[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 162 (Monday, August 22, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52355-52356]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-21357]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2010-0278]


NUREG-1482, Revision 2, ``Guidelines for Inservice Testing at 
Nuclear Power Plants, Draft Report for Comment''

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Announcement of issuance for public comment, availability.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued for 
public comment a document entitled: NUREG-1482, Revision 2, 
``Guidelines for Inservice Testing at Nuclear Power Plants, Draft 
Report for Comment,'' and subtitled ``Inservice Testing of Pumps and 
Valves, and Inservice Examination and Testing of Dynamic Restraints 
(Snubbers) at Nuclear Power Plants''.
    (Note that this document was submitted previously for public 
comments as draft NUREG-1946. Based on public comments, draft NUREG-
1482 is being updated as Revision 2 and is being issued to incorporate 
all comments received for draft report NUREG-1946).

DATES: Please submit comments by December 20, 2011. 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: Please include Docket ID NRC-2010-0278 in the subject line 
of your comments. For additional instructions on submitting comments 
and instructions on accessing documents related to this action, see 
``Submitting Comments and Accessing Information'' in the SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION section of this document. You may submit comments by any 
one of the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for documents filed under Docket ID NRC-
2010-0278. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher, 
telephone: 301-492-3668; e-mail: [email protected].
     Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Chief, Rules, 
Announcements, and Directives Branch (RADB), Office of Administration, 
Mail Stop: TWB-05-B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, 
DC 20555-0001.
     Fax comments to: RADB at 301-492-3446.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Submitting Comments and Accessing Information

    Comments submitted in writing or in electronic form will be posted 
on the NRC Web site and on the Federal rulemaking Web site, http://www.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.
    You can access publicly available documents related to this 
document 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 NUREG-1482, Revision 2, ``Guidelines for Inservice Testing at 
Nuclear Power Plants, Draft Report for Comment,'' and subtitled 
``Inservice Testing of Pumps and Valves, and Inservice Examination and 
Testing of Dynamic Restraints (Snubbers) at Nuclear Power Plants'' is 
available electronically under ADAMS Accession Number ML112231412.
     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-2010-0278.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gurjendra S. Bedi, Division of 
Component Integrity, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-
1393, e-mail: [email protected].
    NUREG-1482, Revision 2, ``Guidelines for Inservice Testing at 
Nuclear Power Plants, Draft Report for Comment'' provides updated 
information on applicable regulations for testing of pumps and valves, 
and inservice examination and testing of snubbers. The information in 
NUREG-1482, ``Guidelines for Inservice Testing at Nuclear Plants,'' 
Revision 0, issued April 1995, and Revision 1, issued January 2005, has 
described these topics in the past.
    This NUREG report replaces Revision 0 and Revision 1 of NUREG-1482, 
and is applicable, unless stated otherwise, to all editions and addenda 
of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Code of 
Operation and Maintenance of Nuclear Power Plants (OM Code), which 
Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 50.55a(b) 
incorporates by reference (76 FR 36232-36279), dated June 21, 2011. 
Note that the draft NUREG-1482, Revision 2, is a substantial re-write 
from issuance of draft NUREG-1946 (ADAMS

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Accession Number: ML102100236). This draft NUREG-1482, Revision 2, 
incorporates all the public comments received for draft NUREG-1946, 
because based on public comments, NUREG-1482, Revision 1, is revised 
and updated instead of issuing the new NUREG-1946. The NRC staff 
evaluation and resolution of public comments for draft NUREG-1946, 
including Inservice Testing Owner Group comments, are documented in 
ADAMS Accession Number: ML112092872. Most of the draft NUREG-1946 
included in the main text of draft NUREG-1482, Revision 2, Appendix A, 
to this NUREG-1482, Revision 2, contains guidance provided in Revision 
1 to NUREG-1482 for pumps and valves that has been updated for the 
development of inservice testing programs at nuclear power plants. 
Appendix B to this NUREG contains guidance related to inservice 
examination and testing of dynamic restraints (snubbers), which is 
included for the first time in the draft NUREG-1482, Revision 2.
    The guidelines and recommendations provided in this NUREG and its 
Appendices A and B do not supersede the regulatory requirements 
specified in 10 CFR 50.55a. Further, this NUREG does not authorize the 
use of alternatives to, or grant relief from, the ASME Code 
requirements for inservice testing of pumps and valves, or inservice 
examination and testing of dynamic restraints (snubbers), incorporated 
by reference in 10 CFR 50.55a. In addition, the NUREG discusses other 
inservice test program topics such as the NRC process for review of the 
OM Code, conditions on the use of the OM Code, and interpretations of 
the OM Code.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day of August 2011.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Anthony C. McMurtray,
Chief, Component Performance and Testing Branch, Division of Component 
Integrity, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2011-21357 Filed 8-19-11; 8:45 am]
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