Sunshine Act Meeting, 18873-18874 [2012-7539]
Download as PDF
Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 60 / Wednesday, March 28, 2012 / Notices
NRC staff for implementing specific
parts of the agency’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 recommendations in this guide
describe actions that the staff of the NRC
considers acceptable when the number
of available electric power sources are
less than the number of sources required
by the limiting conditions for operation
(LCOs) for a facility. This regulatory
guide applies to single- and multipleunit plants and is consistent with the
improved standard technical
specifications (iSTS) (NUREG–1430
through NUREG–1434). The LCOrequired actions and specified
completion times referred to in this
guide are based on the completion times
presented in Regulatory Guide 1.93,
Revision 0, ‘‘Availability of Electric
Power Sources,’’ issued December 1974,
which have been incorporated into the
required actions in the iSTS.
The recommendations described in
this guide are an approach that the NRC
staff finds acceptable for satisfying some
of the requirements of General design
criterion (GDC) 17, ‘‘Electric Power
Systems,’’ of Appendix A, ‘‘General
Design Criteria for Nuclear Power
Plants,’’ to 10 CFR part 50, ‘‘Domestic
Licensing of Production and Utilization
Facilities.’’
II. Further Information
Revision 1 of RG 1.93 was issued with
a temporary identification as Draft
Regulatory Guide, DG–1244. DG–1244,
was published in the Federal Register
on September 24, 2010 (75 FR 5844) for
a 60 day public comment period. The
public comment period closed on
November 26, 2010. The NRC staff’s
responses to the public comments on
DG–1244 are available under ADAMS
Accession Number ML090550693.
tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 19th day
of March, 2012.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Richard Jervey,
Acting Chief, Regulatory Guide Development
Branch, Division of Engineering, Office of
Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2012–7437 Filed 3–27–12; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 7590–01–P
VerDate Mar<15>2010
17:29 Mar 27, 2012
Jkt 226001
NUCLEAR REGULATORY
COMMISSION
Advisory Committee on Reactor
Safeguards (ACRS), Meeting of the
ACRS Subcommittee on Regulatory
Policies & Practices; Notice of Meeting
The ACRS Subcommittee on
Regulatory Policies & Practices will hold
a meeting on April 25, 2012, Room T–
2B1, 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville,
Maryland.
The agenda for the subject meeting
shall be as follows:
Wednesday, April 25, 2012—8:30 a.m.
Until 5 p.m.
The Subcommittee will review the
Draft NUREG Report on the State-of-theArt Reactor Consequence Analyses
(SOARCA) Project. The Subcommittee
will hear presentations by and hold
discussions with the NRC staff and
other interested persons regarding this
matter. The Subcommittee will gather
information, analyze relevant issues and
facts, and formulate proposed positions
and actions, as appropriate, for
deliberation by the Full Committee.
Members of the public desiring to
provide oral statements and/or written
comments should notify the Designated
Federal Official (DFO), Dr. Hossein
Nourbakhsh (Telephone 301–415–5622
or Email: Hossein.Nourbakhsh@nrc.gov)
five days prior to the meeting, if
possible, so that appropriate
arrangements can be made. Thirty-five
hard copies of each presentation or
handout should be provided to the DFO
thirty minutes before the meeting. In
addition, one electronic copy of each
presentation should be emailed to the
DFO one day before the meeting. If an
electronic copy cannot be provided
within this timeframe, presenters
should provide the DFO with a CD
containing each presentation at least
thirty minutes before the meeting.
Electronic recordings will be permitted
only during those portions of the
meeting that are open to the public.
Detailed procedures for the conduct of
and participation in ACRS meetings
were published in the Federal Register
on October 17, 2011, (76 FR 64127–
64128).
Detailed meeting agendas and meeting
transcripts are available on the NRC
Web site at https://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/doc-collections/acrs. Information
regarding topics to be discussed,
changes to the agenda, whether the
meeting has been canceled or
rescheduled, and the time allotted to
present oral statements can be obtained
from the Web site cited above or by
contacting the identified DFO.
PO 00000
Frm 00088
Fmt 4703
Sfmt 4703
18873
Moreover, in view of the possibility that
the schedule for ACRS meetings may be
adjusted by the Chairman as necessary
to facilitate the conduct of the meeting,
persons planning to attend should check
with these references if such
rescheduling would result in a major
inconvenience.
If attending this meeting, please enter
through the One White Flint North
building, 11555 Rockville Pike,
Rockville, MD. After registering with
security, please contact Mr. Theron
Brown (240–888–9835) to be escorted to
the meeting room.
Dated: March 19, 2012.
Antonio Dias,
Technical Advisor, Advisory Committee on
Reactor Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2012–7441 Filed 3–27–12; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 7590–01–P
NUCLEAR REGULATORY
COMMISSION
[NRC–2012–0002]
Sunshine Act Meeting
AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETINGS: Nuclear
Regulatory Commission.
DATES: Week of March 26, 2012.
PLACE: Commissioners’ Conference
Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville,
Maryland.
STATUS: Public and Closed.
Additional Items To Be Considered
Week of March 26, 2012
Friday, March 30, 2012
1:25 p.m. Affirmation Session (Public
Meeting) (Tentative)
a. Entergy Nuclear Generation Co. and
Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.
(Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station),
Docket No. 50–293–LR (Tentative)
b. South Carolina Electric & Gas Co.
and South Carolina Public Service
Authority (Also Referred to as
Santee Cooper) (Virgil C. Summer
Nuclear Station, Units 2 and 3),
Docket Nos. 52–027–COL & 52–
028–COL; Mandatory Hearing
Decision (Tentative)
This meeting will be webcast live at
the Web address: www.nrc.gov.
*
*
*
*
*
*The schedule for Commission
meetings is subject to change on short
notice. To verify the status of meetings,
call (recording)—(301) 415–1292.
Contact person for more information:
Rochelle Bavol, (301) 415–1651.
*
*
*
*
*
The NRC Commission Meeting
Schedule can be found on the Internet
E:\FR\FM\28MRN1.SGM
28MRN1
18874
Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 60 / Wednesday, March 28, 2012 / Notices
at: www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/policymaking/schedule.html.
*
*
*
*
*
The NRC provides reasonable
accommodation to individuals with
disabilities where appropriate. If you
need a reasonable accommodation to
participate in these public meetings, or
need this meeting notice or the
transcript or other information from the
public meetings in another format (e.g.
braille, large print), please notify Bill
Dosch, Chief, Work Life and Benefits
Branch, at 301–415–6200, TDD: 301–
415–2100, or by email at
william.dosch@nrc.gov. Determinations
on requests for reasonable
accommodation will be made on a caseby-case basis.
*
*
*
*
*
This notice is distributed
electronically to subscribers. If you no
longer wish to receive it, or would like
to be added to the distribution, please
contact the Office of the Secretary,
Washington, DC 20555 (301–415–1969),
or send an email to
darlene.wright@nrc.gov.
Dated: March 23, 2012.
Kenneth Hart,
Technical Coordinator, Office of the
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2012–7539 Filed 3–26–12; 11:15 am]
BILLING CODE 7590–01–P
NUCLEAR REGULATORY
COMMISSION
[Docket Nos. 50–338 and 50–339; NRC–
2012–0075; License Nos. NPF–4 and NPF–
7]
tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES
Virginia Electric and Power Company;
Receipt of Request for Action
Notice is hereby given that by petition
dated October 20, 2011, (U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission’s (NRC’s or the
Commission’s) Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System
(ADAMS) Accession No.
ML11293A116); as supplemented by a
letter dated November 2, 2011 (ADAMS
Accession No. ML11308A027); and an
email dated December 15, 2011
(ADAMS Accession No. ML12060A197);
Paul Gunter, Kevin Kamps, Thomas
Saporito, Paxus Calta, Alex Jack, Scott
Price, John Cruickshank, Eleanor
Amidon, Erika Kretzmer, Lovell King II,
David Levy, Hilary Boyd, G. Paul
Blundell, Erica Gray, Edmund Frost,
and Richard Ball (the petitioners),
request that the NRC take action with
regard to Virginia Electric and Power
Company’s (the licensee’s) North Anna
Power Station, Units 1 and 2 (North
Anna 1 and 2). The petitioners request
VerDate Mar<15>2010
17:29 Mar 27, 2012
Jkt 226001
that the NRC suspend the operating
licenses for North Anna 1 and 2, until
the completion of a set of activities
described in the petition.
As the basis for this request, the
petitioners state several concerns which
are summarized as follows:
(1) Prior to the approval of restart for
North Anna 1 and 2, after the
earthquake of August 23, 2011, the
licensee should be required to obtain a
license amendment from the NRC that
reanalyzes and reevaluates the plant’s
design basis for earthquakes and for
associated retrofits.
(2) Prior to the approval of restart for
North Anna 1 and 2, after the
earthquake of August 23, 2011, the
licensee should be required to ensure
that North Anna 1 and 2 are subjected
to thorough inspections of the same
level and rigor.
(3) The licensee should be required to
reanalyze and requalify the adequacy
and condition of the Lake Anna dam
after the earthquake of August 23, 2011.
(4) The licensee should be required to
reanalyze and reevaluate the North
Anna Independent Spent Fuel Storage
Installation (ISFSI) due to damage
caused by the earthquake of August 23,
2011, and ensure that no threat is posed
to public health and safety by its
operation.
(5) The licensee should ensure the
reliability and accuracy of the seismic
instrumentation at North Anna 1 and 2.
(6) The NRC staff made hasty
decisions about the restart of North
Anna 1 and 2, and gave priority to
economic considerations. The long-term
action plan was not even complete
before the NRC gave authorization to
restart.
(7) Regulatory commitments are an
inadequate regulatory tool for ensuring
that the critical long-term tasks
identified in the NRC staff’s
confirmatory action letter (CAL) dated
November 11, 2011 (ADAMS Accession
No. ML11311A201), are completed.
(8) The NRC should provide greater
access to certain documents concerning
North Anna 1 and 2, which are stored
at the University of Virginia.
(9) The licensee needs to address the
possibility of both boildown and rapid
draindown events at the North Anna 1
and 2, spent fuel pool.
(10) The long-term storage of spent
fuel in the spent fuel pool at North
Anna 1 and 2, and at the North Anna
ISFSI poses challenges to the public
health and safety.
(11) ‘‘Hardened on-site storage’’
strategies for spent fuel should be used
at North Anna 1 and 2.
(12) Concerns exist about age-related
degradation at North Anna 1 and 2.
PO 00000
Frm 00089
Fmt 4703
Sfmt 4703
(13) Concerns exist about the response
of North Anna 1 and 2, to a prolonged
station blackout.
(14) The current emergency
evacuation plans for North Anna 1 and
2, need to be revised to reflect the
possible need to evacuate a larger area
than that identified in the current
emergency planning zone.
(15) Concerns exist about damage to
the structural integrity of the spent fuel
pool structure at North Anna 1 and 2,
as represented on pages 41 and 42 of the
NRC staff’s technical evaluation for the
restart of North Anna 1 and 2, dated
November 11, 2011 (ADAMS Accession
No. ML11308B406).
(16) There are concerns about lack of
compliance at North Anna 1 and 2, with
a public law requiring storage of
potassium iodide in areas surrounding a
nuclear reactor.
The request is being treated pursuant
to Title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR), Section 2.206,
‘‘Requests for action under this
subpart,’’ of the Commission’s
regulations. The request has been
referred to the Director of the Office of
Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR). As
provided by 10 CFR 2.206, appropriate
action will be taken on this petition
within a reasonable time. The
petitioners met with the NRR petition
review board on December 12, 2011
(corrected transcript at ADAMS
Accession No. ML12033A025), and
February 2, 2012 (corrected transcript at
ADAMS Accession No. ML12047A240),
to discuss the petition. The results of
these discussions were considered in
the board’s final determination to
partially accept the petition for review,
as communicated to the petitioners by
letter from Eric J. Leeds, Director, Office
of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, dated
March 16, 2012 (ADAMS Accession No.
ML12060A090), and in establishing the
review schedule.
A copy of the petition is available for
inspection at the Commission’s Public
Document Room (PDR), located at One
White Flint North, Public File Area O1
F21, 11555 Rockville Pike (first floor),
Rockville, Maryland 20852. Publicly
available documents created or received
at the NRC are available online through
ADAMS in the NRC Library at https://
www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
To begin the search, select ‘‘ADAMS
Public Documents’’ and then select
‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.’’ For
problems with ADAMS, please contact
the NRC’s PDR reference staff at 1–800–
397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by email to
PDR.Resource@nrc.gov.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 16th day
of March 2012.
E:\FR\FM\28MRN1.SGM
28MRN1
Agencies
[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 60 (Wednesday, March 28, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18873-18874]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-7539]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2012-0002]
Sunshine Act Meeting
Agency Holding the Meetings: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
DATES: Week of March 26, 2012.
Place: Commissioners' Conference Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville,
Maryland.
Status: Public and Closed.
Additional Items To Be Considered
Week of March 26, 2012
Friday, March 30, 2012
1:25 p.m. Affirmation Session (Public Meeting) (Tentative)
a. Entergy Nuclear Generation Co. and Entergy Nuclear Operations,
Inc. (Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station), Docket No. 50-293-LR (Tentative)
b. South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. and South Carolina Public
Service Authority (Also Referred to as Santee Cooper) (Virgil C. Summer
Nuclear Station, Units 2 and 3), Docket Nos. 52-027-COL & 52-028-COL;
Mandatory Hearing Decision (Tentative)
This meeting will be webcast live at the Web address: www.nrc.gov.
* * * * *
*The schedule for Commission meetings is subject to change on short
notice. To verify the status of meetings, call (recording)--(301) 415-
1292. Contact person for more information: Rochelle Bavol, (301) 415-
1651.
* * * * *
The NRC Commission Meeting Schedule can be found on the Internet
[[Page 18874]]
at: www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/policy-making/schedule.html.
* * * * *
The NRC provides reasonable accommodation to individuals with
disabilities where appropriate. If you need a reasonable accommodation
to participate in these public meetings, or need this meeting notice or
the transcript or other information from the public meetings in another
format (e.g. braille, large print), please notify Bill Dosch, Chief,
Work Life and Benefits Branch, at 301-415-6200, TDD: 301-415-2100, or
by email at william.dosch@nrc.gov. Determinations on requests for
reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.
* * * * *
This notice is distributed electronically to subscribers. If you no
longer wish to receive it, or would like to be added to the
distribution, please contact the Office of the Secretary, Washington,
DC 20555 (301-415-1969), or send an email to darlene.wright@nrc.gov.
Dated: March 23, 2012.
Kenneth Hart,
Technical Coordinator, Office of the Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2012-7539 Filed 3-26-12; 11:15 am]
BILLING CODE 7590-01-P