Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: d9111ca1-0619-4f33-b8fa-6b741f6df56d
Document Type: srp
Title: 16
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1127/ML112730393.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 1
Section ID: 1.0
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Revision 2 – December 2011 Regulatory Requirements and Guidance: The regulations in 10 CFR Part 52 and the guidance provided in RG 1.206, “Combined License Applications for Nuclear Power Plants (LWR Edition),” provide several options for a COL applicant to provide the information necessary for a license application. A COL application may incorporate by reference an ESP, a DCD, neither, or both. As such, during its reviews of license applications, the NRC staff may encounter COL applications that include different combinations of the permitted options. In addition, the regulation in 10 CFR 52.55(c) permits a COL applicant to reference, at its own risk, a design for which a DC application has been docketed, but not granted. Only a few of the designs that have been certified by the NRC are currently being referenced by COL applicants. Certification of those designs took place several years ago and, as a result, the scope and nature of COL action or information items included in those certified designs may vary from those currently being proposed in DC applications that have been submitted to the NRC more recently. The NRC staff should expect that the nature and scope of COL action or information items included in more recent applications are more clearly defined. This expectation is a reasonable outcome of the implementation and on-going maturation of the new licensing process specified in 10 CFR Part 52. The NRC staff should be cognizant of the differing nature and scope of COL action or information items that were included in previously certified designs that are now being referenced in COL applications and the ramifications on completion of these items. For example, in more recent applications, ITAAC have been used to verify the as-built reconciliation of piping designs, whereas COL action or information items may have been used for this purpose in previously certified designs. For COL action or information items that cannot be completed until after license