[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 172 (Tuesday, September 5, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 53771]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-22649]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Workshop Concerning The Revision of the Oversight Program for
Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
ACTION: Notice of Public Workshop.
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SUMMARY: NRC will hold a public workshop at the NRC Headquarters
location at 11555 Rockville Pike, in Rockville, MD to provide the
public, those regulated by the NRC, and other stakeholders, with
information about and an opportunity to provide views on how NRC plans
to revise its oversight program for nuclear fuel cycle facilities. This
workshop follows the public workshop held on May 24-25, 2000.
Presentations and other documents provided at each workshop are placed
on the NRC INTERNET web page (http://www.nrc.gov).
Similar to the revision of the oversight program for commercial
nuclear power reactor plants, NRC initiated an effort to improve its
oversight 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 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 of Workshop: To obtain stakeholder views for improving the
NRC oversight program for ensuring regulatees (licensee and certificate
holders) maintain protection of worker and public health and safety,
protection of the environment, and safeguards for special nuclear
material and classified matter in the interest of national security.
The oversight program applies to commercial 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 environment. Also, some of the facilities
possess information and material important to national security. In
revising the oversight program, the goal is to have an oversight
program that: (1) Provides earlier and more objective indications of
acceptable and changing safety and national security related
performance, (2) increases stakeholder confidence in the NRC, and (3)
increases regulatory effectiveness, efficiency, and realism. In this
regard, the NRC desires the revised oversight program to be more risk-
informed and performance-based and more focused on significant risks
and poorer performers.
The public workshop will focus on:
Status of the evolving revision of the oversight program.
Safety and national security related problem
identification, resolution, and correction.
Revision of the NRC inspection program.
Revision of the NRC overall performance assessment
process.
Communication plans for informing stakeholders about the
oversight program revision.
Next actions/schedule to complete revision of the
oversight program
DATES: Members of the public, industry, and other stakeholders are
invited to attend and participate in the workshop, which is scheduled
for 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 13, 2000. The
workshop will be held in the NRC Professional Development Center in
room T3B43.
ADDRESSES: NRC Headquarters, 11555 Rockville Pike, in Rockville, MD.
Visitor parking around NRC Headquarters is limited; however, the public
meeting site may be reached by taking the Washington DC area metro to
White Flint. NRC Headquarters is located across the street from the
White Flint metro station.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Walter Schwink, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555, telephone (301) 415-7190, e-mail [email protected].
Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 29th day of August 2000.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Theodore S. Sherr,
Chief, Safety and Safeguards Support Branch, Division of Fuel Cycle
Safety and Safeguards, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and
Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 00-22649 Filed 9-1-00; 8:45 am]
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