Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: a5ee4c78-1135-4bb6-8d54-e974a3402f87
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: An Approach for Plant-Specific, Risk-Informed Decisionmaking: Graded Quality Assurance
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1221/ML12216A017.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.176
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tory Guide 1.38 (Ref. 7) and other (previously withdrawn) guides2 and with ANSI N45.2.12 and N45.2.2 (Refs. 8 and 9) regarding the conduct of external supplier audits and supplier evaluations. For low safety-significant items, the external supplier audits could be done as deemed necessary on an unscheduled basis. The associated supplier evaluations could be done on a biennial basis. Overviews of suppliers will be based on performance monitoring and trending of feedback from receipt inspections, post-installation tests and inspections, and plant operational results. Licensees should also consider the results of the evaluations generated during the categorization ' Several QA-related regulatory guides were withdrawn in 1991 because the ANSI standards that they endorsed were incorporated into ANSI/ASME NQA-1-1983. "Quality Assurance Program Requirements for Nuclear Facilities." The withdrawal of a regulatory guide does not alter any prior or existing licensee commitments based on the use of the withdrawn regulatory guides. At their discretion, licensees with prior or existing commitments to withdrawn regulatory guides or standards may continue to implement those provisions, or revise their commitments to adopt the ANSI/ASME NQA- 1- 1983 standard. process concerning the functions of SSCs, as they may provide useful insights for identifying critical characteristics to be used during the dedication process 3.2.2 Inspections The licensee may chose to reduce inspection activities related to low safety-significant SSCs and choose to perform monitoring or surveillance oversight to ensure that components can perform their intended functions. Verifications by peer personnel may be implemented for safety-related low safety- significant SSCs provided that the licensee uses individuals who are qualified to do inspections and who are independent from the actual performance of the work activity as discussed above. However, these changes cannot conflict with ASME Code-required