Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: b837a542-c3e3-4684-be44-bbb4dadeef29
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Licensee Actions to Address Nonconservative Technical Specifications + HISTORY - HISTORY 08/2020 – DG-1351 Revision 1 , Proposed Revision 0 06/2018 – DG-1351 , Proposed Revision 0 (Rev. 1)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2014/ML20142A489.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.239
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RC staff for meeting that regulatory requirement as described in the specific RG. If the secondary reference has neither been incorporated by reference into NRC regulations nor endorsed in an RG, 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. 1 IAEA Safety Requirements and Guides may be found at WWW.IAEA.Org/ or by writing the International Atomic Energy Agency, P.O. Box 100 Wagramer Strasse 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria; telephone (+431) 2600-0; fax (+431) 2600-7; or e-mail Official.Mail@IAEA.Org. It should be noted that some of the international recommendations do not correspond to the requirements specified in the NRC’s regulations and the NRC’s requirements take precedence over the international guidance. DG-1351, Page 6 C. STAFF REGULATORY GUIDANCE This RG endorses the guidance in NEI 15-03, Revision 3, as a method acceptable to the NRC staff for licensee actions to address nonconservative technical specifications. DG-1351, Page 7 D. IMPLEMENTATION The NRC staff may use this regulatory guide as a reference in its regulatory processes, such as licensing, inspection, or enforcement. However, the NRC staff does not intend to use the guidance in this regulatory guide to support NRC staff actions in a manner that would constitute backfitting as that term is defined in 10 CFR 50.109, “Backfitting,” and as described in NRC Management Directive 8.4, “Management of Backfitting, Forward Fitting, Issue Finality, and Information Requests” (Ref. 6), nor does the NRC staff intend to use the guidance to affect the issue finality of an approval under 10 CFR Part 52, “Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals for Nuclear Power Plants.” The staff