[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 10, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 10CFR50.36a]

[Page 725-726]
 
                            TITLE 10--ENERGY
 
                CHAPTER I--NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
 
PART 50_DOMESTIC LICENSING OF PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION FACILITIES
--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 50.36a  Technical specifications on effluents from nuclear power 
reactors.

    (a) In order to keep releases of radioactive materials to 
unrestricted areas during normal conditions, including expected 
occurrences, as low as is reasonably achievable, each licensee of a 
nuclear power reactor will include technical specifications that, in 
addition to

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requiring compliance with applicable provisions of Sec. 20.1301 of this 
chapter, require that:
    (1) Operating procedures developed pursuant to Sec. 50.34a(c) for 
the control of effluents be established and followed and that the 
radioactive waste system, pursuant to Sec. 50.34a, be maintained and 
used. The licensee shall retain the operating procedures in effect as a 
record until the Commission terminates the license and shall retain each 
superseded revision of the procedures for 3 years from the date it was 
superseded.
    (2) Each licensee shall submit a report to the Commission annually 
that specifies the quantity of each of the principal radionuclides 
released to unrestricted areas in liquid and in gaseous effluents during 
the previous 12 months, including any other information as may be 
required by the Commission to estimate maximum potential annual 
radiation doses to the public resulting from effluent releases. The 
report must be submitted as specified in Sec. 50.4, and the time 
between submission of the reports must be no longer than 12 months. If 
quantities of radioactive materials released during the reporting period 
are significantly above design objectives, the report must cover this 
specifically. On the basis of these reports and any additional 
information the Commission may obtain from the licensee or others, the 
Commission may require the licensee to take action as the Commission 
deems appropriate.
    (b) In establishing and implementing the operating procedures 
described in paragraph (a) of this section, the licensee shall be guided 
by the following considerations: Experience with the design, 
construction, and operation of nuclear power reactors indicates that 
compliance with the technical specifications described in this section 
will keep average annual releases of radioactive material in effluents 
and their resultant committed effective dose equivalents at small 
percentages of the dose limits specified in Sec. 20.1301 and in the 
license. At the same time, the licensee is permitted the flexibility of 
operation, compatible with considerations of health and safety, to 
assure that the public is provided a dependable source of power even 
under unusual conditions which may temporarily result in releases higher 
than such small percentages, but still within the limits specified in 
Sec. 20.1301 of this chapter and in the license. It is expected that in 
using this flexibility under unusual conditions, the licensee will exert 
its best efforts to keep levels of radioactive material in effluents as 
low as is reasonably achievable. The guides set out in appendix I, 
provide numerical guidance on limiting conditions for operation for 
light-water cooled nuclear power reactors to meet the requirement that 
radioactive materials in effluents released to unrestricted areas be 
kept as low as is reasonably achievable.

[61 FR 39299, July 29, 1996]