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AGENCY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or Commission) is issuing a revision to Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.160, ‘‘Monitoring the Effectiveness of Maintenance at Nuclear Power Plants.’’ This guide endorses Revision 4A to Nuclear Management and Resources Council (NUMARC) 93– 01, ‘‘Industry Guideline for Monitoring the Effectiveness of Maintenance at Nuclear Power Plants,’’ which provides methods that are acceptable to the NRC staff for complying with the provisions of Title 10 of the Code of Federal SUMMARY: E:\FR\FM\21MYN1.SGM 21MYN1 ebenthall on DSK5SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 98 / Monday, May 21, 2012 / Notices Regulations (10 CFR) 50.65, ‘‘Requirements for Monitoring the Effectiveness of Maintenance at Nuclear Power Plants,’’ Part 50, ‘‘Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities.’’ Revision 4 of NUMARC 93– 01 provides enhanced clarity regarding scoping non-safety related Systems, Structures and Components based on their use in Emergency Operating Procedures, gives guidance on consideration of fire risk in (a)(4) risk assessments, and provides enhanced consistency in unavailability monitoring between the Maintenance Rule and Reactor Oversight process by providing clarification to the definition for monitoring of short term unavailability resulting from periodic system or equipment realignments. ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2011–0212 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You may access information related to this document, which the NRC possesses and are publicly available, using the following methods: • Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC–2011–0212. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301–492–3668; email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. • NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS): You may access publiclyavailable documents online in the NRC Library at https://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/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 Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 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[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 98 (Monday, May 21, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30030-30031]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-12215]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2011-0212]


Monitoring the Effectiveness of Maintenance at Nuclear Power 
Plants

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Regulatory guide; issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or Commission) is 
issuing a revision to Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.160, ``Monitoring the 
Effectiveness of Maintenance at Nuclear Power Plants.'' This guide 
endorses Revision 4A to Nuclear Management and Resources Council 
(NUMARC) 93-01, ``Industry Guideline for Monitoring the Effectiveness 
of Maintenance at Nuclear Power Plants,'' which provides methods that 
are acceptable to the NRC staff for complying with the provisions of 
Title 10 of the Code of Federal

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Regulations (10 CFR) 50.65, ``Requirements for Monitoring the 
Effectiveness of Maintenance at Nuclear Power Plants,'' Part 50, 
``Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities.'' 
Revision 4 of NUMARC 93-01 provides enhanced clarity regarding scoping 
non-safety related Systems, Structures and Components based on their 
use in Emergency Operating Procedures, gives guidance on consideration 
of fire risk in (a)(4) risk assessments, and provides enhanced 
consistency in unavailability monitoring between the Maintenance Rule 
and Reactor Oversight process by providing clarification to the 
definition for monitoring of short term unavailability resulting from 
periodic system or equipment realignments.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2011-0212 when contacting the 
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You 
may access information related to this document, which the NRC 
possesses and are publicly available, using the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2011-0212. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-492-
3668; email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov.
     NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System 
(ADAMS): You may access publicly-available documents online 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 
Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-
4737, or by email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The ADAMS accession number 
for each document referenced in this notice (if that document is 
available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is 
referenced. The draft regulatory guide is available electronically 
under ADAMS Accession Number ML111640267 and the regulatory analysis 
under ADAMS Accession Number ML111640279. NUMARC 93-01 is available 
under ADAMS Accession Number ML11116A198.
     NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public 
documents at the NRC's PDR, Room O1-F21, One White Flint North, 11555 
Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
    Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and NRC approval is not 
required to reproduce them.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert G. Carpenter, Office of Nuclear 
Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20555-0001, telephone: 301-251-7483 or email Robert.Carpenter@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NRC is issuing a revision to an existing 
guide in the NRC's ``Regulatory Guide'' series. This series was 
developed to describe and make available to the public information such 
as methods that are acceptable to the 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.
    Revision 3 of RG 1.160 was issued with a temporary identification 
as Draft Regulatory Guide, DG-1278. This regulatory guide endorses 
NUMARC 93-01 which provides methods that are acceptable to the NRC 
staff for complying with the provisions of Section 50.65, 
``Requirements for Monitoring the Effectiveness of Maintenance at 
Nuclear Power Plants,'' of 10 CFR Part 50.
    DG-1278, was published in the Federal Register on September 6, 2011 
(76 FR 55137) for a 60 day public comment period. The public comment 
period was extended from October 31, 2011 to November 11, 2011 (76 FR 
65753). Public comments on DG-1278 and the staff responses to the 
public comments are available under ADAMS Accession Number ML11321A272.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 4th day of May, 2011.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Thomas H. Boyce,
Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of Engineering, 
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2012-12215 Filed 5-18-12; 8:45 am]
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