[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 61 (Wednesday, March 30, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17740-17741]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-07112]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2016-0068]
Integrated Action Plan To Modernize Digital Instrumentation and
Controls Regulatory Infrastructure
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Preliminary draft action plan; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for
public comment its preliminary draft action plan, ``Integrated Action
Plan to Modernize Digital Instrumentation and Controls Regulatory
Infrastructure.'' This preliminary draft action plan outlines the
strategy and implementation milestones the NRC staff has identified in
order to modernize the NRC's digital instrumentation and controls (I&C)
regulatory infrastructure.
DATES: Submit comments by April 24, 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-2016-0068. 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
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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: Todd Keene, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001; telephone: 301-415-1994; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2016-0068 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-2016-0068.
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 notice (if
that document is available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that a
document is referenced. The preliminary draft action plan is available
in ADAMS under Accession No. ML16075A466.
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-2016-0068 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 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 NRC is requesting public comments on a preliminary draft action
plan in an effort to gain an understanding of stakeholder perspectives
of the digital I&C regulatory challenges, priorities and potential
solutions. The development of this action plan was directed by the
Commission in SRM-15-0106 (February 25, 2016) (ADAMS Accession No.
ML16056A614). In order to reach the widest audience, the action plan
will be provided via email and posted on the NRC public Web site, as
well as published in the Federal Register. Additionally, a public
meeting on the preliminary draft action plan will be held on March 30,
2016, at NRC Headquarters. Additional information concerning the public
meeting can be found on NRC's Public Meeting Schedule Web page; http://meetings.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg.
The NRC staff has developed the preliminary draft action plan to
provide a strategy to modernize the digital I&C regulatory
infrastructure in order to improve the predictability and consistency
of the process for licensing and oversight of industry stakeholders.
Improvements and modernization of the NRC's digital I&C regulatory
processes will improve efficiency of the oversight of licensee
implementation of digital I&C equipment.
This preliminary draft action plan has not been subject to all
levels of NRC management review. Accordingly, it may be incomplete or
in error in one or more respects and may be subject to further revision
before the staff presents an action plan regarding an integrated
strategy to modernize the NRC's digital instrumentation and controls
regulatory infrastructure to the Commission in a SECY paper (currently
scheduled to be provided to the Commission in May 2016).
Because of the schedule for development of the plan, the NRC will
not issue a comment response document providing formal written
responses to comments which are received.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24th day of March, 2016.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Sheldon D. Stuchell,
Chief, Generic Communications Branch, Division of Policy and
Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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