[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 86 (Thursday, May 3, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22268-22269]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-11111]


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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 Information Age Park 
Resource Center at 2000 McCracken Boulevard, Paducah, Kentucky, 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 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. In this area, 
the NRC regulates both the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant operated by 
the United States Enrichment Corporation, and the Honeywell Specialty 
Chemicals uranium conversion facility in Metropolis, Illinois.
    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 Oversight Program Nuclear Fuel

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Cycle Facility Safety Inspection Program,'' and in SECY-00-0222, 
``Status of 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 7 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, May 16, 2001. The 
meeting will be held in the Resource Center at the Paducah Information 
Age Park in Paducah, Kentucky.

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 27th 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. 01-11111 Filed 5-2-01; 8:45 am]
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