Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: a81802d8-8b24-447a-bb5a-fe24b27963a8
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Quality Assurance Requirements for Cleaning of Fluid Systems and Associated Components of Water-Cooled Nuclear Power Plants
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0702/ML070250571.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.37
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waste repositories. Then, in the 1990s, ASME restructured the NQA standards into a single, multipart document. Initially issued as NQA-1-1994, that standard included criteria and nonmandatory guidance to establish and implement a QA program for any nuclear facility application, and was divided into four parts: • Part I contained QA program criteria for the siting, design, construction, operation, and decommissioning of nuclear facilities. • Part II contained the QA criteria for planning and conducting fabrication, construction, modification, repair, maintenance, and testing of systems, components, or activities for nuclear facilities. • Part III contained nonmandatory guidance and application appendices. • Part IV contained NQA position papers, application matrices for users, cross-reference comparisons to NQA, and other program information. Rev. 1 of RG 1.37, Page 3 ASME NQA-1-1994, Part II, Subpart 2.1, “Quality Assurance Requirements for Cleaning of Fluid Systems and Associated Components for Nuclear Power Plants,” contains updated QA criteria for ANSI N45.2.1-1973. This revision of RG 1.37 endorses ASME NQA-1-1994, Part II, Subpart 2.1 as a generally acceptable standard. In preparing this revision, the staff compared ANSI N45.2.1-1973 to ASME NQA-1-1994, Part II, Subpart 2.1, and evaluated the differences between the two standards, as well as the need for additional regulatory positions associated with endorsing ASME NQA-1-1994, Part II, Subpart 2.1. This comparison revealed that although the text may have changed, the content and intent of these standards have not. On the basis of the staff’s evaluation, Regulatory Positions 1 and 2 of this revision of RG 1.37 update Regulatory Positions 1 and 3 from the original version of RG 1.37, with respect to endorsing the applicable sections of ASME NQA-1-1994, Part II, Subpart 2.1. The other regulatory positions from the original version of RG 1.37 are no longer needed because they have been subsumed into