[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 64 (Wednesday, April 5, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 16636]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-06726]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2017-0016]


Guidance for Developing Principal Design Criteria for Non-Light 
Water Reactors

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Draft regulatory guide; extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is providing 
additional information for a notice published in the Federal Register 
on February 3, 2017, issuing draft regulatory guide (DG), DG-1330, 
``Guidance for Developing Principal Design Criteria for Non-Light Water 
Reactors,'' for a 60-day public comment period. This action is 
necessary to inform the public that a paragraph was inadvertently 
omitted from the ``NRC Rationale for Adaptions to GDC'' section of 
General Design Criterion (GDC) 26, ``Reactivity Control Systems,'' in 
Appendices A, B, and C of DG-1330, and provides the NRC's Agencywide 
Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) accession numbers for 
the DG and the regulatory analysis for the DG. The NRC is also 
extending the public comment period for an additional 15 days to allow 
stakeholders time to review the change and provide comments.

DATES: The due date for comments requested in the FR notice published 
on February 3, 2017 (82 FR 9246), is extended. Comments should be 
submitted by April 20, 2017. Comments received after this date will be 
considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC is able to ensure 
consideration only for comments received on or before this date. 
Although a time limit is given, comments and suggestions in connection 
with items for inclusion in guides currently being developed or 
improvements in all published guides are encouraged at any time.

ADDRESSES: You may obtain information and comment submissions related 
to this document, which the NRC possesses and are publicly available, 
by searching on http://www.regulations.gov under Docket ID NRC-2017-
0016 or draft regulatory guide DG-1330. You may submit comments by any 
of the following methods:
     Federal rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2017-0016 or draft 
regulatory guide DG-1330. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol 
Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-3463; email: [email protected]. For 
technical questions, contact the individuals listed in the FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document.
     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. The DG is available in ADAMS under 
Accession No. ML16301A307. The regulatory analysis for this DG is 
available in ADAMS under Accession No ML16330A179.
     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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jan Mazza, Office of New Reactors, 
telephone: 301-415-0498, email: [email protected]; or Mark Orr, Office 
of Nuclear Regulatory Research, telephone: 301-415-6003, email: 
[email protected]. Both are staff members of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In a notice published in the Federal 
Register on February 3, 2017 (82 FR 9246), the NRC issued DG-1330, 
``Guidance for Developing Principal Design Criteria for Non-Light Water 
Reactors,'' for a 60-day public comment period. The ADAMS accession 
numbers for the DG and the regulatory analysis for the DG were 
inadvertently omitted from the notice. In addition, a paragraph in the 
NRC Rationale section for GDC 26 in Appendices A, B, and C for the DG 
was also omitted. The DG has been corrected and is available at ADAMS 
accession number ML16301A307. The regulatory analysis for DG-1330 is 
available at ADAMS accession number 16330A179. The comment period has 
been extended until April 20, 2017, to give stakeholders time to review 
the change and provide comments.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 31st day of March 2017.

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