[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 106 (Tuesday, June 2, 2020)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 33582-33583]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-11717]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
10 CFR Part 72
[NRC-2020-0059]
Guidance for Implementation of 10 CFR 72.48, `Changes, Tests, and
Experiments'
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-3054. This DG is
proposed Revision 1 of Regulatory Guide 3.72 of the same name. The
proposed revision endorses Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) 12-04,
Revision 2 with exceptions and clarification. NEI 12-04, Revision 2,
updates and revises previous guidance to incorporate operating
experience and NRC's inspection findings. In addition, RG 3.72,
Revision 1, changes the NRC's guidance on departures from a method of
evaluation (MOE) and the NRC's approval of an MOE.
DATES: Submit comments by August 3, 2020. 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 https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2020-0059. Address
questions about NRC docket IDs in Regulations.gov 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: 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: Marlone Davis, telephone: 301-415-
7447, email: [email protected], and Harriet Karagiannis, telephone:
301-415-2493, 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-2020-0059 when contacting the NRC
about
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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 https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2020-0059.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at https://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].
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC-2020-0059 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 https://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 draft guide in the NRC's
``Regulatory Guide'' series. This series was developed to describe
methods that are acceptable to the NRC staff for implementing specific
parts of the agency's regulations, to explain techniques that the staff
uses in evaluating specific issues or postulated events, and to
describe information that the staff needs in its review of applications
for permits and licenses.
This DG, identified by its task number, DG-3054, titled, ``Guidance
for Implementation of 10 CFR 72.48, `Changes, Tests, And Experiments''
(ADAMS Accession No. ML19269B763). The draft guide is proposed Revision
1 of RG 3.72 of the same name. The proposed revision describes an
approach that is acceptable to NRC to meet regulatory requirements
related to changes affecting independent spent fuel storage
installations (ISFSIs), spent fuel storage cask designs, and monitored
retrievable storage installations (MRSs) by endorsing guidance document
NEI 12-04, ``Guidelines for 10 CFR 72.48 Implementation,'' Revision 2.
The staff is also issuing for public comment a draft regulatory
analysis (ADAMS Accession No. ML19269B764). The staff develops a
regulatory analysis to assess the value of issuing or revising a
regulatory guide as well as alternative courses of action.
III. Backfitting, Forward Fitting, and Issue Finality
Issuance of this draft regulatory guide in final form would not
constitute backfitting as defined in title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR) section 72.62, ``Backfitting,'' and as described
in NRC Management Directive 8.4, ``Management of Backfitting, Forward
Fitting, Issue Finality, and Information Requests'' (ADAMS Accession
No. ML18093B087). As explained in section D., ``Implementation,'' of
the draft regulatory guide, licensees would not be required to comply
with the positions set forth in this draft regulatory guide.
Dated: May 27, 2020.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Stanley J. Gardocki,
Acting Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Generic Issues Branch, Division
of Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
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