Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 17f649a3-a35a-4996-8d78-4557cd0a7722
Document Type: srp
Title: TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0703/ML070380224.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 16
Section ID: 16.0
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REVIEW RESPONSIBILITIES Primary - Organization responsible for the review of technical specifications Secondary - None I. AREAS OF REVIEW 10 CFR 50.36 requires that each operating license issued by the Commission contain technical specifications (TS) that set forth the limits, operating conditions, and other requirements imposed upon facility operation for the protection of public health and safety. As part of the regulatory standardization effort, the staff has prepared standard technical specifications (STS) for each of the light-water reactor nuclear steam supply systems (NSSSs) and associated balance-of-plant equipment systems. These STS are subject to revision, and the latest versions are available from the NRC website at http://www.nrc.gov. The initial implementation of the STS program was made on the D. C. Cook operating license issued in October 1974. All subsequent operating licenses issued under 10 CFR Part 50 utilized the appropriate STS as the basis for issuance of Appendix A of licenses, "Technical Specifications." A completely rewritten and significantly improved STS set (NUREG 1430 through NUREG 1434) was developed under the NRC Technical Specifications Improvement Program and issued in September 1992, completely replacing the previous STS. Crystal River Unit 3 was the first to implement these STS in October 1993. Numerous STS changes have been made since 1992 by a joint NRC-industry STS change process designed to ensure incorporation of a change into the STS only after industry (represented by the owners group 16.0-2 Revision 2 - March 2007 Technical Specifications Task Force (TSTF)) and NRC staff agree to the change (Note that the staff also may incorporate a change without industry concurrence when warranted). Since 1993, a majority of plants currently operating have elected to convert existing TS to improved TS (ITS) based on the applicable STS. A plant may not have incorporated in its ITS some or all of the STS changes approved after submission