[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 94 (Monday, May 16, 2011)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 28192]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-11946]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
10 CFR Part 26
[Docket No. PRM-26-3]
[NRC-2009-0482]
Petition for Rulemaking Submitted by the Professional Reactor
Operator Society
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Petition for rulemaking; consideration in the rulemaking
process.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has decided to
consider the issues raised in a petition for rulemaking (PRM) submitted
by Robert Meyer, on behalf of the Professional Reactor Operator Society
(PROS), the petitioner, in the planned ``Quality Control/Quality
Verification'' (QC/QV) rulemaking (Docket ID: NRC-2009-0090). The
petitioner asked the NRC to amend the regulations that govern fitness-
for-duty programs. Specifically, the petitioner asked the NRC to change
the term ``unit outage'' to ``site outage'' and that the definition of
``site outage'' read ``up to one week prior to disconnecting the
reactor unit from the grid and up to 75-percent turbine power following
reconnection to the grid.''
ADDRESSES: Further NRC action on the issues raised by this petition
will be accessible at the Federal rulemaking Web site, http://www.regulations.gov, by searching on the QC/QV rulemaking Docket ID:
NRC-2009-0090.
You can access publicly available documents related to the petition
using the following methods:
NRC's Public Document Room (PDR): The public may examine
and have copied, for a fee, publicly available documents at the NRC's
PDR, O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville,
Maryland 20852.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): Publicly available documents created or received at the NRC
are available electronically at the NRC's Electronic Reading Room at
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. From this page, the public
can gain entry into ADAMS, which provides text and image files of the
NRC's public documents. If you do not have access to ADAMS or if there
are problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, contact the
NRC's PDR reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by e-mail
to [email protected].
Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Public comments and supporting
materials related to this petition can be found at http://www.regulations.gov by searching on the QC/QV rulemaking Docket ID:
NRC-2009-0090. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol
Gallagher, telephone: 301-492-3668; e-mail: [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tara Inverso, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555; telephone: 301-415-1024; e-mail: [email protected] or Tim
Reed, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555; telephone: 301-415-1462; e-mail:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On November 27, 2009 (74 FR 62257), the NRC
published Notice of Receipt of a PRM filed by Robert Meyer, on behalf
of the PROS, and request for public comment. The comment period closed
on February 10, 2010, and the NRC received four comments.
The NRC determined that the issues raised in PRM-26-3 are
appropriate for consideration and will consider them in the planned QC/
QV rulemaking. The NRC staff will address the comments filed in PRM-26-
3 as part of the QC/QV rulemaking. This PRM docket is closed.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 30th day of April 2011.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Martin J. Virgilio,
Deputy Executive Director for Reactor and Preparedness Programs.
[FR Doc. 2011-11946 Filed 5-13-11; 8:45 am]
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