[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 159 (Wednesday, August 18, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51336-51337]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-18884]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


FY 2004-2009 Strategic Plan, NUREG-1614, Volume 3; Notice of 
Availability

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is announcing the 
availability of NUREG-1614, Volume 3, ``U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission, FY 2004-2009 Strategic Plan,'' dated August 12, 2004.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission today 
issued its new Strategic Plan for fiscal years 2004-2009, establishing 
how the agency intends to carry out its mission.
    The plan includes five goals of safety, security, openness, 
effectiveness, and management, which together support our ability to 
maintain the public health and safety. It also reflects the 
interrelationship among safety, security, and emergency response. Each 
goal has strategic outcomes, which will provide a general barometer 
whether the goals are being achieved. There are also strategies that 
describe actions intended to accomplish the goals.
    The agency's five goals are described below in further detail:

Safety

    Ensure protection of public health and safety and the environment. 
The NRC's primary goal continues to be the safe use of radioactive 
materials to ensure the protection of public health and safety and the 
environment. Specific strategies are identified to ensure there are no 
reactor accidents or releases of radioactive materials that result in 
significant radiation exposures, fatalities or adverse environmental 
impacts.

Security

    Ensure the secure use and management of radioactive materials. The 
goal on security has been added in response to the events of September 
11, 2001. To achieve this goal, specific strategies are identified to 
ensure there are no instances in which licensed radioactive materials 
are used in a terrorist act in the United States.

Openness

    Ensure openness in our regulatory process. The agency recognizes 
that stakeholders need to be informed about, and have an opportunity to 
participate in the NRC's regulatory process. The NRC views nuclear 
regulation as the public's business and, as such, it should be 
transacted openly and candidly, to the extent possible in order to 
maintain the public's confidence but not jeopardize national security.

Effectiveness

    Ensure that NRC actions are effective, efficient, realistic, and 
timely. The Agency's drive to improve its performance, coupled with 
increasing demands on the NRC's finite resources, clearly indicates a 
need for the Agency to become more effective, efficient, realistic, and 
timely in its regulatory activities. Initiatives related to this goal 
are congruent with the Agency's safety and security goals, and serve to 
ensure that available resources are optimally directed toward the NRC's 
mission.

Management

    Ensure excellence in Agency management to carry out the NRC's 
Strategic Objective. The Agency believes that management excellence is 
essential to support the staff in accomplishing the Agency's mission. 
This goal includes strategies for the management of human capital, 
infrastructure management, financial management, electronic government, 
budget and performance integration, and internal communications.
    Success in achieving each goal will be gauged primarily through 
performance measures developed for the agency's annual performance 
budget and will be reported in the annual Performance and 
Accountability Report.
    Stakeholder feedback was particularly valuable in helping the 
Commission develop the Strategic Plan.
    NUREG-1614, Volume 3, and other publicly available documents 
related to this notice are available for electronic viewing on public 
computers in the NRC's Public Document Room (PDR), Public File Area 
O1F21, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 
Maryland. The PDR's reproduction services contractor will provide 
copies of publicly available documents for a fee.
    Publicly available documents related to this notice, including 
public comments received, are also available electronically through the 
NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) at 
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. ADAMS provides text and 
image files of NRC's public documents. NUREG-1614, Volume 3, is 
publicly available in ADAMS under Accession No. ML042230185, or on the 
agency's Web site at: http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1614. If you do not have access to ADAMS, or if there 
are problems in accessing the documents located in ADAMS, contact the 
NRC Public Document Room (PDR) Reference staff at 1 (800) 397-4209, 
(301) 415-4737, or by e-mail to [email protected].
    A free single copy of NUREG-1614, Volume 3, to the extent of 
availability, may be requested by writing to the Office of the Chief 
Information Officer, Reproduction and Distribution Services Section, 
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Printing and Graphics Branch, 
Washington, DC 20555-0001; facsimile: (301) 415-2289; e-mail: 
[email protected].

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: George Smolik on (301) 415-0222 or 
William Lovell on (301) 415-6230, in the Division of Planning, Budget, 
and Analysis, Office of the Chief Financial Officer, U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 12th day of August, 2004.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Jesse L. Funches,
Chief Financial Officer.
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