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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2021–0047] 

Plant-Specific, Risk-Informed 

Decisionmaking: Inservice Testing 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Regulatory guide; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing Revision 1 

to Regulatory Guide (RG) 1.175, ‘‘PlantSpecific, Risk-Informed 

Decisionmaking: Inservice Testing.’’ 

This RG has been revised to incorporate 

additional information since Revision 0 

was issued, particularly information to 

be consistent with the terminology and 

defense-in-depth philosophy provided 

in RG 1.174, ‘‘An Approach for Using 

Probabilistic Risk Assessment in RiskInformed Decisions on Plant-Specific 

Changes to the Licensing Basis,’’ as well 

as to endorse a standard by the 

American Society of Mechanical 

Engineers Boiler and Pressure Vessel 

Code for Operations and Maintenance. 

DATES: Revision 1 to RG 1.175 is 

available on June 30, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2021–0047 when contacting the 

NRC about the availability of 

information regarding this document. 

You may obtain publicly available 

information related to this document 

using any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2021–0047. 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. 

• 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. 

• Attention: The PDR, where you may 

examine and order copies of public 

documents, is currently closed. You 

may submit your request to the PDR via 

email at 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. 

Revision 1 to RG 1.175 and the 

regulatory analysis may be found in 

ADAMS under Accession Nos. 

ML21140A055 and ML19240B374, 

respectively. 

Regulatory guides are not 

copyrighted, and NRC approval is not 

required to reproduce them. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Zeechung Wang, telephone: 301–415– 

1686, email: Zeechung.Wang@nrc.gov, 

or Harriet Karagiannis, telephone: 301– 

415–2493, email: Harriet.Karagiannis@

nrc.gov. Both are staff of the Office of 

Nuclear Regulatory Research, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Discussion 

The NRC is issuing a revision in the 

NRC’s ‘‘Regulatory Guide’’ series. This 

series was developed to describe and 

make available to the public information 

regarding methods that are acceptable to 

the NRC staff for implementing specific 

parts of the agency’s regulations, 

techniques that the NRC staff uses in 

evaluating specific issues or postulated 

events, and data that the NRC staff 

needs in its review of applications for 

permits and licenses. 

Revision 1 of RG 1.175 was issued 

with a temporary identification of Draft 

Regulatory Guide, DG–1286. It 

addresses new information identified 

since the previous revision of this guide 

was issued. 

II. Additional Information 

The NRC published a notice of the 

availability of DG–1286 (ADAMS 

Accession No. ML19240B371), in the 

Federal Register on April 6, 2021 (86 FR 

17860), for a 30-day public comment 

period. The public comment period 

closed on May 6, 2021. The NRC has not 

received any comments on DG–1286. 

III. Congressional Review Act 

This RG is a rule as defined in the 

Congressional Review Act (5 U.S.C. 

801–808). However, the Office of 

Management and Budget has not found 

it to be a major rule as defined in the 

Congressional Review Act. 

IV. Backfitting, Forward Fitting, and 

Issue Finality 

Revision 1 of RG 1.175 describes 

methods acceptable to the NRC staff for 

developing risk-informed inservice 

testing and supplements the guidance 

provided in RG 1.174. Issuance of this 

RG in final form would not constitute 

backfitting or forward fitting or affect 

issue finality as further discussed 

below. 

Issuance of RG 1.175, would not 

constitute backfitting as 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’’; constitute forward fitting as 

that term is defined and described in 

MD 8.4; or affect the issue finality of any 

approval issued under 10 CFR part 52. 

As explained in RG 1.175, applicants 

and licensees would not be required to 

comply with the positions set forth in 

RG 1.175. 

Dated: June 24, 2021. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Meraj Rahimi, 

Chief, Regulatory Guidance and Project 

Management Branch, Division of Engineering, 

Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. 

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