[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 74 (Thursday, April 17, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21812-21813]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-08794]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2014-0085]
Information on Licensing Applications for Fracture Toughness
Requirements for Ferritic Reactor Coolant Pressure Boundary Components
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 draft regulatory issue summary (RIS) 2014-XX. This draft RIS
would provide guidance to applicants for, and holders of, nuclear power
reactor licenses, construction permits, standard design approvals, and
manufacturing licenses, and applicants for standard design
certifications, on the scope and detail of information that should be
provided in licensing applications regarding reactor vessel fracture
toughness and associated pressure-temperature limits.
DATES: Submit comments by May 19, 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-2014-0085. 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.
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: Alexandra Popova, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation (NRR), telephone: 301-415-2876, email:
[email protected]; or Tanya Mensah, NRR, telephone: 301-415-
3610, email: [email protected], 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-2014-0085 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-2014-0085.
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 ADAMS accession number
for each document referenced in this notice (if that document is
available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is
referenced.
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-2014-0085 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
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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 2014-XX, ``Information on
Licensing Applications for Fracture Toughness Requirements for Ferritic
Reactor Coolant Pressure Boundary Components'', to provide guidance on
the scope and detail of information that should be provided in reactor
vessel fracture toughness and associated P-T limits licensing
applications to facilitate staff review. The RIS, if issued in final
form, would be used by applicants for, and holders of, nuclear power
reactor licenses, construction permits, standard design approvals, and
manufacturing licenses, and applicants for standard design
certifications. The draft RIS explains that these entities should
ensure that P-T limits developed in accordance with the requirements of
10 CFR Part 50, Appendix G sufficiently address all ferritic materials
of pressure-retaining components of the reactor coolant pressure
boundary, including the impact of structural discontinuities and
neutron fluence accumulation. The draft RIS is available electronically
under ADAMS Accession No. ML13301A188.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 10th day of April 2014.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Sheldon D. Stuchell,
Acting Chief Generic Communications Branch, Division of Policy and
Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2014-08794 Filed 4-16-14; 8:45 am]
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