[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 149 (Friday, August 2, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47010-47011]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-18677]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2013-0173]


Proposed Safety Evaluation for Plant-Specific

    Technical Specifications Task Force Traveler, ``Generic Letter 
2008-01, Managing Gas Accumulation''
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of opportunity for public comment.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is requesting 
public comment on the proposed model safety evaluation (SE) for plant-
specific adoption of Technical Specifications (TS) Task Force (TSTF) 
Traveler TSTF-523, Revision 2, ``Generic Letter 2008-01, Managing Gas 
Accumulation.''

DATES: Comments msut be filed no later than September 3, 2013. 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 that the NRC possesses and are publicly available by 
searching on http://www.regulations.gov under Docket ID NRC-2013-0173. 
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-2013-0173. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-3422 
or email: [email protected].
     Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Chief, Rules, 
Announcements, and Directives Branch (RADB), Office of Administration, 
Mail Stop: 3WFN 06A, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001.
    For additional direction on accessing information and submitting 
comments, see ``Accessing Information and Submitting Comments'' in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATIONsection of this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mrs. Michelle C. Honcharik, Office of 
Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC, 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-1774 or email: 
[email protected]. For technical questions please contact Mr. 
Matthew Hamm, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC, 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-
1472 or email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Accessing Information and Submitting Comments

A. Accessing Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2013-0173 when contacting the NRC 
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may 
access information related to this document by the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0173.
     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]. Technical Specification Task 
Force Traveler--TSTF-523, Revision 2, includes a model application and 
is available under ADAMS Accession Number ML13053A075. The proposed 
model SE for plant-specific adoption of TSTF-523, Revision 2, is also 
available under ADAMS Accession Number ML13113A181.
     NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public 
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One

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White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.

B. Submitting Comments

    Please include Docket ID NRC-2013-0173 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 that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your 
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.

Background

    Technical Specification Task Force Traveler--TSTF-523, Revision 2, 
is applicable to all power plants. The proposed change revises the 
Standard Technical Specifications (STS), NUREG-1430, ``Standard 
Technical Specifications Babcock and Wilcox Plants,'' NUREG-1431, 
``Standard Technical Specifications Westinghouse Plants,'' NUREG-1432, 
``Standard Technical Specifications Combustion Engineering Plants,'' 
NUREG-1433, ``Standard Technical Specifications General Electric Plants 
BWR/4,'' and NUREG-1434, ``Standard Technical Specifications General 
Electric Plants, BWR/6.'' This STS improvement is part of the 
consolidated line item improvement process (CLIIP).
    Specifically, the proposed change modifies the existing 
Surveillance Requirements (SRs) related to gas accumulation for the 
emergency core cooling system and adds new SRs on entrained gas to the 
specifications governing the decay heat removal (also called the 
residual heat removal and shutdown cooling systems) and the containment 
spray systems. Similar changes are made to the existing SR on the 
reactor core isolation cooling system to maintain consistency within 
the STS. Existing SRs are revised to facilitate the performance of the 
proposed gas accumulation SR. The TS Bases are revised to reflect the 
change to the SRs. The proposed change captures the on-going activities 
related to system Operability needed to address the concerns in the 
Generic Letter (GL) 2008-01, ``Managing Gas Accumulation in Emergency 
Core Cooling, Decay Heat Removal, and Containment Spray Systems,'' 
dated January 11, 2008 (ADAMS Accession No. ML072910759).

Additional Details

    This notice provides an opportunity for the public to comment on 
proposed changes to the STS after a preliminary assessment and finding 
by the NRC staff that the agency will likely offer the changes for 
adoption by licensees. This notice solicits comment on proposed changes 
to the STS, which if implemented by a licensee will modify the plant-
specific TS. The NRC staff will evaluate any comments received for the 
proposed changes and reconsider the changes or announce the 
availability of the changes for adoption by licensees as part of the 
CLIIP. Licensees opting to apply for this TS change are responsible for 
reviewing the NRC staff's SE and the applicable technical 
justifications, providing any necessary plant-specific information, and 
assessing the completeness and accuracy of their license amendment 
request (LAR). The NRC will process each amendment application 
responding to the notice of availability according to applicable NRC 
rules and procedures.
    The proposed change does not prevent licensees from requesting an 
alternate approach or proposing changes other than those proposed in 
TSTF-523, Revision 2. However, significant deviations from the approach 
recommended in this notice or the inclusion of additional changes to 
the license require additional NRC staff review. This may increase the 
time and resources needed for the review or result in NRC staff 
rejection of the LAR. Licensees desiring significant deviations or 
additional changes should instead submit an LAR that does not claim to 
adopt TSTF-523, Revision 2.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day of July 2013.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Anthony J. Mendiola,
Chief, Licensing Processes Branch, Division of Policy and Rulemaking, 
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2013-18677 Filed 8-1-13; 8:45 am]
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