[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 149 (Thursday, August 2, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46128-46129]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-18864]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2012-0180]


Proposed Revision 0 to Standard Review Plan Section 19.5: 
Adequacy of Design Features and Functional Capabilities Identified and 
Described for Withstanding Aircraft Impacts

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Solicitation of public comment.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is soliciting 
public comment on a proposed revision to its Standard Review Plan 
(SRP), NUREG-0800, ``Standard Review Plan for the Review of Safety 
Analysis Reports for Nuclear Power Plants: LWR Edition.'' The NRC seeks 
comments on a new section of the SRP: Section 19.5: ``Adequacy of 
Design Features and Functional Capabilities Identified and Described 
for Withstanding Aircraft Impacts,'' (Agencywide Documents Access and 
Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML12138A468), under Title 10 of 
the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) part 52. The current SRP does 
not contain guidance on Aircraft Impact Assessment.

DATES: Comments must be filed no later than 30 days from the date of 
publication of this notice in the Federal Register. 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 is publicly available, by 
searching on http://www.regulations.gov under Docket ID NRC-2012-0180. 
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-2012-0180. 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: Amy E. Cubbage, Chief, Policy Branch, 
Division of Advanced Reactors and Rulemaking, Office of New Reactors, 
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; 
telephone at 301-415-2875 or email at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NRC seeks public comment on a proposed 
new section of the Section 19.5: ``Adequacy of Design Features and 
Functional Capabilities Identified and Described for Withstanding 
Aircraft Impacts,'' (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS) Accession No. ML12138A468). This section has been developed to 
assist NRC staff with the review of applications for certain 
construction permits, operating licenses, design approvals, design 
certifications, manufacturing licenses, license amendments, and 
combined licenses and to inform new reactor applicants and other 
affected entities of proposed SRP guidance. Following NRC staff 
evaluation of public comments, the NRC intends to incorporate the final 
approved guidance into the next revision of NUREG-0800.
    The SRP is guidance for the NRC staff. The SRP is not a substitute 
for the NRC's regulations, and compliance with the SRP is not required. 
Accordingly, issuance of the SRP does not constitute ``backfitting'' as 
defined in 10 CFR 50.109(a)(1) of the Backfit Rule and is not otherwise 
inconsistent with the applicable issue finality provisions in 10 CFR 
part 52.

Accessing Information and Submitting Comments

A. Accessing Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2012-0180 when contacting the NRC 
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may 
access information related to this document, which the NRC possesses 
and is

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publicly available, by any of the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-0180.
     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 ADAMS accession number 
for each document referenced in this notice (if that document is 
available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is 
referenced.
     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-2012-0180 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 enters the comment submissions into 
ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely 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 does not routinely edit comment submissions to 
remove such information before making the comment submissions available 
to the public or entering the comment submissions into ADAMS.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 25th day of July 2012.
Amy E. Cubbage,
Chief, Policy Branch, Division of Advanced Reactors and Rulemaking, 
Office of New Reactors.
[FR Doc. 2012-18864 Filed 8-1-12; 8:45 am]
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