Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: b647b09e-9948-474b-8b4a-d2e08837ffa5
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Guidance on Making Changes to Emergency Plans for Nuclear Power Reactors (Rev. 1)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1505/ML15054A370.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.219
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proved ANS or changes to testing and maintenance commitments made in the ANS design report. DG-1324, Page 17 3.5 Emergency Plan a. “Emergency plan” means the document(s) that the licensee prepared and maintains that identifies and describes its methods for maintaining emergency preparedness and responding to emergencies. An emergency plan includes the plan that the NRC originally approved and all subsequent changes that the licensee made with and without prior NRC review and approval under 10 CFR 50.54(q). See 10 CFR 50.54(q)(1)(ii) for additional information. b. This definition highlights that “emergency plan” includes any document that describes the programmatic methods that the licensee uses to maintain emergency preparedness and to respond to emergencies. These methods, or program elements, are the implementation aspects of the planning standards in 10 CFR 50.47(b) and the requirements in Appendix E to 10 CFR Part 50 and generally correspond to the evaluation criteria of NUREG-0654 or approved alternatives that supply specific acceptable methods for complying with the planning standards in 10 CFR 50.47(b) and the requirements in Appendix E to 10 CFR Part 50. Such programmatic documents are subject to the 10 CFR 50.54(q) change process. Non-programmatic documents, such as training rosters, equipment and maintenance test reports, lesson plans, and other documents that “document the performance” of the program elements, as opposed to those that “establish” the program elements, are not included. c. Ordinarily, sub-tier documents such as emergency plan implementing procedures (EPIPs) are not considered to be part of an emergency plan for the purpose of evaluating proposed changes. If a licensee relocates a programmatic description from the emergency plan to a sub-tier document, that programmatic description continues to be subject to the 10 CFR 50.54(q) change process. For example, licensees have relocated the details of emergency classification