[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 75 (Wednesday, April 17, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27463-27464]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-08179]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2024-0037]
Draft NUREG: Event Report Guidelines
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft report; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for
public comment draft NUREG-1022, Revision 3, Supplement 2, ``Event
Report Guidelines.'' Draft NUREG-1022, Revision 3, Supplement 2,
provides updated guidance for nuclear power
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reactor licensees and can be used for evaluating and reporting degraded
or unanalyzed conditions as described in those regulations.
DATES: Submit comments by June 17, 2024. 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-2024-0037. 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: Paul LaFlamme, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-1184; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2024-0037 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-2024-0037.
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, at 301-415-4737,
or by email to [email protected]. Draft Supplement 2 of NUREG-1022,
Revision 3, is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML24102A280 and
the regulatory analysis is available under ADAMS Accession No.
ML24036A110.
NRC's PDR: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies
of publicly available documents, is open by appointment. 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.
B. Submitting Comments
The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the
Federal rulemaking website (https://www.regulations.gov). Please
include Docket ID NRC-2024-0037 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 as well as 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
NUREG-1022, Revision 3, ``Event Reporting Guidelines: 10 CFR 50.72
and 50.73,'' issued January 2013 (ADAMS Accession No. ML13032A220),
contains guidelines that the staff of the NRC considers acceptable for
use in meeting the reporting requirements in section 50.72 of title 10
of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), ``Immediate notification
requirements for operating nuclear power reactors,'' and 10 CFR 50.73,
``Licensee event report system.'' In August 2018, the Nuclear Energy
Institute submitted a petition for rulemaking to amend 10 CFR 50.72
(ADAMS Accession No. ML18247A204). In 2021, the Commission directed the
NRC staff to pursue the rulemaking (ADAMS Accession No. ML21209A953).
As part of this rulemaking effort, the NRC determined that
clarifications to the guidance in section 3.2.4, ``Degraded or
Unanalyzed Condition,'' of NUREG 1022, Revision 3, could address part
of the concerns identified in the petition.
In developing Supplement 2 to NUREG-1022, Revision 3, the NRC
evaluated data on submitted and retracted events and held a public
meeting on August 9, 2023 (ADAMS Accession No. ML23270B927), to discuss
section 3.2.4 of NUREG-1022 with stakeholders. Supplement 2 would
provide updated guidance for nuclear power reactor licensees and could
be used for evaluating and reporting degraded or unanalyzed conditions
as described in10 CFR 50.72(b)(3)(ii) and 10 CFR 50.73(a)(2)(ii). The
specific guidance included in Supplement 2, once final, will supersede
the guidance found in section 3.2.4 of NUREG-1022, Revision 3.
III. Backfitting, Forward Fitting, and Issue Finality
Issuance of NUREG-1022, Revision 3, Supplement 2, if finalized,
would not constitute backfitting as defined in 10 CFR 50.109,
``Backfitting,'' and as described in NRC Management Directive (MD) 8.4,
``Management of Backfitting, Forward Fitting, Issue Finality, and
Information Requests''; affect issue finality of any approval issued
under 10 CFR part 52, ``Licenses, Certificates, and Approvals for
Nuclear Power Plants''; or constitute forward fitting as defined in MD
8.4, because licensees would not be required to comply with the
guidance in Supplement 2.
IV. Public Comments
This document requests comments from interested members of the
public by June 17, 2024. After evaluating the comments received, the
staff will either reconsider the proposed change or announce the
availability of the change in a subsequent document published in the
Federal Register (perhaps with some changes as a result of public
comments).
Dated: April 12, 2024.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Lisa Regner,
Chief, Generic Communication and Operating Experience Branch, Division
of Reactor Oversight, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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