[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 156 (Friday, August 12, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 50275]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-20513]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2009-0304]


Guidance for the Assessment of Beyond-Design-Basis Aircraft 
Impacts

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Regulatory guide; issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or Commission) is 
issuing a new guide regulatory guide, (RG) 1.217, ``Guidance for the 
Assessment of Beyond-Design-Basis Aircraft Impacts.'' This guide 
describes a method that the staff of NRC considers acceptable for use 
in satisfying its regulations regarding the consideration of aircraft 
impacts for new nuclear power reactors.

ADDRESSES: You can access publicly available documents related to this 
regulatory guide 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, 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]. 
The regulatory guide is available electronically under ADAMS Accession 
Number ML092900004. The regulatory analysis may be found in ADAMS under 
Accession No. ML112101610.
     Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Public comments and 
supporting materials related to this regulatory guide can be found at 
http://www.regulations.gov by searching on Docket ID NRC-2009-0304.
    Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and Commission approval is 
not required to reproduce them.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mekonen M. Bayssie, Regulatory Guide 
Development Branch, Division of Engineering, Office of Nuclear 
Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001, telephone 301-251-7489 or e-mail to 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Introduction

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or Commission) is issuing a 
new 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.
    This guide endorses the methodologies described in the industry 
guidance document, Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) 07-13, ``Methodology 
for Performing Aircraft Impact Assessments for New Plant Designs,'' 
Revision 8, issued April 2011. The public version of NEI 07-13 can be 
found in the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS), Accession No. ML091490723.

II. Further Information

    DG-1176 was published in the Federal Register on July 10, 2009 (74 
FR 33282), for a 60-day public comment period. The public comment 
period closed on September 8, 2009. No comments were submitted during 
this period. Electronic copies of Regulatory Guide 1.217 are available 
through the NRC's public Web site under ``Regulatory Guides'' at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day of August 2011.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Edward O'Donnell,
Acting Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of 
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2011-20513 Filed 8-11-11; 8:45 am]
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