80_FR_38365 80 FR 38238 - Standard Review Plan for Fuel Cycle Facilities License Applications

80 FR 38238 - Standard Review Plan for Fuel Cycle Facilities License Applications

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 127 (July 2, 2015)

Page Range38238-38239
FR Document2015-16363

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing NUREG- 1520, Revision 2, ``Standard Review Plan for Fuel Cycle Facilities License Applications,'' dated June 2015.

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 127 (Thursday, July 2, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 127 (Thursday, July 2, 2015)]
[Notices]
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[FR Doc No: 2015-16363]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

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Standard Review Plan for Fuel Cycle Facilities License 
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing NUREG-
1520, Revision 2, ``Standard Review Plan for Fuel Cycle Facilities 
License Applications,'' dated June 2015.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2012-0220 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 http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2012-0220. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415-
3463; email: [email protected]. 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 http://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 [email protected]. 
NUREG-1520, Revision 2, ``Standard Review Plan for Fuel Cycle 
Facilities License Applications,'' is available in ADAMS under 
accession number ML15176A258.
     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: Soly I. Soto, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-7528; email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Discussion

    Licenses to possess and use special nuclear material (SNM) are 
governed by Part 70 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 
CFR). The revised Standard Review Plan (SRP) now being made available 
provides NRC staff guidance for reviewing and evaluating the safety, 
health, security, and environmental protection aspects of applications 
for licenses to possess and use SNM at fuel cycle facilities.
    The SRP has been revised to ensure consistency among the chapters, 
improve clarity of the text, reduce redundancies, and assure that 
statutory, regulatory, and guidance document references are accurate 
and up to date. Additionally, the SRP was revised to clarify the 
existing SRP discussion in several technical areas such as nuclear 
criticality safety and management measures, as summarized below. 
Chapter 5, ``Nuclear Criticality Safety,'' contains an expanded 
discussion of the double contingency principle and double contingency 
protection, including a description of what constitutes a loss of 
double contingency. Chapter 11, ``Management Measures,'' includes a 
discussion of graded management measures and the selection of items 
relied on for safety that relates to the application of graded 
management measures. Additionally, the SRP contains two new chapters, 
Chapter 12, ``Material Control and Accounting,'' which includes 
guidance associated with 10 CFR part 74 requirements; and Chapter 13, 
``Physical Protection,'' which includes guidance associated with 10 CFR 
part 73 requirements. These new chapters were added to address the 
requirements in 10 CFR paragraphs 70.22(b), (g), (h), (j), and (k). The 
title of the SRP was revised from ``Standard Review Plan for the Review 
of a License Application for a Fuel Cycle Facility'' to ``Standard 
Review Plan for License Applications for Fuel Cycle Facilities.''
    On June 5, 2014 (79 FR 32579), the NRC announced the availability 
of draft NUREG-1520, Revision 2, and requested comments on it. The 
comment period originally closed on September 3, 2014. In a second 
notice, dated August 6, 2014 (79 FR 45849), the NRC extended the 
comment period to November 3, 2014. A public meeting with the industry 
was held on September 23, 2014, to discuss the proposed changes to the 
SRP. A comment resolution table listing all comments and the NRC 
staff's responses was made publicly available in ADAMS on March 23, 
2015 (ML15065A286). Suggestions to improve the SRP were considered by 
the NRC staff in the preparation of the final NUREG report. After 
further consideration, the NRC staff revised the title of NUREG-1520, 
Revision 2, for final issuance. This change was performed after 
publication of the comments resolution. The title was revised from 
``Standard Review Plan for License Applications for Fuel Cycle 
Facilities'' to ``Standard Review Plan for Fuel Cycle Facilities 
License Applications.''
    The final version of NUREG-1520, Revision 2, is now available for 
use by applicants, licensees, NRC license reviewers, and other NRC 
staff. Revision 2 supersedes the last official revision published on 
May 2010.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day of June, 2015.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Marissa G. Bailey,
Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety, Safeguards, and Environmental 
Review Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
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38238 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 127 / Thursday, July 2, 2015 / Notices information is most needed. it does not necessarily illuminate the Improved NSF surveys will help Alternatively, small samples can be underlying causes. policy makers make decisions on R&D selected to statistically represent at least Use of the Information: The funding, STEM education, scientific and some aspect of the survey population. information obtained from these efforts technical workforce, innovation, as well 5. Split Panel Tests. A technique for will be used to develop new NSF as contribute to increased agency controlled experimental testing of surveys and improve current ones. efficiency and reduced survey costs. In alternatives. Thus, they allow one to These surveys will generally be used to addition, methodological findings have choose from among competing monitor outputs and outcomes of NSF broader implications for survey research questions, questionnaires, definitions, funding over time (particularly data that and may be presented in technical error messages, surveys, or survey is not being collected in annual and papers at conferences or published in improvement methodologies with final reports), and manage and improve greater confidence than other methods programs. Data collected through survey the proceedings of conferences or in alone. Split panel tests conducted questionnaires can be used in program journals. during the actual fielding of the survey evaluation studies and can be matched Estimate of Burden are superior in that they support both to administrative data to understand internal validity (controlled NSF’s portfolio of investments. NSF estimates that a total reporting comparisons of variables under Specifically, the information from the burden of 171,000 hours over the three investigation) and external validity survey questionnaire improvement years of the requested generic clearance (represent the population under study). projects will be used to reduce is possible from working to evaluate/ Nearly any of the previously mentioned respondent burden and to improve the improve existing surveys and to develop survey improvement methods can be quality of the data collected in these new ones. This includes both the strengthened when teamed with this surveys. These objectives are met when burden placed on respondents method. respondents are presented with plain, participating in each activity as well as 6. Behavior Coding. A quantitative coherent, and unambiguous burden imposed on potential technique in which a standard set of questionnaires asking for data respondents during screening activities. codes is systematically applied to compatible with respondents’ memory Table 1 provides a list of potential respondent/interviewer interactions in and/or current reporting and interviewer-administered surveys or improvement projects for which generic recordkeeping practices. The purpose of respondent/questionnaire interactions the survey improvement projects will be clearance activities might be conducted, in self-administered surveys. Though to ensure that NSF surveys are along with estimates of the number of this technique can quantifiably identify continuously attempting to meet these respondents and burden hours that problems with the wording of questions, standards of excellence. might be involved in each. TABLE 1—POTENTIAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS Number of Improvement project type Hours respondents 2 Cognitive Testing ..................................................................................................................................................... 5,000 15,000 Focus Groups .......................................................................................................................................................... 5,000 10,000 Card Sorting ............................................................................................................................................................. 5,000 5,000 Interviews ................................................................................................................................................................. 5,000 5,000 Panelist Survey ........................................................................................................................................................ 7,000 12,000 Past Awardee Survey .............................................................................................................................................. 9,000 14,000 Usability Testing ...................................................................................................................................................... 5,000 10,000 Additional surveys not specified .............................................................................................................................. 35,000 100,000 Total .................................................................................................................................................................. 76,000 171,000 Respondents for generic clearance authority, the total Dated: June 29, 2015. The respondents are PIs, program cost was estimated by summing all the Suzanne H. Plimpton, coordinators, or participants in NSF- hours that might be used on all projects Reports Clearance Officer, National Science over the three years (171,000) wage Foundation. funded activities. amount is the May 2011 national cross- [FR Doc. 2015–16369 Filed 7–1–15; 8:45 am] Estimates of Annualized Cost to industry estimate of the mean hourly BILLING CODE 7555–01–P Respondents for the Hour Burdens wage for a financial analyst, or Job The cost to respondents generated by Category 13–2051, by the Bureau of the list of potential projects is estimated Statistics. http://www.bls.gov/oes/#data. to be $7,212,780 over the three years of NUCLEAR REGULATORY The total hours are based on similar the clearance. No one year’s cost would COMMISSION NSF projects over the past few years. asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES exceed $7,212,780. In other words, if all There are no capital, startup, [NRC–2012–0220] work were done in one year, costs in operation or maintenance costs to the that one year would be $7,212,780 and Standard Review Plan for Fuel Cycle respondents. The costs generated by the costs in each of the other 2 years Facilities License Applications future data collections will be described would be zero. As in previous requests in the clearance request for each specific AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 2 Number data collection. NSF does not anticipate Commission. of respondents listed for any individual survey may represent several methodological any capital, startup, operation, or ACTION: NUREG; issuance. improvement projects. maintenance costs for future surveys. VerDate Sep<11>2014 21:16 Jul 01, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00067 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\02JYN1.SGM 02JYN1

Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 127 / Thursday, July 2, 2015 / Notices 38239 SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory redundancies, and assure that statutory, 2 supersedes the last official revision Commission (NRC) is issuing NUREG– regulatory, and guidance document published on May 2010. 1520, Revision 2, ‘‘Standard Review references are accurate and up to date. Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day Plan for Fuel Cycle Facilities License Additionally, the SRP was revised to of June, 2015. Applications,’’ dated June 2015. clarify the existing SRP discussion in For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID several technical areas such as nuclear Marissa G. Bailey, NRC–2012–0220 when contacting the criticality safety and management Director, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety, NRC about the availability of measures, as summarized below. Safeguards, and Environmental Review Office information regarding this document. Chapter 5, ‘‘Nuclear Criticality Safety,’’ of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. You may obtain publicly-available contains an expanded discussion of the [FR Doc. 2015–16363 Filed 7–1–15; 8:45 am] information related to this document double contingency principle and BILLING CODE 7590–01–P using any of the following methods: double contingency protection, • Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to including a description of what http://www.regulations.gov and search constitutes a loss of double contingency. NUCLEAR REGULATORY for Docket ID NRC–2012–0220. Address Chapter 11, ‘‘Management Measures,’’ COMMISSION questions about NRC dockets to Carol includes a discussion of graded Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; management measures and the selection [NRC–2015–0161] email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For of items relied on for safety that relates to the application of graded Comprehensive Vibration Assessment technical questions, contact the management measures. Additionally, Program for Reactor Internals During individual listed in the FOR FURTHER the SRP contains two new chapters, Preoperational and Startup Testing INFORMATION CONTACT section of this document. Chapter 12, ‘‘Material Control and AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory • NRC’s Agencywide Documents Accounting,’’ which includes guidance Commission. Access and Management System associated with 10 CFR part 74 ACTION: Draft regulatory guide; request (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly requirements; and Chapter 13, ‘‘Physical for comment. available documents online in the Protection,’’ which includes guidance ADAMS Public Documents collection at associated with 10 CFR part 73 SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ requirements. These new chapters were Commission (NRC) is issuing for public adams.html. To begin the search, select added to address the requirements in 10 comment draft regulatory guide (DG), ‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then CFR paragraphs 70.22(b), (g), (h), (j), and DG–1323, ‘‘Comprehensive Vibration select ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS (k). The title of the SRP was revised Assessment Program for Reactor Search.’’ For problems with ADAMS, from ‘‘Standard Review Plan for the Internals During Preoperational and please contact the NRC’s Public Review of a License Application for a Startup Testing.’’ This guide describes Document Room (PDR) reference staff at Fuel Cycle Facility’’ to ‘‘Standard methods and procedures that the staff of 1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by Review Plan for License Applications the NRC considers acceptable when a email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. NUREG– for Fuel Cycle Facilities.’’ developing a comprehensive vibration On June 5, 2014 (79 FR 32579), the assessment program (CVAP) for power 1520, Revision 2, ‘‘Standard Review NRC announced the availability of draft reactor internals during preoperational Plan for Fuel Cycle Facilities License NUREG–1520, Revision 2, and and startup testing. Applications,’’ is available in ADAMS requested comments on it. The under accession number ML15176A258. DATES: Submit comments by August 31, comment period originally closed on • NRC’s PDR: You may examine and 2015. Comments received after this date September 3, 2014. In a second notice, purchase copies of public documents at will be considered if it is practical to do dated August 6, 2014 (79 FR 45849), the the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One so, but the NRC is able to ensure NRC extended the comment period to White Flint North, 11555 Rockville consideration only for comments November 3, 2014. A public meeting Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. with the industry was held on received on or before this date. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Soly September 23, 2014, to discuss the Although a time limit is given, I. Soto, Office of Nuclear Material Safety proposed changes to the SRP. A comments and suggestions in and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory comment resolution table listing all connection with items for inclusion in Commission, Washington DC 20555– comments and the NRC staff’s responses guides currently being developed or 0001; telephone: 301–415–7528; email: was made publicly available in ADAMS improvements in all published guides Soly.Soto@nrc.gov. on March 23, 2015 (ML15065A286). are encouraged at any time. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Suggestions to improve the SRP were ADDRESSES: You may submit comments considered by the NRC staff in the by any of the following methods (unless I. Discussion this document describes a different preparation of the final NUREG report. Licenses to possess and use special After further consideration, the NRC method for submitting comments on a nuclear material (SNM) are governed by staff revised the title of NUREG–1520, specified subject): Part 70 of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Revision 2, for final issuance. This • Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to Regulations (10 CFR). The revised change was performed after publication http://www.regulations.gov and search Standard Review Plan (SRP) now being of the comments resolution. The title for Docket ID NRC–2015–0161. Address made available provides NRC staff questions about NRC dockets to Carol asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES was revised from ‘‘Standard Review guidance for reviewing and evaluating Plan for License Applications for Fuel Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; the safety, health, security, and Cycle Facilities’’ to ‘‘Standard Review email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For environmental protection aspects of Plan for Fuel Cycle Facilities License technical questions, contact the applications for licenses to possess and Applications.’’ individual(s) listed in the FOR FURTHER use SNM at fuel cycle facilities. The final version of NUREG–1520, INFORMATION CONTACT section of this The SRP has been revised to ensure Revision 2, is now available for use by document. consistency among the chapters, applicants, licensees, NRC license • Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, improve clarity of the text, reduce reviewers, and other NRC staff. Revision Office of Administration, Mail Stop: VerDate Sep<11>2014 21:16 Jul 01, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00068 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\02JYN1.SGM 02JYN1


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ActionNUREG; issuance.
ContactSoly I. Soto, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-7528; email: [email protected]
FR Citation80 FR 38238 
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