[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 197 (Friday, October 10, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 53032]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-26993]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Regulatory Guides; Issuance, Availability

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued six new guides in its 
Regulatory Guide Series. This series has been developed to describe and 
make available to the public such information as methods acceptable to 
the NRC staff for implementing specific parts of the Commission's 
regulations, techniques used by the staff in evaluating specific 
problems or postulated accidents, and data needed by the staff in its 
review of applications for permits and licenses.
    The new regulatory guides provide guidance on methods acceptable to 
the NRC staff on complying with the NRC's regulations for promoting 
high functional reliability and design quality in software used in 
safety systems of nuclear power plants. The guides endorse industry 
consensus standards of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics 
Engineers. The guides and the standards they endorse are Regulatory 
Guide 1.168, ``Verification, Validation, Reviews, and Audits for 
Digital Computer Software Used in Safety Systems of Nuclear Power 
Plants,'' which endorses IEEE Std 1012-1986, ``IEEE Standard for 
Software Verification and Validation Plans,'' and IEEE Std 1028-1988, 
``IEEE Standard for Software Reviews and Audits'; Regulatory Guide 
1.169, ``Configuration Management Plans for Digital Computer Software 
Used in Safety Systems of Nuclear Power Plants,'' endorses IEEE Std 
828-1990, ``IEEE Standard for Software Configuration Management 
Plans,'' and ANSI/IEEE Std 1042-1987, ``IEEE Guide to Software 
Configuration Management'; Regulatory Guide 1.170, ``Software Test 
Documentation for Digital Computer Software Used in Safety Systems of 
Nuclear Power Plants,'' which endorses IEEE Std 829-1983, ``IEEE 
Standard for Software Test Documentation'; Regulatory Guide 1.171, 
``Software Unit Testing for Digital Computer Software Used in Safety 
Systems of Nuclear Power Plants,'' which endorses IEEE Std 1008-1987, 
``IEEE Standard for Software Unit Testing'; Regulatory Guide 1.172, 
``Software Requirements Specifications for Digital Computer Software 
Used in Safety Systems of Nuclear Power Plants,'' which endorses IEEE 
Std 830-1993, ``IEEE Recommended Practice for Software Requirements 
Specifications'; and Regulatory Guide 1.173, ``Developing Software Life 
Cycle Processes for Digital Computer Software Used in Safety Systems of 
Nuclear Power Plants,'' which endorses IEEE Std 1074-1995, ``IEEE 
Standard for Developing Software Life Cycle Processes.''
    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. Written comments may be submitted to 
the Rules and Directives Branch, Division of Administrative Services, 
Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555.
    Regulatory guides are available for inspection at the Commission's 
Public Document Room, 2120 L Street NW., Washington, DC. Single copies 
of regulatory guides, both active and draft guides, may be obtained 
free of charge by writing the Office of Administration, Attn: Printing, 
Graphics and Distribution Branch, USNRC, Washington, DC 20555-0001, or 
by fax at (301) 415-5272. Issued guides may also be purchased from the 
National Technical Information Service on a standing order basis. 
Details on this service may be obtained by writing NTIS, 5285 Port 
Royal Road, Springfield, VA 22161. Regulatory guides are not 
copyrighted, and Commission approval is not required to reproduce them.

(5 U.S.C. 552(a))

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 15th day of September 1997.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Malcolm R. Knapp,
 Acting Director, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 97-26993 Filed 10-9-97; 8:45 am]
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