Quality Group Classifications and Standards for Water-, Steam-, and Radioactive-Waste-Containing Components of Nuclear Power Plants, 24672-24673 [2021-09728]

Download as PDF 24672 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 87 / Friday, May 7, 2021 / Notices The report must be certified and submitted by the institution’s designated Coordinating Official (CO) annually. Use of the Information: The completion report data provides NSF with accurate Fellow information regarding completion of the Fellows’ graduate programs. The data is used by NSF in its assessment of the impact of its investments in the GRFP, and informs its program management. Estimate of Burden: Overall average time will be 15 minutes per Fellow (8,250 Fellows) for a total of 2,063 hours for all institutions with Fellows. An estimate for institutions with 12 or fewer Fellows will be 1 hour, institutions with 12–48 fellows will be 4 hours, and institutions over 48 Fellows will be 10 hours. Respondents: Academic institutions with NSF Graduate Fellows (GRFP Institutions). Estimated Number of Responses per Report: One from each of the 271 current GRFP institutions. Dated: May 3, 2021. Suzanne H. Plimpton, Reports Clearance Officer, National Science Foundation. [FR Doc. 2021–09657 Filed 5–6–21; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7555–01–P NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [NRC–2020–0252] Quality Group Classifications and Standards for Water-, Steam-, and Radioactive-Waste-Containing Components of Nuclear Power Plants Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Draft regulatory guide; request for comment. AGENCY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for public comment draft regulatory guide (DG), DG–1371, ‘‘Quality Group Classifications and Standards for Water, Steam-, and Radioactive-WasteContaining Components of Nuclear Power Plants.’’ This proposed Revision 6 of Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.26, incorporates additional information that provides guidance for alternative quality classification systems for components in light-water reactor (LWR) nuclear power plants and updates the staff position regarding classification of Quality Group C components to reflect the latest guidance on systems that contain radioactive material since Revision 5 (02/2017), of RG 1.26 was issued. The SUMMARY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:55 May 06, 2021 Jkt 253001 appendices to this RG provide guidance for alternative quality classification systems for components in LWR nuclear power plants. DATES: Submit comments by July 6, 2021. Comments received after this date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC is able to ensure consideration only for comments received on or before this date. Although a time limit is given, comments and suggestions in connection with items for inclusion in guides currently being developed or improvements in all published guides are encouraged at any time. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods; however, the NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the Federal Rulemaking website: • Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC–2020–0252. Address questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; telephone: 301- 415–0624; email: Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact the individuals listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document. • Mail comments to: Office of Administration, Mail Stop: TWFN– 7A06, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 0001, ATTN: Program Management, Announcements and Editing Staff. 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: Thomas Scarbrough, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301– 415–2794 email: Thomas.Scarbrough@ nrc.gov or James Steckel, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, telephone: 301 415–1026 email: James.Steckel@ nrc.gov. Both are staff members of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555–0001. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: • 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 ‘‘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. • Attention: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies of public documents, is currently closed. You may submit your request to the PDR via email at pdr.resource@nrc.gov or call 1– 800–397–4209 or 301–415–4737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (EST), Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments II. Additional Information The NRC is issuing for public comment a draft guide in the NRC’s ‘‘Regulatory Guide’’ series. This series was developed to describe methods that are acceptable to the NRC staff for implementing specific parts of the agency’s regulations, to explain techniques that the staff uses in evaluating specific issues or postulated events, and to describe information that the staff needs in its review of applications for permits and licenses. A. Obtaining Information Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2020– 0252 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information regarding this action. You may obtain publicly available information related to this action, by any of the following methods: • Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC–2020–0252. PO 00000 Frm 00091 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 B. Submitting Comments The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the Federal Rulemaking Website (https:// www.regulations.gov). Please include Docket ID NRC–2020–0252 in your comment submission. The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact information 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. 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. E:\FR\FM\07MYN1.SGM 07MYN1 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 87 / Friday, May 7, 2021 / Notices The DG, titled, ‘‘Quality Group Classifications and Standards for Water, Steam-, and Radioactive-WasteContaining Components of Nuclear Power Plants’’ is a proposed revision temporarily identified by its task number, DG–1371 (ADAMS Accession No. ML20168A883). The draft guide is proposed Revision 6 of RG 1.26, ‘‘Quality Group Classifications and Standards for Water-, Steam-, and Radioactive-Waste-Containing Components of Nuclear Power Plants’’ (ADAMS Accession No. ML16082A501). The proposed revision guidance for a quality classification system related to specified national standards that may be used to determine quality standards acceptable to the staff of the NRC for satisfying General Design Criterion 1, ‘‘Quality Standards and Records,’’ as set forth in appendix A, ‘‘General Design Criteria for Nuclear Power Plants,’’ part 50 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), ‘‘Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities’’ for components containing water, steam, or radioactive material in light-watercooled nuclear power plants. Changes are being made to provide guidance for alternative quality classification systems for components in light-water reactor nuclear power plants and updates the staff position regarding classification of Quality Group C components to reflect the latest guidance on systems that contain radioactive material since Revision 5, (02/2017) of RG 1.26 was issued. The staff is also issuing for public comment a draft regulatory analysis (ADAMS Accession No. ML20168A893). The staff develops a regulatory analysis to assess the value of issuing or revising a regulatory guide as well as alternative courses of action. III. Backfitting, Forward Fitting, and Issue Finality DG–1371, if finalized, would revise RG 1.26, incorporate additional information that provides guidance for alternative quality classification systems for components in LWR nuclear power plants, and update the staff position regarding classification of Quality Group C components to reflect the latest guidance on systems that contain radioactive material. Issuance of DG– 1371, if finalized, would not constitute backfitting as defined in 10 CFR 50.109, ‘‘Backfitting,’’ and as described in NRC Management Directive (MD) 8.4, ‘‘Management of Backfitting, Forward Fitting, Issue Finality, and Information Requests’’; constitute forward fitting as that term is defined and described in MD 8.4; or affect the issue finality of any approval issued under 10 CFR part 52. VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:55 May 06, 2021 Jkt 253001 Dated: May 4, 2021. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Meraj Rahimi, Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Generic Issues Branch, Division of Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. [FR Doc. 2021–09728 Filed 5–6–21; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590–01–P NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [Docket Nos. 50–280 and 50–281; NRC– 2021–0101] Virginia Electric and Power Company; Surry Power Station, Units 1 and 2 Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Subsequent license renewal and record of decision; issuance. AGENCY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued Subsequent Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. DPR–32 and DPR–37 to Virginia Electric and Power Company (Dominion Energy Virginia, Dominion, or the licensee), for Surry Power Station, Units 1 and 2, respectively. In addition, the NRC has prepared a record of decision (ROD) that supports the NRC’s decision to issue Subsequent Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. DPR–32 and DPR–37. DATES: The Subsequent Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. DPR–32 and DPR–37 were issued on May 4, 2021. SUMMARY: Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2021–0101 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 Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC–2021–0101. Address questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; telephone: 301–415–0624; email: Stacy.Schumann@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 access publicly available documents online in the ADAMS Public Documents collection at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ adams.html. To begin the search, 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– ADDRESSES: PO 00000 Frm 00092 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 24673 415–4737, or by email to pdr.resource@ nrc.gov. The ADAMS accession number for each document referenced (if it is available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that it is mentioned in this document. • Attention: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies of public documents, is currently closed. You may submit your request to the PDR via email at pdr.resource@nrc.gov or call 1– 800–397–4209 or 301–415–4737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (EST), Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Angela Wu, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 0001; telephone: 301–415–2995, email: Angela.Wu@nrc.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby given that the NRC has issued Subsequent Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. DPR–32 and DPR–37 to Virginia Electric and Power Company (Dominion Energy Virginia, Dominion, or the licensee), for Surry Power Station, Units 1 and 2, respectively. Dominion is the operator of the facility. Subsequent Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. DPR–32 and DPR–37 authorize operation of Unit 1 and Unit 2, respectively, by Dominion at reactor core power levels not in excess of 2,587 megawatts thermal for each unit, in accordance with the provisions of the Surry Power Station, Units 1 and 2, subsequent renewed licenses and technical specifications. Notice is also given that the ROD that supports the NRC’s decision to issue Subsequent Renewed Facility Operating License Nos. DPR–32 and DPR–37 is available in ADAMS Accession No. ML20091L985. As discussed in the ROD and the final supplemental environmental impact statement (FSEIS) for Surry Power Station, Units 1 and 2, Supplement 6, Second Renewal, to NUREG–1437, ‘‘Generic Environmental Impact Statement for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants Regarding Subsequent License Renewal for Surry Power Station, Units 1 and 2, Final Report,’’ dated April 2020 (ADAMS Accession No. ML20071D538), the NRC staff initially considered 16 alternatives to subsequent license renewal. The NRC staff dismissed 13 alternatives because of technical, resource availability, or commercial limitations that currently exist and that are likely to continue to exist when the existing Surry renewed licenses expire, rendering these alternatives not feasible and commercially viable. This resulted in the three reasonable replacement power E:\FR\FM\07MYN1.SGM 07MYN1

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2020-0252]


Quality Group Classifications and Standards for Water-, Steam-, 
and Radioactive-Waste-Containing Components of Nuclear Power Plants

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Draft regulatory guide; request for comment.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for 
public comment draft regulatory guide (DG), DG-1371, ``Quality Group 
Classifications and Standards for Water-, Steam-, and Radioactive-
Waste-Containing Components of Nuclear Power Plants.'' This proposed 
Revision 6 of Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.26, incorporates additional 
information that provides guidance for alternative quality 
classification systems for components in light-water reactor (LWR) 
nuclear power plants and updates the staff position regarding 
classification of Quality Group C components to reflect the latest 
guidance on systems that contain radioactive material since Revision 5 
(02/2017), of RG 1.26 was issued. The appendices to this RG provide 
guidance for alternative quality classification systems for components 
in LWR nuclear power plants.

DATES: Submit comments by July 6, 2021. Comments received after this 
date will be considered if it is practical to do so, but the NRC is 
able to ensure consideration only for comments received on or before 
this date. Although a time limit is given, comments and suggestions in 
connection with items for inclusion in guides currently being developed 
or improvements in all published guides are encouraged at any time.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods; 
however, the NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the 
Federal Rulemaking website:
     Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2020-0252. Address 
questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; 
telephone: 301- 415-0624; email: [email protected]. For technical 
questions, contact the individuals listed in the FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document.
     Mail comments to: Office of Administration, Mail Stop: 
TWFN-7A06, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001, ATTN: Program Management, Announcements and Editing Staff.
    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: Thomas Scarbrough, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301-415-2794 email: 
[email protected] or James Steckel, Office of Nuclear 
Regulatory Research, telephone: 301 415-1026 email: 
[email protected]. Both are staff members of the U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Obtaining Information and Submitting Comments

A. Obtaining Information

    Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2020-0252 when contacting the NRC 
about the availability of information regarding this action. You may 
obtain publicly available information related to this action, by any of 
the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2020-0252.
     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 ``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 [email protected].
     Attention: The PDR, where you may examine and order copies 
of public documents, is currently closed. You may submit your request 
to the PDR via email at [email protected] or call 1-800-397-4209 or 
301-415-4737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (EST), Monday through 
Friday, except Federal holidays.

B. Submitting Comments

    The NRC encourages electronic comment submission through the 
Federal Rulemaking Website (https://www.regulations.gov). Please 
include Docket ID NRC-2020-0252 in your comment submission.
    The NRC cautions you not to include identifying or contact 
information 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. 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. Additional Information

    The NRC is issuing for public comment a draft guide in the NRC's 
``Regulatory Guide'' series. This series was developed to describe 
methods that are acceptable to the NRC staff for implementing specific 
parts of the agency's regulations, to explain techniques that the staff 
uses in evaluating specific issues or postulated events, and to 
describe information that the staff needs in its review of applications 
for permits and licenses.

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    The DG, titled, ``Quality Group Classifications and Standards for 
Water-, Steam-, and Radioactive-Waste-Containing Components of Nuclear 
Power Plants'' is a proposed revision temporarily identified by its 
task number, DG-1371 (ADAMS Accession No. ML20168A883). The draft guide 
is proposed Revision 6 of RG 1.26, ``Quality Group Classifications and 
Standards for Water-, Steam-, and Radioactive-Waste-Containing 
Components of Nuclear Power Plants'' (ADAMS Accession No. ML16082A501). 
The proposed revision guidance for a quality classification system 
related to specified national standards that may be used to determine 
quality standards acceptable to the staff of the NRC for satisfying 
General Design Criterion 1, ``Quality Standards and Records,'' as set 
forth in appendix A, ``General Design Criteria for Nuclear Power 
Plants,'' part 50 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), 
``Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities'' for 
components containing water, steam, or radioactive material in light-
water-cooled nuclear power plants.
    Changes are being made to provide guidance for alternative quality 
classification systems for components in light-water reactor nuclear 
power plants and updates the staff position regarding classification of 
Quality Group C components to reflect the latest guidance on systems 
that contain radioactive material since Revision 5, (02/2017) of RG 
1.26 was issued.
    The staff is also issuing for public comment a draft regulatory 
analysis (ADAMS Accession No. ML20168A893). The staff develops a 
regulatory analysis to assess the value of issuing or revising a 
regulatory guide as well as alternative courses of action.

III. Backfitting, Forward Fitting, and Issue Finality

    DG-1371, if finalized, would revise RG 1.26, incorporate additional 
information that provides guidance for alternative quality 
classification systems for components in LWR nuclear power plants, and 
update the staff position regarding classification of Quality Group C 
components to reflect the latest guidance on systems that contain 
radioactive material. Issuance of DG-1371, if finalized, would not 
constitute backfitting as defined in 10 CFR 50.109, ``Backfitting,'' 
and as described in NRC Management Directive (MD) 8.4, ``Management of 
Backfitting, Forward Fitting, Issue Finality, and Information 
Requests''; constitute forward fitting as that term is defined and 
described in MD 8.4; or affect the issue finality of any approval 
issued under 10 CFR part 52.

    Dated: May 4, 2021.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Meraj Rahimi,
Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Generic Issues Branch, Division of 
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2021-09728 Filed 5-6-21; 8:45 am]
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