[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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