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For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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Operator Licensing Examination
Standards for Power Reactors
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: NUREG; issuance.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is issuing NUREG–
1021, Revision 10, ‘‘Operator Licensing
Examination Standards for Power
Reactors, Final Report.’’ This NUREG
provides policy and guidance for the
development, administration, and
grading of examinations used for
licensing operators at nuclear power
plants pursuant to the Commission’s
regulations.
DATES: Revision 10 of NUREG–1021 is
available January 2, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID
NRC–2013–0227 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of
information regarding this document.
You may obtain publicly-available
information related to this document
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• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2013–0227. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol
Gallagher; telephone: 301–287–3422;
email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For
technical questions, contact the
individuals listed in the FOR FURTHER
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• NRC’s Agencywide Documents
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(ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable documents online in the
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adams.html. To begin the search, select
‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then
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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. Revision
10 of NUREG–1021 is available in
ADAMS under Accession No.
ML14352A297. Draft NUREG–1021,
Revision 10 is available in ADAMS
under Accession No. ML13325A090.
• 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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
James Kellum, Office of New Reactors,
telephone: 301–415–5305, email:
Jim.Kellum@nrc.gov; or Timothy Kolb,
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation,
telephone: 301–415–1428, email:
Timothy.Kolb@nrc.gov; U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Revision
10 of NUREG–1021 provides policy and
guidance for the development,
administration, and grading of
examinations used for licensing
operators at nuclear power plants
pursuant to the Commission’s
regulations in Part 55 of Title 10 of the
Code of Federal Regulations, ‘‘Operator
Licenses.’’ This NUREG also provides
guidance for maintaining operators’
licenses, and for the NRC to conduct
requalification examinations when
necessary.
Revision 10 of NUREG–1021 replaces
Revision 9, Supplement 1, of NUREG–
1021. Draft NUREG–1021, Revision 10,
was published in the Federal Register
for public comment on December 9,
2013 (78 FR 73898). The NRC received
90 public comments from private
citizens and industry organizations. The
comments were generally in agreement
with the draft revisions to the NUREG.
Revision 10 of NUREG–1021
incorporates the comments received on
draft NUREG–1021, Revision 10. The
NRC staff’s evaluation and resolution of
the public comments are documented in
ADAMS under Accession No.
ML14345A266.
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For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Michael Junge,
Chief, Operator Licensing and Human
Performance Branch, Division of Construction
Inspection and Operational Programs, Office
of New Reactors.
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Revision to Seismic Design
Parameters
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Standard review plan-final
section revision; issuance.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is issuing a final
revision to the following section in
Chapter 3 of NUREG–0800, ‘‘Standard
Review Plan for the Review of Safety
Analysis Reports for Nuclear Power
Plants: LWR Edition,’’ Section 3.7.1,
‘‘Seismic Design Parameters.’’
DATES: The effective date of this
Standard Review Plan (SRP) update is
February 2, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID
NRC–2013–0041 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of
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document.
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revision for Standard Review Plan (SRP)
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Section 3.7.1, ‘‘Seismic Design
Parameters,’’ is available under ADAMS
Accession No. ML14198A460. A redline
strikeout comparing the proposed
revision to the final revision can be
found in ADAMS under Accession No.
ML14198A466. The responses to public
comments can be found in ADAMS
under Accession No. ML14198A462.
• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and
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doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr0800/.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jonathan DeGange, Office of New
Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001; telephone: 301–415–6992, email:
Jonathan.DeGange@nrc.gov or Nishka
Devaser, telephone: 301–415–5196,
email: NishkaDevaser@nrc.gov, Office of
New Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555
0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
On March 1, 2013 (78 FR 13911), the
NRC published for public comment the
proposed revision to this section of the
SRP. The staff made changes to the
proposed revision after consideration of
comments received. A summary of the
comments and the staff’s disposition of
the comments are available in a separate
document, ‘‘Response to Public
Comments on Draft SRP Section 3.7.1’’
(ADAMS Accession No. ML14198A462).
The changes to this SRP section
reflect current staff’s review methods
and practices based on lessons learned
from NRC reviews of design certification
and combined license applications
completed since the last revision of this
chapter. Changes include: (1)
Enhancements to guidance to the staff
for evaluating the acceptability of
seismic, civil, structural design, and
analysis issues, (2) updates to review
interfaces to improve the efficiency and
consistency of staff reviews and (3)
updates to references covered in the
section.
The revised section has incorporated
staff dispositions of all public comments
received on the proposed revision. The
most salient changes in response to the
public comments are the rewrite of
Appendix B to SRP Section 3.7.1. The
new Appendix B provides further
enhancement of the guidance on
developing power spectral density
functions associated with ground
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motion artificial time histories. No new
SRP acceptance criteria were added as
a result of this rewrite of Appendix B.
II. Backfitting and Issue Finality
Issuance of this final SRP section does
not constitute backfitting as defined in
§ 50.109 of Title 10 of the Code of
Federal Regulations (10 CFR) (the
Backfit Rule) and is not otherwise
inconsistent with the issue finality
provisions in 10 CFR part 52. The staff’s
position is based upon the following
considerations:
1. The SRP positions do not constitute
backfitting, inasmuch as the SRP is
internal guidance directed at the NRC
staff with respect to their regulatory
responsibilities.
The SRP provides guidance to the
staff on how to review an application for
NRC regulatory approval in the form of
licensing. Changes in internal staff
guidance are not matters for which
either nuclear power plant applicants or
licensees are protected under either the
Backfit Rule or the issue finality
provisions of 10 CFR part 52.
2. The NRC staff has no intention to
impose the SRP positions on current
licensees and regulatory approvals
either now or in the future.
The staff does not intend to impose or
apply the positions described in the SRP
to existing (already issued) licenses and
regulatory approvals. Hence, the
issuance of a final SRP—even if
considered guidance which is within
the purview of the issue finality
provisions in 10 CFR part 52—need not
be evaluated as if it were a backfit or as
being inconsistent with issue finality
provisions. If, in the future, the staff
seeks to impose a position in the SRP on
holders of already issued holders of
licenses SRP in a manner which does
not provide issue finality as described
in the applicable issue finality
provision, then the staff must make the
showing as set forth in the Backfit Rule
or address the criteria for avoiding issue
finality as described applicable issue
finality provision.
3. Backfitting and issue finality do
not—with limited exceptions not
applicable here—protect current or
future applicants.
Applicants and potential applicants
are not, with certain exceptions,
protected by either the Backfit Rule or
any issue finality provisions under 10
CFR part 52. This is because neither the
Backfit Rule nor the issue finality
provisions under 10 CFR part 52—with
certain exclusions discussed below—
were intended to apply to every NRC
action which substantially changes the
expectations of current and future
applicants.
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Operator Licensing Examination Standards for Power Reactors
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: NUREG; issuance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing NUREG-
1021, Revision 10, ``Operator Licensing Examination Standards for Power
Reactors, Final Report.'' This NUREG provides policy and guidance for
the development, administration, and grading of examinations used for
licensing operators at nuclear power plants pursuant to the
Commission's regulations.
DATES: Revision 10 of NUREG-1021 is available January 2, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2013-0227 when contacting the
NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You
may obtain publicly-available information related to this document
using any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2013-0227. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-287-
3422; email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact
the individuals listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section
of this document.
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly-available documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection 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.
Revision 10 of NUREG-1021 is available in ADAMS under Accession No.
ML14352A297. Draft NUREG-1021, Revision 10 is available in ADAMS under
Accession No. ML13325A090.
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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James Kellum, Office of New Reactors,
telephone: 301-415-5305, email: Jim.Kellum@nrc.gov; or Timothy Kolb,
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301-415-1428, email:
Timothy.Kolb@nrc.gov; U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Revision 10 of NUREG-1021 provides policy
and guidance for the development, administration, and grading of
examinations used for licensing operators at nuclear power plants
pursuant to the Commission's regulations in Part 55 of Title 10 of the
Code of Federal Regulations, ``Operator Licenses.'' This NUREG also
provides guidance for maintaining operators' licenses, and for the NRC
to conduct requalification examinations when necessary.
Revision 10 of NUREG-1021 replaces Revision 9, Supplement 1, of
NUREG-1021. Draft NUREG-1021, Revision 10, was published in the Federal
Register for public comment on December 9, 2013 (78 FR 73898). The NRC
received 90 public comments from private citizens and industry
organizations. The comments were generally in agreement with the draft
revisions to the NUREG. Revision 10 of NUREG-1021 incorporates the
comments received on draft NUREG-1021, Revision 10. The NRC staff's
evaluation and resolution of the public comments are documented in
ADAMS under Accession No. ML14345A266.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 22nd day of December, 2014.
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For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Michael Junge,
Chief, Operator Licensing and Human Performance Branch, Division of
Construction Inspection and Operational Programs, Office of New
Reactors.
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