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Draft Regulatory Guide; Issuance,
Availability
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) has issued for public
comment a draft revision to an existing
guide in the agency’s Regulatory Guide
Series. This series has been developed
to describe and make available to the
public such information as methods that
are acceptable to the NRC staff for
implementing specific parts of the
NRC’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 draft Revision 2 of Regulatory
Guide 1.92, entitled ‘‘Combining Modal
Responses and Spatial Components in
Seismic Response Analysis,’’ is
temporarily identified by its task
number, DG–1127, which should be
mentioned in all related
correspondence. Like its predecessors,
the proposed revision describes
methods that the NRC staff finds
acceptable for complying with the
NRC’s regulatory requirements in
Criterion 2, ‘‘Design Bases for Protection
Against Natural Phenomena,’’ as it
appears in Appendix A, ‘‘General
Design Criteria for Nuclear Power
Plants,’’ to Title 10, Part 50, of the Code
of Federal Regulations (10 CFR Part 50).
Specifically, Criterion 2 requires, in
part, that nuclear power plant (NPP)
structures, systems, and components
(SSCs) that are important to safety must
be designed to withstand the effects of
natural phenomena (such as
earthquakes) without losing their
capability to perform their respective
safety functions.
For several decades, the nuclear
industry fulfilled Criterion 2 using the
response spectrum method and the time
history method for seismic analysis and
design of NPP SSCs. Then, in 1976, the
NRC issued Revision 1 of Regulatory
Guide 1.92, which described then-up-todate guidance for using the response
spectrum and time history methods.
Since that time, research in the United
States has resulted in improved
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methods that yield more accurate
estimates of SSC seismic response,
while reducing unnecessary
conservatism. In view of those
improvements, DG–1127 describes
methods that the NRC staff finds
acceptable for combining modal
responses and spatial components in
seismic response analysis. The NRC
staff initially published Revision 2 of
Regulatory Guide 1.92 as DG–1108,
dated August 2001. The staff
subsequently considered stakeholders’
feedback on DG–1108, and incorporated
the necessary changes in DG–1127.
The NRC staff is soliciting comments
on Draft Regulatory Guide DG–1127,
and specifically on the new regulatory
position regarding residual rigid
response of the missing mass modes, as
described in Sections 1.4 and 1.5 of DG–
1127. Comments may be accompanied
by relevant information or supporting
data. Please mention DG–1127 in the
subject line of your comments.
Comments on this draft regulatory guide
submitted in writing or in electronic
form will be made available to the
public in their entirety in the NRC’s
Agencywide Documents Access and
Management System (ADAMS).
Personal information will not be
removed from your comments. You may
submit comments by any of the
following methods.
Mail comments to: Rules and
Directives Branch, Office of
Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001.
E-mail comments to:
NRCREP@nrc.gov. You may also submit
comments via the NRC’s rulemaking
Web site at https://ruleforum.llnl.gov.
Address questions about our rulemaking
Web site to Carol A. Gallagher (301)
415–5905; e-mail CAG@nrc.gov.
Hand-deliver comments to: Rules and
Directives Branch, Office of
Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, 11555 Rockville Pike,
Rockville, Maryland 20852, between
7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. on Federal
workdays.
Fax comments to: Rules and
Directives Branch, Office of
Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission at (301) 415–5144.
Requests for technical information
about draft regulatory guide DG–1127
may be directed to Dr. T.Y. Chang, at
(301) 415–6450 or via e-mail to
TYC@nrc.gov.
Comments would be most helpful if
received by April 15, 2005. 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
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this date. Although a time limit is given,
comments and suggestions in
connection with items for inclusion in
guides currently being developed or
improvements in all published guides
are encouraged at any time.
Electronic copies of the draft
regulatory guide are available through
the NRC’s public Web site under Draft
Regulatory Guides in the Regulatory
Guides document collection of the
NRC’s Electronic Reading Room at
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/. Electronic copies are also
available in the NRC’s Agencywide
Documents Access and Management
System (ADAMS) at https://
www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html,
under Accession #ML050230006. Note,
however, that the NRC has temporarily
suspended public access to ADAMS so
that the agency can complete security
reviews of publicly available documents
and remove potentially sensitive
information. Please check the NRC’s
Web site for updates concerning the
resumption of public access to ADAMS.
In addition, regulatory guides are
available for inspection at the NRC’s
Public Document Room (PDR), which is
located at 11555 Rockville Pike,
Rockville, Maryland; the PDR’s mailing
address is USNRC PDR, Washington, DC
20555–0001. The PDR can also be
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or (800) 397–4205, by fax at (301) 415–
3548; and by e-mail to PDR@nrc.gov.
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Reproduction and Distribution Services
Section; by e-mail to
DISTRIBUTION@nrc.gov; or by fax to
(301) 415–2289. Telephone requests
cannot be accommodated.
Regulatory guides are not
copyrighted, and Commission approval
is not required to reproduce them.
(5 U.S.C. 552(a)).
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 3rd day
of February, 2005.
For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
Michael E. Mayfield,
Director, Division of Engineering Technology,
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
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Final Regulatory Guide; Issuance,
Availability
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) has issued a revision
to an existing guide in the agency’s
Regulatory Guide Series. This series has
been developed to describe and make
available to the public such information
as methods that are acceptable to the
NRC staff for implementing specific
parts of the NRC’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.
Revision 3 of Regulatory Guide 1.75,
‘‘Criteria for Independence of Electrical
Safety Systems,’’ describes a method
that is acceptable to the NRC staff for
complying with the NRC’s regulatory
requirements concerning the physical
independence of the circuits and
electrical equipment that comprise or
are associated with safety systems.
Toward that end, the guide endorses,
with minor exceptions, the ‘‘Standard
Criteria for Independence of Class 1E
Equipment and Circuits, which the
Institute for Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE) promulgated on June
18, 1992, as IEEE Std. 384–1992.
In December 2003, the NRC staff
published a draft of this guide as Draft
Regulatory Guide DG–1129. Following
the closure of the public comment
period on March 12, 2004, the staff
considered all stakeholder comments in
the course of preparing Revision 3 of
Regulatory Guide 1.75.
The NRC staff encourages and
welcomes comments and suggestions in
connection with improvements to
published regulatory guides, as well as
items for inclusion in regulatory guides
that are currently being developed. You
may submit comments by any of the
following methods.
Mail comments to: Rules and
Directives Branch, Office of
Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001.
Hand-deliver comments to: Rules and
Directives Branch, Office of
Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, 11555 Rockville Pike,
Rockville, Maryland 20852, between
7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. on Federal
workdays.
Fax comments to: Rules and
Directives Branch, Office of
Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission at (301) 415–5144.
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Requests for technical information
about Revision 3 of Regulatory Guide
1.75 may be directed to NRC Senior
Program Manager, Satish Aggarwal, at
(301) 415–6005 or SKA@nrc.gov.
Regulatory guides are available for
inspection or downloading through the
NRC’s public Web site in the Regulatory
Guides document collection of the
NRC’s Electronic Reading Room at
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/. Electronic copies of
Revision 3 of Regulatory Guide 1.75 are
also available in the NRC’s Agencywide
Documents Access and Management
System (ADAMS) at https://
www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html,
under Accession #ML043630448. Note,
however, that the NRC has temporarily
suspended public access to ADAMS so
that the agency can complete security
reviews of publicly available documents
and remove potentially sensitive
information. Please check the NRC’s
Web site for updates concerning the
resumption of public access to ADAMS.
In addition, regulatory guides are
available for inspection at the NRC’s
Public Document Room (PDR), which is
located at 11555 Rockville Pike,
Rockville, Maryland; the PDR’s mailing
address is USNRC PDR, Washington, DC
20555–0001. The PDR can also be
reached by telephone at (301) 415–4737
or (800) 397–4205, by fax at (301) 415–
3548, and by e-mail to PDR@nrc.gov.
Requests for single copies of draft or
final guides (which may be reproduced)
or for placement on an automatic
distribution list for single copies of
future draft guides in specific divisions
should be made in writing to the U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–0001, Attention:
Reproduction and Distribution Services
Section; by email to
DISTRIBUTION@nrc.gov; or by fax to
(301) 415–2289. Telephone requests
cannot be accommodated.
Regulatory guides are not
copyrighted, and Commission approval
is not required to reproduce them.
(5 U.S.C. 552(a)).
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 2nd day
of February, 2005.
For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
John W. Craig,
Deputy Director, Office of Nuclear Regulatory
Research.
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Draft Regulatory Guide; Issuance, Availability
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued for public
comment a draft revision to an existing guide in the agency's
Regulatory Guide Series. This series has been developed to describe and
make available to the public such information as methods that are
acceptable to the NRC staff for implementing specific parts of the
NRC'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 draft Revision 2 of Regulatory Guide 1.92, entitled ``Combining
Modal Responses and Spatial Components in Seismic Response Analysis,''
is temporarily identified by its task number, DG-1127, which should be
mentioned in all related correspondence. Like its predecessors, the
proposed revision describes methods that the NRC staff finds acceptable
for complying with the NRC's regulatory requirements in Criterion 2,
``Design Bases for Protection Against Natural Phenomena,'' as it
appears in Appendix A, ``General Design Criteria for Nuclear Power
Plants,'' to Title 10, Part 50, of the Code of Federal Regulations (10
CFR Part 50). Specifically, Criterion 2 requires, in part, that nuclear
power plant (NPP) structures, systems, and components (SSCs) that are
important to safety must be designed to withstand the effects of
natural phenomena (such as earthquakes) without losing their capability
to perform their respective safety functions.
For several decades, the nuclear industry fulfilled Criterion 2
using the response spectrum method and the time history method for
seismic analysis and design of NPP SSCs. Then, in 1976, the NRC issued
Revision 1 of Regulatory Guide 1.92, which described then-up-to-date
guidance for using the response spectrum and time history methods.
Since that time, research in the United States has resulted in improved
methods that yield more accurate estimates of SSC seismic response,
while reducing unnecessary conservatism. In view of those improvements,
DG-1127 describes methods that the NRC staff finds acceptable for
combining modal responses and spatial components in seismic response
analysis. The NRC staff initially published Revision 2 of Regulatory
Guide 1.92 as DG-1108, dated August 2001. The staff subsequently
considered stakeholders' feedback on DG-1108, and incorporated the
necessary changes in DG-1127.
The NRC staff is soliciting comments on Draft Regulatory Guide DG-
1127, and specifically on the new regulatory position regarding
residual rigid response of the missing mass modes, as described in
Sections 1.4 and 1.5 of DG-1127. Comments may be accompanied by
relevant information or supporting data. Please mention DG-1127 in the
subject line of your comments. Comments on this draft regulatory guide
submitted in writing or in electronic form will be made available to
the public in their entirety in the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access
and Management System (ADAMS). Personal information will not be removed
from your comments. You may submit comments by any of the following
methods.
Mail comments to: Rules and Directives Branch, Office of
Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC
20555-0001.
E-mail comments to: NRCREP@nrc.gov. You may also submit comments
via the NRC's rulemaking Web site at https://ruleforum.llnl.gov. Address
questions about our rulemaking Web site to Carol A. Gallagher (301)
415-5905; e-mail CAG@nrc.gov.
Hand-deliver comments to: Rules and Directives Branch, Office of
Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 11555 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, between 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. on
Federal workdays.
Fax comments to: Rules and Directives Branch, Office of
Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission at (301) 415-5144.
Requests for technical information about draft regulatory guide DG-
1127 may be directed to Dr. T.Y. Chang, at (301) 415-6450 or via e-mail
to TYC@nrc.gov.
Comments would be most helpful if received by April 15, 2005.
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
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this date. Although a time limit is given, comments and suggestions in
connection with items for inclusion in guides currently being developed
or improvements in all published guides are encouraged at any time.
Electronic copies of the draft regulatory guide are available
through the NRC's public Web site under Draft Regulatory Guides in the
Regulatory Guides document collection of the NRC's Electronic Reading
Room at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/. Electronic
copies are also available in the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and
Management System (ADAMS) at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html,
under Accession ML050230006. Note, however, that the NRC has
temporarily suspended public access to ADAMS so that the agency can
complete security reviews of publicly available documents and remove
potentially sensitive information. Please check the NRC's Web site for
updates concerning the resumption of public access to ADAMS.
In addition, regulatory guides are available for inspection at the
NRC's Public Document Room (PDR), which is located at 11555 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland; the PDR's mailing address is USNRC PDR,
Washington, DC 20555-0001. The PDR can also be reached by telephone at
(301) 415-4737 or (800) 397-4205, by fax at (301) 415-3548; and by e-
mail to PDR@nrc.gov. Requests for single copies of draft or final
guides (which may be reproduced) or for placement on an automatic
distribution list for single copies of future draft guides in specific
divisions should be made in writing to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, Attention: Reproduction and
Distribution Services Section; by e-mail to DISTRIBUTION@nrc.gov; or by
fax to (301) 415-2289. Telephone requests cannot be accommodated.
Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and Commission approval is
not required to reproduce them.
(5 U.S.C. 552(a)).
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 3rd day of February, 2005.
For the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Michael E. Mayfield,
Director, Division of Engineering Technology, Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research.
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