[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 98 (Monday, May 21, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28004-28005]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-12692]


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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 in Lynchburg, VA 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 commercial 
nuclear fuel cycle facilities regulated under 10 CFR parts 40, 70, and 
76. The facilities include gaseous diffusion plants, high-and low-
enriched uranium fuel fabrication facilities, and a uranium 
hexafluoride (UF6) production plant. These facilities 
possess large quantities of materials that are potentially hazardous 
(radioactive, toxic, or flammable) to workers, the public, or the 
environment. Also, some of the facilities possess information and 
material important to national security. Two of these regulated 
facilities, BWX Technologies and Framatome, are located in Lynchburg.
    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-

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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 9:30 to 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, May 31, 2001. 
The meeting will be held at the Lynchburg Technology Center, which is 
located at 1574 Mount Athos Road, Lynchburg, VA 24501.

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 15th day of May, 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. 01-12692 Filed 5-18-01; 8:45 am]
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