[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 198 (Friday, October 14, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62462-62463]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-22300]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2021-0231]
Guide for Assessing, Monitoring, and Mitigating Aging Effects on
Electrical Equipment Used in Production and Utilization Facilities
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Regulatory guide; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a new
Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.248, ``Guide for Assessing, Monitoring, and
Mitigating Aging Effects on Electrical Equipment Used in Production and
Utilization Facilities.'' This RG describes an approach that is
acceptable to the staff of the NRC to meet regulatory requirements for
managing, monitoring, and mitigating the aging effects on electrical
equipment. It endorses Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE) Standard (Std.) 1205 2014, ``IEEE Guide for Assessing,
Monitoring, and Mitigating Aging Effects on Electrical Equipment Used
in Nuclear Power Generating Stations and Other Nuclear Facilities.''
DATES: Revision 0 to RG 1.248 is available on October 14, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2021-0231 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-2021-0231. 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.
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]. 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.
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
documents, by appointment, at the NRC's Public Document Room (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. Eastern Time (ET), Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays.
RG 1.248 and the regulatory analysis may be found in ADAMS under
Accession Nos. ML22221A220 and ML21288A112, respectively.
Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and NRC approval is not
required to reproduce them.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Eudy, telephone: 301-415-3104,
email: [email protected] and Mohammad Sadollah, telephone: 301-415-
6804, email: [email protected]. Both are staff of the Office of
Nuclear Regulatory Research at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Discussion
The NRC is issuing a new 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. RG 1.248 was issued with a temporary
identification of Draft Regulatory Guide, DG-1393.
II. Additional Information
The NRC published a notice of the availability of DG-1393 in the
Federal Register on February 3, 2022 (87 FR 6204) for a 30-day public
comment period. The public comment period closed on March 7, 2022.
Public comments on DG-1393 and the staff responses to the public
comments are available under ADAMS under Accession No. ML22221A222.
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
The NRC staff may use this RG as a reference in its regulatory
processes, such as licensing, inspection, or enforcement, as
appropriate. However, the NRC staff does not intend to use the guidance
in this RG to support NRC staff actions in a manner that would
constitute backfitting as that term is defined in section 50.109 of
title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), ``Backfitting,''
and as described in NRC Management Directive 8.4, ``Management of
Backfitting, Forward Fitting, Issue Finality, and Information
Requests,'' nor does the NRC staff intend to use the guidance to affect
the issue finality of an approval under 10 CFR part 52, ``Licenses,
Certifications, and Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants. The staff also
does not intend to use the guidance to support NRC staff actions in a
manner that constitutes forward fitting as that term is defined and
described in MD 8.4. If a licensee believes that the NRC is using this
RG in a manner inconsistent with the discussion in this Implementation
section, then the licensee may file a backfitting or forward fitting
appeal with the NRC in accordance with the process in MD 8.4.
V. Submitting Suggestions for Improvement of Regulatory Guides
A member of the public may, at any time, submit suggestions to the
NRC for improvement of existing RGs or for the development of new RGs.
Suggestions can be submitted on the NRC's public website at https://
www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/reg-guides/
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contactus.html. Suggestions will be considered in future updates and
enhancements to the ``Regulatory Guide'' series.
Dated: October 7, 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. 2022-22300 Filed 10-13-22; 8:45 am]
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