[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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