[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 164 (Wednesday, August 24, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52995-52996]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-21629]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2011-0191]
Draft License Renewal Interim Staff Guidance LR-ISG-2011-05:
Ongoing Review of Operating Experience Request for Public Comment
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
ACTION: Draft license renewal guidance; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The NRC requests public comment on Draft License Renewal
Interim Staff Guidance (LR-ISG), LR-ISG-2011-05, ``Ongoing Review of
Operating Experience.'' This LR-ISG provides guidance and clarification
concerning ongoing review of plant-specific and industry-wide operating
experience as an attribute of aging management programs used at nuclear
power plants for compliance with Title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR) part 54, ``Requirements for Renewal of Operating
Licenses for Nuclear Power Plants.''
DATES: Comments must be filed no later than September 23, 2011.
Comments received after this date will be considered, if it is
practical to do so, but the NRC staff is able to ensure consideration
only for comments received on or before this date.
ADDRESSES: Please include Docket ID NRC-2011-0191 in the subject line
of your comments. For additional instructions on submitting comments
and instructions on accessing documents related to this action, see
``Submitting Comments and Accessing Information'' in the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section of this document. You may submit comments by any
one of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for documents filed under Docket ID NRC-
2011-0191. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher,
telephone: 301-492-3668; e-mail: [email protected].
Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Chief, Rules,
Announcements, and Directives Branch (RADB), Office of Administration,
Mail Stop: TWB-05-B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001.
Fax comments to: RADB at 301-492-3446.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Submitting Comments and Accessing Information
Comments submitted in writing or in electronic form will be posted
on the NRC Web site and on the Federal rulemaking Web site, http://www.regulations.gov. Because your comments will not be edited to remove
any identifying or contact information, the NRC cautions you against
including any information in your submission that you do not want to be
publicly disclosed.
The NRC requests that any party soliciting or aggregating comments
received from other persons for submission to the NRC inform those
persons that the NRC will not edit their comments to remove any
identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not
include any information in their comments that they do not want
publicly disclosed.
You can access publicly available documents related to this
document using the following methods:
NRC's Public Document Room (PDR): The public may examine
and have copied, for a fee, publicly available
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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 online in the NRC Library 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].
The draft LR-ISG proposes to revise the NRC staff's recommended aging
management programs in NUREG-1801, Revision 2, ``Generic Aging Lessons
Learned (GALL) Report,'' and the NRC staff's aging management review
procedures and acceptance criteria in NUREG-1800, Revision 2,
``Standard Review Plan for Review of License Renewal Applications for
Nuclear Power Plants'' (SRP-LR). The NRC published both of these
reports in December 2010 and they are available in ADAMS under
Accession Nos. ML103490036 and ML103490041, respectively. The draft LR-
ISG-2011-05 is available electronically under ADAMS Accession Number
ML11203A411.
Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Public comments and
supporting materials related to this notice can be found at http://www.regulations.gov by searching on Docket ID NRC-2011-0191.
NRC's Interim Staff Guidance Web Site: LR-ISG documents
are also available online under the ``License Renewal'' heading at
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/#int.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Matthew Homiack, Division of
License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-
1683; or e-mail: [email protected].
Background
The NRC issues LR-ISGs to communicate insights and lessons learned
and to address emergent issues not covered in license renewal guidance
documents, such as the GALL Report and SRP-LR. In this way, the NRC
staff and stakeholders may use the guidance in an LR-ISG document
before it is incorporated into a formal license renewal guidance
document revision. The NRC staff issues LR-ISG in accordance with the
LR-ISG Process, Revision 2 (ADAMS Accession No. ML100920158), for which
a notice of availability was published in the Federal Register on June
22, 2010 (75 FR 35510).
The NRC staff has developed draft LR-ISG-2011-05 to clarify
guidance on how the ongoing review of operating experience should be
used to ensure the effectiveness of the license renewal aging
management programs. While the SRP-LR states that an acceptable aging
management program should include the ongoing review of operating
experience, the program descriptions in the GALL Report do not reflect
this guidance. As such, the NRC staff is proposing revisions to the
GALL Report aging management programs to better align them with the
guidance in the SRP-LR. The NRC staff is also proposing to revise its
review procedures and acceptance criteria for comparing aging
management review results with the GALL Report to better address this
issue. In addition, the NRC staff is proposing to clarify the SRP-LR's
description of the operating experience program element. One reason for
this clarification is to better describe how license renewal applicants
should obligate themselves to the ongoing review of operating
experience for license renewal.
The NRC staff's proposed guidance addresses the ongoing review of
operating experience as a generic activity applicable to all license
renewal aging management programs. The NRC staff believes that this
approach is consistent with how nuclear power plant licensees currently
implement operating experience review activities. In addition, the NRC
staff is proposing that licensees may credit these existing operating
experience review activities, provided they ensure that these existing
activities are appropriate for reviewing operating experience
specifically related to aging management.
Proposed Action
By this action, the NRC is requesting public comments on draft LR-
ISG-2011-05. This LR-ISG proposes certain revisions to NRC guidance on
implementation of the requirements in 10 CFR part 54. The NRC staff
will make a final determination regarding issuance of the LR-ISG after
it considers any public comments received in response to this request.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 16th day of August 2011.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Brian E. Holian,
Director, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor
Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2011-21629 Filed 8-23-11; 8:45 am]
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