REGULATORY GUIDANCE ON THE ALTERNATE PRESSURIZED THERMAL SHOCK RULE

This regulatory guide is being issued in draft form to involve the public in the early stages of the development of a regulatory position in this area. It has not received final staff review or approval and does not represent an official NRC final staff position. Public comments are being solicited on this draft guide and its associated regulatory analysis. Comments should be accompanied by appropriate supporting data. Comments may be submitted through the Federal rulemakingWeb site, http://www.regulations.gov, by searching for Docket ID: NRC-2014-0137. Alternatively, comments may be submitted to the Rules, Announcements, and Directives Branch, Officeof Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Comments must be submitted by the date indicated in the Federal Register notice. Electronic copies of this draft regulatory guide, previous versions of this guide, and other recently issued guides are available through the NRC’s public Web site under the Regulatory Guides document collection of the NRC Library at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/regguides/. The draft regulatory guide is also available through the NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html, under Accession No. ML14056A011. The regulatory analysis may be found in ADAMS under Accession No. ML14056A013.