[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 191 (Wednesday, October 2, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 80268-80269]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-22556]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2024-0037]
NUREG: Event Report Guidelines for Immediate Notification
Requirements for Operating Nuclear Power Reactors and Licensee Event
Report System
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Final report; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing NUREG-
1022, Revision 3, Supplement 2, concerning event report guidelines for
immediate notification requirements for operating nuclear power
reactors and the licensee event report system. NUREG-1022, Revision 3,
Supplement 2, provides updated guidance for nuclear power reactor
licensees and can be used for evaluating and reporting degraded or
unanalyzed conditions as described in NRC regulations.
DATES: This document was published in the Federal Register on October
2, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2024-0037 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-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.
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]. 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: 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.
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. 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 draft
Supplement 2 to NUREG 1022, Revision 3, the NRC
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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.
The NRC published a notice in the Federal Register on April 17,
2024 (89 FR 27463) requesting public comment on draft Supplement 2 to
NUREG 1022, Revision 3 (ADAMS Package Accession No. ML24036A109). The
public comment period closed on June 17, 2024. The NRC received two
public comments. The public comments and the NRC staff's responses are
presented in a comment resolution memo available in ADAMS under
Accession No. ML24197A131.
NUREG-1022, Revision 3, Supplement 2 (ADAMS Accession No.
ML24191A376), provides updated guidance for nuclear power reactor
licensees and can be used for evaluating and reporting degraded or
unanalyzed conditions as described in 10 CFR 50.72(b)(3)(ii) and 10 CFR
50.73(a)(2)(ii). The specific guidance included in Supplement 2
supersedes the guidance found in section 3.2.4 of NUREG-1022, Revision
3.
II. Backfitting, Forward Fitting, and Issue Finality
Issuance of NUREG-1022, Revision 3, Supplement 2, does 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 are not required to comply with the guidance in Supplement 2.
III. Congressional Review Act
NUREG-1022, Revision 3, Supplement 2, 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.
Dated: September 26, 2024.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Lisa Regner,
Chief, Generic Communications and Operating Experience Branch, Division
of Reactor Oversight, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
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