[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 47 (Friday, March 9, 2018)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 10407]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-04350]
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Proposed Rules
Federal Register
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This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER contains notices to the public of
the proposed issuance of rules and regulations. The purpose of these
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Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 47 / Friday, March 9, 2018 / Proposed
Rules
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
10 CFR Chapter I
[NRC-2018-0038]
Clarification of the Requirements for Reactor Pressure Vessel
Upper Head Bare Metal Visual Examinations
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). The draft RIS
informs all addressees of a clarification of the requirements for the
bare metal visual examination. The draft RIS is relevant to all holders
and applicants for a pressurized-water power reactor (PWR) operating
license or construction permit, except those that have certified that
they have permanently ceased operations and have permanently removed
all fuel from the reactor vessel.
DATES: Submit comments by May 8, 2018. 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:
Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2018-0038. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer Borges; telephone: 301-287-
9127; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individuals listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section
of this document.
Mail comments to: May Ma, Office of Administration, Mail
Stop: TWFN-7-A60M, 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: Stephen Cumblidge, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-2823, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2018-0038 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 Website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2018-0038.
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]. NRC
Draft Regulatory Issue Summary 2018-XX, ``Clarification of the
Requirements for Reactor Pressure Vessel Upper Head Bare Metal Visual
Examinations,'' is available in ADAMS under Accession ML17228A409.
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-2018-0038 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 issues RISs to communicate with stakeholders on a broad
range of matters. This may include communicating and clarifying NRC
technical or policy positions on regulatory matters that have not been
communicated to or are not broadly understood by the nuclear industry.
This draft RIS informs addressees of a clarification of the
requirements for the bare metal visual examination, which can be either
the visual examination (VE) of the bare metal of the upper head or a
visual testing (VT)-2 examination under the insulation to meet the
requirements of notes 1 and 4 in Table 1 in the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Code Case N-729-4, ``Alternative
Examination Requirements for PWR Reactor Vessel Upper Heads With
Nozzles Having Pressure-Retaining Partial-Penetration Welds Section XI,
Division 1.''
Proposed Action
The NRC is requesting public comments on the draft RIS. 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 26th day of February 2018.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Tanya M. Mensah,
Senior Project Manager, ROP and Generic Communications Branch, Division
of Inspection and Regional Support, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2018-04350 Filed 3-8-18; 8:45 am]
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