[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 45 (Tuesday, March 8, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13019-13020]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-04838]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2022-0036]
Water Sources for Long-Term Recirculation Cooling Following a
Loss-of-Coolant Accident
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft regulatory guide; extension of comment period.
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SUMMARY: On February 8, 2022, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC) solicited comments on draft regulatory guide (DG), DG-1385,
``Water Sources for Long-Term Cooling Following a Loss-of-Coolant
Accident.'' The public comment period was originally scheduled to close
on March 10, 2022. The NRC has decided to extend the public comment
period to allow more time for members of the public to develop and
submit their comments.
DATES: The due date for comments requested in the document published on
February 8, 2022 (87 FR 7209) has been extended. Comments should be
filed no later than April 8, 2022. Comments received after this date
will be considered, if it is practical to do so, but the Commission is
able to ensure consideration only for comments received on or 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-2022-0036. Address
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann;
telephone: 301-415-0624; 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 accessing information and submitting
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ahsan Sallman, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301-415-2380, email:
[email protected], and James Steckel, Office of Nuclear Regulatory
Research, telephone: 301-415-1026, 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-2021-0036 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information regarding 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-2021-0036.
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 questions regarding use of ADAMS,
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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].
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
documents, by appointment, at the NRC's PDR, Room P1 B35, One White
Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. To make
an appointment to visit the PDR, please send an email to
[email protected] or call 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, between
8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (ET), 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-2021-0036 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 https://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. Discussion
On February 8, 2022, the NRC published a document in the Federal
Register (87 FR 7209) soliciting comments on DG-1385, ``Water Sources
for Long-Term Cooling Following a Loss-of-Coolant Accident.'' This DG
is proposed Revision 5 to Regulatory Guide 1.82, which describes an
approach that may be used to determine quality standards acceptable to
the NRC staff, to meet the regulatory requirements for sumps and
suppression pools that provide water sources for emergency core
cooling, containment heat removal, or containment atmosphere cleanup
systems. It also provides guidelines for evaluating the adequacy and
the availability of the sump or suppression pool for long-term
recirculation cooling following a loss-of-coolant-accident, and the use
of containment accident pressure in determining the net positive
suction head for the emergency core cooling and containment heat
removal pumps. This proposed revision guidance applies to both the
pressurized-water reactor and boiling-water reactor types of light-
water reactors. The comment period was originally scheduled to close on
March 10, 2022. Upon the request of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the
NRC has decided to extend the public comment period on this document
until April 8, 2022, to allow more time for members of the public to
submit their comments.
Dated: March 2, 2022.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Meraj Rahimi,
Chief, Regulatory Guide and Programs Management Branch, Division of
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2022-04838 Filed 3-7-22; 8:45 am]
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