[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 212 (Thursday, November 3, 2022)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 66227-66228]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-23572]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
10 CFR Parts 50 and 52
[NRC-2021-0166]
Acceptability of ASME Code, Section XI, Division 2, `Requirements
for Reliability and Integrity Management (RIM) Programs for Nuclear
Power Plants,' for Non-Light Water Reactors
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) 1.246, ``Acceptability of ASME Code, Section XI,
Division 2, `Requirements for Reliability and Integrity Management
(RIM) Programs for Nuclear Power Plants,' for Non-Light Water
Reactors.'' This RG describes an approach that is acceptable to the NRC
staff for the development and implementation of a preservice inspection
(PSI) and inservice inspection (ISI) program for non-light water
reactors (non-LWRs). It endorses, with conditions, the 2019 Edition of
the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Boiler and Pressure
Vessel Code (ASME Code), Section XI, ``Rules for Inservice Inspection
of Nuclear Power Plant Components,'' Division 2, for non-LWR
applications. This RG also describes a method that applicants can use
to incorporate PSI and ISI programs into a licensing basis.
DATES: RG 1.246 is available on November 3, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2021-0166 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-2021-0166. 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 a.m. and 4 p.m. Eastern Time (ET), Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
RG 1.246 and the regulatory analysis may be found in ADAMS under
Accession Nos. ML22061A244 and ML21120A192, respectively.
Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and NRC approval is not
required to reproduce them.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Margaret Audrain, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301-415-2133, email:
[email protected]; Stephen Philpott, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation, telephone: 301-415-2365, email: [email protected];
and Robert Roche-Rivera, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research,
telephone: 301-415-8113, email: Robert Roche-Rivera. All are staff of
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 1.246 was issued with a temporary identification of Draft
Regulatory Guide, DG-1383 (ADAMS Accession No. ML21120A185).
II. Additional Information
The NRC published a notice of the availability of DG-1383 in the
Federal Register on September 30, 2021 (86 FR 54253) for a 45-day
public comment period. The public comment period closed on November 15,
2021. Public comments on DG-1383 and the staff responses to the public
comments are available under ADAMS under Accession No. ML22061A253.
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 RG 1.246 does not constitute backfitting as defined in
section 50.109 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR),
``Backfitting,'' and as described in NRC Management Directive (MD) 8.4,
``Management of Backfitting, Forward Fitting, Issue Finality, and
Information Requests'' (ADAMS Accession No. ML18093B087); constitute
forward fitting as that term is defined and described in MD 8.4; or
affect the issue finality of any approval issued under 10 CFR part 52,
``Licenses, Certificates, and Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants.'' As
explained in RG 1.246, applicants and licensees are not required to
comply with the positions set forth in RG 1.246.
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-
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rm/doc-collections/reg-guides/contactus.html. Suggestions will be
considered in future updates and enhancements to the ``Regulatory
Guide'' series.
Dated: October 25, 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. 2022-23572 Filed 11-2-22; 8:45 am]
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