Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) Meeting of the ACRS Subcommittee on Reliability and PRA; Notice of Meeting, 60480-60481 [2012-24383]

Download as PDF 60480 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 192 / Wednesday, October 3, 2012 / Notices SNF systems, (d) add a recommendation for an optional misload analysis coupled with additional administrative SNF system loading procedures, in lieu of a direct burnup measurement, and (e) make miscellaneous and editorial changes. II. Further Information The draft SFST–ISG–8, Revision 3, was published in the Federal Register on May 2, 2012 (77 FR 26050) for a 30day public comment period. The public comment period closed on June 1, 2012. A table containing the comments received from external stakeholders and the staff responses to these comments is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML12261A432. Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day of September, 2012. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Mark Lombard, Director, Division of Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. [FR Doc. 2012–24396 Filed 10–2–12; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590–01–P NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) Meeting of the ACRS Subcommittee on Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems; Notice of Meeting erowe on DSK2VPTVN1PROD with The ACRS Subcommittee on Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems (DI&C) will hold a meeting on October 30, 2012, Room T–2B1, 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland. The entire meeting will be open to public attendance. The agenda for the subject meeting shall be as follows: Tuesday, October 30, 2012–8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. The Subcommittee will review and discuss the Design Specific Review Standard (DSRS) for Instrumentation and Control of the Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) mPower reactor. 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), Christina VerDate Mar<15>2010 15:03 Oct 02, 2012 Jkt 229001 Antonescu (Telephone 301–415–6792 or Email: Christina.Antonescu@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 64126– 64127). 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. 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 (Telephone 240–888–9835) to be escorted to the meeting room. Dated: September 26, 2012. Antonio Dias, Technical Advisor, Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards. [FR Doc. 2012–24345 Filed 10–2–12; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590–01–P NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) Meeting of the ACRS Subcommittee on Reliability and PRA; Notice of Meeting The ACRS Subcommittee on Reliability and PRA will hold a meeting on October 19, 2012, Room T–2B1, PO 00000 Frm 00108 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland. The entire meeting will be open to public attendance. The agenda for the subject meeting shall be as follows: Friday, October 19, 2012–1 p.m. until 5 p.m. The Subcommittee will be briefed on the guidance on the treatment of uncertainties associated with Probabilistic Risk Assessments (PRAs) in risk-informed applications. The Subcommittee will hear presentations by and hold discussions with the NRC staff, Industry, 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), John Lai (Telephone 301–415–5197 or Email: John.Lai@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 64126– 64127). 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. 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. E:\FR\FM\03OCN1.SGM 03OCN1 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 192 / Wednesday, October 3, 2012 / Notices 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 (Telephone 240–888–9835) to be escorted to the meeting room. Dated: September 26, 2012. Antonio Dias, Technical Advisor, Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards. [FR Doc. 2012–24383 Filed 10–2–12; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590–01–P NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [NRC–2011–0296] Design, Inspection, and Testing Criteria for Air Filtration and Adsorption Units of Post-Accident Engineered-Safety-Feature Atmosphere Cleanup Systems in LightWater-Cooled Nuclear Power Plants Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Regulatory guide; issuance. AGENCY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the Commission) is issuing a revision to Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.52, ‘‘Design, Inspection, and Testing Criteria for Air Filtration and Adsorption Units of Post-accident Engineered-Safety-Feature Atmosphere Cleanup Systems in Light-Water-Cooled Nuclear Power Plants.’’ This guide applies to the design, inspection, and testing of air filtration and iodine adsorption units of engineered-safetyfeature (ESF) atmosphere cleanup systems in light-water-cooled nuclear power plants. ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2011–0296 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–2011–0296. 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, erowe on DSK2VPTVN1PROD with SUMMARY: VerDate Mar<15>2010 15:03 Oct 02, 2012 Jkt 229001 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. Revision 4 of Regulatory Guide 1.52 is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML12159A013. The regulatory analysis may be found in ADAMS under Accession No. ML12159A538. • 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: Mekonnen Bayssie, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–251– 7489; email: Mekonnen.Bayssie@nrc.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Introduction 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 4 of RG 1.52 was issued with a temporary identification as Draft Regulatory Guide, DG–1274. This guide provides a method that the NRC considers acceptable to implement part 50 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), ‘‘Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities,’’ Appendix A, ‘‘General Design Criteria for Nuclear Power Plants,’’ as it applies to the design, inspection, and testing of air filtration and iodine adsorption units of ESF atmosphere cleanup systems in lightwater-cooled nuclear power plants. For the purposes of this guide, ESF atmosphere cleanup systems are those systems that are credited in the licensee’s current design-basis accident (DBA) analysis, as described in the safety analysis report (SAR), or those PO 00000 Frm 00109 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 60481 systems that the licensee has described in the SAR as ESF atmosphere cleanup systems. This guide addresses ESF atmosphere cleanup systems, including the various components and ductwork, in the postulated DBA environment. The NRC published the previous Revision 3 of this RG in June 2001. Since this publication, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Committee on Nuclear Air and Gas Treatment (CONAGT) has expanded the scope of equipment covered by ASME AG–1, ‘‘Code on Nuclear Air and Gas Treatment.’’ The NRC staff had previously endorsed earlier revisions of ASME–AG–1 in RG 1.52. The revision to ASME–AG–1 consolidated select requirements from ASME–N509, ‘‘Nuclear Power Plant Air-Cleaning Units and Components,’’ ASME–N510, ‘‘Testing of Nuclear Air-Treatment Systems,’’ and other documents previously endorsed by the NRC staff in RG 1.52. In addition, CONAGT has developed and published a new standard, ASME–N511–2007, ‘‘Inservice Testing of Nuclear Air Treatment, Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning Systems.’’ This new standard provides comprehensive test and inspection requirements and is written to complement the expanded ASME–AG–1. Revision 4 of this RG is necessary to address these changes to the referenced industry standards. II. Further Information DG–1274 was published in the Federal Register on December 30, 2011 (76 FR 82323), for a 60-day public comment period. The public comment period closed on February 25, 2012. Public comments on DG–1274 and the staff responses to the public comments are available under ADAMS Accession No. ML12159A049. III. Backfitting and Issue Finality Issuance of this final regulatory guide 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 10 CFR Part 52. As discussed in the ‘‘Implementation’’ section of this regulatory guide, the NRC has no current intention to impose this regulatory guide on holders of current operating licenses or combined licenses. This regulatory guide may be applied to applications for operating licenses and combined licenses docketed by the NRC as of the date of issuance of the final regulatory guide, as well as future applications for operating licenses and combined licenses submitted after the issuance of the regulatory guide. Such action does not constitute backfitting as E:\FR\FM\03OCN1.SGM 03OCN1

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) Meeting of the 
ACRS Subcommittee on Reliability and PRA; Notice of Meeting

    The ACRS Subcommittee on Reliability and PRA will hold a meeting on 
October 19, 2012, Room T-2B1, 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 
Maryland.
    The entire meeting will be open to public attendance.
    The agenda for the subject meeting shall be as follows:

Friday, October 19, 2012-1 p.m. until 5 p.m.

    The Subcommittee will be briefed on the guidance on the treatment 
of uncertainties associated with Probabilistic Risk Assessments (PRAs) 
in risk-informed applications. The Subcommittee will hear presentations 
by and hold discussions with the NRC staff, Industry, 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), 
John Lai (Telephone 301-415-5197 or Email: John.Lai@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 64126-
64127).
    Detailed meeting agendas and meeting transcripts are available on 
the NRC Web site at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/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. 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.

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    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 (Telephone 240-888-9835) 
to be escorted to the meeting room.

    Dated: September 26, 2012.
Antonio Dias,
Technical Advisor, Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 2012-24383 Filed 10-2-12; 8:45 am]
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