[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 1 (Monday, January 3, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 140-141]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-34052]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Risk-Informed Revisions to Technical Requirements; Workshop and
Website
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of public workshop and NRC Part 50 (Option 3) website.
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SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has instructed its staff to
explore changes to specific technical requirements of 10 CFR Part 50,
to incorporate risk-informed attributes. The staff is studying the
ensemble of technical requirements contained in 10 CFR Part 50 (and its
associated implementing documents, such as regulatory guides and
standard review plan sections) to (1) identify individual or sets of
requirements potentially meriting change; (2) prioritize which of these
requirements (or sets of requirements) should be changed; and (3)
develop the technical bases to an extent that is sufficient to
demonstrate the feasibility of changing the requirements. This work
will result in recommendations to the Commission on any specific
regulatory changes that should be pursued. Public participation in the
development of these recommendations will be obtained via workshops and
information on a website.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice serves as initial notification
of a public workshop, and website, to provide for the exchange of
information with all stakeholders regarding the staff's efforts to
risk-inform the technical requirements of 10 CFR Part 50. The subject
of the workshop will be to discuss the preliminary work being performed
by the NRC staff on risk-informing the technical requirements of 10 CFR
Part 50. The meeting will focus on the overall framework of the risk-
informing process, the criteria used to identify and prioritize
candidate regulations and design basis accidents (DBAs), the results of
the staff's initial efforts in risk-informing the two trial
implementation issues (i.e., 10 CFR 50.44 and special treatment rules),
a list of some additional candidate requirements and DBAs to be
examined, and discussion of preliminary issues associated with the
development and implementation of the entire process.
This notice provides only the date, the location and a brief
summary of the workshop; the workshop agenda and other details will be
provided in a forthcoming notice. The address for the Part 50 (Option
3) website is as follows: http://nrc-part50.sandia.gov.
The Part 50 (Option 3) website can also be accessed from the NRC
website (http://www.nrc.gov), by selecting ``Nuclear Reactors,'' and
then ``Risk-Informed Part 50 (Option 3).''
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Workshop Meeting Information
The staff intends to conduct a workshop to provide for an exchange
of information related to the risk-informed revisions to the technical
requirements of 10 CFR Part 50. Persons other than NRC staff and NRC
contractors interested in making a presentation at the workshop should
notify Mary Drouin, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, MS: T10-E50,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington D.C. 20555-0001, (301)
415-6675, email: mxd@nrc.gov.
Date: February 24, 2000 (with possible extension to February 25,
2000).
Agenda: To be provided.
Location: NRC Auditorium, 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland
20852.
Registration: No registration fee for workshop; however,
notification of attendance is requested so that adequate space,
materials, etc., for the workshop can be arranged. Notification of
attendance should be directed to Alan Kuritzky, Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research, MS: T10-E50, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, D.C. 20555-0001, (301) 415-6255, email: ask1@nrc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alan Kuritzky, Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research, MS: T10-E50, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, D.C. 20555-0001, (301) 415-6255, email: ask1@nrc.gov.
Dated this 23d day of December 1999.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Mark A. Cunningham,
Probabilistic Risk Analysis Branch, Division of Risk Analysis and
Applications, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 99-34052 Filed 12-30-99; 8:45 am]
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