC's Electronic Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. From this page, the public can gain 
entry into ADAMS, which provides text and image files of NRC's public 
documents. If you do not have access to ADAMS or if there are problems 
in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, contact the NRC's PDR 
reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to 
[email protected]. NUREG-1921 ``EPRI/NRC-RES Fire Human Reliability 
Analysis Guidelines'' is available electronically under ADAMS Accession 
Number ML093340307.
    Federal Rulemaking Web site: Public comments and supporting 
materials related to this notice can be found at http://www.regulations.gov by searching on Docket ID: NRC-2009-0550.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kendra Hill, Division of Risk 
Analysis, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Telephone: 301-251-
3300, e-mail: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NUREG-1921 (EPRI 1019196), ``EPRI/NRC-RES 
Fire Human Reliability Analysis Guidelines, Draft Report for Comment'' 
was written as a collaborative effort by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission (NRC) Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research (RES) and the 
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) to provide guidance on how to 
perform the human reliability analysis (HRA) for a fire PRA. In 2007, 
EPRI and NRC-RES embarked on a cooperative project to develop explicit 
guidance for estimating human error probabilities (HEPs) for human 
error events under fire generated conditions, building upon existing 
human reliability analysis (HRA) methods. This report describes the 
methodology and guidance developed through this project. This report 
includes guidance on addressing the range of fire procedures used in 
existing plants, the range of strategies for main control room 
abandonment, and the potential impact of fire-induced spurious 
electrical effects on crew performance.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 1st day of Dec 2009.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Mark H. Salley,
Chief, Fire Research Branch, Division of Risk Analysis, Office of 
Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. E9-29555 Filed 12-10-09; 8:45 am]
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