83_FR_6273 83 FR 6243 - Fire Protection for Nuclear Power Plants

83 FR 6243 - Fire Protection for Nuclear Power Plants

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 30 (February 13, 2018)

Page Range6243-6244
FR Document2018-02870

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing Revision 3 to Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.189, ``Fire Protection for Nuclear Power Plants.'' Revision 3 of RG 1.189 includes administrative changes involving editorial corrections that make the document consistent with existing policy. None of the revisions involve changes to the staff regulatory positions. This guide describes a method that the NRC staff considers acceptable to meet regulatory requirements for fire protection in nuclear power plants.

Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 30 (Tuesday, February 13, 2018) 
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[FR Doc No: 2018-02870]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

[NRC-2018-0024]


Fire Protection for Nuclear Power Plants

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Regulatory guide; revision.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing 
Revision 3 to Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.189, ``Fire Protection for 
Nuclear Power Plants.'' Revision 3 of RG 1.189 includes administrative 
changes involving editorial corrections that make the document 
consistent with existing policy. None of the revisions involve changes 
to the staff regulatory positions. This guide describes a method that 
the NRC staff considers acceptable to meet regulatory requirements for 
fire protection in nuclear power plants.

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2018-0024 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 http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2018-0024. Address 
questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer Borges; telephone: 301-287-
9127; email: Jennifer.Borges@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 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 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. RG 1.189 is available at ADAMS Accession No. ML17340A875.

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     NRC's Public Document Room: You may examine and purchase 
copies of public documents at the NRC's Public Document Room O1-F21, 
One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. 
Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and NRC approval is not required 
to reproduce them.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Daniel Frumkin, Office of Nuclear 
Reactor Regulations, telephone: 301-415-2280, email: 
Daniel.Frumkin@nrc.gov; or Stanley Gardocki, Office of Nuclear 
Regulatory Research, telephone: 301-415-1067, email: 
Stanley.Gardocki@nrc.gov. Both are staff members of the U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Discussion

    The NRC is issuing a revision to an existing guide in the NRC 
``Regulatory Guide'' series. Regulatory guides were developed to 
describe and make available to the public information methods that are 
acceptable to the NRC staff for implementing specific parts of the 
agency's regulations, techniques that the staff uses in evaluating 
specific problems or postulated accidents, and data that the staff 
needs in its review of applications for permits and licenses.
    The NRC is issuing Revision 3 of RG 1.189 directly as a final RG, 
because the changes between Revision 2 and Revision 3 are 
administrative and non-substantive. Revision 3 of RG 1.189 also updated 
the guide to the current program guidance for RGs. The NRC added 
language to Section 1, ``Fire Protection Program,'' to clarify the 
primary objectives of fire protection plans.
    Since the issuance of Revision 2 of RG 1.189 in 2009, the NRC 
issued a Regulatory Issuance Summary to inform licensees that 
Inspection Manual Part 9900, Technical Guidance (TG 9900), 
``Operability Determinations & Functionality Assessments for Resolution 
of Degraded and Nonconforming Conditions Adverse to Quality and 
Safety,'' was reissued as Inspection Manual Chapter (IMC) 0326, 
``Operability Determinations and Functionality Assessments for 
Conditions to Quality or Safety,'' dated January 31, 2014. Revision 3 
of RG 1.189 now includes a reference to IMC 0326 (see Section 1.5, 
``Compensatory Measures'').
    Revision 3 of RG 1.189 also corrects typographic errors that 
previously appeared in Section 1.7.7, ``Nonconforming Items,'' Section 
1.7.4, ``Inspection,'' Section 2.1.1, ``Transient Fire Hazards,'' 
Section 3.2.1, ``Fire Protection Water Supply,'' and Section 3.2.3, 
``Fire Mains.'' Previously, these errors occurred during publishing of 
the final regulatory guide, when several paragraphs were incorrectly 
indented, resulting in incorrect sub-bullet numbering. These changes 
are intended to improve clarity and do not substantially alter the 
staff's regulatory guidance.

II. Backfitting and Issue Finality

    Issuance of this final RG does not constitute backfitting as 
defined in section 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 
changes in Revision 3 of RG 1.189 are limited to editorial changes to 
improve clarity and correct errors. These changes do not fall within 
the kinds of agency actions that constitute backfitting or are subject 
to limitations in the issue finality provisions of 10 CFR part 52. 
Accordingly, the NRC did not address the Backfit Rule or issue finality 
provisions of 10 CFR part 52.

III. Congressional Review Act

    Revision 3 of Regulatory Guide 1.189 is not a rule as defined in 
the Congressional Review Act (5 U.S.C. 801-808).

IV. Submitting Suggestions for Improvement of Regulatory Guides

    Revision 3 of RG 1.189 is being issued without public comment. 
However, a member of the public may, at any time, submit suggestions to 
the NRC for improvement of existing RGs or for the development of new 
RGs to address new issues. Suggestions can be submitted on the NRC's 
public website at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/reg-guides/contactus.html. Suggestions will be considered in future updates 
and enhancements to the ``Regulatory Guide'' series.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 7th day of February 2018.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Thomas H. Boyce,
Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Generic Issues Branch, Division of 
Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 2018-02870 Filed 2-12-18; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 30 / Tuesday, February 13, 2018 / Notices 6243 addition, for the convenience of the Virginia. The renewed license SNM– ISFSI license and concluded, based on reader, the ADAMS accession numbers 2507 authorizes and requires operation that evaluation, the ISFSI will continue are provided in a table in the of the North Anna ISFSI in accordance to meet the regulations in 10 CFR part ‘‘Availability of Documents’’ section of with the provisions of the renewed 72. The NRC staff also prepared an this document. license and its technical specifications. environmental assessment and finding • NRC’s PDR: You may examine and The renewed license will expire on June of no significant impact for the renewal purchase copies of public documents at 30, 2058. of this license, which were published on the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One The licensee’s application for a February 2, 2018 (83 FR 4932). The NRC White Flint North, 11555 Rockville renewed license complies with the staff’s consideration of the impacts of Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. standards and requirements of the continued storage of spent nuclear fuel FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (as documented in NUREG–2157, Kristina L. Banovac, Office of Nuclear (the Act), and the NRC’s rules and ‘‘Generic Environmental Impact Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. regulations. The NRC has made Statement for Continued Storage of Nuclear Regulatory Commission, appropriate findings as required by the Spent Fuel’’) was included in the Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: Act and the NRC’s regulations in environmental assessment. The NRC 301–415–7116, email: chapter 1 of title 10 of the Code of staff concluded that renewal of this Kristina.Banovac@nrc.gov. Federal Regulations (10 CFR), and sets ISFSI license will not have a significant SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: forth those findings in the renewed impact on the quality of the human license. The agency afforded an environment. I. Discussion opportunity for a hearing in the Notice II. Availability of Documents Based upon the application dated of Opportunity for a Hearing published May 25, 2016, as supplemented January in the Federal Register on August 23, The following table includes the 20, 2017, February 28, 2017, June 5, 2016 (81 FR 57629). The NRC received ADAMS accession numbers for the 2017, July 10, 2017, and August 16, no request for a hearing or petition for documents referenced in this notice. For 2017, the NRC has issued a renewed leave to intervene following the notice. additional information on accessing license to the licensee for the North The NRC staff prepared a safety ADAMS, see the ADDRESSES section of Anna ISFSI, located in Louisa County, evaluation report for the renewal of the this document. ADAMS Document accession No. Licensee’s application, dated May 25, 2016 ................................................................................................................................. ML16153A140 Response to First Request for Additional Information, dated January 20, 2017 .......................................................................... ML17025A128 Response to Request for Referenced Information, dated February 28, 2017 .............................................................................. ML17065A248 Decommissioning Cost Estimate Information, dated June 5, 2017 .............................................................................................. ML17160A300 Response to Second Request for Additional Information, dated July 10, 2017 ........................................................................... ML17198A023 Response to Second Request for Additional Information, Response to RAI 3–15, dated August 16, 2017 ............................... ML17233A170 Special Nuclear Materials License No. SNM–2507 ...................................................................................................................... ML18031A225 SNM–2507 Technical Specifications ............................................................................................................................................. ML18031A227 NRC Safety Evaluation Report ...................................................................................................................................................... ML18031A228 NRC Environmental Assessment .................................................................................................................................................. ML17311A450 NUREG–2157, ‘‘Generic Environmental Impact Statement for Continued Storage of Spent Fuel’’ Vols. 1 and 2 ...................... ML14196A105, ML14196A107 Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 8th day Protection for Nuclear Power Plants.’’ technical questions, contact the of February, 2018. Revision 3 of RG 1.189 includes individuals listed in the FOR FURTHER For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. administrative changes involving INFORMATION CONTACT section of this Hipolito J. Gonzalez, editorial corrections that make the document. Acting Chief, Renewals and Materials Branch, document consistent with existing • NRC’s Agencywide Documents Division of Spent Fuel Management, Office policy. None of the revisions involve Access and Management System of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. changes to the staff regulatory positions. (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly- [FR Doc. 2018–02904 Filed 2–12–18; 8:45 am] This guide describes a method that the available documents online in the BILLING CODE 7590–01–P NRC staff considers acceptable to meet ADAMS Public Documents collection at regulatory requirements for fire http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ protection in nuclear power plants. adams.html. To begin the search, select NUCLEAR REGULATORY ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID ‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then COMMISSION NRC–2018–0024 when contacting the select ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS [NRC–2018–0024] NRC about the availability of Search.’’ For problems with ADAMS, information regarding this document. please contact the NRC’s Public Fire Protection for Nuclear Power You may obtain publicly-available Document Room (PDR) reference staff at Plants information related to this document 1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory using any of the following methods: email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The Commission. • Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to ADAMS accession number for each ACTION: Regulatory guide; revision. http://www.regulations.gov and search document referenced (if it is available in for Docket ID NRC–2018–0024. Address ADAMS) is provided the first time that SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer it is mentioned in this document. RG Commission (NRC) is issuing Revision 3 Borges; telephone: 301–287–9127; 1.189 is available at ADAMS Accession to Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.189, ‘‘Fire email: Jennifer.Borges@nrc.gov. For No. ML17340A875. VerDate Sep<11>2014 23:12 Feb 12, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00085 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\13FEN1.SGM 13FEN1

6244 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 30 / Tuesday, February 13, 2018 / Notices • NRC’s Public Document Room: You ‘‘Inspection,’’ Section 2.1.1, ‘‘Transient NUCLEAR REGULATORY may examine and purchase copies of Fire Hazards,’’ Section 3.2.1, ‘‘Fire COMMISSION public documents at the NRC’s Public Protection Water Supply,’’ and Section [Docket Nos. 72–1014, 72–59, and 50–271; Document Room O1–F21, One White 3.2.3, ‘‘Fire Mains.’’ Previously, these NRC–2018–0020] Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, errors occurred during publishing of the Rockville, Maryland 20852. Regulatory final regulatory guide, when several Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.; guides are not copyrighted, and NRC paragraphs were incorrectly indented, Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power approval is not required to reproduce resulting in incorrect sub-bullet Station; Independent Spent Fuel them. numbering. These changes are intended Storage Installation FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: to improve clarity and do not Daniel Frumkin, Office of Nuclear AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory substantially alter the staff’s regulatory Reactor Regulations, telephone: 301– Commission. guidance. 415–2280, email: Daniel.Frumkin@ ACTION: Exemption; issuance. nrc.gov; or Stanley Gardocki, Office of II. Backfitting and Issue Finality SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Nuclear Regulatory Research, telephone: Issuance of this final RG does not Commission (NRC) is issuing an 301–415–1067, email: constitute backfitting as defined in exemption in response to a request Stanley.Gardocki@nrc.gov. Both are staff section 50.109 of title 10 of the Code of submitted by Entergy Nuclear members of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Federal Regulations (10 CFR), (the Operations, Inc. (ENO) on May 16, 2017, Commission, Washington, DC 20555– Backfit Rule), and is not otherwise and supplemented on September 7, 0001. inconsistent with the issue finality 2017 and December 7, 2017, for its SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: provisions in 10 CFR part 52. The general license to operate an I. Discussion changes in Revision 3 of RG 1.189 are independent spent fuel storage limited to editorial changes to improve installation (ISFSI) at the Vermont The NRC is issuing a revision to an Yankee Nuclear Power Station (VYNPS). existing guide in the NRC ‘‘Regulatory clarity and correct errors. These changes do not fall within the kinds of agency This exemption would permit the Guide’’ series. Regulatory guides were VYNPS to use a new regionalized developed to describe and make actions that constitute backfitting or are subject to limitations in the issue loading pattern, load fuel cooled for at available to the public information least 2 years, and establish a per-cell methods that are acceptable to the NRC finality provisions of 10 CFR part 52. maximum average burnup limit at staff for implementing specific parts of Accordingly, the NRC did not address 65,000 megawatt days per metric ton of the agency’s regulations, techniques that the Backfit Rule or issue finality uranium (MWD/MTU) in HI–STORM the staff uses in evaluating specific provisions of 10 CFR part 52. 100 multi-purpose canister (MPC)-68M problems or postulated accidents, and using Certificate of Compliance (CoC) III. Congressional Review Act data that the staff needs in its review of No. 1014, Amendment No. 10. applications for permits and licenses. Revision 3 of Regulatory Guide 1.189 The NRC is issuing Revision 3 of RG DATES: February 13, 2018. is not a rule as defined in the 1.189 directly as a final RG, because the ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID Congressional Review Act (5 U.S.C. NRC–2018–0020 when contacting the changes between Revision 2 and 801–808). Revision 3 are administrative and non- NRC about the availability of substantive. Revision 3 of RG 1.189 also IV. Submitting Suggestions for information regarding this document. updated the guide to the current Improvement of Regulatory Guides You may obtain publicly-available program guidance for RGs. The NRC information related to this document added language to Section 1, ‘‘Fire Revision 3 of RG 1.189 is being issued using any of the following methods: Protection Program,’’ to clarify the without public comment. However, a • Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to primary objectives of fire protection member of the public may, at any time, http://www.regulations.gov and search plans. submit suggestions to the NRC for for Docket ID NRC–2018–0020. Address Since the issuance of Revision 2 of RG improvement of existing RGs or for the questions about NRC dockets to Carol 1.189 in 2009, the NRC issued a development of new RGs to address new Gallagher; telephone: 301–287–9127; Regulatory Issuance Summary to inform issues. Suggestions can be submitted on email: Jennifer.Broges@nrc.gov. For licensees that Inspection Manual Part the NRC’s public website at http:// technical questions, contact the 9900, Technical Guidance (TG 9900), www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc- individual listed in the FOR FURTHER ‘‘Operability Determinations & collections/reg-guides/contactus.html. INFORMATION CONTACT section of this Functionality Assessments for Suggestions will be considered in future document. Resolution of Degraded and updates and enhancements to the • NRC’s Agencywide Documents Nonconforming Conditions Adverse to ‘‘Regulatory Guide’’ series. Access and Management System Quality and Safety,’’ was reissued as (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly- Inspection Manual Chapter (IMC) 0326, Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 7th day available documents online in the ‘‘Operability Determinations and of February 2018. ADAMS Public Documents collection at Functionality Assessments for For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ Conditions to Quality or Safety,’’ dated Thomas H. Boyce, adams.html. To begin the search, select ‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES January 31, 2014. Revision 3 of RG 1.189 Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Generic now includes a reference to IMC 0326 Issues Branch, Division of Engineering, Office select ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS (see Section 1.5, ‘‘Compensatory of Nuclear Regulatory Research. Search.’’ For problems with ADAMS, Measures’’). [FR Doc. 2018–02870 Filed 2–12–18; 8:45 am] please contact the NRC’s Public Revision 3 of RG 1.189 also corrects Document Room (PDR) reference staff at BILLING CODE 7590–01–P typographic errors that previously 1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by appeared in Section 1.7.7, email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The ‘‘Nonconforming Items,’’ Section 1.7.4, ADAMS Accession No. for each VerDate Sep<11>2014 23:12 Feb 12, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00086 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\13FEN1.SGM 13FEN1


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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionRegulatory guide; revision.
ContactDaniel Frumkin, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulations, telephone: 301-415-2280, email: [email protected]; or Stanley Gardocki, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, telephone: 301-415-1067, email: [email protected] Both are staff members of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
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