[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.
[FR Doc. 04-18884 Filed 8-17-04; 8:45 am]
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