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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 60 / Wednesday, March 31, 2021 / Proposed Rules Plants and Fuel Reprocessing Plants, to 10 CFR part 50, Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities.
Furthermore, a licensees compliance with the requirements of appendix B to 10 CFR part 50 is subject to inspection by the NRC. As such, the NRC has reasonable assurance that the existing regulations provide adequate protection of public health and safety.
Comment: A comment from an anonymous individual stated that current internal labs in the utility industry should be required to go through the same requirements that external calibration facilities must go through when calibrating and testing equipment for nuclear plants. According to this comment, it is not economically fair for the external calibration labs to pay for and go through the rigorous audits and try to compete for business when internal laboratories are not required to pay for this expensive certification. This comment suggests that this petition puts every calibration business on an equal playing field and would ensure uniform, basic knowledge and skills prior to employment and continuing education each year after to satisfy certification renewal.
NRC Response: The NRC disagrees with this comment. Training requirements for nuclear power plant personnel, including calibration technicians, are covered under criterion II, Quality Assurance Program, of appendix B to 10 CFR part 50, Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities. Meeting these requirements provides reasonable assurance that the calibration technicians will have the education, training, knowledge, and skills necessary to adequately perform their responsibilities. The economic considerations for external calibration activity facilities are outside the scope of NRCs rulemaking determination. To the extent that a nuclear power plant licensee chooses to use an external calibration facility, the licensee must ensure that the calibration facility meets appendix B requirements.
Comment: A comment from an anonymous individual stated that any entity such as the Tennessee Valley Authoritys Central Lab Calibration Services should be accredited.
According to this comment, just because the Tennessee Valley Authority is a federal agency does not mean it should not have to adhere to the rules of all the other calibration services.
NRC Response: The NRC disagrees with this comment. When performing safety-related calibration services for nuclear power plants, Tennessee Valley Authoritys Central Lab Calibration
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Services must meet the requirements of criterion II of appendix B to 10 CFR part 50. Meeting this regulation provides reasonable assurance of adequate protection of public health and safety.
Comment: A comment from James Anderson, a private citizen, requested that the NRC not reduce time or money spent on nuclear power plants.
NRC Response: The NRC interprets this comment to request that the NRC
not reduce its oversight or resources spent on the regulation of nuclear power plants. The NRC considers the comment to be out-of-scope of this petition.
Comment: The petitioner, Michael Taylor, submitted a document providing revisions to the PRM, including grammatical corrections and a few minor clarifications of the original petition.
NRC Response: The NRC considered the revised PRM submitted in this comment.
III. Reasons for Denial The NRC is denying the petition because the petition does not raise a significant safety or security concern that would warrant the requested changes to the NRCs regulations. To reach this determination, the staff evaluated the merits of the petition, public comments received, the immediacy of any safety concerns raised by the petition, and the NRCs relevant past decisions and current policies.
Specifically, staff considered existing NRC requirements for the control of measuring and test equipment.
Although the NRC does not require nuclear power plant laboratories to be certified by accrediting organizations, their programs for safety-related measuring and test equipment calibration must meet the requirements in 10 CFR part 50, Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities, appendix B, Quality Assurance Criteria for Nuclear Power Plants and Fuel Reprocessing Plants, criterion XII, Control of Measuring and Test Equipment, and their programs are subject to NRC inspection. The NRC
inspections provide additional assurance that licensees are adequately implementing the requirements of criterion XII of appendix B to 10 CFR
part 50 to measure and test equipment programs through direct inspection of calibration and testing activities. These direct inspections ensure that measurement calculations are being adequately performed.
Any safety-related calibrations or measurements that are performed at metrology laboratories utilized by nuclear power plants would fall under these requirements. The requirements
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for the training of nuclear power plant personnel performing safety-related activities are covered by criterion II, Quality Assurance Program, of appendix B to 10 CFR part 50. Any personnel performing safety-related calibrations in an onsite laboratory or at a metrology laboratory utilized by nuclear power plants would fall under these requirements.
In addition, the NRC conducted an independent search of all license event reports and greater-than-green inspection findings from 2015 onward and did not identify any examples of safety issues caused by improper calibrations of measurement and test equipment at nuclear power plant internal laboratories or by the lack of laboratory certification requirements.
In summary, the NRC is denying the petition because the petition does not raise a significant safety or security concern. The requested amendments to NRC regulations are not necessary because existing NRC regulations and inspection procedures provide reasonable assurance of adequate protection of public health and safety.
IV. Conclusion For the reasons cited in this document, the NRC is denying PRM
50118. The NRC has concluded that its existing regulations provide reasonable assurance of adequate protection of public health and safety.
Dated March 24, 2021.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Annette L. Vietti-Cook, Secretary of the Commission.
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