81 FR 6895 - Revisions to Radioactive Waste Management Guidance for NRC Staff
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[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 26 (Tuesday, February 9, 2016)] [Notices] [Pages 6895-6897] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2016-02588] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION [NRC-2014-0198] Revisions to Radioactive Waste Management Guidance for NRC Staff AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ACTION: Standard review plan-final section revision; issuance ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [[Page 6896]] SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a final revision to several sections in Chapter 11, ``Radioactive Waste Management,'' of NUREG-0800, ``Standard Review Plan (SRP) for the Review of Safety Analysis Reports for Nuclear Power Plants: LWR Edition.'' On September 17, 2014, the NRC published for public comment the proposed revisions to Chapter 11 of the SRP. The NRC made changes to the proposed revisions after the consideration of comments received. Among other changes, the revisions include (1) revision of the title of SRP Section 11.1 to ``Coolant Source Terms,'' (2) implementation of Interim Staff Guidance (ISG), COL/DC-ISG-013, and (3) the revision also harmonizes SRP Section 11.2 with Branch Technical Position (BTP) 11.6 regarding the guidance of COL/DC-ISG-013 for calculating doses to members of the public and identifying acceptable criteria in assessing the radiological consequences of accidental releases due to tank failures. DATES: The effective date of this Standard Review Plan update is March 10, 2016. ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2014-0198 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-2014-0198. Address questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301-415- 3463; email: [email protected]. 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 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]. The ADAMS accession number for each document referenced (if it is available in ADAMS) is provided the first time that a document is referenced. In addition, for the convenience of the reader, the ADAMS accession numbers are provided in a table in the ``Availability of Documents'' section of this document. 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: Mark Notich, telephone: 301-415-3053; email: [email protected]; or Nishka Devaser, telephone: 301-415-5196; email: [email protected]; both are staff of the Office of New Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555- 0001. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Background A summary of the comments and the NRC staff's disposition of the comments are available in a separate document, ``Response to Public Comments on Draft SRP Sections in Chapter 11'' (ADAMS Accession No. ML15033A417). The Office of New Reactors and the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation are revising these sections from their current revisions. Details of specific changes in the proposed revisions are included at the end of each of the proposed sections. The changes to this SRP chapter reflect current NRC staff's review methods and practices based on lessons learned from the NRC's reviews of design certification and combined license applications completed since the last revision of this chapter. II. Backfitting and Finality Provisions Issuance of these revised SRP sections does not constitute backfitting as defined in Sec. 50.109 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), ``Backfitting,'' (the Backfit Rule) or otherwise be 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 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 the NRC's 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. Therefore, the issuance of a final SRP--even if considered guidance that 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 licenses 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 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. This is because neither the Backfit Rule nor the issue finality provisions under 10 CFR part 52--with certain exclusions discussed in the next paragraph--were intended to apply to every NRC action which 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) and/or NRC regulatory approval (e.g., a design certification rule) with specified issue finality provisions. The 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 in a manner which does not provide issue finality as described in the applicable issue finality provision, then the staff must address the criteria for avoiding issue finality as described in the applicable issue finality provision. III. Congressional Review Act In accordance with the Congressional Review Act, the NRC has determined that this action is not a major rule and has verified this determination with the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs of the Office of Management and Budget. IV. Availability of Documents The documents identified in the following table are available to interested persons through one or more of the following methods, as indicated. [[Page 6897]] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Document ADAMS accession No. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Section 11.1, ``Coolant Source ML15029A022 Terms,'' Revision 4. Section 11.2, ``Liquid Waste ML15029A032 Management System,'' Revision 5. Section 11.3, ``Gaseous Waste ML15029A039 Management System,'' Revision 4. Section 11.4, ``Solid Waste ML15029A174 Management System,'' Revision 4. Section 11.5, ``Process and Effluent ML15029A182 Radiological Monitoring Instrumentation and Sampling Systems,'' Revision 6. BTP 11-3, ``Design Guidance for Solid ML15027A198 Radioactive Waste Management Systems Installed in Light-Water-Cooled Nuclear Power Reactor Plants,'' Revision 4*. BTP 11-5, ``Postulated Radioactive ML15027A302 Releases Due to a Waste Gas System Leak or Failure,'' Revision 4 *. BTP 11-6, ``Postulated Radioactive ML15027A401 Releases due to Liquid Containing Tank Failures,'' Revision 4 *. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * No changes resulting from public comments. See documents in the package at ADAMS Accession Number ML14113A532 to see changes made since last revision. Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day of January, 2016. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Kimyata Morgan Butler, Chief, New Reactor Rulemaking and Guidance Branch, Division of Advanced Reactors and Rulemaking, Office of New Reactors. [FR Doc. 2016-02588 Filed 2-8-16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3410-16-P
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United States citizens, permanent individual-level treatment and control design typically is necessary. At the
residents, and nationals, particularly groups for future third-party study or for individual project level funding can be
those individuals traditionally internal evaluation); (2) project adjusted based on individual project’s
underemployed in the STEM research implementation characteristics (also responses to some of the surveys. Some
workforce, including but not limited to necessary for future use to identify well- data collected under this collection will
women, persons with disabilities, and matched comparison groups); and (3) serve as baseline data for separate
racial and ethnic minorities. project outputs (necessary to measure research and evaluation studies.
The scope of this information baseline for pre- and post-NSF-funding- NSF-funded contract or grantee
collection request will primarily cover level impacts). researchers and internal or external
descriptive information gathered from Use of the Information: This evaluators in part may identify control,
education and training (E&T) projects information is required for effective comparison, or treatment groups for
that are funded by NSF. NSF will administration, communication, NSF’s E&T portfolio using some of the
primarily use the data from this program and project monitoring and descriptive data gathered through this
collection for program planning, evaluation, and for measuring collection to conduct well-designed,
management, and audit purposes to attainment of NSF’s program, project, rigorous research and portfolio
respond to queries from the Congress, and strategic goals, and as identified by evaluation studies.
the public, NSF’s external merit the President’s Accountability in Respondents: Individuals or
reviewers who serve as advisors, Government Initiative; GPRA, and the households, not-for-profit institutions,
including Committees of Visitors NSF’s Strategic Plan. The Foundation’s business or other for profit, and Federal,
(COVs), the NSF’s Office of the FY 2014–2018 Strategic Plan may be State, local, or tribal government.
Inspector General, and as a basis for found at: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/ Number of Respondents: 7,284.
either internal or third-party evaluations 2014/nsf14043/nsf14043.pdf. Burden on the Public: NSF estimates
of individual programs. Since this collection will primarily be that a total reporting and recordkeeping
The collections will generally include used for accountability and evaluation burden of 58,449 hours will result from
three categories of descriptive data: (1) purposes, including responding to activities to monitor EHR STEM
Staff and project participants (data that queries from COVs and other scientific education programs. The calculation is
are also necessary to determine experts, a census rather than sampling shown in table 1.
TABLE 1—ANTICIPATED PROGRAMS THAT WILL COLLECT DATA ON PROJECT PROGRESS AND OUTCOMES ALONG WITH
THE NUMBER OF RESPONDENTS AND BURDEN HOURS PER COLLECTION PER YEAR
Number of Annual hour
Collection title Number of responses
respondents burden
Advancing Information STEM Learning (AISL) Monitoring System ............................. 155 155 ................................ 1,921
Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) and Histori- 40 40 .................................. 1,810
cally Black Colleges and Universities Research Infrastructure for Science and En-
gineering (HBCU–RISE) Monitoring System.
Graduate STEM Fellows in K–12 Education (GK–12) Monitoring System .................. 1,267 1,267 ............................. 3,529
Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program (IGERT) Moni- 3,307 3,307 ............................. 12,282
toring System.
Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Monitoring System .......... 563 563 ................................ 12,949
Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation Bridge to the Doctorate (LSAMP– 55 55 .................................. 2,090
BD) Monitoring System.
Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (Noyce) Monitoring System ................. 422 422 ................................ 5,908
Research in Disabilities Education (RDE) Monitoring System ..................................... 12 12 .................................. 1,368
Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S–STEM) 500 1,000 ............................. 6,000
Monitoring System. (500 respondents × 2
responses/yr.).
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program 277 277 ................................ 6,648
(STEP) Monitoring System.
Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and 686 686 ................................ 2,744
Mathematics (TUES) Monitoring System.
Additional Collections not Specified ............................................................................. 900 900 ................................ 1,200
Total ....................................................................................................................... 8,184 8,684 ............................. 58,449
The total estimate for this collection Dated: February 3, 2016. NUCLEAR REGULATORY
is 58,449 annual burden hours. The Suzanne H. Plimpton, COMMISSION
average annual reporting burden is Reports Clearance Officer, National Science
between 1.7 and 114 hours per Foundation. [NRC–2014–0198]
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ADAMS accession
Document No.
Section 11.1, ‘‘Coolant Source Terms,’’ Revision 4 ................................................................................................................... ML15029A022
Section 11.2, ‘‘Liquid Waste Management System,’’ Revision 5 ............................................................................................... ML15029A032
Section 11.3, ‘‘Gaseous Waste Management System,’’ Revision 4 ........................................................................................... ML15029A039
Section 11.4, ‘‘Solid Waste Management System,’’ Revision 4 ................................................................................................. ML15029A174
Section 11.5, ‘‘Process and Effluent Radiological Monitoring Instrumentation and Sampling Systems,’’ Revision 6 ............... ML15029A182
BTP 11–3, ‘‘Design Guidance for Solid Radioactive Waste Management Systems Installed in Light-Water-Cooled Nuclear ML15027A198
Power Reactor Plants,’’ Revision 4*.
BTP 11–5, ‘‘Postulated Radioactive Releases Due to a Waste Gas System Leak or Failure,’’ Revision 4 * ........................... ML15027A302
BTP 11–6, ‘‘Postulated Radioactive Releases due to Liquid Containing Tank Failures,’’ Revision 4 * ..................................... ML15027A401
* No changes resulting from public comments. See documents in the package at ADAMS Accession Number ML14113A532 to see changes
made since last revision.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day INFORMATION CONTACT section of this I. Background
of January, 2016. document. On December 8, 2014 (79 FR 72709),
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents the NRC published for public comment
Kimyata Morgan Butler, Access and Management System a proposed revision to this section of the
Chief, New Reactor Rulemaking and (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly- SRP. The staff made changes to the
Guidance Branch, Division of Advanced proposed revision after consideration of
available documents online in the
Reactors and Rulemaking, Office of New
ADAMS Public Documents collection at comments received. A summary of the
Reactors.
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ comments and the staff’s disposition of
[FR Doc. 2016–02588 Filed 2–8–16; 8:45 am]
adams.html. To begin the search, select the comments are available in a separate
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‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then document, ‘‘Response to Public
select ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS Comments on Draft SRP Section 19.0’’
Search.’’ For problems with ADAMS, (ADAMS Accession No. ML15086A472).
NUCLEAR REGULATORY The changes to this SRP section
COMMISSION please contact the NRC’s Public
Document Room (PDR) reference staff at reflect current staff review methods and
[NRC–2012–0232] 1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by practices based on lessons learned from
NRC reviews of design certification (DC)
email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The
Revision Probabilistic Risk and combined license (COL)
ADAMS accession number for each
Assessment and Severe Accident applications completed since the last
document referenced (if it available in
Evaluation for New Reactors revision of this chapter. Changes
ADAMS) is provided the first time that include: (1) Incorporation of guidance
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory a document is referenced. The final previously published in Interim Staff
Commission. revision for the SRP, Section 19.0, Guidance (ISG) DC/COL–ISG–003
ACTION: Standard review plan—final Revision 3, ‘‘Probabilistic Risk (ADAMS Accession No. ML081430087)
section revision; issuance. Assessment and Severe Accident concerning the review of probabilistic
Evaluation for New Reactors,’’ is risk assessment (PRA) information and
SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory available in ADAMS under Accession severe accident assessments submitted
Commission (NRC) is issuing a final No. ML15089A068. A redline strikeout to support DC and COL applications, (2)
revision to the following section in comparing the proposed revision to the incorporation of guidance for DC and
Chapter 19 of NUREG–0800, ‘‘Standard final revision can be found in ADAMS COL applicants previously published in
Review Plan (SRP) for the Review of under Accession No. ML15089A115. ISG DC/COL–ISG–020 (ADAMS
Safety Analysis Reports for Nuclear The responses to public comments can Accession No. ML100491233)
Power Plants: LWR Edition,’’ Section be found in ADAMS under Accession concerning review of information from
19.0, ‘‘Probabilistic Risk Assessment No. ML15086A472. PRA-based seismic margin analyses
and Severe Accident Evaluation for New submitted in support of DC and COL
Reactors.’’ • NRC’s PDR: You may examine and
purchase copies of public documents at applications, (3) incorporation of
DATES: The effective date of this guidance previously published in ISG
the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One
Standard Review Plan update is March Digital Instrumentation and Controls
10, 2016. White Flint North, 11555 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. (DI&C)/COL–ISG–003 (ADAMS
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID Accession No. ML080570048)
NRC–2012–0232 when contacting the • The NRC posts its issued staff concerning review of DI&C system
NRC about the availability of guidance on the NRC’s external Web PRAs, including treatment of common
information regarding this document. page: http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ cause failure (CCFs) in PRAs and
You may access publicly-available doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr0800/. uncertainty analysis associated with
information related to this document FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: new reactor digital systems, (4)
using any of the following methods: Mark Notich, telephone: 301–415–3053, incorporation of additional procedures
• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to
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email: Mark.Notich@nrc.gov or Nishka for review of PRA information and
http://www.regulations.gov and search Devaser, telephone: 301–415–5196, severe accident assessments developed
for Docket ID NRC–2012–0232. Address email: Nishka.Devaser@nrc.gov, both are during NRC reviews of DC and COL
questions about NRC dockets to Carol staff of the Office of New Reactors, U.S. applications completed after Revision 2
Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; of SRP Section 19.0 was issued, (5)
Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For additional proposed acceptance criteria
Washington, DC 20555–0001.
technical questions, contact the and review procedures for the staff’s
individual(s) listed in the FOR FURTHER SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: review of an applicant’s assessment of
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