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No. ML18191B091; documents related 

to this amendment are listed in the 

Safety Evaluation enclosed with the 

amendment. 

Facility Combined Licenses No. NPF– 

91 and NPF–92: Amendment revised the 

Facility Combined Licenses. 

Date of initial notice in Federal 

Register: May 22, 2018 (83 FR 23728). 

The Commission’s related evaluation 

of the amendment is contained in the 

Safety Evaluation dated August 7, 2018. 

No significant hazards consideration 

comments received: No. 

Southern Nuclear Operating Company, 

Docket Nos. 52–025 and 52–026, Vogtle 

Electric Generating Plant (VEGP), Units 

3 and 4, Burke County, Georgia 

Date of amendment request: January 

31, 2018, as supplemented by letter 

dated May 2, 2018. 

Description of amendment: The 

amendment revises the VEGP Units 3 

and 4 combined license (COL) 

Appendix A, Technical Specification 

(TS) related to Pressurizer Safety Valve 

(PSV) operability. The amendment 

changes TS 3.4.6, ‘‘PSV Applicability’’ 

to require the PSV to be operable when 

the TS 3.4.14, ‘‘Low Temperature 

Overpressure Protection,’’ is not 

required to be operable. A conforming 

change is made to the TS 3.4.6 Actions. 

Additional TS changes necessary to 

support PSV operability are made for 

consistency with the TS 3.4.6. The 

amendment also approves moving TS 

Limiting Condition for Operation Notes 

regarding reactor coolant pump starts 

from TS 3.4.4, ‘‘Reactor Coolant System 

(RCS) Loops, 3.4.8, ‘‘Minimum RCS 

Flow,’’ and 3.4.14 to TS 3.4.3, ‘‘RCS 

Pressure/Temperature Limits.’’ 

Date of issuance: July 12, 2018. 

Effective date: As of the date of 

issuance and shall be implemented 

within 30 days of issuance. 

Amendment Nos.: 133 (Unit 3) and 

132 (Unit 4). A publicly-available 

version is in ADAMS under Accession 

No. ML18159A437; documents related 

to this amendment are listed in the 

Safety Evaluation enclosed with the 

amendment. 

Facility Combined Licenses Nos. NPF– 

91 and NPF–92: Amendment revised the 

Facility COL. 

Date of Initial Notice in Federal 

Register: March 13, 2018 (83 FR 

10922). The supplement dated May 2, 

2018, provided additional information 

that clarified the application, did not 

expand the scope of the application as 

originally noticed, and did not change 

the NRC staff’s original proposed no 

significant hazards consideration 

determination. 

The Commission’s related evaluation 

of the amendment is contained in the 

Safety Evaluation dated July 12, 2018. 

No significant hazards consideration 

comments received: No. 

Tennessee Valley Authority, Docket No. 

50–390, Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN), 

Unit 1, Rhea County, Tennessee 

Date of amendment request: July 8, 

2018, as supplemented by letters dated 

July 24 and July 30, 2018. 

Brief description of amendment: The 

amendment extended Technical 

Specification (TS) Surveillance 

Requirements (SRs) 3.3.1.5, 3.3.2.2, and 

3.3.6.2 by revising the WBN, Unit 1, TS 

SR 3.0.2 and certain SRs in Table SR 

3.0.2–1. 

Date of issuance: August 16, 2018. 

Effective date: As of the date of 

issuance and shall be implemented 

immediately. 

Amendment No.: 121. A publiclyavailable version is in ADAMS under 

Accession No. ML18204A252; 

documents related to this amendment 

are listed in the Safety Evaluation 

enclosed with the amendment. 

Facility Operating License No. NPF– 

90: The amendment revised the Facility 

Operating License and TSs. 

Date of initial notice in Federal 

Register: July 16, 2018 (83 FR 32912). 

The supplemental letters dated July 24 

and July 30, 2018, provided additional 

information that clarified the 

application, did not expand the scope of 

the application as originally notified, 

and did not change the NRC staff’s 

proposed no significant hazards 

consideration determination as 

published in the Federal Register. 

The Commission’s related evaluation 

of the amendment and final 

determination of no significant hazards 

consideration is contained in a Safety 

Evaluation dated August 16, 2018. 

No significant hazards consideration 

comments received: No. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 31st day 

of August 2018. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Kathryn M. Brock, 

Deputy Director, Division of Operating 

Reactor Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation. 

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[NRC–2018–0197] 

Proposed Revisions to Standard 

Review Plan Section 13.6, Physical 

Security 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Standard review plan-draft 

section revision; request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is soliciting public 

comment on draft NUREG–0800, 

‘‘Standard Review Plan for the Review 

of Safety Analysis Reports for Nuclear 

Power Plants: LWR Edition,’’ Section 

13.6, ‘‘Physical Security.’’ This section 

has been updated to reflect the latest 

NRC guidance concerning physical 

security. 

DATES: Comments must be filed no later 

than November 13, 2018. Comments 

received after this date will be 

considered, if it is practical to do so, but 

the Commission is able to ensure 

consideration only for comments 

received on or before this date. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2018–0197. Address 

questions about NRC dockets to Jennifer 

Borges; telephone: 301–287–9127; 

email: Jennifer.Borges@nrc.gov. For 

technical questions, contact the 

individual listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

document. 

• Mail comments to: May Ma, Office 

of Administration, Mail Stop: TWFN–7– 

A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001. 

For additional direction on obtaining 

information and submitting comments, 

see ‘‘Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments’’ in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mark D. Notich, Office of New Reactors, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

301–415–3053, email: Mark.Notich@

nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2018– 

0197 when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information for this 


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action. You may obtain publiclyavailable information related to this 

action by any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2018–0197. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

adams.html. To begin the search, select 

‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.’’ For 

problems with ADAMS, please contact 

the NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR) 

reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301– 

415–4737, or by email to pdr.resource@

nrc.gov. 

• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and 

purchase copies of public documents at 

the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

B. Submitting Comments 

Please include Docket ID NRC–2018– 

0197 in your comment submission. 

The NRC cautions you not to include 

identifying or contact information that 

you do not want to be publicly 

disclosed in your comment submission. 

The NRC will post all comment 

submissions at http://

www.regulations.gov as well as enter the 

comment submissions into ADAMS. 

The NRC does not routinely edit 

comment submissions to remove 

identifying or contact information. 

If you are requesting or aggregating 

comments from other persons for 

submission to the NRC, then you should 

inform those persons not to include 

identifying or contact information that 

they do not want to be publicly 

disclosed in their comment submission. 

Your request should state that the NRC 

does not routinely edit comment 

submissions to remove such information 

before making the comment 

submissions available to the public or 

entering the comment into ADAMS. 

II. Further Information 

The NRC seeks public comment on 

the proposed Standard Review Plan 

(SRP)-draft section revision of Section 

13.6, ‘‘Physical Security.’’ The changes 

made in this revision to this section 

reflect the latest NRC guidance 

concerning physical security. 

Following NRC staff evaluation of 

public comments, the NRC intends to 

finalize SRP Section 13.6, ‘‘Physical 

Security,’’ Revision 4 in ADAMS and 

post it on the NRC’s public website at 

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/nuregs/staff/sr0800/. The 

SRP is guidance for the NRC staff. The 

SRP is not a substitute for the NRC 

regulations, and compliance with the 

SRP is not required. 

III. Backfitting and Issue Finality 

Issuance of this draft SRP, if finalized, 

would not constitute backfitting as 

defined in section 50.109 of title 10 of 

the Code of Federal Regulations (10 

CFR) (the Backfit Rule) or otherwise be 

inconsistent with the issue finality 

provisions in 10 CFR part 52. The NRC’s 

position is based upon the following 

considerations: 

1. The draft SRP positions do not 

constitute backfitting, inasmuch as the 

SRP is guidance directed to the NRC 

staff with respect to its regulatory 

responsibilities. 

The SRP provides internal guidance 

to the NRC staff on how to review an 

application for NRC regulatory approval 

in the form of licensing. Changes in 

guidance intended for use by only the 

staff are not matters that constitute 

backfitting as that term is defined in 10 

CFR 50.109(a)(1) or involve the issue 

finality provisions of 10 CFR part 52. 

2. Backfitting and issue finality—with 

certain exceptions discussed below—do 

not apply to current or future 

applicants. 

Applicants and potential applicants 

are not, with certain exceptions, the 

subject of either the Backfit Rule or any 

issue finality provisions under 10 CFR 

part 52. This is because neither the 

Backfit Rule nor the issue finality 

provisions under 10 CFR part 52 were 

intended to apply to every NRC action 

that substantially changes the 

expectations of current and future 

applicants. 

The exceptions to the general 

principle are applicable whenever a 10 

CFR part 50 operating license applicant 

references a construction permit or a 10 

CFR part 52 combined license applicant 

references a license (e.g., an early site 

permit) and/or NRC regulatory approval 

(e.g., a design certification rule) for 

which specified issue finality provisions 

apply. 

The NRC staff does not, at this time, 

intend to impose the positions 

represented in this draft SRP section in 

a manner that constitutes backfitting or 

is inconsistent with any issue finality 

provision of 10 CFR part 52. If, in the 

future, the staff seeks to impose a 

position in this draft SRP section in a 

manner that would constitute 

backfitting or be inconsistent with these 

issue finality provisions, the NRC staff 

must make the showing as set forth in 

the Backfit rule or address the 

regulatory criteria set forth in the 

applicable issue finality provision, as 

applicable, that would allow the staff to 

impose the position. 

3. The NRC staff has no intention to 

impose the SRP positions on existing 

nuclear power plant licensees either 

now or in the future (absent a voluntary 

request for a change from the licensee, 

holder of a regulatory approval or a 

design certification applicant). 

The NRC staff does not intend to 

impose or apply the positions described 

in the draft SRP to existing (already 

issued) licenses (e.g., operating licenses 

and combined licenses) and regulatory 

approvals. Hence, the issuance of this 

SRP guidance—even if considered 

guidance subject to the Backfit Rule or 

the issue finality provisions in 10 CFR 

part 52—would not need to be evaluated 

as if it were a backfit or as being 

inconsistent with these issue finality 

provisions. If, in the future, the NRC 

staff seeks to impose a position in the 

SRP on holders of already issued 

licenses in a manner that would 

constitute backfitting or does not 

provide issue finality as described in the 

applicable issue finality provision, then 

the staff must make a showing as set 

forth in the Backfit Rule or address the 

criteria set forth in the applicable issue 

finality provision, as applicable, that 

would allow the staff to impose the 

position. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 6th day 

of September 2018. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Jennivine K. Rankin, 

Acting Chief, Division of Licensing, Siting, 

and Environmental Analysis, Licensing 

Branch 3, Office of New Reactors. 

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Meeting of the Advisory Committee on 

Reactor Safeguards Subcommittee on 

Plant License Renewal 

The ACRS Subcommittee on Plant 

License Renewal will hold a meeting on 

September 20, 2018 at U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, 11545 

Rockville Pike, Room T–2B1, Rockville, 

Maryland 20852. 

The entire meeting will be open to 

public attendance. The agenda for the 

subject meeting shall be as follows: 

Thursday, September 20, 2018, 1 p.m. 

Until 5 p.m. 

The Subcommittee will conduct a 

briefing on the River Bend Nuclear 

Generating Station Unit 1 License 

Renewal Application. The 

Subcommittee will hear presentations 


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