[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 7 (Tuesday, January 12, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2463-2464]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-00334]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2020-0183]
Fire Protection Program for Nuclear Power Plants During
Decommissioning
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) 1.191, ``Fire Protection Program
for Nuclear Power Plants During Decommissioning.'' Revision 1 of RG
1.191 addresses new information identified since Revision 0 of this
guide was issued. The guidance in Revision 0 of the 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.
DATES: Revision 1 to RG 1.191 is available on January 12, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2020-0183 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-2020-0183. 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 (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or
by email to [email protected].
Attention: The PDR, where you may examine, and order
copies of public documents is currently closed. You may submit your
request to the PDR via email at [email protected] or call 1-800-397-
4209 or 301-415-4737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (EST), Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Revision 1 to RG 1.191 and the regulatory analysis may be found in
ADAMS under Accession Nos. ML20287A199 and ML20078K925, respectively.
Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and NRC approval is not
required to reproduce them.
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. 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 1.191 was issued with a temporary identification
of Draft Regulatory Guide, DG-1370. It addressed new information
identified since Revision 0 of this guide was issued. The guidance in
Revision 0 of the RG does not include guidance for plants that have
transitioned to the NFPA 805, 2001 Edition.
II. Additional Information
The NRC published a notice of the availability of DG-1370 (ADAMS
Accession No. ML20078K920), in the Federal Register on August 11, 2020
(85 FR 48573), for a 60-day public comment period. The public comment
period closed on October 13, 2020. Public comments on DG-1370 and the
staff responses to the public comments are available in ADAMS under
Accession No. ML20287A198.
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
Revision 1 of RG 1.191 describes methods acceptable to the NRC
staff for
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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 RG in a manner that would constitute backfitting or
affect the issue finality of a part 52 of title 10 of the Code of
Federal Regulations approval. If, in the future, the staff seeks to
impose a position in the RG 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 RG in a manner that would constitute forward
fitting. If, in the future, the staff seeks to impose a position in the
RG 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: January 6, 2021.
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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