[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 161 (Tuesday, August 22, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39915-39916]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-17678]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2017-0181]
Identifying and Reporting Human Performance Incidents
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
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summary (RIS), RIS 2017-XX, ``Identifying and Reporting Human
Performance Incidents.'' This RIS informs licensees of the requirements
regarding reporting human performance incidents and how to properly
report those matters.
DATES: Submit comments by September 21, 2017. 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-2017-0181. 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.
Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration,
Mail Stop: TWFN-8-D36M, 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: Carmen Franklin, Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research, telephone: 301-415-2386, email:
[email protected] and Alexander Schwab, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation, telephone: 301-415-8539, email: [email protected].
Both are staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2017-0181 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-2017-0181.
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, ``Identifying and Reporting Human Performance Incidents'' is
available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML16029A010.
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-2017-0181 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 posts all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as entering 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 submissions into ADAMS.
II. Background
Humans are integral to the safe operation of nuclear power plants.
In the late 1970s, the NRC began to focus on ensuring adequate training
of plant staff to perform their assigned tasks. The NRC studied the
effects of shift work on health, and whether control room simulators
would improve training, both factors affecting performance. The agency
uses human factors information provided by licensees, as required by
Sec. 50.73(b)(2)(ii)(J) of title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations, as a means to monitor and track human performance by
highlighting concerns in the areas of training, procedures, fitness for
duty, oversight, problem identification and resolution, communication,
human system interface environments, and work planning and practice.
The information is used to assist in programmatic oversight of
training, procedures, safety culture, human system interface,
communication, and inspections. Specifically, the information is used
to support the Reactor Oversight Process (ROP) by tracking and trending
various levels of human performance-related causes of safety-
significant events, identifying precursors, and providing either plant-
specific or generic insights into ROP cross cutting areas, which
include human performance, problem identification and resolution, and
safety conscious work environment.
The NRC issues RISs to communicate with stakeholders on a broad
range of regulatory matters. This may include communicating and
clarifying the NRC's technical or policy positions on regulatory
matters that have not been communicated to, or are not broadly
understood by, the nuclear industry.
III. Proposed Action
The NRC is requesting public comments on the draft RIS 2017-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 16th day of August, 2017.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Alexander D. Garmoe,
Acting Chief, Generic Communications Branch, Division of Policy and
Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2017-17678 Filed 8-21-17; 8:45 am]
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