[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 81 (Thursday, April 26, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21022-21023]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-10414]


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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 NRC Headquarters 
location at 11555 Rockville Pike, in Rockville, MD 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 oversight program for nuclear fuel cycle 
facilities. This meeting follows a February 8, 2001 public meeting 
regarding the work plan for the oversight revision project.
    Similar to the revision of the oversight program for commercial 
nuclear power reactor plants, NRC initiated an effort to improve its 
oversight program for nuclear fuel cycle facilities. This effort 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 are available in the Public 
Document Room and on the NRC Web Page at http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/COMMISSION/SECYS/index.html. Additional project information can be 
found on the NRC

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technical conference website at http://techconf.llnl.gov/cgi-bin/topics.
    Purpose of Meeting: To obtain stakeholder views on how to improve 
the NRC oversight program for ensuring that 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 oversight program applies to commercial 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, and environment. Also, some 
of the facilities possess information and material important to 
national security. In revising the oversight program, the goal 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 achieve 
this goal, the NRC desires the revised oversight program to be more 
risk-informed and performance-based.
    The May 8, 2001 public meeting will focus on the development of a 
general policy on how the effectiveness of licensee corrective actions 
will be factored into performance assessments and the NRC's response to 
licensee performance.

DATES: Members of the public, industry, and other stakeholders are 
invited to attend and participate in the meeting, which is scheduled 
for 9 to 10:15 a.m. on Tuesday, May 8, 2001. The meeting will be held 
in the One White Flint North building in conference room O-4B6.

ADDRESSES: NRC Headquarters, 11555 Rockville Pike, in Rockville, MD. 
Visitor parking around NRC Headquarters is limited; however, the public 
meeting site may be reached by taking the Washington DC area metro to 
White Flint. NRC Headquarters is located across the street from the 
White Flint metro station.

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].

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
    Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 20 day of April, 2001.
Patrick Castleman,
Project Manager, Inspection Section, Safety and Safeguards Support 
Branch, Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 01-10414 Filed 4-25-01; 8:45 am]
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