[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 78 (Tuesday, April 23, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16897-16898]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-08093]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2019-0100]


Safety Related Concrete Structures for Nuclear Power Plants 
(Other Than Reactor Vessels and Containments)

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 draft regulatory guide (DG), DG-1283, ``Safety Related 
Structures for Nuclear Power Plants (Other than Reactor Vessels and 
Containments).'' This proposed guide, revision 3, of RG 1.142, of the 
same name, was revised to endorse an updated version of American 
Concrete Institute code (ACI) 349-2013, ``Code Requirements for Nuclear 
Safety-

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Related Concrete Structures and Commentary.''

DATES: Submit comments by June 24, 2019. 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 
(unless this document describes a different method for submitting 
comments on a specific subject):
     Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2019-0100. Address 
questions about NRC dockets IDs in Regulations.gov 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.
     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: Madhumita Sircar, telephone: 301-415-
1804; email: [email protected], and Edward O'Donnell, telephone: 
301-415-3317; email: [email protected]. Both are staff members of 
the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, 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-2019-0100 when contacting the NRC 
about the availability of information regarding this action. You may 
obtain publically-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-2019-0100.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly available documents online in the 
ADAMS Public Document collection at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``Begin Web-based ADAMS 
Search.'' For problems with ADAMS, 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 DG-1283 is available in ADAMS under 
Accession No. ML16172A240.
     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-2019-0100 in your comment submission, 
in order to ensure that the NRC is able to make your comment submission 
available to the public in this docket.
    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 posts all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as enters 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 submissions 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 DG, entitled, ``Safety Related Concrete Structures for Nuclear 
Power Plants (Other than Reactor Vessels and Containments),'' is 
temporarily identified by its task number, DG-1283. DG-1283 is proposed 
revision 3 of RG 1.142 of the same name. This revision of the guide 
(Revision 3) was updated to endorse, with certain exceptions, ACI 349-
13, ``Code Requirements for Nuclear Safety-Related Concrete Structures 
and Commentary,'' except for Appendix D, ``Anchoring to Concrete.'' 
Appendix D to ACI 349-13 is separately endorsed by RG 1.199, 
``Anchoring Components and Structural Supports in Concrete''.

III. Backfitting and Issue Finality

    As discussed in the ``Implementation'' section of DG-1283, the NRC 
has no current intention to impose this draft regulatory guide on 
holders of current operating licenses or combined licenses. 
Accordingly, the issuance of this draft regulatory guide, if finalized, 
would not constitute ``backfitting'' as defined in section 50.109(a)(1) 
of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) of the Backfit 
Rule or be otherwise inconsistent with the applicable issue finality 
provisions in 10 CFR part 52.
    This draft regulatory guide 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 for operating licenses and combined licenses submitted 
after the issuance of the regulatory guide. Such action would not 
constitute backfitting as defined in 10 CFR 50.109(a)(1) or be 
otherwise inconsistent with the applicable issue finality provision 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 10 CFR part 52.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 16th day of April, 2019.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Thomas H. Boyce,
Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Generic Issues Branch, Division of 
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2019-08093 Filed 4-22-19; 8:45 am]
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