United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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No. 96-64 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

(Tuesday, May 7, 1996)

NRC ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REACTOR SAFEGUARDS

TO MEET ON MAY 23-25

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Advisory Committee on

Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) has scheduled a technical meeting May

23-25 in Rockville, Maryland.

The meeting, which is open to the public, will be held in

Conference Room 2B3 in the NRC's Two White Flint North Building

at 11545 Rockville Pike.

As part of the meeting, the committee will meet with the NRC

Commissioners from 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on May 24 in the NRC's

One White Flint Building, 11555 Rockville Pike, to discuss items

of mutual interest. The items include the use of independent

plant examinations of nuclear power plants, fire protection

issues, proposed changes to NRC regulations dealing with reactor

siting criteria and documents related to digital instrumentation

and control systems.

Although meetings of the ACRS are open to the public, they

are not part of the NRC's public hearing process. The ACRS, an

advisory group to the Commission, conducts independent, highly

technical reviews of safety considerations related to nuclear

facilities. While anyone may attend, the committee will consider

only oral or written statements arranged in advance and limited

to specific matters set forth in a Notice of Meeting published in

the May 6 edition of the Federal Register.

The meeting may include closed sessions, if required, to

discuss proprietary information.

Here is the complete meeting agenda:

THURSDAY, MAY 23

8:30 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. -- Opening remarks by the ACRS

chairman.
8:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. -- Discussion with the NRC staff

regarding a report on insights of individual plant examination,

with emphasis on safety goal issues.

11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. -- Discussion with NRC staff

concerning a proposed rule on operations at nuclear power plants

during shutdowns and the results of a study of shutdown risk at

two nuclear plants that agreed to participate in the analysis--

Surry in Virginia and Grand Gulf in Mississippi.

2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. -- Discussion with NRC staff

regarding sections of the NRC's standard review plan, regulatory

guides and branch technical positions related to digital

instrumentation and control systems in nuclear power plants.

3:45 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. -- Discussion with NRC staff

concerning the status of resolving and implementing

recommendations of the NRC's Regulatory Review Group.

4:45 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. -- Discussion of proposed reports to

the NRC.

FRIDAY, MAY 24

8:35 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. -- Discussion of items for meeting

with the NRC Commissioners.

11:a.m. to 12:00 noon -- Discussion of planning and

procedures matters.

1:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. -- Future ACRS activities.

1:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. -- Discussion of responses from the

NRC's executive director for operations to ACRS recommendations.

1:45 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. -- Continue discussion of proposed

ACRS reports.

SATURDAY, MAY 25

8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. -- Continue discussion of proposed

ACRS reports.

11:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. -- Discussion of items of

significant importance to the NRC.

Persons wishing to submit statements on any of these topics

may do so by providing a readily reproducible copy to the

committee or by mailing it to the Executive Director, Advisory

Committee on Reactor Safeguards, Nuclear Regulatory Commission,

Washington, D.C. 20555-0001.
(ACRS meeting schedules are subject to change. Anyone

planning to attend should confirm the schedule the day before the

meeting by calling 301/415-5024.)

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(NOTE TO EDITORS: The use of self-contained tape recorders in

the meeting room is permitted during open portions of the meeting

when a transcript is being kept. The use of still, motion

picture and television cameras--the physical installation and

presence of which will not interfere with the course of the

meeting--will be permitted both before and after the meeting,

during any recess, and, at the discretion of the committee

chairman, while the meeting is in session.)