[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 19 (Tuesday, January 29, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6149-6150]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-01834]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2009-0189 and NRC-2010-0047]
Final Interim Staff Guidance Assessing the Radiological
Consequences of Accidental Releases of Radioactive Materials From
Liquid Waste Tanks for Combined License Applications--DC/COL-ISG-013
and Assessing the Radiological Consequences of Accidental Releases of
Radioactive Materials From Liquid Waste Tanks in Ground and Surface
Waters for Combined License Applications--DC/COL-ISG-014
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff is issuing
Final Interim Staff Guidance (ISG) DC/COL-ISG-013 and DC/COL-ISG-014.
ISG-013 supplements NUREG-0800 Standard Review Plan (SRP) Section 11.2
and Branch Technical Position 11-6 and ISG-014 supplements SRP Sections
2.4.12 and 2.4.13. The purpose of these ISGs is to provide staff
guidance for assessing combined license (COL) applicant compliance with
acceptance criteria.
DATES: The effective date of the COL-ISGs is February 28, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2009-0189 and NRC-2010-0047
when contacting the NRC about the availability of information regarding
these documents. You may access information related to these documents,
which the NRC possesses and are publicly available by any of the
following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2009-0189 and NRC-
2010-0047. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher;
telephone: 301-492-3668; email: [email protected].
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.
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ADAMS accession No. Document title
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ML12191A290.................. DC/COL-ISG-013, Assessing the
Radiological Consequences of Accidental
Releases of Radioactive Materials from
Liquid Waste Tanks for Combined License
Applications and DC/COL-ISG-014,
Assessing the Radiological Consequences
of Accidental Releases of Radioactive
Materials from Liquid Waste Tanks in
Ground and Surface Waters for Combined
License Applications (Package).
ML12191A304.................. Federal Register notice; Office of New
Reactors: DC/COL-ISG-013 and DC/COL-ISG-
014, Notice of Availability.
ML12191A325.................. Final DC/COL-ISG-013, Assessing the
Radiological Consequences of Accidental
Releases of Radioactive Materials from
Liquid Waste Tanks for Combined License
Applications.
ML12191A330.................. Final DC/COL-ISG-014, Assessing the
Radiological Consequences of Accidental
Releases of Radioactive Materials from
Liquid Waste Tanks in Ground and Surface
Waters for Combined License
Applications.
ML12191A346.................. Comment Response Document for DC/COL-ISG-
013.
ML12191A342.................. Comment Response Document for DC/COL-ISG-
014.
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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, MD 20852.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Amy E. Cubbage, Office of New
Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001; telephone: 301-415-2875 or by email at: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Discussion
In reviewing applications for certified designs and combined
licenses under part 52 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations
(10 CFR), the NRC staff found that the March 2007, SRP staff guidance
did not provide sufficient guidance to adequately evaluate applicants'
approach in modeling the movement of radioactivity and in assessing the
radiological impacts following the postulated failure of a tank
containing radioactive materials. The two ISGs are being issued
simultaneously because they are intended to be used together. ISG-013
addresses the development of the radiological source term contained in
the postulated tank failure and mechanism for the radioactivity to
reach groundwater or surface water, while ISG-014 focuses on
characterizing the hydro-geologic conditions of the site where
radioactivity is assumed to enter groundwater or surface water and
modeling the movement of the radioactivity to points beyond the site
boundary.
II. Background
The staff issues COL-ISGs to facilitate timely implementation of
current staff guidance and to facilitate activities associated with
review of applications for COL-ISGs by the staff. These ISGs supplement
the guidance contained in Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.206, Revision 0,
``Combined License Applications for Nuclear Power Plants (LWR
Edition).'' In addition, these ISGs supplement the guidance provided
for staff review of COL applications contained in NUREG-0800, SRP dated
March 2007. The NRC staff intends to incorporate these final ISGs into
the next revision of RG 1.206 and NUREG-0800. On February 24, 2010 (75
FR 8411 and 75 FR 8412), the staff reopened the comment period for the
proposed draft DC/COL-ISG-013, under ADAMS Accession No. ML090830488
and issued the proposed draft DC/COL-ISG-014, under ADAMS Accession No.
ML091320560 for public comment. The staff received questions and
editorial comments which were considered in the development of the
final ISGs. The questions, comments, and staff resolutions of those
comments are contained in ``DC/COL-ISG-013 Comment Resolution'' which
can be found under ADAMS Accession No. ML12191A346, and ``DC/COL-ISG-
014 Comment Resolution'' which can be found under ADAMS Accession No.
ML12191A342. See NRC's public Web page: (http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/isg/).
III. Backfitting and Issue Finality
Issuance of these ISGs does not constitute backfitting as defined
in 10 CFR 50.109, nor is it inconsistent with any of the issue finality
provisions in 10 CFR Part 52. These ISGs do not contain
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any new requirements for COL applicants or holders under Part 52, or
for licensees of existing operating units licensed under Part 50.
Rather, they contain additional guidance and clarification on
compliance with 10 CFR 50.34(h) and 10 CFR 52.79(a)(41), and may be
used by operating license and COL applicants, respectively, in the
preparation of their applications. As explained in the applicability
section of each ISG, the ISGs do not apply to holders of nuclear power
reactor operating licenses under 10 CFR Part 50 or combined licenses
under 10 CFR Part 52 as of the effective date of these ISGs and, for
ISG-014, the effective date of revision of SRP Section 2.4.13, and for
applicants for nuclear power reactor operating licenses under 10 CFR
Part 50 or combined licenses under 10 CFR Part 52 that have committed,
in applications docketed with the NRC as of the effective date of this
ISG and, for ISG-014, the effective date of revision of SRP Section
2.4.13, to specific guidance in assessing the radiological consequences
of a postulated failure of a tank containing radioactive materials.
Congressional Review Act
Each of these ISGs is a rule as designated in the Congressional
Review Act (5 U.S.C. 801-808). However, the Office of Management and
Budget has not found either one to be a major rule as designated in the
Congressional Review Act.
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 22nd day of January 2013.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Amy E. Cubbage,
Chief, Policy Branch, Division of Advanced Reactors and Rulemaking,
Office of New Reactors.
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