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5. How often the collection is 

required: On occasion. 

6. Who will be required or asked to 

report: Nuclear power reactor licensees, 

research and test reactors, and materials 

applicants and licensees. 

7. An estimate of the number of 

annual responses: 340. 

8. The estimated number of annual 

respondents: 236. 

9. An estimate of the total number of 

hours needed annually to complete the 

requirement or request: 86,000. 

10. Abstract: If the NRC determines 

that a specific event or issue at a nuclear 

facility may have an immediate, 

significant generic implication, i.e., that 

the event or issue has or might have the 

potential for an immediate occurrence at 

other facilities and that the occurrence 

is a threat to public health, safety, to the 

common defense, and/or the 

environment, the NRC could issue an 

emergency non-routine request that 

requires the collection and reporting of 

information to the NRC in usually less 

than 30 days. These issuances could 

include Bulletins and other forms of 

generic communication. 

A copy of the final supporting 

statement may be viewed free of charge 

at the NRC Public Document Room, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Room O–1 F21, Rockville, MD 

20852. OMB clearance requests are 

available at the NRC worldwide Web 

site: http://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/ 

doc-comment/omb/index.html. The 

document will be available on the NRC 

home page site for 60 days after the 

signature date of this notice. 

Comments and questions should be 

directed to the OMB reviewer listed 

below by October 5, 2009. Comments 

received after this date will be 

considered if it is practical to do so, but 

assurance of consideration cannot be 

given to comments received after this 

date. 

NRC Desk Officer, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs 

(3150–0012), NEOB–10202, Office 

of Management and Budget, 

Washington, DC 20503. 

The Acting NRC Clearance Officer is 

Tremaine Donnell, (301) 415–6258. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day 

of August 2009. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Tremaine Donnell, 

Acting NRC Clearance Officer, Office of 

Information Services. 

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Availability 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of Issuance and 

Availability of Draft Regulatory Guide, 

DG–1150, Qualification of Continuous 

Duty Safety-Related Motors for Nuclear 

Power Plants. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Satish Aggarwal, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001, telephone: (301) 251– 

7627, e-mail: Satish.Aggarwal@nrc.gov, 

or R.A. Jervey, telephone: (301) 251– 

7404, e-mail: raj@nrc.gov 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing for public 

comment a draft guide in the agency’s 

‘‘Regulatory Guide’’ series. This series 

was developed to describe and make 

available to the public such information 

as methods that are acceptable to the 

NRC staff for implementing specific 

parts of the NRC’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. 

The draft regulatory guide (DG), 

entitled, ‘‘Qualification of Continuous 

Duty Safety-Related Motors for Nuclear 

Power Plants,’’ is temporarily identified 

by its task number, DG–1150, which 

should be mentioned in all related 

correspondence. DG–1150 is proposed 

Revision 1 of Regulatory Guide 1.40, 

dated March 1973. 

This regulatory guide describes a 

method that the staff of the NRC deems 

acceptable for complying with the 

Commission’s regulations for 

qualification of continuous duty safetyrelated motors for nuclear power plants. 

The Commission’s regulations 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 in a nuclear 

power plant that are important to safety 

be designed to accommodate the effects 

of environmental conditions (i.e., they 

must remain functional under 

postulated design-basis events). Toward 

that end, General Design Criteria 1, 2, 4, 

and 23 of Appendix A, ‘‘General Design 

Criteria for Nuclear Power Plants,’’ to 10 

CFR part 50 contain the general 

requirements. Augmenting those general 

requirements are the specific 

requirements pertaining to qualification 

of certain electrical equipment 

important to safety that 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 and Fuel Reprocessing 

Plants,’’ to 10 CFR part 50, requires that 

test programs, when used to verify the 

adequacy of a specific design feature, 

should include suitable qualification 

testing of a prototype unit under the 

most adverse design conditions. 

II. Further Information 

The NRC staff is soliciting comments 

on DG–1150. Comments may be 

accompanied by relevant information or 

supporting data and should mention 

DG–1150 in the subject line. Comments 

submitted in writing or in electronic 

form will be made available to the 

public in their entirety through the 

NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access 

and Management System (ADAMS). 

Requests for technical information about 

DG–1150 may be directed to the NRC 

contact, Satish Aggarwal at (301) 251– 

7627 or e-mail to 

Satish.Aggarwal@nrc.gov. 

Because your comments will not be 

edited to remove any identifying or 

contact information, the NRC cautions 

you against including any information 

in your submission that you do not want 

to be publicly disclosed. 

The NRC requests that any party 

soliciting or aggregating comments 

received from other persons for 

submission to the NRC inform those 

persons that the NRC will not edit their 

comments to remove any identifying or 

contact information, and therefore, they 

should not include any information in 

their comments that they do not want 

publicly disclosed. You may submit 

comments by any of the following 

methods: 

1. Mail comments to: Rulemaking and 

Directives Branch, Mail Stop: TWB–05– 

B01M, Office of Administration, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001. 

2. Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for documents filed under Docket ID 

[NRC–2009–0384]. Address questions 

about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher, 

301–492–3668; e-mail 

Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. 

3. Fax comments to: Rulemaking and 

Directives Branch, Office of 


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Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission at (301) 492–3446. 

Comments would be most helpful if 

received by October 30, 2009. 

Comments received after that date will 

be considered if it is practical to do so, 

but the NRC is able to ensure 

consideration only for comments 

received on or before this date. 

Although a time limit is given, 

comments and suggestions in 

connection with items for inclusion in 

guides currently being developed or 

improvements in all published guides 

are encouraged at any time. 

Electronic copies of DG–1150 are 

available through the NRC’s public Web 

site under Draft Regulatory Guides in 

the ‘‘Regulatory Guides’’ collection of 

the NRC’s Electronic Reading Room at 

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/. Electronic copies are also 

available in ADAMS (http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html), 

under Accession No. ML091200454. 

In addition, regulatory guides are 

available for inspection at the NRC’s 

Public Document Room (PDR) located at 

11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland. 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) 

397–4205, by fax at (301) 415–3548, and 

by e-mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 

Regulatory guides are not 

copyrighted, and Commission approval 

is not required to reproduce them. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 24 day 

of August 2009. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Andrea D. Valentin, 

Chief, Regulatory Guide Development Branch, 

Division of Engineering, Office of Nuclear 

Regulatory Research. 

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AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of issuance and 

availability of Draft Regulatory Guide, 

DG–1227. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Donald Helton, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001, telephone: (301) 251–7594 or email to Donald.Helton@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing for public 

comment a draft guide in the agency’s 

‘‘Regulatory Guide’’ series. This series 

was developed to describe and make 

available to the public such information 

as methods that are acceptable to the 

NRC staff for implementing specific 

parts of the NRC’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. 

The draft regulatory guide (DG), titled, 

‘‘An Approach for Plant-Specific, RiskInformed Decisionmaking: Technical 

Specifications,’’ is temporarily 

identified by its task number, DG–1227, 

which should be mentioned in all 

related correspondence. DG–1227 is 

proposed Revision 1 of Regulatory 

Guide 1.177, dated August 1998. The 

NRC’s policy statement on probabilistic 

risk assessment (PRA) encourages 

greater use of this analysis technique to 

improve safety decisionmaking and 

improve regulatory efficiency. The NRC 

staff’s Risk-Informed and PerformanceBased Plan (RPP) formerly known as the 

PRA Implementation Plan describes 

current or planned activities to expand 

use of this analytical method. One 

activity under way in response to the 

policy statement is the use of PRA in 

support of decisions to modify an 

individual plant’s technical 

specifications (TS). 

Licensee-initiated TS changes that are 

consistent with currently approved staff 

positions (e.g., regulatory guides, 

standard review plans, branch technical 

positions, or the Standard Technical 

Specifications (STS)) are normally 

evaluated by the staff using traditional 

engineering analyses. A licensee would 

not be expected to submit risk 

information in support of the proposed 

change. Licensee-initiated TS change 

requests that go beyond current staff 

positions may be evaluated by the staff 

using traditional engineering analyses as 

well as the risk-informed approach set 

forth in this regulatory guide. A licensee 

may be requested to submit 

supplemental risk information if such 

information is not provided in the 

original submittal by the licensee. If risk 

information on the proposed TS change 

is not provided to the staff, the staff will 

review the information provided by the 

licensee to determine whether the 

application can be approved based upon 

the information provided using 

traditional methods and will either 

approve or reject the application based 

upon the review. 

II. Further Information 

The NRC staff is soliciting comments 

on DG–1227. Comments may be 

accompanied by relevant information or 

supporting data and should mention 

DG–1227 in the subject line. Comments 

submitted in writing or in electronic 

form will be made available to the 

public in their entirety through the 

NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access 

and Management System (ADAMS). 

Because your comments will not be 

edited to remove any identifying or 

contact information, the NRC cautions 

you against including any information 

in your submission that you do not want 

to be publicly disclosed. 

The NRC requests that any party 

soliciting or aggregating comments 

received from other persons for 

submission to the NRC inform those 

persons that the NRC will not edit their 

comments to remove any identifying or 

contact information, and therefore, they 

should not include any information in 

their comments that they do not want 

publicly disclosed. You may submit 

comments by any of the following 

methods: 

1. Mail comments to: Rulemaking and 

Directives Branch, Mail Stop: TWB–05– 

B01M, Office of Administration, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001. 

2. Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for documents filed under Docket ID 

[NRC–2009–0383]. Address questions 

about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher, 

301–492–3668; e-mail 

Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. 

3. Fax comments to: Rulemaking and 

Directives Branch, Office of 

Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission at (301) 492–3446. 

Requests for technical information 

about DG–1227 may be directed to the 

NRC contact, Donald Helton at (301) 

251–7594 or e-mail to 

Donald.Helton@nrc.gov. 

Comments would be most helpful if 

received by November 3, 2009. 

Comments received after that date will 

be considered if it is practical to do so, 

but the NRC is able to ensure 

consideration only for comments 

received on or before this date. 

Although a time limit is given, 

comments and suggestions in 

connection with items for inclusion in 

guides currently being developed or 

improvements in all published guides 

are encouraged at any time. 

Electronic copies of DG–1227 are 

available through the NRC’s public Web 

site under Draft Regulatory Guides in 

the ‘‘Regulatory Guides’’ collection of 

the NRC’s Electronic Reading Room at 


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