# Presentation: 392114

## ANSI Seminar on Implementation of Public Law 104-113

**October 11, 2001**
**Frank C. Cherny, Technical Assistant**
**to the NRC Standards Executive**

## IMPLEMENTING OMB CIRCULAR A-119

**IMPLEMENTING OMB CIRCULAR A-119**

**Management Directive 6.5, “NRC Participation in the Development and Use of Consensus Standards”**
**Provide direction for implementing law**
**Ensures consistent agency focus**
**Interface Activities**
**NRC Standards Web Page provides detailed information on NRC participation in the development and use of consensus standards**
**Semi-annual Standards Development Organization (SDO) Coordination Meetings**
**Training**
**Web-based **
**Staff participants on SDO committees receive periodic training on Federal and NRC expectations related to development and use of consensus standards**

## SDO OUTREACH

**SDO OUTREACH**

**NRC began hosting semiannual meetings with SDOs in May 1999.  Co-hosted last meeting in June 2001 with DOE.**
**Increase the involvement of stakeholders in our regulatory development process**
**Encourage industry to develop codes, standards, and guides that can be endorsed by the NRC and carried out by the industry**
**Promote staff participation in development of consensus standards in support of the NRC mission, priorities, and budget resources**

## LARGE RESOURCE COMMITMENT

**LARGE RESOURCE COMMITMENT**

**Standards Development Organizations**
**American Concrete Institute**
**American Nuclear Society**
**American Society of Civil Engineers**
**American Society of Mechanical Engineers**
**American Society of Quality**
**American Society of Testing and Materials**
**Health Physics Society**
**Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers**
**International Society for Measurement and Control**
**National Fire Protection Association**
**Approximately 130 staff members on over 260 committees**

## SDO INTERACTION

**SDO INTERACTION**

**Offices have “standards champion” to facilitate office interaction with SDOs and lend focus to internal standards activities**
**NRC staff on high level SDO committees to ensure lines of communication**
**NRC and SDO needs**
- For example, conference calls with ASME staff relative to NRC endorsement of ASME Code

## OMB CIRCULAR A-119

**OMB CIRCULAR A-119**

**Challenge for NRC has been establishing a process for ongoing review of the agency’s use of standards with regard to updating**
**NRC’s policy from formation in 1975 has been to use national standards**
- Hundreds of standards referenced in requirements and guidance
- Diminishing agency resources
**Need to establish a comprehensive review of existing references**
**Assign knowledgeable staff to update references   **

## INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS

**INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS**

**Some countries follow NRC guidance with respect to the use of U.S. standards**
**ASME Code incorporated by reference into NRC regulations**
- International Code
**Due to resource implications, review of international standards for use in regulatory applications has not yet been performed in a coordinated manner (for example, ISO standards relative to Health Physics Society)**

## SUMMARY

**SUMMARY**

**Implementation of Management Directive 6.5 and supplemental office actions are enhancing the NRC use of consensus standards in the regulatory process and increasing focus on resources needed to efficiently implement the NRC standards program.**
**Much effort still required to fully implement**
**	****OMB A-119.**