[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 11 (Thursday, January 16, 2014)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-00731]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2014-0009]
Maintaining the Effectiveness of License Renewal Aging Management
Programs
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft regulatory issue summary; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is seeking public
comment on a draft regulatory issue summary (RIS) that reminds holders
of renewed licenses of the requirements to maintain the effectiveness
of their aging management programs and activities. The RIS explains
that, in general, renewed license holders are obligated to maintain
these programs and activities under their quality assurance program
used to meet existing regulatory requirements.
DATES: Submit comments by February 18, 2014. Comments received after
this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC
is able to assure consideration only for comments received on or before
this date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comment 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-2014-0009. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-
3422; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individuals listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section
of this document.
Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Chief, Rules,
Announcements, and Directives Branch (RADB), Office of Administration,
Mail Stop: 3WFN, 06-44M, 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 INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James Keene, telephone: 301-415-1994,
email: [email protected], or Thomas Alexion, telephone: 301-415-1326,
email: [email protected], both of the Office Nuclear Reactor
Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Accessing Information and Submitting Comments
A. Accessing Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2014-0009 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-2014-0009.
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 draft RIS, ``Maintaining
the Effectiveness of License Renewal Aging Management Programs,'' is
available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML13231A033.
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-2014-0009 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 disclosed in your
comment submission. The NRC posts all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as entering 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.
II. Discussion
The NRC issues RISs to communicate with stakeholders on a broad
range of regulatory matters. This may include communicating staff
technical positions on matters that have not been communicated to or
are not broadly understood by the nuclear industry.
The NRC staff has developed draft RIS 201X-XX, ``Maintaining the
Effectiveness of License Renewal Aging Management Programs,'' to remind
holders of renewed licenses of the requirements to maintain the
effectiveness of their aging management programs and activities. The
RIS explains that, in general, renewed license holders are obligated to
maintain these programs and activities under their quality assurance
program used to meet existing regulatory requirements. The draft RIS is
available electronically under ADAMS Accession No. ML13231A033.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 9th day of January 2014.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Merrilee J. Banic,
Acting Chief, Generic Communications Branch, Division of Policy and
Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2014-00731 Filed 1-15-14; 8:45 am]
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