Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 3eb179d3-5491-407d-8b0e-eed083d58a17
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Configuration Management Plans for Digital Computer Software Used in Safety Systems of Nuclear Power Plants + HISTORY - HISTORY 08/2012 – DG-1206 , Proposed Revision 1 08/1996 – DG-1055 , Proposed Revision 0 (Rev. 1)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1032/ML103200044.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.169
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irement of GDC 1, Appendix B provides detailed quality assurance criteria, including criteria for administrative control, design documentation control, design interface control, design change control, document control, identification and control of parts and components, and control and retrieval of qualification information associated with parts and components. For software, these activities are often referred to collectively as “software configuration management” (SCM). Several criteria in Appendix B of 10 CFR Part 50 contain requirements closely related to configuration management activities. These listed Criterions are only part of and not the entire requirement: • Criterion II, “Quality Assurance Program,” requires, in part, that activities affecting quality be accomplished under suitably controlled conditions. • Criterion III, “Design Control,” requires, in part, that measures be established for design documentation and the identification and control of design interfaces. This criterion also requires that design changes be subject to design control measures commensurate with those used for the original design. • Criterion V, “Instructions, Procedures, and Drawings,” requires, in part, activities affecting quality be prescribed by documented instructions, procedures, or drawings of a type appropriate to the circumstances and that these activities be accomplished in accordance with these instructions, procedures, or drawings. Criterion V further requires that instructions, procedures, and drawings include appropriate quantitative or qualitative acceptance criteria for determining that important activities have been satisfactorily accomplished. • Criterion VI, “Document Control,” requires, in part, that all documents that prescribe activities affecting quality, such as instructions, procedures, and drawings, be subject to controls that ensure that authorized personnel review documents, including changes, for adequacy and approve them