[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 106 (Tuesday, June 2, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33741-33742]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-11759]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2019-0061]
Seismic Qualification of Electrical and Active Mechanical
Equipment and Functional Qualification of Active Mechanical Equipment
for Nuclear Power Plants
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Regulatory guide; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing
Revision 4 to Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.100, ``Seismic Qualification of
Electrical and Active Mechanical Equipment and Functional Qualification
of Active Mechanical Equipment for Nuclear Power Plants.'' RG 1.100 was
revised to endorse industry consensus standards with certain exceptions
and clarifications. The guide describes methods that the staff of the
NRC considers acceptable for use in the seismic qualification of
electrical and active mechanical equipment and the functional
qualification of active mechanical equipment for nuclear power plants.
DATES: Revision 4 to RG 1.100 is available on June 2, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2019-0100 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 https://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 individuals 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 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].
Revision 4 to RG 1.100 and the regulatory analysis may be found in
NRC's ADAMS under Accession Nos. ML19312C677 and ML18093A676,
respectively.
Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and NRC approval is not
required to reproduce them.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ian Tseng, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation, telephone: 301-415-7964, email: [email protected], and
Edward O'Donnell, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, telephone:
301-415-3317, email: [email protected]. Both are staff members of
the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Discussion
The NRC is issuing a revision to an existing guide 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
agency's regulations, techniques that the NRC staff uses in evaluating
specific issues or postulated
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events, and data that the NRC staff needs in its review of applications
for permits and licenses.
Revision 4 of RG 1.100 was issued with a temporary identification
of Draft Regulatory Guide, DG-1328. The guide was revised to endorse,
with exceptions and clarifications the following industry consensus
standards: (1) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Standard (Std) 344-2013, ``IEEE Standard for Seismic Qualification of
Equipment for Nuclear Power Generating Stations,'' (2) IEEE Std C37.98-
2013, ``Standard Qualification Testing of Protective Relays and
Auxiliaries for Nuclear Facilities,'' and (3) American Society of
Mechanical Engineers (ASME) QME-1-2017, ``Qualification of Active
Mechanical Equipment Used in Nuclear Facilities.''
II. Additional Information
The NRC published a notice of the availability of DG-1328 in the
Federal Register on February 27, 2019 (84 FR 6444) for a 60-day public
comment period. The public comment period closed on April 29, 2019.
Public comments on DG-1328 and the staff responses to the public
comments are available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML19312C678.
III. Congressional Review Act
This RG is a rule as defined in the Congressional Review Act (5
U.S.C. 801-808). However, the Office of Management and Budget has not
found it to be a major rule as defined in the Congressional Review Act.
IV. Backfitting, Forward Fitting, and Issue Finality
Issuance of this regulatory guide does not constitute backfitting
as defined in title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR)
section 50.109, ``Backfitting,'' and as described in NRC Management
Directive 8.4, ``Management of Backfitting, Forward Fitting, Issue
Finality, and Information Requests''; constitute forward fitting as
that term is defined and described in Management Directive 8.4; or
affect issue finality of any approval issued under 10 CFR part 52,
``Licenses, Certificates, and Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants.'' As
explained in this regulatory guide, applicants and licensees are not
required to comply with the positions set forth in this regulatory
guide.
Dated: May 27, 2020.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Harriet Karagiannis,
Acting Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Generic Issues Branch, Division
of Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2020-11759 Filed 6-1-20; 8:45 am]
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