[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 144 (Friday, July 26, 2024)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 60580-60581]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-16357]
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Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 144 / Friday, July 26, 2024 /
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
10 CFR Part 50, 52, and 100
[NRC-2024-0110]
Draft Regulatory Guides: Design-Basis Floods for Nuclear Power
Plants and Guidance for Assessment of Flooding Hazards Due to Water
Control Structure Failures and Incidents
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft guides; extension of comment period.
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SUMMARY: On July 15, 2024, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
solicited comments on two related draft Regulatory Guides (DG) namely
DG-1290, Revision 1, ``Design Basis Floods for Nuclear Power Plants,''
proposed Revision 3 of Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.59 of the same name and
DG-1417, ``Guidance for Assessment of Flooding Hazards due to Water
Control Structure Failures and Incidents,'' proposed new RG 1.256. The
public comment period was originally scheduled to close on August 14,
2024. 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 of comments requested in the document published on
July 15, 2024 (89 FR 57372) is extended. Comments should be submitted
no later than September 13, 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-2024-0110. 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 obtaining information and submitting
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Edward O'Donnell, Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research, telephone: 301-415-3317; email:
Edward.O'[email protected] and Joseph Kanney, Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research, telephone: 301-414-1508; 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-2024-0110 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-2024-0110.
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].
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-2024-0110 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
On July 15, 2024, the NRC solicited comments on two related draft
Regulatory Guides namely DG-1290, Revision 1, ``Design-Basis Floods for
Nuclear Power Plants'' (ADAMS Accession No. ML23320A025) and DG-1417
``Guidance for Assessment of Flooding Hazards due to Water Control
Structure Failures and Incidents'' (ADAMS Accession No. ML22278A110).
DG-1290 is proposed Revision 3 of RG 1.59 of the same name and DG-1417
is proposed new RG 1.256. DG-1290 provides guidance for applicants for
new nuclear power plants on acceptable methods for evaluating design-
basis floods and DG-1417 provides guidance for applicants on flooding
hazards due to failure or other incidents at man-made water control
structures including, but not limited to, dams and levees. The public
comment period was originally scheduled to close on August 14, 2024.
The NRC has decided to extend the public comment period on these
documents until September 13,
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2024, to allow more time for members of the public to submit their
comments.
As noted in the Federal Register on December 9, 2022 (87 FR 75671),
this document is being published in the ``Proposed Rules'' section of
the Federal Register to comply with publication requirements under
chapter I of title 1 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR).
III. 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 Regulatory Guide (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/contactus.html. Suggestions will be considered in future updates
and enhancements to the ``Regulatory Guide'' series.
Dated: July 19, 2024.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Meraj Rahimi,
Chief, Regulatory Guide and Programs Management Branch, Division of
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2024-16357 Filed 7-25-24; 8:45 am]
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