[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 220 (Tuesday, November 16, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62234-62235]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-29843]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Public Workshop on License Renewal

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of public workshop.

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SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has scheduled a public 
workshop to gather comments from stakeholders on programs for managing 
the effects of aging on nuclear power plants for license renewal. The 
agency is developing a Generic Aging Lessons Learned (GALL) report that 
will document the basis for determining when existing aging management 
programs are adequate and when they should be modified or augmented for 
license renewal.

DATES: December 6, 1999, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The workshop will be held in the NRC's Auditorium at Two 
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Flint North, 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852-2738.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Raj Anand, Mail Stop O-12G15, U.S. 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Telephone: 
301-415-1146; Internet: [email protected]. If you are planning to attend the 
workshop, please notify Raj Anand.

Supplementary Information: The purpose of this workshop is to gather 
feedback on the NRC staff's plans to develop guidelines on which 
programs need to be augmented for renewal and which programs adequately 
manage effects without change. This issue is described in the 
Commission paper on Credit for Existing Programs for License Renewal, 
SECY 99-148 (Internet Link-http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/COMMISSION/SECYS/
1999-148SCY.PDF). The Commission concluded that the NRC staff should 
develop a report on Generic Aging Lessons Learned (GALL), to 
generically document the bases for determining when existing programs 
are adequate and when existing programs should be augmented for license 
renewal. The GALL report would then be referenced in the standard 
review plan (SRP) for license renewal as the basis for identifying 
those programs that warrant attention during the staff's review of a 
license renewal application.
    Following opening remarks by representatives of the NRC, the 
Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) and the Union of Concerned Scientists 
(UCS), the NRC staff will explain how the workshop will be conducted 
and describe the current plans for GALL, the SRP, and the Regulatory 
Guide that would endorse an update of the NEI guide for preparing a 
license renewal application (NEI 95-10, Industry Guideline for 
Implementing the Requirements of 10 CFR part 54--The License Renewal 
Rule). With that background, the workshop participants will be engaged 
in discussion of the adequacy and attributes of examples of programs 
that are expected to be relied on to manage aging effects in three 
broad areas: Regulated Programs, Reactive Programs, and General 
Practice Programs. In closing, the NRC staff will solicit comments on 
the plan and respond to questions from the participants.
    This workshop will be successful if the NRC can find areas of 
agreement on the attributes of adequate aging management programs for 
each of the three program areas. The participants will have an 
opportunity to comment on aging management programs, both generally and 
for specific programs. The participants will also have an opportunity 
to ask about the NRC's plans for license renewal reviews, and we will 
explain how to submit written comments for NRC consideration.
    To ensure that all of the ideas raised are recorded, the workshop 
will be transcribed and the NRC staff will prepare a summary report to 
categorize the comments. This one-day session attempts to cover a wide 
range of views and aging management programs. If your organization is 
interested in expressing a view on this matter as part of the opening 
remarks, please coordinate with Doug Walters at NEI or Dave Lochbaum at 
UCS, as appropriate. The tentative agenda for the workshop is as 
follows:

License Renewal Workshop Agenda

December 6, 1999

8:00 a.m. Registration--TWFN Auditorium
8:30 a.m. Opening remarks by NRC
8:45 a.m. Opening remarks by the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI)
9:00 a.m. Opening remarks by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
9:15 a.m. Introduction of workshop purpose by NRC Staff
9:30 a.m. Overview of Generic Aging Lessons Learned (GALL) report, 
Standard Review Plan (SRP) and Regulatory Guide (NEI 95-10)
10:30 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. Examples of Regulated Programs
    Environmental qualification of electrical equipment (Sec. 50.49), 
maintenance rule (Sec. 50.65), inservice inspection (Sec. 50.55a), 
containment inservice inspection (Sec. 50.55a), containment leak rate 
test (Appendix J), quality assurance (Appendix B), reactor vessel 
integrity (Appendices G and H), fire protection (Sec. 50.48), steam 
generator tube inspection (technical specification).
12:15 p.m. Lunch
1:15 p.m. Examples of Reactive Programs
    Service water program (Generic Letter 89-13), erosion/corrosion 
program (Bulletin 87-01, Generic Letter 89-08), coating program(Generic 
Letter 88-05), bolting program (Bulletin 82-02), control rod drive 
mechanism nozzle and other closure head penetration nozzles (Generic 
Letter 97-01)
2:45 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. Examples of General Practice Programs
    Preventive maintenance, chemistry control, crane inspection
4:15 p.m. Participant comments and questions
4:45 p.m. Summary and conclusions
5:00 p.m. Adjourn

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day of November, 1999.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Christopher I. Grimes,
Chief, License Renewal and Standardization Branch, Division of 
Regulatory Improvement Programs, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.
[FR Doc. 99-29843 Filed 11-15-99; 8:45 am]
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