ML22259A192

87 FRN 29395

ML22259A192
Person / Time
Issue date:	05/13/2022
From:	Markhenry Salley NRC/RES/DRA
To:
Hamburger, Kenneth 301-415-2022
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ML22259A188	List: ML22259A190 ML22259A192
References
87FR29395, NRC-2022-0096
Download: ML22259A192 (2)

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Federal Register/ Vol. 87, No. 93 / Friday, May 13, 2022 / Notices 29395

electronically. If you would like to be Thursday, June 16, 2022 however, the NRC encourages electronic added to the distribution, please contact 10:00 a.m. Briefing on Results of the comment submission through the the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Agency Action Review Meeting; Federal Rulemaking website:

Office of the Secretary, Washington, DC (Contact: Nicole Fields: 630-829-

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 20555, at 301-415-1969, or by email at 9570) https://www.regulations.gov and search Wendy.Moore@nrc.gov or Additional Information: The meeting for Docket ID NRC-2022-0096. Address Betty.Thweatt@nrc.gov. will be held in the Commissioners questions about Docket IDs in MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Conference Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; Rockville, Maryland. The public is telephone: 301-415-0624; email:

Week of May 16, 2022 invited to attend the Commissions Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical There are no meetings scheduled for meeting in person or watch live via questions, contact the individual listed the week of May 16, 2022. webcast at the Web addresshttps:// in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION video.nrc.gov/. CONTACT section of this document.

Week of May 23, 2022Tentative

• Mail comments to: Office of There are no meetings scheduled for Week of June 20, 2022Tentative Administration, Mail Stop: TWFN the week of May 23, 2022. There are no meetings scheduled for A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory the week of June 20, 2022. Commission, Washington, DC 20555-Week of May 30, 2022Tentative CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 0001, ATTN: Program Management, Wednesday, June 1, 2022 For more information or to verify the Announcements and Editing Staff.

status of meetings, contact Wesley Held For additional direction on obtaining 10:00 a.m. Transformation at the at 301-287-3591 or via email at information and submitting comments, NRCSustaining Progress as Wesley.Held@nrc.gov. see Obtaining Information and Modern, Risk-Informed Regulator; The NRC is holding the meetings Submitting Comments in the (Contact: Aida Rivera-Varona: 301-under the authority of the Government SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATIONsection of 415-4001) in the Sunshine Act, 5 U.S.C. 552b. this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Additional Information: The meeting Dated: May 11, 2022. Gabriel J. Taylor, Office of Nuclear will be held in the Commissioners For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Conference Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, Wesley W. Held, Regulatory Commission, Washington, Rockville, Maryland. The public is Policy Coordinator Office of the Secretary. DC 20555-0001, telephone: 301-415-invited to attend the Commissions [FR Doc. 2022-10484 Filed 5-11-22; 4:15 pm] 0781, email: Gabriel.Taylor@nrc.gov.

meeting in person or watch live via SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

webcast at the Web addresshttps:// BILLING CODE 7590-01-P video.nrc.gov/. I. Obtaining Information and Friday, June 3, 2022 NUCLEAR REGULATORY Submitting Comments 10:00 a.m. Meeting with Advisory COMMISSION A. Obtaining Information Committee on Reactor Safeguards; [NRC-2022-0096] Please refer to Docket ID NRC-2022-(Contact: Larry Burkhart: 301-287- 0096 when contacting the NRC about 3775) Modeling High Energy Arcing Fault the availability of information for this Additional Information: The meeting Hazards and Zones of Influence action. You may obtain publicly AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory available information related to this will be held in the Commissioners Commission. action by any of the following methods:

Conference Room, 11555 Rockville Pike,

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to Rockville, Maryland. The public is ACTION: Draft research information letter https://www.regulations.gov and search invited to attend the Commissions reports; request for comment. for Docket ID NRC-2022-0096.

meeting in person or watch live via

SUMMARY

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

• NRCs Agencywide Documents webcast at the Web addresshttps:// Commission (NRC) is issuing for public Access and Management System video.nrc.gov/. comment two draft Research (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly Week of June 6, 2022Tentative Information Letter reports, Predicting available documents online in the High Energy Arcing Fault Zones of ADAMS Public Documents collection at There are no meetings scheduled for Influence for Aluminum Using a https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/

the week of June 6, 2022. Modified Arc Flash Model, Evaluation adams.html. To begin the search, select Week of June 13, 2022 of a modified model bias, uncertainty, Begin Web-based ADAMS Search. For parameter sensitivity and zone of problems with ADAMS, please contact Tuesday, June 14, 2022 influence estimation, Draft for public the NRCs Public Document Room (PDR) 10:00 a.m. Briefing on Human Capital comment, and Determining the Zone reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-and Equal Employment of Influence for High Energy Arcing 415-4737, or by email to Opportunity; (Contact: Nicole Faults using Fire Dynamics Simulator, PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. The draft Newton: 301-415-8316) Draft for public comment. research information letter reports Predicting High Energy Arcing Fault Additional Information: The meeting DATES: Submit comments by June 13, Zones of Influence for Aluminum Using will be held in the Commissioners 2022. Comments received after this date a Modified Arc Flash Model, Evaluation Conference Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, will be considered if it is practical to do of a modified model bias, uncertainty, Rockville, Maryland. The public is so, but the Commission is able to ensure parameter sensitivity and zone of invited to attend the Commissions consideration only for comments influence estimation, Draft for public meeting in person or watch live via received on or before this date. comment is available in ADAMS under webcast at the Web addresshttps:// ADDRESSES: You may submit comments Accession No. ML22095A236, and video.nrc.gov/. by any of the following methods; Determining the Zone of Influence for

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High Energy Arcing Faults using Fire influence (ZOI) used in fire PRA. The For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Dynamics Simulator, Draft for public NRC worked with its collaborative Mark H. Salley, comment, is available in ADAMS research partners to develop two models Chief, Fire and External Hazards Analysis under Accession No. ML22095A237. to predict the HEAF hazard. Branch, Division of Risk Analysis, Office of

• NRCs PDR: You may examine and In the report titled, Predicting High Nuclear Regulatory Research.

purchase copies of public documents, Energy Arcing Fault Zones of Influence [FR Doc. 2022-10323 Filed 5-12-22; 8:45 am]

by appointment, at the NRCs PDR, for Aluminum Using a Modified Arc BILLING CODE 7590-01-P Room P1 B35, One White Flint North, Flash Model, Evaluation of a modified 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, model bias, uncertainty, parameter Maryland 20852. To make an sensitivity and zone of influence POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION appointment to visit the PDR, please estimation, Draft for public comment, send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov [Docket No. CP2022-62; Order No. 6167]

or call 1-800-397-4209 or 301-415-the NRC worked with Sandia National Competitive Price Adjustment 4737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Laboratories to evaluate an existing base (ET), Monday through Friday, except model. Differences between the base AGENCY: Postal Regulatory Commission.

Federal holidays. model and nuclear power plant fire PRA ACTION: Notice.

B. Submitting Comments scenarios were identified. Modification The NRC encourages electronic of the base model established from

SUMMARY

The Commission is comment submission through the existing literature and test data was recognizing a recently filed Postal Federal Rulemaking website (https:// used to minimize these differences. The Service document with the Commission www.regulations.gov). Please include modified model was evaluated against concerning changes in rates of general Docket ID NRC-2022-0096 in your NRC datasets to understand the model applicability for competitive products.

comment submission. prediction and relative uncertainties. The changes are scheduled to take effect The NRC cautions you not to include Finally, a range of fire PRA ZOIs were July 10, 2022. This notice informs the identifying or contact information that developed based on the modified model public of the filing, invites public you do not want to be publicly and draft update HEAF PRA comment, and takes other disclosed in your comment submission. methodology. The results are expected administrative steps.

The NRC will post all comment to be used to inform an update to ZOIs DATES: Comments are due: June 6, 2022.

submissions at https:// used in fire PRA. ADDRESSES: Submit comments www.regulations.gov as well as enter the In the report titled, Determining the electronically via the Commissions comment submissions into ADAMS. Zone of Influence for High Energy Filing Online system at http://

The NRC does not routinely edit Arcing Faults using Fire Dynamics www.prc.gov. Those who cannot submit comment submissions to remove Simulator, Draft for public comment, comments electronically should contact identifying or contact information. the NRC worked with the Electric Power the person identified in the FOR FURTHER If you are requesting or aggregating Research Institute and the National INFORMATION CONTACTsection by comments from other persons for Institute of Standards and Technology telephone for advice on filing submission to the NRC, then you should to adapt a computational fluid dynamic alternatives.

inform those persons not to include code known as the Fire Dynamics FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

identifying or contact information that Simulator (FDS) to predict the HEAF David A. Trissell, General Counsel, at they do not want to be publicly hazard. This report documents (1) the 202-789-6820.

disclosed in their comment submission. development of the approach to use FDS SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Your request should state that the NRC to predict thermal exposures to targets does not routinely edit comment from a HEAF, (2) validation of the Table of Contents submissions to remove such information I. Introduction and Overview before making the comment model and (3) application of the model II. Initial Administrative Actions submissions available to the public or to estimate HEAF ZOI for a broad range III. Ordering Paragraphs entering the comment into ADAMS. All of fire PRA HEAF scenarios.

comments should reference the The draft research information letter I. Introduction and Overview applicable report. reports present the NRC-RES/Sandia On May 6, 2022, the Postal Service II. Discussion National Laboratories (SNL) and NRC-filed notice with the Commission The NRC Office of Nuclear Regulatory RES/Electric Research Power Institute concerning changes in rates and Research (RES) is advancing the (EPRI) working groups efforts to predict classifications of general applicability understanding and state-of-practice for realistic HEAF hazards. The two for Competitive products.1 The Postal modeling High Energy Arcing Faults approaches to model HEAF hazards Service represents that, as required by (HEAF) in fire Probabilistic Risk present complementary but diverse 39 CFR 3035.102(b) and 39 CFR Assessment (PRA). One important methods to estimating the hazard ZOI. 3035.104(b), the Notice includes an aspect of this research is the ability to For most scenarios the two approaches explanation and justification for the reliably predict the HEAF hazard for provide results that are consistent with changes, the effective date, and a various scenarios important for nuclear each other. The NRC-SNL report can be schedule of the changed rates. See safety. The high intensity and short viewed as a first order approximation Notice at 1-2. The changes are duration of a HEAF has not been providing a single value scenario 1USPS Notice of Changes in Rates and explicitly modeled in past fire PRA specific ZOI estimate, while the NRC-Classifications of General Applicability for methodologies. As such, there was a RES/EPRI report provides additional Competitive Products, May 6, 2022 (Notice).

need to advance HEAF modeling geometric detail to the ZOI estimate. Pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 3632(b)(2), the Postal Service capabilities to reliably predict the is obligated to publish the Governors Decision and scenario specific HEAF hazards to Dated: May 9, 2022. record of proceedings in the Federal Register at least 30 days before the effective date of the new support refinements to the zones of rates.

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