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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2010-0278]


NUREG-1482, Revision 2, ``Guidelines for Inservice Testing at 
Nuclear Power Plants, Final Report''

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of issuance; availability.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued a 
final report entitled: NUREG-1482, Revision 2, ``Guidelines for 
Inservice Testing at Nuclear Power Plants,'' and subtitled ``Inservice 
Testing of Pumps and Valves, and Inservice Examination and Testing of 
Dynamic Restraints (Snubbers) at Nuclear Power Plants.'' In the 
previous Revisions 0 and 1 of NUREG-1482, the NRC staff provides 
licensees guidelines and recommendations for developing and 
implementing programs for the inservice testing of pumps and valves at 
commercial nuclear power plants. In Revision 2 of NUREG-1482, the NRC 
staff also includes guidelines and recommendations for developing and 
implementing programs for the inservice examination and testing of 
dynamic restraints (snubbers).

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2010-0278 when contacting the 
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You 
may access publicly-available information related to this action by the 
following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2010-0278. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-
3422; 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]. The NUREG-1482, Revision 2, 
``Guidelines for Inservice Testing at Nuclear Power Plants, Final 
Report,'' and subtitled ``Inservice Testing of Pumps and Valves, and 
Inservice Examination and Testing of Dynamic Restraints (Snubbers) at 
Nuclear Power Plants,'' is available in ADAMS under Accession No. 
ML13295A020. The draft NUREG-1482, Revision 2 was published in the 
Federal Register for public comments on August 22, 2011 (76 FR 52355) 
and is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML112231412. This 
document is a revision to the previously issued NUREG-1482, Revision 1 
(ADAMS Accession No. ML050550290).
     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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gurjendra S. Bedi, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-1393, email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NUREG-1482, Revision 2, ``Guidelines for 
Inservice Testing at Nuclear Power Plants, Final Report'' provides 
updated information on applicable regulations for testing of pumps and 
valves, and inservice examination and testing of snubbers. The 
information in NUREG-1482, ``Guidelines for Inservice Testing at 
Nuclear Plants,'' Revision 0, issued April 1995, and Revision 1, issued 
January 2005, has described these topics in the past.
    This NUREG report replaces Revision 0 and Revision 1 of NUREG-1482, 
and is applicable, unless stated otherwise, to all editions and addenda 
of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Code for Operation and 
Maintenance of Nuclear Power Plants (OM Code), which section 50.55a(b) 
of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) incorporates by 
reference (76 FR 36232-36279), dated July 21, 2011. This NUREG-1482, 
Revision 2 incorporates all the public comments received for the draft 
NUREG-1482, Revision 2. Based on public comments, all the structure and 
sections of NUREG-1482, Revision 1 are maintained and revised and 
updated. The main sections of the NUREG-1482, Revision 2 are for the 
IST of pumps and valves, similar to the NUREG-1482, Revision 1. An 
independent Appendix A, for inservice examination and testing of 
dynamic restraints (snubbers) is added for the first time in NUREG-
1482, Revision 2. The NRC staff evaluation and resolution of public 
comments for draft NUREG-1482, Revision 2 are documented in ADAMS under 
Accession No. ML13161A382. Most of the draft NUREG-1482, Revision 2, 
pump and valve IST guidance provided in the Appendix A, are now in the 
main text of NUREG-1482, Revision 2. Appendix B to the draft NUREG-
1482, Revision 2, guidance for inservice examination and testing for 
dynamic restraints (snubbers) is in the Appendix A of the NUREG-1482, 
Revision 2.
    The guidelines and recommendations provided in this NUREG and its 
Appendix A do not supersede the regulatory requirements specified in 10 
CFR 50.55a. Further, this NUREG does not authorize the use of 
alternatives to, or grant relief from, the ASME Code requirements for 
inservice testing of pumps and valves, or inservice examination and 
testing of dynamic restraints (snubbers), incorporated by reference in 
10 CFR 50.55a. In addition, the NUREG discusses other inservice test 
program topics such as the NRC process for review of the OM Code, 
conditions on the use of the OM Code, and interpretations of the OM 
Code.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd day of October 2013.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Timothy R. Lupold,
Chief, Component Performance, NDE and Testing Branch, Division of 
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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