[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 137 (Friday, July 17, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42559-42560]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-17510]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2015-0167]
Anticipated Transients That Could Develop Into More Serious
Events
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Draft revision to regulatory issue summary; request for
comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is seeking public
comment on a draft revision 1 to a regulatory issue summary (RIS).
Revision 1 to the RIS would inform addressees of concerns identified
during recent license amendment reviews. This draft revision to a RIS
is addressed to applicants for, and holders of, nuclear power reactor
licenses, construction permits, standard design approvals, and
manufacturing licenses, and applicants for standard design
certifications. This draft revision to a RIS would inform addressees of
concerns identified during recent reviews of anticipated operational
occurrences safety analyses of updated final safety analysis reports.
Revision 1 to RIS 2005-29 will supersede in its entirety RIS 2005-29.
DATES: Submit comments by September 15, 2015. Comments received after
this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the
Commission is able to ensure consideration only for comments received
before this date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods
(unless this document describes a different method for submitting
comments on a specific subject):
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0167. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: [email protected]. For technical questions, contact
the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of
this document.
Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration,
Mail Stop: OWFN-12-H08, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001.
For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting
comments, see ``Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments'' in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alexandra Popova, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301-415-2876, email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2015-0167 when contacting the NRC
about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain
publicly-available information related to this action by any of the
following methods:
Federal rulemaking Web site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2015-0167.
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 [email protected]. The
draft revision to RIS 2005-29 is available in ADAMS under Accession No.
ML15014A469.
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC-2015-0167 in your comment submission.
The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact
information that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your
comment submission. The NRC will post all comment submissions at http://www.regulations.gov as well as enter the comment submissions into
ADAMS. The NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to remove
identifying or contact information.
If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons
for submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to
include identifying or contact information that they do not want to be
publicly disclosed in their comment submission. Your request should
state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to
remove such information before making the comment submissions available
to the public or entering the comment into ADAMS.
II. Background
The NRC is revising RIS 2005-29 (ML15014A469) to inform addressees
of concerns identified during recent license amendment reviews.
Specifically, licensing bases, as documented in final safety analysis
reports (FSARs), updated FSARs (UFSARs), or design control documents
(DCDs), failed to demonstrate that anticipated operational occurrences
(AOOs, Condition II events) would not progress to more serious events
(Condition III or IV events). The NRC determined that, as a result of
these problems, these licensees were not in compliance with Part 50,
Appendix A of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR),
``General Design Criteria for Nuclear Power Plants,'' specifically,
general design criteria (GDC) 15, ``Reactor Coolant System Design,''
GDC 21, ``Protection System Reliability and Testability,'' and GDC 29,
``Protection Against Anticipated Operational Occurrences,'' as well as
10 CFR 50.34(b), ``Final Safety Analysis Report.'' Revision 1 to RIS
2005-29 supersedes in its entirety RIS 2005-29. The revised RIS would
be designated as RIS 2005-29, Revision 1. The original version of RIS
2005-29 was issued on December 14, 2005, and is available in ADAMS for
viewing (ML051890212).
The NRC issues RISs to communicate with stakeholders on a broad
range of matters. This may include providing
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guidance to applicants and licensees on the scope and detail of
information that should be provided in licensing applications to
facilitate NRC review.
Proposed Action
The NRC requests public comments on the NRC-proposed revisions to
the current RIS. The NRC staff will make a final determination
regarding issuance of a revised RIS after it considers any public
comments received in response to this request.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 13th day of July 2015.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Tanya M. Mensah,
Acting Chief, Generic Communications Branch, Division of Policy and
Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2015-17510 Filed 7-16-15; 8:45 am]
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