[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 227 (Friday, November 26, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66513-66514]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-30733]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Workshop Concerning the Revision of the Baseline Safety
Inspection Program for Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
ACTION: Notice of public workshop.
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SUMMARY: NRC will host a public workshop at the Doubletree Hotel in
Rockville, Maryland for those regulated by the NRC and other
stakeholders to provide and explain their views concerning NRC plans to
revise its safety inspection program for nuclear fuel cycle facilities.
This workshop follows the recent public stakeholder meetings held at
NRC Headquarters on September 16 and October 20, 1999. Presentations
given at each meeting together with a transcript of the meeting will be
placed on the NRC INTERNET web page (http://www.nrc.gov). Similar to
the revisions of the inspection and oversight program for commercial
nuclear power plants, NRC initiated an effort to improve its inspection
program for nuclear fuel cycle facilities. This is described in SECY-
99-188 titled, EVALUATION AND PROPOSED REVISION OF THE NUCLEAR FUEL
CYCLE FACILITY SAFETY
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INSPECTION PROGRAM. SECY-99-188 is available in the Public Document
Room and on the NRC Web Page at http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/COMMISSION/
SECYS/index.html.
Purpose: To provide those regulated by the NRC and other
stakeholders an opportunity to explain their views concerning the NRC's
planned revision of the fuel cycle safety inspection program. The
safety inspection program applies to nuclear fuel cycle facilities
regulated under 10 CFR parts 40, 70 and 76. The facilities currently
include gaseous diffusion plants, highly enriched uranium fuel
fabrication facilities, low-enriched uranium fuel fabrication
facilities, and a uranium hexafluoride (UF6) production
facility. These facilities possess large quantities of materials that
are potentially hazardous (i.e., radioactive, toxic, and/or flammable)
to the workers, public, and/or environment. In revising the inspection
program, the goals are to have an inspection program that: (1) Provides
earlier and more objective indications of acceptable and changing
safety performance, (2) increases stakeholder confidence in the NRC,
and (3) increases regulatory effectiveness and efficiency. In this
regard, the NRC desires the revised inspection program to be more risk-
informed and performance-based and more focused on significant risks.
Where practicable, the program will use more objective safety
performance indicators (PIs) with accompanying performance thresholds.
The safety rationale for NRC inspection commensurate with risk
(hazards and controls) will be discussed in the context of establishing
indicators of licensee performance. The focus of the workshop will be
consideration of performance indicators (i.e., precursors) that will
reliably indicate when there is a need for corrective action to
preclude exceeding regulatory limits which were established to preclude
adverse impacts on the public or worker health and safety or the
environment.
DATES: The workshop is scheduled for Wednesday, December 15, 1999, from
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and is open to the public.
ADDRESSES: Doubletree Hotel, Regency Conference Room, 1750 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. Parking is limited around the hotel;
however, the hotel is located adjacent to the Twinbrook Station on the
Metro Red Line.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Walter Schwink, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555, telephone (301) 415-7253, e-mail [email protected].
Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 22nd day of November, 1999.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Philip Ting,
Chief, Operations Branch, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 99-30733 Filed 11-24-99; 8:45 am]
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