[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 155 (Tuesday, August 11, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48573-48574]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-17534]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2020-0183]
Fire Protection Program for Nuclear Power Plants During
Decommissioning
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-1370, ``Fire Protection
Program for Nuclear Power Plants During Decommissioning.'' This
proposed revision of the guide (Revision 1) addresses new information
identified since Revision 0 of this guide was issued. The guidance in
Revision 0 of the regulatory guide (RG) does not include guidance for
plants that have transitioned to the National Fire Protection
Association (NFPA) Standard 805, ``Performance-Based Standard for Fire
Protection for Light Water Reactor Electric Generating Plants,'' 2001
Edition. This guide is being revised to include guidance for plants
that have transitioned to NFPA 805, 2001 Edition.
DATES: Submit comments by October 13, 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 http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2020-0183. 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: Naeem Iqbal, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation, telephone: 301-415-3346, email: [email protected] and
Harriet Karagiannis, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, telephone:
301-415-3346, 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-2020-0183 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information regarding
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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-2020-0183.
NRC 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 reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by
email to [email protected].
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC-2020-0183 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 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 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.
The DG, titled, ``Fire Protection Program for Nuclear Power Plants
During Decommissioning,'' is proposed Revision 1 of RG 1.191 and is
temporarily identified by its task number, DG-1370. This proposed
revision addresses new information identified since Revision 0 of this
guide was issued. The guidance in Revision 0 of the RG is for plants
licensed under section 50.48(b) of title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR) or 10 CFR part 50, appendix R, ``Fire Protection
Program for Nuclear Power Facilities Operating Prior to January 1,
1979.'' Revision 0 does not include guidance for plants that have
transitioned to the NFPA 805 licensing basis (i.e., 10 CFR 50.48(c)).
This guide is being revised to include guidance for plants that have
transitioned to NFPA 805, 2001 Edition, via 10 CFR 50.48(c). The DG is
electronically available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML20078K920.
The staff is also issuing for public comment a draft regulatory
analysis available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML20078K925. 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
DG-1370 to RG 1.191, Revision 1, describes methods acceptable to
the NRC staff for complying with the NRC's regulations for fire
protection programs for licensees that have certified that their plants
have permanently ceased operations and that the fuel has been
permanently removed from the reactor vessels.
The staff does not, at this time, intend to impose the positions
represented in the draft RG (if finalized) in a manner that would
constitute backfitting or affect the issue finality of a 10 CFR part 52
approval. If, in the future, the staff seeks to impose a position in
the draft RG (if finalized) in a manner that constitutes backfitting or
does not provide issue finality as described in the applicable issue
finality provision, then the staff would need to address the Backfit
Rule or the criteria for avoiding issue finality as described in the
applicable issue finality provision.
The staff does not, at this time, intend to impose the positions
represented in the draft RG (if finalized) in a manner that would
constitute forward fitting. If, in the future, the staff seeks to
impose a position in the draft RG (if finalized) in a manner that
constitutes forward fitting, then the staff would need to address the
forward fitting criteria in Management Directive 8.4, ``Management of
Backfitting, Forward Fitting, Issue Finality, and Information
Requests'' (ADAMS Accession No. ML18093B087).
Dated: August 6, 2020.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Meraj Rahimi,
Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Generic Issues Branch, Division of
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
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