[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 184 (Thursday, September 22, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58846-58847]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-24344]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2009-0494]


Final Interim Staff Guidance: Review of Evaluation To Address Gas 
Accumulation Issues in Safety Related Systems

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff is issuing 
its Final Interim Staff Guidance (ISG) DC/COL-ISG-019 (Agencywide 
Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. 
ML111110572). The purpose of this ISG is to clarify the NRC staff 
guidance to address issues of gas accumulation in safety related 
systems. This ISG revises and updates the guidance provided to the 
staff in Standard Review Plan (SRP) Section 5.4.7, ``Residual Heat 
Removal System,'' Section 6.3, ``Emergency Core Cooling System,'' and 
Section 6.5.2, ``Containment Spray System'' of NUREG-0800, ``Standard 
Review Plan for the Review of Safety Analysis Reports for Nuclear Power 
Plants,'' March 2007. The NRC staff issues DC/COL-ISGs to facilitate 
timely implementation of current staff

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guidance and to facilitate activities associated with review of 
applications for design certifications and combined licenses by the 
Office of New Reactors. The NRC staff intends to incorporate the final 
approved DC/COL-ISG-019 into the next revision of the SRP and related 
guidance documents.
    Disposition: On November 12, 2009 (74 FR 58323), the NRC staff 
issued proposed DC/COL-ISG-019 on ``Review of Evaluation to Address Gas 
Accumulation Issues in Safety Related Systems,'' ADAMS Accession No. 
ML092360375. The staff received comments (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML093500086) on the proposed guidance on December 14, 2009. These 
comments were further discussed in a public meeting held at the NRC on 
January 20, 2010, and in a conference call on July 9, 2010. This final 
issuance incorporates changes from the majority of the comments. A 
document comparing the version of the ISG that went out for public 
comment and the final version of the ISG can be found under ADAMS 
Accession No. ML111170302.

ADDRESSES: 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 Public Document Room 
reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to 
[email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Joseph E. Donoghue, Chief, Reactor 
Systems, Nuclear Performance and Code Review Branch, Division of Safety 
Systems & Risk Assessment, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone at 301-415-1193 or e-mail at 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The agency posts its issued staff guidance 
in the agency external web page (http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/isg/).

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day of September, 2011.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,

William F. Burton,
Chief, Rulemaking and Guidance Development Branch, Division of New 
Reactor Licensing, Office of New Reactors.
[FR Doc. 2011-24344 Filed 9-21-11; 8:45 am]
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