[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 2 (Monday, January 5, 2015)]
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[FR Doc No: 2014-30834]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2014-0277]
Guidance for ITAAC Closure
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft regulatory guide; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for
public comment draft regulatory guide (DG), DG-1316, ``Guidance for
ITAAC Closure Under 10 CFR part 52'' (ML14258B182). This guidance is
proposed revision 2 of regulatory guide (RG) 1.215 (ML112580018). It
has been revised to incorporate additional information related to
inspections, tests, analysis, and acceptance criteria (ITAAC)
maintenance, lessons learned from simulated ITAAC implementation,
changes to the information and formatting guidance for uncompleted
ITAAC notifications, and other enhancements. The revised guidance
approves for use updated industry guidelines which contain additional
information and examples of ITAAC closure notifications discussed
during numerous public meetings between the NRC and industry since
Revision 1 of RG 1.215 was issued. The guide describes a method that
the staff of the NRC considers acceptable for use in satisfying the
requirements for documenting the completion of ITAAC.
DATES: Submit comments by March 6, 2015. Comments received after this
date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC is
able to ensure consideration only for comments received on or before
this date. Although a time limit is given, comments and suggestions in
connection with items for inclusion in guides currently being developed
or improvements in all published guides are encouraged at any time.
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):
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2014-0277. 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 06A-A44M, 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 of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James Gaslevic, Office of New
Reactors, telephone: 301-415-2276, email: [email protected], or
Stephen Burton, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, telephone: 301-
415-7000, email: [email protected]; U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2014-0277 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information regarding this document. You may
obtain 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-2014-0277.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain 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]. The
ADAMS accession number for each document referenced in this document
(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-2014-0277 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. Additional Information
The NRC is issuing for public comment a draft guide in the NRC's
``Regulatory Guide'' series. This series was developed to describe and
make available to the public such information as methods that are
acceptable to the NRC staff for implementing specific parts of the
NRC's regulations, techniques that the staff uses in evaluating
specific problems or postulated accidents, and data that the staff
needs in its review of applications for permits and licenses.
The draft regulatory guide, entitled, ``Guidance for ITAAC Closure
Under 10 CFR part 52,'' is temporarily identified by its task number,
DG-1316. DG-1316 is proposed revision 2 of Regulatory Guide 1.215. The
guide describes a method that the staff of the NRC considers acceptable
for use in satisfying the requirements for documenting the completion
of ITAAC for the implementation of Section 52.99 of Title 10 of the
Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) ``Inspection during
construction.''
Revision 2 of RG 1.215 approves for use Nuclear Energy Institute
(NEI) 08-01, ``Industry Guideline for the ITAAC Closure Process under
10 CFR part 52,'' Revision 5--Corrected (ML14182A160). NEI 08-01,
Revision 5--Corrected, was updated to provide additional requirements
related to ITAAC maintenance, lessons learned from simulated ITAAC
implementation, changes to the information and formatting guidance for
uncompleted ITAAC notifications, and other enhancements. The revised
industry guidelines also contain additional information and examples of
ITAAC closure notifications which were
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discussed during numerous public meetings between the NRC and industry.
III. Backfitting and Issue Finality
This draft regulatory guide would approve for use updated industry
guidance for ITAAC closure, including the different kinds of ITAAC
notifications required by 10 CFR 52.99. Issuance of this regulatory
guide in final form would not be inconsistent with the issue finality
provisions in 10 CFR part 52. As discussed in the ``Implementation''
section of this regulatory guide, the NRC has no current intention to
impose this draft regulatory guide on current holders of combined
licenses. In addition, the matters in this draft regulatory guide do
not appear to be within the matters subject to issue finality
protection under 10 CFR 52.83 or 10 CFR 52.98.
Therefore, any imposition of this draft regulatory guide on current
holders of combined licenses, or current and future applicants for
combined licenses, would not be inconsistent with any issue finality
protection under 10 CFR 52.83 or 10 CFR 52.98.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 29th day of December, 2014.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Harriet Karagiannis,
Acting Chief, Regulatory Guide and Generic Issues Branch, Division of
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2014-30834 Filed 1-2-15; 8:45 am]
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