AGENCY:

Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION:

Proposed rule; correction.

SUMMARY:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is correcting the preamble of a proposed rule that was published in the Federal Register on August 8, 2023, to amend its regulations to incorporate by reference the 2021 Edition of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code and the 2022 Edition of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Operation and Maintenance of Nuclear Power Plants, Division 1: OM Code: Section IST, for nuclear power plants. This action is necessary to correct an editorial error to include reference to missing standards.

DATES:

The correction takes effect on August 21, 2023.

ADDRESSES:

Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2018-0289 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information for 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-2018-0289. Address questions about NRC dockets to Dawn Forder; telephone: 301-415-3407; email: Dawn.Forder@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 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, at 301-415-4737, or by email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov.
NRC's PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public documents, by appointment, at the NRC's PDR, Room P1 B35, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. To make an appointment to visit the PDR, please send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov or call 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-4737, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern time, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Tyler Hammock, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, telephone: 301-415-1381, email: Tyler.Hammock@nrc.gov and Michael Benson, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301-415-2425, email: Michael.Benson@nrc.gov. Both are staff of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The NRC is announcing the following correction to proposed rule FR Doc. 2023-16686, published at 88 FR 53384 on August 8, 2023. On page 53387, in the second column, the last sentence of the first full paragraph is corrected to read, “Therefore, the NRC is proposing a condition to prohibit the use of Subpart 2.19 in NQA-1-2017, NQA-1-2019, and NQA-1-2022.”

The NRC may post materials related to this document, including public comments, on the Federal rulemaking website at https://www.regulations.gov under Docket ID NRC-2018-0289. In addition, the Federal rulemaking website allows members of the public to receive alerts when changes or additions occur in a docket folder. To subscribe: (1) navigate to the docket folder (NRC-2018-0289); (2) click the “Subscribe” link; and (3) enter an email address and click on the “Subscribe” link.

Dated: August 16, 2023.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Cindy K. Bladey,

Chief, Regulatory Analysis and Rulemaking Support Branch, Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.

American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2021-2022 Code Editions

Nuclear Regulatory Commission