[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 182 (Tuesday, September 20, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58311-58312]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-24061]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2011-0191]
Draft License Renewal Interim Staff Guidance LR-ISG-2011-05;
Ongoing Review of Operating Experience
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft interim staff guidance; extension of comment period and
public meeting.
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SUMMARY: On August 24, 2011, in the Federal Register (76 FR 52995), the
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) requested public comments on
Draft License Renewal Interim Staff Guidance (LR-ISG), LR-ISG-2011-05,
``Ongoing Review of Operating Experience.'' This LR-ISG provides
guidance and clarification concerning ongoing review of plant-specific
and industry-wide operating experience as an attribute of aging
management programs used at nuclear power plants. In response to a
request from the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), the NRC is extending
the public comment period until October 23, 2011, and holding a public
meeting on October 12, 2011, to discuss the draft LR-ISG.
DATES: The comment period has been extended and expires on October 23,
2011. Comments received after this date will be considered, if it is
practical to do so, but the NRC is able to ensure consideration only
for comments received on or before this date.
ADDRESSES: Please include Docket ID NRC-2011-0191 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-
2011-0191. 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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Matthew Homiack, Division of
License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-
1683; or e-mail: [email protected].
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 notice
using the following methods:
NRC's Public Document Room: The public may examine and
have copied, for a fee, publicly available documents at the NRC's
Public Document Room, 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].
Draft LR-ISG-2011-05 is available electronically under ADAMS Accession
No. ML11203A411. A notice of the October 12, 2011, public meeting is
available under ADAMS Accession No. ML11251A134.
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-2011-0191.
NRC's Interim Staff Guidance Web site: LR-ISG documents
are available online under the ``License Renewal'' heading at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/#int.
NRC's Public Meeting Schedule Web site: The NRC posts its
upcoming public meetings at http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/public-meetings.
Background
The NRC issues LR-ISGs to communicate insights and lessons learned
and to address emergent issues not covered in license renewal guidance
documents, such as NUREG-1801, Revision 2, ``Generic Aging Lessons
Learned (GALL) Report'' (ADAMS Accession No. ML103490041), and NUREG-
1800, Revision 2, ``Standard Review Plan for Review of License Renewal
Applications for Nuclear Power Plants'' (SRP-LR) (ADAMS Accession No.
ML103490036). In this way, the NRC staff and stakeholders may use the
guidance in an LR-ISG document before it is incorporated into a formal
license renewal guidance document revision. The NRC staff issues LR-ISG
in accordance with the LR-ISG Process, Revision 2 (ADAMS Accession No.
ML100920158), for which a notice of availability was published in the
Federal Register on June 22, 2010 (75 FR 35510).
The NRC staff developed draft LR-ISG-2011-05 to clarify guidance on
how the ongoing review of operating experience should be used to ensure
the effectiveness of the license renewal aging management programs used
at nuclear power plants to meet the requirements of Title 10 of the
Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 54, ``Requirements for
Renewal of Operating Licenses for Nuclear Power Plants.'' The draft LR-
ISG proposes to revise the NRC staff's recommended aging management
programs in the GALL Report and the NRC staff's aging management review
procedures and acceptance criteria in the SRP-LR.
On August 24, 2011, the NRC requested public comments on draft LR-
ISG-2011-05. By letter dated August 29, 2011 (ADAMS Accession No.
ML11242A114), the NEI requested a 30-day extension to the comment
period and a public meeting to discuss draft comments and questions
concerning
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implementation of the LR-ISG. The NRC staff believes that discussions
at a public meeting will help stakeholders better prepare their
comments on the draft LR-ISG. As such, the NRC staff is granting NEI's
request for a public meeting. The meeting will be held on October 12,
2011. The public is invited to participate in this meeting by providing
comments and asking questions throughout the meeting. The NRC staff is
also granting NEI's request for a 30-day extension of the comment
period. The extended comment period ends on October 23, 2011. This
extension will allow the NRC staff to hold the public meeting during
the comment period. It will also give stakeholders the opportunity to
inform their comments based on the meeting discussions before closing
of the comment period. The NRC staff will make a final determination
regarding issuance of the LR-ISG after it considers any public comments
received in response to this request.
Public Meeting
The NRC is holding a public meeting on October 12, 2011. This
meeting will be held at NRC Headquarters, 11545 Rockville Pike,
Rockville, MD 20852, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. A
teleconference will be available for those individuals who wish to
participate but cannot attend in person. Additional details on this
meeting, including room location and teleconference information, will
be available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML11251A134 and will be on
the NRC's Public Meeting Schedule Web site at least ten days prior to
the meeting.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Dated: September 14, 2011.
Melanie A. Galloway,
Acting Director, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2011-24061 Filed 9-19-11; 8:45 am]
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