Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 9cdf4eb8-90c4-435e-84a4-d23c09056921
Document Type: srp
Title: STABILITY OF SUBSURFACE MATERIALS AND FOUNDATIONS
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0520/ML052070268.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 2
Section ID: 2.5.4
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y Department, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and U.S. Department of the Interior. Design safety features, the applicant's proposed confirmatory tests and measurements, and monitoring of performance for safety-related foundations and earthworks are reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Subsection 2.5.4.12. Techniques to improve subsurface conditions are evaluated by reviewing the applicant's specifications and techniques for performance and quality control for such activities as grouting, excavation and backfill, vibroflotation, rock bolting, and anchoring. Confirmatory data should be contained in the FSAR.54 For standard design certification reviews, site-related parameters should be identified in the site parameter envelope. These parameters include engineering properties of materials underlying the site, ground water levels, and vibratory ground motion and response spectra for the design basis earthquake(s). The specified parameters should be representative of credible, bounding characteristics. The reviewer verifies that those parameters related to the areas of review for this section and specified in the site parameter envelope are consistent with the acceptance criteria given in subsection II of this SRP section. For applications referencing a certified design, the reviewer should verify that the site-specific parameters are consistent with those specified in the site parameter envelope in the design certification application. DRAFT Rev. 3 - April 1996 2.5.4-16 Requirements and procedures governing issuance of early site permits for approval of proposed sites for nuclear power facilities are specified in 10 CFR Part 52. Information required for such a permit includes a description of the site's seismic characteristics. For this type of permit, the application is reviewed as outlined above.55 In the ABWR and System 80+ design certification FSERs the Staff accepted an exemption to a 10 CFR 100, Appendix A requirement that all safety-related SSCs be