How does a licensee transition to NFPA 805?
The transition is voluntary. Once the decision has been made to transition a licensee will submit a letter of intent (LOI) to the staff outlining a transition plan and a schedule including a schedule for a self-assessment period and submittal of a license amendment request (LAR). During the self-assessment period, a licensee is expected to evaluate its existing fire protection program, review fire protection exemptions in effect at the time of the application to determine continued validity, and resolve potential non-compliances with existing prescriptive fire protection regulatory requirements by either performing physical plant modifications that meet the regulatory requirements or perform engineering analyses that verify that the risk of the potential non-conformance is acceptably low. The NRC allows a licensee up to 3 years after the submittal of the LOI to perform its self-assessment. In order to assist licensees in performing their self-assessments, the Nuclear Energy Institute (
