ML20248E474

Notice of OMB Review of Info Collection & Solicitation of Public Comment.Title of Collection, Approach for Using Probabilistic Risk Assessment in Risk-Informed Decisions on Plant-Specific Changes to Current Licensing Basis

ML20248E474
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Issue date:	05/01/1998
From:	Shelton B NRC
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. t .1 y u t 153 DY -4 Pii 3: 12 U. S. Ngg Rg T COMMISSION Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comrnent Request AGENCY: U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)

ACTION: Notice o'the OMB review of information collection and solicitation of public comment.

SUMMARY

The NRC has recently submitted to OMB for review the following proposal for the cellection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). The NRC hereby informs potential respondents that an agency may not conduct or sponsor, and that a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.

1. Type of submission: Revision

2. The title of the information collection: "An Approach for Using () l Probabilistic Risk Assessment in Risk-informed Decisions on Plant-Specific Changes to the Current Licensing Basis," Regulatory Guides RG- ,-

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3. The form number if applicable: Not applicable

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4. How often the collection is required: Use of the new risk-informed methodology for making changes in the licensing basis of operating plants in the areas of inservice inspection (ISI), inservice testing (IST),

graded quality assurance (GQA), and technical specifications (TS), is available to all licensees but is not required. Licensees may make voluntary submittals when, and if, in their judgment, it is to their advantage to do so (for example, to improve plant safety, reduce costs, gain operating flexibility).

5. Who will be required or asked to report: Licensees of nuclear power plants may report when, and if, in their judgment, it is to their advantage to do so.

6. An estimate of the number of responses: ISI: 6, IST: 3, QA: 1, TS: 20

7. The estimated num'oer of annual respondents'  : ISI: 6, IST: 3, QA: 1, TO: 20

8. An estimate of the total number of hours needed anneally to complete the requirement v reouest (per respondent): ISI: 6,200, IST: 5,200, QA: 4,000, TS: 1,060

9. An indication of whether Section 3507(d), Pub. L.104-13 applies: Not l

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10. Abstract: In the speific areas of ISI, IST, GQA, and TS, a new series i

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of Regulatory Guides provides a risk-informed method for licensees to use in requesting changes to their current licensing bases (CLB). No j changes or additions have been made to any rules or regulations in conjunction with the issuance of this series of guides. The new method will be a voluntary alternative to the deterministically-based CLB change method previously used (which will remain acceptable as an alternative to the new risk-informed method).

The new risk-informed attemative method will allow licensees to concentrate on plant equipment and operations that are most critically )

I important to plant safety so as to achieve a savings in total effort and greater operating flexibility with an insignificant change in overall safety.

The guides specify the records, analyses, and documents that licensees ,

are expected to prepare in support of risk-informed changes to their CLB in the specified areas.

A copy of the final supporting statement may be viewed free of charge at the NRC Public Document Room,2120 L Street, NW (lower level), Washington, DC. OMB clearance ,

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requests are available at the NRC worldwide web site (http://www.nrc. gov) under the FedWorld collection link on the home page tool bar. The document will be available on the NRC home page site for 60 days after the signature date of this notice.

Comments and questions should be directed to the OMB reviewer by (insert date 30 days after publication in the Federal Reaister):

Erik Godwin Office of information and Regulatory Affairs (3150-0011)

NEOB-10202 Office of Management and Budget Washington, DC 20503 1

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Comments can also be submitted by telephone at (202) 395-3084.

l. The NRC Clearance Officer is Brenda Jo. Shelton,301-415-7233.

Dated'at Rockville, Maryland,'this' 6f day of 1998.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Cor, mission.

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pda'Jg. SheWod,'NRCLCle'arance Officer Office of the Chief Information Officer

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