[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 62 (Friday, March 31, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16685-16686]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-7935]



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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Draft Report on Responsiveness to the Public; Availability

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has published its Draft 
Report on Responsiveness to the Public. It has been a long-standing 
policy of the NRC to conduct its business activities in an open and 
public manner, and in recent years NRC has moved to be even more open 
and responsive to the public. The public is defined as individual 
citizens, public interest groups, petitioners, licensees, industry 
groups, contractors, the Congress, and others with whom NRC does 
business.
    Recent initiatives to be more responsive to the public have 
included increased use of public workshops for rulemaking activities, 
participatory rulemaking, a pilot program opening enforcement 
conferences to the public, surveys of licensees to identify ways to 
reduce the regulatory burden on licensees, and the Cost Beneficial 
Licensing Action Program. While these initiatives represent significant 
improvements, the NRC has not heretofore given responsiveness to the 
public priority attention in all NRC programs nor had there been a 
systematic review of NRC business activities to identify potential 
improvements.
    The National Performance Review has placed new emphasis on Federal 
agencies ``placing the customer first.'' More can be done to broaden 
and institutionalize public responsiveness and openness as an 
underpinning tenet of how NRC does business. In this spirit, on July 
27, 1994, the Executive Director for Operations launched the Public 
Responsiveness Initiative asking NRC program directors to identify the 
business activities where public interaction is relatively frequent and 
to develop Public Responsiveness Improvement Plans. The draft report 
reflects the initial results of that effort and contains improvement 
plans prepared by the offices. The improvement plans are being 
published for public comment so that NRC can consider comments and make 
adjustments and improvements in the plans as implementation proceeds.
    Those considering public comment may obtain a free single copy of 
draft NUREG/BR-0199 by writing to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, Office of Administration, Printing and Mail 
[[Page 16686]] Services Section, Washington, DC 20555-0001. In 
addition, this draft report is available through the Internet World 
Wide Web server, which can be accessed by using the Uniform Resource 
Locator, (URL)http:/www.nrc.gov. A copy is also available for 
inspection and/or copying for a fee in the NRC Public Document Room, 
2120 L Street, N.W. (Lower Level), Washington, DC 20555-0001.
    Written comments should be mailed to: Secretary, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555. Attn: Docketing and 
Service Branch. Comments may also be submitted over the Internet to: 
[email protected]. Comments must be submitted by May 30, 1995.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 27th day of March, 1995.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John C. Hoyle,
Secretary of the Commission.
[FR Doc. 95-7935 Filed 3-30-95; 8:45 am]
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