ML19289D260

Low Safety Significance Issue Resolution (October 17, 2019)

ML19289D260
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Issue date:	10/17/2019
From:	Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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Rowley J
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Low Safety Significance Issue Resolution October 17, 2019

LSSIR Background

• Objective: identify means to enhance NRC internal processes to mitigate situations where an inappropriate expenditure of resources and attention is applied to low safety significant issues

• Working Group Formed in November 2018.

• Previous public meetings in March, May and August 2019

• SES Sponsor: Jack Giessner 2

Status of LSSIR Effort

• LSSIR draft recommendations are with the NRR office director for consideration and feedback

• The LSSIR draft recommendations include:

• LSSIR placed into IMC-0612 with supporting guidance in IMC-0611

• LSSIR process will be in the ongoing separate effort to update the technical assistance request procedure (COM-106)

• A conceptual LSSIR-like process to support forward fit decisions

• New guidance to assist the licensing basis determination for issues

• Enforcement manual changes that should support, in part, LSSIR

• LSSIR has focused mainly on issues that are not clearly within the licensing basis

• The memo discusses a possible future effort to address low safety significant issues that are within the licensing basis 3

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