[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 104 (Tuesday, May 31, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 31379]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-13355]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2011-0120]


Notice of Issuance of Bulletin 2011-01, Mitigating Strategies

AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of Issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued 
Bulletin 2011-01 to all holders of operating licenses for nuclear power 
reactors, except those who have permanently ceased operation and have 
certified that fuel has been removed from the reactor vessel. The NRC 
has issued this Bulletin to obtain a comprehensive verification of 
compliance with the regulatory requirements regarding the conditions of 
licenses.

DATES: The Bulletin was issued on May 11, 2011.

ADDRESSES: NRC Bulletin 2011-01: ``Mitigating Strategies'' is available 
through the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS) under Accession Number: ML111250360.
     NRC's Public Document Room (PDR): The public may examine 
and have copied, for a fee, publicly available documents at the NRC's 
PDR, O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 
Maryland 20852.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): Publicly available documents created or received at the NRC 
are available online in the NRC Library 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 the 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].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eric Bowman, Senior Project Manager, 
Generic Communications and Power Uprate Branch, Division of Policy and 
Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission. Telephone: 301-415-2963; e-mail: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The NRC Has Issued This Bulletin for Three Purposes

    1. To require that addressees provide a comprehensive verification 
of their compliance with the regulatory requirements of Title 10 of the 
Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 50.54(hh)(2),
    2. To notify addressees about the NRC staff's need for information 
associated with licensee mitigating strategies under 10 CFR 
50.54(hh)(2) in light of the recent events at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi 
facility in order to determine if (1) Additional assessment of program 
implementation is needed, (2) the current inspection program should be 
enhanced, or (3) further regulatory action is warranted, and
    3. To require that addressees provide a written response to the NRC 
in accordance with 10 CFR 50.54(f).

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day of May 2011.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Stacey Rosenberg,
Chief, Generic Communications and Power Uprate Branch, Division of 
Policy and Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2011-13355 Filed 5-27-11; 8:45 am]
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