[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 75 (Tuesday, April 18, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20837-20838]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-9627]
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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 Nuclear Energy
Institute (NEI), 1776 I Street, NW (Republic Place), in Washington, DC
to provide the public, those regulated by the NRC, and other
stakeholders, with information about and an opportunity to
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provide views on how NRC plans to revise its oversight program for
nuclear fuel cycle facilities. This public workshop follows the recent
public stakeholder workshop held on March 22-23, 2000. Presentations
and other documents provided at each workshop are placed on the NRC
Internet web page (http://www.nrc.gov/NMSS/FCSS/FCOB/INSP/REVISED/fcindex.htm).
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 N R C 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 special nuclear material and sensitive information and
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 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:
Plans for communicating revision of the oversight program
with stakeholders internal and external to the NRC.
Cornerstones of safety and national security for meeting
the NRC mission.
Performance indicators for monitoring licensee/
certificatee performance within each cornerstone area.
DATES: Members of the public and other stakeholders are invited to
attend and participate in the workshop, which is scheduled for 9:00
a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 24, and Thursday, May 25, 2000.
ADDRESSES: NEI, 1776 I Street (Republic Place), Washington, DC. Visitor
parking around NEI is limited; however, the public meeting site may be
reached from Rockville by taking the Red line metro to Farragut North,
and exiting at K Street. Farragut Park will be in front of you. Notice
that 17th Street is parallel to the park. Walk one block along 17th
Street to I Street, turn right, walk one more block. NEI is on the left
on corner of 18th and I Streets, NW From Reagan National Airport, NEI
may be reached by taking the Blue line train towards Addison Road to
Farragut West. Exit to 18th Street, and NEI is diagonally across the
street on the corner of 18th and I Streets, NW.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Walter Schwink, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555, telephone (301) 415-7156, e-mail [email protected].
Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 13th day of April 2000.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Philip Ting,
Chief, Operations Branch, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 00-9627 Filed 4-17-00; 8:45 am]
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