[Federal Register: April 20, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 74)]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NRC-2009-0171]
Final Regulatory Guide: Issuance, Availability
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of Issuance and Availability of Regulatory Guide 1.211
and Withdrawal of Regulatory Guide 1.131.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Orr, Regulatory Guide Development
Branch, Division of Engineering, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001,
telephone (301) 251-7495 or e-mail to Mark.Orr@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing a new
regulatory guide and withdrawing an outdated regulatory guide in the
agency's ``Regulatory Guide'' series. This series was developed to
describe and make available to the public information such as methods
that are acceptable to the NRC staff for implementing specific parts of
the agency's regulations, techniques that the staff uses in evaluating
specific problems or postulated accidents, and data that the staff
needs in its review of applications for permits and licenses.
Regulatory Guide 1.131, ``Qualification Tests of Electric Cables,
Field Splices, and Connections for Light-Water-Cooled Nuclear Power
Plants,'' was issued for comment in August 1977 and never finalized.
Regulatory Guide 1.131 is being withdrawn because its guidance has been
replaced by the guidance in Regulatory Guide 1.211.
Regulatory Guide 1.211, ``Qualification of Safety-Related Cables
and Field Splices for Nuclear Power Plants,'' was issued with a
temporary identification as Draft Regulatory Guide 1132. This guide
describes a method that the staff of the NRC considers acceptable for
use in complying with the Commission's regulations for the
qualification of safety-related cables and field splices for nuclear
power plants.
The regulations established by the NRC in Title 10, Part 50,
``Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities,'' of the
Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR Part 50) require that structures,
systems, and components that are important to safety in a nuclear power
plant must be designed to accommodate the effects of environmental
conditions (i.e., remain functional under postulated design-basis
events (DBEs)). Toward that end, General Design Criterion (GDC) 1,
``Quality Standards and Records,'' GDC 2, ``Design Bases for Protection
Against Natural Phenomena,'' GDC 4, ``Environmental and Dynamic Effects
Design Bases,'' and GDC 23, ``Protection System Failure Modes,'' of
Appendix A, ``General Design Criteria for Nuclear Power Plants,'' to 10
CFR Part 50 contain the general requirements. Augmenting those general
requirements, the specific requirements pertaining to the qualification
of certain electrical equipment important to safety appear in 10 CFR
50.49, ``Environmental Qualification of Electric Equipment Important to
Safety for Nuclear Power Plants.'' In addition, Criterion III, ``Design
Control,'' of Appendix B, ``Quality Assurance Criteria for Nuclear
Power Plants,'' to 10 CFR Part 50 requires that, where a test program
is used to verify the adequacy of a specific design feature, the test
program must include suitable qualification testing of a prototype unit
under the most severe DBE.
II. Further Information
In June 2007, DG-1132 was published with a public comment period of
60 days from the issuance of the guide. The public comment period
closed on September 14, 2007. The staff's responses to the public
comments are located in the NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and
Management System (ADAMS), Accession Number ML081690227. Electronic
copies of Regulatory Guide 1.211 are available through the NRC's public
Web site under ``Regulatory Guides'' at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
doc-collections/.
In addition, regulatory guides are available for inspection at the
NRC's Public Document Room (PDR), which is located at Room O-1F21, One
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852-
2738. The PDR's mailing address is USNRC PDR, Washington, DC 20555-
0001. The PDR can also be reached by telephone at (301) 415-4737 or
(800) 397-4209, by fax at (301) 415-3548, and by e-mail to
pdr.resource@nrc.gov.
Regulatory guides are not copyrighted, and NRC approval is not
required to reproduce them.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 13th day of April 2009.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Andrea D. Valentin,
Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, Division of Engineering,
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.
[FR Doc. E9-9034 Filed 4-17-09; 8:45 am]
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