[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 166 (Monday, August 29, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52814-52815]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-18526]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2022-0159]
Maintenance, Testing, and Replacement of Vented Lead Acid Storage
Batteries for Production and Utilization Facilities
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission
ACTION: Draft regulatory guide; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for
public comment a draft regulatory guide (DG), DG-1401, ``Maintenance,
Testing, and Replacement of Vented Lead Acid Storage Batteries for
Production and Utilization Facilities''. This DG is the proposed
Revision 4 to Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.129. RG 1.129 describes methods
that are acceptable to the NRC staff pertaining to the maintenance,
testing, and replacement of vented lead acid storage batteries in
production and utilization facilities.
DATES: Submit comments by September 28, 2022. Comments received after
this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC
is able to ensure consideration only for comments received on or before
this date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods;
however, the NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the
Federal rulemaking website:
Federal rulemaking website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2022-0159. 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.
Mail comments to: Office of Administration, Mail Stop:
TWFN-7-A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001, ATTN: Program Management, Announcements and Editing Staff.
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: James Steckel, Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-1026, email: [email protected]; and
Brian Correll, Region IV, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Arlington, Texas 76011-4511, telephone: 817-200-1565, email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments
A. Obtaining Information
Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2022-0159, 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 Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2022-0159.
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]. DG-1401, ``Maintenance, Testing, and
Replacement of Vented Lead Acid Storage Batteries for Production and
Utilization Facilities,'' is available in ADAMS under Accession No.
ML22026A441. The staff is also issuing for public comment a draft
regulatory analysis for DG-1401 under ADAMS Accession No. ML22026A443.
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public
documents, by appointment, at the NRC's PDR, Room P1 B35, One White
Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. To make
an appointment to visit the PDR, please send an email to
[email protected] or call 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, between
8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET), Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
B. Submitting Comments
The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the
Federal rulemaking website (https://www.regulations.gov). Please
include Docket ID NRC-2022-0159 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
https://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. Additional Information
The NRC is issuing for public comment a DG in the NRC's
``Regulatory Guide'' series. This series was developed to describe
methods that are acceptable to the NRC staff for implementing specific
parts of the agency's regulations, to explain techniques that the staff
uses in evaluating specific issues or postulated events, and to
describe information that the staff needs in its review of applications
for permits and licenses.
The DG, entitled ``Maintenance, Testing, and Replacement of Vented
Lead Acid Storage Batteries for Production and Utilization
Facilities,'' is temporarily identified by its task number, DG-1401.
Production and utilization facilities licensed under part 50 and
part 52 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) are
required to optimize the life and performance of installed vented lead
acid storage batteries used for standby power
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applications to perform safety functions under applicable service
conditions, including design-basis events. This revision (Revision 4)
provides updated state-of-the-art technical information regarding the
maintenance, testing, and replacement of vented lead acid storage
batteries.
III. Backfitting, Forward Fitting, and Issue Finality
Issuance of DG-1401, if finalized, would not constitute backfitting
as that term is defined in 10 CFR 50.109, ``Backfitting,'' and as
described in NRC Management Directive (MD) 8.4, ``Management of
Backfitting, Forward Fitting, Issue Finality, and Information
Requests''; would not 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 DG-1401,
applicants and licensees are not required to comply with the positions
set forth in DG-1401.
IV. Submitting Suggestions for Improvement of Regulatory Guides
A member of the public may, at any time, submit suggestions to the
NRC for improvement of existing RGs or for the development of new RGs.
Suggestions can be submitted on the NRC's public website at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/reg-guides/contactus.html.
Suggestions will be considered in future updates and enhancements to
the ``Regulatory Guide'' series.
Dated: August 24, 2022.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Meraj Rahimi,
Chief, Regulatory Guide and Programs Management Branch, Division of
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2022-18526 Filed 8-26-22; 8:45 am]
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