[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 141 (Monday, July 23, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38331-38332]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-18328]


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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 near Wilmington, NC 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. One of these regulated 
facilities, Global Nuclear Fuel--America, is located near Wilmington.
    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 to 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, August 7, 2001. The 
meeting will be held at the Global Nuclear Fuel--Americas, L.L.C., 
facility on Highway 117 North.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patrick Castleman, Office of Nuclear 
Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,

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Washington, DC 20555, telephone (301) 415-8118, e-mail [email protected].

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 17th day of July, 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. 01-18328 Filed 7-20-01; 8:45 am]
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