[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 130 (Monday, July 8, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40776-40777]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-16292]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2013-0141]
Issuance of Regulatory Guide 1.124 and Regulatory Guide 1.130
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Regulatory Guide; Issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing
Revision 3 of Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.124, ``Service Limits and Loading
Combinations for Class 1 Linear-Type Supports,'' and Revision 3 of RG
1.130, ``Service Limits and Loading Combinations for Class 1 Plate-and-
Shell-Type Supports.'' There are no substantive changes to these
regulatory guides. The revisions include an update of the Edition and
Addenda of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Boiler
and Pressure Vessel Code (B&PVC). Regulatory Guides 1.124 and 1.130
delineates levels of service limits and appropriate combinations of
loadings associated with normal operation, postulated accidents, and
specified seismic events for the design of Class 1 linear-type
component and piping supports, and Class 1 plate-and-shell-type
component and piping supports, respectively.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2013-0141 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, using any of the following
methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0141. 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.
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]. Revision 3 of RG 1.124 and
Revision 3 of RG 1.130 are available in ADAMS under Accession Nos.
ML13141A666 and ML13141A667, respectively.
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
documents at the NRC's Public Document Room O1-F21, One White Flint
North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and NRC approval is not
required to reproduce them.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hector Rodriguez-Luccioni, Office of
Nuclear Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-251-7685, email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The NRC is issuing a revision to existing guides in the NRC's
``Regulatory Guide'' series. Regulatory guides were developed to
describe and make available to the public information methods that are
acceptable to the NRC staff for implementing specific parts of the
agency's regulations, techniques that the staff uses in evaluating
specific problems or postulated accidents, and data that the staff
needs in its review of applications for permits and licenses.
The NRC is issuing Revision 3 of RG 1.124 (ADAMS Accession No. ML
13141A666) and Revision 3 of RG 1.130 (ADAMS Accession No. ML13141A667)
as final regulatory guides without an opportunity for public comment,
because the changes between Revision 2 and Revision 3 are non-
substantive. The most significant change in Revision 3 of both
regulatory guides is the approval for use of the 2007 Edition through
the 2008 Addenda of the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (ASME B&PV
Code), Section III, Division 1 (limited to
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the subject matters covered in each regulatory guide). The earlier
revisions of both guides (Revision 2) approved for use the ASME B&PV
Code, 2001 Edition through the 2003 Addenda. There were no changes from
the 2001 Edition through the 2003 Addenda, to the 2007 Edition through
the 2008 Addenda affecting the technical content of either of the two
regulatory guides. The remaining changes reflected in Revision 3 of
each regulatory guide are editorial in nature, to improve clarity and
to provide for a new standardized format for the regulatory guides.
Therefore, the NRC has determined that an opportunity for public
comment is not necessary on Revision 3 of both RG 1.124 and RG 1.130.
II. Submitting Suggestions for Improvement of Regulatory Guides
The NRC typically seeks public comment on a draft version of a
regulatory guide by announcing its availability for comment in the
Federal Register. However, as explained on page 7 of NRC Management
Directive 6.6 ``Regulatory Guides,'' (ADAMS Accession Number
ML110330475) the NRC may directly issue a final regulatory guide
without a draft version or public comment period if the changes to the
regulatory guide are non-substantive.
Revision 3 of RG 1.124 and Revision 3 of RG 1.130 are being issued
without public comment. However, you may at any time submit suggestions
to the NRC for improvement of existing regulatory guides or for the
development of new regulatory guides to address new issues. Suggestions
can be submitted by the form available online at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/reg-guides/contactus.html. Suggestions will
be considered in future updates and enhancements of the regulatory
guide.
III. Backfitting and Issue Finality
Issuance of this final regulatory guide does not constitute
backfitting as defined in 10 CFR 50.109 (the Backfit Rule) and is not
otherwise inconsistent with the issue finality provisions in 10 CFR
part 52. Revision 3 of RG 1.124 and 1.130 approves for use the 2007
Edition through the 2008 Addenda of the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code
(ASME B&PV Code), Section III, Division 1 (limited to the subject
matters covered in each regulatory guide). There were no changes from
the 2001 Edition through the 2003 Addenda, to the 2007 Edition through
the 2008 Addenda affecting the technical content of either of the two
regulatory guides. Therefore, the revisions to these two regulatory
guides do not constitute backfitting nor are they otherwise
inconsistent with the issue finality provisions in 10 CFR part 52. The
revisions to these two regulatory guides also include editorial changes
to improve clarity and to provide a new standardized format for
regulatory guides, and the approval for use of the 2007 Edition through
the 2008 Addenda of the ASME B&PV Code, Section III, Division 1. These
changes do not fall within the kinds of agency actions that constitute
backfitting or are subject to limitations in the issue finality
provisions of part 52. Accordingly, the NRC did not address the Backfit
Rule or issue finality provisions of part 52 for these types of
changes.
III. Congressional Review Act
These regulatory guides are rules as defined in the Congressional
Review Act (5 U.S.C. 801-808). However, the Office of Management and
Budget has not found them to be major rules as defined in the
Congressional Review Act.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 27th day of June, 2013.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Thomas H. Boyce,
Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of Engineering,
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
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