[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 142 (Friday, July 24, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44157-44158]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-18114]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2014-0277]


Guidance for ITAAC Closure

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Regulatory guide; issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing 
Revision 2 to Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.215, ``Guidance for ITAAC Closure 
Under 10 CFR part 52.'' This RG describes a method that the staff of 
the NRC considers acceptable for use in satisfying the requirements for 
documenting the completion of inspections, tests, analyses, and 
acceptance criteria (ITAAC)

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2014-0277 when contacting the 
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You 
may access information related to this document, which the NRC 
possesses and is publicly available, using the following methods:
     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: 301-415-
3463; email: [email protected].
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may access publicly available documents online in the 
ADAMS Public Documents Collections 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. Revision 2 of Regulatory Guide 1.215, is 
available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML15105A447. The regulatory 
analysis may be found in ADAMS under Accession No. ML14258B184.
     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.
    Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and NRC approval is not 
required to reproduce them.

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]. Both are staff of the U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Introduction

    The NRC is issuing a revision to an existing guide in the NRC's 
``Regulatory Guide'' series. This series was developed to describe and 
make available to the public information regarding methods that are 
acceptable to the NRC staff for implementing specific parts of the 
agency's regulations, techniques that the staff uses in evaluating 
specific issues or postulated events, and data that the staff needs in 
its review of applications for permits and licenses.
    Revision 2 of RG 1.215 was issued with a temporary identification 
as Draft Regulatory Guide, DG-1316. This revision (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 (Ref. 2), subject to certain exceptions and 
additional guidance described in this regulatory guide under Section C, 
Staff Regulatory Guidance. The NEI 08-01, Revision 5--Corrected, was 
updated to include additional guidance related to ITAAC maintenance, 
lessons learned from simulated ITAAC closure implementation, changes to 
the information and formatting guidance for uncompleted ITAAC 
notifications, and other enhancements.

II. Additional Information

    Draft Guide 1316 was published in the Federal Register on January 
5, 2015 (80 FR 265) for a 60-day public comment period. The public 
comment period closed on March 6, 2015. Public comments on DG-1316 and 
the staff responses to the public comments are available under ADAMS 
Accession Number ML15105A446.

III. Congressional Review Act

    This regulatory guide is a rule as defined in the Congressional 
Review Act (5 U.S.C. 801-808). However, the Office of Management and 
Budget has not found it to be a major rule as defined in the 
Congressional Review Act.

IV. Backfitting and Issue Finality

    This regulatory guide approves updated industry guidance for ITAAC 
closure, including the different kinds of ITAAC notifications required 
by 10 CFR 52.99. Issuance of this regulatory guide is not 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 regulatory guide on current holders of 
combined licenses. In addition, the matters in this regulatory guide 
are not within the matters subject to issue finality protection under 
10 CFR 52.83 or 10 CFR 52.98. Therefore, any imposition of this 
regulatory guide on current holders of combined licenses, or

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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 16th day of July, 2015.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Thomas H. Boyce,
Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Generic Issues Branch, Division of 
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
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