[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 72 (Friday, April 13, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16133-16134]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-07698]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2015-0251]


Supplementary Guidance Documents for Subsequent License Renewal

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: NUREG; issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing final 
NUREG-2221, ``Technical Bases for Changes in the Subsequent License 
Renewal Guidance Documents NUREG-2191 and NUREG-2192,'' and NUREG-2222, 
``Disposition of Public Comments on the Draft Subsequent License 
Renewal Guidance Documents NUREG-2191 and NUREG-2192.'' These two 
documents describe the technical changes that were made to the guidance 
documents for initial license renewal, NUREG-1801, Revision 2, 
``Generic Aging Lessons Learned (GALL) Report,'' and NUREG-1800, 
Revision 2, ``Standard Review Plan for Review of License Renewal 
Applications for Nuclear Power Plants,'' for utilities wishing to apply 
for subsequent license renewal (i.e., for operation from 60 to 80 
years) along with the technical bases for these changes and the NRC 
staff's response to public comments received on the drafts of NUREG-
2191 and NUREG-2192.

DATES: April 13, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0251 when contacting the 
NRC about the availability of information regarding these documents. 
You may obtain publicly-available information related to these 
documents using any of the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0251. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer Borges; telephone: 301-287-
9127; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact 
the individual(s) 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]. 
NUREG-2221, ``Technical Bases for Changes in the Subsequent License 
Renewal Guidance Documents NUREG-2191 and NUREG-2192,'' and NUREG-2222, 
``Disposition of Public Comments on the Draft Subsequent License 
Renewal Guidance Documents NUREG-2191 and NUREG-2192'' are available in 
ADAMS under Accession No(s): ML17362A126, and ML17362A143, 
respectively.
     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: Bennett Brady, telephone: 301-415-
2981, email: [email protected] or Eric Oesterle, telephone: 301-
415-1014, email: [email protected]; both are in the Office of 
Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington DC 20555-0001.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Atomic Energy Act (AEA) of 1954, as 
amended, authorizes the NRC to issue 40-year initial licenses and upon 
application and approval, subsequently renew licenses for nuclear power 
reactors. The NRC's regulations permit these licenses to be renewed 
beyond the initial 40-year term for an additional period of time, up to 
20 years, based on the outcome of an assessment to determine if the 
nuclear facility can continue to operate safely during the proposed 
period of extended operation. There are no limitations in the AEA or 
the NRC's regulations restricting the number of times a license may be 
renewed.
    The nuclear power industry has sent letters of intent to apply for 
subsequent

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license renewals in 2018, 2019, and 2020. Subsequent License Renewal is 
a term referring to all license renewals allowing a plant to operate 
beyond the 60-year period (40-year period of an initial operating 
license and a 20-year period of the first license renewal). Based on a 
survey conducted by the nuclear power industry, the NRC staff believes 
that additional applications for subsequent license renewal will be 
submitted in future years.
    The NRC has developed and published final guidance for licensees 
that intend to apply for subsequent license renewal. The guidance 
documents for subsequent license renewal (i.e., for operation from 60 
to 80 years), NUREG-2191, the ``Generic Aging Lessons Learned for 
Subsequent License Renewal (GALL-SLR) Report,'' and NUREG-2192, the 
``Standard Review Plan for Review of Subsequent License Renewal 
Applications for Nuclear Power Plants'' (SRP-SLR), address the issues 
for increased operating time from 60 to 80 years. The guidance also 
considers recent operating experience identified since the release of 
GALL Report, Rev. 2. The GALL-SLR Report and SRP-SLR also include 
changes that have been previously issued for public comment as part of 
the staff's license renewal Interim Staff Guidance (ISG) process. These 
ISGs can be found at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/isg/license-renewal.html. These ISGs (ML12286A275, ML11297A085, 
ML12138A296, ML12270A436, ML12044A215, ML12352A057, ML13227A361, 
ML15308A018, and ML16237A383) have been incorporated into the GALL-SLR 
Report and the associated sections of the SRP-SLR. The NRC has 
previously received public comments on these ISGs, and is not 
requesting additional comments on the ISGs.
    A notice of availability and request for comments on draft NUREG-
2191 and draft NUREG-2192 was published in the Federal Register on 
December 23, 2015 (80 FR 79956). The public comment period ended on 
February 29, 2016. The NRC received over 500 comments on these draft 
guidance documents. The NRC also published a supplement to the draft 
guidance documents in the Federal Register on March 29, 2016 (81 FR 
17500). The public comment period on the supplements to draft NUREG-
2191 and draft NUREG-2192 ended May 31, 2016. The NRC reviewed and 
dispositioned all of the comments and published the disposition of the 
comments and the technical bases for their disposition in companion 
NUREG documents, which are being published at this time, NUREG-2221, 
``Technical Bases for Changes in the Subsequent License Renewal 
Guidance Documents NUREG-2191 and NUREG-2192,'' and NUREG-2222, 
``Disposition of Public Comments on the Draft Subsequent License 
Renewal Guidance Documents NUREG-2191 and NUREG-2192.'' The NRC's 
resolution of these comments are incorporated in the final SLR guidance 
documents, NUREG-2191 and NUREG-2192.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 10th day of April 2018.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Eric R. Oesterle,
Chief, License Renewal Project Branch, Division of Materials and 
License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2018-07698 Filed 4-12-18; 8:45 am]
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