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Environmental Impacts of the 

Alternatives to the Proposed Action 

As an alternative to the proposed 

action, the NRC staff considered denial 

of the proposed action (i.e., the ‘‘noaction’’ alternative). Denial of the 

exemption request would result in no 

change in current environmental 

impacts. If the proposed action was 

denied, the licensee would have to 

comply with the March 31, 2010, 

implementation deadline. The 

environmental impacts of the proposed 

exemption and the ‘‘no-action’’ 

alternative are similar. 

Alternative Use of Resources 

The action does not involve the use of 

any different resources than those 

considered in the Final Environmental 

Statement for the WCGS, NUREG–0878, 

dated June 1982, as supplemented 

through the ‘‘Generic Environmental 

Impact Statement for License Renewal 

of Nuclear Plants: Wolf Creek 

Generating Station—Final Report 

(NUREG–1437, Supplement 32),’’ dated 

May 2008. 

Agencies and Persons Consulted 

In accordance with its stated policy, 

on January 12, 2010, the NRC staff 

consulted with the Kansas State official, 

Mr. Tom Conley of the Kansas 

Department of Health and Environment, 

regarding the environmental impact of 

the proposed action. The State official 

had no comments. 

Finding of No Significant Impact 

On the basis of the environmental 

assessment, the NRC concludes that the 

proposed action will not have a 

significant effect on the quality of the 

human environment. Accordingly, the 

NRC has determined not to prepare an 

environmental impact statement for the 

proposed action. 

For further details with respect to the 

proposed action, see the licensee’s letter 

dated December 15, 2009. Portions of 

the December 15, 2009, submittal 

contain security-related and safeguards 

information and, accordingly, is being 

withheld from the public. The redacted 

version of the December 15, 2009, letter 

was submitted by the licensee on 

January 12, 2010, and may be examined, 

and/or copied for a fee, at the NRC’s 

Public Document Room (PDR), located 

at One White Flint North, Public File 

Area O–1F21, 11555 Rockville Pike 

(first floor), Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

Publicly available records will be 

accessible electronically from the 

Agencywide Documents Access and 

Management System (ADAMS) Public 

Electronic Reading Room on the Internet 

at the NRC Web site, http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. 

Persons who do not have access to 

ADAMS or who encounter problems in 

accessing the documents located in 

ADAMS should contact the NRC PDR 

Reference staff by telephone at 1–800– 

397–4209 or 301–415–4737, or send an 

e-mail to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 27th day 

of January 2010. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Balwant K. Singal, 

Senior Project Manager, Plant Licensing 

Branch IV, Division of Operating Reactor 

Licensing, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation. 

[FR Doc. 2010–2288 Filed 2–2–10; 8:45 am] 

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[NRC–2010–0033] 

Office of New Reactors; Interim Staff 

Guidance on the Review of Nuclear 

Power Plant Designs Using a Gas 

Turbine Driven Standby Emergency 

Alternating Current Power System 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC). 

ACTION: Solicitation of public comment. 

SUMMARY: The NRC staff is soliciting 

public comment on its proposed Interim 

Staff Guidance (ISG) DC/COL–ISG–021 

titled ‘‘Interim Staff Guidance on the 

Review of Nuclear Power Plant Designs 

Using a Gas Turbine Driven Standby 

Emergency Alternating Current Power 

System,’’ (Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS) Accession No. 

ML092640035). This ISG provides new 

guidance information for applicants 

submitting a combined license (COL) or 

design certification (DC) for 

construction and operation of new 

reactors submitted under Title 10 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations, Part 52. In 

addition, it supplements the guidance 

provided to the NRC staff in other 

sections of NUREG–0800, ‘‘Standard 

Review Plan for the Review of Safety 

Analysis Reports for Nuclear Power 

Plants,’’ March 2007, Standard Review 

Plan (SRP), Section 8.3.1 and Sections 

9.5.4 through 9.5.8. The NRC staff issues 

DC/COL–ISGs to facilitate timely 

implementation of current staff 

guidance and to facilitate activities 

associated with review of applications 

for DCs and COLs by the Office of New 

Reactors (NRO). The NRC staff intends 

to incorporate the final approved DC/ 

COL–ISG–021 into the next revision of 

SRP Section 8.3.1 and Sections 9.5.4 

through 9.5.8 and Regulatory Guide 

1.206, ‘‘Combined License Applications 

for Nuclear Power Plants (LWR 

Edition),’’ June 2007. 

Background: Emergency diesel 

generators are widely used as the 

standby emergency power sources for 

the onsite alternating current (AC) 

power system. It is anticipated that new 

reactor designs will incorporate gas 

turbines to supply the standby 

emergency alternating current power 

system. This ISG document provides 

guidance on the implementation of 

emergency gas turbine generators 

(EGTGs) used as AC power sources to 

supply power to safety-related 

equipment or equipment important to 

safety for all operational events and 

during accident conditions. Only EGTG 

systems that are air cooled and diesel oil 

fueled are considered in this interim 

guidance. 

DATES: Comments must be filed no later 

than 30 days from the date of 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register. 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 one of the following methods. 

Please include Docket ID NRC–2010– 

0033 in the subject line of your 

comments. Comments submitted in 

writing or in electronic form will be 

posted on the NRC website and on the 

Federal rulemaking Web site 

Regulations.gov. Because your 

comments will not be edited to remove 

any identifying or contact information, 

the NRC cautions you against including 

any information in your submission that 

you do not want to be publicly 

disclosed. 

The NRC requests that any party 

soliciting or aggregating comments 

received from other persons for 

submission to the NRC inform those 

persons that the NRC will not edit their 

comments to remove any identifying or 

contact information, and therefore, they 

should not include any information in 

their comments that they do not want 

publicly disclosed. 

Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for documents filed under Docket ID 

NRC–2010–0033. Address questions 

about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher 

301–492–3668; e-mail 

Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. 

Mail comments to: Michael T. Lesar, 

Chief, Rulemaking and Directives 

Branch (RDB), Division of 

Administrative Services, Office of 

Administration, Mail Stop: TWB–05– 


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B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001, or by fax to RDB at (301) 492– 

3446. 

You can access publicly available 

documents related to this notice using 

the following methods: 

NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR): 

The public may examine and have 

copied for a fee publicly available 

documents at the NRC’s PDR, Public 

File Area O1 F21, One White Flint 

North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland. 

NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access 

and Management System (ADAMS): 

Publicly available documents created or 

received at the NRC are available 

electronically at the NRC’s Electronic 

Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/ 

reading-rm/adams.html. From this page, 

the public can gain entry into ADAMS, 

which provides text and image files of 

NRC’s public documents. If you do not 

have access to ADAMS or if there are 

problems in accessing the documents 

located in ADAMS, contact the NRC’s 

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

301–415–4737, or by e-mail to 

pdr.resource@nrc.gov. 

Federal Rulemaking Web site: Public 

comments and supporting materials 

related to this notice can be found at 

http://www.regulations.gov by searching 

on Docket ID: NRC–2010–0033. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

John P. Segala, Chief, Balance of Plant 

Branch 1, Division of Safety Systems 

and Risk Assessment, Office of New 

Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001; telephone at 301–415–1992 or email john.segala@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

agency posts its issued staff guidance in 

the agency external Web page (http:// 

www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doccollections/isg/), ADAMS Accession No. 

ML092640035. 

The NRC staff is issuing this notice to 

solicit public comments on the 

proposed DC/COL–ISG–021. After the 

NRC staff considers any public 

comments, it will make a determination 

regarding the proposed DC/COL–ISG– 

021. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 26th day 

of January 2010. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

William F. Burton, 

Branch Chief, Rulemaking and Guidance 

Development Branch, Division of New Reactor 

Licensing, Office of New Reactors. 

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[NRC–2009–0550] 

Notice of Extension of Comment 

Period for NUREG–1921, EPRI/NRC– 

RES Fire Human Reliability Analysis 

Guidelines, Draft Report for Comment 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Extension of public comment 

period. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) issued for public 

comment a document entitled ‘‘NUREG– 

1921 (EPRI 1019196), EPRI/NRC–RES 

Fire Human Reliability Analysis 

Guidelines, Draft Report for Comment’’ 

(December 11, 2009; 74 FR 65810). This 

document extends the public comment 

period from February 15, 2010, to March 

19, 2010. 

DATES: The public comment period 

closes on March 19, 2010. Comments 

received after this date will be 

considered if it is practical to do so, but 

the NRC staff is able to ensure 

consideration only for comments 

received on or before this date. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any one of the following methods. 

Please include Docket ID NRC–2009– 

0550 in the subject line of your 

comments. Comments submitted in 

writing or in electronic form will be 

posted on the NRC Web site and on the 

Federal rulemaking Web site 

Regulations.gov. Because your 

comments will not be edited to remove 

any identifying or contact information, 

the NRC cautions you against including 

any information in your submission that 

you do not want to be publicly 

disclosed. 

The NRC requests that any party 

soliciting or aggregating comments 

received from other persons for 

submission to the NRC inform those 

persons that the NRC will not edit their 

comments to remove any identifying or 

contact information, and therefore, they 

should not include any information in 

their comments that they do not want 

publicly disclosed. 

Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for documents filed under Docket ID 

NRC–2009–0550. Address questions 

about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher 

301–492–3668; e-mail 

Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. 

Mail comments to: Michael T. Lesar, 

Chief, Rulemaking and Directives 

Branch (RDB), Division of 

Administrative Services, Office of 

Administration, Mail Stop: TWB–05– 

B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission, Washington, DC 20555– 

0001, or by fax to RDB at (301) 492– 

3446. 

You can access publicly available 

documents related to this notice using 

the following methods: 

NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR): 

The public may examine and have 

copied for a fee publicly available 

documents at the NRC’s PDR, Public 

File Area O1 F21, One White Flint 

North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland. 

NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access 

and Management System (ADAMS): 

Publicly available documents created or 

received at the NRC are available 

electronically at the NRC’s Electronic 

Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/ 

reading-rm/adams.html. From this page, 

the public can gain entry into ADAMS, 

which provides text and image files of 

NRC’s public documents. If you do not 

have access to ADAMS or if there are 

problems in accessing the documents 

located in ADAMS, contact the NRC’s 

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

301–415–4737, or by e-mail to 

pdr.resource@nrc.gov. NUREG–1921 

‘‘EPRI/NRC–RES Fire Human Reliability 

Analysis Guidelines’’ is available 

electronically under ADAMS Accession 

Number ML093340307. 

Federal Rulemaking Web site: Public 

comments and supporting materials 

related to this notice can be found at 

http://www.regulations.gov by searching 

on Docket ID: NRC–2009–0550. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kendra Hill, Division of Risk Analysis, 

Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001. 

Telephone: 301–251–3300, e-mail: 

Kendra.Hill@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NUREG– 

1921 (EPRI 1019196), ‘‘EPRI/NRC–RES 

Fire Human Reliability Analysis 

Guidelines, Draft Report for Comment’’ 

was written as a collaborative effort by 

the NRC’s Office of Nuclear Regulatory 

Research (RES) and the Electric Power 

Research Institute (EPRI) to provide 

guidance on how to perform the human 

reliability analysis (HRA) for a fire 

probabilistic risk analysis. In 2007, EPRI 

and NRC–RES embarked on a 

cooperative project to develop explicit 

guidance for estimating human error 

probabilities for human error events 

under fire generated conditions, 

building upon existing HRA methods. 

This report describes the methodology 

and guidance developed through this 

project. This report includes guidance 

on addressing the range of fire 

procedures used in existing plants, the 


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