[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 188 (Monday, September 28, 2020)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 60691]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-21299]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
10 CFR Part 72
[NRC-2020-0059]
Guidance: Changes, Tests, and Experiments
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Regulatory guide; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing
Revision 1 to Regulatory Guide (RG) 3.72, ``Guidance for Implementation
of Changes, Tests, and Experiements.'' Revision 1 to RG 3.72 endorses
Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) 12-04, Revision 2. 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: Revision 1 to RG 3.72 is available on September 28, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2020-0059 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-2020-0059. Address
questions about 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.
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 reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by
email to [email protected]. The ADAMS accession number for each
document referenced (if it is available in ADAMS) is provided the first
time that it is mentioned in this document.
Revision 1 to RG 3.72 and the regulatory analysis may be found in
ADAMS under Accession Nos. ML20220A185 and ML19269B764, respectively.
Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and NRC approval is not
required to reproduce them.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marlone Davis, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, telephone: 301-415-7447, email:
[email protected] and Harriet Karagiannis, Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research, telephone: 301-415-2493, email:
[email protected]. Both are staff 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 events, and data that the NRC staff needs
in its review of applications for permits and licenses.
Revision 1 of RG 3.72 was issued with a temporary identification of
Draft Regulatory Guide, DG-3054, titled, ``Guidance for Implementation
of 10 CFR 72.48, `Changes, Tests, And Experiments' '' (ADAMS Accession
No. ML19269B763). Revision 1 to RG 3.72 describes an approach that is
acceptable to NRC to meet regulatory requirements related to changes
affecting independent spent fuel storage installations, spent fuel
storage cask designs, and monitored retrievable storage installations
by endorsing guidance document NEI 12-04, Revision 2, ``Guidelines for
10 CFR 72.48 Implementation,'' with clarifications and exceptions.
II. Additional Information
The NRC published a notice of the availability of DG-3054 in the
Federal Register on June 2, 2020 (85 FR 33582) for a 60-day public
comment period. The public comment period closed on August 3, 2020, and
the NRC received six comment documents. Public comments on DG-3054 and
the staff responses to the public comments are available in ADAMS under
Accession No. ML20220A183. Revision 1 to RG 3.72 may be found in ADAMS
under Accession No. ML20220A185.
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 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 regulatory guide, licensees are not be required to comply with the
positions set forth in this regulatory guide.
Dated: September 22, 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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