SECY-23-0016, Enclosure 4 - Federal Register Notice NUREG BR-0058, Appendices K and L
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2017-0091]
Regulatory Analysis Guidelines AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: NUREG appendices; issuance.
SUMMARY
- The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing two appendices to NUREG/BR-0058, Revision 5, Regulatory Analysis Guidelines of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Guidance in these appendices provides information that the staff will use when performing cost-benefit analyses in support of regulatory decisions.Section I of this document describes each appendix.
DATES: The NUREG appendices are available on [INSERT DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER].
ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2017-0091 when contacting the NRC about the availability of information regarding this document. You may obtain publicly available information related to this document using any of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to https://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID NRC-2017-0091. Address questions about Docket IDs in Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; telephone: 301-415-0624; email:
Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical questions, contact the individual listed in the For Further Information Contact section of this document.
NRCs 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
2 search, select Begin Web-based ADAMS Search. For problems with ADAMS, please contact the NRCs Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, at 301-415-4737, or by email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. For the convenience of the reader, the ADAMS accession numbers are provided in the Availability of Documents, section of this document.
NRCs PDR: You may examine and purchase copies of public documents, by appointment, at the NRCs 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 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET), Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Pamela Noto, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone: 301-415-6795; email: Pamela.Noto@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Discussion Appendix K, Monetary Valuation of Nonfatal Cancer Risk for Use in Cost-Benefit Analysis, to NUREG/BR-0058 provides guidance for valuing morbidity risks from radiation exposure for use in cost-benefit analyses at the NRC. This appendix includes (1) evidence-based estimates for the value of nonfatal cancers, (2) an overview of the technical approach, assumptions, and data sources used to develop these estimates, (3) a discussion of the uncertainties, and (4) guidance on how to apply these estimates in cost-benefit analyses to capture averted health risks from changes in radiation exposure. This valuation method is analogous to the dollar per person-rem conversion factor for fatality risks detailed in NUREG-1530, Revision 1, Reassessment of NRCs
3 Dollar Per Person-Rem Conversion Factor Policy, issued February 2022. The evaluation of morbidity impacts of nonfatal cancers will provide a more complete and realistic treatment of potential health effects due to radiation exposure in NRC cost-benefit analyses.
Appendix L, Replacement Energy Costs, provides guidance on how to apply information in NUREG-2242, Replacement Energy Cost Estimates for Nuclear Power Plants: 2020-2030, issued June 2021, to estimate replacement energy costs associated with regulatory actions that may result in the temporary or permanent loss of electrical power generation from a nuclear reactor. The term replacement energy cost refers to the change in wholesale power prices that could result when a reactor unit is taken offline. This appendix presents methods and examples showing how to use the information in NUREG-2242 to (1) quantify replacement energy costs in cost-benefit analyses, including the calculation of shutdown costs related to installing or implementing mandated safety changes, and (2) estimate present value of averted onsite costs due to changes in reactor accident frequencies.
II. Public Outreach Following development of the draft appendices, the NRC posted the drafts to the Federal Rulemaking website at https://www.regulations.gov for a 60-day public comment period (87 FR 40280; July 6, 2022). The comment period closed on September 6, 2022.
The NRC received one comment submission with a total of three individual comments from nuclear industry representatives. The NRC considered this public input when developing the final appendices.
The NRC staff held a public Information Meeting with a Question and Answer Session on August 17, 2022, to provide an overview of the two draft appendices and discussed how they are related to the NRCs cost-benefit guidance update.
4 III. Backfitting, Forward Fitting, and Issue Finality The NRCs issuance and use of the appendices do not constitute backfitting as that term is defined in Section 50.109 of title 10 Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR)
Backfitting, and as described in the NRC Management Directive (MD) 8.4, Management of Backfitting, Forward Fitting, Issue Finality, and Information Requests; do not affect the issue finality of an approval under 10 CFR part 52, Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants; and do not constitute forward fitting as that term is defined and described in MD 8.4.
IV. Congressional Review Act These appendices are a rule as defined in the Congressional Review Act (5 U.S.C. 801-808). However, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget has not found it to be a major rule as defined in the Congressional Review Act.
V. Availability of Documents The documents identified in the following table are available to interested persons as indicated.
DOCUMENT ADAMS ACCESSION NO.
NUREG/BR-0058, Revision 5, Appendix K, Monetary Valuation of Nonfatal Cancer Risk for Use in Cost-Benefit Analysis ML22273A171 NUREG/BR-0058, Revision 5, Appendix L, Replacement Energy Costs ML22273A172 SECY-20-0008, NUREG/BR-0058, Revision 5, Regulatory Analysis Guidelines of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ML19261A277 (Package)
SECY-22-0028, Appendices to NUREG/BR-0058, Revision 5, Regulatory Analysis Guidelines of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ML21228A118 (Package)
NUREG-2242, Replacement Energy Cost Estimates for Nuclear Power Plants:
2020-2030 ML21174A176
5 NUREG-1530, Revision 1, Reassessment of NRCs Dollar Per Person-Rem Conversion Factor Policy ML22053A025 MD 8.4, Management of Backfitting, Forward Fitting, Issue Finality, and Information Requests ML18093B087 NRC Response to Public Comments on NUREG/BR-0058, Appendices K and L ML22273A173 Summary of 8/17/2022 Cost Benefit Guidance Public Meeting ML22240A103 August 17 Cost-Benefit Public Meeting Presentation ML22220A119 Dated: MONTH XX, 2023.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Christopher M. Regan, Director, Division of Rulemaking, Environmental, and Financial Support.
Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.