[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 102 (Tuesday, May 27, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30425-30426]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-11786]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Office of New Reactors; Notice of Availability of the Final 
Interim Staff Guidance DC/COL-ISG-01 on Seismic Issues Associated With 
High Frequency Ground Motion

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: The NRC is issuing its Final Interim Staff Guidance (ISG) DC/
COL-ISG-01. This DC/COL-ISG provides guidance on Seismic Issues 
associated with High Frequency (HF) Ground Motion for Design 
Certification (DC) and Combined License (COL) applicants. Moreover, 
this COL/DC-ISG describes how the staff will review seismic issues 
associated with HF ground motion as addressed in DC applications and 
COL applications.
    Disposition: The draft form of the ISG was published for public 
comments on August 16, 2007 (ML072200566). The staff received industry 
comments dated September 12, 2007. This revised version incorporated 
changes resulting from the disposition of the industry comments and as 
a result of discussions at the December 20, 2007 and the February 13, 
2008 meetings (ML080560592).
    The NRC staff issues DC/COL-ISGs to facilitate timely 
implementation of the current staff guidance and to facilitate 
activities associated with review of applications for DC and COLs by 
the Office of New Reactors. The NRC staff will also incorporate the 
approved DC/COL-ISGs into the next revision of review guidance 
documents used by the Office of New Reactors.

ADDRESSES: The NRC maintains an Agencywide Documents Access and 
Management System (ADAMS), which provides text and image files of NRC's 
public documents. These documents may be accessed through the NRC's 
Public Electronic Reading Room on the Internet at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who 
encounter problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS should

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contact the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at 1-800-
397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by e-mail at [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Rebecca L. Karas, Branch Chief, 
Geoscience and Geotechnical Engineering Branch 1, Division of Site and 
Environmental Reviews, Office of New Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone 301-415-7533 or e-mail 
at [email protected].
    Mr. Sujit K. Samaddar, Branch Chief, Structural Engineering Branch 
2, Division of Engineering, Office of New Reactors, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone 301-415-
3309 or e-mail at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The agency posts its issued staff guidance 
in the agency external Web page (http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/isg/) (ML081400293).

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 19th day of May 2008.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
William D. Reckley,
Chief, Rulemaking, Guidance and Advanced Reactor Branch, Division of 
New Reactor Licensing, Office of New Reactors.
[FR Doc. E8-11786 Filed 5-23-08; 8:45 am]
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