Policy and Procedures for Generic Issues Program

The following policy documents include public law, NRC Commission's Staff Requirements Memorandum (SRM), and staff responses in several Secretary of the Commission (SECY) Papers that resulted in development of and improvements to the GIP to ensure comprehensive, timely, and effective resolution of GIs. The following procedural documents include the governing GIP procedures and instructions that provide staff guidance and process flow associated with performing GIP activities.

Policy Documents

• Program for Resolution of Generic Issues Related to Nuclear Power (43 FR 1565; January 10, 1978)
• Severe Reactor Accidents Regarding Future Designs and Existing Plants (50 FR 32138; August 8, 1985)
• Safety Goals for the Operation of Nuclear Power Plants (51 FR 28044; August 4, 1986 as corrected and republished at 51 FR 30028; August 21, 1986)
• Program for Resolution of Generic Issues Related to Nuclear Power Plants, Withdrawal (54 FR 24432; June 7, 1989)
• Regulation of Advanced Nuclear Power Plants (59 FR 35461; July 12, 1994)
• Regulatory Guide 1.174, An Approach for Using Probabilistic Risk Assessment in Risk-Informed Decisions on Plant-Specific Changes to the Licensing Basis
• SECY-07-0022, Status Report on Proposed Improvements to the Generic Issues program, January 30, 2007

Staff Requirements Memoranda

• SRM to the EDO, "SECY-97-052 - Committee To Review Generic Requirements (CRGR) - Scope of Review and Periodic Review Activities," April 18, 1998
• SRM to the EDO, "SECY-05-0126 - Summary of Activities Related to Generic Safety Issues," Auguest 31, 2005

Procedures

• Management Directive 6.4
• TEC-002