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No. 00-131 August 30, 2000

NRC SCHEDULES PUBLIC WORKSHOP SEPT. 25, REQUESTS COMMENTS

ON DOCUMENTS FOR LICENSE RENEWAL

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold a public workshop September 25 in Rockville,

Maryland, to discuss three documents that could be used by the staff in evaluating applications for

renewal of a nuclear power plant operating license. Interested persons are also invited to submit

written comments.

The workshop is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the NRC Auditorium, Two White Flint

North, 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville.

The three draft documents are:

(1) Draft Regulatory Guide DG-1104 -- Provides a uniform format and content for submitting

information in an application for renewal of a nuclear power plant operating license. This document

proposes to endorse a Nuclear Energy Institute guidance document for complying with NRC

requirements of the license renewal rule.

(2) Draft Generic Aging Lessons Learned (GALL) report -- Generically evaluates existing

licensee programs (to manage aging effects on plant components and systems), documents the basis

for determining the adequacy of those programs, and determines when existing programs should be

augmented for license renewal. If the evaluation determines that a program is adequate to manage

certain aging effects for a particular structure and component without change, the draft GALL report

indicates that no further evaluation is recommended for license renewal. Otherwise, it recommends

areas where the NRC should focus its review. The GALL report reflects comments received from

industry and members of the public and is the technical basis for the third document, the Standard

Review Plan.

(3) Standard Review Plan for Review of License Renewal Applications for Nuclear Power

Plants, (SRP-LR) -- Provides guidance to the NRC staff for performing safety reviews of license

renewal applications. A working draft of this document has been available in the NRC’s Public

Document Room since September 1998. The latest draft incorporates lessons learned from the review

of the initial license renewal applications, as well as relevant information from the draft GALL report

and draft regulatory guide DG-1104.
All three draft documents are available for public inspection and duplication at the NRC's

Public Document Room by calling (202) 634-3273, through the NRC’s Agency-wide Documents

Access and Management Service (ADAMS), and at:

http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/REACTOR/LR/IRG/index.html on the agency's web site.

Interested persons are invited to submit written comments by October 16 to the Chief, Rules

Review and Directives Branch, Division of Administrative Services, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission, Washington, DC, 20555-0001. In addition, comments may be submitted electronically

on the NRC's web site at the web address listed above.

Additional information is available by calling Raj Anand of the NRC’s Office of Nuclear

Reactor Regulation at (301) 415-1146. These documents will be described in greater detail in a

Federal Register notice to be published shortly.

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