[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 20 (Tuesday, January 30, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8243-8244]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-2538]


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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 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 meeting follows the December 20, 2000 briefing to the 
Commission by NRC staff and external stakeholders on this subject. 
Presentations and other documents provided at each meeting 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 effort is 
described in SECY-99-188, ``Evaluation and Proposed Revision of the 
Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facility Safety Inspection Program,'' and in SECY-
00-0222, ``Status of Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facility Oversight Program 
Revision.'' SECY-99-188 and SECY-00-0222 are available in the Public 
Document Room and on the NRC Web Page at http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/COMMISSION/SECYS/index.html.
    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 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 
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 achieve this 
goal, the NRC desires the revised oversight program to be more risk-
informed and performance-based.
    The public meeting will focus on the next actions and schedule in 
the project to revise the oversight program. A final draft project work 
plan has been posted on the NRC Technical Conference website at http://
techconf.llnl.gov/cgi-

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bin/topics. This work plan will be the main agenda item.

DATES: Members of the public, industry, and other stakeholders are 
invited to attend and participate in the meeting, which is scheduled 
for 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 8, 2001. The meeting 
will be held in the One White Flint North building in conference room 
O-16B4.

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: 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 23 day of January 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. 01-2538 Filed 1-29-01; 8:45 am]
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