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Dedication of Commercial-Grade 

Digital Instrumentation and Control 

Items for Use in Nuclear Power Plants 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Draft regulatory guide; request 

for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing for public 

comment draft regulatory guide (DG), 

DG–1402, ‘‘Dedication of CommercialGrade Digital Instrumentation and 

Control Items for Use in Nuclear Power 

Plants.’’ This DG is a proposed new 

regulatory guide for the dedication of 

commercial-grade digital 

instrumentation and control (I&C) items 

for use in nuclear power plant safety 

applications. 

DATES: Submit comments by April 18, 

2022. Comments received after this 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. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods; 

however, the NRC encourages electronic 

comment submission through the 

Federal rulemaking website: 

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2022–0039. Address 

questions about Docket IDs in 

Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; 

telephone: 301–415–0624; email: 

Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical 

questions, contact the individuals listed 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this document. 

• Mail comments to: Office of 

Administration, Mail Stop: TWFN–7– 

A60M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001, ATTN: Program Management, 

Announcements and Editing Staff. 

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: 

Michael Eudy, Office of Nuclear 

Regulatory Research, telephone: 301– 

415–3104, email: Michael.Eudy@nrc.gov 

and Dinesh Taneja, Office of Nuclear 

Reactor Regulation, telephone: 301– 

415–0011, email: Dinesh.Taneja@

nrc.gov. Both are staff members of the 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC 2022– 

0039 when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information for this 

action. You may obtain publicly 

available information related to this 

action by any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC 2022–0039. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly 

available documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

https://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. The ADAMS 

accession number for each document 

referenced (if it is available in ADAMS) 

is provided the first time that it is 

mentioned in this document. 

• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and 

purchase copies of public documents, 

by appointment, at the NRC’s PDR, 

Room P1 B35, One White Flint North, 

11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland 20852. To make an 

appointment to visit the PDR, please 

send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov 

or call 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415– 

4737, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. 

(ET), Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. 

B. Submitting Comments 

The NRC encourages electronic 

comment submission through the 

Federal rulemaking website (https://

www.regulations.gov). Please include 

Docket ID NRC 2022–0039 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 https://

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. Additional Information 

The NRC is issuing for public 

comment a DG in the NRC’s ‘‘Regulatory 

Guide’’ series. This series was 

developed to describe methods that are 

acceptable to the NRC staff for 

implementing specific parts of the 

agency’s regulations, to explain 

techniques that the staff uses in 

evaluating specific issues or postulated 

events, and to describe information that 

the staff needs in its review of 

applications for permits and licenses. 

The DG, entitled ‘‘Dedication of 

Commercial-Grade Digital 

Instrumentation and Control Items for 

Use in Nuclear Power Plants,’’ is 

temporarily identified by its task 

number, DG–1402 (ADAMS Accession 

No. ML22003A180). 

The staff is also issuing for public 

comment a draft regulatory analysis 

(ADAMS Accession No. ML22003A181) 

for DG–1402. The staff developed the 

regulatory analysis to assess the value of 

issuing DG–1402 as well as alternative 

courses of action. 

The draft guide is a proposed new 

regulatory guide for the dedication of 

commercial-grade digital I&C items for 

use in nuclear power plant safety 

applications. It endorses, with 

clarifications, Nuclear Energy Institute 

17–06, ‘‘Guidance on Using IEC 61508 

SIL Certification to Support the 

Acceptance of Commercial Grade Digital 


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Equipment for Nuclear Safety Related 

Applications,’’ Revision 1, issued 

December 2021 (ADAMS Accession No. 

ML21337A380), to supplement existing 

guidance. 

III. Backfitting, Forward Fitting, and 

Issue Finality 

The NRC staff may use this regulatory 

guide as a reference in its regulatory 

processes, such as licensing, inspection, 

or enforcement. However, the NRC staff 

does not intend to use the guidance in 

this regulatory guide to support NRC 

staff actions in a manner that would 

constitute backfitting as that term is 

defined in Section 50.109 of title 10 of 

the Code of Federal Regulations (10 

CFR), ‘‘Backfitting,’’ and as described in 

NRC Management Directive (MD) 8.4, 

‘‘Management of Backfitting, Forward 

Fitting, Issue Finality, and Information 

Requests,’’ nor does the NRC staff 

intend to use the guidance to affect the 

issue finality of an approval under 10 

CFR part 52. The staff also does not 

intend to use the guidance to support 

NRC staff actions in a manner that 

constitutes forward fitting as that term 

is defined and described in MD 8.4. If 

a licensee believes that the NRC is using 

this regulatory guide in a manner 

inconsistent with the discussion in this 

Implementation section, then the 

licensee may file a backfitting or 

forward fitting appeal with the NRC in 

accordance with the process in MD 8.4. 

IV. Submitting Suggestions for 

Improvement of Regulatory Guides 

A member of the public may, at any 

time, submit suggestions to the NRC for 

improvement of existing RGs or for the 

development of new RGs. Suggestions 

can be submitted on the NRC’s public 

website at https://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/doc-collections/reg-guides/ 

contactus.htm. Suggestions will be 

considered in future updates and 

enhancements to the ‘‘Regulatory 

Guide’’ series. 

Dated: March 14, 2022. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Meraj Rahimi, 

Chief, Regulatory Guide and Programs, 

Management Branch, Division of Engineering, 

Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. 

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Sunshine Act Meetings 

TIME AND DATE: Weeks of March 21, 28, 

April 4, 11, 18, 25, 2022. All listed 

meeting times are local to the meeting 

location. 

PLACE: Multiple (See Additional 

Information Below). 

STATUS: Public. 

Week of March 21, 2022 

Wednesday, March 23, 2022 

9:30 a.m. Affirmation Session (Public 

Meeting) (Tentative) 

(a) Final Rule—Fitness for Duty Drug 

Testing Requirements (RIN 3150 

AI67; NRC–2009–0225) (Tentative) 

(b) NextEra Energy Point Beach, LLC 

(Point Beach Nuclear Plant, Units 1 

and 2), Appeal from LBP 21 5 

(Tentative) 

(Contact: Wesley Held: 301–287– 

3591) 

Additional Information: Due to 

COVID–19, there will be no physical 

public attendance. The public is invited 

to attend the Commission’s meeting 

live; via teleconference. Details for 

joining the teleconference in listen only 

mode may be found at https://

www.nrc.gov/pmns/mtg. 

Week of March 28, 2022—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the week of March 28, 2022. 

Week of April 4, 2022—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the week of April 4, 2022. 

Week of April 11, 2022—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the week of April 11, 2022. 

Week of April 18, 2022—Tentative 

Friday, April 22, 2022 

6:00 p.m. Discussion of the Ten-Year 

Plan to Address Impacts of 

Uranium Contamination on the 

Navajo Nation and Lessons Learned 

from the Remediation of Former 

Uranium Mill Sites (Public 

Meeting); (Contact: Wesley Held: 

301–287–3591) 

Additional Information: The meeting 

will be held at the Hilton Garden Inn, 

1530 W Maloney Ave., Gallup, New 

Mexico. The public is invited to attend 

the Commission’s meeting live by 

webcast at the web address—https://

video.nrc.gov/. For those who would 

like to attend in person, note that all 

visitors are required to complete the 

NRC Self-Health Assessment and 

Certification of Vaccination forms. 

Visitors who certify that they are not 

fully vaccinated or decline to complete 

the certification must have proof of a 

negative Food and Drug Administrationapproved PCR or Antigen (including 

rapid tests) COVID–19 test specimen 

collection from no later than the 

previous 3 days prior to the meeting 

date. The protocols are the same as 

those for entering an NRC facility. The 

forms and additional information can be 

found here https://www.nrc.gov/aboutnrc/covid-19/guidance-for-visitors-tonrc-facilities.pdf. 

Week of April 25, 2022—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the week of April 25, 2022. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

For more information or to verify the 

status of meetings, contact Wesley Held 

at 301–287–3591 or via email at 

Wesley.Held@nrc.gov. The schedule for 

Commission meetings is subject to 

change on short notice. 

The NRC Commission Meeting 

Schedule can be found on the internet 

at: https://www.nrc.gov/public-involve/ 

public-meetings/schedule.html. 

The NRC provides reasonable 

accommodation to individuals with 

disabilities where appropriate. If you 

need a reasonable accommodation to 

participate in these public meetings or 

need this meeting notice or the 

transcript or other information from the 

public meetings in another format (e.g., 

braille, large print), please notify Anne 

Silk, NRC Disability Program Specialist, 

at 301–287–0745, by videophone at 

240–428–3217, or by email at 

Anne.Silk@nrc.gov. Determinations on 

requests for reasonable accommodation 

will be made on a case-by-case basis. 

Members of the public may request to 

receive this information electronically. 

If you would like to be added to the 

distribution, please contact the Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Office of the 

Secretary, Washington, DC 20555, at 

301–415–1969, or by email at 

Wendy.Moore@nrc.gov or 

Betty.Thweatt@nrc.gov. 

The NRC is holding the meetings 

under the authority of the Government 

in the Sunshine Act, 5 U.S.C. 552b. 

Dated: March 16, 2022. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Wesley W. Held, 

Policy Coordinator, Office of the Secretary. 

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