Interim Staff Guidance on Changes to the Generic Aging Lessons Learned (GALL) Report Revision 2 AMP XI.M41, “Buried and Underground Piping and Tanks”, 46127-46128 [2012-18862]

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AGENCY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing the final License Renewal Interim Staff Guidance (LR–ISG), LR–ISG–2011–03, ‘‘Changes to GALL Report Revision 2 Aging Management Program (AMP) XI.M41, ‘Buried and Underground Piping and Tanks’.’’ This LR–ISG provides changes to the recommendations in GALL Report Revision 2 AMP XI.M41 based on the staff’s review of several license renewal applications’ buried and underground piping and tanks AMPs and stakeholder input. The LR–ISG revises NRC staff recommended AMPs in NUREG–1801, Revision 2, ‘‘Generic Aging Lessons Learned (GALL) Report,’’ and the NRC staff’s aging management review procedure and acceptance criteria contained in NUREG–1800, Revision 2, ‘‘Standard Review Plan for Review of License Renewal Applications for Nuclear Power Plants’’ (SRP–LR). The NRC published Revision 2 of the SRP– LR and GALL Report in December 2010, and they are available in the NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) under Accession Nos. ML103490041 and ML103490036, respectively. ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2012–0055 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 any of the following methods: • Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC–2012–0055. 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/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 SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00112 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 46127 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 document (if that document is available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is referenced. The LR–ISG– 2011–03 is available under ADAMS Accession No. ML12138A296. • 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. • NRC’s Interim Staff Guidance Web Site: LR–ISG documents are also available online under the ‘‘License Renewal’’ heading at https:// www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/#int. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. William Holston, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415– 8573, or email: William.Holston@nrc.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background Information The NRC issues LR–ISG to communicate insights and lessons learned and to address emergent issues not covered in license renewal guidance documents. In this way, the NRC staff and stakeholders may use the guidance in an LR–ISG document until it is incorporated into a formal license renewal guidance document revision. The NRC staff issues LR–ISG in accordance with the LR–ISG Process, Revision 2 (ADAMS Accession No. ML100920158), for which a notice of availability was published in the Federal Register on June 22, 2010 (75 FR 35510). The NRC staff developed LR–ISG– 2011–03 to (a) Include inspection recommendations for plants that will not utilize a cathodic protection system in the period of extended operation, (b) remove the recommendation to volumetrically inspect underground piping to detect internal corrosion since other AMPs such as XI.M 38 manage the aging of internal surfaces of buried and underground piping and tanks, (c) base further increased inspection sample sizes on an analysis of extent of cause and extent of condition when adverse conditions are detected in the initial and subsequent doubled sample size rather than continuing to double the sample size, (d) add a recommendation that where damage to the coating is significant and the damage was caused E:\FR\FM\02AUN1.SGM 02AUN1 46128 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 149 / Thursday, August 2, 2012 / Notices mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES by non-conforming backfill, an extent of condition evaluation should be conducted to ensure that the as-left condition of backfill in the vicinity of observed damage will not lead to further degradation, (e) add specific acceptance criteria for cathodic protection surveys, (f) add the specific preventive and mitigative actions utilized by the AMP in the Final Safety Analysis Report Supplement description of the program as contained in the SRP–LR, (g) make miscellaneous and editorial changes, and (h) correct an internal conflict between AMP XI.M41 and AMP XI.M36, ‘‘External Surfaces Monitoring of Mechanical Components.’’ On March 9, 2012, (77 FR 14446) the NRC requested public comments on draft LR–ISG–2011–03 (ADAMS Accession No. ML11244A058). By letter dated March 27, 2012, (ADAMS Accession No. ML12089A021), the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) requested a 14-day extension to the comment period. The NRC staff granted the NEI’s requested as noticed on April 11, 2012 (77 FR 21813) and given that the comment period had closed on April 9, 2012, the comment period was reopened until April 20, 2012. The NRC received external comments from Mr. Jon Cavello on April 1, 2012 (ADAMS Accession No. ML12094A367), Mears Group on April 9, 2012 (ADAMS Accession No. ML12103A207), Det Norske Veritas (USA) Inc. on April 13, 2012 (ADAMS Accession No. ML12108A049), and NEI on April 20, 2012 (ADAMS Accession No. ML12114A214). No other external comments were submitted. The NRC considered these comments in developing the final LR–ISG. Detailed responses to the comments can be found in Appendix G of the final LR–ISG. The final LR–ISG–2011–03 is approved for NRC staff and stakeholder use and will be incorporated into NRC’s next formal license renewal guidance document revision. Backfitting and Issue Finality Issuance of this final LR–ISG does not constitute backfitting as defined in 10 CFR 50.109 (the Backfit Rule) and is not otherwise inconsistent with the issue finality provisions in Part 52, ‘‘Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants,’’ of 10 CFR. As discussed in the ‘‘Backfitting Discussion’’ section of final LR–ISG– 2011–03, the LR–ISG is directed to holders of operating licenses or combined licenses who are currently in the license renewal process. The LR– ISG is not directed to holders of operating licenses or combined licenses until they apply for license renewal. VerDate Mar<15>2010 18:15 Aug 01, 2012 Jkt 226001 The LR–ISG is also not directed to licensees who already hold renewed operating or combined licenses. Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day of July, 2012. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Melanie A. Galloway, Deputy Director, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. [FR Doc. 2012–18862 Filed 8–1–12; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590–01–P NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [NRC–2012–0180] Proposed Revision 0 to Standard Review Plan Section 19.5: Adequacy of Design Features and Functional Capabilities Identified and Described for Withstanding Aircraft Impacts Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Solicitation of public comment. AGENCY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is soliciting public comment on a proposed revision to its Standard Review Plan (SRP), NUREG– 0800, ‘‘Standard Review Plan for the Review of Safety Analysis Reports for Nuclear Power Plants: LWR Edition.’’ The NRC seeks comments on a new section of the SRP: Section 19.5: ‘‘Adequacy of Design Features and Functional Capabilities Identified and Described for Withstanding Aircraft Impacts,’’ (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML12138A468), under Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) part 52. The current SRP does not contain guidance on Aircraft Impact Assessment. SUMMARY: Comments must be filed no later than 30 days from the date of publication of this notice in the Federal Register. Comments received after this date will be considered, if it is practical to do so, but the Commission is able to ensure consideration only for comments received on or before this date. ADDRESSES: You may access information and comment submissions related to this document, which the NRC possesses and is publicly available, by searching on https://www.regulations.gov under Docket ID NRC–2012–0180. You may submit comments by any of the following methods: • Federal rulemaking Web site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC–2012–0180. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol DATES: PO 00000 Frm 00113 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Gallagher; telephone: 301–492–3668; email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. • Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Chief, Rules, Announcements, and Directives Branch (RADB), Office of Administration, Mail Stop: TWB–05– B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 0001. • Fax comments to: RADB at 301– 492–3446. For additional direction on accessing information and submitting comments, see ‘‘Accessing Information and Submitting Comments’’ in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Amy E. Cubbage, Chief, Policy Branch, Division of Advanced Reactors and Rulemaking, Office of New Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone at 301–415–2875 or email at amy.cubbage@nrc.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NRC seeks public comment on a proposed new section of the Section 19.5: ‘‘Adequacy of Design Features and Functional Capabilities Identified and Described for Withstanding Aircraft Impacts,’’ (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML12138A468). This section has been developed to assist NRC staff with the review of applications for certain construction permits, operating licenses, design approvals, design certifications, manufacturing licenses, license amendments, and combined licenses and to inform new reactor applicants and other affected entities of proposed SRP guidance. Following NRC staff evaluation of public comments, the NRC intends to incorporate the final approved guidance into the next revision of NUREG–0800. The SRP is guidance for the NRC staff. The SRP is not a substitute for the NRC’s regulations, and compliance with the SRP is not required. Accordingly, issuance of the SRP does not constitute ‘‘backfitting’’ as defined in 10 CFR 50.109(a)(1) of the Backfit Rule and is not otherwise inconsistent with the applicable issue finality provisions in 10 CFR part 52. Accessing Information and Submitting Comments A. Accessing Information Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2012– 0180 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 is E:\FR\FM\02AUN1.SGM 02AUN1

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Interim Staff Guidance on Changes to the Generic Aging Lessons 
Learned (GALL) Report Revision 2 AMP XI.M41, ``Buried and Underground 
Piping and Tanks''

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Interim staff guidance; issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing the 
final License Renewal Interim Staff Guidance (LR-ISG), LR-ISG-2011-03, 
``Changes to GALL Report Revision 2 Aging Management Program (AMP) 
XI.M41, `Buried and Underground Piping and Tanks'.'' This LR-ISG 
provides changes to the recommendations in GALL Report Revision 2 AMP 
XI.M41 based on the staff's review of several license renewal 
applications' buried and underground piping and tanks AMPs and 
stakeholder input. The LR-ISG revises NRC staff recommended AMPs in 
NUREG-1801, Revision 2, ``Generic Aging Lessons Learned (GALL) 
Report,'' and the NRC staff's aging management review procedure and 
acceptance criteria contained in NUREG-1800, Revision 2, ``Standard 
Review Plan for Review of License Renewal Applications for Nuclear 
Power Plants'' (SRP-LR). The NRC published Revision 2 of the SRP-LR and 
GALL Report in December 2010, and they are available in the NRC's 
Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) under 
Accession Nos. ML103490041 and ML103490036, respectively.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2012-0055 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 any of the following 
methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-0055. 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 document (if that document is 
available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is 
referenced. The LR-ISG-2011-03 is available under ADAMS Accession No. 
ML12138A296.
     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.
     NRC's Interim Staff Guidance Web Site: LR-ISG documents 
are also available online under the ``License Renewal'' heading at 
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/#int.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. William Holston, Division of 
License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-
8573, or email: William.Holston@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background Information

    The NRC issues LR-ISG to communicate insights and lessons learned 
and to address emergent issues not covered in license renewal guidance 
documents. In this way, the NRC staff and stakeholders may use the 
guidance in an LR-ISG document until it is incorporated into a formal 
license renewal guidance document revision. The NRC staff issues LR-ISG 
in accordance with the LR-ISG Process, Revision 2 (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML100920158), for which a notice of availability was published in the 
Federal Register on June 22, 2010 (75 FR 35510).
    The NRC staff developed LR-ISG-2011-03 to (a) Include inspection 
recommendations for plants that will not utilize a cathodic protection 
system in the period of extended operation, (b) remove the 
recommendation to volumetrically inspect underground piping to detect 
internal corrosion since other AMPs such as XI.M 38 manage the aging of 
internal surfaces of buried and underground piping and tanks, (c) base 
further increased inspection sample sizes on an analysis of extent of 
cause and extent of condition when adverse conditions are detected in 
the initial and subsequent doubled sample size rather than continuing 
to double the sample size, (d) add a recommendation that where damage 
to the coating is significant and the damage was caused

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by non-conforming backfill, an extent of condition evaluation should be 
conducted to ensure that the as-left condition of backfill in the 
vicinity of observed damage will not lead to further degradation, (e) 
add specific acceptance criteria for cathodic protection surveys, (f) 
add the specific preventive and mitigative actions utilized by the AMP 
in the Final Safety Analysis Report Supplement description of the 
program as contained in the SRP-LR, (g) make miscellaneous and 
editorial changes, and (h) correct an internal conflict between AMP 
XI.M41 and AMP XI.M36, ``External Surfaces Monitoring of Mechanical 
Components.''
    On March 9, 2012, (77 FR 14446) the NRC requested public comments 
on draft LR-ISG-2011-03 (ADAMS Accession No. ML11244A058). By letter 
dated March 27, 2012, (ADAMS Accession No. ML12089A021), the Nuclear 
Energy Institute (NEI) requested a 14-day extension to the comment 
period. The NRC staff granted the NEI's requested as noticed on April 
11, 2012 (77 FR 21813) and given that the comment period had closed on 
April 9, 2012, the comment period was reopened until April 20, 2012.
    The NRC received external comments from Mr. Jon Cavello on April 1, 
2012 (ADAMS Accession No. ML12094A367), Mears Group on April 9, 2012 
(ADAMS Accession No. ML12103A207), Det Norske Veritas (USA) Inc. on 
April 13, 2012 (ADAMS Accession No. ML12108A049), and NEI on April 20, 
2012 (ADAMS Accession No. ML12114A214). No other external comments were 
submitted. The NRC considered these comments in developing the final 
LR-ISG. Detailed responses to the comments can be found in Appendix G 
of the final LR-ISG.
    The final LR-ISG-2011-03 is approved for NRC staff and stakeholder 
use and will be incorporated into NRC's next formal license renewal 
guidance document revision.

Backfitting and Issue Finality

    Issuance of this final LR-ISG does not constitute backfitting as 
defined in 10 CFR 50.109 (the Backfit Rule) and is not otherwise 
inconsistent with the issue finality provisions in Part 52, ``Licenses, 
Certifications, and Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants,'' of 10 CFR. As 
discussed in the ``Backfitting Discussion'' section of final LR-ISG-
2011-03, the LR-ISG is directed to holders of operating licenses or 
combined licenses who are currently in the license renewal process. The 
LR-ISG is not directed to holders of operating licenses or combined 
licenses until they apply for license renewal. The LR-ISG is also not 
directed to licensees who already hold renewed operating or combined 
licenses.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day of July, 2012.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Melanie A. Galloway,
Deputy Director, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor 
Regulation.
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