Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 78bd84c9-46c3-4180-955d-7ea075097d26
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Standard Format and Content for Applications To Renew Nuclear Power Plant Operating Licenses (Rev. 2)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1921/ML19213A345.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.188
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EG-2191, and NUREG-2192,” in December 2017 (Ref. 21), which provides the disposition of the public comments on the draft guidance documents for subsequent license renewal. Concurrently, the industry developed NEI 17-01 to provide guidance to utilities on implementing the license renewal rule for subsequent license renewal, incorporating lessons learned from industry experience and completing initial LRAs. The NRC endorses NEI 17-01 in this RG. Harmonization with International Standards The NRC staff has been actively involved with the IAEA in developing and updating the IAEA International Generic Aging Lessons Learned (IGALL) program. The development of IGALL started with NRC guidance for license renewal from GALL Revision 2, and the latest updates to IGALL used GALL-SLR technical information as the basis for many of the updates. The NRC continues to review information from IGALL counterparts and evaluate the necessity of making changes to GALL and GALL-SLR. DG-1341, Page 5 Documents Discussed in Staff Regulatory Guidance This RG endorses the use of one or more third party guidance documents. These third party guidance documents may contain references to other codes, standards or third party guidance documents (“secondary references”). If a secondary reference has itself been incorporated by reference into NRC regulations as a requirement, then licensees and applicants must comply with that standard as set forth in the regulation. If the secondary reference has been endorsed in a RG as an acceptable approach for meeting an NRC requirement, then the standard constitutes a method acceptable to the NRC staff for meeting that regulatory requirement as described in the specific RG. If the secondary reference has neither been incorporated by reference into NRC regulations nor endorsed in a RG, then the secondary reference is neither a legally-binding requirement nor a “generic” NRC approved acceptable approach for meeting an NRC requirement. However, licensees