[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 75 (Monday, April 20, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21770-21771]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-08965]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2015-0097]
Managing the Safety/Security Interface
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Regulatory guide; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing
revision 1 to regulatory guide (RG), RG 5.74, ``Managing the Safety/
Security Interface,'' in which there are minor corrections with no
substantive changes in the NRC staff's regulatory positions. This RG
describes a method that the staff considers acceptable for licensees to
assess and manage changes to safety and security activities so as to
prevent or mitigate potential adverse effects that could negatively
impact either plant safety or security.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0097 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You
may obtain publicly-available information related to this document
using any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0097. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: Carol.Gallagher@ nrc.gov. For
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technical questions, contact the individual(s) listed in the FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, select ``ADAMS Public Documents'' and
then 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, 301-415-4737, or by email to nrc.gov">pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The
ADAMS accession number for each document referenced (if it available in
ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is referenced.
Revision 1 of RG 5.74 is available in ADAMS under Accession No.
ML14323A549.
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
documents at the NRC's Public Document Room O1-F21, One White Flint
North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and NRC approval is not
required to reproduce them.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Wesley Held, Office of Nuclear
Security and Incident Response, telephone: 301-415-1583, email:
nrc.gov">Wesley.Held@nrc.gov; and Stephen Burton, Office of Nuclear Regulatory
Research, telephone: 301-415-7000, email: Stephen.Burton@ nrc.gov. Both
are staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The NRC is issuing a revision to an existing guide in the NRC's
``Regulatory Guide'' series. Regulatory guides were developed to
describe and make available to the public information and methods that
are acceptable to the NRC staff for implementing specific parts of the
agency's regulations, techniques that the staff uses in evaluating
specific problems or postulated accidents, and data that the staff
needs in its review of applications for permits and licenses. The NRC
typically seeks public comment on a draft version of a RG by announcing
its availability for comment in the Federal Register. However, as
explained on page 7 of NRC's Management Directive 6.6 ``Regulatory
Guides,'' (ADAMS Accession No. ML110330475) the NRC may directly issue
a final RG without a draft version or public comment-period if the
changes to the RG are non-substantive.
The NRC is issuing Revision 1 of RG 5.74 directly as a final RG
because the changes between Revision 0 and Revision 1 are non-
substantive. Revision 1 of RG 5.74 incorporated editorial changes and
updated the guide to the current format for RGs and is administrative
in nature. These changes were intended to improve clarity and did not
substantially alter the staff's regulatory guidance. These changes
included additional questions to assist the user in the screening of
planned and emergent activities or changes, and clarification to the
requirement that the safety-security interface must be maintained at
all times.
II. Backfitting and Issue Finality
Issuance of this final RG does not constitute backfitting as
defined in section 50.109 of title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR), (the Backfit Rule), and is not otherwise
inconsistent with the issue finality provisions in 10 CFR part 52. The
changes in Revision 1 of RG 5.74 are limited to editorial changes to
improve clarity and the correction of a title. These changes do not
fall within the kinds of agency actions that constitute backfitting or
are subject to limitations in the issue finality provisions of part 52.
Accordingly, the NRC did not address the Backfit Rule or issue finality
provisions of part 52.
III. Congressional Review Act
This RG is a rule as defined in the Congressional Review Act (5
U.S.C. 801-808). However, the Office of Management and Budget has not
found it to be a major rule as defined in the Congressional Review Act.
IV. Submitting Suggestions for Improvement of Regulatory Guides
Revision 1 of RG 5.74 is being issued without public comment.
However, you may at any time submit suggestions to the NRC for
improvement of existing RGs or for the development of new RGs to
address new issues. Suggestions can be submitted by the form available
online at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/reg-guides/contactus.html. Suggestions will be considered in future updates and
enhancements of the RG.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 14th day of April, 2015.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Harriet Karagiannis,
Acting Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Generic Issues Branch, Division
of Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
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