[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 88 (Thursday, May 7, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25238-25239]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-12173]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request

AGENCY: U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

ACTION: Notice of the OMB review of information collection and 
solicitation of public comment.

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SUMMARY: The NRC has recently submitted to OMB for review the following 
proposal for the collection of information under the provisions of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). The NRC hereby 
informs potential respondents that an agency may not conduct or 
sponsor, and that a person is not required to respond to, a collection 
of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.
    1. Type of submission: Revision.
    2. The title of the information collection: ``An Approach for Using 
Probabilistic Risk Assessment in Risk-informed Decisions on Plant-
Specific Changes to the Current Licensing Basis,'' Regulatory Guides 
RG-1.174 through RG-1.178.
    3. The form number if applicable: Not applicable.
    4. How often the collection is required: Use of the new risk-
informed methodology for making changes in the licensing basis of 
operating plants in the areas of inservice inspection (ISI), inservice 
testing (IST), graded quality assurance (GQA), and technical 
specifications (TS), is available to all licensees but is not required. 
Licensees may make voluntary submittals when, and if, in their 
judgment, it is to their advantage to do so (for example, to improve 
plant safety, reduce costs, gain operating flexibility).
    5. Who will be required or asked to report: Licensees of nuclear 
power plants may report when, and if, in their judgment, it is to their 
advantage to do so.
    6. An estimate of the number of responses: ISI: 6, IST: 3, QA: 1, 
TS: 20.
    7. The estimated number of annual respondents: ISI: 6, IST: 3, QA: 
1, TS: 20.
    8. An estimate of the total number of hours needed annually to 
complete the requirement or request (per respondent): ISI: 6,200, IST: 
5,200, QA: 4,000, TS: 1,060.
    9. An indication of whether Section 3507(d), Pub. L. 104-13 
applies: Not applicable.
    10. Abstract: In the specific areas of ISI, IST, GQA, and TS, a new 
series of Regulatory Guides provides a risk-informed method for 
licensees to use in requesting changes to their current licensing bases 
(CLB). No changes or additions have been made to any rules or 
regulations in conjunction with the issuance of this series of guides. 
The new method will be a voluntary alternative to the 
deterministically-based CLB change method previously used (which will 
remain acceptable as an alternative to the new risk-informed method).
    The new risk-informed alternative method will allow licensees to 
concentrate on plant equipment and operations that are most critically 
important to plant safety so as to achieve a savings in total effort 
and greater operating flexibility with an insignificant change in 
overall safety. The guides specify the records, analyses, and documents 
that licensees

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are expected to prepare in support of risk-informed changes to their 
CLB in the specified areas.
    A copy of the final supporting statement may be viewed free of 
charge at the NRC Public Document Room, 2120 L Street, NW (lower 
level), Washington, DC. OMB clearance requests are available at the NRC 
worldwide web site (http://www.nrc.gov) under the FedWorld collection 
link on the home page tool bar. 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 by 
June 8, 1998: Erik Godwin, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs 
(3150-0011), NEOB-10202, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, 
DC 20503.
    Comments can also be submitted by telephone at (202) 395-3084.
    The NRC Clearance Officer is Brenda Jo. Shelton, 301-415-7233.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 1st day of May 1998.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Brenda Jo. Shelton,
NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 98-12173 Filed 5-6-98; 8:45 am]
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