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Availability
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of Issuance and
Availability of Draft Regulatory Guide,
DG–1150, Qualification of Continuous
Duty Safety-Related Motors for Nuclear
Power Plants.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Satish Aggarwal, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001, telephone: (301) 251–
7627, e-mail: Satish.Aggarwal@nrc.gov,
or R.A. Jervey, telephone: (301) 251–
7404, e-mail: raj@nrc.gov
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is issuing for public
comment a draft guide in the agency’s
‘‘Regulatory Guide’’ series. This series
was 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 regulatory guide (DG),
entitled, ‘‘Qualification of Continuous
Duty Safety-Related Motors for Nuclear
Power Plants,’’ is temporarily identified
by its task number, DG–1150, which
should be mentioned in all related
correspondence. DG–1150 is proposed
Revision 1 of Regulatory Guide 1.40,
dated March 1973.
This regulatory guide describes a
method that the staff of the NRC deems
acceptable for complying with the
Commission’s regulations for
qualification of continuous duty safetyrelated motors for nuclear power plants.
The Commission’s regulations in Title
10, Part 50, ‘‘Domestic Licensing of
Production and Utilization Facilities,’’
of the Code of Federal Regulations (10
CFR part 50), require that structures,
systems, and components in a nuclear
power plant that are important to safety
be designed to accommodate the effects
of environmental conditions (i.e., they
must remain functional under
postulated design-basis events). Toward
that end, General Design Criteria 1, 2, 4,
and 23 of Appendix A, ‘‘General Design
Criteria for Nuclear Power Plants,’’ to 10
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CFR part 50 contain the general
requirements. Augmenting those general
requirements are the specific
requirements pertaining to qualification
of certain electrical equipment
important to safety that appear in 10
CFR 50.49, ‘‘Environmental
Qualification of Electric Equipment
Important to Safety for Nuclear Power
Plants.’’ In addition, Criterion III,
‘‘Design Control,’’ of Appendix B,
‘‘Quality Assurance Criteria for Nuclear
Power Plants and Fuel Reprocessing
Plants,’’ to 10 CFR part 50, requires that
test programs, when used to verify the
adequacy of a specific design feature,
should include suitable qualification
testing of a prototype unit under the
most adverse design conditions.
II. Further Information
The NRC staff is soliciting comments
on DG–1150. Comments may be
accompanied by relevant information or
supporting data and should mention
DG–1150 in the subject line. Comments
submitted in writing or in electronic
form will be made available to the
public in their entirety through the
NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access
and Management System (ADAMS).
Requests for technical information about
DG–1150 may be directed to the NRC
contact, Satish Aggarwal at (301) 251–
7627 or e-mail to
Satish.Aggarwal@nrc.gov.
Because your comments will not be
edited to remove any identifying or
contact information, the NRC cautions
you against including any information
in your submission that you do not want
to be publicly disclosed.
The NRC requests that any party
soliciting or aggregating comments
received from other persons for
submission to the NRC inform those
persons that the NRC will not edit their
comments to remove any identifying or
contact information, and therefore, they
should not include any information in
their comments that they do not want
publicly disclosed. You may submit
comments by any of the following
methods:
1. Mail comments to: Rulemaking and
Directives Branch, Mail Stop: TWB–05–
B01M, Office of Administration, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–0001.
2. Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for documents filed under Docket ID
[NRC–2009–0384]. Address questions
about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher,
301–492–3668; e-mail
Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov.
3. Fax comments to: Rulemaking and
Directives Branch, Office of
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Commission at (301) 492–3446.
Comments would be most helpful if
received by October 30, 2009.
Comments received after that 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.
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 DG–1150 are
available through the NRC’s public Web
site under Draft Regulatory Guides in
the ‘‘Regulatory Guides’’ collection of
the NRC’s Electronic Reading Room at
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/. Electronic copies are also
available in ADAMS (https://
www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html ),
under Accession No. ML091200454.
In addition, regulatory guides are
available for inspection at the NRC’s
Public Document Room (PDR) 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.resource@nrc.gov.
Regulatory guides are not
copyrighted, and Commission approval
is not required to reproduce them.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24 day
of August 2009.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrea D. Valentin,
Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch,
Division of Engineering, Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research.
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Availability
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of issuance and
availability of Draft Regulatory Guide,
DG–1227.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Donald Helton, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001, telephone: (301) 251–7594 or email to Donald.Helton@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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I. Introduction
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is issuing for public
comment a draft guide in the agency’s
‘‘Regulatory Guide’’ series. This series
was 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 regulatory guide (DG), titled,
‘‘An Approach for Plant-Specific, RiskInformed Decisionmaking: Technical
Specifications,’’ is temporarily
identified by its task number, DG–1227,
which should be mentioned in all
related correspondence. DG–1227 is
proposed Revision 1 of Regulatory
Guide 1.177, dated August 1998. The
NRC’s policy statement on probabilistic
risk assessment (PRA) encourages
greater use of this analysis technique to
improve safety decisionmaking and
improve regulatory efficiency. The NRC
staff’s Risk-Informed and PerformanceBased Plan (RPP) formerly known as the
PRA Implementation Plan describes
current or planned activities to expand
use of this analytical method. One
activity under way in response to the
policy statement is the use of PRA in
support of decisions to modify an
individual plant’s technical
specifications (TS).
Licensee-initiated TS changes that are
consistent with currently approved staff
positions (e.g., regulatory guides,
standard review plans, branch technical
positions, or the Standard Technical
Specifications (STS)) are normally
evaluated by the staff using traditional
engineering analyses. A licensee would
not be expected to submit risk
information in support of the proposed
change. Licensee-initiated TS change
requests that go beyond current staff
positions may be evaluated by the staff
using traditional engineering analyses as
well as the risk-informed approach set
forth in this regulatory guide. A licensee
may be requested to submit
supplemental risk information if such
information is not provided in the
original submittal by the licensee. If risk
information on the proposed TS change
is not provided to the staff, the staff will
review the information provided by the
licensee to determine whether the
application can be approved based upon
the information provided using
traditional methods and will either
approve or reject the application based
upon the review.
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II. Further Information
The NRC staff is soliciting comments
on DG–1227. Comments may be
accompanied by relevant information or
supporting data and should mention
DG–1227 in the subject line. Comments
submitted in writing or in electronic
form will be made available to the
public in their entirety through the
NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access
and Management System (ADAMS).
Because your comments will not be
edited to remove any identifying or
contact information, the NRC cautions
you against including any information
in your submission that you do not want
to be publicly disclosed.
The NRC requests that any party
soliciting or aggregating comments
received from other persons for
submission to the NRC inform those
persons that the NRC will not edit their
comments to remove any identifying or
contact information, and therefore, they
should not include any information in
their comments that they do not want
publicly disclosed. You may submit
comments by any of the following
methods:
1. Mail comments to: Rulemaking and
Directives Branch, Mail Stop: TWB–05–
B01M, Office of Administration, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555–0001.
2. Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for documents filed under Docket ID
[NRC–2009–0383]. Address questions
about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher,
301–492–3668; e-mail
Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov.
3. Fax comments to: Rulemaking and
Directives Branch, Office of
Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission at (301) 492–3446.
Requests for technical information
about DG–1227 may be directed to the
NRC contact, Donald Helton at (301)
251–7594 or e-mail to
Donald.Helton@nrc.gov.
Comments would be most helpful if
received by November 3, 2009.
Comments received after that 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.
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 DG–1227 are
available through the NRC’s public Web
site under Draft Regulatory Guides in
the ‘‘Regulatory Guides’’ collection of
the NRC’s Electronic Reading Room at
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AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of Issuance and Availability of Draft Regulatory Guide,
DG-1150, Qualification of Continuous Duty Safety-Related Motors for
Nuclear Power Plants.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Satish Aggarwal, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone: (301) 251-
7627, e-mail: Satish.Aggarwal@nrc.gov, or R.A. Jervey, telephone: (301)
251-7404, e-mail: raj@nrc.gov
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for public
comment a draft guide in the agency's ``Regulatory Guide'' series. This
series was 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 regulatory guide (DG), entitled, ``Qualification of
Continuous Duty Safety-Related Motors for Nuclear Power Plants,'' is
temporarily identified by its task number, DG-1150, which should be
mentioned in all related correspondence. DG-1150 is proposed Revision 1
of Regulatory Guide 1.40, dated March 1973.
This regulatory guide describes a method that the staff of the NRC
deems acceptable for complying with the Commission's regulations for
qualification of continuous duty safety-related motors for nuclear
power plants.
The Commission's regulations in Title 10, Part 50, ``Domestic
Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities,'' of the Code of
Federal Regulations (10 CFR part 50), require that structures, systems,
and components in a nuclear power plant that are important to safety be
designed to accommodate the effects of environmental conditions (i.e.,
they must remain functional under postulated design-basis events).
Toward that end, General Design Criteria 1, 2, 4, and 23 of Appendix A,
``General Design Criteria for Nuclear Power Plants,'' to 10 CFR part 50
contain the general requirements. Augmenting those general requirements
are the specific requirements pertaining to qualification of certain
electrical equipment important to safety that appear in 10 CFR 50.49,
``Environmental Qualification of Electric Equipment Important to Safety
for Nuclear Power Plants.'' In addition, Criterion III, ``Design
Control,'' of Appendix B, ``Quality Assurance Criteria for Nuclear
Power Plants and Fuel Reprocessing Plants,'' to 10 CFR part 50,
requires that test programs, when used to verify the adequacy of a
specific design feature, should include suitable qualification testing
of a prototype unit under the most adverse design conditions.
II. Further Information
The NRC staff is soliciting comments on DG-1150. Comments may be
accompanied by relevant information or supporting data and should
mention DG-1150 in the subject line. Comments submitted in writing or
in electronic form will be made available to the public in their
entirety through the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management
System (ADAMS). Requests for technical information about DG-1150 may be
directed to the NRC contact, Satish Aggarwal at (301) 251-7627 or e-
mail to Satish.Aggarwal@nrc.gov.
Because your comments will not be edited to remove any identifying
or contact information, the NRC cautions you against including any
information in your submission that you do not want to be publicly
disclosed.
The NRC requests that any party soliciting or aggregating comments
received from other persons for submission to the NRC inform those
persons that the NRC will not edit their comments to remove any
identifying or contact information, and therefore, they should not
include any information in their comments that they do not want
publicly disclosed. You may submit comments by any of the following
methods:
1. Mail comments to: Rulemaking and Directives Branch, Mail Stop:
TWB-05-B01M, Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
2. Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: Go to https://www.regulations.gov
and search for documents filed under Docket ID [NRC-2009-0384]. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher, 301-492-3668; e-mail
Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov.
3. Fax comments to: Rulemaking and Directives Branch, Office of
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Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission at (301) 492-3446.
Comments would be most helpful if received by October 30, 2009.
Comments received after that 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. 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 DG-1150 are available through the NRC's public
Web site under Draft Regulatory Guides in the ``Regulatory Guides''
collection of the NRC's Electronic Reading Room at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/. Electronic copies are also available in
ADAMS (https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html ), under Accession No.
ML091200454.
In addition, regulatory guides are available for inspection at the
NRC's Public Document Room (PDR) 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.resource@nrc.gov.
Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and Commission approval is
not required to reproduce them.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24 day of August 2009.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrea D. Valentin,
Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of Engineering,
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
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