Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: ed595a39-2817-46a5-93dd-476899712ff9
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: 10/2017 (Rev. 5)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1720/ML17207A293.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.28
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ovided useful guidance to NRC staff, applicants, or licensees. RG 1.28, Page 5 Documents Discussed in Staff Regulatory Guidance This regulatory guide endorses, in part, the use of one or more codes or standards developed by external organizations, and other third party guidance documents. These codes, standards and third party guidance documents may contain references to other codes, standards or third party guidance documents (“secondary references”). If a secondary reference has itself been incorporated by reference into NRC regulations as a requirement, then licensees and applicants must comply with that standard as set forth in the regulation. If the secondary reference has been endorsed in a regulatory guide as an acceptable approach for meeting an NRC requirement, then the standard constitutes a method acceptable to the NRC staff for meeting that regulatory requirement as described in the specific regulatory guide. If the secondary reference has neither been incorporated by reference into NRC regulations nor endorsed in a regulatory guide, then the secondary reference is neither a legally-binding requirement nor a “generic” NRC approved acceptable approach for meeting an NRC requirement. However, licensees and applicants may consider and use the information in the secondary reference, if appropriately justified, consistent with current regulatory practice, and consistent with applicable NRC requirements. RG 1.28, Page 6 C. REGULATORY POSITION The Part I and Part II requirements included in the NQA-1b-2011 Addenda to ASME NQA-1-2008, NQA-1-2012, and NQA-1-2015, “Quality Assurance Requirements for Nuclear Facility Applications,” for the implementation of a QA program during the design and construction phases of nuclear power plants and fuel reprocessing plants are endorsed by the NRC staff, and provide an adequate basis for complying with the requirements of Appendix B to 10 CFR Part 50, subject to the exceptions and clarifications of NQA-1b-2011,