[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 74 (Tuesday, April 17, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19803-19804]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-9473]


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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 Nuclear Fuel Services 
(NFS) facility in Erwin, TN, to provide the local public, facility 
employees, citizens' groups, and local officials with information 
about, and an opportunity to provide views on, how the NRC plans to 
revise and improve its oversight program for nuclear fuel cycle 
facilities. The oversight program applies to commercial nuclear fuel 
cycle facilities

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regulated under 10 CFR Parts 40, 70, and 76. The facilities currently 
include gaseous diffusion plants, highly enriched uranium fuel 
fabrication facilities (one of which is NFS), 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.
    The goal of this revision project 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 this end, the NRC is 
striving to make the oversight program more risk-informed and 
performance-based. The oversight revision project 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, as well as other background information, are 
available in the Public Document Room and on the NRC Web Page at http://www.nrc.gov.
    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 public meeting will focus on the revisions that are being made to 
the program, and on how interested parties can provide input to the 
change process.
    Date and Location: Members of the public, industry, and other 
stakeholders are invited to attend and participate in the meeting, 
which is scheduled for 10:00 to 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18, 
2001. The meeting will be held in the NFS Training Center in Erwin, TN.

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 6th day of April 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. 01-9473 Filed 4-16-01; 8:45 am]
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