[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 30 (Wednesday, February 13, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3832-3833]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-02182]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2019-0037]


Human-System Interface Design Review Guidelines

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Draft NUREG; request for comment.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for 
public comment a draft NUREG entitled, ``Human-System Interface Design 
Review Guidelines'' (NUREG-0700, Revision 3). NUREG-0700 was first 
published in 1981 following the accident at the Three Mile Island 
Nuclear Power Plant. The NUREG provided the guidance to operating 
reactor licensees and applicants for operating licenses for conducting 
detailed control room design reviews and identifying and correcting 
design deficiencies in order to bring control rooms into compliance 
with human factors engineering principles. Since that time, the NRC 
staff has updated NUREG-0700 in 1996 and again in 2002. The current 
updated (Revision 3) is the first in over a decade and represents a 
major revision to the guidance document.

DATES: Submit comments by April 1, 2019. 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 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-2019-0037. 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.
     Mail comments to: Office of Administration, Mail Stop: 
TWFN-7-A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001, ATTN: Program Management, Announcements and Editing Staff.
    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: Stephen A. Fleger, Office of Nuclear

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Regulatory Research, telephone: 301-415-2409, email: 
[email protected]; or DaBin Ki, Office of Nuclear Regulatory 
Research, telephone: 301-415-2358, 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-2019-0037 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-2019-0037.
     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 draft NUREG on ``Human-System 
Interface Design Review Guidelines'' is available in ADAMS under 
Accession No. ML18158A333.
     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-2019-0037 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. Discussion

    The NRC staff reviews the human factors engineering (HFE) aspects 
of nuclear power plants in accordance with the Standard Review Plan 
(NUREG-0800, Standard Review Plan for the Review of Safety Analysis 
Reports for Nuclear Power Plants: LWR Edition.) The Human Factors 
Engineering Program Review Model (NUREG-0711, Revision 3, issued 
November 2012) contains detailed design review procedures. As part of 
the review process, the interfaces between plant personnel and the 
plant's systems and components are evaluated for conformance with HFE 
guidelines. This document, Human-System Interface Design Review 
Guidelines (NUREG-0700, Revision 3), provides the guidelines to perform 
this evaluation. The review guidelines address the physical and 
functional characteristics of human-system interfaces (HSIs). Because 
these guidelines only address the HFE aspects of design and not other 
related considerations, such as instrumentation and control and 
structural design, they are referred to as HFE guidelines. In addition 
to the review of actual HSIs, the NRC staff can use the NUREG-0700 
guidelines to evaluate a design-specific HFE guidelines document or 
style guide. The HFE guidelines are organized into four basic parts, 
which are further divided into sections. Part I contains guidelines for 
the basic HSI elements: Information displays, user-interface 
interactions and management, and analog displays and controls. These 
elements are used as building blocks to develop HSI systems to serve 
specific functions. Part II contains the guidelines for reviewing the 
following HSI systems: Alarm system, safety parameter display system, 
group-view display system, soft control system, computer-based 
procedure system, automation system, and communication system. Part III 
provides guidelines for the review of workstations and workplaces. Part 
IV provides guidelines for the review of HSI support (i.e., 
maintainability of digital systems and degraded HSI and instrumentation 
and control conditions).

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day of February 2019.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Sean E. Peters,
Branch Chief, Human Factors and Reliability Branch, Division of Risk 
Analysis, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2019-02182 Filed 2-12-19; 8:45 am]
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