[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 121 (Monday, June 28, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34057-34058]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-13750]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2020-0076]
Volcanic Hazards Assessment for Proposed Nuclear Power Reactor
Sites
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Regulatory guide; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a new
Regulatory Guide (RG) 4.26, ``Volcanic Hazards Assessment for Proposed
Nuclear Power Reactor Sites.'' This RG provides guidance for
facilitating the NRC staff's review of volcanic hazards assessments
performed by applicants to support the siting of new nuclear power
reactors. The RG also provides applicants with the methods and
approaches the NRC staff considers acceptable for the assessment of
volcanic hazards in license applications for sites with Quaternary
volcanoes within the site region or with Quaternary volcanic deposits
within the site vicinity.
DATES: RG 4.26 is available on June 28, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2020-0076 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 Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2020-0076. Address
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann;
telephone: 301-415-0624; email: [email protected]. For technical
questions, contact the individuals 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 https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. To begin the search, 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 ADAMS accession number for each
document referenced (if it is available in ADAMS) is provided the first
time that it is mentioned in this document.
Attention: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies
of public documents, is currently closed. You may submit your request
to the PDR via email at [email protected] or call 1-800-397-4209 or
301-415-4737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (ET), Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays.
RG 4.26 and the regulatory analysis may be found in ADAMS under
Accession Nos. ML20272A168 and ML20007D618, respectively.
Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and NRC approval is not
required to reproduce them.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jenise Thompson, Office of Nuclear
Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301-415-1811, email:
[email protected] and Edward O'Donnell, Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research, telephone: 301-415-3317, email:
[email protected]. Both are staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington DC 20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Discussion
The NRC is issuing a new guide in the NRC's ``Regulatory Guide''
series. This series was developed to describe and make available to the
public information regarding methods that are acceptable to the NRC
staff for implementing specific parts of the agency's regulations,
techniques that the NRC staff uses in evaluating specific issues or
postulated events, and data that the NRC staff needs in its review of
applications for permits and licenses.
RG 4.26 was issued with a temporary identification of Draft
Regulatory Guide, DG-4028.
II. Additional Information
The NRC published a notice of the availability of DG-4028 in the
Federal Register on March 20, 2020 (85 FR 16147) for a 60-day public
comment period. The public comment period closed on May 19, 2020.
Public comments on DG-4028 and the staff responses to the public
comments are available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML20272A169.
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. Backfitting and Issue Finality
Issuance of this RG does not constitute backfitting as defined in
section 50.109 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR),
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``Backfitting,'' and as described in NRC Management Directive 8.4,
``Management of Backfitting, Forward Fitting, Issue Finality, and
Information Requests''; constitute forward fitting as that term is
defined and described in MD 8.4; or affect issue finality of any
approval issued under 10 CFR part 52, ``Licenses, Certificates, and
Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants.'' As explained in this regulatory
guide, applicants and licensees are not required to comply with the
positions set forth in this regulatory guide.
Dated: June 23, 2021.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Meraj Rahimi,
Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Project Management Branch, Division of
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2021-13750 Filed 6-25-21; 8:45 am]
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