[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 93 (Monday, May 14, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22297-22299]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-10156]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2018-0092]
Standard Format and Content of Physical Security Plans, Training
and Qualifications Plans and Safeguards Contingency Plans for Nuclear
Power Plants
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft regulatory guide; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for
public comment a Draft Regulatory Guide (DG), entitled DG-5048,
``Standard Format and Content of Physical Security Plans, Training and
Qualifications Plans and Safeguards Contingency Plans for Nuclear Power
Plants.'' This draft revision of Regulatory Guide (RG) 5.54 (Revision
2) renames the guide and consolidates, enhances, and clarifies previous
staff guidance for the development of licensee site-specific physical
security plans found in NUREG-0908, ``Acceptance Criteria for the
Evaluation of Nuclear Power Reactor Security Plans,'' training and
qualification plans, and safeguards contingency plans. This revision to
RG 5.54 includes editorial changes and clarifications provided by the
staff in Security Frequently Asked Questions after the issuance of
Revision 1.
DATES: Submit comments by July 13, 2018. Comments received after this
date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC is
able to ensure consideration only for comments received on or before
this date. Although a time limit is given, comments and suggestions in
connection with items for inclusion in guides currently being developed
or improvements in all published guides are encouraged at any time.
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-2018-0092. 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,
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see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dennis Gordon, Office of Nuclear
Security and Incident Response, telephone: 301-287-3633, email:
[email protected] and Mekonen Bayssie, Office of Nuclear Regulatory
Research, telephone: 301-415-1699, email: [email protected]. Both
are staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2018-0092 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-2018-0092.
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]. DG-
5048 is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML17124A490.
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-2018-0092 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. Additional Information
The NRC is issuing for public comment a DG in the NRC's
``Regulatory Guide'' series. This series was developed to describe and
make available to the public information regarding methods that are
acceptable to the NRC staff for implementing specific parts of the
NRC's regulations, techniques that the staff uses in evaluating
specific issues or postulated events, and data that the staff needs in
its review of applications for permits and licenses.
The draft regulatory guide, entitled, ``Standard Format and Content
of Physical Security Plans, Training and Qualifications Plans and
Safeguards Contingency Plans for Nuclear Power Plants,'' is temporarily
identified by its task number, DG-5048. DG-5048 is proposed Revision 2
of RG 5.54, ``Standard Format and Content of Physical Security Plans,
Training and Qualifications Plans and Safeguards Contingency Plans for
Nuclear Power Plants'' (ADAMS Accession No. ML17124A490). This revision
of the guide (Revision 2) retitles the guide and consolidates,
enhances, and clarifies previous staff guidance for the development of
licensee site-specific physical security plans found in NUREG-0908,
``Acceptance Criteria for the Evaluation of Nuclear Power Reactor
Security Plans'' (ADAMS Accession No. ML18128A239), training and
qualification plans, and safeguards contingency plans. This revision to
the regulatory guide includes clarifications provided by the staff in
the Security Frequently Asked Questions after Revision 1 was published,
and contains a wide variety of editorial changes to the overall
Revision 1 content. In addition, this revision of the guide provides
licensees with guidance for developing security plans and safeguards
contingency plans for title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10
CFR), part 72 licensees for independent spent fuel storage facilities.
I. Backfitting and Issue Finality
DG-5048 describes a method that the staff of the NRC considers
acceptable for use by nuclear power plant licensees in meeting the
requirements for the standard format and content for licensee physical
security, training and qualification, and safeguards contingency plans
and provides general guidance for the identification, description, and
level of detail that licensees should provide, including site-specific
conditions, in a comprehensive security plan. Issuance of this DG, if
finalized, would not constitute backfitting as defined in 10 CFR 50.109
(the Backfit Rule) and would not otherwise be inconsistent with the
issue finality provisions in 10 CFR part 52. As discussed in the
``Implementation'' section of this DG, the NRC has no current intention
to impose this guide, if finalized, on holders of current operating
licenses or combined licenses.
This DG, if finalized, may be applied to applications for operating
licenses and combined licenses docketed by the NRC as of the date of
issuance of the final regulatory guide, as well as future applications
submitted after the issuance of the regulatory guide. Such action would
not constitute backfitting as defined in the Backfit Rule or be
otherwise inconsistent with the applicable issue finality provisions in
10 CFR part 52, inasmuch as such applicants or potential applicants are
not within the scope of entities protected by the Backfit Rule or the
relevant issue finality provisions in part 52.
Neither section 50.109 nor the issue finality provisions under 10
CFR part 52 were intended to apply to NRC actions that change the
expectations of current and future applicants. However, the issue
finality provisions of part 52 may apply when an applicant references a
part 52 license or other NRC regulatory approval. Nevertheless, the
scope of issue finality provided extends only to the matters resolved
in the license or regulatory approval. Early site permits, design
certification rules, and standard design approvals typically do not
address or resolve compliance with operational programs such as the
security requirements in 10 CFR part 73. Therefore, applicants
referencing an early site permit, design certification rule, or
standard design approval may be asked to follow the guidance in this
draft regulatory guide, if finalized, or to provide an equivalent
alternative process that demonstrates compliance with the underlying
NRC regulatory requirements.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day of May, 2018.
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For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Thomas H. Boyce,
Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Generic Issues Branch, Division of
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
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