[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 86 (Thursday, May 3, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22268-22269]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-11111]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Meeting Concerning the Revision of the Oversight Program for
Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities
AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
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SUMMARY: NRC will hold a public meeting at the Information Age Park
Resource Center at 2000 McCracken Boulevard, Paducah, Kentucky, to
provide the local public, facility employees, citizens' groups, and
local officials with information about, and an opportunity to provide
views on, how the NRC plans to revise and improve its oversight program
for nuclear fuel cycle facilities. 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 (one of
which is NFS), 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 this area,
the NRC regulates both the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant operated by
the United States Enrichment Corporation, and the Honeywell Specialty
Chemicals uranium conversion facility in Metropolis, Illinois.
The goal of this revision project is to have an oversight program
that: (1) provides earlier and more objective indications of facility
performance in the areas of safety and national security, (2) increases
stakeholder confidence in the NRC, and (3) increases regulatory
effectiveness, efficiency, and realism. To this end, the NRC is
striving to make the oversight program more risk-informed and
performance-based. The oversight revision project is described in SECY-
99-188, ``Evaluation and Proposed Revision of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Facility Oversight Program Nuclear Fuel
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Cycle Facility Safety Inspection Program,'' and in SECY-00-0222,
``Status of Revision.'' SECY-99-188 and SECY-00-0222, as well as other
background information, are available in the Public Document Room and
on the NRC Web Page at http://www.nrc.gov.
Purpose of Meeting
To obtain stakeholder views for improving the NRC oversight program
for ensuring fuel cycle licensees 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 public meeting will
focus on the revisions that are being made to the program, and on how
interested parties can provide input to the change process.
DATE AND LOCATION: Members of the public, industry, and other
stakeholders are invited to attend and participate in the meeting,
which is scheduled for 7 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, May 16, 2001. The
meeting will be held in the Resource Center at the Paducah Information
Age Park in Paducah, Kentucky.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patrick Castleman, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Washington, DC 20555, telephone (301) 415-8118, e-mail [email protected].
Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 27th day of April 2001.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Patrick Castleman,
Project Manager, Inspection Section, Safety and Safeguards Support
Branch, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 01-11111 Filed 5-2-01; 8:45 am]
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