[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 22 (Wednesday, February 3, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5632-5633]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-2287]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2010-0033]
Office of New Reactors; Interim Staff Guidance on the Review of
Nuclear Power Plant Designs Using a Gas Turbine Driven Standby
Emergency Alternating Current Power System
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
ACTION: Solicitation of public comment.
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SUMMARY: The NRC staff is soliciting public comment on its proposed
Interim Staff Guidance (ISG) DC/COL-ISG-021 titled ``Interim Staff
Guidance on the Review of Nuclear Power Plant Designs Using a Gas
Turbine Driven Standby Emergency Alternating Current Power System,''
(Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession
No. ML092640035). This ISG provides new guidance information for
applicants submitting a combined license (COL) or design certification
(DC) for construction and operation of new reactors submitted under
Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 52. In addition, it
supplements the guidance provided to the NRC staff in other sections of
NUREG-0800, ``Standard Review Plan for the Review of Safety Analysis
Reports for Nuclear Power Plants,'' March 2007, Standard Review Plan
(SRP), Section 8.3.1 and Sections 9.5.4 through 9.5.8. The NRC staff
issues DC/COL-ISGs to facilitate timely implementation of current staff
guidance and to facilitate activities associated with review of
applications for DCs and COLs by the Office of New Reactors (NRO). The
NRC staff intends to incorporate the final approved DC/COL-ISG-021 into
the next revision of SRP Section 8.3.1 and Sections 9.5.4 through 9.5.8
and Regulatory Guide 1.206, ``Combined License Applications for Nuclear
Power Plants (LWR Edition),'' June 2007.
Background: Emergency diesel generators are widely used as the
standby emergency power sources for the onsite alternating current (AC)
power system. It is anticipated that new reactor designs will
incorporate gas turbines to supply the standby emergency alternating
current power system. This ISG document provides guidance on the
implementation of emergency gas turbine generators (EGTGs) used as AC
power sources to supply power to safety-related equipment or equipment
important to safety for all operational events and during accident
conditions. Only EGTG systems that are air cooled and diesel oil fueled
are considered in this interim guidance.
DATES: Comments must be filed no later than 30 days from the date of
publication of this notice in the Federal Register. Comments received
after this date will be considered, if it is practical to do so, but
the Commission 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-2010-0033 in the subject line of your
comments. Comments submitted in writing or in electronic form will be
posted on the NRC website 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-2010-0033. 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-
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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].
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-2010-0033.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. John P. Segala, Chief, Balance of
Plant Branch 1, Division of Safety Systems and Risk Assessment, Office
of New Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001; telephone at 301-415-1992 or e-mail [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/), ADAMS Accession No. ML092640035.
The NRC staff is issuing this notice to solicit public comments on
the proposed DC/COL-ISG-021. After the NRC staff considers any public
comments, it will make a determination regarding the proposed DC/COL-
ISG-021.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day of January 2010.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
William F. Burton,
Branch Chief, Rulemaking and Guidance Development Branch, Division of
New Reactor Licensing, Office of New Reactors.
[FR Doc. 2010-2287 Filed 2-2-10; 8:45 am]
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