Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: b837a542-c3e3-4684-be44-bbb4dadeef29
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Licensee Actions to Address Nonconservative Technical Specifications + HISTORY - HISTORY 08/2020 – DG-1351 Revision 1 , Proposed Revision 0 06/2018 – DG-1351 , Proposed Revision 0 (Rev. 1)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2014/ML20142A489.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.239
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), nor does the NRC staff intend to use the guidance to affect the issue finality of an approval under 10 CFR Part 52, “Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants.” The staff also does not intend to use the guidance to support NRC staff actions in a manner that constitutes forward fitting as that term is defined and described in Management Directive 8.4. If a licensee believes that the NRC is using this regulatory guide in a manner inconsistent with the discussion in this Implementation section, then the licensee may file a backfitting or forward fitting appeal with the NRC in accordance with the process in Management Directive 8.4. DG-1351, Page 8 REFERENCES2 1. Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), NEI 15-03, Revision 3, “Licensee Actions to Address Nonconservative Technical Specifications,” Washington, DC, March 2020 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession Package No. ML20100G899). 2. U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), “Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities,” Part 50, Chapter 1, Title 10, “Energy.” 3. U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), “Licenses, Certifications and Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants,” Part 52, Chapter 1, Title 10, “Energy.” 4. NRC, “Final Policy Statement on Technical Specifications Improvements for Nuclear Power Reactors,” Federal Register, 58 FR 39132, July 22, 1993. 5. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Administrative Letter 98-10, “Dispositioning of Technical Specifications That Are Insufficient to Assure Plant Safety,” Washington, DC, December 29, 1998 (ADAMS Accession No. ML031110108). 6. NRC, Management Directive 8.4, “Management of Backfitting, Forward Fitting, Issue Finality, and Information Requests,” Washington, DC. 2 Publicly available NRC published documents are available electronically through the NRC Library on the NRC’s public Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/ and through the NRC’s