[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 31 (Tuesday, February 17, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 7844]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-3834]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Draft Regulatory Guide; Issuance, Availability
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued for public comment a
draft of a guide planned for 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 draft guide, temporarily identified by its task number, DG-1029
(which should be mentioned in all correspondence concerning this draft
guide), is titled ``Guidelines for Evaluating Electromagnetic and
Radio-Frequency Interference in Safety-Related Instrumentation and
Control Systems.'' The guide is intended for Division 1, ``Power
Reactors.'' This draft guide is being developed to describe design,
installation, and testing practices that are acceptable to the NRC
staff for addressing the effects of electromagnetic and radio-frequency
interference and power surges on safety-related instrumentation and
control systems in a nuclear power plant environment. This guide will
endorse, with certain stated exceptions, the Institute for Electrical
and Electronics Engineers Std 1050-1996, ``IEEE Guide for
Instrumentation and Control Equipment Grounding in Generating
Stations''; IEEE Std C62.41-1991, ``IEEE Recommended Practice on Surge
Voltages in Low-Voltage AC Power Circuits''; IEEE Std C62.45-1992,
``IEEE Guide on Surge Testing for Equipment Connected to Low-Voltage AC
Power Circuits''; and Military Standards MIL-STD 461, ``Electromagnetic
Emission and Susceptibility Requirements for the Control of
Electromagnetic Interference'' and MIL-STD 462, ``Measurement of
Electromagnetic Interference Characteristics.''
The draft guide has not received complete staff review and does not
represent an official NRC staff position.
Public comments are being solicited on Draft Regulatory Guide DG-
1029. Comments may be accompanied by additional relevant information or
supporting data. Written comments may be submitted to the Rules and
Directives Branch, Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555. Copies of comments received may be
examined at the NRC Public Document Room, 2120 L Street NW.,
Washington, DC. Comments will be most helpful if received by April 10,
1998.
You may also download a copy of the guide or provide comments via
the NRC's interactive rulemaking website through the NRC home page
(http://www.nrc.gov). This site provides the availability to upload
comments as files (any format), if your web browser supports that
function. For information about the interactive rulemaking website,
contact Ms. Carol Gallagher, (301) 415-5905; e-mail [email protected]
Although a time limit is given for comments on this draft guide,
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.
Regulatory guides are available for inspection at the Commission's
Public Document Room, 2120 L Street NW., Washington, DC. Requests for
single copies of draft or final guides (which may be reproduced) or for
placement on an automatic distribution list for single copies of future
draft guides in specific divisions should be made in writing to the
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555, Attention:
Printing, Graphics and Distribution Branch; or by fax at (301) 415-
5272. Telephone requests cannot be accommodated. 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 29th day of January 1998.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
M. Wayne Hodges,
Director, Division of Systems Technology, Office of Nuclear Regulatory
Research.
[FR Doc. 98-3834 Filed 2-13-98; 8:45 am]
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