[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 36 (Tuesday, February 24, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9755-9756]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-03764]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2015-0035]
Natural Phenomena Hazards in Fuel Cycle Facilities
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft interim staff guidance; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is soliciting
public comment on its draft Interim Staff Guidance (ISG) for Natural
Phenomena Hazards (NPH) in Fuel Cycle Facilities. Fuel cycle facility
licensees are required to conduct and maintain an Integrated Safety
Analysis (ISA). This analysis must examine potential accident sequences
caused by process deviations or other events internal to the facility
and credible external events, including natural phenomena. During
inspections of selected fuel cycle facilities to confirm that the
facilities were in compliance with regulatory requirements to address
natural phenomena hazards, the NRC staff identified several unresolved
items (URIs). The ISG provides criteria and methods that the staff can
use to review the treatment of NPH at fuel cycle facilities as
evaluated in the facility ISA.
DATES: Submit comments by April 10, 2015. 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):
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0035. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; 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: OWFN-12H08, 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: Jonathan Marcano, Office of Nuclear
Materials Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-287-9063, email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0035 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain
publicly-available information related to this action by any of the
following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0035.
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
draft ISG for Natural Phenomena Hazards in Fuel Cycle Facilities is
available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML15026A136.
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-2015-0035 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.
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II. Background
As a result of the lessons learned from the accident at the
Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Power Plant, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission staff performed a systematic evaluation and inspection of
selected fuel cycle facilities to (1) confirm that licensees are in
compliance with regulatory requirements and facility-specific license
conditions; and (2) to evaluate their readiness to address NPH events
and other licensing basis events related to NPH. From December 2011
through May 2012, the staff conducted these inspections in accordance
with NRC Temporary Instruction (TI) 2600/015, ``Evaluation of Licensee
Strategies for the Prevention and/or Mitigation of Emergencies at Fuel
Facilities.''
As a result of the TI inspection activities, the staff identified
URI's related to Part 70 requirements and the current licensing basis
of these facilities. The URIs document the need to further evaluate
whether licensees are in compliance with regulatory requirements
regarding accident sequences resulting from NPH. The staff is issuing
this ISG to provide additional guidance for addressing accident
sequences that may result from NPH. This ISG will be incorporated into
future revisions of Appendix D of Chapter 3 of NUREG 1520, ``Standard
Review Plan for the Review of a License Application for a Fuel Cycle
Facility'' (ADAMS Accession No. ML020930033).
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 13th day of February, 2015.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Craig Erlanger,
Deputy Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety, Safeguards, and
Environmental Review, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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