2010-13937. Office of New Reactors: Notice of Availability of the Final Staff Guidance; Section 14.3.12 on Physical Security Hardware Inspections, Tests, Analyses, and Acceptance Criteria

AGENCY:

Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION:

Notice of availability.

SUMMARY:

The NRC is issuing its Final Revision 1 to NUREG-0800, “Standard Review Plan (SRP) for the Review of Safety Analysis Reports for Nuclear Power Plants,” Section 14.3.12 on “Physical Security Hardware—Inspections, Tests, Analyses, and Acceptance Criteria,” (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML100970568).

The NRC staff issues revisions to SRP sections to facilitate timely implementation of the current staff guidance and to facilitate reviews to amendments to licenses for operating reactors or for activities associated with review of applications for early site permits and combined licenses for the Office of New Reactors. The NRC staff will also incorporate Revision 1 of SRP Section 14.3.12 into the next revisions of the Regulatory Guide 1.206, “Combined License Applications for Nuclear Power Plants,” and related guidance documents.

Disposition: On January 28, 2010, the NRC staff issued the proposed Revision 1 on Section 14.3.12 on “Physical Security Hardware—Inspections, Tests, Analyses, and Acceptance Criteria,” ADAMS Accession No. ML100040148. There were no comments received on the proposed revision. Therefore, the guidance is issued as final without changes to the proposed notification as above.

ADDRESSES:

The NRC maintains an ADAMS system, which provides text and image files of NRC's public documents. These documents may be accessed through the NRC's Public Electronic Reading Room on the Internet at http://www.nrc.gov/​reading-rm/​adams.html. Persons who do not have access to ADAMS or who encounter problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS should contact the NRC Public Document Room reference staff at 1-800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by e-mail at [e-mail].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mr. William F. Burton, Chief, Rulemaking and Guidance Development Branch, Division of New Reactor Licensing, Office of New Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001; telephone at 301-415-6332 or e-mail at [e-mail].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The NRC posts its issued staff guidance on the NRC external Web page (http://www.nrc.gov/​reading-rm/​doc-collections/​isg/​).

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 19th day of May 2010.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

William F. Burton,

Chief, Rulemaking and Guidance Development Branch, Division of New Reactor Licensing, Office of New Reactors.