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Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 186 / Friday, September 25, 2015 / Notices Dates: November 30, 2015–June 30, 2016. Nadene G. Kennedy, Polar Coordination Specialist, Division of Polar Programs. [FR Doc. 2015–24308 Filed 9–24–15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7555–01–P NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [NRC–2014–0184] Chilled Water System Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Standard review plan-final section; issuance. mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES AGENCY: SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a final revision to Section 9.2.7, ‘‘Chilled Water System,’’ of NUREG–0800, ‘‘Standard Review Plan (SRP) for the Review of Safety Analysis Reports for Nuclear Power Plants: LWR Edition.’’ DATES: The effective date of this Standard Review Plan update is October 26, 2015. ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2014–0184 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–2014–0184. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document. • NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable 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. The ADAMS accession number for each document referenced (if it available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is referenced. The final revision for the SRP, Section 9.2.7, ‘‘Chilled Water System,’’ is available in VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:58 Sep 24, 2015 Jkt 235001 ADAMS under Accession No. ML15103A559. A redline strikeout comparing the proposed and final revision of the document can be found in ADAMS under Accession No. ML14328A622. • 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. • The NRC posts its issued staff guidance on the NRC’s external Web page (https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr0800/). FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Notich, Office of New Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555–0001, telephone: 301–415–6256, email: Mark.Notich@ nrc.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Background On August 5, 2014 (79 FR 45498), the NRC published for public comment the proposed SRP Section 9.2.7, ‘‘Chilled Water,’’ in Chapter 9, ‘‘Auxiliary Systems,’’ of NUREG–0800. The NRC staff received comments on the draft section. After consideration of comments received on the proposed revision, the NRC staff reformatted guidance for the review of nonsafetyrelated structures, systems, and components (SSCs) into a tabular format, and separated it from the core review guidance used for review of safety-related SSCs. A summary of comments received and the staff’s disposition of the comments are available in a separate document, ‘‘Response to Public Comments on Draft Standard Review Plan, Section 9.2.7, ‘‘Chilled Water System,’’ (ADAMS Accession No. ML14328A663). II. Backfitting and Issue Finality The SRP Section 9.2.7, provides guidance to the staff for reviewing applications for a construction permit and an operating license under part 50 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), with respect to systems associated with chilled water. The SRP Section 9.2.7 also provides guidance for reviewing an application for a standard design approval, a standard design certification, a combined license, and a manufacturing license under 10 CFR part 52 with respect to the same subject matters. Issuance of this SRP section revision does not constitute backfitting as defined in 10 CFR 50.109 (the Backfit Rule) nor is it inconsistent with the issue finality provisions in 10 CFR part PO 00000 Frm 00101 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 57883 52. The NRC’s position is based upon the following considerations: 1. The SRP positions would not constitute backfitting, inasmuch as the SRP is internal guidance to NRC staff. The SRP provides internal guidance to the NRC 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 existing licensees either now or in the future. The NRC staff does not intend to impose or apply the positions described in the SRP to existing licenses and regulatory approvals. Hence, the issuance of this SRP—even if considered guidance within the purview of the issue finality provisions in 10 CFR part 52—does not need to be evaluated as if it were a backfit or as being inconsistent with issue finality provisions. If, in the future, the NRC staff seeks to impose a position in the SRP on holders of already issued licenses in a manner that 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 in the 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. Neither the Backfit Rule nor the issue finality provisions under 10 CFR part 52—with certain exclusions—were intended to apply to every NRC action that substantially changes the expectations of current and future applicants. The exceptions to the general principle are applicable whenever an applicant references a 10 CFR part 52 license (e.g., an early site permit) or NRC regulatory approval (e.g., a design certification rule) with specified issue finality provisions. The NRC staff does not, at this time, intend to impose the positions represented in the SRP in a manner that is inconsistent with any issue finality provisions. If, in the future, the staff seeks to impose a position in the SRP section in a manner that does not provide issue finality as described in the applicable issue finality E:\FR\FM\25SEN1.SGM 25SEN1 57884 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 186 / Friday, September 25, 2015 / Notices provision, then the staff must address the criteria for avoiding issue finality as described in the applicable issue finality provision. III. Congressional Review Act This action is a rule as defined in the Congressional Review Act (5 U.S.C. 801–808). However, the Office of Management and Budget has not found it to be a major rule as defined in the Congressional Review Act. Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 10th day of September, 2015. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Kimyata Morgan Butler, Acting Chief, New Reactor Rulemaking and Guidance Branch, Division of Advanced Reactors and Rulemaking, Office of New Reactors. [FR Doc. 2015–24306 Filed 9–24–15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590–01–P NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments [NRC–2015–0226] Review and Submission of Updates to the Final Safety Analysis Reports, Emergency Preparedness Documents, and Fire Protection Documents Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Draft regulatory issue summary; request for comment. mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES AGENCY: SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is seeking public comment on a draft regulatory issue summary (RIS), RIS 2015–XX, ‘‘Review and Submission of Updates to the Final Safety Analysis Reports, Emergency Preparedness Documents, and Fire Protection Documents.’’ This RIS reminds addressees of the review and submission requirements regarding information to be withheld from public disclosure, and recommends a format for submission of updates to the Final Safety Analysis Reports (FSARs). DATES: Submit comments by October 26, 2015. Comments received after this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the Commission is able to assure consideration only for comments received before this date. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods (unless this document describes a different method for submitting comments on a specific subject): • Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC–2015–0226. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:58 Sep 24, 2015 email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact the individual listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document. • Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, Office of Administration, Mail Stop: O– 12H8, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 0001. For additional direction on obtaining information and submitting comments, see ‘‘Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments’’ in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Matthew Humberstone, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415–1464; email: Matthew.Humberstone@nrc.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Jkt 235001 A. Obtaining Information Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2015– 0226 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information for this action. You may obtain publiclyavailable information related to this action by any of the following methods: • Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC–2015–0226. • NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable 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. The draft RIS, ‘‘Review and Submission of Updates to the Final Safety Analysis Reports, Emergency Preparedness Documents, and Fire Protection Documents’’ is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML15177A074. • 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. B. Submitting Comments Please include Docket ID NRC–2015– 0226 in the subject line of your comment submission, in order to ensure that the NRC is able to make your PO 00000 Frm 00102 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 comment submission available to the public in this docket. The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact information in comment submisssions that you do not want to be publicly disclosed in your comment submission. The NRC will post all comment submissions at https:// www.regulations.gov as well as enter the comment submissions into ADAMS, and the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to remove identifying or contact information. If you are requesting or aggregating comments from other persons for submission to the NRC, then you should inform those persons not to include identifying or contact information that they do not want to be publicly disclosed in their comment submission. Your request should state that the NRC does not routinely edit comment submissions to remove such information before making the comment submissions available to the public or entering the comment submissions into ADAMS. II. Background The NRC issues RISs to communicate with stakeholders on a broad range of regulatory matters. This may include communicating and restating staff technical positions on regulatory matters. The NRC staff has developed draft RIS 2015–XX to remind licensees of the review and submission requirements of section 2.390 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), ‘‘Public Inspections, Exemptions, Requests for Withholding,’’ regarding information to be withheld from public disclosure, as well as to recommend that the updates to the FSARs required by paragraph (e) of 10 CFR 50.71, ‘‘Maintenance of records, making of reports,’’ be made electronically on a total FSAR replacement basis, as described in paragraph (b)(6) of 10 CFR 50.4, ‘‘Written communications.’’ Specifically, the NRC is issuing this RIS for the following purposes: • To remind licensees of the potential for physical protection information, which the NRC is required to protect in the same manner as commercial or financial information for the purposes of withholding from public disclosure pursuant to 10 CFR 2.390(d)(1), to be contained in documents that will be proactively released to the public in accordance with the Commission direction in Staff Requirements Memorandum (SRM)–SECY–15–0032 (ADAMS Accession No. ML15167A090). Specifically, the NRC reminds licensees of the potential for physical protection information to be contained in Preliminary Safety Analysis Reports, E:\FR\FM\25SEN1.SGM 25SEN1

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2014-0184]


Chilled Water System

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Standard review plan-final section; issuance.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a 
final revision to Section 9.2.7, ``Chilled Water System,'' of NUREG-
0800, ``Standard Review Plan (SRP) for the Review of Safety Analysis 
Reports for Nuclear Power Plants: LWR Edition.''

DATES: The effective date of this Standard Review Plan update is 
October 26, 2015.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2014-0184 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-2014-0184. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact 
the individual 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. The 
ADAMS accession number for each document referenced (if it available in 
ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is referenced. The 
final revision for the SRP, Section 9.2.7, ``Chilled Water System,'' is 
available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML15103A559. A redline strikeout 
comparing the proposed and final revision of the document can be found 
in ADAMS under Accession No. ML14328A622.
     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.
     The NRC posts its issued staff guidance on the NRC's 
external Web page (https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr0800/).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Notich, Office of New Reactors, 
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, 
telephone: 301-415-6256, email: Mark.Notich@nrc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background

    On August 5, 2014 (79 FR 45498), the NRC published for public 
comment the proposed SRP Section 9.2.7, ``Chilled Water,'' in Chapter 
9, ``Auxiliary Systems,'' of NUREG-0800. The NRC staff received 
comments on the draft section. After consideration of comments received 
on the proposed revision, the NRC staff reformatted guidance for the 
review of nonsafety-related structures, systems, and components (SSCs) 
into a tabular format, and separated it from the core review guidance 
used for review of safety-related SSCs. A summary of comments received 
and the staff's disposition of the comments are available in a separate 
document, ``Response to Public Comments on Draft Standard Review Plan, 
Section 9.2.7, ``Chilled Water System,'' (ADAMS Accession No. 
ML14328A663).

II. Backfitting and Issue Finality

    The SRP Section 9.2.7, provides guidance to the staff for reviewing 
applications for a construction permit and an operating license under 
part 50 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), with 
respect to systems associated with chilled water. The SRP Section 9.2.7 
also provides guidance for reviewing an application for a standard 
design approval, a standard design certification, a combined license, 
and a manufacturing license under 10 CFR part 52 with respect to the 
same subject matters.
    Issuance of this SRP section revision does not constitute 
backfitting as defined in 10 CFR 50.109 (the Backfit Rule) nor is it 
inconsistent with the issue finality provisions in 10 CFR part 52. The 
NRC's position is based upon the following considerations:
    1. The SRP positions would not constitute backfitting, inasmuch as 
the SRP is internal guidance to NRC staff.
    The SRP provides internal guidance to the NRC 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 
existing licensees either now or in the future.
    The NRC staff does not intend to impose or apply the positions 
described in the SRP to existing licenses and regulatory approvals. 
Hence, the issuance of this SRP--even if considered guidance within the 
purview of the issue finality provisions in 10 CFR part 52--does not 
need to be evaluated as if it were a backfit or as being inconsistent 
with issue finality provisions. If, in the future, the NRC staff seeks 
to impose a position in the SRP on holders of already issued licenses 
in a manner that 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 in the 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. Neither the Backfit Rule nor the issue 
finality provisions under 10 CFR part 52--with certain exclusions--were 
intended to apply to every NRC action that substantially changes the 
expectations of current and future applicants.
    The exceptions to the general principle are applicable whenever an 
applicant references a 10 CFR part 52 license (e.g., an early site 
permit) or NRC regulatory approval (e.g., a design certification rule) 
with specified issue finality provisions. The NRC staff does not, at 
this time, intend to impose the positions represented in the SRP in a 
manner that is inconsistent with any issue finality provisions. If, in 
the future, the staff seeks to impose a position in the SRP section in 
a manner that does not provide issue finality as described in the 
applicable issue finality

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provision, then the staff must address the criteria for avoiding issue 
finality as described in the applicable issue finality provision.

III. Congressional Review Act

    This action is a rule as defined in the Congressional Review Act (5 
U.S.C. 801-808). However, the Office of Management and Budget has not 
found it to be a major rule as defined in the Congressional Review Act.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 10th day of September, 2015.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Kimyata Morgan Butler,
Acting Chief, New Reactor Rulemaking and Guidance Branch, Division of 
Advanced Reactors and Rulemaking, Office of New Reactors.
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