[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 72 (Monday, April 15, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22349-22350]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-08693]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2012-0066]
Guidance on the Treatment of Uncertainties Associated With PRA in
Risk-Informed Decisionmaking
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Announcement of issuance for public comment, availability.
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SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued for public
comment a document entitled: NUREG-1855, Revision 1, ``Guidance on the
Treatment of Uncertainties Associated with PRA in Risk-Informed
Decisionmaking,'' Draft Report for Comment.
DATES: Please submit comments by May 27, 2013. Comments received after
this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC
staff is able to ensure consideration only for comments received on or
before this date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods
(unless this document describes a different method for submitting
comments on a specific subject):
Federal rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-0066. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-492-
3668; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individual(s) listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section
of this document.
Accessing Information and Submitting Comments
A. Accessing Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2012-0066 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 publicly available, by any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-0066.
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 document (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-2012-0066 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 that you do not want to be publicly
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disclosed in you comment submission. The NRC will post all comment
submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as enter 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 that they do not want to be
publicly disclosed in their comment submission. 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.
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Public comments and supporting
materials related to this notice can be found at http://www.regulations.gov by searching on Docket ID: NRC-2012-0066.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Drouin, Division of Risk
Analysis, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Telephone: 301-251-
7574, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NUREG-1855, Revision 1, Guidance on the
Treatment of Uncertainties Associated with PRA in Risk-Informed
Decisionmaking, Draft Report for Comment provides guidance on how to
treat uncertainties associated with probabilistic risk assessment (PRA)
in risk-informed decisionmaking. The objectives of this guidance
include fostering an understanding of the uncertainties associated with
PRA and their impact on the results of PRA and providing a pragmatic
approach to addressing these uncertainties in the context of the
decisionmaking. This revision incorporates a revised structure for
better ease of use and updates the staff position on the treatment of
uncertainties.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 4th day of April, 2013.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Gary M. DeMoss,
Chief, Performance and Reliability Branch Division of Risk Analysis,
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2013-08693 Filed 4-12-13; 8:45 am]
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