[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 183 (Thursday, September 20, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47647-47648]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-20451]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2018-0145]
Proposed Revisions to Branch Technical Position 5-3: Fracture
Toughness Requirements
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Standard review plan--draft section revision; reopening of
comment period.
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SUMMARY: On July 13, 2018, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
published a request for public comment on draft NUREG-0800, ``Standard
Review Plan for the Review of Safety Analysis Reports for Nuclear Power
Plants: LWR Edition,'' Branch Technical Position (BTP) 5-3, ``Fracture
Toughness Requirements.'' The public comment period was originally
scheduled to close on September 11, 2018. The NRC has decided to reopen
the public comment period on this document for 30 days to allow more
time for members of the public to review additional revisions that the
NRC made to BTP 5-3 since the draft was issued on July 13, 2018, and to
assemble and submit their comments.
DATES: The comment period for the document published on July 13, 2018
(83 FR 32690) has been reopened. Comments must be filed no later than
October 22, 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 on or 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-2018-0145. Address
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov 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.
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: Mark D. Notich, Office of New
Reactors, telephone: 301-415-3053; email: [email protected]; 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-2018-0145 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-2018-0145.
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 ``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'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-2018-0145 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. Further Information
On July 13, 2018 (83 FR 32690), the NRC published a request for
public
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comment on draft NUREG-0800, ``Standard Review Plan for the Review of
Safety Analysis Reports for Nuclear Power Plants: LWR Edition,'' BTP 5-
3, ``Fracture Toughness Requirements,'' (ADAMS Accession No.
ML18081A184). This section has been developed to assist NRC staff in
reviewing applications submitted per the requirements under part 50 of
title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR).
The public comment period was originally closed on September 11,
2018. The NRC has included additional revisions to the text of BTP 5-3
since the section was issued for comment. Accordingly, the NRC has
decided to reopen the public comment period on this document to allow
more time for members of the public to assemble and submit their
comments. The revised text for BTP 5-3 can be found in ML18254A090. The
redline/strikeout comparing the current version of BTP 5-3 and the
revised version can be found in ML18257A032.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 17th day of September 2018.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Jennivine K. Rankin,
Acting Branch Chief, Licensing Branch 3, Division of Licensing, Siting,
and Environmental Analysis, Office of New Reactors.
[FR Doc. 2018-20451 Filed 9-19-18; 8:45 am]
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