[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 88 (Thursday, May 7, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25238-25239]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-12173]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request
AGENCY: U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
ACTION: Notice of the OMB review of information collection and
solicitation of public comment.
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SUMMARY: The NRC has recently submitted to OMB for review the following
proposal for the collection of information under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). The NRC hereby
informs potential respondents that an agency may not conduct or
sponsor, and that a person is not required to respond to, a collection
of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.
1. Type of submission: Revision.
2. The title of the information collection: ``An Approach for Using
Probabilistic Risk Assessment in Risk-informed Decisions on Plant-
Specific Changes to the Current Licensing Basis,'' Regulatory Guides
RG-1.174 through RG-1.178.
3. The form number if applicable: Not applicable.
4. How often the collection is required: Use of the new risk-
informed methodology for making changes in the licensing basis of
operating plants in the areas of inservice inspection (ISI), inservice
testing (IST), graded quality assurance (GQA), and technical
specifications (TS), is available to all licensees but is not required.
Licensees may make voluntary submittals when, and if, in their
judgment, it is to their advantage to do so (for example, to improve
plant safety, reduce costs, gain operating flexibility).
5. Who will be required or asked to report: Licensees of nuclear
power plants may report when, and if, in their judgment, it is to their
advantage to do so.
6. An estimate of the number of responses: ISI: 6, IST: 3, QA: 1,
TS: 20.
7. The estimated number of annual respondents: ISI: 6, IST: 3, QA:
1, TS: 20.
8. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to
complete the requirement or request (per respondent): ISI: 6,200, IST:
5,200, QA: 4,000, TS: 1,060.
9. An indication of whether Section 3507(d), Pub. L. 104-13
applies: Not applicable.
10. Abstract: In the specific areas of ISI, IST, GQA, and TS, a new
series of Regulatory Guides provides a risk-informed method for
licensees to use in requesting changes to their current licensing bases
(CLB). No changes or additions have been made to any rules or
regulations in conjunction with the issuance of this series of guides.
The new method will be a voluntary alternative to the
deterministically-based CLB change method previously used (which will
remain acceptable as an alternative to the new risk-informed method).
The new risk-informed alternative method will allow licensees to
concentrate on plant equipment and operations that are most critically
important to plant safety so as to achieve a savings in total effort
and greater operating flexibility with an insignificant change in
overall safety. The guides specify the records, analyses, and documents
that licensees
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are expected to prepare in support of risk-informed changes to their
CLB in the specified areas.
A copy of the final supporting statement may be viewed free of
charge at the NRC Public Document Room, 2120 L Street, NW (lower
level), Washington, DC. OMB clearance requests are available at the NRC
worldwide web site (http://www.nrc.gov) under the FedWorld collection
link on the home page tool bar. The document will be available on the
NRC home page site for 60 days after the signature date of this notice.
Comments and questions should be directed to the OMB reviewer by
June 8, 1998: Erik Godwin, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
(3150-0011), NEOB-10202, Office of Management and Budget, Washington,
DC 20503.
Comments can also be submitted by telephone at (202) 395-3084.
The NRC Clearance Officer is Brenda Jo. Shelton, 301-415-7233.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 1st day of May 1998.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Brenda Jo. Shelton,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 98-12173 Filed 5-6-98; 8:45 am]
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