[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 49 (Tuesday, March 13, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Page 10911]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-04986]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2018-0049]


Withdrawal of Regulatory Issue Summary 2012-10, ``NRC Staff 
Position on Applying Surveillance Requirements 3.0.2 and 3.0.3 to 
Administrative Controls Program Tests''

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Generic communications; withdrawal.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is withdrawing 
Regulatory Issue Summary 2012-10, ``NRC Staff Position on Applying 
Surveillance Requirements 3.0.2 and 3.0.3 to Administrative Controls 
Program Tests.'' This document is being withdrawn because it contains 
guidance to addressees that is no longer applicable.

DATES: The effective date of the withdrawal of RIS 2012-10,''NRC Staff 
Position on Applying Surveillance Requirements 3.0.2 and 3.0.3 to 
Administrative Controls Program Tests'' is March 13, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2018-0049 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 Website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2018-0049. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer Borges; telephone: 301-287-
9127; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact 
the individual 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 is available 
in ADAMS) is provided the first time that it is mentioned in this 
document.
     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: Tanya M. Mensah, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-3610, email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NRC is withdrawing Regulatory Issue 
Summary (RIS) 2012-10, ``NRC Staff Position on Applying Surveillance 
Requirements 3.0.2 and 3.0.3 to Administrative Controls Program Tests'' 
(ADAMS Accession No. ML12079A393), because the guidance contained in 
the document is no longer applicable. Specifically, on August 23, 2012, 
RIS 2012-10 was issued to inform addresses of Enforcement Guidance 
Memorandum (EGM) 12-001, ``Dispositioning Noncompliance with 
Administrative Controls Technical Specifications Programmatic 
Requirements that Extend Test Frequencies and Allow Performance of 
Missed Tests.'' Following the issuance of EGM-12-001, the NRC staff 
concluded that the staff's position taken in EGM-12-001 was incorrect. 
In addition, the period of enforcement discretion in EGM-12-001 has 
expired. Therefore, by memorandum dated February 14, 2018, EGM-12-001 
was withdrawn by the NRC staff (ADAMS Accession No. ML18016A475). A 
summary of the NRC staff's basis for withdrawing EGM-12-001 is included 
in the memorandum.
    The NRC's generic communication website will be updated to reflect 
RIS 2012-10 as withdrawn. The generic communications website is 
accessible at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/gen-comm/.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day of March 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. 2018-04986 Filed 3-12-18; 8:45 am]
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