[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 56 (Thursday, March 22, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16869-16870]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-6894]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Project No. 753; NRC-2012-0071]
Proposed Models for Plant-Specific Adoption of Technical
Specifications Task Force Traveler TSTF-522, Revision 0, ``Revise
Ventilation System Surveillance Requirements To Operate for 10 Hours
per Month''
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of opportunity for public comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the Commission)
is requesting public comment on the proposed model safety evaluation
(SE) for plant-specific adoption of Technical Specifications (TS) Task
Force (TSTF) Traveler TSTF-522, Revision 0, ``Revise Ventilation System
Surveillance Requirements to Operate for 10 hours per Month.''
DATES: Comment period expires on April 23, 2012. Comments received
after this date will be considered, if it is practical to do so, but
the Commission is able to ensure consideration only for comments
received on or before this date.
ADDRESSES: You may access information and comment submissions related
to this document by searching on http://www.regulations.gov under
Docket ID NRC-2012-0071. You may submit comments by the following
methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-0071. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-492-
3668; email: [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 additional direction on accessing information and submitting
comments, see ``Accessing Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Michelle C. Honcharik, Senior
Project Manager, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone 301-415-
1774 or email at [email protected]. For technical questions
please contact Mr. Matthew Hamm, Reactor Systems Engineer, Office of
Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone 301-415-1472 or email at
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Accessing Information and Submitting Comments
A. Accessing Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2012-0071 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may
access information related to this document by the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-0071.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may access publicly-available documents online in the NRC
Library at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the
search, select ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and then select ``Begin Web-
based ADAMS Search.'' For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRC's
Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-
4737, or by email to [email protected]. TSTF-522, Revision 0,
includes a model application and is available in ADAMS under Accession
Number ML100890316. The proposed model SE for plant-specific adoption
of TSTF-522, Revision 0, is also available under ADAMS Accession Number
ML113540250.
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC-2012-0071 in the subject line of your
comment submission, in order to ensure that the NRC is able to make
your comment submission available to the public in this docket.
The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact
information in comment submissions that you do not want to be publicly
disclosed. The NRC posts all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as entering the comment submissions into
ADAMS, and the NRC does not edit comment submissions to remove
identifying or contact information.
If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons
for submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to
include identifying or contact information in their comment submissions
that they do not want to be publicly disclosed. Your request should
state that the NRC will not edit comment submissions to remove such
information before making the comment submissions available to the
public or entering the comment submissions into ADAMS.
Background
The proposed change revises the Improved Standard Technical
Specification (ISTS), NUREG-1430, ``Standard Technical Specifications
Babcock and Wilcox Plants,'' NUREG-1431, ``Standard Technical
Specifications Westinghouse Plants,'' NUREG-1432, ``Standard Technical
Specifications Combustion Engineering Plants,'' NUREG-1433, ``Standard
Technical Specifications General Electric Plants BWR [Boiling Water
Reactor]/4,'' and NUREG-1434, ``Standard Technical Specifications
General Electric Plants, BWR/6.'' Specifically, the proposed change
revises Surveillance Requirements (SRs) for the following systems: The
iodine cleanup system/shield building air cleanup system, the control
room emergency filtration system, the emergency core cooling system
(ECCS) pump room exhaust air cleanup system, and the fuel building air
cleanup system. This TS improvement is part of the consolidated line
item improvement process (CLIIP).
Additional Technical Details
TSTF-522, Revision 0, is applicable to all nuclear power plants.
The proposed change revises SRs for the following systems: The iodine
cleanup system/shield building air cleanup system, the control room
emergency filtration system, the ECCS pump room exhaust air cleanup
system, and the fuel building air cleanup system. In particular SRs
3.6.11.1/3.6.13.1, 3.7.10.1, 3.7.12.1, 3.7.13.1, and 3.7.14.1, which
currently require operating the heaters in the respective systems for
at least 10 continuous hours every 31 days, would be changed to require
at least 15 continuous minutes of heater operation every 31 days.
This notice provides an opportunity for the public to comment on
proposed changes to the ISTS after a preliminary assessment and finding
by the NRC staff that the agency will likely offer the changes for
adoption by licensees. This notice solicits comment on proposed changes
to the ISTS, which if implemented by a licensee will modify the plant-
specific TS. The NRC staff will evaluate any comments received for the
proposed changes and reconsider the
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changes or announce the availability of the changes for adoption by
licensees as part of the CLIIP. Licensees opting to apply for this TS
change are responsible for reviewing the NRC staff's SE, and the
applicable technical justifications, providing any necessary plant-
specific information, and assessing the completeness and accuracy of
their license amendment request (LAR). The NRC will process each
amendment application responding to the notice of availability
according to applicable NRC rules and procedures.
The proposed changes do not prevent licensees from requesting an
alternate approach or proposing changes other than those proposed in
TSTF-522, Revision 0. However, significant deviations from the approach
recommended in this notice or the inclusion of additional changes to
the license require additional NRC staff review. This may increase the
time and resources needed for the review or result in NRC staff
rejection of the LAR. Licensees desiring significant deviations or
additional changes should instead submit an LAR that does not claim to
adopt TSTF-522, Revision 0.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 14th day of March 2012.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John R. Jolicoeur,
Chief, Licensing Processes Branch, Division of Policy and Rulemaking,
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2012-6894 Filed 3-21-12; 8:45 am]
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