[en] The deadline for compliance with 10 CFR 50.49, ''Environment Qualification of Electric Equipment Important to Safety for Nuclear Power Plants'' is specified in the rule as the date of the second refueling outage after March 31, 1982 or March 31, 1985, whichever was earlier. Some plants have received extensions to these deadlines up to November 30, 1985. It is the Commission's intention that licensees which are not in compliance on November 30, 1985, and which have not been given extensions either will have to either shut down or, if they have valid staff-approved justifications for continued operation, select to operate and face civil penalties of $5,000 per item per day for each day after November 30, 1985, on which a licensee operates in noncompliance with the rule. For noncompliance identified after November 30, 1985, such fines may be made retroactive to November 30, 1985 for each day a licensee clearly knew, or should have known, that equipment qualification was incomplete