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DG-1386 (RG 1.73 Rev 2) Qualification of Safety-Related Actuators in Production and Utilization Facilities

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U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION DRAFT REGULATORY GUIDE DG-1386 Proposed Revision 2 to Regulatory Guide 1.73 Issue Date: May 2023 Technical Lead: Kayleh Hartage QUALIFICATION OF SAFETY-RELATED ACTUATORS IN PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION FACILITIES A. INTRODUCTION Purpose This regulatory guide (RG) endorses, with exceptions, additions, and clarifications, the methods described in Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Standard (Std.) 382-2019, IEEE Standard for Qualification of Safety-Related Actuators for Nuclear Power Generating Stations and Other Nuclear Facilities (Ref. 1), as an acceptable process for demonstrating compliance with the applicable U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulations for the environmental qualification of safety-related power-operated valve actuators in production and utilization facilities.

Applicability This RG applies to licensees and applicants subject to Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 50, Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities (Ref. 2), and 10 CFR Part 52, Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants (Ref. 3). Under 10 CFR Part 50, this RG applies to licensees of or applicants for production and utilization facilities.

Under 10 CFR Part 52, this RG applies to applicants and holders of combined licenses, standard design certifications, standard design approvals, and manufacturing licenses.

Applicable Regulations

• 10 CFR Part 50 o 10 CFR 50.49, Environmental qualification of electric equipment important to safety for nuclear power plants, requires that holders or applicants for an operating license issued under 10 CFR Part 50 shall establish a program for the environmental qualification of electric equipment as defined in 10 CFR 50.49. 10 CFR 50.49 also requires that holders of a combined license or a manufacturing license issued under Part 52 shall establish a program for the environmental qualification of electric equipment as defined in 10 CFR 50.49.

This RG is being issued in draft form to involve the public in the development of regulatory guidance in this area. It has not received final staff review or approval and does not represent an NRC final staff position. Public comments are being solicited on this draft guide (DG) and its associated regulatory analysis. Comments should be accompanied by appropriate supporting data. Comments may be submitted through the Federal rulemaking Website, http://www.regulations.gov, by searching for draft regulatory guide DG-1386. Alternatively, comments may be submitted to the Office of Administration, Mailstop: TWFN 7 A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, ATTN: Program Management, Announcements and Editing Staff. Comments must be submitted by the date indicated in the Federal Register notice.

Electronic copies of this DG, previous versions of DGs, and other recently issued guides are available through the NRCs public Website under the Regulatory Guides document collection of the NRC Library at https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/reg-guides/index.html. The DG is also available through the NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html, under Accession No. ML23055B024. The regulatory analysis may be found in ADAMS under Accession No. ML23055B028.

o 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix A, General Design Criteria for Nuclear Power Plants, General Design Criterion (GDC) 1, Quality Standards and Records, requires, in part, that SSCs important to safety be designed and tested to quality standards commensurate with the importance of the safety functions to be performed. Where generally recognized codes and standards are used, they shall be identified and evaluated for applicability, adequacy, and sufficiency and shall be supplemented or modified as necessary to assure a quality product in keeping with the required safety function.

o 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix A, GDC 2, Design Bases for Protection against Natural Phenomena, requires, in part, that SSCs important to safety be designed to withstand the effects of natural phenomena without loss of capability to perform their safety functions.

o 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix A, GDC 4, Environmental and Dynamic Effects Design Bases, requires, in part, that SSCs important to safety be designed to accommodate the effects of and to be compatible with the environmental conditions associated with normal operation, maintenance, testing, and postulated accidents, including loss-of-coolant accidents.

o 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix A, GDC 23, Protection System Failure Modes, requires that the protection system be designed to fail into a safe state or into a state demonstrated to be acceptable on some other defined basis if conditions such as disconnection of the system, loss of energy, or postulated adverse environments are experienced.

o 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix B, Quality Assurance Criteria for Nuclear Power Plants and Fuel Reprocessing Plants, Criterion III, Design Control, requires, in part, design control measures for verifying the adequacy of the design.

o 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix B, Criterion XI, Test Control, requires, in part, a test program to provide assurance that all testing required to demonstrate that SSCs will perform satisfactorily in service is performed in accordance with written procedures which incorporate the requirements and acceptance limits in applicable design documents.

o 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix B, Criterion XVII, Quality Assurance Records requires, in part, the maintenance of sufficient records as evidence of quality assurance activities.

• 10 CFR Part 52 o 10 CFR 52.47(a)(13) requires that an applicant for a design certification must provide the list of electric equipment important to safety, as specified in 10 CFR 50.49(d).

o 10 CFR 52.79(a)(10) requires that an application for a combined license must provide a description of the program, and its implementation, for the environmental qualification of electric equipment, in accordance with 10 CFR 50.49(a). The applicant must also provide the list of electric equipment important to safety, that is required by 10 CFR 50.49(d).

o 10 CFR 52.137(a)(13) requires that an applicant for standard design approval must provide the list of electric equipment important to safety, that is required by 10 CFR 50.49(d).

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Related Guidance

• RG 1.89, Environmental Qualification of Certain Electric Equipment Important to Safety for Nuclear Power Plants (Ref. 4), describes a methodology to qualify safety-related (Class 1E) electric equipment.

• RG 1.100, Seismic Qualification of Electrical and Active Mechanical Equipment and Functional Qualification of Active Mechanical Equipment for Nuclear Power Plants (Ref. 5), describes methods considered acceptable for use in the seismic qualification of electrical and mechanical equipment and the functional qualification of active mechanical equipment for nuclear power plants.

• RG 1.180, Guidelines for Evaluating Electromagnetic and Radio-Frequency Interference in Safety-Related Instrumentation and Control Systems (Ref. 6), describes the design, installation, and testing practices acceptable to the NRC staff for addressing the effects of electromagnetic or radiofrequency interference and power surges on safety-related instrumentation and controls systems in a nuclear power plant environment.

• NUREG-1537, Parts 1 and 2, Guidelines for Preparing and Reviewing Applications for the Licensing of Non-Power Reactors, issued February 1996 (Ref. 7), contains format and content guidance for non-power reactor applicants and licensees, as well as a standard review plan and acceptance criteria for the NRC staff.

• Final Interim Staff Guidance Augmenting NUREG-1537, Guidelines for Preparing and Reviewing Applications for the Licensing of Non-Power Reactors, Parts 1 and 2, for Licensing Radioisotope Production Facilities and Aqueous Homogeneous Reactors, issued October 2012 (Ref. 8), gives format and content guidance for non-power aqueous homogeneous reactor and radioisotope production facility applicants and licensees, as well as a standard review plan and acceptance criteria for NRC staff.

• Endorsement of Appendix A to Oak Ridge National Laboratory Report, Proposed Guidance for Preparing and Reviewing a Molten Salt Non-Power Reactor Application, as Guidance for Preparing Applications for the Licensing of Non-Power Liquid Fueled Molten Salt Reactors, dated November 18, 2020 (Ref. 9), endorses, with clarifications, Appendix A to ORNL/TM-2020/1478, Proposed Guidance for Preparing and Reviewing a Molten Salt Non-Power Reactor Application, issued July 2020 (Ref. 10), to support the review of non-power molten salt reactors.

Purpose of Regulatory Guides The NRC issues RGs to describe methods that are acceptable to the staff for implementing specific parts of the agencys regulations, to explain techniques that the staff uses in evaluating specific issues or postulated events, and to describe information that the staff needs in its review of applications for permits and licenses. Regulatory guides are not NRC regulations and compliance with them is not required. Methods and solutions that differ from those set forth in RGs are acceptable if supported by a basis for the issuance or continuance of a permit or license by the Commission.

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Paperwork Reduction Act This RG provides voluntary guidance for implementing the mandatory information collections in 10 CFR Parts 50 and 52 that are subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et.

seq.). These information collections were approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB),

under control numbers 3150-0011 and 3150-0151, respectively. Send comments regarding this information collection to the FOIA, Library, and Information Collections Branch (T6-A10M),

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, or by email to Infocollects.Resource@nrc.gov, and to the OMB reviewer at: OMB Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, (3150-0011 and 3150-0151), Attn: Desk Officer for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 725 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20503; e-mail: oira_submissions@omb.eop.gov.

Public Protection Notification The NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless the document requesting or requiring the collection displays a currently valid OMB control number.

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B. DISCUSSION Reason for Revision The NRC issued Revision 1 of RG 1.73 in October 2013 (Ref. 12) to endorse IEEE Std. 382-2006, Standard for Qualification of Safety-Related Actuators for Nuclear Power Generating Stations (Ref. 12). The IEEE standard was revised in 2019. This revision updates the RG to endorse the current version of IEEE Std. 382-2019, with certain clarifications, exceptions, and additions. This revision also clarifies that all production and utilization facilities are within the scope of this RG.

Background

IEEE Std. 382-2019 was published on November 21, 2019. It was developed by the Subcommittee on Qualification of Actuators (SC 2.3) of the IEEE Nuclear Power Engineering Committee and approved by the IEEE Standards Association Standards Board on November 7, 2019. This standard establishes criteria for the qualification of safety-related actuators and actuator components in nuclear power generating stations. The primary objective is to demonstrate with reasonable assurance that safety-related actuators for which a qualified life or condition has been established can perform their safety function(s) without common-cause failures before, during, and after applicable design basis events (DBEs). Safety-related actuators and their interfaces must meet or exceed the equipment specification requirements. The IEEE standard specifies procedures for testing under conditions that simulate (1) the postulated DBE conditions, including specified high-energy line breaks, loss-of-coolant accidents, main steam line breaks, and safe-shutdown seismic earthquake events, and (2) those occurring under normal operating conditions.

The standard specifies procedures for accomplishing aging of components to simulate the effects of long-term operation under normal and abnormal operating conditions. These effects include exposure to thermodynamic environment (temperature, pressure, relative humidity), fluid jet or spray environment, seismic and nonseismic vibration environment, radiation environment, anticipated variations in input power source (electrical and mechanical), and electrical and mechanical characteristics. The standard provides guidance for how to incorporate manufacturers recommended maintenance intervals into the qualification process.

The examples and specific discussion in this RG primarily focus on power reactors. Other licensees of or applicants for production and utilization facilities may also use and apply the guidance in this RG to help develop plans or programs that address meeting the agencys regulatory requirements for the qualification of safety-related actuators. In particular, these applicants and licensees may use the guidance to help verify adequacy of design for service.

Consideration of International Standards The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) works with member states and other partners to promote the safe, secure, and peaceful use of nuclear technologies. The IAEA develops Safety Requirements and Safety Guides for protecting people and the environment from harmful effects of ionizing radiation. This system of safety fundamentals, safety requirements, safety guides, and other relevant reports, reflects an international perspective on what constitutes a high level of safety. To inform its development of this RG, the NRC considered IAEA Safety Requirements and Safety Guides pursuant to the Commissions International Policy Statement (Ref. 13) and Management Directive and Handbook 6.6, Regulatory Guides (Ref. 14).

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The following IAEA Safety Standard was considered in the development of the RG:

• IAEA Safety Standards Series No. SSG-69, Equipment Qualification for Nuclear Installations, issued 2021 (Ref. 15), addresses environmental qualification of equipment important to safety in nuclear power plants.

This RG endorses IEEE Std. 382-2019, which provides qualification methods based on the joint standard between the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and IEEE: IEC/IEEE Std. 60780-323, Edition 1.0, 2016-02, IEC/IEEE International Standard - Nuclear facilities -- Electrical equipment important to safety -- Qualification (Ref. 16). This joint standard was created based on a collaborative international effort to harmonize standard qualification practices developed from IEC 60780:1998 (Ref.

17), Nuclear Power PlantsElectrical Equipment of the Safety SystemQualification, and IEEE Std. 323-2003, (Ref. 18) IEEE Standard for Qualifying Class 1E Equipment for Nuclear Power Generating Stations.

Documents Discussed in Staff Regulatory Guidance This RG endorses, in part, the use of one or more codes or standards developed by external organizations, and other third-party guidance documents. These codes, standards, and third-party guidance documents may contain references to other codes, standards, or third-party guidance documents (secondary references). If a secondary reference has itself been incorporated by reference into NRC regulations as a requirement, then licensees and applicants must comply with that standard as set forth in the regulation. If the secondary reference has been endorsed in a RG as an acceptable approach for meeting an NRC requirement, then the standard constitutes a method acceptable to the NRC staff for meeting that regulatory requirement as described in the specific RG. If the secondary reference has neither been incorporated by reference into NRC regulations nor endorsed in a RG, then the secondary reference is neither a legally binding requirement nor a generic NRC-approved acceptable approach for meeting an NRC requirement. However, licensees and applicants may consider and use the information in the secondary reference, if appropriately justified, consistent with current regulatory practice, and consistent with applicable NRC requirements.

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C. STAFF REGULATORY GUIDANCE The guidance in IEEE Std. 382-2019 provides an acceptable approach to the NRC staff for meeting the agencys regulatory requirements for environmental qualification of safety-related power-operated valve actuators in production and utilization facilities, with the exceptions, additions, and clarifications listed in this section.

1. Section 2, Normative References, of IEEE Std. 382-2019 lists IEC/IEEE 60780-323, Nuclear facilities - Electrical equipment important to safety - Qualification, as a normative reference, indispensable for the application of IEEE Std. 382-2019. IEC/IEEE 60780-323 should be replaced with RG 1.89, Environmental Qualification of Certain Electric Equipment Important to Safety for Nuclear Power Plants as a normative reference. Applicants and licensees should perform environmental qualification of safety-related actuators using the guidance in RG 1.89.

Acceptable qualification methods include type testing, analysis, or a combination thereof. Type testing is the preferred method of environmental qualification because other methods may be based on older or dissimilar equipment that may not be comparable to the equipment being qualified. The staff finds that operational experience is not an adequate method for qualifying equipment.

2. The radiological source term for qualification tests in a nuclear radiation environment should be based on the source term methodology used in RG 1.89 and RG 1.183, Alternative Radiological Source Terms for Evaluating Design Basis Accidents at Nuclear Power Reactors (Ref. 19). The containment size should be considered in each case. For exposed organic materials, calculations should consider neutron, beta, and gamma radiation.

3. IEEE Std. 382-2019, Section 15, Vibration Aging Test, states that the vibration aging test is intended to provide a vibratory environment that is representative of normal plant-induced vibration, including system operating transients and other dynamic vibratory environments. The environmental qualification for power-operated valves should also address flow-induced vibration caused by acoustic resources and hydraulic loading in the reactor, steam, and feedwater systems.

4. The NRC staff considers the guidance in IEEE Std. 382-2019, Section 16, Seismic Simulation Test, as an acceptable method for the environmental qualification of valve actuators, subject to the following exceptions, additions, and clarifications:

4.1 Section 16.3(b) of IEEE Std. 382-2019 states: Each sweep shall be from 2 Hz to 35 Hz to 2 Hz, or from 2 Hz to 64 Hz to 2 Hz for hard rock sites or other enveloping frequency range specified by the user. Instead of that method, use the following method: Each sweep shall be from 2 Hz to 64 Hz to 2 Hz or, if the Required Response Spectra (RRS) has a frequency range exceeding 64 Hz, then the frequency sweep should be consistent with the RRS of the specific plant equipment.

4.2 Section 16.3(c) of IEEE Std. 382-2019 states: For actuator SSE [safe shutdown earthquake] qualification for line mounted application, perform a single frequency test by exposing the actuator to a series of single frequency sine-beat tests at the one-third octave interval test frequencies indicated in Figure 1, or other enveloping levels specified by the user. Instead, the users of this RG should perform a single frequency test by exposing the actuator to a series of single frequency sine-beat tests at one-sixth octave interval test DG-1386, Page 7

frequency to adequately identify resonance frequencies, or other enveloping levels specified by the user.

4.3 IEEE Std. 382-2019 does not provide a full set of the qualification requirements for valve actuators. The users of this RG should address the other aspects of the qualification process (such as seismic and functional qualification) for power operated valves, as described in RG 1.100, which accepts the use of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Standard QME-1-2017, Qualification of Active Mechanical Equipment Used in Nuclear Facilities (Ref. 20), with specific conditions. ASME Standard QME-1-2017 includes more stringent provisions for the functional qualification of power-operated valves than the ones specified in IEEE Std. 382-2019, including acceptable qualification methods, actuator grouping, actuator output capability testing, and extrapolation of actuator qualification.

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D. IMPLEMENTATION The NRC staff may use this RG as a reference in its regulatory processes, such as licensing, inspection, or enforcement. However, the NRC staff does not intend to use the guidance in this RG to support NRC staff actions in a manner that would constitute backfitting as that term is defined in 10 CFR 50.109, Backfitting, and as described in NRC Management Directive 8.4, Management of Backfitting, Forward Fitting, Issue Finality, and Information Requests, (Ref. 21), nor does the NRC staff intend to use the guidance to affect the issue finality of an approval under 10 CFR Part 52, Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants. The staff also does not intend to use the guidance to support NRC staff actions in a manner that constitutes forward fitting as that term is defined and described in Management Directive 8.4. If a licensee believes that the NRC is using this regulatory guide in a manner inconsistent with the discussion in this Implementation section, then the licensee may file a backfitting or forward fitting appeal with the NRC in accordance with the process in Management Directive 8.4.

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REFERENCES 1

1. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Standard (Std.) 382-2019, IEEE Standard for Qualification of Safety-Related Actuators for Nuclear Power Generating Stations and Other Nuclear Facilities, New York, New York, 2019. 2

2. U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities, Part 50, Chapter 1, Title 10, Energy.

3. CFR, Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants, Part 52, Chapter 1, Title 10, Energy.

4. NRC, Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.89, Environmental Qualification of Certain Electric Equipment Important to Safety for Nuclear Power Plants, Washington, DC.

5. NRC, RG 1.100, Seismic Qualification of Electrical and Active Mechanical Equipment and Functional Qualification of Active Mechanical Equipment for Nuclear Power Plants, Washington, DC.

6. NRC, RG 1.180, Guidelines for Evaluating Electromagnetic and Radio-Frequency Interference in Safety-Related Instrumentation and Control Systems, Washington, DC.

7. NRC, NUREG-1537, Parts 1 and 2, Guidelines for Preparing and Reviewing Applications for the Licensing of Non-Power Reactors, Washington DC, February 1996, (ADAMS Accession No.: ML12156A069 and ML12156A075, respectively).

8. NRC, Final Interim Staff Guidance Augmenting NUREG-1537, Guidelines for Preparing and Reviewing Applications for the Licensing of Non-Power Reactors, Parts 1 and 2, for Licensing Radioisotope Production Facilities and Aqueous Homogeneous Reactors, Washington DC, October 17, 2012, (ML12156A053).

9. NRC, Endorsement of Appendix A to Oak Ridge National Laboratory Report, Proposed Guidance for Preparing and Reviewing a Molten Salt Non-Power Reactor Application, as Guidance for Preparing Applications for the Licensing of Non-Power Liquid Fueled Molten Salt Reactors, Washington, DC, November 18, 2020 (ML20251A008).

10. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL/TM-2020/1478, Proposed Guidance for Preparing and Reviewing a Molten Salt Non-Power Reactor Application, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, July 2020 (ML20219A771).

1 Publicly available NRC published documents are available electronically through the NRC Library on the NRCs public website at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/ and through the NRCs Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. For problems with ADAMS, contact the Public Document Room staff at 301-415-4737 or (800) 397-4209, or email pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The NRC Public Document Room (PDR), where you may also examine and order copies of publicly available documents, is open by appointment. 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 a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern time (ET), Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

2 Copies of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) documents may be purchased from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, PO Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855, or through the IEEEs public Web site at http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/index.html.

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11. NRC, RG 1.73, Revision 1, Qualification Tests for Safety-Related Actuators in Nuclear Power Plants, Washington DC, October 2013 (ML13210A463).

12. IEEE, IEEE Std. 382-2006, Standard for Qualification of Safety-Related Actuators for Nuclear Power Generating Stations. New York, NY, 2006.

13. NRC, Nuclear Regulatory Commission International Policy Statement, Federal Register, Vol. 79, No. 132, pp. 39415-39418 (79 FR 39415), Washington DC, July 10, 2014.

14. NRC, Management Directive 6.6, Regulatory Guides, Washington, DC.

15. IAEA, IAEA Safety Standards Series No. SSG-69, Equipment Qualification for Nuclear Installations, issued 2021 3

16. International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)/IEEE, IEC/IEEE Std. 60780-323, Edition 1.0, 2016-02, IEC/IEEE International Standard - Nuclear facilities -- Electrical equipment important to safety - Qualification, issued 2016 4

17. IEC, IEC 60780:1998 Nuclear Power PlantsElectrical Equipment of the Safety System Qualification, October 1998.

18. IEEE, IEEE Std. 323-2003, IEEE Standard for Qualifying Class 1E Equipment for Nuclear Power Generating Stations, New York, NY, 2003.

19. NRC, RG 1.183 Alternative Radiological Source Terms for Evaluating Design Basis Accidents at Nuclear Power Reactors, Washington, DC.

20. American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), QME-1-2017, Qualification of Active Mechanical Equipment Used in Facilities, New York, NY 2017.

21. NRC, Management Directive 8.4, Management of Backfitting, Forward Fitting, Issue Finality, and Information Requests, Washington, DC.

3 Copies of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) documents may be obtained through the IAEA Web site:

WWW.IAEA.Org/ or by writing the International Atomic Energy Agency, P.O. Box 100 Wagramer Strasse 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria.

4 Copies of International Electrical Commission (IEC) documents may be obtained through the IEC Web site:

http://www.iec.ch/ or by writing the IEC Central Office at P.O. Box 131, 3 Rue de Varembé, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland, Telephone +41 22 919 02 11.

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