[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 31 (Tuesday, February 17, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 7844]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-3834]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Draft Regulatory Guide; Issuance, Availability

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued for public comment a 
draft of a guide planned for its Regulatory Guide Series. This series 
has been developed to describe and make available to the public such 
information as methods acceptable to the NRC staff for implementing 
specific parts of the Commission's regulations, techniques used by the 
staff in evaluating specific problems or postulated accidents, and data 
needed by the staff in its review of applications for permits and 
licenses.
    The draft guide, temporarily identified by its task number, DG-1029 
(which should be mentioned in all correspondence concerning this draft 
guide), is titled ``Guidelines for Evaluating Electromagnetic and 
Radio-Frequency Interference in Safety-Related Instrumentation and 
Control Systems.'' The guide is intended for Division 1, ``Power 
Reactors.'' This draft guide is being developed to describe design, 
installation, and testing practices that are acceptable to the NRC 
staff for addressing the effects of electromagnetic and radio-frequency 
interference and power surges on safety-related instrumentation and 
control systems in a nuclear power plant environment. This guide will 
endorse, with certain stated exceptions, the Institute for Electrical 
and Electronics Engineers Std 1050-1996, ``IEEE Guide for 
Instrumentation and Control Equipment Grounding in Generating 
Stations''; IEEE Std C62.41-1991, ``IEEE Recommended Practice on Surge 
Voltages in Low-Voltage AC Power Circuits''; IEEE Std C62.45-1992, 
``IEEE Guide on Surge Testing for Equipment Connected to Low-Voltage AC 
Power Circuits''; and Military Standards MIL-STD 461, ``Electromagnetic 
Emission and Susceptibility Requirements for the Control of 
Electromagnetic Interference'' and MIL-STD 462, ``Measurement of 
Electromagnetic Interference Characteristics.''
    The draft guide has not received complete staff review and does not 
represent an official NRC staff position.
    Public comments are being solicited on Draft Regulatory Guide DG-
1029. Comments may be accompanied by additional relevant information or 
supporting data. Written comments may be submitted to the Rules and 
Directives Branch, Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555. Copies of comments received may be 
examined at the NRC Public Document Room, 2120 L Street NW., 
Washington, DC. Comments will be most helpful if received by April 10, 
1998.
    You may also download a copy of the guide or provide comments via 
the NRC's interactive rulemaking website through the NRC home page 
(http://www.nrc.gov). This site provides the availability to upload 
comments as files (any format), if your web browser supports that 
function. For information about the interactive rulemaking website, 
contact Ms. Carol Gallagher, (301) 415-5905; e-mail [email protected].
    Although a time limit is given for comments on this draft guide, 
comments and suggestions in connection with items for inclusion in 
guides currently being developed or improvements in all published 
guides are encouraged at any time.
    Regulatory guides are available for inspection at the Commission's 
Public Document Room, 2120 L Street NW., Washington, DC. Requests for 
single copies of draft or final guides (which may be reproduced) or for 
placement on an automatic distribution list for single copies of future 
draft guides in specific divisions should be made in writing to the 
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555, Attention: 
Printing, Graphics and Distribution Branch; or by fax at (301) 415-
5272. Telephone requests cannot be accommodated. Regulatory guides are 
not copyrighted, and Commission approval is not required to reproduce 
them.

(5 U.S.C. 552(a))

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 29th day of January 1998.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
M. Wayne Hodges,
Director, Division of Systems Technology, Office of Nuclear Regulatory 
Research.
[FR Doc. 98-3834 Filed 2-13-98; 8:45 am]
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