Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 05a851a6-07ff-41b4-8528-a032ba433e04
Document Type: srp
Title: FIRE PROTECTION PROGRAM
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0327/ML032740044.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 9
Section ID: 9.5.1
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c Letter 83-33 (October 19, 1983). Revision 4 - October 2003 8 Certain licensees disagreed with, or found it difficult to implement, the interpretations provided in Generic Letter 83-33. To pursue the matter with senior NRC management, the industry formed the Nuclear Utility Fire Protection Group. Subsequently, the staff formed the Steering Committee on Fire Protection Policy. Following staff inspections of operating plants, which identified a number of significant items of non-compliance, and disagreements in the implementation of interpretations provided in Generic Letter 83-33, the Nuclear Utility Fire Protection Group requested interpretations of certain Appendix R requirements and provided a list of questions to be discussed with the industry. The NRC responded by holding workshops in each Region to assist the industry in understanding the NRC’s requirements and to improve the staff’s understanding of the industry’s concerns. The results of these workshops and the Steering Committee’s findings and recommendations for addressing ongoing fire protection issues were documented in Generic Letter 85-01. Generic Letter 85-01 included a proposed Generic Letter that provided additional interpretations related to compliance with Appendix R and staff answers to the industry’s list of questions from the workshops. This proposed Generic Letter was revised and later issued as Generic Letter 86-10, “Implementation of Fire Protection Requirements,” on April 24, 1986. Also included in Generic Letter 86-10 was a “standard license condition” for adoption by licensees. Through the implementation and adoption of a standard license condition, a licensee was allowed to make changes to its fire protection program without prior notification to the NRC in accordance with the provisions of 10 CFR Part 50.59, provided the changes did not adversely affect the plant’s ability to achieve and maintain post-fire safe shutdown. The licensee, upon modification of the license