[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 62 (Tuesday, April 1, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15547-15548]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-8204]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Draft Regulatory Guides and Standard Review Plan Sections;
Issuance, Availability
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued four guides in its
Regulatory Guide Series along with three sections of NUREG-0800,
``Standard Review Plan for the Review of Safety Analysis Reports for
Nuclear Power Plants.'' The Regulatory Guide 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.
These regulatory guides and standard review plan sections are in
support of amendments to 10 CFR Parts 21, 50, 52, 54, and 100 (61 FR
65157) that update the criteria used in decisions regarding power
reactor siting, including geologic, seismic, and earthquake engineering
considerations for future nuclear power plants.
Regulatory Guide 1.165, ``Identification and Characterization of
Seismic Sources and Determination of Safe Shutdown Earthquake Ground
Motion,'' provides general guidance on procedures acceptable to the NRC
staff on conducting geological, geophysical, seismological, and
geotechnical investigations; identifying and characterizing seismic
sources; conducting probabilistic seismic hazard analyses; and
determining the safe shutdown earthquake ground motion for a nuclear
power plant.
Revision 2 to Regulatory Guide 1.12, ``Nuclear Power Plant
Instrumentation for Earthquakes,'' describes seismic instrumentation
type, location, operability, and characteristics that are acceptable to
the NRC staff for satisfying the requirements of the Commission's
regulations.
Regulatory Guide 1.166, ``Pre-Earthquake Planning and Immediate
Nuclear Power Plant Operator Postearthquake Actions,'' provides
guidance acceptable to the NRC staff for a timely evaluation after an
earthquake of the recorded seismic instrumentation data and for
determining whether plant shutdown is required.
Regulatory Guide 1.167, ``Restart of a Nuclear Power Plant Shut
Down by a Seismic Event,'' provides guidance acceptable to the NRC
staff for performing inspections and tests of nuclear power plant
equipment and structures prior to restart of a plant that has been shut
down by a seismic event.
Revision 3 of Standard Review Plan Section 2.5.1, ``Basic Geologic
and Seismic Information,'' describes the kinds of basic geological,
seismological, and geophysical information and review procedures
necessary to evaluate a nuclear power station site.
Revision 3 of Standard Review Plan Section 2.5.2, ``Vibratory
Ground Motion,'' describes procedures to assess the ground motion
potential of seismic sources at the site and to assess the safety
shutdown earthquake.
Revision 3 of Standard Review Plan Section 2.5.3, ``Surface
Faulting,'' describes the geosciences information and review procedures
needed to asses the significance of faults to the suitability of the
site.
A document entitled ``Resolution of Public Comments on Draft
Regulatory Guides and Standard Review Plan Sections Pertaining to the
Proposed Seismic and Earthquake Engineering Criteria for Nuclear Power
Plants'' explains the NRC's disposition of the comments received on the
draft regulatory guides and standard review plan sections. A copy of
this document has been placed in the NRC Public Document Room, 2120 L
Street NW. (Lower Level), Washington, DC. Single copies are available
from Dr. Andrew J. Murphy, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, telephone
(301) 415-6010.
The Office of Management and Budget has verified the determination
that these regulatory guides and Standard Review Plan sections do not
constitute a major rule.
Regulatory guides and the Standard Review Plan are available for
inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room, 2120 L Street NW.,
Washington, DC. Requests for single copies of draft documents (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: Distribution and Mail Services
Section. Telephone requests cannot be accommodated. Regulatory guides
and standard review plans are not copyrighted, and Commission approval
is not required to reproduce them.
(5. U.S.C. 552(a))
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 19th day of March 1997.
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For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
David L. Morrison,
Director, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. 97-8204 Filed 3-31-97; 8:45 am]
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