[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 186 (Friday, September 25, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57884-57885]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-24301]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2015-0226]


Review and Submission of Updates to the Final Safety Analysis 
Reports, Emergency Preparedness Documents, and Fire Protection 
Documents

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Draft regulatory issue summary; request for comment.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is seeking public 
comment on a draft regulatory issue summary (RIS), RIS 2015-XX, 
``Review and Submission of Updates to the Final Safety Analysis 
Reports, Emergency Preparedness Documents, and Fire Protection 
Documents.'' This RIS reminds addressees of the review and submission 
requirements regarding information to be withheld from public 
disclosure, and recommends a format for submission of updates to the 
Final Safety Analysis Reports (FSARs).

DATES: Submit comments by October 26, 2015. Comments received after 
this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the 
Commission is able to assure 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-2015-0226. 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: O-12H8, 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: Matthew Humberstone, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-1464; email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0226 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-2015-0226.
     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 RIS, ``Review and Submission of Updates to the Final Safety 
Analysis Reports, Emergency Preparedness Documents, and Fire Protection 
Documents'' is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML15177A074.
     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-2015-0226 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 in comment submisssions 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, and 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 NRC issues RISs to communicate with stakeholders on a broad 
range of regulatory matters. This may include communicating and 
restating staff technical positions on regulatory matters. The NRC 
staff has developed draft RIS 2015-XX to remind licensees of the review 
and submission requirements of section 2.390 of Title 10 of the Code of 
Federal Regulations (CFR), ``Public Inspections, Exemptions, Requests 
for Withholding,'' regarding information to be withheld from public 
disclosure, as well as to recommend that the updates to the FSARs 
required by paragraph (e) of 10 CFR 50.71, ``Maintenance of records, 
making of reports,'' be made electronically on a total FSAR replacement 
basis, as described in paragraph (b)(6) of 10 CFR 50.4, ``Written 
communications.''
    Specifically, the NRC is issuing this RIS for the following 
purposes:
     To remind licensees of the potential for physical 
protection information, which the NRC is required to protect in the 
same manner as commercial or financial information for the purposes of 
withholding from public disclosure pursuant to 10 CFR 2.390(d)(1), to 
be contained in documents that will be proactively released to the 
public in accordance with the Commission direction in Staff 
Requirements Memorandum (SRM)-SECY-15-0032 (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML15167A090). Specifically, the NRC reminds licensees of the potential 
for physical protection information to be contained in Preliminary 
Safety Analysis Reports,

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FSARs, FSAR updates, and in emergency preparedness and fire protection 
documents, which had previously been presumptively withheld by the NRC.
     To recommend a format for submission of FSAR updates for 
nuclear power reactors. Research and test reactors and other non-power 
production and utilization facilities are not required to update their 
facility FSARs, unless applying for renewal of the facility license. 
Licensees have two submission format options regarding FSAR updates: 
(1) Electronically on a total FSAR replacement basis, as described in 
10 CFR 50.4(b)(6), or (2) on a paper replacement page basis, as 
described in 10 CFR 50.71(e). Electronic submission of updates on a 
total FSAR replacement basis would save billable staff hours since time 
would not be taken to manually reconstruct sections of the FSAR for 
various staff reviews. Therefore, the NRC recommends that licensees 
voluntarily submit updates electronically (via CD or Electronic 
Information Exchange) on a total FSAR replacement basis. Submission of 
FSAR updates in this manner will also assist the NRC in its emergency 
response function by ensuring that recently-updated, total FSARs are 
available to NRC emergency response teams.

Proposed Action

    The NRC is requesting public comments on draft RIS 2015-XX. The NRC 
staff will make a final determination regarding issuance of the RIS 
after it considers any public comments received in response to this 
request.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day of September 2015.
    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Sheldon Stuchell,
Chief, Generic Communications Branch, Division of Policy and 
Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2015-24301 Filed 9-24-15; 8:45 am]
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