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10 CFR Parts 50, 52, and 100
[Docket Nos. PRM–50–97, PRM–50–98,
PRM–50–99, PRM–50–100, PRM–50–101,
PRM–50–102; NRC–2011–0189]
Petitions for Rulemaking Submitted by
the Natural Resources Defense
Council, Inc.
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Petitions for rulemaking; notice
of receipt.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC or the Commission)
has received six petitions for
rulemaking (PRM), dated July 26, 2011,
from the Natural Resources Defense
Council, Inc. (NRDC or the petitioner).
The petitioner requests that the NRC
amend its regulations to require
emergency preparedness (EP)
enhancements for prolonged station
blackouts; EP enhancements for
multiunit events; licensees to confirm
seismic hazards and flooding hazards
every 10 years and address any new and
significant information; licensees to
improve spent nuclear fuel pool safety;
each operating and new reactor licensee
to establish station blackout mitigation
strategies and resources; and more
realistic, hands-on training and
exercises on Severe Accident Mitigation
[sic] Guidelines and Extreme Damage
Mitigation Guidelines for specified
licensee staff. The NRC is not instituting
a public comment period for these
PRMs at this time.
ADDRESSES: You can access publicly
available documents related to this
action, including the six petitions for
rulemaking, using the following
methods:
• NRC’s Public Document Room
(PDR): The public may examine and
SUMMARY:
have copies made, for a fee, publicly
available documents at the NRC’s PDR,
Room O1–F21, One White Flint North,
11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville,
Maryland 20852.
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System
(ADAMS): Publicly available documents
created or received at the NRC are
available online in the NRC Library at
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
adams.html. From this page, the public
can gain entry into ADAMS, which
provides text and image files of the
NRC’s public documents. If you do not
have access to ADAMS or if there are
problems in accessing the documents
located in ADAMS, contact the NRC’s
PDR reference staff at 1–800–397–4209,
301–415–4737, or by e-mail to
pdr.resource@nrc.gov. For the ADAMS
accession numbers to the six PRMs, see
Section I, Procedural Processing, of this
document.
• Federal Rulemaking Web Site:
Supporting materials related to the six
petitions for rulemaking can be found at
https://www.regulations.gov by searching
on the related Docket IDs. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol
Gallagher; telephone: 301–492–3668;
e-mail: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Cindy Bladey, Chief, Rules,
Announcements, and Directives Branch,
Division of Administrative Services,
Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001, telephone: 301–492–
3667, e-mail: Cindy.Bladey@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Procedural Processing
The petitions for rulemaking were
docketed by the NRC on July 28, 2011,
and have been assigned the following
Docket Numbers and can be accessed in
ADAMS under the associated ADAMS
accession number:
Docket Nos.
Emergency Preparedness Enhancements for Prolonged Station Blackouts .............
Emergency Preparedness Enhancements for Multiunit Events .................................
Seismic Hazards and Flooding Hazards .....................................................................
Spent Nuclear Fuel Pool Safety ..................................................................................
Station Blackout Mitigation ..........................................................................................
Training on Severe Accident Mitigation [sic] Guidelines ............................................
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PRM–50–97 .............................................
PRM–50–98 .............................................
PRM–50–99 .............................................
PRM–50–100 ...........................................
PRM–50–101 ...........................................
PRM–50–102 ...........................................
Each submission separately cites the
‘‘Recommendations for Enhancing
Reactor Safety in the 21st Century: The
Near-Term Task Force Review of
Insights from the Fukushima Dai-ichi
Accident’’ (Fukushima Task Force
Report, ML111861807), dated July 12,
2011, as the rationale for the petition for
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rulemaking. The Commission has
recently directed staff to engage
promptly with stakeholders to review
and assess the recommendations of the
Fukushima Task Force Report for the
purpose of providing the Commission
with fully-informed options and
recommendations. See U.S. Nuclear
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Regulatory Commission, ‘‘Near-Term
Report and Recommendations for
Agency Actions Following the Events in
Japan,’’ Staff Requirements
Memorandum SECY–11–0093, August
19, 2011 (ADAMS Accession No.
ML112310021) and U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, ‘‘Engagement
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of Stakeholders Regarding the Events in
Japan,’’ Staff Requirements
Memorandum COMWDM–11–0001/
COMWCO–11–0001, August 22, 2011
(ADAMS Accession No. ML112340693).
The NRC will consider the issues raised
by these PRMs through the process the
Commission has established for
addressing the recommendations from
the Fukushima Task Force Report, and
is not providing a separate opportunity
for public comment on the PRMs at this
time.
II. Petitioner
The NRDC is a national, nonprofit,
membership environmental
organization incorporated in New York
in 1970. The NRDC has offices in
Washington, DC, New York City, San
Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, and
Beijing. The staff membership of NRDC
consists of lawyers, scientists, and
policy experts. The NRDC states that its
purpose is to maintain and enhance
environmental quality and monitor
Federal agency actions to ensure that
Federal statutes enacted to protect
human health and the environment are
fully and properly implemented. With
regard to the NRC, the NRDC asserts
that, since its inception in 1970, it has
sought to improve the environmental,
health, and safety conditions at the
nuclear facilities licensed by the NRC
and its predecessor agency.
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III. Petitions
All six PRMs cite the
Recommendations for Enhancing
Reactor Safety in the 21st Century: The
Near-Term Task Force Review of
Insights from the Fukushima Dai-ichi
Accident (Fukushima Task Force
Report), dated July 12, 2011, currently
under review by the Commission, as the
rationale and bases for the petitions for
rulemaking. The Fukushima Task Force
was a group of NRC staff experts
specifically selected to review the
Fukushima Dai-ichi Accident and made
recommendations applicable to power
reactors in the United States. A
summary of each PRM follows.
1. Require EP Enhancements for
Prolonged Station Blackouts. [PRM–50–
97]
The petitioner requests that the NRC
institute a rulemaking proceeding
applicable to nuclear facilities licensed
under 10 CFR 50, 52, and other
applicable regulations to require
emergency preparedness enhancements
for prolonged station blackouts in the
areas of (1) Communications ability, (2)
Emergency Response Data System
capability, (3) training and exercises,
and (4) equipment and facilities. The
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petitioner cites Section 4.3.1, pages 50–
56—regarding the requiring of facility
emergency plans to address prolonged
station blackouts—of the Fukushima
Task Force Report as the rationale for its
PRM.
2. Require EP Enhancements for
Multiunit Events. [PRM–50–98]
The petitioner requests that the NRC
institute a rulemaking proceeding
applicable to nuclear facilities licensed
under 10 CFR parts 50, 52, and other
applicable regulations to require EP
enhancements for multiunit events in
the areas of (1) Personnel staffing, (2)
dose assessment capability, (3) training
and exercises, and (4) equipment and
facilities. The petitioner cites Section
4.3.1, pages 50–56—regarding the
requiring of facility emergency plans to
address multiunit events—of the
Fukushima Task Force Report as the
rationale for its PRM.
3. Require Licensees To Confirm Seismic
Hazards and Flooding Hazards Every 10
Years and Address Any New and
Significant Information. [PRM–50–99]
The petitioner requests that the NRC
institute a rulemaking proceeding
applicable to nuclear facilities licensed
under 10 CFR parts 50, 52, 100, and
other applicable regulations to require
licensees to confirm seismic hazards
and flooding hazards every 10 years and
address any new and significant
information, which would include, if
necessary, updating the design basis for
structures, systems, and components
important to safety to protect against the
updated hazards. The petitioner cites
Section 4.1.1, pages 25–30—regarding
the reevaluation and upgrade of design
basis seismic and flooding protection of
structures, systems, and components for
each operating reactor—of the
Fukushima Task Force Report as the
rationale for its PRM.
4. Require Licensees To Improve Spent
Nuclear Fuel Pool Safety. [PRM–50–100]
The petitioner requests that the NRC
institute a rulemaking proceeding
applicable to nuclear facilities licensed
under 10 CFR parts 50, 52, and other
applicable regulations to require
licensees to (1) Provide sufficient safetyrelated instrumentation, able to
withstand design-basis natural
phenomena, to monitor key spent fuel
pool parameters (i.e., water level,
temperature, and area radiation levels)
from the control room; (2) provide
safety-related AC electrical power for
the spent fuel pool makeup system; (3)
revise their technical specifications to
address requirements to have one train
of onsite emergency electrical power
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operable for spent fuel pool makeup and
spent fuel pool instrumentation when
there is irradiated fuel in the spent fuel
pool, regardless of the operational mode
of the reactor; and (4) have an installed
seismically qualified means to spray
water into the spent fuel pools,
including an easily accessible
connection to supply the water (e.g.,
using a portable pump or pumper truck)
at grade outside the building. The
petitioner cites Section 4.2.4, pages 43–
46—regarding the enhancement of spent
fuel pool makeup capability and
instrumentation for the spent fuel
pool—of the Fukushima Task Force
Report as the rationale for its PRM.
5. Revise 10 CFR 50.63 [Station
Blackout Mitigation]. [PRM–50–101]
The petitioner requests that the NRC
institute a rulemaking proceeding
applicable to nuclear facilities licensed
under 10 CFR parts 50, 52, and other
applicable regulations to revise 10 CFR
50.63 to require each operating and new
reactor licensee to (1) Establish a
minimum coping time of 8 hours for a
loss of all AC power, (2) establish the
equipment, procedures, and training
necessary to implement an ‘‘extended
loss of all AC’’ coping time of 72 hours
for core and spent fuel pool cooling and
for reactor coolant system and primary
containment integrity as needed, and (3)
preplan and prestage offsite resources to
support uninterrupted core and spent
fuel pool cooling and reactor coolant
system and containment integrity as
needed, including the ability to deliver
the equipment to the site in the time
period allowed for extending coping,
under conditions involving significant
degradation of offsite transportation
infrastructure associated with
significant natural disasters.
The petitioner cites Section 4.2.1,
pages 32–39, of the Fukushima Task
Force Report, regarding the
enhancement of the ability of nuclear
power plants to deal with the effect of
prolonged station blackout conditions at
single and multiunit sites without
damage to the nuclear fuel in the reactor
or spent fuel pool and without the loss
of reactor coolant system or primary
containment integrity.
6. Require More Realistic Training on
Severe Accident Mitigation Guidelines
[PRM–50–102]
The petitioner requests that the NRC
institute a rulemaking proceeding
applicable to nuclear facilities licensed
under 10 CFR parts 50, 52, and other
applicable regulations to require more
realistic, hands-on training and
exercises on Severe Accident Mitigation
[sic] Guidelines (SAMGs) and Extreme
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for licensee staff expected to implement
the strategies and those licensee staff
expected to make decisions during
emergencies, including emergency
coordinators and emergency directors.
The petitioner cites Section 4.2.5, pages
46–50—regarding the strengthening and
integration of onsite emergency
response capabilities such as emergency
operating procedures, SAMGs, and
EDMGs—of the Fukushima Task Force
Report as the rationale for its PRM.
IV. Conclusion
The Commission is currently
reviewing the Fukushima Task Force
Report, including each issue presented
in the six petitions for rulemaking. The
petitioner solely and specifically cites
the Fukushima Task Force Report as the
rationale and bases for its six PRMs. The
NRC will consider the issues raised by
these PRMs through the process the
Commission has established for
addressing the recommendations from
the Fukushima Task Force Report and is
not providing a separate opportunity for
public comment on the PRMs at this
time.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 14th day
of September 2011.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Annette Vietti-Cook,
Secretary of the Commission.
[FR Doc. 2011–24079 Filed 9–19–11; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 7590–01–P
CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY
COMMISSION
16 CFR Part 1221
[CPSC Docket No. CPSC–2011–0064]
RIN 3041–AC92
Safety Standard for Play Yards
Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking.
AGENCY:
Section 104(b) of the
Consumer Product Safety Improvement
Act of 2008 (‘‘CPSIA’’) requires the
United States Consumer Product Safety
Commission (‘‘Commission,’’ ‘‘CPSC,’’
or ‘‘we’’) to promulgate consumer
product safety standards for durable
infant or toddler products. These
standards are to be ‘‘substantially the
same as’’ applicable voluntary standards
or more stringent than the voluntary
standard if the Commission concludes
that more stringent requirements would
further reduce the risk of injury
associated with the product. The
Commission is proposing a safety
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standard for play yards in response to
the direction under Section 104(b) of the
CPSIA.
DATES: Submit comments by December
5, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Comments related to the
Paperwork Reduction Act aspects of the
marking, labeling, and instructional
literature of the proposed rule should be
directed to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, OMB, Attn: CPSC
Desk Officer, Fax: 202–395–6974, or emailed to
oira_submission@omb.eop.gov.
Other comments, identified by Docket
No. CPSC–2011–0064, may be
submitted electronically or in writing:
Electronic Submissions: Submit
electronic comments to the Federal
eRulemaking Portal at: https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
To ensure timely processing of
comments, the Commission is no longer
directly accepting comments submitted
by electronic mail (e-mail), except
through https://www.regulations.gov.
The Commission encourages you to
submit electronic comments by using
the Federal eRulemaking Portal, as
described above.
Written Submissions: Submit written
submissions in the following way: Mail/
Hand delivery/Courier (for paper, disk,
or CD–ROM submissions), preferably in
five copies, to: Office of the Secretary,
Consumer Product Safety Commission,
Room 502, 4330 East West Highway,
Bethesda, MD 20814; telephone (301)
504–7923.
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the agency name and
docket number for this rulemaking. All
comments received may be posted
without change, including any personal
identifiers, contact information, or other
personal information provided, to
https://www.regulations.gov. Do not
submit confidential business
information, trade secret information, or
other sensitive or protected information
that you do not want to be available to
the public. If furnished at all, such
information should be submitted in
writing.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received, go to https://
www.regulations.gov, and insert the
docket number, CPSC 2011–0064, into
the ‘‘Search’’ box and follow the
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A. Background and Statutory Authority
The Consumer Product Safety
Improvement Act of 2008 (‘‘CPSIA,’’
Pub. L. 110–314) was enacted on August
14, 2008 Section 104(b) of the CPSIA
requires the Commission to promulgate
consumer product safety standards for
durable infant and toddler products.
These standards are to be ‘‘substantially
the same as’’ applicable voluntary
standards or more stringent than the
voluntary standard if the Commission
concludes that more stringent
requirements would further reduce the
risk of injury associated with the
product. The term ‘‘durable infant or
toddler product’’ is defined in section
104(f)(1) of the CPSIA as a durable
product intended for use, or that may be
reasonably expected to be used, by
children under the age of 5 years. Play
yards are one of the products
specifically identified in section
104(f)(2)(F) as a durable infant or
toddler product.
In this document, the Commission
proposes a safety standard for play
yards. The proposed standard is based
on the voluntary standard developed by
ASTM International (formerly the
American Society for Testing and
Materials), ASTM F 406–11, ‘‘Standard
Consumer Safety Specification for NonFull-Size Baby Cribs/Play Yards’’
(‘‘ASTM F 406–11’’). The ASTM
standard is copyrighted but can be
viewed as a read-only document, only
during the comment period on this
proposal, at https://www.astm.org/
cpsc.htm, by permission of ASTM.
B. The Product
1. Definition
ASTM F 406–11 defines a ‘‘play yard’’
as a ‘‘framed enclosure that includes a
floor and has mesh or fabric sided
panels primarily intended to provide a
play or sleeping environment for
children. It may fold for storage or
travel.’’ Play yards are intended for
children who are less than 35 inches tall
who cannot climb out of the product.
Play yards are convenient because they
usually fold for storage or travel. Some
play yards include accessory items that
attach to the product, including
mobiles, toy bars, canopies, bassinets,
and changing tables. The accessory
item(s) usually attaches to the side rails
or corner brackets of the play yard.
2. The Market
Based on a 2005 survey conducted by
American Baby Group titled, ‘‘2006
Baby Products Tracking Study,’’ we
estimate that approximately 2.9 million
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
10 CFR Parts 50, 52, and 100
[Docket Nos. PRM-50-97, PRM-50-98, PRM-50-99, PRM-50-100, PRM-50-101,
PRM-50-102; NRC-2011-0189]
Petitions for Rulemaking Submitted by the Natural Resources
Defense Council, Inc.
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Petitions for rulemaking; notice of receipt.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the Commission)
has received six petitions for rulemaking (PRM), dated July 26, 2011,
from the Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (NRDC or the
petitioner). The petitioner requests that the NRC amend its regulations
to require emergency preparedness (EP) enhancements for prolonged
station blackouts; EP enhancements for multiunit events; licensees to
confirm seismic hazards and flooding hazards every 10 years and address
any new and significant information; licensees to improve spent nuclear
fuel pool safety; each operating and new reactor licensee to establish
station blackout mitigation strategies and resources; and more
realistic, hands-on training and exercises on Severe Accident
Mitigation [sic] Guidelines and Extreme Damage Mitigation Guidelines
for specified licensee staff. The NRC is not instituting a public
comment period for these PRMs at this time.
ADDRESSES: You can access publicly available documents related to this
action, including the six petitions for rulemaking, using the following
methods:
NRC's Public Document Room (PDR): The public may examine
and have copies made, for a fee, publicly available documents at the
NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike,
Rockville, Maryland 20852.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): Publicly available documents created or received at the NRC
are available online in the NRC Library at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. From this page, the public can gain entry into ADAMS,
which provides text and image files of the NRC's public documents. If
you do not have access to ADAMS or if there are problems in accessing
the documents located in ADAMS, contact the NRC's PDR reference staff
at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov.
For the ADAMS accession numbers to the six PRMs, see Section I,
Procedural Processing, of this document.
Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Supporting materials related
to the six petitions for rulemaking can be found at https://www.regulations.gov by searching on the related Docket IDs. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-492-
3668; e-mail: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cindy Bladey, Chief, Rules,
Announcements, and Directives Branch, Division of Administrative
Services, Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-492-3667, e-mail:
Cindy.Bladey@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Procedural Processing
The petitions for rulemaking were docketed by the NRC on July 28,
2011, and have been assigned the following Docket Numbers and can be
accessed in ADAMS under the associated ADAMS accession number:
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Title Docket Nos. ADAMS ML No.
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Emergency Preparedness PRM-50-97........ ML11216A237
Enhancements for Prolonged
Station Blackouts.
Emergency Preparedness PRM-50-98........ ML11216A238
Enhancements for Multiunit
Events.
Seismic Hazards and Flooding PRM-50-99........ ML11216A239
Hazards.
Spent Nuclear Fuel Pool Safety PRM-50-100....... ML11216A240
Station Blackout Mitigation... PRM-50-101....... ML11216A241
Training on Severe Accident PRM-50-102....... ML11216A242
Mitigation [sic] Guidelines.
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Each submission separately cites the ``Recommendations for
Enhancing Reactor Safety in the 21st Century: The Near-Term Task Force
Review of Insights from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Accident'' (Fukushima
Task Force Report, ML111861807), dated July 12, 2011, as the rationale
for the petition for rulemaking. The Commission has recently directed
staff to engage promptly with stakeholders to review and assess the
recommendations of the Fukushima Task Force Report for the purpose of
providing the Commission with fully-informed options and
recommendations. See U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ``Near-Term
Report and Recommendations for Agency Actions Following the Events in
Japan,'' Staff Requirements Memorandum SECY-11-0093, August 19, 2011
(ADAMS Accession No. ML112310021) and U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, ``Engagement
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of Stakeholders Regarding the Events in Japan,'' Staff Requirements
Memorandum COMWDM-11-0001/COMWCO-11-0001, August 22, 2011 (ADAMS
Accession No. ML112340693). The NRC will consider the issues raised by
these PRMs through the process the Commission has established for
addressing the recommendations from the Fukushima Task Force Report,
and is not providing a separate opportunity for public comment on the
PRMs at this time.
II. Petitioner
The NRDC is a national, nonprofit, membership environmental
organization incorporated in New York in 1970. The NRDC has offices in
Washington, DC, New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, and
Beijing. The staff membership of NRDC consists of lawyers, scientists,
and policy experts. The NRDC states that its purpose is to maintain and
enhance environmental quality and monitor Federal agency actions to
ensure that Federal statutes enacted to protect human health and the
environment are fully and properly implemented. With regard to the NRC,
the NRDC asserts that, since its inception in 1970, it has sought to
improve the environmental, health, and safety conditions at the nuclear
facilities licensed by the NRC and its predecessor agency.
III. Petitions
All six PRMs cite the Recommendations for Enhancing Reactor Safety
in the 21st Century: The Near-Term Task Force Review of Insights from
the Fukushima Dai-ichi Accident (Fukushima Task Force Report), dated
July 12, 2011, currently under review by the Commission, as the
rationale and bases for the petitions for rulemaking. The Fukushima
Task Force was a group of NRC staff experts specifically selected to
review the Fukushima Dai-ichi Accident and made recommendations
applicable to power reactors in the United States. A summary of each
PRM follows.
1. Require EP Enhancements for Prolonged Station Blackouts. [PRM-50-97]
The petitioner requests that the NRC institute a rulemaking
proceeding applicable to nuclear facilities licensed under 10 CFR 50,
52, and other applicable regulations to require emergency preparedness
enhancements for prolonged station blackouts in the areas of (1)
Communications ability, (2) Emergency Response Data System capability,
(3) training and exercises, and (4) equipment and facilities. The
petitioner cites Section 4.3.1, pages 50-56--regarding the requiring of
facility emergency plans to address prolonged station blackouts--of the
Fukushima Task Force Report as the rationale for its PRM.
2. Require EP Enhancements for Multiunit Events. [PRM-50-98]
The petitioner requests that the NRC institute a rulemaking
proceeding applicable to nuclear facilities licensed under 10 CFR parts
50, 52, and other applicable regulations to require EP enhancements for
multiunit events in the areas of (1) Personnel staffing, (2) dose
assessment capability, (3) training and exercises, and (4) equipment
and facilities. The petitioner cites Section 4.3.1, pages 50-56--
regarding the requiring of facility emergency plans to address
multiunit events--of the Fukushima Task Force Report as the rationale
for its PRM.
3. Require Licensees To Confirm Seismic Hazards and Flooding Hazards
Every 10 Years and Address Any New and Significant Information. [PRM-
50-99]
The petitioner requests that the NRC institute a rulemaking
proceeding applicable to nuclear facilities licensed under 10 CFR parts
50, 52, 100, and other applicable regulations to require licensees to
confirm seismic hazards and flooding hazards every 10 years and address
any new and significant information, which would include, if necessary,
updating the design basis for structures, systems, and components
important to safety to protect against the updated hazards. The
petitioner cites Section 4.1.1, pages 25-30--regarding the reevaluation
and upgrade of design basis seismic and flooding protection of
structures, systems, and components for each operating reactor--of the
Fukushima Task Force Report as the rationale for its PRM.
4. Require Licensees To Improve Spent Nuclear Fuel Pool Safety. [PRM-
50-100]
The petitioner requests that the NRC institute a rulemaking
proceeding applicable to nuclear facilities licensed under 10 CFR parts
50, 52, and other applicable regulations to require licensees to (1)
Provide sufficient safety-related instrumentation, able to withstand
design-basis natural phenomena, to monitor key spent fuel pool
parameters (i.e., water level, temperature, and area radiation levels)
from the control room; (2) provide safety-related AC electrical power
for the spent fuel pool makeup system; (3) revise their technical
specifications to address requirements to have one train of onsite
emergency electrical power operable for spent fuel pool makeup and
spent fuel pool instrumentation when there is irradiated fuel in the
spent fuel pool, regardless of the operational mode of the reactor; and
(4) have an installed seismically qualified means to spray water into
the spent fuel pools, including an easily accessible connection to
supply the water (e.g., using a portable pump or pumper truck) at grade
outside the building. The petitioner cites Section 4.2.4, pages 43-46--
regarding the enhancement of spent fuel pool makeup capability and
instrumentation for the spent fuel pool--of the Fukushima Task Force
Report as the rationale for its PRM.
5. Revise 10 CFR 50.63 [Station Blackout Mitigation]. [PRM-50-101]
The petitioner requests that the NRC institute a rulemaking
proceeding applicable to nuclear facilities licensed under 10 CFR parts
50, 52, and other applicable regulations to revise 10 CFR 50.63 to
require each operating and new reactor licensee to (1) Establish a
minimum coping time of 8 hours for a loss of all AC power, (2)
establish the equipment, procedures, and training necessary to
implement an ``extended loss of all AC'' coping time of 72 hours for
core and spent fuel pool cooling and for reactor coolant system and
primary containment integrity as needed, and (3) preplan and prestage
offsite resources to support uninterrupted core and spent fuel pool
cooling and reactor coolant system and containment integrity as needed,
including the ability to deliver the equipment to the site in the time
period allowed for extending coping, under conditions involving
significant degradation of offsite transportation infrastructure
associated with significant natural disasters.
The petitioner cites Section 4.2.1, pages 32-39, of the Fukushima
Task Force Report, regarding the enhancement of the ability of nuclear
power plants to deal with the effect of prolonged station blackout
conditions at single and multiunit sites without damage to the nuclear
fuel in the reactor or spent fuel pool and without the loss of reactor
coolant system or primary containment integrity.
6. Require More Realistic Training on Severe Accident Mitigation
Guidelines [PRM-50-102]
The petitioner requests that the NRC institute a rulemaking
proceeding applicable to nuclear facilities licensed under 10 CFR parts
50, 52, and other applicable regulations to require more realistic,
hands-on training and exercises on Severe Accident Mitigation [sic]
Guidelines (SAMGs) and Extreme
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Damage Mitigation Guidelines (EDMGs) for licensee staff expected to
implement the strategies and those licensee staff expected to make
decisions during emergencies, including emergency coordinators and
emergency directors. The petitioner cites Section 4.2.5, pages 46-50--
regarding the strengthening and integration of onsite emergency
response capabilities such as emergency operating procedures, SAMGs,
and EDMGs--of the Fukushima Task Force Report as the rationale for its
PRM.
IV. Conclusion
The Commission is currently reviewing the Fukushima Task Force
Report, including each issue presented in the six petitions for
rulemaking. The petitioner solely and specifically cites the Fukushima
Task Force Report as the rationale and bases for its six PRMs. The NRC
will consider the issues raised by these PRMs through the process the
Commission has established for addressing the recommendations from the
Fukushima Task Force Report and is not providing a separate opportunity
for public comment on the PRMs at this time.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 14th day of September 2011.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Annette Vietti-Cook,
Secretary of the Commission.
[FR Doc. 2011-24079 Filed 9-19-11; 8:45 am]
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