[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 178 (Wednesday, September 15, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50114-50115]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-24054]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Public Stakeholder Meeting Concerning the Revision of the Safety 
Inspection Program for Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: The NRC published a meeting notice in the Federal Register on 
September 9, 1999 (64 FR 49031). The location of that meeting has been 
changed to the NRC's Commissioner's Hearing Room (see ADDRESSES 
section). The meeting is necessary 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 
safety inspection program for nuclear fuel cycle facilities. Similar to 
the revisions of the inspection and oversight program for commercial 
nuclear power plants, NRC has initiated an effort to

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improve its programs 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 NRC Web Page at 
http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/COMMISSION/SECYS/index.html.

PURPOSE: To explain the planned revision of the fuel cycle safety 
inspection program and obtain stakeholder's views. The baseline safety 
inspection 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, or environment. In revising the inspection program, the goals 
are to have an inspection program that: (1) Provides earlier and more 
objective indications of acceptable and changing safety performance, 
(2) increases stakeholder confidence in the NRC, and (3) increases 
regulatory effectiveness and efficiency. In this regard, the NRC 
desires the revised inspection program to be more risk-informed and 
performance-based and more focused on significant risks. Where 
practicable, the program will use more objective safety performance 
indicators (PIs) with accompanying performance thresholds.

DATES: This meeting is scheduled for Thursday, September 16, 1999, from 
9 am to 4 pm and is open to the public.

ADDRESSES: NRC's Commissioner's Hearing Room, 1st Floor, One White 
Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland. Visitor parking 
around the NRC building is limited; however, the meeting site is 
located adjacent to the White Flint Station on the Metro Red Line.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Walter Schwink, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
Washington, DC 20555, telephone (301) 415-7253, e-mail [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 2nd day of September, 1999.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Philip Ting,
Chief, Operations Branch, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 99-24054 Filed 9-14-99; 8:45 am]
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