[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 75 (Tuesday, April 21, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18262-18263]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-9099]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2009-0176]
Draft Regulatory Guide: Issuance, Availability
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of Issuance and Availability of Draft Regulatory Guide,
DG-1214.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dan Frumkin, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone (301) 415-2280, e-mail
Dan.Frumkin@nrc.gov, or, R. A. Jervey, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone: (301) 251-7407, e-
mail to raj@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing for public
comment a draft guide in the agency's ``Regulatory Guide'' series. This
series was developed to describe and make available to the public such
information
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as methods that are acceptable to the NRC staff for implementing
specific parts of the NRC's regulations, techniques that the staff uses
in evaluating specific problems or postulated accidents, and data that
the staff needs in its review of applications for permits and licenses.
The draft regulatory guide (DG), titled, ``Fire Protection for
Nuclear Power Plants,'' is temporarily identified by its task number,
DG-1214, which should be mentioned in all related correspondence. DG-
1214 is proposed Revision 2 of Regulatory Guide 1.189.
The primary objectives of fire protection programs (FPPs) at U.S.
nuclear plants are to minimize both the probability of occurrence and
the consequences of fire. To meet these objectives, the FPPs for
operating nuclear power plants are designed to provide reasonable
assurance, through defense in depth, that a fire will not prevent the
necessary safe-shutdown functions from being performed and that
radioactive releases to the environment in the event of a fire will be
minimized.
The regulatory framework that the NRC has established for nuclear
plant FPPs consists of a number of regulations and supporting
guidelines, including, but not limited to, Title 10 of the Code of
Federal Regulations, Part 50, ``Domestic Licensing of Production and
Utilization Facilities,'' (10 CFR Part 50), Appendix A, ``General
Design Criteria for Nuclear Power Plants,'' General Design Criterion
(GDC) 3, ``Fire Protection;'' 10 CFR 50.48, ``Fire Protection;''
Appendix R, ``Fire Protection Program for Nuclear Power Facilities
Operating Prior to January 1, 1979,'' to 10 CFR Part 50; regulatory
guides; generic communications (e.g., generic letters [GLs], regulatory
issue summaries [RISs], bulletins, and information notices [INs]);
NUREG-series reports, including NUREG-0800, ``Standard Review Plan
[SRP] for the Review of Safety Analysis Reports for Nuclear Power
Plants;'' and industry standards. Since not all of the fire protection
regulations promulgated by the NRC apply to all plants, this guide does
not categorize them as regulations. Licensees should refer to their
plant-specific licensing bases to determine the applicability of a
specific regulation to a specific plant.
The NRC staff developed this guide to provide a comprehensive fire
protection guidance document and to identify the scope and depth of
fire protection that the staff would consider acceptable for nuclear
power plants. The original issue of this guide addressed only plants
operating as of January 1, 2001. Revision 1 of the document added
guidance for new reactor designs and incorporated the guidance
previously included in Branch Technical Position (BTP) SPLB 9.5-1,
``Guidelines for Fire Protection for Nuclear Power Plants (formerly BTP
CMEB 9.5-1).'' DG-1214 incorporates guidance related to analysis of
safe-shutdown capabilities as found in regulatory position 5.3.
II. Further Information
The NRC staff is soliciting comments on DG-1214. Comments may be
accompanied by relevant information or supporting data and should
mention DG-1214 in the subject line. Comments submitted in writing or
in electronic form will be made available to the public in their
entirety through the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management
System (ADAMS).
Personal information will not be removed from your comments. You
may submit comments by any of the following methods:
1. Mail comments to: Rulemaking, Directives, and Editing Branch,
Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555-0001.
2. E-mail comments to: nrcrep.resource@nrc.gov.
Requests for technical information about DG-1214 may be directed to
the NRC contact, Dan Frumkin at (301) 415-2280 or e-mail to
Dan.Frumkin@nrc.gov.
Comments would be most helpful if received by May 29, 2009.
Comments received after that date will be considered if it is practical
to do so, but the NRC is able to ensure consideration only for comments
received on or before this date. Although a time limit is given,
comments and suggestions in connection with items for inclusion in
guides currently being developed or improvements in all published
guides are encouraged at any time.
Electronic copies of DG-1214 are available through the NRC's public
Web site under Draft Regulatory Guides in the ``Regulatory Guides''
collection of the NRC's Electronic Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/. Electronic copies are also available in
ADAMS (http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html), under Accession No.
ML090070453.
In addition, regulatory guides are available for inspection at the
NRC's Public Document Room (PDR), which is located at 11555 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland. The PDR's mailing address is USNRC PDR,
Washington, DC 20555-0001. The PDR can also be reached by telephone at
(301) 415-4737 or (800) 397-4205, by fax at (301) 415-3548, and by e-
mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov.
Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and Commission approval is
not required to reproduce them.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 7th day of April 2009.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrea D. Valentin,
Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of Engineering,
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
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