10 CFR 53.910
§ 53.910 Procedures and guidelines.
United States · 10 CFR — Energy · Status: effective
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- 10 CFR 53.910, § 53.910 Procedures and guidelines, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/37635
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(a) Each holder of an OL or COL under this part must have a program for developing, implementing, and maintaining an integrated set of procedures, guidelines, and related supporting activities to support normal operations and respond to possible unplanned events.
(b) The program required by paragraph (a) of this section must include but is not limited to development, implementation, maintenance, and supporting activities of procedures and guidelines for the following:
(1) Plant operations;
(2) Maintenance activities under § 53.715;
(3) Program requirements under this subpart;
(4) Emergency operating procedures, if developed to address the role of human actions in responding to LBEs;
(5) Accident management guidelines, if developed to address the role of human actions in responding to LBEs;
(6) Procedures for each area in which licensed special nuclear material is handled, used, or stored to protect personnel upon the sounding of a criticality alarm required by § 53.440(m); and
(7) Procedures that describe how the licensee will address the following areas if the licensee is notified of a potential aircraft threat:
(i) Verification of the authenticity of threat notifications;
(ii) Maintenance of continuous communication with threat notification sources;
(iii) Contacting all onsite personnel and applicable offsite response organizations;
(iv) Onsite actions necessary to enhance the capability of the facility to mitigate the consequences of an aircraft impact;
(v) Measures to reduce visual discrimination of the site relative to its surroundings or individual buildings within the protected area;
(vi) Dispersal of equipment and personnel, as well as rapid entry into site protected areas for essential onsite personnel and offsite responders who are necessary to mitigate the event; and
(vii) Recall of site personnel.
Legislative history
This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.