[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 49 (Friday, March 14, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12184-12185]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-04048]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2024-0183]
Draft NUREG: Guidelines for Inservice Testing at Nuclear Power
Plants: Inservice Testing of Pumps and Valves and Inservice Examination
and Testing of Dynamic Restraints (Snubbers) at Nuclear Power Plants
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 a draft report entitled NUREG-1482, Revision 4,
``Guidelines for Inservice Testing at Nuclear Power Plants: Inservice
Testing of Pumps and Valves and Inservice Examination and Testing of
Dynamic Restraints (Snubbers) at Nuclear Power Plants.'' This report
provides a basic understanding of the regulatory basis for pump and
valve inservice testing (IST) programs and dynamic restraint (snubbers)
examination and testing programs at nuclear power plants. It also
provides information regarding the NRC's involvement in the development
of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) ``Operation and
Maintenance of Nuclear Power Plants,'' Division 1, ``OM Code: Section
IST'' (OM Code).
DATES: Submit comments by April 14, 2025. 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-2024-0183. Address
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Bridget Curran;
telephone: 301-415-1003; 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: Nicholas J. Hansing, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-5318; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2024-0183 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-2024-0183.
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 NUREG-1482, Revision 4, is
available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML24277A142.
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-2024-0183 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.
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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
Draft NUREG-1482, Revision 4 is applicable, unless stated
otherwise, to editions and addenda (up to and including the 2020
Edition) to the OM Code that are incorporated by reference in paragraph
50.55a of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), ``Codes
and standards.'' The NRC staff discusses in this report IST program
topics such as the NRC process for the review of the OM Code,
conditions on the use of the OM Code, interpretations of the OM Code,
and development of IST programs for new reactors. In this report, the
NRC staff provides guidance included in NUREG-1482, Revision 3 that has
been updated to reflect IST lessons learned and operating experience
since the report was previously issued.
Effective August 16, 2024, the NRC amended 10 CFR 50.55a in a final
rule (89 FR 58039; July 17, 2024) to provide more flexibility for
nuclear power plant licensees by expanding the code of record interval
from 10 years (120 months) to two consecutive IST and inservice
inspection (ISI) program intervals. This rulemaking also incorporated
by reference revisions to three NRC regulatory guides to approve new,
revised, and reaffirmed ASME Code Cases. Accordingly, draft NUREG-1482,
Revision 4 includes the new terminology for the code of record interval
rather than the previous 120-month interval when discussing IST and ISI
programs and also includes a new Appendix C that summarizes the final
rule and its conditions.
Dated: March 10, 2025.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Laura Dudes,
Acting Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2025-04048 Filed 3-13-25; 8:45 am]
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