[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 40 (Tuesday, March 1, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10686-10687]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-04347]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2016-0043]
Clarification of Compensatory Measure Requirements for Physical
Protection Program Deficiencies
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) entitled, RIS 2016-
XX, ``Clarification on the Implementation of Compensatory Measures for
Protective Strategy Deficiencies or Degraded or Inoperable Security
Systems, Equipment, or Components.'' The NRC intends to issue this RIS
to remind licensees of the requirement to implement compensatory
measures, supported by a site-specific analysis, to ensure that
licensees maintain, at all times, the capability to detect, assess,
interdict, and neutralize threats as identified in NRC regulations.
Compensatory measures must be implemented for degraded or inoperable
security systems, equipment, or components, and for protective strategy
deficiencies identified during performance evaluation exercises and
drills.
DATES: Submit comments by March 31, 2016. 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-2016-0043. 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-12-H08, 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: Daniel Cardenas, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-287-
0756; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2016-0043 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-2016-0043.
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. This RIS is available under ADAMS
Accession No. ML15040A596.
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-2016-0043 in your comment submission.
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 will post all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as enter 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
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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 into ADAMS.
II. Background
The Commission directed the NRC staff in Staff Requirements
Memorandum (SRM) ``COMGEA/COMWCO-14-0001--Proposed Initiative to
Conduct a Lessons Learned Review of the NRC's Force-on-Force Inspection
Program'' (ADAMS Accession No. ML14043A063) to conduct a lessons-
learned review of the NRC's force-on-force inspection program. Through
this review, the NRC staff identified that, in certain cases, licensees
have implemented immediate compensatory measures where such measures
are not required by NRC regulations and guidance. The NRC staff
identified proposed enhancements to the force-on-force inspection
program and communicated these to the Commission in SECY-14-0088,
``Proposed Options to Address Lessons-Learned Review of the U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Force-on-Force Inspection Program in
Response to Staff Requirements Memorandum--COMGEA/COMWCO-14-001''
(ADAMS Accession No. ML14139A231).
One of the proposed enhancements was to issue a generic
communication to licensees clarifying when compensatory measures must
be immediately implemented. In SRM-SECY-14-0088, ``Proposed Options to
Address Lessons Learned Review of the NRC's Force-on-Force Inspection
Program in Response to Staff Requirements--COMGEA/COMWCO-14-0001''
(ADAMS Accession No. ML14353A433), the Commission directed the staff to
issue a proposed generic communication to clarify the NRC's
expectations regarding the implementation of compensatory measures.
Therefore, the NRC is issuing a draft RIS to communicate with
stakeholders on this matter.
The intent of this RIS is to remind addressees of the requirement
for implementation of compensatory measures, supported by a site-
specific analysis, to ensure that their physical protection program
maintains, at all times, the capability to detect, assess, interdict,
and neutralize threats, as identified in Section 73.1, ``Purpose and
Scope,'' of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR).
Compensatory measures must be implemented for degraded or inoperable
security systems, equipment, or components, and for protective strategy
deficiencies identified during performance evaluation exercises and
drills. Licensees should use a site-specific analysis, based on all
available information, to determine the specific timeframes and
measures to compensate for protective strategy deficiencies, or
degraded or inoperable security equipment, systems, or components.
III. Proposed Action
The NRC is requesting public comments on the draft RIS 2016-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 24th day of February 2016.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
J. Todd Keene,
Acting Chief, Generic Communications Branch, Division of Policy and
Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2016-04347 Filed 2-29-16; 8:45 am]
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