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Cycle Facility Safety Inspection

Program,’’ and in SECY–00–0222,

‘‘Status of Revision.’’ SECY–99–188 and

SECY–00–0222, as well as other

background information, are available in

the Public Document Room and on the

NRC Web Page at http://www.nrc.gov.

Purpose of Meeting

To obtain stakeholder views for

improving the NRC oversight program

for ensuring fuel cycle licensees and

certificate holders maintain protection

of worker and public health and safety,

protection of the environment, and

safeguards for special nuclear material

and classified matter in the interest of

national security. The public meeting

will focus on the revisions that are being

made to the program, and on how

interested parties can provide input to

the change process.

DATE AND LOCATION: Members of the

public, industry, and other stakeholders

are invited to attend and participate in

the meeting, which is scheduled for 7 to

8 p.m. on Wednesday, May 16, 2001.

The meeting will be held in the

Resource Center at the Paducah

Information Age Park in Paducah,

Kentucky.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Patrick Castleman, Office of Nuclear

Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission,

Washington, DC 20555, telephone (301)

415–8118, e-mail pic@nrc.gov.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 27th day

of April 2001.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Patrick Castleman,

Project Manager, Inspection Section, Safety

and Safeguards Support Branch, Division of

Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards.

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NUREG–1742, ‘‘Perspectives Gained

From the Individual Plant Examination

of External Events (IPEEE) Program’’;

Draft for Comment

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory

Commission.

ACTION: Notice of availability of the draft

report for comment NUREG–1742,

‘‘Perspectives Gained from the

Individual Plant Examination of

External Events (IPEEE) Program’’.

SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory

Commission issued on June 28, 1991,

Supplement 4 to Generic Letter 88–20,

‘‘Individual Plant Examination of

External Events (IPEEE) for Severe

Accident Vulnerabilities, 10 CFR

50.54(f).’’ Associated guidance for

conduct of the IPEEEs was issued in

June 1991 in NUREG–1407, ‘‘Procedural

and Submittal Guidance for the

Individual Plant Examination of

External Events (IPEEE) for Severe

Accident Vulnerabilities.’’ Specifically,

the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

requested that each licensee perform an

IPEEE to identify and report to the

Nuclear Regulatory Commission all

plant-specific vulnerabilities to severe

accidents caused by external events.

This review was limited to plant

behavior under full-power operating

conditions. The external events to be

considered included seismic events;

internal fires; and high winds, floods,

and other (HFO) external initiating

events including transportation or

nearby facility accidents and plantunique hazards. All currently operating

nuclear power plants in the United

States have completed their assessments

and submitted their analyses to the

NRC.

Consistent with the intent of Generic

Letter 88–20, the primary goal of the

IPEEE program has been for each

licensee to identify plant-specific

vulnerabilities to severe accidents. More

specifically, Supplement 4 to Generic

Letter 88–20 identified the following

four objectives for the IPEEE:

• To develop an appreciation of

severe accident behavior,

• To understand the most likely

severe accident sequences that could

occur at the licensee’s plant under fullpower operating conditions,

• To gain a qualitative understanding

of the overall likelihood of core damage

and fission product releases, and

• To reduce, if necessary, the overall

likelihood of core damage and

radioactive material releases by

modifying, where appropriate, hardware

and procedures that would help prevent

or mitigate severe accidents.

The primary objective of the NRC’s

technical review process was to

ascertain the extent to which the

licensee’s IPEEE submittals have

achieved the intent of Generic Letter

88–20, satisfied the four principle IPEEE

objectives listed above, and followed the

recommended guidance in NUREG–

1407. The reviews focused on verifying

that the critical elements of acceptable

IPEEE analyses in the fire, seismic, and

HFO areas were performed in

accordance with the guidelines in

NUREG–1407. Results of the reviews of

each IPEEE are documented in plantspecific Staff Evaluation Reports and

Technical Evaluation Reports which

were transmitted to each licensee and

made publically available. It should also

be noted that the staff’s reviews were

not intended to validate or verify the

licensees’ IPEEEs analyses or results

(i.e., an in-depth evaluation of the

various inputs, assumptions, and

calculations was not performed). Rather,

methods, approaches, assumptions, and

results were reviewed for

reasonableness. If inconsistencies were

encountered, they were reported in the

plant-specific IPEEE Technical

Evaluation Reports.

The draft report NUREG–1742,

‘‘Perspectives Gained from the

Individual Plant Examination of

External Events (IPEEE) Program’’

summarizes the findings from the

review of the licensees’ IPEEE

submittals. The public is invited to

provide feedback on this draft report.

As part of the IPEEE program, some

generic issues were addressed by the

licensees in their submittals. As noted

in draft NUREG–1742, while this has

resulted in resolution of most of the

generic issues related to the IPEEE

program, some aspects of some generic

issues were not sufficiently discussed in

all submittals to reach a resolution.

Those remaining issues will be

addressed separately from the IPEEE

program.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This

notice serves as a request for public

comment on the Nuclear Regulatory

Commission’s draft report NUREG–

1742, ‘‘Perspectives Gained from the

Individual Plant Examination of

External Events (IPEEE) Program,’’ that

is dated April 2001 (web address:

http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/NUREGS/

SR1742/V1/index.html). Only written

comments are requested. Feedback is

especially requested on the following

specific questions.

1. Does the information contained in

NUREG–1742 represent a useful

understanding of the potential

vulnerabilities of nuclear power plants

to external events? How will the

information in this report be used by

various stakeholders? What would make

the information more useful?

2. Are there another comparisons of

information from the IPEEE submittals

that would yield useful insights? If so,

what comparisons would be useful?

Why?

3. Given the information from the

IPEEE submittals on the risk from fire,

seismic and other external events, is

additional research needed to improve

methods, reduce uncertainties, or

resolve issues? If so, what research

should be pursued and why? If not, why

not?

4. Potential plant improvements,

identified by licensees in their

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submittals, can be divided into three

general categories—improvements that

(1) have been completed, (2) will be

made, or (3) will receive further

consideration. Are there any

improvements in either of the last two

categories that have been completed and

that resulted in a significant change in

a plant’s ability to withstand potential

external events? If so, what are the

improvements and the related changes

to the plant’s capability?

5. How can the results of the IPEEE

program be used to (1) maintain safe

operations of nuclear facilities; (2) make

NRC activities and decisions more

effective, efficient, and reliable; (3)

increase public confidence; or (4)

reduce unnecessary regulatory burden

on stakeholders?

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Written comments may be sent to Dr.

Alan M. Rubin, Probabilistic Risk

Analysis Branch, Division of Risk

Analysis and Applications, Office of

Nuclear Regulatory Research, Mail Stop

T10E50, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission, Washington, DC 20555, or

e-mail: amr@nrc.gov.

DATES: Submit comments by July 31,

2001. 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.

Dated this 10th Day of April 2001.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Thomas L. King,

Director, Division of Risk Analysis and

Applications, Office of Nuclear Regulatory

Research.

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Criteria for Preparation and Evaluation

of Radiological Emergency Response

Plans and Preparedness in Support of

Nuclear Power Plants; Draft Addenda

to NUREG–0654/FEMA–REP–1,

Revision 1,

AGENCIES: Nuclear Regulatory

Commission. Federal Emergency

Management Agency.

ACTION: Notice of availability and

request for comment.

SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory

Commission (NRC) and the Federal

Emergency Management Agency

(FEMA) have issued for public comment

the Draft Addenda to NUREG–0654/

FEMA–REP–1, Rev. 1, ‘‘Criteria for

Preparation and Evaluation of

Radiological Emergency Response Plans

and Preparedness in Support of Nuclear

Power Plants.’’ This NUREG is the basic

emergency planning guidance document

for radiological emergency planning and

preparedness for commercial nuclear

power plants and is used by licensees

and by State and local government

emergency response agencies to develop

and maintain radiological emergency

plans for nuclear power plants.

DATE: The comment period ends August

1, 2001, of this Federal Register notice.

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments

to: Chief, Rules and Directives Branch,

Division of Administrative Services,

Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear

Regulatory Commission, Washington,

DC 20555–0001.

Hand-deliver comments to 11545

Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland

between 7:15 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on

Federal workdays.

Those considering public comment

may request a free single copy of the

Draft Addenda to NUREG–0654/FEMA–

REP–1, Rev. 1, by writing to:

Reproduction and Distribution Services

Section, Office of the Chief Information

Officer, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission, Washington, DC 20555–

0001, or E-mail:

DISTRIBUTION@nrc.gov, or Facsimilie:

(301) 415–2289.

The Draft Addenda to NUREG–0654/

FEMA–REP–1, Rev. 1, also is available

electronically by visiting NRC’s Home

Page (http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/

NUREGS/SR0654/R1addenda/

index.html) or FEMA’s Home Page

(http://www.fema.gov/pte/rep/).

A copy of the Draft Addenda to

NUREG–0654/FEMA–REP–1, Rev. 1, is

available for inspection and copying for

a fee in the NRC Public Document

Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville,

Maryland, Room O1F21.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Kathy Halvey Gibson, Chief, Emergency

Preparedness and Health Physics

Section, Office of Nuclear Reactor

Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission, Washington, DC 20555–

0001, Telephone (301) 415–2910;

electronic mail address: khg@nrc.gov or

Vanessa E. Quinn, Chief, Radiological

Emergency Preparedness Branch,

Preparedness, Training, and Exercises

Directorate, Federal Emergency

Management Agency, Washington, DC

20472, telephone (202) 646–3664;

electronic mail address:

vanessa.quinn@fema.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This

notice announces the availability of and

request for comment on the Draft

Addenda to NUREG–0654/FEMA–REP–

1, Rev. 1, ‘‘Criteria for Preparation and

Evaluation of Radiological Emergency

Response Plans and Preparedness in

Support of Nuclear Power Plants.’’

NUREG–0654/FEMA–REP–1, Rev. 1,

was issued in November 1980 and is the

basic emergency planning guidance

document for radiological emergency

planning and preparedness for

commercial nuclear power plants.

NUREG–0654/FEMA–REP–1, Rev. 1,

is used by licensees and by State and

local government emergency response

agencies to develop and maintain

radiological emergency plans for

nuclear power plants. NUREG–0654/

FEMA–REP–1, Rev. 1, is also used by

staff of the NRC and FEMA to review,

respectively, licensee and State and

local government radiological

emergency plans and preparedness, and

to make findings and determinations

regarding the adequacy of these plans.

As part of FEMA’s strategic review of its

radiological emergency preparedness

program, FEMA and NRC staff

determined that it was not necessary to

revise NUREG–0654/FEMA–REP–1,

Rev. 1, but that to enhance its

usefulness, the outdated citations in the

document should be replaced with

updated citations through means of an

addenda. An initial version of the

addenda was posted on the FEMA web

site and provided to the member

agencies of the Federal Radiological

Preparedness Coordinating Committee

for comment.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day

of March 2001.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Glenn M. Tracy,

Chief, Operator Licensing, Human

Performance, and Plant Support Branch,

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

For the Federal Emergency Management

Agency.

Russell Salter,

Director, Chemical and Radiological

Preparedness Division, Preparedness,

Training and Exercises Directorate, Federal

Emergency Management Agency.

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