Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: a5ee4c78-1135-4bb6-8d54-e974a3402f87
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: An Approach for Plant-Specific, Risk-Informed Decisionmaking: Graded Quality Assurance
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1221/ML12216A017.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.176
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to low safety-significant items, there should be enough evidentiary detail to maintain plant design and configuration control. Further, 0 1.176-16 sufficient records need to be maintained to evaluate failures, to perform root cause analyses, and to determine appropriate corrective actions. 3.2.4 Audits Processes and work associated with low safety- significant SSCs may be audited less deeply and less frequently than high safety-significant activities. Surveillance, performance monitoring, self-assess- ments, trend data, or other activities may in some cases replace formal audits in low safety-significant areas. 3.2.5 Staff Training and Qualification Requirements The licensees may establish different training and qualification requirements for personnel performing tasks only on safety-related low safety-significant SSCs, however, those personnel would need to remain sufficiently technically proficient in their assigned area of responsibility to provide reasonable confidence that their tasks were adequately performed to ensure that affected SSCs would be capable of performing their intended functions. The licensee must meet the requirements of the applicable regulations and technical specification requirements pertaining to training programs and staff qualifications. 3.2.6 Corrective Action The GQA effort will identify a population of low safety-significant, safety-related items. In accordance with Criterion XVI, "Corrective Action," of Appendix B to 10 CFR Part 50, the timeliness of corrective actions for these items can be prioritized commensu- rately with their safety significance. 3.2.7 Design The licensee may choose to change selected commitments to previously withdrawn regulatory guides2 or ANSI Standard N45.2.1 I (Ref. I1) for low safety-significant items. These changes could relate to (I) the need to consider all design input aspects as stated in Section 3.2 of ANSI N45.2.11, instead replacing this need with the need to prepare a documented checklist for only