Rules and Regulations. Interim staff guidance; issuance

Agency: Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Action: Interim staff guidance; issuance
Citation: FR Doc. 2011-30896 · NRC-2011-0228

Summary

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing License Renewal Interim Staff Guidance (LR-ISG), LR-ISG-2011-02, “Aging Management Program for Steam Generators.” This LR-ISG provides the NRC staff's evaluation of the suitability of using Revision 3 of the Nuclear Energy Institute's (NEI) document, NEI 97-06, “Steam Generator Program Guidelines,” (NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML111310712) to manage steam generator aging. The LR-ISG revises the NRC staff's aging management recommendations currently described in Chapter XI.M19 of NUREG-1801, “Generic Aging Lessons Learned (GALL) Report,” Revision 2, dated December 2010, which is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML103490041; and NUREG-1800, Revision 2, “Standard Review Plan for Review of License Renewal Applications for Nuclear Power Plants,” which is available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML103490036.

Supplementary Information

Background Revision 2 of NEI 97-06 was issued in September 2005. Since that time, all licensees have adopted new steam generator technical specification requirements. Revision 3 of NEI 97-06 was provided to the NRC on May 6, 2011. On September 30, 2011 (76 FR 60937), the NRC published a request for public comments on draft LR-ISG-2011-02 in the Federal Register . The public comment period closed on October 20, 2011. The NRC received no comments and is issuing LR-ISG-2011-02. This LR-ISG will be incorporated into the next formal license renewal guidance document revision. Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 21st day of November 2011. For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Melanie A. Galloway, Acting Director, Division of License Renewal, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. [FR Doc. 2011-30896 Filed 11-30-11; 8:45 am]