ML21173A336

NRC Staff'S NEI 17-06 Comments During June 23, 2021 Public Meeting

ML21173A336
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Issue date:	06/23/2021
From:	Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Nuclear Energy Institute
Serita Sanders
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NEI 17-06 NRC Staff Review NRC Staff Presentation June 23, 2021, Public Meeting 1

Meeting Topics

• Preliminary comments on NEI 17-06, Rev. 0

• Coordination of NEI 17-06 review schedule 2

Preliminary Comments on NEI 17-06 How does NEI 17-06, Rev. 0 address additional activities identified in the NRC regulatory audit report for observation of ANAB accreditation of exida, dated January 5, 2021?

Summary of actions proposed:

1. NEI to review the EPRI information used to support the use of the IEC 61508 technical standard to determine if the NEI checklist could be satisfactorily completed using the information for the three CBs discussed in the EPRI report (TUV-Nord, TUV-Sud, and Exida). If anything would need to be supplemented, NEI would re-engage with ANAB and Exida to resolve.

2. NEI would evaluate and revise the checklist to better align with the ANAB process and discuss with ANAB opportunities to incorporate this information or supplement the ANAB accreditation process checklist as a routine activity for IEC 61508 scheme CBs accreditation.

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Preliminary Comments on NEI 17-06

3. NEI will develop a process to have the industry perform the NEI checklist on CBs that have not been previously evaluated by EPRI. This would eventually be overtaken by ANAB adopting the checklist into their process but would need to be performed until ANAB completes adoption (as well as other ABs under the IAF agreement).

4. NEI will discuss with ANAB future oversight activities and also gain better understanding of ANAB auditor qualification process to help assure capability of performing NEI Checklist evaluation.

5. NEI will update 17-06 to better reflect the methodology used to rely on the CB scheme for performing evaluation of the OEM, including adding the results of the completion of the NEI checklist for the three CBs evaluated in the EPRI report, adding the checklist to the proposed methodology to be used by industry going forward, and more thoroughly explaining the quality assurance activities for the proposed NEI 17-06 methodology.

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NEI 17-06 Review Milestones NRC provides final set of comments to NEI 31-Aug-2021 Public Meeting to discuss comments & proposed NEI resolutions Week of 13-Sep NEI submits response to NRC comments 24-Sep-2021 1st Draft of Draft Guide: DGxxxx 15-Oct-2021 Public Meeting to discuss: Week of 25-Oct Draft Guide & Regulatory Positions NEI proposed revision to NEI 17-06 Finalize Draft Guide: DGxxxx 12-Nov-2021 NEI Issues final NEI 17-06, Rev. x 3-Dec-2021 Initiate new Regulatory Guide (RG) issuance process 22-Dec-2021 Issue Draft RG endorsing NEI 17-06 for public comments May-2022 Publish new RG 1.xxx, Rev. 0 endorsing NEI 17-06, Rev. x Nov-2022 5