[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 124 (Monday, June 29, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37028-37030]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-15919]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2015-0159]


Changes to Buried and Underground Piping and Tank Recommendations

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Draft license renewal interim staff guidance; request for 
comment.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) requests public 
comment on the draft License Renewal Interim Staff Guidance (LR-ISG), 
LR-ISG-2015-01, ``Changes to Buried and Underground Piping and Tank 
Recommendations.'' The draft LR-ISG

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would replace aging management program (AMP) XI.M41, ``Buried and 
Underground Piping and Tanks,'' and its associated Updated Final Safety 
Analysis Report (UFSAR) Summary Description in LR-ISG-2011-03, 
``Changes to the Generic Aging Lessons Learned (GALL) Report Revision 2 
Aging Management Program (AMP) XI.M41, `Buried and Underground Piping 
and Tanks'.'' These changes address new recommendations related to 
buried and underground piping and tanks within the scope of the NRC's 
regulations for the renewal of operating licenses for nuclear power 
plants.

DATES: Submit comments by August 13, 2015. Comments received after this 
date will be considered, if it is practical to do so, but the NRC staff 
is able to ensure 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-2015-0159. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; 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, Office of Administration, 
Mail Stop: O12-H08, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001.
    For additional direction on accessing information and submitting 
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William Holston, telephone: 301-415-
8573, email: [email protected]; and Catherine Nolan, telephone: 
301-415-1535, email: [email protected], both are staff of the 
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, 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-2015-0159 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-2015-0159.
     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 (if it available in 
ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is referenced. The 
draft LR-ISG-2015-01 is available electronically under ADAMS Accession 
No. ML1525A377. The Generic Aging Lessons Learned (GALL) Report, NUREG-
1801 Rev. 2 (Dec. 2010) (GALL Report), and the Standard Review Plan for 
Review of License Renewal Applications for Nuclear Power Plants (SRP-
LR), NUREG-1800 Rev. 2 (Dec. 2010), are available under ADAMS Accession 
Nos. ML103490041 and ML103490036, respectively.
     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-2015-0159 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. Background

    The draft LR-ISG would replace AMP XI.M41, ``Buried and Underground 
Piping and Tanks,'' and its associated UFSAR Summary Description in LR-
ISG-2011-03. These proposed changes to AMP XI.M41 address new 
recommendations related to buried and underground piping and tanks 
within the scope of part 54 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations (10 CFR), ``Requirements for Renewal of Operating Licenses 
for Nuclear Power Plants.''
    The NRC issues LR-ISGs to communicate insights and lessons learned 
and to address emergent issues not covered in license renewal guidance 
documents, such as the GALL Report and SRP-LR. In this way, the NRC 
staff and stakeholders may use the guidance in an LR-ISG document 
before it is incorporated into a formal license renewal guidance 
document revision. The NRC staff issues LR-ISGs in accordance with the 
LR-ISG Process, Revision 2 (ADAMS Accession No. ML100920158), for which 
a notice of availability was published in the Federal Register on June 
22, 2010 (75 FR 35510).

III. Proposed Action

    By this action, the NRC is requesting public comments on draft LR-
ISG-2015-01. This LR-ISG proposes certain revisions to NRC guidance on 
implementation of the requirements in 10 CFR part 54. The NRC staff 
will make a final determination regarding issuance of the LR-ISG after 
it considers any public comments received in response to this request.

IV. Backfitting and Issue Finality

    Issuance of this LR-ISG in final form would not constitute 
backfitting as defined in 10 CFR 50.109 (the Backfit Rule) and would 
not otherwise be inconsistent with the issue finality provisions in 10 
CFR part 52, ``Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals for Nuclear 
Power Plants.'' As discussed in the ``Backfitting and Issue Finality'' 
section of draft LR-ISG-2015-01, the LR-ISG is directed to holders of 
operating licenses or combined licenses who are currently in the 
license renewal process. The LR-ISG is not directed to holders of 
operating licenses or combined licenses until they apply for license 
renewal. The LR-ISG is also not directed to licensees who already hold 
renewed operating or combined licenses. However, the NRC could also use 
the LR-ISG in evaluating voluntary,

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licensee-initiated changes to previously-approved aging management 
programs.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 23rd day of June, 2015.
    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Jane E. Marshall,
Deputy Director, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2015-15919 Filed 6-26-15; 8:45 am]
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