[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.
[FR Doc. 2024-08179 Filed 4-16-24; 8:45 am]
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