ML042740229
| ML042740229 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 09/30/2004 |
| From: | Steward S Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research |
| To: | |
| Paula Garrity | |
| References | |
| DG-1139 | |
| Download: ML042740229 (7) | |
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September 30, 2004 AUTHORIZATION FOR DRAFT REGULATORY GUIDE Draft Regulatory Guide DG-1139, Risk-Informed, Performance-Based Fire Protection for Existing Light-Water Nuclear Power Plants, is to be printed, announced in the Federal Register, posted on the NRCs external Web site, and distributed to power reactor licensees. Based on a sensitivity review, it has been determined that this draft guide does not contain information that could provide a clear and significant benefit to a terrorist in a potential attack.
Sharon D. Stewart, Acting Director /RA/
Program Management, Policy Development and Analysis Staff Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research
September 30, 2004 AUTHORIZATION FOR DRAFT REGULATORY GUIDE Draft Regulatory Guide DG-1139, Risk-Informed, Performance-Based Fire Protection for Existing Light-Water Nuclear Power Plants, is to be printed, announced in the Federal Register, posted on the NRCs external Web site, and distributed to power reactor licensees. Based on a sensitivity review, it has been determined that this draft guide does not contain information that could provide a clear and significant benefit to a terrorist in a potential attack.
Sharon D. Stewart, Acting Director Program Management, Policy Development and Analysis Staff Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research DISTRIBUTION:
CPaperiello, RES JCraig, RES MMayfield, RES FEltawila, RES MLee, RES GMillman, RES JSHyslop, RES LCupidon, RES CNolan, OE JDyer, NRR SMWong, NRR RPerch, NRR PKoltay, NRR MJohnson, NRR BSheron, NRR JWiggins, RI MWeber, NSIR JStrosnider, NMSS MFederline, NMSS SGagner, OPA JHoffman, OCIO SBahadur, CRGR JFunches, OCFO KCyr, OGC AHodgdon, OGC DOCUMENT NAME: C:\ORPCheckout\FileNET\ML042740229.wpd OAR in ADAMS? (Y or N) Y ADAMS ACCESSION NO.: ML042740229 TEMPLATE NO. RES-002 Publicly Available? (Y or N) N DATE OF RELEASE TO PUBLIC 9/30/04 SENSITIVE? N To receive a copy of this document, indicate in the box: C = Copy w/o enclosure, E = Copy w/ enclosure, N = No copy.
OFFICE NRR/DSSA/SPLB NRR/DSSA/SPLB SC:NRR/DSSA/SPLB BC:NRR/DSSA/SPLB NAME PLain* RRadlinski* SWeerakkody* JHannon*
DATE 9/24/04 9/24/04 9/24/04 9/27/04 OFFICE BC:NRR/DSSA SPSB D:NRR/DSSA SC:OGC/RP D:OE NAME MTschiltz* SBlack* KWinsberg* FCongel*
DATE 9/29/04 9/29/04 9/28/04 9/29/04 OFFICE RES/PMDA N RES/DRAA/PRAB DD:RES/DRAA AD:RES/PMDA NAME PGarrity DLew* CAder* SStewart DATE 9/30/04 9/24/04 9/24/04 9/ /04
- See previous concurrence.
September 30, 2004 MEMORANDUM TO: Michael T. Lesar, Chief Rules and Directives Branch Division of Administrative Services Office of Administration FROM: Sharon D. Stewart, Acting Director Program Management, Policy Development and Analysis Staff Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research
SUBJECT:
NOTICE OF ISSUANCE AND AVAILABILITY TO PROVIDE WRITTEN COMMENTS CONCERNING DRAFT REGULATORY GUIDE DG-1139, RISK-INFORMED, PERFORMANCE-BASED FIRE PROTECTION FOR EXISTING LIGHT-WATER NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS Attached please find one signed original, four copies, and an electronic version (on a 3.5-inch diskette) of a notice concerning the issuance of Draft Regulatory Guide DG-1139, Risk-Informed, Performance-Based Fire Protection for Existing Light-Water Nuclear Power Plants, for publication in the Notice section of the Federal Register.
The Office of Administration, Division of Administrative Services, Rules and Directives Branch (ADM/DAS/RDB) has been given owners rights to the issuance package, which includes the notice, in the NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS Accession #ML042740229). DG-1139 is also available in ADAMS at Accession #ML042740308.
Publicly available documents referenced in the notice have been finalized in ADAMS and profiled for public release.
Please note that the attached notice requires the insertion of a date by which written comments should be received. Insertion points are indicated parenthetically in bold type on page 2 of the notice.
Attachments: As stated
[7590-01-P]
U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Draft Regulatory Guide; Issuance, Availability The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued for public comment a draft of a new guide in the agencys Regulatory Guide Series. This series has been developed to describe and make available to the public such information as methods that are acceptable to the NRC staff for implementing specific parts of the NRCs 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 new draft regulatory guide, entitled Risk-Informed, Performance-Based Fire Protection for Existing Light-Water Nuclear Power Plants, is temporarily identified by its task number, DG-1139, which should be mentioned in all related correspondence. The draft regulatory guide contains the staffs regulatory position on Guidance for Implementing a Risk-Informed, Performance-Based Fire Protection Program Under 10 CFR 50.48(c), which the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) has promulgated as document #NEI 04-02.
It is the staffs intent to endorse a version of NEI 04-02, as appropriate, in the final regulatory guide, consistent with the new risk-informed, performance-based fire protection rule, specified in Title 10, Section 50.48(c), of the Code of Federal Regulations [10 CFR 50.48(c)],
which the NRC has issued for existing light-water nuclear power plants. This new regulation provides a voluntary alternative to the requirements of Appendix R to 10 CFR Part 50, Fire Protection Program for Nuclear Power Facilities Operating Prior to January 1, 1979.
As such, the new rule endorses a national consensus standard (NEI 04-02), sets performance goals and criteria, and takes advantage of experience and enhanced methodologies.
The NRC staff is soliciting comments on draft regulatory guide DG-1139, and comments may be accompanied by relevant information or supporting data. Please mention DG-1139
[50.48(c) RG] in the subject line of your comments. Comments on this draft regulatory guide
submitted in writing or in electronic form will be made available to the public in their entirety on the NRCs rulemaking Web site. Personal information will not be removed from your comments.
You may submit comments by any of the following methods.
Mail comments to: Rules and Directives Branch, Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.
Email comments to: NRCREP@nrc.gov. You may also submit comments via the NRCs rulemaking Web site at http://ruleforum.llnl.gov. Address questions about our rulemaking Web site to Carol A. Gallagher (301) 415-5905; email CAG@nrc.gov.
Hand-deliver comments to: Rules and Directives Branch, Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852, between 7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. on Federal workdays.
Fax comments to: Rules and Directives Branch, Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission at (301) 415-5144.
Request for information about draft regulatory guide DG-1139 may be directed to Paul W. Lain at (301) 415-2346 or via email to PWL@nrc.gov.
Comments would be most helpful if received by December 15, 2004. 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.
Electronic copies of the draft regulatory guide are available through the NRCs public Web site under Draft Regulatory Guides in the Regulatory Guides document collection of the NRCs Electronic Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/. Electronic copies are also available in the NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html, under Accession No. ML042740308.
In addition, regulatory guides are available for inspection at the NRCs Public Document Room
(PDR), which is located at 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland; the PDRs mailing address is USNRC PDR, Washington, DC 20555-0001. The PDR can also be reached by telephone at (301) 415-4737 or (800) 397-4205, by fax at (301) 415-3548; and by email to PDR@nrc.gov.
Requests for single copies of draft or final guides (which may be reproduced) or for placement on an automatic distribution list for single copies of future draft guides in specific divisions should be made in writing to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, Attention: Reproduction and Distribution Services Section; by email to DISTRIBUTION@nrc.gov; or by fax to (301) 415-2289. Telephone requests cannot be accommodated. Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and Commission approval is not required to reproduce them.
(5 U.S.C. 552(a))
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this _____ day of __________, 2004.
FOR THE U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Sharon D. Stewart, Acting Director Program Management, Policy Development and Analysis Staff Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research
September 30, 2004 MEMORANDUM TO: Michael T. Lesar, Chief Rules and Directives Branch Division of Administrative Services Office of Administration FROM: Sharon D. Stewart, Acting Director Program Management, Policy Development and Analysis Staff Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research
SUBJECT:
NOTICE OF ISSUANCE AND AVAILABILITY TO PROVIDE WRITTEN COMMENTS CONCERNING DRAFT REGULATORY GUIDE DG-1139, RISK-INFORMED, PERFORMANCE-BASED FIRE PROTECTION FOR EXISTING LIGHT-WATER NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS Attached please find one signed original, four copies, and an electronic version (on a 3.5-inch diskette) of a notice concerning the issuance of Draft Regulatory Guide DG-1139, Risk-Informed, Performance-Based Fire Protection for Existing Light-Water Nuclear Power Plants, for publication in the Notice section of the Federal Register.
The Office of Administration, Division of Administrative Services, Rules and Directives Branch (ADM/DAS/RDB) has been given owners rights to the issuance package, which includes the notice, in the NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS Accession #ML042740229). DG-1139 is also available in ADAMS at Accession #ML042740308.
Publicly available documents referenced in the notice have been finalized in ADAMS and profiled for public release.
Please note that the attached notice requires the insertion of a date by which written comments should be received. Insertion points are indicated parenthetically in bold type on page 2 of the notice.
Attachments: As stated DISTRIBUTION:
CPaperiello, RES JCraig, RES MMayfield, RES FEltawila, RES MLee, RES GMillman, RES JSHyslop, RES LCupidon, RES CNolan, OE JDyer, NRR SMWong, NRR RPerch, NRR PKoltay, NRR MJohnson, NRR BSheron, NRR JWiggins, RI MWeber, NSIR JStrosnider, NMSS MFederline, NMSS SGagner, OPA JHoffman, OCIO SBahadur, CRGR JFunches, OCFO KCyr, OGC AHodgdon, OGC DOCUMENT NAME: C:\ORPCheckout\FileNET\ML042740229.wpd OAR in ADAMS? (Y or N) Y ADAMS ACCESSION NO.: ML042740229 TEMPLATE NO. RES-002 Publicly Available? (Y or N) N DATE OF RELEASE TO PUBLIC 9/30/04 SENSITIVE? N To receive a copy of this document, indicate in the box: C = Copy w/o enclosure, E = Copy w/ enclosure, N = No copy.
OFFICE NRR/DSSA/SPLB NRR/DSSA/SPLB SC:NRR/DSSA/SPLB BC:NRR/DSSA/SPLB NAME PLain* RRadlinski* SWeerakkody* JHannon*
DATE 9/24/04 9/24/04 9/24/04 9/27/04 OFFICE BC:NRR/DSSA SPSB D:NRR/DSSA SC:OGC/RP D:OE NAME MTschiltz* SBlack* KWinsberg* FCongel*
DATE 9/29/04 9/29/04 9/28/04 9/29/04 OFFICE RES/PMDA N RES/DRAA/PRAB DD:RES/DRAA AD:RES/PMDA NAME PGarrity DLew* CAder* SStewart DATE 9/30/04 9/24/04 9/24/04 9/ /04
- See previous concurrence.