[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 217 (Monday, November 13, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52337-52338]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-24484]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2017-0216]
Vital Area Access Controls, Protection of Physical Security
Equipment, and Key and Lock Controls
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Regulatory guide; withdrawal.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is withdrawing
Regulatory Guide (RG) 5.65, ``Vital Area Access Controls, Protection of
Physical Security Equipment, and Key and Lock Controls,'' dated
September 1986. This document is being withdrawn because it is outdated
and has been superseded by other NRC guidance, and therefore, no longer
provides methods that the NRC staff finds acceptable in future requests
or applications for NRC's licensing actions.
DATES: The applicable date of the withdrawal of RG 5.65 is November 13,
2017.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2017-0216 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You
may obtain publicly-available information related to this document
using any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2017-0216. 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 (if it available in
ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is referenced. The
basis for withdrawal of RG 5.65 is available in ADAMS under Accession
No. ML17262A504.
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: Angela Wu, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation, telephone: 301-287-3645, email: [email protected], or
Mekonen Bayssie, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, telephone: 301-
415-1699, email: [email protected]. Both are staff members of the
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NRC is withdrawing RG 5.65, ``Vital Area
Access Controls, Protection of Physical Security Equipment, and Key and
Lock Controls,'' because of the following regulatory and technical
issues:
On March 27, 2009 (74 FR 13926), the Commission amended
part 73 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), for
nuclear power plants to incorporate security requirements that were
issued through Commission security orders as a result of the September
11, 2001 terrorist attacks. In addition, the rulemaking added several
new requirements to incorporate insights gained from implementation of
the security orders, review of site security plans, implementation of
the NRC's enhanced baseline inspection program, and the NRC's
evaluation of force-on-force exercises. As a result, the guidance in RG
5.65 became outdated.
In addition, more recent regulatory guidance has been issued that
supersedes the guidance in RG 5.65.
The RG 5.66, ``Access Authorization Program for Nuclear
Power Plants,'' Rev. 2 (October 2011) supersedes RG 5.65. The RG 5.65
does not address the current requirements of 10 CFR 73.56 with regard
to access authorization at nuclear power plants. Instead, RG 5.66
provides an acceptable approach by which licensees can establish and
implement an access authorization program for granting unescorted
access to protected and vital areas of a nuclear power plant.
The RG 5.76, ``Physical Protection at Nuclear Power
Reactors'' (July 2009), which was issued to facilitate implementation
of the new 10 CFR part 73 rule in 2009, supersedes RG 5.65.
Specifically, RG 5.65 contains duplicative or outdated discussions
regarding protection of security equipment, vital and protected area
transients, delays, barriers, underground pathways, power, escort,
ingress and egress, record keeping, and review/audit requirements.
The RG 5.12, ``General Use of Locks in the Protection and
Control of: Facilities, Radioactive Materials, Classified Information,
Classified Matter, and Safeguards Information,'' Rev. 1 (October 2016),
supersedes RG 5.65. Regarding keys and locks, the guidance offered in
RG 5.65 is brief and limited to two paragraphs, discussing the
requirement and frequency to change and rotate keys, locks, and
combinations. The same information is discussed in much greater detail
in RG 5.12.
The RG 5.74, ``Managing the Safety/Security Interface,''
Rev. 1 (April 2015), supersedes RG 5.65. With regard to managing the
safety and security interface, RG 5.65 provides only brief guidance
(one paragraph) on the cross training of roles, responsibilities, and
general practices of the safety and security organizations as a
mechanism to reduce interface problems. The RG 5.74 provides more
detailed guidance for training to aid the interface between safety and
security organizations.
II. Further Information
The withdrawal of RG 5.65 does not alter any prior or existing NRC
licensing approval or the acceptability of licensee commitments made
regarding the withdrawn guidance. Although RG 5.65 is withdrawn,
current licensees referencing this RG may continue to do so, and
withdrawal does not affect any existing licenses or agreements.
However, by withdrawing RG 5.65, the NRC no longer approves use of the
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guidance in future requests or applications for NRC's licensing
actions.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 6th day of November, 2017.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Thomas H. Boyce,
Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Generic Issues Branch, Division of
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2017-24484 Filed 11-9-17; 8:45 am]
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