Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 74980693-f1d2-4f59-a418-b297e1cc6509
Document Type: srp
Title: SURFACE FAULTING
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0707/ML070730597.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 2
Section ID: 2.5.3
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sed on additional information provided by the applicant as a result of the acceptance review. Questions may also result from discovery of references not cited by the applicant that contain conclusions conflicting with those of the applicant. These first-round questions usually require the applicant to conduct additional investigations or supply clarifying information and are referred to as Requests for Additional Information (RAIs). When insufficient data are provided by the applicant to support interpretations and conclusions presented, and more conservative reasonable alternative interpretations are technically supported in the literature, staff will request additional investigations or require the applicant to adopt the more conservative interpretations. This review phase will commonly involve public meetings with the applicant to clarify questions and allow the applicant to present new data to justify conclusions presented. The applicant's responses to questions are reviewed and any remaining issues settled, either by a second round of questions or by staff positions. A staff position is usually in the form of a requirement for the applicant to provide confirmatory information or to design for a specific condition in a manner deemed to be sufficiently conservative and consistent with requisites of 10 CFR 100.23. Phase 3. Review of Supplemental Information The Phase 3 review is the final phase for resolving all open safety-related issues, an activity commonly associated with staff review of the applicant’s responses to RAIs. Staff may either concur with decisions of the applicant on safety-related issues, or take a more conservative position if deemed necessary to assure the required degree of safety is imposed for the plant. When safety-related issues have been resolved, staff then provides input for its SER. Because plant construction excavations will not be completed until after staff has prepared the SER in cases where an applicant is granted a COL under