[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 134 (Thursday, July 12, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41206-41207]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-17011]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2012-0167]
Guidelines for Preparing and Reviewing Licensing Applications for
Instrumentation and Control Upgrades for Non-Power Reactors
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft NUREG; request for public comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the Commission)
is requesting public comment on Chapter 7, Section 7.3, Reactor Control
System, augmenting NUREG-1537, Part 1, ``Guidelines for Preparing and
Reviewing Applications for the Licensing of Non-Power Reactors: Format
and Content,'' for instrumentation and control (I&C) upgrades and
NUREG-1537, Part 2, ``Guidelines for Preparing and Reviewing
Applications for the Licensing of Non-Power Reactors: Standard Review
Plan and Acceptance Criteria,'' for instrumentation and control (I&C)
upgrades. This draft section of NUREG-1537 provides revised guidance
for preparing and reviewing applications to amend a facility operating
license for I&C upgrades.
DATES: Comments may be submitted by August 13, 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, which the NRC possesses and are publicly available,
by searching on http://www.regulations.gov under Docket ID NRC-2012-
0167. You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-0167. 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,
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see ``Accessing Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Duane A. Hardesty, Office of
Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Washington, DC 20005-0001; telephone: 301-415-3724; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Accessing Information and Submitting Comments
A. Accessing Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2012-0167 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may
access information related to this document by any of the following
methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-0167.
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]. The draft NUREG is located
in ADAMS as follows: Part 1, Chapter 7.3 (ADAMS Accession No.
ML12169A004, Part 2, Chapter 7.3 (ADAMS Accession No. ML12169A005, and
Part 1 & 2 side-by-side, Chapter 7.3 (ADAMS Accession No. ML12169A006).
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-2012-0167 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.
The NRC is issuing this notice to solicit public comment on Chapter
7, Section 7.3, Reactor Control System, augmenting NUREG-1537, Part 1,
``Guidelines for Preparing and Reviewing Applications for the Licensing
of Non-Power Reactors: Format and Content,'' for I&C upgrades and
NUREG-1537, Part 2, ``Guidelines for Preparing and Reviewing
Applications for the Licensing of Non-Power Reactors: Standard Review
Plan and Acceptance Criteria,'' for I&C upgrades. After the NRC staff
considers public comments, it will make a determination regarding
issuance of the final NUREG.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd day of June 2012.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Jessie F. Quichocho,
Chief, Research and Test Reactors Licensing Branch, Division of Policy
and Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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