[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 72 (Friday, April 16, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20208-20209]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-07815]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2017-0091]
Regulatory Analysis Guidelines
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft NUREG appendices; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for
public comment four draft appendices to NUREG/BR-0058, Revision 5,
``Regulatory Analysis Guidelines of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.'' The guidance provided in the draft appendices refines the
information the staff uses when performing a cost-benefit analysis and
addresses emergent policy issues and guidance enhancements. The draft
appendices also incorporate pertinent information from NUREG/BR-0184,
``Regulatory Analysis Technical Handbook.'' A description of each draft
appendix is provided in the Discussion section of this document.
DATES: Submit comments by June 15, 2021. 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 before this
date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods;
however, the NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the
Federal Rulemaking website:
Federal Rulemaking website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2017-0091. Address
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann;
telephone: 301-415-0624; email: [email protected]. For technical
questions, contact the individual 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: Pamela Noto, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-6795; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2017-0091 when contacting the NRC
about 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-2017-0091.
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]. For the convenience of the reader,
instructions about obtaining materials referenced in this document are
provided in the ``Availability of Documents'' section.
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
between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (EST), Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays.
B. Submitting Comments
The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the
Federal Rulemaking website (https://www.regulations.gov). Please
include Docket ID NRC-2017-0091 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 and will 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. Discussion
The draft appendices to NUREG/BR-0058, Revision 5 address guidance
enhancements for further consideration that were identified in SECY-14-
0143, ``Regulatory Gap Analysis of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's
Cost-Benefit Regulations, Guidance, and Practices,'' and incorporates
pertinent information from NUREG/BR-0184.
Appendix F, ``Data Sources,'' provides guidance on the processes
needed to collect and analyze data, as well as data types, sources, and
adjustment techniques. It also (1) identifies sources of information
that can be collected to support data analysis activities, (2)
describes various methods of adjusting raw data to establish a common
basis, and (3) discusses the importance of collecting historical cost
and non-cost data to support parametric estimating techniques.
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Appendix G, ``Regulatory Analysis Methods and Data for Nuclear
Facilities Other Than Power Reactors,'' documents established
approaches and data considerations for use in performing non-power
reactor regulatory analyses. This appendix provides supplemental
information for performing a regulatory analysis for non-power reactor
facilities and activities, including fuel fabrication facilities,
independent spent fuel storage installations, irradiators, high-level
waste repositories, and uses of byproduct material.
Appendix H, ``Severe Accident Risk Analysis,'' provides guidance
and best practices recommended for use in performing probabilistic risk
assessments and consequence analyses as part of regulatory and backfit
analyses for nuclear power reactors. This appendix expands upon
guidance regarding the safety goal evaluation and valuation of public
health (accident) and economic consequences (offsite property)
attributes. It provides references on sources of information and an
overview of the tools and methods used to estimate changes in core
damage frequency, large early release frequency, public health risk,
and offsite economic consequences risk.
Appendix I, ``National Environmental Policy Act Cost-Benefit
Analysis,'' describes the methods to be used in preparing cost-benefit
analyses in support of the NRC's regulatory and licensing actions
conducted under the National Environmental Policy Act, including
evaluations of severe accident mitigation alternatives and severe
accident mitigation design alternatives.
III. Availability of Documents
The documents identified in the following table are available to
interested persons as indicated.
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Document ADAMS Accession No.
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Draft NUREG/BR-0058, Revision 5, Appendix F, ML21096A292.
``Data Sources''.
Draft NUREG/BR-0058, Revision 5, Appendix G, ML21096A293.
``Regulatory Analysis Methods and Data for
Nuclear Facilities Other Than Power
Reactors''.
Draft NUREG/BR-0058, Revision 5, Appendix H, ML21096A294.
``Severe Accident Risk Analysis''.
Draft NUREG/BR-0058, Revision 5, Appendix I, ML21096A295.
``National Environmental Policy Act Cost-
Benefit Analysis''.
NUREG/BR-0058, Revision 5, ``Regulatory ML17101A355 (Package).
Analysis Guidelines of the U.S. NRC''.
NUREG/BR-0184, ``Regulatory Analysis Technical ML050190193.
Evaluation Handbook''.
SECY-14-0143, ``Regulatory Gap Analysis of the ML14280A426 (Package).
NRC's Cost-Benefit Guidance and Practices,''
December 16, 2014.
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Dated: April 12, 2021.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Kevin A. Coyne,
Acting Director, Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial
Support, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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