[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 95 (Tuesday, May 18, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27838-27840]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-11841]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2010-0180]


Notice of Availability of Draft NUREG-1800, Revision 2; 
``Standard Review Plan for Review of License Renewal Applications for 
Nuclear Power Plants'' and Draft NUREG-1801, Revision 2; ``Generic 
Aging Lessons Learned (GALL) Report''

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

ACTION: Issuance of draft NUREG-1800, ``Standard Review Plan for Review 
of License Renewal Applications for Nuclear Power Plants ''and draft 
NUREG-1801, ``Generic Aging Lessons Learned (GALL) Report'' for public 
comment; and announcement of public workshop.

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SUMMARY: The NRC staff is issuing drafts of the revised NUREG-1800, 
``Standard Review Plan for Review of License Renewal Applications for 
Nuclear Power Plants'' (SRP-LR); and the revised NUREG-1801, ``Generic 
Aging Lessons Learned (GALL) Report'' for public comment. These revised 
documents describe methods acceptable to the NRC staff for implementing 
the license renewal rule, Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations Part 54 
(10 CFR Part 54), as well as techniques used by the NRC staff in 
evaluating applications for license renewals. These draft documents 
supersede the preliminary draft documents that were publicly announced 
and placed on NRC's Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal/guidance/updated-guidance.html on December 23, 2009.
    The NRC is also announcing a public workshop to facilitate 
gathering public comments on the drafts of these revised documents. The 
NRC is especially interested in stakeholder comments that will improve 
the safety, effectiveness, and efficiency of the license renewal 
process. There are situations where the draft GALL Report, Revision 2 
includes changes that have been previously issued for public comments 
as part of the staff's license renewal Interim Staff Guidance (ISG) 
process. In particular, the Aging Management Program (AMP) XI.M40, 
``Monitoring of Neutron Absorbing Materials Other Than Boraflex'' and 
related Aging Management Review (AMR) line items were processed by ISG 
LR-ISG-2009-01. Public comments were elicited on the proposed AMP 
XI.M40 by 74 FRN 62829 dated December 1, 2009. Public comments were 
received, evaluated by the staff, and the proposed AMP XI.M40, and AMR 
line items, were revised as determined necessary by the staff. Because 
the staff has previously sought and received public comments on draft 
AMP XI.M40, the staff is not seeking further comments on this AMP as 
part of this Federal Register Notice (FRN). AMP XI.M40, and related AMR 
line items, are considered final by the staff. They have been included 
in the draft GALL Report, Revision 2 for completeness.

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DATES: Comments should be submitted on the draft SRP-LR and the draft 
GALL Report, accompanied by supporting data, by July 2, 2010. Comments 
received after this date will be considered, if it is practical to do 
so, but the NRC staff is able to assure consideration only for comments 
received on or before this date. A public workshop is planned to be 
held on May 26-28, 2010, at NRC's headquarters and is announced on the 
NRC's Web site at  http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/public-meetings/index.cfm.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any one of the following methods. 
Please include Docket ID NRC-2010-0180 in the subject line of your 
comments on the draft SRP-LR or the draft GALL Report or both. 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 the draft SRP-LR and the draft GALL Report filed under 
Docket ID NRC-2010-0180. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol 
Gallagher 301-492-3668; e-mail [email protected].
    Mail comments to: 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]. The draft SRP-LR, Revision 2, is under ADAMS 
Accession Number ML101320099. The draft GALL Report, Revision 2, is 
available under ADAMS Accession Number ML101320104.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Robert Gramm, License Renewal 
Project Manager, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, Mail Stop O-
11F1, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, 
Telephone (301) 415-1010, or e-mail [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Draft Standard Review Plan for License Renewal, Revision 2

    The NRC staff proposes to revise the September 2005 version of 
NUREG-1800, ``Standard Review Plan for Review of License Renewal 
Applications for Nuclear Power Plants'' (SRP-LR). The SRP-LR provides 
the guidance to NRC staff reviewers in performing safety reviews of 
applications to renew licenses of nuclear power plants in accordance 
with the license renewal rule. The draft SRP-LR is being revised to 
incorporate lessons learned from the review of the recent license 
renewal applications, as well as to make changes corresponding to the 
update of the GALL Report. The draft SRP-LR contains four major 
chapters: (1) Administrative Information; (2) Scoping and Screening 
Methodology for Identifying Structures and Components Subject to Aging 
Management Review, and Implementation Results; (3) Aging Management 
Review Results; and (4) Time-Limited Aging Analyses. In addition, three 
Branch Technical Positions are in an Appendix to the draft SRP-LR.

Draft Generic Aging Lessons Learned Report, Revision 2

    The draft Generic Aging Lessons Learned (GALL) Report, Revision 2, 
is an update to the September 2005 version. The NRC staff held a public 
workshop on January 4-7, 2010 to invite early public participation in 
the development of license renewal guidance documents. The NRC staff 
made selected chapters of an early draft GALL Report publicly available 
prior to the public workshop. Prior to the public workshop, the Nuclear 
Energy Institute (NEI) submitted significant industry comments on the 
GALL Report, Revision 1. During preparation of the draft GALL Report, 
Revision 2, the staff considered these and other comments generated 
since the publication of Rev. 1. The adequacy of the generic aging 
management programs in managing certain aging effects for particular 
structures and components are evaluated based on the review of the 
following ten program elements: (1) Scope of program, (2) preventive 
actions, (3) parameters monitored or inspected, (4) detection of aging 
effects, (5) monitoring and trending, (6) acceptance criteria, (7) 
corrective actions, (8) confirmation process, (9) administrative 
controls, and (10) operating experience. The GALL Report is a technical 
basis document for the SRP-LR and should be treated in the same manner 
as an approved topical report that is applicable generically.

Solicitation of Comments

    The comments should include supporting justification in enough 
detail for the NRC staff to evaluate the need for changes in guidance, 
as well as references to the operating experience, industry standards, 
or other relevant reference materials that provide a sound technical 
basis for such changes. The NRC is also interested in comments that 
will improve the clarity of the documents so that the improved guidance 
will provide a stable and predictable evaluation standard for future 
renewal applications. Editorial and style comments are not necessary 
because we expect that the guidance documents will need to be 
reformatted and edited before they are issued in final form.
    There are situations where the draft GALL Report, Revision 2 
includes changes that have been previously issued for public comments 
as part of the staff's license renewal Interim Staff Guidance (ISG) 
process. In particular, the Aging Management Program (AMP) XI.M40, 
``Monitoring of Neutron Absorbing Materials Other Than Boraflex'' and 
related Aging Management Review (AMR) line items were processed by ISG 
LR-ISG-2009-01. Public comments were elicited on the proposed AMP 
XI.M40 by 74 FRN 62829, dated December 1, 2009. Public comments were 
received, evaluated by the staff, and the proposed AMP XI.M40, and AMR 
line items, were revised as determined necessary by the

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staff. Because the staff has previously sought and received public 
comments on draft AMP XI.M40, the staff is not seeking further comments 
on this AMP as part of this FRN. AMP XI.M40, and related AMR line 
items, are considered final by the staff. They have been included in 
the draft GALL Report, Revision 2 for completeness.

Public Workshop

    A public workshop is scheduled during the public comment period. 
Scheduled for May 26-28, 2010, this workshop will be held in Room T-2B3 
at TWFN, the NRC headquarters. The formal meeting notice is available 
at http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/public-meetings/index.cfm. It is 
anticipated that the workshop will provide the participants an 
opportunity to obtain further information, to ask questions, to make 
comments to add to the discussion, or otherwise to facilitate the 
public in formulating and preparing written comments for NRC staff 
consideration on these revised license renewal guidance documents.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 12th day of May 2010.
    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Samson Lee,
Deputy Director, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation.
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