[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 231 (Thursday, December 1, 2011)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 74630-74631]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-30902]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
10 CFR Parts 50 and 52
RIN 3150-AI10
[NRC-2008-0122]
Making Changes to Emergency Plans for Nuclear Power Reactors
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Regulatory guide; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a new
regulatory guide (RG) 1.219, ``Guidance on Making Changes to Emergency
Plans for Nuclear Power Reactors.'' This guide describes a method that
the NRC staff considers acceptable to implement the requirements that
relate to emergency preparedness and specifically to making changes to
emergency response plans.
DATES: December 1, 2011.
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
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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
email to [email protected]. The regulatory guide is available in
ADAMS under Accession Number ML102510626. The regulatory analysis may
be found in ADAMS under Accession Number ML102510560.
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-2008-0122.
Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and Commission approval is
not required to reproduce them.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Edward O'Donnell, Regulatory Guide
Development Branch, Division of Engineering, Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001; telephone: (301) 251-7455, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The NRC 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 describes a method that the NRC staff considers
acceptable to implement the requirements in Title 10, Section 50.54(q),
of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) part 50, ``Domestic
Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities.'' Requirements in
10 CFR 50.54(q)), ``Conditions of Licenses,'' relate to emergency
preparedness and specifically to making changes to emergency response
plans.
II. Further Information
Draft Guide (DG)-1237 was published in the Federal Register on May
18, 2009 (74 FR 23220), for a 60 day public comment period. The public
comment period closed on August 3, 2009. Public comments on DG-1237 and
the staff responses to the public comments are available in ADAMS under
Accession Number ML102520241.
III. Backfitting and Issue Finality
This regulatory guide provides the NRC's first guidance on
compliance with the revised provisions of 10 CFR 50.54(q). This
regulation was recently published in the Federal Register (76 FR 72560;
November 23, 2011) and will become effective on December 23, 2011.
Licensees must implement the amended 10 CFR 50.54(q) by January 23,
2012. The statement of considerations for the final rule that amended
10 CFR 50.54(q) discussed compliance with applicable backfitting
provisions (76 FR 72560; November 23, 2011 at Page 72594). The first
issuance of guidance on a new rule does not constitute backfitting,
inasmuch as the guidance must be consistent with the regulatory
requirements in the new rule and the backfitting considerations
applicable to the new rule must, as a matter of logic, also be
applicable to this newly-issued guidance. Therefore, issuance of this
new regulatory guide does not constitute issuance of ``new'' guidance
within the meaning of the definition of ``backfitting'' in 10 CFR
50.109(a)(1), nor does the issuance of this new regulatory guide, by
itself, constitute an action inconsistent with any of the issue
finality provisions in 10 CFR part 52.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 21st day of November 2011.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Thomas H. Boyce,
Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of Engineering,
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2011-30902 Filed 11-30-11; 8:45 am]
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