[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 25 (Monday, February 7, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5916-5917]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-2709]
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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 host a public workshop in Rockville, Maryland 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 recent public stakeholder
workshop held in Rockville, Maryland on December 15, 1999.
Presentations and other documents provided at each workshop, together
with a transcript of 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 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 licensee and certificate holders maintain protection of
worker and public health and safety, protection of the environment, and
safeguards for nuclear material in the interest of national security.
The oversight 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 environment. 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 safeguards performance, (2) increases
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stakeholder confidence in the NRC, and (3) increases regulatory
effectiveness and efficiency. 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 workshop will focus on:
Industry initiatives for identification, resolution, and
correction of problems
Objective and scope of safety and safeguards oversight
program cornerstones
Key safety and safeguards risk attributes for each
cornerstone
Safety and safeguards performance attributes the NRC needs
to monitor and assess to ensure cornerstone objectives are met
Performance monitoring attributes and means
DATES: The workshop, which is open for public participation, is
scheduled for 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 22, and
Wednesday, February 23, 2000.
ADDRESSES: NRC's Two White Flint North Auditorium, 11545 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland. Visitor parking around the NRC is limited;
however, the meeting site is located adjacent to the White Flint
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 1st day of February 2000.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Walter Schwink,
Assistant Chief, Operations Branch, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and
Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 00-2709 Filed 2-4-00; 8:45 am]
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