[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 6 (Monday, January 10, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1417-1418]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-495]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Pilot Program Evaluation Panel; Meeting Notice

    Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act of October 6, 1972 
(Pub. L., 94-463, Stat. 770-776) the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 
(NRC) announced the establishment of the Pilot Program Evaluation Panel 
(PPEP). The PPEP functions as a management-level Oversight group to 
monitor and evaluate the success of the Commission's Reactor Oversight 
Process Improvements program. A Charter governing the PPEP functions as 
a Federal Advisory Committee was filed with Congress on June 30, 1999, 
after consultation with the Committee Management Secretariat, General 
Services Administration. The PPEP will hold its forthcoming final 
meeting on January 13, 2000 at the Renaissance Hotel, 999 Ninth Street, 
NW, Washington, DC, Phone 202-898-9000. The PPEP meeting will start at 
12:30 p.m. following the agency's Pilot Program Lessons Learned 
Workshop scheduled to start at 12 noon on January 10, 2000, also at the 
Renaissance Hotel.
    The PPEP meeting participants are listed below along with their 
affiliation:

Frank P. Gillespie--Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Mohan C. Thadani--Nuclear Regulatory Commission
James T. Wiggins--Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Heidi Hahn--LANL
Bruce Mallet--Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Geoffrey Grant--Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Kenneth E. Brockman--Nuclear Regulatory Commission
James Lieberman--Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Steve Floyd--Nuclear Energy Institute
David Garchow--Public Service Electric and Gas
Masoud Bajestani--Tennessee Valley Authority
George Barnes--Commonwealth Edison Company
James Chase--Omaha Public Power District
Gary Wright--Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety
David Lochbaum--Union of Concerned Scientists

    The PPEP completed its work and issued its final report on December 
17, 1999. This last meeting is expected to be brief. If no significant 
new issues are identified prior to the meeting, it may be canceled. 
Meetings of the PPEP are open to the members of the public. Oral or

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written views may be presented by the members of the public, including 
members of the nuclear industry. Persons desiring to make oral 
statements should notify Mr. Frank P. Gillespie (Telephone 301/415-
1004, e-mail [email protected]) or Mr. Mohan C. Thadani (Telephone 301/415-
1476, e-mail [email protected]) five days prior to the meeting date, if 
possible, so that appropriate arrangements can be made to allow 
necessary time during the meeting for such statements. Use of still, 
motion picture, and television cameras will be permitted during this 
meeting.
    Further information regarding topics of discussion; whether the 
meeting has been canceled, rescheduled, or relocated; and the Panel 
Chairman's ruling regarding requests to present oral statements and 
time allotted, may be obtained by contacting Mr. Frank P. Gillespie or 
Mr. Mohan C. Thadani between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. EDT.
    This meeting will not be transcribed but, if needed, the meeting 
report will be available from the Commission's Public Document Room, 
and the agency's web page at the address below. http://www.nrc.gov/NRR/
OVERSIGHT/overview.html.
    Transcripts of previous PPEP meetings and the PPEP's final report 
can now be viewed as a background material at the above web site.

    Dated: January 3, 2000.
Andrew L. Bates,
Advisory Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 00-495 Filed 1-7-00; 8:45 am]
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