[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 244 (Thursday, December 20, 2018)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 65283]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-27517]
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Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 244 / Thursday, December 20, 2018 /
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2018-0038]
10 CFR Chapter I
Clarification of the Requirements for Reactor Pressure Vessel
Upper Head Bare Metal Visual Examinations
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Regulatory issue summary; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing
Regulatory Issue Summary (RIS) 2018-06, ``Clarification of the
Requirements for Reactor Pressure Vessel Upper Head Bare Metal Visual
Examinations.'' This RIS is intended to clarify the requirements for
bare-metal visual examination, which can be either a visual examination
of the bare metal of the upper head or a visual testing (VT)-2
examination under the insulation to meet the requirements of notes 1
and 4 in Table 1 of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Code Case N-729-4, ``Alternative Examination Requirements for PWR
Reactor Vessel Upper Heads with Nozzles Having Pressure-Retaining
Partial-Penetration Welds Section XI, Division 1.'' This RIS requires
no action or written response on the part of an addressee.
DATES: The RIS is available as of December 20, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2018-0038 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-2018-0038. Address
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Krupskaya Castellon;
telephone: 301-287-9221; 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 ``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 Clarification of the Requirements
for Reactor Pressure Vessel Upper Head Bare Metal Visual Examinations
and Response to Public Comments on Draft Regulatory Issue Summary 2018-
XX, ``Clarification of the Requirements for Reactor Pressure Vessel
Upper Head Bare Metal Visual Examinations'' are available in ADAMS
under Accession Nos. ML18178A137 and ML18178A140.
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.
This RIS is also available on the NRC's public website at
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/gen-comm/reg-issues/
(select ``2018'' and then select ``RIS-18-06'').
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephen Cumblidge, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-2823, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NRC published notification of
opportunity for public comment on this RIS in the Federal Register (83
FR 10407) on March 9, 2018. The agency received comments from four
commenters. The staff considered all comments, which resulted in minor
clarifications to the RIS. The evaluation of these comments and the
resulting changes to the RIS are discussed in a publicly available
memorandum which is in ADAMS under Accession No. ML18178A140.
As noted in 83 FR 20858 (May 8, 2018), this document is being
published in the Rules section of the Federal Register to comply with
publication requirements under 1 CFR chapter I.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 17th day of December 2018.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Brian J. Benney,
Senior Project Manager, ROP Support and Generic Communications Branch,
Division of Inspection and Regional Support, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2018-27517 Filed 12-19-18; 8:45 am]
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