[Federal Register: April 29, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 82)]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[NUREG-1520]
Standard Review Plan for the Review of a License Application for
a Fuel Cycle Facility; Notice of Availability
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued NUREG-1520
entitled Standard Review Plan (SRP) for the Review of an Application
for a Fuel Cycle Facility. This SRP provides guidance to the NRC
reviewers in the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards
(NMSS) who perform safety and environmental impact reviews of
applications to construct or modify and operate nuclear fuel cycle
facilities licensed under 10 CFR part 70. As such, adherence to this
SRP helps to ensure the quality, uniformity, and predictability of the
staff reviews. This SRP also makes information about licensing
acceptance criteria widely available to interested members of the
public and the regulated industry. Each SRP section addresses the
responsibilities of the staff reviewers, the matters that they review,
the Commission's regulations pertinent to specific technical matters,
the acceptance criteria used by the staff, the process and procedures
used to accomplish the review, and the conclusions that are appropriate
to summarize the review.
ADDRESSES: NUREG-1520 is available for inspection and copying for a fee
at the Commission's Public Document Room, at the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike,
Rockville, Maryland 20852, and electronically from the ADAMS Public
Library component on the NRC Web site, http://www.nrc.gov (the Public
Electronic Reading Room). The document's accession number is
ML020930033.
Copies of NUREG-1520 also may be obtained through the Government
Printing Office at http://www.access.gpo.gov/ by searching for ``NUREG-
1520'' under the topic of ``Nuclear Power/200'' or through the National
Technical Information Services at a nominal cost. NUREG-1520 also can
be downloaded as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file by first setting the browser
to http://www.nrc.gov and then using the ``Nuclear Materials,'' ``Fuel
cycle facilities,'' ``Fuel Cycle Facilities Regulations, Guidance, and
Communications'' and ``Guidance'' links in sequence or by going
directly to http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/
sr1520/. A free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader is available from http://
www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information regarding
NUREG-1520, contact Yawar Faraz, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and
Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-
0001, telephone (301) 415-8113.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The Commission promulgated a major amendment to 10 CFR part 70 on
September 18, 2000 (65 FR 56211). The amendment, which primarily
involved the addition of subpart H to 10 CFR part 70, identifies
appropriate consequence criteria and the level of protection needed to
prevent or mitigate accidents that equal or exceed these criteria;
requires affected licensees to perform an integrated safety analysis
(ISA) to identify potential accidents at the facility and the items
relied on for safety necessary to prevent these potential accidents
and/or mitigate their consequences; requires the implementation of
measures to ensure that the items relied on for safety are available
and reliable to perform their function when needed; requires the
inclusion of the safety bases, including a summary of the ISA, with the
license application; and allows for licensees to make certain changes
to their safety program and facilities without prior NRC approval.
After revising part 70, the NRC staff updated the existing draft part
70 SRP to address the new requirements. As it had done in revising the
regulations in part 70, the NRC staff worked closely with the
stakeholders in developing the guidance contained in the SRP. The part
70 stakeholders included representatives of the fuel cycle industry,
private citizens, and other groups who declared an interest. The staff
had previously issued a separate SRP on the licensing of a mixed oxide
(MOX) fuel fabrication facility. The MOX SRP was published in August
2000 as NUREG-1718 and is guiding the staff's ongoing review of the
proposed MOX facility.
Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 18th day of April, 2002.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Daniel M. Gillen,
Chief, Fuel Cycle Facilities Branch, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and
Safeguards, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 02-10457 Filed 4-26-02; 8:45 am]
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