[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 108 (Thursday, June 5, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32579-32580]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-13077]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2012-0220]
Standard Review Plan for License Applications for Fuel Cycle
Facilities
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft NUREG; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for
public comment a draft NUREG-1520, Revision 2, titled ``Standard Review
Plan [SRP] for License Applications for Fuel Cycle Facilities.'' This
SRP provides NRC staff guidance for reviewing and evaluating the
safety, health, security and environmental protection aspects of
applications for licenses to possess and use special nuclear material
(SNM) at fuel cycle facilities.
DATES: Submit comments by September 3, 2014. 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
before this date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods
(unless this document describes a different method for submitting
comments on a specific subject):
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Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-0220. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-
3422; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of
this document.
Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration,
Mail Stop: 3WFN, 06-A44, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001.
For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Soly I. Soto, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-287-9076, email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Accessing Information and Submitting Comments
A. Accessing Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2012-0220 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information regarding NUREG-1520. 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-2012-0220.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may access publicly-available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection 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].
Draft NUREG-1520, Revision 2, is available in ADAMS under Accession No.
ML14150A417.
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-2012-0220 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 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.
II. Discussion
Licenses to possess and use SNM are governed by part 70 of Title 10
of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR). On December 7, 2012 (77 FR
73060), the NRC staff outlined its plans to revise NUREG-1520, Revision
1, ``Standard Review Plan for the Review of a License Application for a
Fuel Cycle Facility,'' dated May 2010. The NRC staff received comments
in response to the December 2012 notice. In this regard, on April 11,
2013, the NRC staff held a Category 2 public meeting which included a
discussion of the outlined plan to revise NUREG-1520 and the comments
received from the industry. At the April meeting, the NRC staff
discussed a staff requirements memorandum (SRM) dated October 9, 2012
(SRM-SECY-120091), in which the Commission directed the NRC staff to
request the American Nuclear Society (ANS) to develop an integrated
safety analysis (ISA) standard that would improve the quality and
completeness of ISAs. The SRM also directed the NRC staff to refrain
from revising NUREG-1520 on ISA topics until after the ANS standard is
issued. Accordingly, the NRC staff is not proposing to make any
significant changes to SRP Chapter 3, ``Integrated Safety Analysis and
Integrated Safety Analysis Summary,'' at this time. Changes to Chapter
3 are primarily to improve readability, rather than a change in
guidance. A more complete summary of the April 11, 2013, meeting is
available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML13113A251.
The draft of SRP Revision 2 clarifies the existing SRP discussion
in several technical areas, including nuclear criticality safety and
management measures, as summarized below. Draft Chapter 5, ``Nuclear
Criticality Safety,'' contains an expanded discussion of the double
contingency principle and double contingency protection, including a
description of what constitutes a loss of double contingency. Draft
Chapter 11, ``Management Measures,'' includes a discussion of graded
management measures and the selection of items relied on for safety
that relate to the application of graded management measures.
The draft of SRP Revision 2 contains two new chapters: Chapter 12,
``Material Control and Accounting,'' regarding 10 CFR part 74
requirements; and Chapter 13, ``Physical Protection,'' regarding 10 CFR
part 73 requirements. These new chapters are needed because they
address requirements that are referenced in 10 CFR 70.22, ``Contents of
applications.''
The draft of SRP Revision 2 includes administrative changes
throughout the SRP to ensure consistency among the SRP chapters,
improve clarity of the text, reduce redundancies, and assure that
statutory, regulatory, and guidance document references are accurate
and up to date. The title of this SRP was revised from ``Standard
Review Plan for the Review of a License Application for a Fuel Cycle
Facility'' to ``Standard Review Plan for License Applications for Fuel
Cycle Facilities.''
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 21st day of May 2014.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Marissa G. Bailey,
Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, Office of
Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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