[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 143 (Wednesday, July 24, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 38475]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-18780]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, Subcommittee Meeting on 
Probabilistic Risk Assessment; Notice of Meeting

    The ACRS Subcommittee on Probabilistic Risk Assessment will hold a 
meeting on August 7, 1996, Room T-2B3, 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 
Maryland.
    The entire meeting will be open to public attendance.
    The agenda for the subject meeting shall be as follows:
    Wednesday, August 7, 1996--8:30 a.m. until the conclusion of 
business.
    The Subcommittee will discuss risk-based inservice testing and 
inservice inspection requirements, pilot applications for risk-informed 
and performance-based regulations, and related matters. The 
Subcommittee will also continue its discussion of issues identified in 
the Staff Requirements Memoranda dated May 15 and June 11, 1996, 
including: the role of performance-based regulation in the PRA 
Implementation Plan; plant-specific application of safety goals; and 
requirements for risk neutrality versus the allowance for acceptable 
increases in risk. The purpose of this meeting is to gather 
information, analyze relevant issues and facts, and to formulate 
proposed positions and actions, as appropriate, for deliberation by the 
full Committee.
    Oral statements may be presented by members of the public with the 
concurrence of the Subcommittee Chairman; written statements will be 
accepted and made available to the Committee. Electronic recordings 
will be permitted only during those portions of the meeting that are 
open to the public, and questions may be asked only by members of the 
Subcommittee, its consultants, and staff. Persons desiring to make oral 
statements should notify the cognizant ACRS staff engineer named below 
five days prior to the meeting, if possible, so that appropriate 
arrangements can be made.
    During the initial portion of the meeting, the Subcommittee, along 
with any of its consultants who may be present, may exchange 
preliminary views regarding matters to be considered during the balance 
of the meeting.
    The Subcommittee will then hear presentations by and hold 
discussions with representatives of the NRC staff, its consultants, and 
other interested persons regarding this review.
    Further information regarding topics to be discussed, whether the 
meeting has been cancelled or rescheduled, the Chairman's ruling on 
requests for the opportunity to present oral statements and the time 
allotted therefor can be obtained by contacting the cognizant ACRS 
staff engineer, Mr. Michael T. Markley (telephone 301/415-6885) between 
7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. (EDT). Persons planning to attend this meeting 
are urged to contact the above named individual one or two working days 
prior to the meeting to be advised of any potential changes to the 
agenda, etc., that may have occurred.

    Dated: July 18, 1996.
Sam Duraiswamy,
Chief, Nuclear Reactors Branch.
[FR Doc. 96-18780 Filed 7-23-96; 8:45 am]
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