[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 187 (Thursday, September 26, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60703-60704]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-24437]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards; Meeting Notice

    In accordance with the purposes of Sections 29 and 182b. of the 
Atomic Energy Act (42 U.S.C. 2039, 2232b), the Advisory Committee on 
Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) will hold a meeting on October 10-12, 2002, 
in Conference Room T-2B3, 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland. 
The date of this meeting was previously published in the Federal 
Register on Monday, November 26, 2001 (66 FR 59034).

Thursday, October 10, 2002

    8:30 a.m.-8:35 a.m.: Opening Statement by the ACRS Chairman--The 
ACRS Chairman will make opening remarks regarding the conduct of the 
meeting.
    8:35 a.m.-10 a.m.: Confirmatory Research Program on High-Burnup 
Fuel (Open)--The Committee will hear presentations by and hold 
discussions with representatives of the NRC Staff and the Electric 
Power Research Institute (EPRI) regarding the confirmatory research 
program on high-burnup fuel and the EPRI topical report on reactivity 
insertion accidents.
    10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.: Overview of European Simplified Boiling 
Water Reactor (ESBWR), SWR 1000 (Boiling Water Reactor), Advanced CANDU 
Reactor (ACR 700) Pre-Application Review (Open)--The Committee will 
hear presentations by and hold discussions with representatives of the 
NRC Staff and industry on the ESBWR (General Electric 1380 MWe), SWR 
1000 (Framatome ANP-Siemens 1000 Mwe) and ACR 700 (Advanced CANDU 
Reactor 700 Mwe) advanced reactor designs.
    1:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.: Catawba and McGuire License Renewal 
Application (Open)--The Committee will hear presentations by and hold 
discussions with representatives of the NRC staff and Duke Energy 
Company regarding the license renewal application and draft Safety 
Evaluation Report for the Catawba Nuclear Station Units 1 and 2 and 
McGuire Nuclear Station Units 1 and 2.
    2:45 p.m.-4 p.m.: Policy Issues Related to Advanced Reactor 
Licensing (Open)--The Committee will hear presentations by and hold 
discussions with representatives of the NRC staff regarding changes to 
policy issues related to the licensing of advanced reactors resulting 
from the resolution of ACRS comments and recommendations included in 
its June 17, 2002 report.
    4:15 p.m.-7 p.m.: Proposed ACRS Reports (Open)--The Committee will 
discuss proposed ACRS reports on matters considered during this 
meeting.

Friday, October 11, 2002

    8:30 a.m.-8:35 a.m.: Opening Remarks by the ACRS Chairman (Open)--
The ACRS Chairman will make opening remarks regarding the conduct of 
the meeting.
    8:35 a.m.-10 a.m.: Program Plan for Low-Power Shutdown (LPSD) 
Standardized Plant Analysis Risk (SPAR) Model Development and 
Cancellation of Revision 4i of SPAR Models (Open)--The Committee will 
hear presentations by and hold discussions with representatives of the 
NRC staff regarding the program plan for LPSD SPAR Model Development, 
the reasons for canceling plans for the development of revision 4i of 
the SPAR Models, and insights from the onsite review of the LPSD SPAR 
model for Surry Nuclear Plant Units 1 and 2.
    10:15 a.m.-11:30 a.m.: Guidance for Performance-Based Regulation 
(Open)--The Committee will hear presentations by and hold discussions 
with representatives of the NRC staff regarding the draft NUREG/BR 
``Guidance for Performance-Based Regulation.''
    11:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m.: Reconciliation of ACRS Comments and 
Recommendations (Open)--The Committee will discuss the responses from 
the NRC Executive Director for Operations (EDO) to comments and 
recommendations included in recent ACRS reports and letters. The EDO 
responses are expected to be made available to the Committee prior to 
the meeting.
    1:15 p.m.-2:15 p.m.: Future ACRS Activities/Report of the Planning 
and Procedures Subcommittee (Open)--The

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Committee will discuss the recommendations of the Planning and 
Procedures Subcommittee regarding items proposed for consideration by 
the full Committee during future meetings. Also, it will hear a report 
of the Planning and Procedures Subcommittee on matters related to the 
conduct of ACRS business, and organizational and personnel matters 
relating to the ACRS.
    2:15 p.m.-3:15 p.m.: Report Regarding Recent Operating Events 
(Open)--Report by the cognizant ACRS member regarding recent operating 
events of interest.
    3:15 p.m.-7 p.m.: Proposed ACRS Reports (Open/Closed)--The 
Committee will discuss proposed ACRS reports.

Saturday, October 12, 2002

    8:30 a.m.-1 p.m.: Proposed ACRS Reports (Open)--The Committee will 
discuss proposed ACRS reports.
    1 p.m.-1:30 p.m.: Miscellaneous (Open)--The Committee will discuss 
matters related to the conduct of Committee activities and matters and 
specific issues that were not completed during previous meetings, as 
time and availability of information permit. The Committee will also 
discuss its plans for preparing a ``white paper'' on the use of PRA in 
the regulatory decisionmaking process.
    Procedures for the conduct of and participation in ACRS meetings 
were published in the Federal Register on October 3, 2001 (66 FR 
50462). In accordance with those procedures, oral or written views may 
be presented by members of the public, including representatives of the 
nuclear industry. Electronic recordings will be permitted only during 
the open portions of the meeting. Persons desiring to make oral 
statements should notify the Associate Director for Technical Support 
named below five days before the meeting, if possible, so that 
appropriate arrangements can be made to allow necessary time during the 
meeting for such statements. Use of still, motion picture, and 
television cameras during the meeting may be limited to selected 
portions of the meeting as determined by the Chairman. Information 
regarding the time to be set aside for this purpose may be obtained by 
contacting the Associate Director prior to the meeting. In view of the 
possibility that the schedule for ACRS meetings may be adjusted by the 
Chairman as necessary to facilitate the conduct of the meeting, persons 
planning to attend should check with the Associate Director if such 
rescheduling would result in major inconvenience.
    Further information regarding topics to be discussed, whether the 
meeting has been canceled or rescheduled, the Chairman's ruling on 
requests for the opportunity to present oral statements, and the time 
allotted therefor can be obtained by contacting Dr. Sher Bahadur, 
Associate Director for Technical Support (301-415-0138), between 7:30 
a.m. and 4:15 p.m., EDT.
    ACRS meeting agenda, meeting transcripts, and letter reports are 
available through the NRC Public Document Room at [email protected], or by 
calling the PDR at 1-800-397-4209, or from the Publicly Available 
Records System (PARS) component of NRC's document system (ADAMS) which 
is accessible from the NRC Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html or http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/ (ACRS & 
ACNW Mtg schedules/agendas).
    Videoteleconferencing service is available for observing open 
sessions of ACRS meetings. Those wishing to use this service for 
observing ACRS meetings should contact Mr. Theron Brown, ACRS Audio 
Visual Technician (301-415-8066), between 7:30 a.m. and 3:45 p.m., EDT, 
at least 10 days before the meeting to ensure the availability of this 
service. Individuals or organizations requesting this service will be 
responsible for telephone line charges and for providing the equipment 
and facilities that they use to establish the videoteleconferencing 
link. The availability of videoteleconferencing services is not 
guaranteed.

    Dated: September 20, 2002.
Annette Vietti-Cook,
Secretary of the Commission.
[FR Doc. 02-24437 Filed 9-25-02; 8:45 am]
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