[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 231 (Thursday, December 1, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 74834]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-30896]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2011-0228]


Interim Staff Guidance on Aging Management Program for Steam 
Generators

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Interim staff guidance; issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing 
License Renewal Interim Staff Guidance (LR-ISG), LR-ISG-2011-02, 
``Aging Management Program for Steam Generators.'' This LR-ISG provides 
the NRC staff's evaluation of the suitability of using Revision 3 of 
the Nuclear Energy Institute's (NEI) document, NEI 97-06, ``Steam 
Generator Program Guidelines,'' (NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and 
Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML111310712) to manage steam 
generator aging. The LR-ISG revises the NRC staff's aging management 
recommendations currently described in Chapter XI.M19 of NUREG-1801, 
``Generic Aging Lessons Learned (GALL) Report,'' Revision 2, dated 
December 2010, which is available in ADAMS under Accession No. 
ML103490041; and NUREG-1800, Revision 2, ``Standard Review Plan for 
Review of License Renewal Applications for Nuclear Power Plants,'' 
which is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML103490036.

ADDRESSES: 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 documents at the NRC's 
PDR, O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 
Maryland 20852.
     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 email to 
[email protected]. The LR-ISG-2011-02 is available under ADAMS 
Accession No. ML11297A085.
     Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Public comments and 
supporting materials related to this final rule can be found at http://www.regulations.gov by searching on Docket ID NRC-2011-0228. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher, telephone: (301) 492-
3668; email: [email protected].
     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: Dr. Seung Min, Division of License 
Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: (301) 415-2045, or 
email: [email protected], or Ms. Evelyn Gettys, Division of License 
Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-001; telephone: (301) 415-4029, or 
email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    Revision 2 of NEI 97-06 was issued in September 2005. Since that 
time, all licensees have adopted new steam generator technical 
specification requirements. Revision 3 of NEI 97-06 was provided to the 
NRC on May 6, 2011.
    On September 30, 2011 (76 FR 60937), the NRC published a request 
for public comments on draft LR-ISG-2011-02 in the Federal Register. 
The public comment period closed on October 20, 2011. The NRC received 
no comments and is issuing LR-ISG-2011-02. This LR-ISG will be 
incorporated into the next formal license renewal guidance document 
revision.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 21st day of November 2011.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Melanie A. Galloway,
Acting Director, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2011-30896 Filed 11-30-11; 8:45 am]
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